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What’s new in Presence Services

This chapter provides an overview of the new and enhanced features of Presence Services Release 7.0.1.

Support for XMPP federation with Openfire

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports federation of a Presence Services Release 7.0.1 system with Openfire.

Support for XMPP federation between Presence Services 7.0.1 and Presence Services 6.2.6

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports federation of a Presence Services Release 7.0.1 system with a Presence Services Release 6.2.6 system.

Presence domain sharing

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports deployment of Presence Services solution that shares the same addressing domain.

Support for Geographic Redundancy

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports Geographic Redundancy. This feature enables Presence Services solution to be deployed with both High Availability and clustered solutions in different geographic regions.

Support for Cisco Jabber Federation

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports federation with Cisco Jabber enabling the exchange of presence and IM information between users. This feature will only be compatible with Aura endpoints that support true federation.

Upgrade scripts for XCP controller data

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 enables the administrator to maintain the XCP controller data when migrating/upgrading from Presence Services Release 6.2.x to Presence Services Release 7.0.x without the need to manually configure the configuration settings in Presence Services Release 7.0.x.

Support for Note Aggregation

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 provides a mechanism to aggregate the availability description that is sent to endpoints to be delivered along with presence of the user.

Support for forwarding IM traffic to Avaya Multimedia Messaging

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 provides an option to forward all IM traffic to Avaya Multimedia Messaging if an Avaya Multimedia Messaging is deployed as part of the solution.

Support for Common Server

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 supports Common Server Release 3.0.

Support for Interoperability among clients

Presence Services Release 7.0.1 will be compatible with existing Avaya endpoints that are used with Presence Services Release 6.2.x and 7.0. Presence/IM capable devices:

Non Presence/IM capable devices:

Supported migration paths

The supported migration paths for Presence Services Release 7.0.1 are:

Release Requirement
5.2.x Upgrade to 6.x and then upgrade to 7.0.1.
6.0.x Direct upgrade to 7.0.1.
6.1.x Direct upgrade to 7.0.1.
6.2.x Direct upgrade to 7.0.1.
7.0.0.0.x Direct upgrade to 7.0.1.
7.0.0.1.x Direct upgrade to 7.0.1.