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C H A P T E R 54 Enterprise Groups • Enterprise Groups Overview, on page 657 • Enterprise Groups Prerequisites, on page 658 • Enterprise Groups Configuration Task Flow, on page 658 • Enterprise Groups Deployment Models (Active Directory), on page 662 • Enterprise Groups Limitations, on page 664 Enterprise Groups Overview When Enterprise Groups is configured, Cisco Unified Communications Manager includes user groups when it synchronizes its database with an external LDAP directory. In Cisco Unified CM Administration, you can view synced groups in the User Groups window. This feature also helps administrators to: • Provision users with similar characteristics traits with a comment set of features (for example, the sales and accounting teams). • Target messages to all users in a specific group. • Configure uniform access for all members of a specific group This feature also helps Cisco Jabber users to quickly build contact lists of users who shares common traits. Cisco Jabber users can search the external LDAP Directory for user groups and then add them to their contact list. For example, a Jabber user can search the external LDAP directory and add the sales group to a contact list, thereby adding all of the sales team members into the contact list as well. If the group gets updated in the external directory, the user's contact list is updated automatically. Enterprise Groups is supported with Microsoft Active Directory on Windows as the external LDAP directory. If you disable the Enterprise Groups feature, Cisco Jabber users cannot search for enterprise groups or see the groups that they already added to their contact lists. If a user is already logged in when you disable the feature, the group will be visible until the user logs out. When the user logs in again, the group will not be visible Note Feature Configuration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Release 15 and SUs 657