This section contains two procedures. Use the applicable procedure, depending on whether you want to use Unity Connection Administration or a command-line interface (CLI) session to determine the version.

This section contains two procedures. Use the applicable procedure, depending on whether you want to use Cisco Unified Operating System Administration or a command-line interface session to determine the version.

With Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, a new feature Cipher Management is introduced to enhance the security by controlling the set of ciphers for different secure interfaces of Cisco Unity Connection. To meet the security requirement of an organization, Cipher Management allows administrator to configure ciphers for different secure interfaces such as TLS and SSH.

For more information on Cipher Management, see the "Security" chapter of Cisco Unified Communications Operating System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/os_administration/b_12xcucosagx.html.

With Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, a new System Role "Read Only Administrator" is introduced having access to view all Unity Connection administrative functions.

This System Role provides read only access for the following pages:

• All Cisco Unity Connection Administration pages

• Cisco Unified CM driven pages

• RTMT Client

• Cisco Unity Connection Serviceability pages

For more information on System Roles, see "User attributes" chapter of System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/administration/guide/b_12xcucsag.html.

Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later provides Specific License Reservation feature that allows you to reserve the licenses or entitlements from your virtual account and associate them with the product instance. The product instance can use the reserved licenses without communicating usage information to CSSM.

For more information on Specific License Reservation, see "Managing Licenses" chapter of Install, Upgrade, and Maintenance Guide for Cisco Unity Connection available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/install_upgrade/guide/b_12xcuciumg.html.

Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later introduces a feature Branding Customization by which the appearance of Unity Connection web applications can be modified based on the organizational requirements.This feature allows an Operating System Administrator to customize company logo, background colors, border colors and font colors of Unity Connection web applications. Branding can be applied on the following web applications of Unity Connection:

• Cisco Unity Connection Administration

• Cisco Personal Communications Assistant

• Web Inbox

For more information on Branding customization in Unity Connection, see the "Software Upgrades" chapter of the Cisco Unified Communications Operating System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/os_administration/b_12xcucosagx.html

With Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, a Platform Administrator can terminate the active sessions that a user or administrator have on the various web interfaces of Cisco Unity Connection through Session Management page of Cisco Unified OS Administration.

Session Termination is applicable for the following web interfaces:

• Cisco Unity Connection Administration

• Cisco Unity Connection Serviceability

• Cisco Unified Serviceability

• Cisco Personal Communications Assistant

• Cisco Unity Connection Web Inbox

• Cisco Unity Connection SRSV

For more inforation on the session termination, see Security chapter of the Cisco Unified Communications Operating System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x guide available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/os_administration/b_12xcucosagx.html.

In Unity Connection 11.5(1) and later, a System Administrator was allowed to configure the maximum number of concurrent sessions for a user on telephony, Visual Voicemail and IMAP interfaces.

With Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, using set webapp session maxlimit <sessionlimit> CLI command, a Platform Administrator can configure the maximum number of concurrent sessions that a user or administrator can have on the various web interfaces of Cisco Unity Connection. If the user or administrator attempts a new session beyond the configured maximum limit, the login gets failed.

Concurrent web-session limit includes the session on the following interfaces:

• Cisco Unity Connection Administration

• Cisco Unity Connection Serviceability

• Cisco Unified Serviceability

• Cisco Personal Communications Assistant

• Cisco Unity Connection Web Inbox

• Cisco Unity Connection SRSV

Note	The feature is not applicable for RTMT, Jabber and ViewMail for Outlook.

For more information of concurrent web session limit, see "Restricting the Concurrent Web Sessions" section of Passwords, PINs, and Authentication Rule Management chapter in Security Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x guide available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/security/b_12xcucsecx.html

Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later provides the enhanced way of handling the Custom Roles. With this release, administrator has an option to inherit the privileges of a system role while creating or modifying the custom roles.

Following are the system roles that can be inherited:

• Audio Text Administrator

• Greeting Administrator

• Help Desk Administrator

• Technician

• User Administrator

• Tenant Administrator

With this release, administrator can also create, modify or delete a custom role using REST API.

Note	Each new custom role has read only access privilege by default.

For more information on Custom Roles functionality, see "User Attributes" chapter of System Administration Guide for Cisco Unity Connection Release 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/administration/guide/b_12xcucsag.html.

For information on Custom Roles API, see https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/REST-API/APIs_Pages/b_Cisco_Unity_Connection_APIs.html.

Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later provides the REST API support to perform various operations of Cisco Smart Software Licensing.

For more information on the APIs for Cisco Smart Software Licensing, see Documentation for Cisco Unity Connection API available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/REST-API/APIs_Pages/b_Cisco_Unity_Connection_APIs.html.

With Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, the end user gets an additional functionality to play all the Video Messages using Web Inbox through telephone record and playback (TRAP). Using this functionality the user can play all the new video messages that are received on Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later. The video messages that are received before upgrading to Unity connection 12.5(1) will be played as audio only.

For more information on Web Inbox , see Quick Start Guide for the Cisco Unity Connection Web Inbox Release 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/quick_start/guide/b_12xcucqsginbox.html.

For more information on Video Messaging, see the "Video Messaging" chapter of Design Guide for Cisco Unity Connection 12.x available at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/12x/design/guide/b_12xcucdg.html.

You must download and deploy a VMware OVA template, which automatically configures the virtual machine for Unity Connection. To download the template, see the next section, “Downloading a VMware OVA Template for a Unity Connection 12.5(1) Virtual Machine.” The installation and migration documentation tells you when to deploy the template.

Note	Before installing Cisco Unity Connection 12.5(1) and later, make sure that the virtual machine has ESXi version 6.5 U2 and VM version 13. For information on upgrading ESXi version, see the ReadMe of applicable OVAs availale at https://software.cisco.com/download/home/283062758/type.

Adding non-audio attachments to secure messages composed in Cisco ViewMail for Microsoft Outlook version 11.0 and later is not supported with Unity Connection 12.5(1).

Due to some security issues in QuickTime player, Unity Connection does not recommend to use QuickTime player with Internet Explorer for playing the voice messages.

You can find the latest caveat information for Cisco Unity Connection version 12.5(1) by using the Bug Search tool, an online tool available for customers to query defects according to their own needs at https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/search?kw=*&pf=prdNm&pfVal=280082558&rls=12.5&sb=fr&svr=3nH&bt=custV. Bug Search tool is available at https:/​/​tools.cisco.com/​bugsearch. To access Bug Search tool, you must be logged on to Cisco.com as a registered user.