I think you are assuming that the company owns the computer that the employee runs the soft phone on. It's possible that employees will want to run them from untrusted computers at home, etc.
-------------------------------------------------- Salvatore Giudice [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP Security Training, LLC http://VoIPSecurityTraining.com 848 N. Rainbow Blvd. #1676 Las Vegas, NV 89107 Phone: (702) 979-2906 Fax: (212) 279-2906 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:44 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning? On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:21:54PM -0400, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > Tzafrir, > > I don't know if you do many large deployments, but this would be a godsend! > We did an install for a large law firm with all lawyers wanting softphones > (eyebeam) on their laptops. Centrally pushing out the install executable > was easy, setting up the parameters for each user was time consuming (i.e. > expensive). With hard phones, we setup a TFTP server for each phone to pull > config on bootup. We've even built a couple of tools to build config files > (text ini files) dynamically from a database. This has shaved up to 8 hours > off a large install. > > I think you're confusing installation with configuration. Without ascii > config files (or a tool from the mfg to create binary config files from a > script), each soft device must manually configured. I am not. The soft phone is not the only software on that computer that needs cetral configuration. How do you configure the networking on those computers? The mail clients? How do you deploy updates? -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users