Expressway 8.8 registration - in action

In the previous post I've shared that the latest Expressway 8.8 supports endpoint registration:
http://pandaeatsbamboo.blogspot.com/2016/07/expressway-88-video-endpoint.html

I want to give it a try therefore I have upgraded my lab Expressway C to the latest version 8.8.  First of all there is a getting started wizard, and it will let you decide what role the Expressway will play and it will customize the UI accordingly and hide those that are not needed.



New license types are introduced (Room systems, Desktop systems), and it aligns with the UCM licensing model.  You will need UCL Enhanced / CUWL for desktop systems, and Telepresence room system license for Room systems.





I've some difficulties in using the endpoint activation wizard to register it to Expressway.  However it works well when I manually do it on the codec web admin page.  Under SIP configuration:



It is now registered, it can be seen from the codec admin page:


From the Expressway admin page:

This is how it looks on the DX70 itself:

CE8.2 - Cisco Spark on-boarding

SX10N is the first endpoint that is supported to register to Cisco Spark cloud service.  Starting from CE8.2, all the remaining SX, MX and DX endpoints are supported to register to Cisco Spark cloud.  There are some considerations that you need to take if you want to register the endpoints to the Spark cloud.  According to the release notes:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/endpoint/software/ce8/release-notes/ce-software-release-notes-ce8.pdf

So it means that SX10 and SX20 are supported only when using TRC6 remote, but not Touch 10.  On SX80 only directing pairing of Touch 10 is supported, but not network pairing.  This is something that people will possibly miss out if not reading the release notes carefully.

CE 8.2 on DX is live now!

Conversion Doc:
http://pandaeatsbamboo.blogspot.com/2016/06/migrate-dx7080-devices-from-android-to.html

Migrate DX70/80 devices from Android to CE software

The guide is now posted:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/endpoint/ce82/dx80-dx70-convert-between-CE-android-based-software.pdf