You create a new Cisco Unity Connection user based on a custom template that configures the user’s
maximum voice mail message length to 500 seconds.
Your supervisor informs you that the voice mail message length limit should be changed to 300 seconds.
You should complete your task by using the least administrative effort.
Which of the following should you do?

A.
Modify the user template to automatically reconfigure all existing users.

B.
Modify the user template, and manually reconfigure existing users one by one.

C.
Modify the user template, and use the BAT to update existing users.

D.
Modify the user template, and manually reconfigure existing users in Bulk Edit mode.

Explanation:
You should modify the user template and manually reconfigure existing users in Bulk Edit mode to change the
voice mail message length limit for the voice mail users to 300 seconds by using the least administrative effort.
Modifying the user template to limit voice mail messages to 300 seconds will ensure that any new accounts that
are created from that template will automatically be configured with the correct message length limit. In
addition, Bulk Edit mode enables an administrator to select a specific subset of Unity Connection users and
make identical changes to every user in that subset at once. Therefore, you can use Bulk Edit mode to modify
the message length limit for all existing users who have voice mail.
Modifying the user template and using the Bulk Administration Tool (BAT) to update existing users will not
complete your task by using the least administrative effort. The BAT enables administrators to import users,
update user settings, and delete users by importing comma-separated values (CSV) files. The BAT is alsocapable of exporting users to CSV files. In order to update the message length limit by using the BAT, you
would need to export the subset of voice mail users to a CSV file, change the message length limit value for
each user in the CSV file, and then import the CSV file again. Exporting, updating, and importing the CSV files
would consume more time than applying a single change to a subset of accounts at once by using the Bulk Edit
tool.
Modifying the user template alone will not complete your task. If you modify an existing user template, only new
user accounts that are based off that template will be affected by the changes that you make to the template.
Any users who have already been created from the template will retain the old template settings.
Modifying the user template and manually reconfiguring existing users one by one will not complete your task
by using the least administrative effort. If you were to manually reconfigure existing users one by one, you
would need to search for the users, open a user, modify the Maximum Message Length field, save the user,
and then open the next user in the search results. Having to manually open and modify each user would
consume more time than editing the entire subset of users at once.

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