The MCS server provides a SIP Hot Desking feature specifically for 6900 series handsets. This differs from the existing MiVoice Office 250 Hot Desking and Agent Hot Desking.

SIP Hot Desking allows users to logon to any 6900 handset that has hot desking enabled (even ones on other nodes*). Once logged in, the handset becomes their own, all keymaps, configuration options and SIP configuration gets transferred to the target handset.

For information on configuring a SIP Hot Desking implementation, please refer to the 6900 Engineering Guidelines.

Managing SIP Hot Desk Phones

The hot desking configuration section displays all SIP hot desk phones that have been configured on the system.

Each hot desk phone has the following properties:

• Device Number, the SIP device on the telephone system
• PIN, the number used by the user when logging on and off
• Keymap Profile, a keymap profile to apply when logged on (Optional)
• Configuration Profile, a configuration profile to apply when logged on (Optional)

To add a new hot desk phone, press the 'Add' button. In the form that appears, enter the number of the SIP device on the telephone system to configure as a hot desk phone (the device picker will filter out any SIP device which are already have a fixed mapping to a handset).

Once a hot desk phone has been created, it can be used to logon to any handset that has been enabled for accepting hot desk logons. Please see the 6900 Handset Phone section for more information.

The effective keymap option can be used to see the combination of hot desk keymap and user keymap. The actual keymap that gets sent to the phone will differ depending on the phone the hot desk device is logged into.