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Welcome to my blog about Cisco Collaboration, voice, and contact center technologies.

I’m Dmytro Benda, a Cisco instructor (CCSI#33268) and collaboration specialist. Here I share practical articles, lab notes, configuration tips, and troubleshooting ideas based on real work with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Unified CME, gateways, CUBE, and contact center solutions.

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Dropping Conference in CUCME When Initiator Disconnects

Hello all!

This post is a response to a question from a student of my recent CVOICE course. The question was as follows - how to drop a hardware Conference  in CUCME when initiator of the Conference is leaving the session.

The solution is easy. In ephone or ephone-template configuration just add a command conference drop-mode. Its syntax is:

conference drop-mode [creator | local]

Parameter creator means Conference is stopped when initiator leaves it. Parameter local says Conference is stopped when the last internal CUCME's phone disconnects from the session (ie prevents a situation where the conference are used by external subscribers only).

An example of configuration is here:

HQ-1(config)# ephone 1
HQ-1(config-ephone)# conference drop-mode creator


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