Phone devices in general make up the bulk of the endpoints on a Unified Communications cluster. Knowing how to bulk add/update/delete them can be a huge time saver.
There are a few ways to bulk insert phones. In my opinion, the best way is to use a Phone Template.
The phone template is pretty much how it sounds, a template for devices. Here you configure the template just as you would configure any phone device by providing CSS information, device pools, and so on. You can even specify the line configuration.
This is done by adding a new phone template (Bulk Administration | Phones | Phone Template) and configuring it just as you would configure a phone device.
After the template has been created, a CSV file with phone information can be uploaded (when uploading this file select Phones | Insert Phones – Specific Details):
The file is finally available under the Insert Phones submenu (Bulk Administration | Phones | Insert Phones):
Running the job will insert...