Spark is an awesome cloud-based solution from Cisco for meetings, messaging and calling. We use it for internal meetings, presentations and have been setting up for clients. Shiny and new unfortunately also means there are still some bugs to work out and Cisco’s support and documentation on Spark doesn’t cover it all.
Here’s one of the issues I’ve encountered and some steps to hopefully help you resolve it.
Cisco’s Spark client installs into the user profile (appdata/local) by default to avoid any machine level permission issues. This is not great for enterprise deployments, as it does not support running the Cisco Spark client on Windows Server 2016 or in Citrix.
But you’re in luck, I’ve trialed, errored and ultimately succeeded with this DIY solution.
Note: Cisco does not support Spark in RDSH deployments.
So the next step is to install the Wireless LAN Service Feature.
At this point, you should be working…for the most part. The client seems to work fine, but I have run into a couple bugs I want to point out, as well as the fixes:
Happy Sparking and testing! What do you think about Spark? Have you run into any issues? What features do you love?
Lewan has been a Cisco Gold Certified Partner since 2005. Gold status is Cisco’s highest partner designation. Lewan also holds two Cisco Master Specializations: Collaboration and Cloud & Managed Services. These specializations recognize the highest level of expertise attainable. Our team of engineers holds 65 individual Cisco certifications including CCIE certifications in Routing & Switching, Collaboration, Data Center and Security. The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Combined with our sister companies, we offer the breadth and expertise of over 146 individual Cisco certifications nationally.