Your fax is probably failing because it’s too LOUD

Getting faxes to work over IP usually takes a disproportionate amount of time and effort in any UC / VoIP deployment. Actually, that applies to any legacy analog data: modems, dial-up EFTPOS, franking machines – they’re all doing the same thing, taking streams of 0s and 1s and turning them into a convoluted sing-song for …

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Keep an Eye Out for Electrical Safety

I’ve apparently had a fascination for all things electrical and electronic since an early age. So the story goes, I managed to jam some keys in a power-point aged about 3, apparently blackening all around it but leaving me unharmed. In my teenage years I knew to scream out “I’m OK” if – alright, when …

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Enabling the Azure Authenticator App for 2FA

I’ve enabled two factor authentication (“2FA”) where-ever I have the option, but long disliked the slow login process waiting for a one-time PIN to wind its way from Azure through EOP and to my on-prem Exchange. I have a convoluted collection of accounts & services through Microsoft so I need to use in-Private browsing to successfully sign …

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Sonus Updates Tenor Config Manager

As outlined in my previous post, the old “Quintum” Config Manager app has just scored an update to match some of the new/changed values in the firmware. It’s significant if you’ve been around the traps for a while because Sonus has used this as an opportunity to finally replace the old NET and Quintum branding. …

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Sonus Tenor Firmware P108-09-32 – January 2016

The old Tenor doesn’t see a lot of attention these days, but they’re still out there providing reliable analog and BRI port interfaces across the planet. We’ve recently seen an update to the Tenor firmware to P108-09-32, up from this time 2 years ago when we saw P108-09-26. The ReleaseNotes readme is no longer in …

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Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – January 2016

This January update (Kb3114502) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4779.1001 to 15.0.4787.1001. What’s Fixed This update fixes the following issues: Kb3128747 Video is missing in a Skype for Business 2015 meeting recording after the December 2015 security update 3114351 is installed Kb3121276 Title bar displays “Lync” after you install the November 2015 update …

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Lync Server 2013 Update – January 2016

This update takes two components on the server from 5.0.8308.941 to 5.0.8308.945, although – as with the December update that gave us .941 – I’m still struggling to see the point of one of them. What’s Fixed? It looks like the sole (documented) fix is for the Web Components and relates to the “You can’t …

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