AudioCodes has refreshed IP Phone Manager Express with the 7.4 release, aligning it more – at least visually – with the current SBC look and feel. Under the hood it’s had a significant revamp: out with SQL Express, in with mySQL. It’s presumably due to the significance of the revamp that if you try to …
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Getting a new Office Web Apps or Office Online Server to report “Healthy” is no mean feat, and you’ll find no shortage of blog posts with advice in that direction. Hence it was with great interest that I noticed Microsoft has recently updated the pre-req’s. (OK, it was either back in May or only last …
I was struggling with an Office Online Server recently that didn’t want to talk to me. I was able to create the OfficeWebAppsFarm OK, but then couldn’t query it (as I wanted to check its health): PS C:\> Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm Get-OfficeWebAppsFarm : Could not read settings from WEBAPPS. The destination is unreachable. The fix was a …
I returned from holidays recently to find my Skype for Business client reporting the familiar “Limited External Calling” error. A quick RDP to my Lab’s Edge server revealed stopped services and this error in the Event Log: Event Properties – Event 19005, LS Audio/Video Authentication Server LS Audio/Video Authentication service could not be started. Exception: …
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Digicert mailed me this week to advise that the public Edge certificate on my Lab’s Cloud Connector Edition was about to expire. Duly forewarned I set about updating it, but I hit an unexpected error when I tried to activate it in the CCE: SetCcExternalCertificateFilePathlnternal : The property ‘Commond’ cannot be found on this object. …
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My ‘mugshot’ for this year is the British Trimphone. The Trimphone was designed by Martyn Rowlands for STC as a luxury telephone that the GPO could rent to its customers at a premium. It had an innovative electronic ringer (at a time when phones still housed mechanical bells), and a dial that glowed at night …
Happy new year! It’s barely January and we have a fresh update to the client – albeit a relatively small one, but with what looks like a doozie of a fix. Our December update took us to 15.0.4989.1000 and today Kb 4011638 nudges us up a few builds to 15.0.4997.1000. What’s Fixed This update fixes …
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Want to search through, say, a directory full of log files for a specific message? PowerShell to the rescue! PS C:\> get-item *.log | Select-String -Pattern “Race Condition” 12-19-2017 02.44.02 PM.log:93413:SIP/2.0 200 Race Condition Subfolders too: PS C:\> Get-ChildItem c:\<Path>\*.log -Recurse | Select-String -Pattern “Race Condition” Ongoing Support\20171011-SIP503s\Logs-20171219\12-19-2017 02.44.02 PM.log:93413:SIP/2.0 200 Race Condition
Back in 2014 I announced the relocation of greiginsydney.com to Azure. Today I can announce we’ve moved again – this time to Azure. For the last few years we’ve been living on Azure’s version of WordPress as an “App Service” hosted in the West US Region. This choice of platform has to date necessitated the …
Our December 2017 update – the first in 7 months – leaps the server from 6.0.9319.281 to 6.0.9319.510. It updates 7 components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? This update enables Location-Based Routing to support the Skype for Business mobile clients. It also fixes the following issues: Kb4043636 Skype for Business on Mac can’t …
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