SfB 2019 Server Update – June 2023

It’s been a while since we’ve seen an update to Skype for Business Server 2019, October’s 7.0.2046.409. Today we see build 7.0.2046.521, which updated six components on my Standard Edition Front-End. What’s Fixed? “KB” numbers seem to have gone the way of the dodo… The default value of cmdlet MeetingUxUseCdn value is set to False …

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Another chapter ends…

I returned these number plates to the motor registry recently, in preparation for our new car’s arrival. I found it quite poignant that the introduction of Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging (EX-07-UM) marked the beginning of the Microsoft chapter of my career, and now that I’ve retired, I’m also retiring the plates that accompanied me throughout.

Packet sniffing your UniFi Access Points

We had a new Widget arrive in the house recently, and it required a connection to the Wi-Fi network. It was duly connected to the untrusted ‘IoT’ network, where it’s denied Internet access by default. It WASN’T happy. The supplier assured me it *didn’t* require Internet access, so I set about finding out what was …

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Review: Zennio Tecla XL pushbuttons for KNX

The Zennio Tecla XL Late last year the Ivory Egg crew returned from Light + Building 2022 in Frankfurt with news of the Zennio Tecla XL, and it caught my eye. What’s not to love about the Aussie mounting compatibility, the sleek, sexy look, the distinct capacitive buttons, and – as I was to find …

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Our quest for the perfect light switch

We’re not even twelve months into our KNX journey, but we already have devices from over ten manufacturers of KNX gear all happily coexisting throughout the house. One of the first decisions we had to make was the choice of light switches. We had a few criteria, the main one being that the switches needed …

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Review: Brightgreen Day Shift LEDs

I’ve written before about the lousy state of the lighting in the new home we bought last year. Fortunately we moved in during Summer, so the days were long and the need for lighting minimal. Early in the research phase someone introduced me to the concept of Human Centric Lighting, and I was hooked. That …

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Get-PowerWallData.py

Following the installation of our solar panels and Tesla PowerWall2 last year, we’ve been on a mission to add all the monitoring and measurement that we can conceive. Two earlier posts focussed on the Enphase micro-inverters: Get-EnphaseProduction.py Get-EnphaseData.py Now we have a script that focusses on the PowerWall: Get-PowerWallData.py. Like the others, this script feeds …

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SfB 2015 Server Update – December 2022

This security update for SfBS 2015 is build 6.0.9319.842, up from July’s 6.0.9319.634. Despite the strange jump of over TWO HUNDRED build numbers it updated only two components on my Standard Edition Front-End and delivers only one fix. What’s Fixed? Kb 5022533 Response Group Service Crashes in Skype for Business Server 2015 What’s New? Nothing …

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Get-EnphaseData.py

I recently introduced a script that monitors the Enphase solar setup we have here. This post is about the companion script that adds reporting down to an individual panel level. Get-EnphaseProduction.py. Queries the installation for an overview of production and consumption. Get-EnphaseData.py – this post. Queries the generation data for all of the invidual panels/micro-inverters. …

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