Archive of entries posted by Greig Sheridan

Enabling Exchange’s Voicemail Preview for en-AU and other languages

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“Voice Mail Preview is a feature that’s available to users who receive their voice mail messages from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging (UM). Voice Mail Preview enhances the existing UM voice mail functionality by providing a text version of audio recordings. The voice mail text is displayed in e-mail messages within Microsoft Office Outlook …

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The World’s Most Evil Cheesecake

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  A friend of ours recently popped back to Oz from his current home in Paris and cruelly brought us a jar of Speculoos paste as a present. If you’ve ever coffeed in Amsterdam or thereabouts, they probably put one of those yummy cinnamon biscuits in the saucer. And this jar is full of something …

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Updating Exchange 2010 OWA for Lync

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Having been inundated with Lync work since it was released over a year ago, I’ll admit to having not paid a lot of attention to OCS. Once area where OCS continues to play a part in Lync installations is the IM functionality we now enjoy through Exchange 2010 OWA. Those are actually OCS components you’re …

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Script to find Unused Numbers in Lync

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Ståle Hansen has published a great PowerShell script that digs through the Lync CsUnassignedNumber list and mashes it against all of the possible uses of a number (including CsAnalogDevices, CommonAreaPhones, RGS, UMContacts and more) to report what numbers in a given number range are currently spare. It fills a yawning (and frustrating gap) in the …

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Calling a busy Tenor port fails with SIP 503 instead of 486

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The NET Tenor appears to have a bug in its “108 Routing” (a feature enhancement I wrote of here and here). If you make a call to an FXS port that’s busy, the Tenor reports “SIP/2.0 503 Service Unavailable” instead of “SIP/2.0 486 Busy here”, and this is reflected back to the calling party. A …

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PowerShell Filter command fails

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Sometimes what seems an obvious PowerShell filter request is rejected. The parameter you’re seeking is visible when you get-user (Exchange) or get-csUser (Lync), but you’re still rejected. The error message is the rather bleak and uninspiring: Invoke-Command : Cannot bind parameter ‘Filter’ to the target. Exception setting “Filter”: “”UMDialPlan” is not a recognized filterable property. …

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