I have a particular dislike of blog sites blatantly re-posting others’ content as their own. I’m happy to re-post, with all the credit going to the original poster. Thanks to mickjf for this post on the auTechHeads site, which I recently stumbled across whilst cursing some strange behaviour of Exchange 2010 UM. This commandlet will …
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I left a lot of my heritage and many familiar faces behind when I decided to jump ship from the PABX world in early 2010 and focus on this UC caper full-time, so I was delighted to recently have the opportunity to work with some old colleagues integrating a Nortel CS1000 (aka CS1k) with …
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New to Lync is the handling of “analog extensions”: faxes, courtesy phones, modems, etc. Prior to Lync, analog devices were typically created and managed through your voice gateways, perhaps with manual routing entries and no control over barring or means of cost recovery. It was far from elegant. Now you can create the extensions themselves …
There are a few places on the web where you can find a walk-through of the process to integrate Lync with Exchange 2010 OWA, including those of Ilse Van Criekinge and Jens Trier Rasmussen. Ilse makes the throw-away comment “You should disable the replication of configuration data to this pool, to prevent CMS from trying to replicate to …
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“SEFAUtil” is one of the utilities in the Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (“ResKit”), and permits an administrator to make a range of changes to a user’s phone forwarding settings from a command-line utility. Jens has blogged on the not-insignificant pre-req’s of this UCMA-based util. Beware however, that there are some bugs in the current 7577.0 …
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OK, I’ve decided that my brain’s too soft to remember all of the funky and techy snippets I encounter in my travels, and my previous method of storing these tips is so embarrassing that I’m not going to tell you what it is. Was. So, a blog is born. Whilst its genesis is as on-line …