Upgrading to AudioCodes IPP Manager Express 7.4

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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Tricking Windows 10 into talking to an old SBC

  Deliberately circumventing browser security is NOT a good idea. OK, with that mandatory common-sense warning out of the way, those of you who know why we’re doing this are welcome to continue reading. Today was the *second* occasion in the last fortnight where I’ve needed to talk to a customer’s SBC that was still …

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Add-WindowsFeature for AudioCodes IPP Express

I hit a snag earlier this week when installing AudioCodes’ IP Phone Manager Express. The installer adds the usual Windows Features/Roles – but it does so assuming the media is in D:\sources\sxs, and it’s not something you can change. Rather than just remapping drives & folders when there was an opportunity for some PowerShell, I …

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AudioCodes Plugs AD Password Leak in Mediant SBCs

The release of AudioCodes SBC firmware 7.20A.100 fixes an issue where the Active Directory passwords of your SBC administrators might be inadvertently captured into the Syslog. This issue is isolated to the AD / LDAP Authentication feature, where the SBC will let you authenticate to its web console using your Active Directory credentials. It passes …

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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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