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 upgrade an existing deployment to 7.4, you’ll be told “the computer says no”:
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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 month, it’s hard to tell).
Two things jumped out at me:
Server 2012 R2:
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,InkandHandwritingServices,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation
Server 2016:
Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Console,Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Static-Content,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Includes,NET-Framework-Features,NET-Framework-45-Features,NET-Framework-Core,NET-Framework-45-Core,NET-HTTP-Activation,NET-Non-HTTP-Activ,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,Windows-Identity-Foundation,Server-Media-Foundation
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Extention.dll – https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=620072
Wictor Wilén seems to have the definitive post on getting your WAC/OOS server healthy, but if you still draw a blank my only suggestion is to try adding the x64 and x86 versions of the VC_Redist 2013 and then “Restart-Service WACSM”.
Best of luck with it! Oh, and make sure W3SVC is running!
– G.
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 simple one: the WWW service was stopped. As soon as I restarted it, I was able to execute the ‘get-farm’ commandlet OK.
PS C:\> get-service W3SVC
Status Name DisplayName
------ ---- -----------
Stopped 3SVC World Wide Web Publishing Service
PS C:\> start-service W3SVC
– G.
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: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture= neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Filtering the Event Log by this error I saw it pops up from time to time in brief spurts, then vanishes as quickly as it arrived. The date-stamp of its first recent occurrence looked interesting – that turned out to be the date I applied CU6 to the server. I’m guessing I was distracted or maybe rebooted it “into service” (ha!) and moved on to something else without checking it properly.
The fix was to run bootstrapper and it came good straight away.
PS C:\Program Files\Skype for Business Server 2015\Deployment> .\Bootstrapper.exe
PS C:\Program Files\Skype for Business Server 2015\Deployment> Start-CsWindowsService
– G.
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. Verify that the property exists.
“Commond”? Surely that’s a typo!
I eventually managed to fix* it – and I’ll get to that shortly. (* It’s a bit kludgey).
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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 thanks to a small glass tube of radioactive tritium gas exciting phosphors in the dial. It was a light phone – especially when compared to its bakelite forebears – and could be easily carried around by its loop-around hookswitch lever when the handset was out of its cradle.
The Trimphone won a design award in 1966.
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.
This update fixes the following issues:
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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 use of a third-party (in this case ClearDB) to host the WordPress database.
It’s an understatement to say that I’ve not found the blog’s performance anywhere near my expectation. Googling “slow WordPress on Azure” reveals this isn’t an issue unique to me, and none of the fixes offered in any of my occasional shopping expeditions improved matters:
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.
This update enables Location-Based Routing to support the Skype for Business mobile clients. It also fixes the following issues:
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