Sonus’ “LX” logging app is a fantastic tool, however if the machine you want to install it on doesn’t have internet access you won’t get far.
The catch is it needs SQL Server Compact 4.0 and will attempt to download that from the internet:
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This March update (Kb3114831) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4797.1001 to 15.0.4787.1001.
This update fixes the following issues:
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This February update (Kb3114732) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4787.1001 to 15.0.4797.1000.
This update fixes the following issues:
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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 a companion device at the other end to decode.
Assuming you have the core bits working (codecs in agreement, dial plans & timing), we Aussies have a fantastic test service available to use in Telstra’s “FaxStream”. You simply send a complex test fax to 1300 368 999 & a couple of minutes later it will send you back a report. Note that for this to succeed you need to be sending CallerID from the line, or (and I’ve not actually tested this) have the correct phone number set in your fax machine so FaxStream knows who to call back with the report!
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I’ve apparently had a fascination for all things electrical and electronic since an early age. So the story goes, I managed to jam some keys in a power-point aged about 3, apparently blackening all around it but leaving me unharmed. In my teenage years I knew to scream out “I’m OK” if – alright, when – my tinkering resulted in a trip of the house’s solitary circuit breaker and plunged the place into darkness.
Electrical safety is something I think we all too often take for granted, perhaps these days lulled into a false sense of security by earth leakage circuit breakers, aka RCDs and marketed more commonly here in Australia as “safety switches”.
These “Residual Current Detectors” have a tiny differential relay in them and fire – tripping the circuit – if the current that’s going out the Active wire isn’t ALL returning via the Neutral, the logic being that some’s being shunted to ground elsewhere – maybe through you.
One menace these things aren’t going to protect you from is fire, and an electrical circuit can cause one of those when some resistance is encountered where it’s not meant to be – or too much current flows through a cable or joint of a given resistance.
I’ve enabled two factor authentication (“2FA”) where-ever I have the option, but long disliked the slow login process waiting for a one-time PIN to wind its way from Azure through EOP and to my on-prem Exchange. I have a convoluted collection of accounts & services through Microsoft so I need to use in-Private browsing to successfully sign in – and hence there’s no point clicking “I sign in frequently on this device, don’t ask me for a code”.
I tonight stumbled across the relatively new “Azure Authenticator” app for my iPhone & decided it was for me.
Unfortunately all of the how-to’s on the web referenced the old Azure portal and a setup process that’s no longer relevant.
I eventually found how to enable the Authenticator & re-traced my steps to capture it. I hope this helps you.
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As outlined in my previous post, the old “Quintum” Config Manager app has just scored an update to match some of the new/changed values in the firmware.
It’s significant if you’ve been around the traps for a while because Sonus has used this as an opportunity to finally replace the old NET and Quintum branding.
What, other than the branding and colours you mean?
The old Tenor doesn’t see a lot of attention these days, but they’re still out there providing reliable analog and BRI port interfaces across the planet.
We’ve recently seen an update to the Tenor firmware to P108-09-32, up from this time 2 years ago when we saw P108-09-26.
The ReleaseNotes readme is no longer in the download bundle having moved to the Sonus support website (and to which you may not have access)*:
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This January update (Kb3114502) takes the Office 2013-based Lync/SfB client from 15.0.4779.1001 to 15.0.4787.1001.
This update fixes the following issues:
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