Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1

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The name’s a bit of a mouthful, but “Convert-RibbonSbcConfigToWord.ps1” takes the backup file from your Ribbon/Sonus SBC/UX 1000 or 2000 gateway and creates a new Word document, with all of the important(?) configuration information captured in tables.

It started life as a way to save the tedium of screen-scraping lots of fixed frames for my as-built documents, but it quickly became apparent that it would also make a useful tool for the offline review of a gateway’s config (although it ain’t no “UxBuilder”).

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From Telecom Apprentice to Lync MVP in 30 Short Years

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January 2014 has been quite a significant month here. Forgive me for getting all nostalgic for the “good old days” and reminiscing a bit – it’s not without due cause.

Thirty years ago this month, fresh out of school and barely a man (I’d only just turned 18), I joined what was Telecom Australia (nee the Postmaster-General’s Department) as an “Apprentice Technician, Telecommunications”. (The job title had been recently renamed from Technician In Training as apparently the acronym had become inappropriate).

First year of the four year apprenticeship was all in-house training, at the end of which you then chose a specialisation. I opted for PABX Maintenance.

Wind forward 30 years and I’m still in the industry, still working in what we might loosely term “telephony”, although it’s changed and evolved a bit.

Then 4 weeks out from my 30th anniversary I had bestowed upon me a Microsoft award as a “Most Valuable Professional” for my contribution to the Lync community, making me the fourth Lync MVP in the country.

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Set-UxFxsCountry.ps1

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Here’s a script from the quick & dirty category. Worthy of publishing, but not something I’m going to get around to polishing up to be all-singing and all-dancing.

“Set-UxFxsCountry.ps1” uses Vik Jaswal’s fantastic PowerShell module for the Sonus UX/SBC family of gateways to automate what I reckon has to be the most tedious task of configuring a new gateway – setting the FXS ports to be (in my case) Australia.

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Lync 2010 – Client & Server updates – January 2014

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The new year’s off to a great start with a flurry of update packages. Last week I blogged the Lync 2013 & Sonus Tenor updates, and here’s what’s in the January update for the Lync 2010 Client and Server.

What’s Fixed?

Server

“This cumulative update improves the reliability, stability, and performance of Lync Server 2010”. As per the image below there aren’t a lot of components included in this update and there’s no more information as to what’s changed.
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Lync Server 2013 CU4 – January 2014

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Happy new year – have a Lync update! The CU4 update for Lync Server 2013 has landed, and at first glance there’s at least one fix for which I already carry a scar. My Front-End updates only 5 components.

This update takes the Server to 5.0.8308.577 (from .556).

What’s Fixed?

2912334 Event ID 57006 is logged when you cannot restart the Lync Server 2013 front-end service (when a user’s SIP URI contains a reserved character, e.g. “test.us&er@company.com”)
2912338 Can’t call Enterprise Voice-enabled users when the users have the same main telephone number in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2912340 An external call is routed based on Location-Based Routing that is configured for internal AD sites in a Lync Server 2013 environment
2912343 Event ID 1001 is logged when the RTCSrv.exe progress crashes on a Lync Server 2013 Edge server
2912341 Event ID 32054 is logged on a Lync Server 2013 front-end server when a user signs in to a Lync mobile client
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Optimising the Polycom VVX for Lync/SfB

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Polycom’s VVX family of phones is incredibly flexible, with a 23M Admin guide that spans 590 pages. I won’t say I’ve read *every* page of that, but I’ve spent weeks trawling the config options so as to assemble my “ideal” config for a VVX deployment operating as Lync peripherals.

Philosophy

My design philosophy for this config file was to make the phones as enterprise-grade as I could. I applied the mindset of a major corporate: the phones needed to be simple, with unnecessary functionality removed or suppressed. I wanted them to be secured, localised to the Australian environment, and to minimise the network traffic they would generate. Continue reading ‘Optimising the Polycom VVX for Lync/SfB’ »

Front-End Stops When Upgrading from Lync Eval to Full

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There’s a process on TechNet for upgrading an Evaluation installation of Lync 2013 to the full licenced version, but it fails to mention that the process kills the Front-End server!

There’s some logic to this I guess – we need to stop running the time-bombed version of the Front-End’s executable and replace it with the full release – but the process could be a little more idiot-proofed if they mentioned this, lest you innocently try this during the day. (No, I didn’t, but thanks for asking).
 
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Profiles for Lync 2013 – 2nd birthday multi-language update

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This post is obsolete. ‘Profiles’ has been replaced by bounSky!

 

 

This post is obsolete. The latest Profiles post (1 Jan 2015) is here: https://greiginsydney.com/p4l-sticky/.

Today marks two years since the first release of “Profiles for Lync”, and to celebrate I’ve made a few small improvements and added support for a handful of new languages, kindly translated for me by my user community (to whom I am greatly indebted).

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