A Safety Net for Lync Gateway AD-Lookups

Superceded 12th Nov2012 by the Mk-II. A not uncommon user-misconfiguration for a Lync user is to find their account possessing a LineURI (their “msRTCSIP-Line”) telephone number, but for them to not be enabled for Enterprise Voice. This more commonly occurs in the early stages of a deployment (ahead of cutover), or as the on-site admins …

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July 2012: NET releases Tenor Firmware P108-09-21

I see NET’s just released a firmware update for the Tenor series of UC Gateways. It takes it up from “AS_AF_AX_BX-DXi-P108-09-18” to “AS_AF_AX_BX-DXi-P108-09-21”. No idea what’s in it, and I’m not allowed to post it here (sorry) – but if you’re a Tenor devotee like me, you’ve already abandoned this post and are downloading it …

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Audio File Formats for NET UX MOH

You might have seen my earlier post on the file formats you need for audio files for Lync and Exchange. From firmware release 2.1.x, the UX family of PSTN Gateways now support the direct provision of Music On Hold (MOH). “The Music On Hold feature allows you to play music or other audio while a …

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Calling a busy Tenor port fails with SIP 503 instead of 486

The NET Tenor appears to have a bug in its “108 Routing” (a feature enhancement I wrote of here and here). If you make a call to an FXS port that’s busy, the Tenor reports “SIP/2.0 503 Service Unavailable” instead of “SIP/2.0 486 Busy here”, and this is reflected back to the calling party. A …

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NET UX2000 SIP Override Tables

Updated 12th December 2011. (Scroll to the bottom) We’ve found here in Oz with the UX that occasionally a random failure code from the carrier is enough to block the entire gateway. The NET faithfully interprets the applicable standards, mapping the ISDN failure messages to their SIP equivalents, then sends the resulting message to Lync. …

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Tenor “108 Routing”

The NET (nee Quintum) Tenor gateway family has recently seen a functionality injection with the introduction of what they’re calling “108 Routing”. Until now the Tenor has had some limitations in its routing capabilities. One such restriction was that the outbound (IP) destination was either H.323 or SIP – you could never run both in …

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Editing vxBuilder’s “Recent” list

NET’s vxBuilder application has a handy “Recent” list that serves as a directory of your most-visited sites. I recently decided that the growing list of IP addresses needed to go and be replaced by their names. It didn’t take long to find the list – it’s tucked away in the Registry at HKCU\Software\Network Equipment Technologies\SHOUTbuilder\Recent, …

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