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When Poodles Attack - Poodle Checker Tool
It’s not too often you get to be excited about a security threat. However, the POODLE security threat seems to put a smile on my face every time I see it written somewhere… Poodles are just so innocent...
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Sonus SBC 5k/SWe CDR Decoder
I was on a training course recently learning about the SBC5000/SWe series SBCs from Sonus as these are now supported with Microsoft Lync 2013! This range of SBCs are completely different from the...
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Photos (Part 1) - Lync / Skype for Business Photo Editor
Happy New Year! Hang on, it’s February… Time seems to have got away on me since I started this holiday project that turned out to be more complex than I had initially expected. What was originally...
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The Case of the Lync 2013 Edge Server Centralised Logging Ports
If you have ever done any port testing on a Lync 2013 Edge server you may have noticed that the external interface of the Edge server had ports in the 50001-50003 range open and listening for TCP...
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Photos (Part 2) - Exchange / Active Directory/ Office 365 Photo Importer
With Part 1 of this series I introduced you to a tool that will allow you to convert photos into a format suitable for importing into Active Directory, Exchange, or Exchange Online. These photos are...
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Skype for Business Address Book Normalisation Tool
The release of Skype for Business brings a new set of Powershell commands for controlling Address Book Normalisation rules. In previous versions of Lync, these rules were configured in the...
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Skype for Business / Lync Polycom VVX Manager Version 3
Polycom’s VVX range of phones on Lync/Skype for Business have come a long way in the past few years. The release of version 5.4 has delivered further improvements and new features and moved them into a...
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Skype4B / Lync DHCP Config Tool
Put up your hand if you know how to configure DHCP for Skype for Business and Lync phone devices? Leave your hand raised if you enjoy this process? Okay, I thought so, read on…When deploying Skype for...
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Skype for Business and Lync Centralised Event Viewer Tool
Event Viewer logs remain one of the best troubleshooting tools for Lync and Skype for Business servers. An enormous amount of useful information can be found in the Event Viewer Logs, which can then be...
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Polycom VVX Hold Issue with Sonus SBC1000/2000 Calls
I had an issue recently when using the VVX Music on Hold feature in conjunction with a Sonus SBC1000/2000. The problem was that the VVX phones could not put a trunk call on hold (in this case they were...
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Skype4B / Lync Certificate Checker Tool
If you’ve ever installed Skype for Business or Lync before, you will know that the system requires PKI Infrastructure and Certificates to function. The reason for this is that all SIP and Web...
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Skype for Business Rate My Call Viewer Tool
Rate My Call is a feature in Skype for Business that provides enterprises a way of acquiring feedback from their end-users via a special dialog window that pops up after a specified number of calls....
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AudioCodes Mediant Virtual SBC Transcoding Requirements
This blog post covers an interesting issue that I ran into the other day with AudioCodes Mediant Virtual Edition and getting transcoding capabilities working on VMWare. The AudioCodes Virtual Edition...
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Network Assessor for Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams
Skype for Business Online and Skype Teams are both real time communications tools that rely heavily on the networking infrastructure that they run on top of. This has always been, and will remain, a...
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Deploying Powershell Scripts with Group Policy
I have written quite a few Powershell tools for Skype for Business and some of these might be tools that people want to use on a regular basis across their Front End servers. People may want to deploy...
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Spectralink 8400 Edge Issue
I found an interesting issue when testing some Spectralink 8440 handsets the other day and I didn’t see the answer documented anywhere, so I thought I'd change that situation by blogging about it.Note:...
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Building an Edge Server Port Monitor with Azure Function Apps – Part 1
For this blog series I thought I would branch out a bit and take my Powershell scripting to the next level using Azure Function Apps. What on earth is an Azure Function App, I hear you asking? Well,...
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Building an Edge Server Port Monitor with Azure Function Apps – Part 2
This blog is an expansion on the previous Part 1 post here. The process of setting up the Function App for this part 2 section is the same as was documented in Part 1. I suggest reading part 1 first...
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Building an Edge Server Port Monitor with Azure Function Apps – Part 3
This blog is an expansion on the previous Part 1 and Part 2 posts found here and here. The process of setting up the Function App for this part 3 section is the same as was documented in Part 1 and 2....
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Polycom VVX Not Displaying PIN Authentication Option
I had an interesting issue with a Polycom VVX deployment recently that I thought I would share in case others run into the same issue.The IssueThe symptom of the problem was that after the Polycom VVX...
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