Installing the SQL from SBS 2008 Premium along side SBS 2003

By James | Published: July 8, 2010

Background: SBS 2003 Premium is running on one box. Performance is becoming poor due to increasing SQL demands, so we need to run it on a separate server. Can achieve this by purchasing A) SBS Workgroup 1 Processor Edition, or B) SBS 2008 Premium Edition & 25 CALs, (which entitles you to run SQL on a separate server) for about the same cost. But, I would prefer not to rebuild the SBS 2003 box at this stage.

After several hours of research I came across two opinions on whether we could buy SBS 2008 Premium, use the ’second’ server part of it for a new server while leaving the existing server untouched. Read More »

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The UC520 Journey

By James | Published: May 27, 2010

On Friday I finally completed the cutover to our UC520, after running it in parallel for half the staff (2 phones on their desks) with our old Samsung DCS Compact II. Even better news, we are a week down the track and it’s still running. Yes of course I should expect that, but it is scary ripping all the trunks out of the Samsung. I’m going to share with you some of our journey towards the cutover, and some of the design decisions made. This system was installed in a small town in New Zealand, using VoIP over ADSL2+. Read More »

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Configuring Cisco 7914 Sidecar

By James | Published: May 26, 2010

Cisco 7914So you’ve got your shiny new 7914 sidecar, configured all the buttons, go to boot it up and find that all the buttons just light up red!
I’ve seen many forum posts with people confused about how to get their 7914 working, and I have also had problems, so here is a guide on how to do it.

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Graduation

By James | Published: May 13, 2010

On this twenty-third day of April 2010, I was duly admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. No storm troopers like at my fiancee’s graduation,  however there was someone in chainmail a few rows in front of me. Thanks UC, great feeling to finally be a graduate! Look forward to doing it again a few years down the track…

Family

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UC520 Dialing Plans

By James | Published: January 23, 2010

We sometimes use an extension for testing out modems, so rather than having to add a ‘9′ to the start of the ISP phone number, it would be nice to be able to dial straight out.

Here the ISP numbers start with 0867, so I thought why not create an outgoing dialing rule which doesn’t require an access code.

I created a rule with the access code 0, number beginning with 867, 8 digits long, and set it to forward the access code to the trunks. This works great, except my incoming dial plans no longer work! Instead of SIP calls going to the auto attendant, they just get a busy signal. The moment I remove my outgoing dialup internet rule it starts working again. Haven’t had time to find out the actual cause for this, but I’m guessing it is a gimmick because I was using the GUI to configure it.

I had been pulling my hair out with why auto attendant wasn’t working (I didn’t want to specify the SIP number in the auto attendant setup because we have several numbers that should terminate to the same AA) and rebuilt the system today, which is when I discovered what was causing the problems.

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