Category Archives: Work

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 [...]

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Atcom IP0X IP Phone System Mini-review

By James | Published: October 25, 2009

Back in 2008 I posted an article about Affordable IP Phone Systems. This was all very well but I hadn’t actually ever touched the Atcom IP04 / IP08 phone system. A couple of months ago I was able to get my hands on a demo unit thanks very much to Hadley at Nicegear. I regret being [...]

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Affordable Video Conferencing – Part 2 – Software

By James | Published: October 22, 2009

Following up on the Affordable Video Conferencing – Part 1 post, I promised another post talking about the software I installed on the video conferencing unit. My Flare Solutions friends reminded me a couple of days ago to finish the series. If you haven’t read part 1 – do it now. In summary, I converted [...]

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Affordable Video Conferencing – Part 1 – Hardware

By James | Published: December 23, 2008

After receiving a quote for a Polycom video conferencing unit for around the $5000 mark excluding extras, I set out to put together an affordable conferencing solution. In this two or three part series I will cover the design, build and implementation of a solution for under $1500 NZD.

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DFS Replication Monitoring Script

By James | Published: June 20, 2008

I’m shortly going to start work on a tool for monitoring the status of DFS Replication. While Microsoft provides us with the Health Monitor, and you can set up a script to generate health reports every now and then, I am going to develop one that actually tests the replication, and generates some really simple [...]

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