Thoughts, Networking, Technology

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…

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.

Just installed a new WSUS server and obviously got a little heavy handed on the auto-approve settings.

Logged onto one of the student PCs today and found a big PowerShell folder in the start menu.

Mind you, I would be suprised if they actually managed to do anything interesting with it.

I presumed it was a given that Sharepoint would be able to run on Server 2008 Web Edition, however I was mistaken, and found out the hard way when the prerequisite installer wouldn’t work on a shiny new VM.

The prerequisite installer was failing immediately when trying to setup the IIS role, giving the message ‘Configuration Error’. Initially I thought this was obviously a bug because it was beta software.

After reading through the system requirements document again carefully, I found that Sharepoint requires the Application Server role, which Web Edition does not have.

Installed Server 2008 R2 Standard and it went on immediately.