Note: If you are looking for info on what to do if your Synology RAID crashes. Before you do ANYTHING, please export a support dump. If the volume has entered Read-Only mode, any time you reboot you lose your logs. This may be crucial to getting your data! Apps > Support Centre > Support Services… Read More »
I’ve always said that smaller meetings are better than larger meetings for quite a while. Taking a line from another speaker, I use the Two Pizza Rule. Basically, if the meeting has too many people, or too long for Two Pizza’s to keep everyone fed. It’s too big and should be divvied up into smaller… Read More »
Full Disclosure: Synology sent out a unit for review. As usual, they needed to abide by my terms here. Hard Drives, SSD, Ram etc are all self-funded. So rest assured this is a genuine review! Why a dedicated NAS for home? I needed a new storage solution An interesting scenario pop up the other week,… Read More »
Stop me if you have heard this from your users before; “Skype is crap” “It just dropped out” “It sounded like it was breaking up” Heard it before? Good. That proves your listening. Because even in a perfect environment these issues are going to appear. Mainly because you’re going to peer with customers or mobile… Read More »
So I had a weird one recently that I had been troubleshooting for ages, a previously working paging unit was reconfigured to use a new IP address and would no longer register to the Sonus SBC2000. All the obvious things were checked… Sip Server table had been updated Federated IP/FQDN for the Signalling Group had… Read More »
There, I said it. I said the S word. More specifically Teams versus Slack. And no, I don’t hate Slack. I think its great actually! It has it’s place as do most productivity tools do. Heck, I still use it for our DnD sessions! But that’s because I don’t need anything more complicated than a… Read More »
Update 24/02/2018: Thanks to Paul Lange “Short update on Bring your own Sip Trunk in #MicrosoftTeams from #techsummitfrankfurt – currently in TAP. GA around July according to MS depending on testing. #BRK2080” Expect the sessions to pop up here soon Update 16/12/2017: AudioCodes confirms any of their SBC’s will work with Microsoft Teams. No need… Read More »
I’m not going to do my usual detailed write up on this one just figuring this might help someone Googleing, But I recently had to look into an issue for a customer who had another intergrator build thie Skype4B platform and all worked well. The issue was that when a call came from an external… Read More »
Hi guys, I figured I’d post this here somewhere public thats visited by tech enthusiasts to highlight some of the failings in both carrier customer service and Nokia’s declining service over the years. Here’s hoping it doesn’t prevent me from getting an MVP status or similar later in life as the Windows Phone OS worked… Read More »
Fix for the Grey screen when installing Veeam