Monthly Archives: June 2021

Solving Pesky TLS Issues on Old Hardware

Part of being a Skype and Teams administrator is trying to reconfigure legacy hardware that’s been left in a corner for 5+ years and never updated. Problem is, the world has moved on since these devices were deployed and depending on what firmware they were running when they were deployed. They likely won’t talk with… Read More »

Running Doom on a Teams ISDN Gateway?

Hey, and welcome back to UcMadScientist. As you might know from my Previous Article. I recently reverse-engineered the VGA pinout on a Sonus/Ribbon SBC 1000’s ASM. The ASM is an interesting module as it’s more of a server than anything else with its own little bus to the main SBC processor and connection to the… Read More »

Ribbon SBC 1000’s Dirty Little Secret VGA Port

Did you know Ribbon’s been hiding a dirty little secret from you? You can totally see the console on your SBC 1000’s ASM and interact with the machine directly! As per Damien’s article over here, Sonus/Ribbon provide VGA access to their ASM modules in the event you need to reflash the unit and don’t want… Read More »

Download here – Someone Nerfed the Skype for Business 2019 debugging tools!

Update: 17th June 2021, Got in touch with the Product Group and this has been restored.Also thanks to Eric Marsi, it looks like the Skype4b 2015 resource kit has been restored as well. Skype for Business Server 2019 and every version of Lync and Skype before it, had an optional set of Debugging Tools. These… Read More »