In a previous post. you might have noticed I was pretty excited to see that the SIP Gateway for Microsoft Teams has launched. While limited, this allows for a ton of customers to re-use their existing fleets of supported handsets. One of the things I have been asked a few times by my customers is… Read More »
Ah yes, referencing an early 2000’s NetNanny meme in my opening? I’m sure it makes a nice change from my normal content. Welcome back to UcMadScientist. Today we are talking about Microsoft Teams and Cordless Phone handset solutions. For the longest time since the launch of Teams calling. Customers have been looking at replacing their… Read More »
Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »
It’s no secret that Microsoft has been working hard on improving the Teams calling experience, especially for handsets over the last few months. As part of What’s New in Microsoft Teams | February 2022 update, Microsoft announced that Walkie Talkie had finally come to Teams Phone Edition. This was thought to be the nail in… Read More »
This was an article I was working on whilst reverse engineering a Sonus SBC that ended up electrocuting me. So I’ve kinda fallen out of love with the project for now, Part 2 in the future? Maybe. For those that aren’t aware of Sonus/Ribbon devices, many SBCs include a small internal log cache for troubleshooting.… Read More »
It here. it’s here. it’s finally here! The long-awaited SIP gateway for Microsoft Teams is here. Note: This is a deeply technical article on how the SIP Gateway provisioning service works, if you’re just looking to get your SIP phones working, Martin Boam has a great article over here Unfortunately, despite my begging, I didn’t… Read More »
Ever bricked an ASM before? Maybe it was a bad ASM upgrade, maybe you replaced the hard drive in there, or maybe you were stupid enough to Install Doom on it. The issue with any of these is, it breaks the ASM’s SBC Communication Module and the built-in Recovery partition which when looking at the… Read More »
The experienced around here know an article is going to be good when I mention ADSI edit. But for those that don’t know, ADSI edit is one of the more dangerous Active Directory tools allowing Administrators to edit things directly, even if they have no idea what that means. I hear a lot about how… Read More »
This was an interesting one I ran into some time ago with a client of mine. They had been rolling out Teams voice and as part of the rollout had elected to offer Teams Certified Handsets in some areas. As part of their setup procedure, They used a test account to sign into any phones… Read More »
I ran into an interesting one today that had me scratching my head as to why we couldn’t move a user from Skype for Business On-Prem to Microsoft Teams. Whenever we attempted to move a small bunch of users from on-prem to Teams the Skype for Business PowerShell Move-CsUser cmdlet would throw the error. The… Read More »