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Video: Setting up a Collaboration Lab - Integrating CUCM and UCCX

Video detailing the basic steps to integrate CUCM and Contact Center Express The Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qtY2g1HZrE The Content Get the configuration started JTAPI/CTI Users Getting an Admin User What to look forward to? I’m having too much fun with these videos and I think I will keep on doing them, of course, as time permits About the Author: Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration) With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.

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Video: Setting up a Collaboration Lab - Licensing CUCM and UNITY

Video is about how to License CUCM and UNITY Connection (Using NFR Licenses), same applies for regular licenses The Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=337Wg1aZMRg The Content Go to Cisco Licensing Generate License from PAK Add CUCM and UNITY to Prime Licensing Manager Generate Licensing Request Install Licensing File Verify Licensing What to look forward to The videos are a cool way for me to keep things interesting and provide help for people that have questions.

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Video: Setting up a Collaboration Lab - Installing Trusted Certificates

This is a quick video on how to install Trusted Certificates to any of your UC and Collaboration servers The Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UW1dEltNYw The Content Using Windows CA Role to generate Certificates Generate the CSR Upload ROOT CA Certificate as “tomcat-trust” Upload Signed Certificate as “tomcat” What to look forward to? As time permits I will keep creating the videos and continue with the labs About the Author: Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration) With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.

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Video: Setting up a Cisco Collaboration Lab - Installing CUCM

The continuation from Yesterday is here, not too much. I’m trying to make them shorter so that they can be easily watched. The Video The Content Requirements for CUCM 11.5 (SU2) Setup DNS Records Setup NTP Server Test Connectivity before installation (Connectivity tricks) What to look forward to? As time permits I will keep creating the videos and continue with the labs About the Author: Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration) With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.

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Video: Setting up a Cisco Collaboration Lab - Preparation

This is going to be the first of few videos that I’m creating on how to set up a Cisco Collaboration Lab. This is just to get a baseline ready for starting configuring CUCM and other UC applications but today is just CUCM Preparation. I prefer looking at the video in Speed x1.39 - I noticed I’m a slow talker :) hope you enjoy the video. The Video The Content I describe in a very high level how I’m running my lab

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Rebuilding CUCM from an Export - Common issues and solutions

Here is something that I should have posted few weeks ago, but I have been very busy lately, a sign that the New year took off very strong. The Scenario Sometimes your CUCM server is out of any hope, full of bugs and issues after issues, yes I’m talking about CUCM version 11.0 - .0 versions are really hard on Delivery Engineers, because the solution is not as stable as Cisco says it is.

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Adventures with OpenStack - Learning what's inside

When I heard about OpenStack for the first time I was very confused, so I want to share in my own words (Hope I don’t confuse you more), what is the deal with OpenStack. OpenStack maybe so many things for different people, but I decided to unveil the doubt and take it for a spin in my lab. I’m still learning and as I have said before, is just baby steps, and I still have not seen the tip of the iceberg, there is still too much to learn.

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Tropo Series: Creating a Voicemail Application with Tropo - That simple really?

I’m a bit surprised and impressed on the capabilities of Tropo, and this small post will show you why. Here is a quick and short tutorial on how to create a Voicemail application at the Tropo site The Code [PYTHON] Here is the sample code in Python, I believe this one is more readable for me… JavaScript is the next best option record(“Please leave your message at the beep. Press pound when finished to listen to your recording.”, { “beep”:true, “timeout”:10, “silenceTimeout”:7, “maxTime”:60, “terminator”:"#", “recordURI”:“http://www.example.com/recording.py", “transcriptionOutURI”:“mailto:you@example.com”, “onRecord”: lambda event : say(“You said " + event.recordURI) })

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Tropo Series: Good resources to keep around when playing with the Tropo Scripting API

If you are experiencing and learning how to play with Tropo, make sure you check all these tools, it really make sense and are very easy to use. Speaking Languages In case you are in need to get a full list of Spoken Languages and different styles, make sure you look the page Speaking Multiple Languages ** I have to admit, in my native language it sounds very good, I bet that the others is just great

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Tropo Series: Ready to get Started with Tropo?

In case you are interested in getting your hands dirty with Tropo, here is some handy information What is Tropo? Tropo is a company that Cisco aquired not too long ago, but to be short and sweet, Tropo is a “cloud API platform that simplifies the addition of real-time communications and collaboration capabilities within applications” from Wikipedia What is possible with Tropo? I’m a UC and Collaboration guy, and the first time I heard of Tropo so many ideas came to my mind.