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Auto Registration CUCM 11.5 (Video)

This is a video I created, showing how auto registration works in CUCM 11.5 Not too much really, but I think I will get better as I start working more in my editing skills and being a bit less nervous Enjoy 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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Changing the hostname of Unity Connection - why would you?

In case you were wondering, if there was a way to change the name of a Unity Connection server… of course there is a way… Now, the question is, would you do it? So in this case I will go with the Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment to even think about tackling this one. Seems that there is a function that will assist you on doing that. I guess I will definitely take a look at that and share my experience with you in the near future, as I keep advancing on creating more content that is keeping me distracted, but hang in there, cools stuff is coming soon :)

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Configuring a Cisco IOS Router to act as a DNS Server

Have you ever had the need to have a quick DNS server at hand? - This is very useful when configuring UCCX 9.x and above in a lab environment with no DNS Server. At this point I’m not really sure if this DNS configuration will support more advanced configurations, like SRV records or anything of that nature, but I guess is a good start to begin testing it and see if there is more to it.

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Creating "Zaps" with Cisco Spark and Zapier

Since we ran out of space in our last post (I think it was too long!), I have created this one, to expand a bit more on the Integrations. There are many ways to integrate Spark into our software and things that we do that I wanted to dedicate this Post to something useful. In this post we are going to create a Form from Wufoo, and when the form is filled out, you will be invited to join my Collaboration Room in Spark. Lets Give it a try!

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Want to know how to start using Spark? it's FREE and useful - lets meet in Spark

Cisco spark is a great and useful cloud collaboration tool that integrates Messaging, Calling and Meeting features very nicely. Shortly in this post I will be sharing interesting features that I think you can begin leveraging at work. I will also show a sneak peak of things that you can start using right of the box. How do I get started with Cisco Spark? The first thing you are going to do is register with Cisco Spark, its FREE, follow this link Cisco Spark

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Lab for Cisco APIC-EM and my feedback

I’m sure that by now there is lots of people already working and playing on the Cisco APIC-EM. I finally had the opportunity this week to attend to a Cisco APIC-EM hands on lab. Let me begin by telling you that I was very impressed with the quality and the functionality of the software. The general idea from APIC-EM is to provide provisioning, inventory and networking path tracing among others… I think this description is short and loose from what the application itself can accomplish.

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Directory lookup not working - Unified Attendant Console Standard V11.0.2.

In some cases when you complete the installation of the Attendant Console Standard, you may notice that the Directory lookup is not working. You may ask yourself, what could be the issue. The issue Plain and simple, the Attendant console is not able to return any information from the Directory The Solution At the installation stage you will be asked to provide the IP address of the CUCM server and the User name and password of the Console User:

Fix for Unified Attendant Console Standard V11.0.2.2571 - CSCva24885
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Fix for Unified Attendant Console Standard V11.0.2.2571 - CSCva24885

As you may know with he release of CUCM 11.5 there were lots of issues with the Attendant Console applications, one of the related to a bug defect CSCva24885. September 16 there was a new update and instructions on how to install the attendant Console with CUCM 11.x This post looks at 2 different levels of issues, the actual technical issue and discrepancies on Documentation for the solution. Also the post is looking to point out the solutions that are provided, in hopes that you can finally solve the issues you are currently having with your install

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Introduction to Projects from Collaboration Engineer

I’m very excited to announce that the Collaboration Engineer site is evolving into a solution repository for Engineers, I started this project as a way for me to document my studies and achieve my CCIE in Collaboration. I completed my task few months ago, along the way I was introduced to exciting technologies and interesting things into the Cisco Collaboration arena, and I now feel that I want to share all things have come across, and introduce it to whomever will make use of the information I will be blogging about.

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TED Talk 10-Pack: Security Lectures

Following up on my (http://collabengineer.com/2016/06/15/cisco-puts-10-million-cisco-for-cisco-cyber-security-scholarships/) and my sudden interest into Security I wanted to share the following information in case you did not receive it. If you signed up for the Scholarship program Cisco started couple of months back you should have received the following link. TED Talk 10-Pack Here is a breakdown of the videos: “Hackers: The Internet’s Immune System” “Fighting Viruses, Defending the Net” “Hire the Hackers!” “All Your Devices Can Be Hacked”