While my experience on my first attempt was not the brightest one because I failed, I was able to open my mind and think on endless possibilities and maybe potential recommendations. I hope this helps other with their studies and strategies.
Studying and Muscle Memory: Do you studying… I think many instructors across the globe could not stress this one enough… but its right, going into the Lab with just few practice is not enough, muscle memory plays and interesting role on your experience. The need to know your IOS commands without Context Sensitive help is key (this one got me very bad).
We are UC/Collaboration guys and if you are like me, Exchange 2013 is not your expertise… but if you are handy with Exchange 2013 that is great, and maybe you can use the following post useful too.
Single Inbox Unity Connection 9.x Exchange 2013
Here are some useful links that I have found in order to get Single Inbox configured:
This is the main link:
(http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/9x/design/guide/9xcucdgx/9xcucdg032.html%23pgfId-1141552)
System Requirements:
(http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/9x/requirements/9xcucsysreqs.html)
High level and pretty much what you need to do in order to complete the configuration:
I promise this will be a very short one. This week I purchased 3 9971 with the camera in order to get ready for my rack rentals for CCIE Collaboration, well when I got them I noticed that the phones belonged to someone else(Duhhh!!).
I needed to do a factory reset on those guys, or at least be able to remove the ITL files.
My problem was that I could not do any of these because the Admin Settings was locked by a password. Of course you can remove this password but if only if your phone is able to get the SEP config from your CME (off course if you are using CME) - TCLSH procedure here http://collabengineer.com/2014/11/15/cisco-sip-phones-admin-password-removal-cme-tclsh-operation/
On this one I wanted to share a really nice way to remove the Admin password from Cisco SIP phones.
It really is annoying to type the Admin password every time you need to modify or at least take a look at the configuration on your phone.
As you may know when you configure a SIP phone on CME you need to give it a username and password, also SIP is kind enough to publish the SEPXXXXX.cnf.xml file to Flash
Let’s break it down, I heard about this feature not too long ago and just wanted to take the time to take a look at it and see what is it all about. In the mean time, I’m rebuilding all my U VMs because I created a new topology (CCIE Collaboration LAB on November 26th), but more on that later. Network needs to be secured, that is what we keep hearing from customers/clients everywhere, and why not make it easier to use and apply.
Thank you Michael for the post. Just re-posting to make my connections aware!
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.
This post is dedicated to a request that was sent to me, and this is what I did in order to make it more understandable for my customer and Client Manager.
The request was basically that the client needed to support Hearing impaired users and needed to find a way to do it. In all the aspects I found out that Cisco provides a vast majority of features that are very accessible friendly that I did not noticed before.
Today I have a quick one, I hope you find it useful.
Just in case you are doing an international Dial-Plan configuration, I think this web site will be very helpful:
http://www.itu.int/oth/T0202.aspx?parent=T0202
You can find all the numbering dial plans per country, including the country codes, in the past I used to google to find country codes or what I needed to know, but this will be my official link from now on to look so that I can based my Dial-Plans.
This one is going to be a series of labs to help friends with their CCNA studies, I have always been asked about something like this and I think now is the time to help and share.
In order to help you pass the ICND 1 there are few things that you need to visualize. I want to start from the one I think its more important:** **
Know the Objectives
Yes, another upgrade and more with it. This one was very special and I was totally blaming myself after the TAC engineer helped me figure it out.
I was always told, or I remember it was good practice to always get the latest Upgrade file from CCO Downloads page for everything. Well I did that and found myself into an issue.
The scenario:
Customer Upgrading CUCM, CUC and IM&P servers from 9.1.2 to Version 10.5 (No issue here):
