Tag: Collab_edge

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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.

Check DNS records for Collab_Edge Expressway
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Check DNS records for Collab_Edge Expressway

This one is intended to look it up when you need, on the fly, also a quick google search will show you the light: Check any SRV record: On your DNS, click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type cmd. Type nslookup, and then press ENTER. Type set type=all, and then press ENTER. Type _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs. Check Collab_Edge SRV record: nslookup -type=SRV _collab-edge._tls.example.com dig _collab-edge._tls.example.com SRV Example: dig _collab-edge._tls.example.com SRV

OpenSSL Create and Sign Certificate on MAC [El Capitan]
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OpenSSL Create and Sign Certificate on MAC [El Capitan]

Since I started in IT and Networking, I have discovered that there are many things that result easier to do on a MAC, than any other OS. However we have to give credit where credit is due, Windows is doing a fantastic job with their new OS, but I still prefer MAC ;). This post is dedicated to a paged referred from a colleague at my job on Cisco VCS Expressway configuration:

VCS Expressway Licensing - The allocation of the SKUs
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VCS Expressway Licensing - The allocation of the SKUs

In my effort to make sure I post things as do them, I want to make sure I leave this one here for anyone out there that may need a bit of help on understanding the obscure process of Licensing a VCS (Control and Expressway servers) The good news is that Cisco Licensing is already providing all the Option Keys and Features keys in one message, which makes it easy to get licensing done in just one shot! - This requires you to open a case and most of the times they will do it right, but again we are humans and we make mistakes, that was my venting about my latest call to Cisco Licensing.