My blogging game has been off for the last few months ((https://cybersecengineer.com)), and that is ok, but as schools start today in my neck of the woods, I just could not resist and write this short post with my opinion.
A story of Broward Public Schools - Microsoft Teams Prime-Time Today my kids started virtual classes and to my surprise I noticed that they are using MS Teams to get connected, meet and collaborate. I have to be honest, I did not think MS Teams was ready for meetings and collaboration, event tough I have been forced to use it at work, because all my team mates are using it.
Few weeks have gone by and I have not written anything for a while **But I still have lots of Drafts in the works. Job has been a bit busy this time of the year so that’s my excuse and I will stick to it :)
If you are a UC and Collaboration engineer, you may have under your sleeve few cool solutions to backup your Apps. Well, I have a few too, and I used to crash a lot with the FREE SolarWinds app. But for some reason, this app sometimes fails.
So, the question is, what is a better choice to get started with a Lab, and begin creating your own configurations? - Here is a list of the benefits from a Cloud Vs Home Lab
The difference between a Cloud lab and a Home lab Cloud Lab (dCLoud and DevNet) If you are one of those weird people that don’t want to run CUCM, UNITY Connection, IM & Presence, Jabber and other UC apps in your house, you are in luck. Cisco dCloud + Devnet Sandboxes are what you are in the business for.
Building a Collaboration lab is a big decision and cost could be keeping you from getting started. Recently I received a request from a friend on FB about how to get started.
Well, there are many options and many questions, one of the questions is the licensing piece. Cisco licensing is expensive if you plan to go crazy (like me) and have your home using all the goodies you already use at work.
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.
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.
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:
So I stumbled across a really basic issue related to adding storage to WebEx, really simple right, just adding an NFS mount to it and done with the issue.
In my particular case my NFS storage was running on 84% of capacity, which is OK, I mean, there is still some space on it, maybe not good practice to have it like that (will be changing it soon though)
So when started I started a meeting to test the recording feature I noticed that my recording button was grayed out, which indicated that there was an issue. After doing some research I found the CWMS troubleshooting guide, which pointed to an issue with the alerts and the threshold of my storage, here is the document that explains it all:
