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How to Change the Domain Name on Cisco Unified Presence Server 8.5

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Changing the Domain Name on the Cisco Unified Presence is not as straight forward as it looks. I get this question asked all the time by customers: I logged into the Cluster-Wide Topology Settings under System > Cluster Topology and I am trying to change the Domain Name from PROXY.DOMAIN.NOT.SET but it won’t let me [...]

How to Fix Cisco UCM 8.6.1 Backup Error Unable to Contact Server

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Recently I showed you how to fix the CSCtq18270 error on Cisco Communications Manager 7.1.3 and or 8.5.1. Well as our lives go, I ran into this weird issue with a Cisco Communications Manager 8.6.1 where the backups on the 3 server deployment would complete with the following error on one of the Subscribers. WARNING: [...]

Veeam Software wins multiple virtualization industry awards

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Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, continues to make strides with top industry publication awards in 2011. These honors join the Best of VMworld Gold award for New Technology 2011 in September for Veeam Backup & Replication v6. Redmond Magazine Readers’ Choice Best Virtual Business-Continuity [...]

VMware Brings Windows Virtual Desktops to Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux

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VMware announced new VMware View™ Clients for Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux, along with updates to its popular VMware View Clients for Android and iPad. Offered as technology previews, the new VMware View Clients for Mac and Linux enable IT organizations to empower more agile, productive and connected workforce or school communities by providing an [...]

Citrix Positioned as a Leader in Magic Quadrant Report for Web Conferencing

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Citrix announced that the company has been named by the global research and advisory firm, Gartner, Inc., a “Leader” in the firm’s annual “Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing” report*. Evaluated as one of 12 providers, Citrix is recognized as a Leader for the ability to execute well on its product and service strategy as well [...]

How to Combine Excel Columns to Obtain Valid MAC

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As a voice consultant we always run into customers with large amount of phones that have to be BATted in and the MAC address field is never accurately populated. What I have seen is that most customers will scan the MAC address from the phone but never prefix the SEP. Thankfully Microsoft Excel will do [...]

Fidelus Console Operator – The New Attendant Console

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I was just browsing the web and ran across Fidelus Attendant Console. I have never heard of this company before but just watching the video makes it look promising. Have you looked into this product? As a partner I always run into customers that are looking for a replacement for the now-discontinued “Attendant Console” since CUCM [...]

Woodstock Hospital Becomes One of Canada’s Most Advanced Digital Hospitals

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Cisco announced Woodstock Hospital (WH) has chosen a Cisco® Medical-Grade Network for its brand-new facility, providing a highly resilient, innovative and economical solution to improving health services and advancing patient care. The new Woodstock Hospital opened for occupancy on November 20 and continues to fulfill its mandate to provide patients and staff with a high-quality [...]

Verizon Upgrades Its IP Network Access to Enable 100G Technology

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To meet the growing traffic demand created by video, mobile and cloud services, Verizon will upgrade its IP network infrastructure in selected U.S. markets, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Verizon will extend its next-generation 100G capabilities by deploying Cisco’s CRS-3 Carrier Routing System platform to terminate high-speed connections closer [...]

Veeam Brings Data Protection to Windows Server Hyper-V

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Veeam Software, innovative provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, now offers Windows Server Hyper-V protection as well as Microsoft Hyper-V Server protection with Veeam Backup & Replication v6. The new version offers a single solution for fast, efficient, reliable, and affordable data protection of multi-hypervisor environments encompassing Windows [...]