If running your asterisk server behind a firewall you may experience these symptoms:
internal users can call mobile extensions configured with follow me and the call goes through and can be heard with no problem.
If you have a rule configured so that external callers after a timeout calling internal extensions are then routed to call an [...]
To remote desktop to your office you need to know the internet address of your terminal server for example ts.mycompanyname.com.au
Depending on the client operating system you may find the remote desktop client in slightly different locations
Under the start menu go to All programs -> Accessories
On older Windows XP systems remote desktop  is under the sub folder [...]
Hi Guys.
I have had an issue where I have been unable to install 32b drivers on a windows 2008 64b server. I have log on to the suppliers website download all version of there drivers and none of them works. This stop me rolling out printer using scripts or preference to 32b clients.
Finally I had [...]
After doing a backup of asterisk from one system, and restoring to a fresh build, you may find that when someone goes to voicemail, there is a seconds silence then it drops out.
If you use *97 and try to record a message, it immediately drops back to the options to save the message without recording [...]
This tutorial will enable you to create or migrate an elastix asterisk voip server on a HyperV virtual machine.
This uses the latest stable version of elastix (1.6 at time of writing), but I expect the v2 beta should work with the same methods.
Download the Elastix 1.6 ISO from http://www.elastix.org/en/downloads.html
Create a new virtual machine in hyperv, [...]
Sony laptop no bluetooth use microsoft generic driver
The main problem you’ll have doing this is that HyperV does not recognise SCSI as a valid boot device, so if you’re VMWare machine is running using the default SCSI drive and you do the conversion from VMDK Â to VHD and run a system under HyperV, you’ll get a blue screen error. Before converting you [...]
Using a Gigabyte onboard RAID controller I compared RAID1, RAID5 and RAID10 arrays using 500Gb Seagate SATA drives
Standalone the drives provide about 100Mb/s read and write speed.
RAID1: 2 x mirrored drives
Read = 100Mb/s
Write = 100Mb/s
RAID5: 4 x striped drives
Read = 300Mb/s
Write = 80Mb/s
RAID10: 4 x striped & mirrored drives
Read = 220Mb/s
Write = 220Mb/s
for some mysterious reason Microsoft has chosen to remove the convenience mailbox size you from the exchange system manager on exchange 2007 and exchange 2010.
In order to get the statistics and port them to a text file
Open exchange management shell
Copy and paste the command:
Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName,@{label=”TotalItemSize(KB)”;expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToKB()}},ItemCount  > c:\mailboxstatistics.txt
Open the text [...]
