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The IP DECT phones require the installation of a USB driver in order to update the 3711 Phone firmware.  The drivers are not included with the IP DECT firmware, and must be downloaded seperately.

Support site: ftp://ftp.avaya.com/incoming/Up1cku9/tsoweb/ipoffice/NAR_Dect_USB_Driver.zip

The baby firewall from the Juniper NetScreen line has finally reached it End Of Life announcement.  The small but robust firewall was the low end of the extensive NetScreen line of firewalls. The firewall worked great for fixed Ethernet installations ranging from a few users to around 30 users.  One of the best points of this firewall, was that all the features of the bigger firewalls were included in it’s feature set.  Now the NS-5GT has been replaced by an even better offering.

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The Aruba Remote Access Point solution has gotten the attention of the kudos club.  The idea is simple, take a single device and plug it in to any Ethernet connection with access to the public Internet.  The Remote Access Point or RAP will find it’s way back to it’s controller, and create a secure VPN tunnel between the main site and the RAP.  The policies from the controller can also be pushed to the RAP.  This extends the corporate wireless to a very mobile, yet secure solution.

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Juniper recently released it’s Ethernet switching line.  Fortunately they did not approach the market in a Me-too manner.  Engineers actually thought about Ethernet switch implementation and designed some truly insightful features into the switch. Here are some advantages of this great new switch by Juniper.

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The Avaya Gigabit Ethernet Adapter for 4600 series IP Phones (p/n:700416985) has been a popular product lately.  The usage is a bit confusing due to a less than adequate manual that accompanies the product.  Lets review it’s purpose and how it can be implemented.

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Discovery on an IP Phone is the equivalent to the Blue Screen of Death if the background information on what is going on is not available.  Fortunately it does not need to be that drastic.  Discovery simply means that something failed during the registration process.  Here is a breakdown of the Registration process and why the phone enters discovery mode.

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Currently Server 2008 is not supported by Avaya for any IP Office Applications (Voicemail Pro, CCC, Contact Store, Delta Server, Wallboard Server, etc.).  Some of the applications are supported on Vista Business.  In the Microsoft development methodology, Server 2008 is for Vista like Server 2003 is for XP.  So it may possibly work to some extent and I decided to give it a try.

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TFTP servers are integral to upgrades on many platforms. On the Avaya IP Office, many times the Manager program acts a TFTP server, but is limited in capacity. Here is a list of free TFTP servers that can help with file transfers via TFTP.

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Sometimes the Microsoft .NET install can get corrupted which can make it very hard to uninstall.  This can also make your applications crash and get .NET 5000 error.  This error can be seen in the event viewer on the under computer management.

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There are several applications that have to run as an administrator user but you don’t want to make that user an admin on the domain.  This can be accomplished by adding a regular domain user as a local admin to the computer where the apps are going to run.  This does not mean make a local user on the computer and add them to the admin group.

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