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Sunday, March 1, 2015

3CX Drops support for Polycom and Grandstream

It looks like as of Version 12, Service Pack 3, that 3CX has dropped support for Polycom and Grandstream phones.
The phones no longer show up in the Phones area as Provisioned making it impossible to reboot or provision them from the console.

A discussion about this can be found on the 3CX forum here:
http://www.3cx.com/forums/polycom-phones-show-as-unprovisioned-38477.html

This article http://www.3cx.com/support/polycom-phon ... hallenges/ contains reasons why 3CX doesnt want to support Polycom phones anymore.

Time to find a new PBX or is this just a bug?
Tell me what you think in the comments.

Our 3CX Background:
Skills Inc has 250 Polycom SoundPoint phones connection to a 3CX PBX.
The phones all connect to one Hyper-V Virtual server over a Fiber Optic WAN from 3 locations. We have a Comcast PRI that connects to a Patton Gateway for our main trunk. We use Grandstream FXO GXW4104 gateways to connect analog lines to the 3CX at each location for 911 calls.

Finding chord names for given notes

Today i had to find the chord names for some notes on my keyboard. This great tool helped me:
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Akkord-Benennung.htm

How to have different local web config settings for a Visual Studio ASP NET C Web TFS Project

Today we started an ASP.NET C# Project under VisualStudio 2012 using Team Foundation Server. We ran into the problem that we need to store some local path settings in the web.config file, but they are different on every developers computer.

How-I-fixed-it:
The solution is, to split the web.config up into several files and just reference the files using the configSource="sectionName.config" Attribute in the corresponding section in the web.config. Dont add these local files to the project, to not get them overwritten by each other.

Heres a sample:

web.config:
<applicationSettings>

<KCM.Properties.Settings configSource="KCM.Properties.Settings.config" />

</applicationSettings>

KCM.Properties.Settings.config:

xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<KCM.Properties.Settings>

<setting name="DataStoragePath" serializeAs="String">

<value>D:inetpubftproot</value>

</setting>

</KCM.Properties.Settings>
Here i found the right information to get the solution:

http://code-inside.de/blog/2009/11/03/howto-eine-eigene-configsection-schreiben-custom-configsections/

http://blog.andreloker.de/post/2008/06/16/Keep-your-config-clean-with-external-config-files.aspx

http://www.tomot.de/en-us/article/5/asp.net/how-to-use-web.config-transforms-to-replace-appsettings-and-connectionstrings

https://devio.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/handling-web-config-variants-in-source-control-based-solutions/

What to do for iPhone 5 and 4S random drop of network and data signal connection

iPhone loosing network and data connection: Many of iPhone 5 and 4S users are suffering from random loss of call network and data service. An iphone suffering from the issue in context will suddenly find feature e.g. call, SMS, and 3G Internet facility non-functional, even though shown signal quality/strength may be good.

The issue may be with SIM cards; some people have reported success after disabling a SIM PIN, or else changing cards. Few user has eliminated the glitch by doing a full restore of their device.

Apple is though aware of errors, and working with carriers provider on the error. The firmware was, for instance, supposed to fix other issue like recurring battery life problems, but these have continued for some users even as other people have had them solved.

According to few user, the root cause for the reception issue may lie with the way the SIM Card is aligned on the SIM tray.
One way to overcome this is to disable the SIM PIN. Go to Settings > Phone Menu > Turn SIM PIN off.
Try Toggling Airplane mode. Or Turn your phone off, then wait five minutes, then turn your phone back on again, then wait five more minutes and try using it as normal.

Hope these steps might have helped you.

Outlook 2013 does note sync contact birthday to outlook com for contacts copied from contact folder

I wanted to switch my contact management from OpenXChange/Outlook to Outlook.com/Outlook. Im using Outlook 2013 (15.0.4615.1000) on Windows 8.

I followed the steps described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844991/en-us and copied all contacts from local Outlook folder to the contact folder of my outlook.com account.

I turned out, that the contacts were synced, but the birthday date for all of them was gone. Even manually entering the date in Outlook did not fix it.

How-I-fixed-it:
- Export all contacts to a csv-file from Outlook
- Manually import the contacts from the csv-file in outlook.com

Installing Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012 after getting Compatibility mode error

I went to use the developer tab of InfoPath 2013 and it told me that I needed to download the Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012. They were even nice enough to include a link!
When I downloaded the file and ran it, I got this error:
Setup Blocked, Windows Program Compatibility mode is on. Turn it off and then try setup again.
I was not using Compatibility mode, and so this error didnt make sense.
Im running Windows 8.1 with Update 1 and I didnt know if that was related.

I tried everything.. I installed the full Visual Studio 2012 Suite with Office Tools, I installed the VS2012 SDK, and still nothing worked and this wouldnt install.

Here is some of what I found in the log when it fails.

[15EC:11C4][2014-05-28T19:06:50]: Condition CompatibilityMode = 0 evaluates to true.

[15EC:11C4][2014-05-28T19:06:50]: Condition (VersionNT < v6.1) evaluates to false.

[15EC:11C4][2014-05-28T19:06:50]: Condition (NOT netfxfullredist_43_DetectKeyExists) OR (netfxfullredist_43_DetectKey < v4.5) evaluates to false.

[15EC:11C4][2014-05-28T19:06:50]: MUX: Stop Block: CompatibilityMode : Windows Program Compatibility mode is on. Turn it off and then try Setup again.

The version I was using was published on 4/30/2013 and is here

Turns out that if you rename your download (vsta_setup.exe) to something else, it will not run correctly. You must leave the name alone when you download it. For example, if you download it twice and the second download is called vsta_setup (1).exe, executing that file will not work!

Hope this helps!

Installing Sound Drivers for Windows 8 1 on a HP Pavilion P7 1258

I just upgraded my HP Pavilion P7-1258 Desktop PC to Windows 8.1 and after that I didnt have any sound.
When I tried to install the IDT High Definition Audio Drivers for Windows 8 from the HP website , I got an error about having the wrong operating system because its checking for Window 8.0 and not 8.1.

The trick to getting around this is to let SP59424.exe expand into the Temp folder (and then leave the installer running so that the temp files dont get deleted) and then run the actual install from there.

So go to %temp% and look for the newest folder in there.
Then inside that folder you will find a src folder and inside that should be a setup file, run this and you will be golden.

Here is information about the driver Im using:

Download from HP: SP59424.exe

Title: IDT High Definition Audio Driver

Version: 6.10.6418.0

Category: Driver - Audio

Operating System:

Microsoft Windows 8 (64-bit)

Install Brother Control Center 3 for DCP 560CN under Windows 8 to scan multi page PDF

According to Brother, ControlCenter 3 does not support Windows 8. But i like the scan multiple pages into a PDF function of it, so i wanted it back on Windows 8 as well.

How-i-fixed-it:

I downloaded the Windows 7 Version here:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/eu/de/de/dlf/download_index.html?reg=eu&c=de&lang=de&prod=dcp560cn_all&dlid=&flang=Deutsch&os=93&type2=-1

I decompresses itself into a local folder. Then I set the compatibily mode of the "Setup.exe" to "Windows 7" and installed the Software.

To make the scan to email function working with my Outlook 2010, i also downloaded and installed the Update Tool for ControlCenter3 from here:
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/eu/de/de/dlf/dlf/000000/003100/dlf003176.html?reg=eu&c=de&lang=de&prod=dcp560cn_all&type2=2&os=93&flang=17&dlid=dlf003176

With the software installed, i was able to scan multiple plages into a single PDF without problems.

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