CUPS version 7 and intermittent desk phone control

Assuming all other configuration in CUPS and CUCM is correct (licensing, devices, lines, user association, etc.) you will have intermittent desk phone control, if any, when using port 389 to authenticate CUCM against AD.

By changing LDAP authentication in CUCM to use the AD global catalog on port 3268 your problem is solved.

It got me.

Get Active Directory names via command line

Working on domain member server without any AD tools available, I needed to confirm the display name of an AD user. I was only supplied the logon user name. A common example might be Joe Smith being the display name and the logon / SAM user name being jsmith.

The commands involved are dsquery and dsget, both quite powerful.

Given the AD logon username is webmaxtor in the MAXTOR.LOCAL domain, the associated request and result returning the display name might be:

H:\>dsquery user dc=MAXTOR,dc=LOCAL -name web* | dsget user -display
display
Web Administrator
Web Maxtor
dsget succeeded

Since two names appear on the list, we know two users are returned and can see the logon / SAM names via:

H:\>dsquery user dc=MAXTOR,dc=LOCAL -name web* | dsget user -samid
samid
IISadmin
webmaxtor
dsget succeeded

Running the dsquery command without the piped dsget can also return all sorts of useful information all by itself.

Cisco TSAPI client configuration hangs

Using Windows XP sp3 and Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0.1, I find that clicking Configure on the Phone and Modem Options in Control Panel hangs on some machines.
Attempting to restart the Telephony service indicates the Remote Access Connection Manager service is a dependency.

Unfortunately, I have not researched the implications of disabling this service as of yet but doing so and setting Telephony to start automatically seems to allow configuration appropriately.

WII remote and Lenovo T61 Bluetooth connection

My Lenovo T61 uses what looks like a Widcomm / Broadcom Bluetooth stack.
Although other sites indicate there are problems connecting the WII remote to your Lenovo T61, this Smoothboard wiki provides a very concise tutorial on doing so.

The missing link for even starting the procedure is hitting Fn+F5 first, assuming you haven't trashed all of pre-installed ThinkVantage software.

There you will at least be able to verify your Bluetooth radio is on.

Whoops :)

T.38 Fax Relay MGCP VG224 2851 and CUCM7.1.3

Working samples below. Location had issues with incoming while utilizing Fax Pass-through. Converted to T.38 Fax Relay and customer could then make neither in nor outbound faxes. After converting to T.38 Fax Relay had to remove mgcp modem passthrough voip redundancy.

Works great now.

2851 MGCP with PRI to PSTN snippet:

voice service voip
fax protocol t38 ls-redundancy 0 hs-redundancy 0 fallback cisco

!
ccm-manager fallback-mgcp
ccm-manager redundant-host 10.10.10.5
ccm-manager mgcp
ccm-manager fax protocol cisco
ccm-manager music-on-hold
ccm-manager config server 10.10.10.5
ccm-manager config
!
mgcp
mgcp call-agent 10.10.10.6 2427 service-type mgcp version 0.1
mgcp dtmf-relay voip codec all mode out-of-band
mgcp rtp unreachable timeout 1000 action notify
mgcp modem passthrough voip mode nse
mgcp package-capability rtp-package
mgcp package-capability sst-package
mgcp package-capability pre-package
mgcp default-package fxr-package
no mgcp package-capability res-package
no mgcp timer receive-rtcp
mgcp timer net-cont-test 3000
mgcp sdp simple
mgcp fax t38 ecm
no mgcp explicit hookstate
mgcp fax t38 gateway force
mgcp rtp payload-type g726r16 static
mgcp bind control source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0.10
mgcp bind media source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0.10
mgcp behavior g729-variants static-pt
!
mgcp profile default

VG224 MGCP snippet:

voice service voip
fax protocol t38 ls-redundancy 0 hs-redundancy 0 fallback cisco
!
ccm-manager redundant-host 10.10.10.5
ccm-manager mgcp
no ccm-manager fax protocol cisco
ccm-manager music-on-hold
ccm-manager config server 10.10.10.5
ccm-manager config
!
mgcp
mgcp call-agent 10.10.10.6 2427 service-type mgcp version 0.1
mgcp dtmf-relay voip codec all mode out-of-band
mgcp rtp unreachable timeout 1000 action notify
mgcp modem passthrough voip mode nse
mgcp package-capability rtp-package
mgcp package-capability sst-package
mgcp default-package fxr-package
no mgcp package-capability res-package
no mgcp timer receive-rtcp
mgcp timer net-cont-test 3000
mgcp sdp simple
mgcp fax t38 ecm
no mgcp explicit hookstate
mgcp fax t38 gateway force
mgcp rtp payload-type g726r16 static
!
mgcp profile default
!