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I should have known this one. At a customer site troubleshooting an issue where the Cisco 7925G phones would not see certain AP’s. This was especially troubling since some locations had only one or two AP’s.
I could connect to the AP with no problem with a laptop on the same band and SSID. Yet the phone could not. I thought it had to be a bug, so we opened a TAC case and applied the beta 1.3.3.0.3 firmware. This didn’t help and we were escalated to another higher engineer. They couldn’t figure out why the phone couldn’t see the beacon, yet a laptop could.
Then enters a 7925 design engineer…. He notices that we were using channel 165 on the AP. Both I and the TAC engineer said “Yeah, so…”. Apparently Cisco hasn’t yet programmed support for that channel into the firmware yet. I never would have thought of it since I had DCA turned on to manage the channels automagically. Turns out he was right. We scheduled a quick outage to un-check that channel and we were back in business.
Finally found the quip about this in the 7925 deployment guide…in the “World Mode” section. WTF????
Also, make sure you have the scan mode set to “Continuous” in the phone settings on Call Manager.
I guess I could only fight the inevitable so long. My job now has me doing more Cisco work than I ever have before. I didn’t realize how much I actually remembered about EIGRP routing and Multicast until recently I had to forklift a brand new network infrastructure in for a customer. Just over the past few months I’ve worked with route/switch, wireless and voice technologies, even VMWare all at one customer. And it’s gone really well considering I’ve only been working with Exchange and OCS for the past year and a half.
Now I guess I’m going to be stuck in the Cisco world for a while again. In March I’m scheduled to go to Cisco voice training for Cisco Unified Call Manager and Cisco Voice. And I’m going to be taking the CCVP as well.
I am however still going to be at Microsoft TechEd 2010 in New Orleans in June. I’ll probably end up concentrating on Hyper-V, System Center and Exchange 2010 while I am there.
Change is good.
If you follow Microsoft Unified Communications, you may have heard here that Microsoft has announced a new XMPP gateway for direct interface with XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) capable systems like Jabber and Google Talk. XMPP is an open protocol that could open up interfaces with many open source IM systems.
What’s even bigger, with Cisco buying Jabber, this now means that Cisco’s Unified Presence Client (CUPC), which is going to be based on Jabber eventually could be able to interface with OCS. This will make co-existence and other federation scenarios much more appealing.
This goes in tandem with Microsoft now including the PIC licensing for MSN and AOL in with the LCS/OCS 2007 Standard Server licensing with software assurance. Yahoo still requires a PIC subscription at a 50% discount.
It’s New Years Eve tonight and I’m sitting here thinking about all of the things I want to make better for next year. I refuse to do those stupid resolutions. You know those are all just empty promises that never go anywhere anyway. Like promising to lose weight and going to the gym once or twice then giving up. This year I think I’ll just build on what I started last year. That way I won’t be breaking any promises.
New Years Non Resolution #1:
I’m going to rededicate my focus on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu next year. I started with Great White Martial Arts here in Wausau this year and due to work and family commitments, could really only do one practice a week. Now I want to at least do two and actually make some progress towards the blue belt.
New Years Non Resolution #2:
Continue my work in the gym increasing strength and losing weight. Maybe this goes with the BJJ deal, but I did lose 28 lbs last year. I’m not fat by any means, but I’d like to get rid of the pooch and get some definition on this old body.
New Years Non Resolution #3:
Increase my knowledge and value to my customers by learning and improving my Microsoft and Cisco skills. I’ve found that I’ve been in a rut this year since I’ve learned so many new things this year. I want to somehow become a better expert in a few things instead of knowing a little bit about a lot of things.
New Years Non Resolution #4:
Become a better father, husband. I work too much. Even when I’m home I find myself working in the lab just to learn or improve upon my skills. I need to hang out with the fam’ more.
OK, maybe they sound like resolutions, but I see them as building on the things I started last year. Let’s see how it turns out.