Funky Teams Audio Conferencing behavior

Added some new users recently who do not have phones. I’m accustomed to adding an AD Attribute to the Proxy Addresses section for the SIP:user@domain.com attribute when they have a phone. Because these users don’t, I didn’t. Apparently, the configuration we have requires this for the Teams Audio Conferencing details to even populate on the […]

The future of this blog

I have an itch to start writing, so I think I’ll do it here. As a first step, I’ve removed the Amazon links. They weren’t doing anything, anyway. What will I write about? I’m not entirely sure. I have political ideas (which is always risky) and plenty of thoughts around technology in the home and […]

How to create a file drop in Teams

Actually, this is to create a file folder in Teams that will move files to another (private) location whenever a new file is dropped in there. Why would you want to do that? You might want to get files in a semi-secure manner but then not have them live in a viewable location. Think, budgets […]

Free Veeam linux backups

I didn’t feel like fighting against Nutanix CE any more so I copied my VMs out using qemu and rebuilt the entire cluster with ESXi 6.7 free. Seems to be ok so far with a few minor issues. Now that I’m back in operation I have a concern about having a single copy of my […]

Apple Watch and replaceable parts

Today I sent a note to Daring Fireball saying ythe following.  I think the backing for the Apple Watch will be easily removable and will support swaps at the Genius bar.  What I mean is that the casing, which will be the expensive part,will be static and the engine, currently the S1,will be replaceable at […]

Performancing and Blogger…not happy

I seem to be having random problems with Performancing and Blogger. And I’m not the only one apparently. Most others are claiming it’s a problem with Blogger. One of the problems I get is an expired certificate so I know that’s Blogger’s fault. The other problem is an Atom.xml error that stops me from posting […]

Cisco Plasma TV? Cisco Media Center?

Cisco enters the consumer market? Not really sure what to make of this.  It’s possible that it’ll be branded as Linksys products but it’s odd that they wouldn’t make a point of saying that.  I have a sneaking suspicion the market’s going to spank Mr. Chambers pretty hard today.

I hate wallpaper

Yep, that’s right…hate it! And no, hate’s not too strong a word. In fact, it’s not strong enough. Wallpaper is the one thing that makes me want to put my fist through the wall I just wallpapered. Literally. No exaggeration. I don’t know how anyone could do wallpapering on a regular basis. It brings rise […]

Thanks for tormenting me Apple

It’s been a couple of days now since Apple announced the new toys at Macworld. For the first day or two I was in the RDF but that’s worn off now. If they had come out with iBook around $1200 or less I probably would have ordered it that day. Since I can’t drop $2000-2500 […]

Ugly Vista

The installation of Vista didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. Actually, most of it went well with one big notable exception. I have a widescreen laptop with a native resolution of 1280×800. The ATI driver that’s bundled with the latest build of Vista is accelerated for the 9600, which is what I […]