@scottalanmiller said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:
Conversation view is just useless,
Just want to say I've also hated conversation view. Very hard to find that email and lots of time a repy to an email thread goes off on something else then it gets buried in the thread and impossible to find.
On a related mater. Why can't Outlook & OWA search feature be combined! OWA has better search but takes times to be indexed. Outlook search simply suck balls.
There is PRTG but last I check only give you 10 (free) sensors. So can only monitor one or two host at best. Last I used it many moons ago it was a very complex product to setup & use.
Also try https://mikrotik.com/thedude. Never used it but have heard of it.
@JaredBusch said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
You can log in a SfB/Teams Yealink phone with the username and pin or username and password.
BTW 99% of our users don't even know their login / passwords (that is not a conversation for this thread or will it ever change). Things get all pre-setup and they just use it.
@JaredBusch said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
You can log in a SfB/Teams Yealink phone with the username and pin or username and password.
MY experience so far. I have managed to get the phone (with S4B firmware) logged in using the web sign in with pin thing. But I had to log in to the handset via IP then initiate the whole process. Not very automated.
Another annoyance is the handset seems to go into sleep mode after which you have to enter pin to get back in to it. I have not been able to find out how to disable it yet. Users remembering pin to the phone which they could previously just pickup and dial. That'll go well! Once again they seem to be designed for office workers who are very UC (Unifi comms) savvy.
@JaredBusch said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
You don’t need to worry about that with SfB. The user logs in and it puts their stuff on it.
I know about this bit as I have already tried it out on one handset. Saying that our users are not the office type and hardly know how to use a computer and some handsets are purely for making phone calls only. Current solution they don't even need to know anything. Just plug the phone in give it a couple of minutes and dial away without having to even log in.
The bit I was looking for is after loggin in how does one even mass change config of the yealink spread throughout many sites! This is my number one question. You guys already answer that question.
We have hundreds of sites that are remote and being able to just factory reset and it pickups the settings again (regardless of where it is) to a know state is he way to go (with our current solution). Other then the some what fixed cost monthly per user of the S4B (which is actually not fixed if you look at the details).
It will be fun times ahead with the S4B solution... It was sold as part of some other bigger stuff / package so I have to play along due to not being the decision maker.
@DustinB3403 said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
I won't go down the details but it's a bit of a bear to get to do what we need it to do. A traditional PBX would've been better and much cheaper in comparison over any period of time.
That is my current view. I would not have bother to even evaluate it with all the current issue I'm seeing. The user experience is no where near a FreePBX solution for our use case.
@JaredBusch said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
Without that all you can do is DHCP boot options. Which is obviously local/controlled only.
Ahh. Not what I wanted to hear :frowning_face:
@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
@360col said in Office 365 Phone System Deployment:
We need to be able to somehow auto provision all the template settings when the Yealink first boot up after a factory reset.
I don't think that you can do that. That's not a normal phone function.
Hmm so how do I push out setting to those yealink phones that remote.
BTW this trial was from higher up who was sold a certain package. From my experience so far with this solution it not very usable compare to our current FreePBX solution. However is does have the nice UC integration our exec people will like the flashy stuff. For example workshop PA or cordless support is non existence or an after though.
I'm told to do everything via powershell when I can't find much on it.
I'm keeping an open mind on this from a learning angle for self interest.
Anyone here has any experience with "Office 365 Phone System" deployment where you make / receive calls via your Office365 tenant / office account.
We are starting a trial of it here in Aus where it is exclusive to Telstra our largest telco and currently the only one providing it.
I can't seem to find much useful info on this. Specifically PowerShell stuff that allow one to manage / automate a lot of it which I'm told is not accessible via the GUI.
We are going to use Yealink T46S (what we currently use with FreePBX). I am after ways to autoprovision Yealink handsets settings like how the FreePBX solution is.
A related question. Not being a yealink reseller. How does one get themselves onto the yealink RPS system to add / remove devices from RPS, as we have a couple hundreds of handsets to manage if this goes ahead. We need to be able to somehow auto provision all the template settings when the Yealink first boot up after a factory reset.
@JasonMinard said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:
Once I excluded 70.
70 would be the park command. slots would start at 71. However it can be changed. On our it starts at 9000 as we have way too many extensions.
We currently do call parking on the Freepbx / Yealink by selecting "Call Parking" instead of BLF and then specifying the park slot number as the value, in the name call it "Park 1" etc.
@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
You can limit it to the RDP port, though.
True but SC is much less work! RDP does have the full screen experience advantage.
@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
@scottalanmiller said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
@360col said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
I had no idea that they had a free option.
This is what I am talking about https://www.connectwise.com/software/control/free
@JaredBusch said in Best way to provide remote access for home office?:
It isn’t worth it compared to something like ZeroTier IMO.
Last I checked the ZT connection would be 'always on' unless you manually login to the website and disable and enable it. One vector for issues. Yes SC is permanent on but its like RDP.
How about just put screenConnect (free version for 3 hosts) on that computer and let him connect to it from the web page. Simple to setup and use.
A blog post from a fellow Aussie whose podcast on info sec I regularly listen to. This may be useful for some.
https://www.troyhunt.com/10-personal-finance-lessons-for-technology-professionals/
If you are after a podcast on the latest happening on data breaches. Troy Hunt's podcast is the place to get it from. He is also the man behind https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Oh and for hardcore info sec discussions on the latest happening / breaches have a listen to https://risky.biz podcast. Another fellow Aussie 
Also have a look at https://zammad.org/ free / opensource. They also do a paid hosted version.
OPNSense user here. Its just more friendly. Tried Sophos XG and it killed my WAN speed even with most things disabled. I have used Sophos UTM in production for many year previously.
I have a very old EdgeRouter sittign around. Wondering if I'll run the latest firmware. I didn't like it much back then so its been clotting dust.
@Pete-S said in push "Local Directory" to Yealink handsets from FreePBX:
If you use remote directory you can press update directory on the phone and it will go get the new updated directory.
That bit sounds good. I'm parking this feature for the moment.