The FreePBX installer still recommends Asterisk 13, do you guys always run the current version?

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'm seeing a lot of HP and Cisco gear around, and most of you know my opinion on Cisco already.

I haven't been seeing nearly as much love for Ubiquiti lately. Maybe because it's been beaten to death?

The comparable ES-48-500W is about $150 cheaper than the Dell, though.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@donaldlandru makes me wonder how many of these my boss has totally ignored, because his email is on all the MS licensing stuff.

These get sent to me from customers and the SAM people hate getting my calls ... "oh sorry, but we know what this is and that you aren't official and don't know the licensing and we do, so we aren't doing this... click"

Once you are up front and tell them that you knwo what's up, they go away. They aren't looking for shops that are knowledgeable, that's how they'd get themselves sued. They literally only want people who are just going to play along and do what they are told.

I had no problem playing along before, but I never really thought about it. It's like talking to the police, it can never help you.

@donaldlandru said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco LOL! If these audits were conducted by Microsoft proper I would agree with you. They farm them out to their vendors, N3 in my case, who only care about making sure you buy something... Not sure how I will appease the knee biters this time, probably buy a few extra Windows server CALs or something.. everything desktop is Microsoft 365 E3 now.

Last time they recommended that I buy something and I just told the guy that I disagreed with him that was the end of it. The entire thing is apparently voluntary

@donaldlandru said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got the dreaded M$ call for our every other year audit. At least the new online form was only about 15 minutes of work because nothing has changed since our last one. It was claiming I have -32 licenses for Server 2019 which I don't even have installed?? oh well.

Hmm.. I will be interested in this new process. I just got the email this morning for mine; however, they said fill out the attached deployment summary and didn't attach anything. :man_shrugging:

Mine was a link to Microsoft Insight

All of my volume license info and Office 365 stuff was already loaded. Basically just have to fill out how many computers and servers use whatever OSes. I don't have any SQL licenses or anything like that, but I'd imagine they would have been preloaded if I did.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Watching Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

Finished up season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet last night. They better make season 4.

We just started season 3 last night, we got about 3 episodes in. So good. When we first started season 1 I thought I was going to hate it because I usually can't stand Drew Berrymore, but about 4 episodes in I was over that because the show is hilarious.

I'm a big fan as well. It was hard to buy Timothy Olyphant as a valley realator after seeing him in Deadwood, but he's actually pretty funny. And the right amount of dorky.

It's been so long since I watched Deadwood that I didn't even realize it was him

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

Finished up season 3 of Santa Clarita Diet last night. They better make season 4.

We just started season 3 last night, we got about 3 episodes in. So good. When we first started season 1 I thought I was going to hate it because I usually can't stand Drew Berrymore, but about 4 episodes in I was over that because the show is hilarious.

Just got the dreaded M$ call for our every other year audit. At least the new online form was only about 15 minutes of work because nothing has changed since our last one. It was claiming I have -32 licenses for Server 2019 which I don't even have installed?? oh well.

Xen Orchestra forum to merge into XCP-ng forums

As suggested by @DustinB3403 a while back, this makes perfect sense, they just didn't seem to have enough activity over at the XO forum to justify separating the communities. Separate logins, people somehow confused about where to post... This is a good move IMO

@Dashrender said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@bnrstnr said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@JaredBusch said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@360col said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@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.

What @Dashrender wants is to park a call on a person’s extension. Because that is how Mitel does it. He refuses to entertain retraining users to use general parking.

My solution for him was to crest a huge ass parking system. If his extensions are 3 digits, then create parking lot 7000 with 999 slots.

Then he has to make a prefix button for everyone labeled park with **7 as a value. People would be able to hit park, dial the extension, and hit send.

Each extension would have a “my park” button that would pick up theit park.

That is exactly how our old Intertel system did it. My users like the new "Park Call" button better, it was a super easy transition, too. This way, if I call somebody's extension to tell them they have a call, they don't need to know what phone I put them on hold from, they just see that "Line 1" is red and they touch it and go. It's far better for us.

On hold from? sure - that's another feature though. Our users want the call 'parked' on the receiver's phone, on hold - all they have to do then is pickup the phone and the call would be there.

though - It's not me who was unwilling to change - it was management/staff pushback.

What does your Mitel system do when you have one call on hold and want to put a second call on hold, from the same phone?

@dyasny If you like Diablo 3, check out Path of Exile. They just released the PS4 version. I've been playing the computer version for about 6 months and loving it. It's significantly more complex, but the Diablo type games have always been my absolute favorite

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr Ok I get that. Wouldnt using something like a real time chat or ticketing work better to let chef's see the orders that come in? Would save tons of money.

Ah, sorry, I thought you meant literal recipes lol

That's what he mentioned in the second post, like all the fast food places use monitors to display the orders instead of printing. But it's not viable unless you have a certain number of customers

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs I know its not your fault, but wouldnt some kind of chat service with a folder called "recipes" or something work out much better instead of hardware and printing to it?

Or even use your ticket system and make a custom dashboard to chef's can just see recipes to make?

It's for peoples orders, the waiter/waitresses enter your food order on a computer, and it prints in the kitchen for the cooks to make. Not really for recipes.

They're almost all thermal printers now, aren't they?

@pchiodo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs Ummm... back up a sec here buddy.... why is there a "kitchen" printer?

So the smart fridge can print love letters to the Alexa microwave... obviously

@JaredBusch said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@360col said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@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.

What @Dashrender wants is to park a call on a person’s extension. Because that is how Mitel does it. He refuses to entertain retraining users to use general parking.

My solution for him was to crest a huge ass parking system. If his extensions are 3 digits, then create parking lot 7000 with 999 slots.

Then he has to make a prefix button for everyone labeled park with **7 as a value. People would be able to hit park, dial the extension, and hit send.

Each extension would have a “my park” button that would pick up theit park.

That is exactly how our old Intertel system did it. My users like the new "Park Call" button better, it was a super easy transition, too. This way, if I call somebody's extension to tell them they have a call, they don't need to know what phone I put them on hold from, they just see that "Line 1" is red and they touch it and go. It's far better for us.

https://soundcloud.com/alexcornell/im-on-hold-by-alex-cornell

This is a new one for me... pretty funny. Waiting for the host to join a conference call and they have this for their hold music

@LilAng said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yes! this was my daughter yesterday lmao

@JaredBusch said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

@JasonMinard said in Another FreePBX Sangoma Query . . .:

being using Yealink and Sangoma with a couple of years now.

Blatantly not as you have no idea how parking actually works on FreePBX.

In his defense I've been using Yealink phones since 2014 and FreePBX since Elastix hasn't been viable, and I had no clue the BLF DSS keys would also blind transfer. I knew you could transfer directly to ext 72, for example, but I never tried the other way :man_shrugging_light_skin_tone:

@dbeato said in Synology pushing to Backblaze B2 at 50mbps:

@JaredBusch I am not sure how you have been doing with this, but basically what I have found is that after a couple months the key with B2 does not work any longer and we need to add it again so we are constantly monitoring it. If you get into that issue maybe you can see something I did not see.

I have this same problem, it would be great to get some kind of email warning or something that it's not working.