Anyone who deals with Sun/Storagetek SAN hardware will know all about firmware upgrades and firmware versioning. It's tricky to get the right level for you at the right time, and of course just like any firmware, there's always a newer one to fix bugs you'll "probably" never have. At the same time, there are also... Continue Reading →
OCS 2007 R2 XMPP to Google federation failing
I've been spending some time getting the Microsoft OCS2007R2 XMPP gateway working. In essence, it provides OCS users with Jabber/XMPP connectivity outside of the organisation. Nominally, we want to use it to connect to Google, so GTalk/gmail/googlemail users. We could of course use it to connect to others via stds based XMPP, jabber.org users etc.... Continue Reading →
CUCIMOC ldap tribulations
I have spent the best part of 3 weeks wrestling with CUCIMOC. It's fair to say I haven't been the biggest supporter of this particular piece of software during this time. I respect the feature set, but I can dial a colleague with almost as few clicks on the handset as easily as I can... Continue Reading →
It made me laugh
In a departure from the usual serious nature of this blog... I've been going on and on about CUCIMOC in the office, so a colleague sent me this to lift my mood 🙂
Compellent Licencing
I wanted a little more clarity on the licencing model as a few folk in the team had already got confused over the '96 drive' break point. The compellent system scales from 6 to 1008 disk drives. The licencing cut off point is 96 active drives. The licences Compellent charge for: 1. Data Progression (Block... Continue Reading →
Luke Darby 