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The Geek Diarys

How to configure Outlook 2010 Rules

In Outlook 2010.

Select the File Tab (Far Left)

Computer support for your small business

Computer support for your small business

Select Rules and Alerts ( Bottom Square Button)
The Rules and Alerts Screen will appear.
Select New Rule

Select the Second Line (As highlighted above)
Click ‘specific words’ (in blue down the bottom)
Add: [Spam] (and any other word that you want relocated, eg: Cheap Drugs! Etc)
Click OK
Click specified and select the Junk Folder

Click next, and then finish
Name the rule.
Ensure the tick box is ticked next to the Rule
After completing this, you can select ‘Run Rules Now’
This will clean any messages in your inbox, and relocate them to the Junk Folder as the rule specifies.

This process can also apply to any other rules you with to create to move emails from a particular company, person, domain etc etc.
It allows you to move emails automatically base on the rule you create! ?

New sister website

I have created a new sister website to the geek diaries called The Voip Guru

Check it out!

www.thevoipguru.com

I will be talking about me experiences with VOIP in Adelaide, with vendors such as Asterisk, Cisco and others.

Migrating Webhosts

It’s easier than I thought!

I have chosen to move all of my websites to a new host starting tonight.
Wordpress is pretty easy, I just need to see how Joomla will go…

IAX2 vs SIP,

Web Marketing 101, drive traffic to your site by having interesting information updated regularly. Have people link to that information:
Here is the link:

http://blog.voipsupply.com/asterisk-hardware/iax-phone-contest

Customers of Geek would know that now a big push for Geek is PBX, particularly the VOIP PBX, we offer 3 brands and I will get into more detail about that later.

One brand we offer to the very small business is Asterisk. This solution, like any VOIP sultion is 90% networking and 10% telephony.

Well one of the things that makes the networking side of it so hard is that SIP, Skinny and other phone control protocols are cumbersome and messy.

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) uses a shotgun approach, via RTP (Real Time Protocol) to get the message across, in Astersisk the default ports that need to be punched through your firewall are: 10,000-11,000 (look in your /etc/asterisk/rtp.conf)

Most routers and firewalls don’t like this and can lose track easily. Particularly when NAT (network address translation is involved)

The answer to this with SIP phones is to: Continue reading ‘IAX2 vs SIP,’

using wideband codec in Asterisk 1.4

I posted this in my favourite Asterisk forum: PBX in a Flash…
But I thought I would post it here as well:

Installing wideband (g722) codec translation in Asterisk 1.4.x

To install g722 as an available codec first install the backport patch: (usual disclaimers apply – it worked for me and did not ruin my pbx, use at your own risk)

cd /usr/src/asterisk
wget http://carlton.oriley.net/drupal/fil…7.1-g722.patch
patch -p0 < asterisk-1.4.7.1-g722.patch
make
make install
amportal restart

to see if it worked, jump into the console:
Asterisk -r
and then type
core show translation

along the bottom of the table alongside g722 you should see a row of numbers (the lower the better ) if you see dashes, the install didn’t work.

You will of course need to use the allow=g722 statement for the protocols you require:
sccp.conf, sip_custom.conf & iax_custom.conf
Plus any extensions for which you have used the disallow statement.

Bear in mind of course, there aren’t too many phones that support wideband as yet…

Disaster Recovery

I thought I would start my return to the blogosphere with a post about how I think DR plans should be constructed.

I recently posted to the SA SBS User’s group about an alternative way of thinking about server imaging. I think some people got it, and some didn’t. I didn’t want to ruffle any feathers or anything silly like that, It’s just that obviously sometimes I don’t make my self clear.

A poster asked what imaging product provides the fastest recovery in the event of a meltdown for SBS2003.

I based my answer on the following assumptions: Continue reading ‘Disaster Recovery’

So an employee is outshining me

When it comes to blogging…
Being a technophile, I thought it best to reactivate my blog and get cracking…

I thought I would start my return post with my thoughts on disaster recovery

DONE!!!

Even Notified the client :)

Nearly There

Formatting is done, just need to populate the content!!!

Going for a Record

Doing a website for a client tonight, thought I would try and beat my 6 hour record!

I’ll let you know when I’m done… :)