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I just wanted to take a minute to post links to a site that were very helpful to me last week. At my job, I rarely use UCCX(IPCC). The extent of my UCCX experience is scratching my way through the documentation enough to use it for TAPs and thats it. I installed it again recently for an install but instead of fumbling through the documentation, I went to blogsearch.google.com and found Alex Hannah’s site: UCCX.net. Below are links to a few of his video tutorials that were very helpful. Thanks Alex!

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Cisco IP Services SDK to search Microsoft Active Directory without having to integrate Unified Communications Manager with LDAP. This can be useful if you have a multi-tennant environment or if you want to use an existing Active Directory database as an additional directory. 

 
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In this tutorial, you will learn a couple ways to connect a physical router to your home phone line as part of your “virtual voice lab “.  An all virtual voice lab would be ideal. However, real hardware is necessary for a more complete voice lab. I will be using a 2611XM for my home lab, but you can use just about any Cisco router with a couple fxs and fxo ports.

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In this tutorial, you will add a virtual machine for Ethernet connectivity to branch1 and branch2 of your virtual voice lab. Although I use a separate vm in this tutorial, you can also simply add two more interfaces to the headquarters virtual PC if you are running short on PC resources.

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I apologize for the delay in posting the next tutorial in the virtual voice lab but I ran into a problem communicating from the HQ router to the host Ubuntu server. I thought I was able to communicate from the HQ router to the host during the Headquarters build tutorial….but I was wrong.

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This is the Frame-Relay WAN section of the Virtual Voice Lab. In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect Branch 1 and Branch 2 routers to the Headquarters router using frame-relay PVCs.
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I just finished the video tutorial for the headquarters part of the virtual voice lab. This tutorial will basically walk you through adding all the devices for the headquarters location.
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In the Virtual Voice lab series, I am using an Ubuntu Linux environment.  To eliminate permissions issues, it is best that you run GNS3 as root.

Here are a couple issues I have experienced when running GNS3 as a normal user.

Not able to start dynamips.
Error msg: Can’t Connect to the hypervisor on port 7200

Not able to connect to a cloud object.
Error Msg: 206-unable to create Linux raw ethernet NIO
Error Msg: 206-unable to create Linux generic ethernet NIO
Error Msg: 206-unable to create UDP NIO

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to use IPBlue’s VTGO Lite softphone to test skinny phone registration and dialing by running multiple instances of emulated Cisco IP Phones.

This is the fourth tutorial in the Virtual Voice Lab Series for CCIE and CCVP studies.

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Although this is the first tutorial following the Virtual Voice Lab Series introduction, the first tutorials were recorded and posted several months ago.

Install Call Manager 4.x with VMWare

How to install Call Manager 6.x in VMWare

These videos walked through the installation of Call Manager, but nothing more. Before I release a post on how to register phones to the virtual lab, we need to enable the services on the CUCM system and remove dependency on dns.

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