Musings on technology, faith, family and leadership
Hey! It’s me again! Back from a couple posts focused on things of faith – Youth Ministry specifically. If you read them, great. If you’re just back for the tech, great. I’m glad you are here. Today I want to… Read moreMy Sandbox 365: Copilot Analyst
Hi friends, welcome back! A couple posts ago, I dove into our Teams Device AOSP Firmware Upgrade which is currently in various stages of testing and GA rollout depending on your hardware OEM / manufacturer and model. Today’s post is… Read moreUpcoming Teams Devices Updates – Spring/Summer 2025
Hi friends! I’m back again with another post on Teams Devices. I’m sure you’re shocked – shocked I say! Today, I want to focus on Teams Devices Management. Since the launch of Native Teams Devices, they have been “managed” in… Read moreMy Demo 365: Teams Devices – AOSP Device Management
Alrighty friends, I’m back. And as you’ve guessed from my oh-so-clever post titles, this is about Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway and Cisco Handset (plastic phone) devices. This is an apparently never-ending series of posts around devices and features in the… Read moreMy Demo 365: SIP Gateway + Cisco Handset
Welcome back to my little rest-stop on the information superhighway. Isn’t that how we used to say it 20 years ago? Information Superhighway: I haven’t heard that term in years. Anyhoo… In a couple previous posts, I introduced the Microsoft… Read moreMy Demo 365: SIP Gateway + Analog Devices
Hello there! Welcome back! In this post I want to provide a practical demo experience connecting a “room” into a Microsoft Teams Meeting. The most feature rich and native solution for this would be found by using a Microsoft Teams… Read moreMy Teams Demo: Teams Meeting, Cisco VTC, Poly CVI, and Direct Guest Join
Welcome back! Recently, I had an interesting opportunity with a local University. They have been using Cisco CUCM for about 5 years, but a couple years ago they migrated away from Cisco Unity for their Unified Messaging and instead started… Read moreCisco CUCM & Exchange 2010 Migration from 2007
So, I've had this conversation several times recently. I've filled up a few whiteboards, in a few different states, so, I thought it's time to put it out on ye olde blog. Let's consider the following "simplified" network diagram. In… Read moreCisco IOS-fu #13 – Spanning-Tree & Multiple Paths & High Availability
So – I have this customer. They are a medical software firm – hosting a suite of products in a 24×7 environment with Datacenters in Kentucky and Texas. Over the last year, I've worked on many fun projects with them,… Read moreCisco IOS-fu #12 – Hot-adding Catalyst 3750 To Stackwise
Wow, has it really been that long since I've blogged? **embarassed** Last night I had a weird issue – I was doing some Cisco Router IOS Upgrades for a client in Texas. This client has 2x Cisco 28xx series routers… Read moreCisco IOS-fu #11 – Upgrading IOS via Dropbox / HTTP