Follow these steps to see what extension number your Norstar telephone has, or what feature or number is stored under the memory keys.

With the handset on the rest and the telephone free of calls:

1. Press Feature * 0 (zero).
   The display will show: Key Inquiry then press a key.
2. Press any intercom button.
   The display will show your extension number.
3. Press any programmable button.
   The display will show the feature or number stored on that button.

If your telephone is an M7100, M7100N or T7100 your extension number will be displayed immediately after pressing Feature * 0 (zero).

I was installing Windows & on one of my client machines and got the following error message” Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer restart the installation”, installation will not complete system reboot will go in loops few times till system hangs. This error occurs because of Intel Storage drivers that was included in release of Windows 7 and Server 2008. This issue is resolved in Windows 7 SP1 and Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Method 1: Download the appropriate drivers for your hard disk drive

Download and install the latest drivers for your Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer. To do this by using another computer, visit the following Intel website and download the appropriate drivers for your hard disk drive (either 32-bit or 64-bit) to a flash drive. Or, burn the drivers onto a CD or DVD. The flash drive or the disc will then be used during setup of Windows 7 or of Windows Server 2008 R2.

1. Go to another computer that has an internet connection and click the link below to download the driver for your hard disk drive (either 32-bit or 64-bit):http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-031502.htm
   
2. Save this downloaded driver to a DVD or USB flash drive or an external hard drive that can be taken to the PC that you’re installing Windows to.
3. Next, start the installation of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and watch for the Load Driver option. You will see this option on the Where do you want to install Windows? screen in the lower right corner.
4. Connect the USB flash or external drive to the computerthat you’re installing Windows or take the Windows DVD out of the drive and put the driver DVD into the drive. (You will put the Windows DVD back into that drive after the driver is loaded)
5. Click Load Driver, (clicking this option checks removable media for storage controller drivers)
6. Once the driver is loaded, continue with the Windows setup.

The Advanced Drive Format hard drive will be recognized and Setup will continue as expected.

Method 2: Change the BIOS hard disk drive setting to AHCI or IDE

Warning This procedure may involve changing your hard disk drive settings in the BIOS. Incorrect changes to the BIOS of your computer can result in serious problems. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that result from changes to the BIOS can be resolved. Change the BIOS settings at your own risk. Incorrect or corrupted BIOS settings can cause startup problems or shutdown problems.

You can change the hard disk drive setting in the BIOS to AHCI or to IDE if the hard disk drive setting is currently set to a RAID configuration. If you set the hard disk drive to AHCI or to IDE, you do not have to install the driver that you obtained in method 1.

Microsoft cannot provide specific instructions for how to change the BIOS settings because they are specific to your computer. For information about the correct BIOS settings for your computer and how to check and change these settings, see your computer documentation, or contact the manufacturer of your computer.

Ever had users switching desks or new users starting and have to shuffle extensions? I will provide step by step walk through to do exactly that.

1. Open and login to Business Element Manager

2. In the navigation pane, expand Telephone ==> Sets and then ==> active sets.

3. In the right, find the two extensions you want to swap.

4. In the right, find the two extensions you want to swap.

5. Click one of the extensions and allow the software to load.

6. Double Click the DN Number. It should allow you to type

7. Type the new extension and also change the name.

8. Double Click the Pub. OLI (ext. number) Type the new extension.

9. Double-Click the Priv. OLI (ext. number) Type the new extension.

10. Repeat Steps 4-7 for the other extension you want to move.

11. Change the extension on the mailbox. Make sure the the new extensions correspond to the correct mailbox numbers in callpilot.

12.Test This Move by calling one of the extensions from a phone. If it rings to the correct phone, your done.

Finally, we have been purchasing Solid State Drives (SSD) and all i have to say is that they are incredibly fast. Now we have crazy speeds its comes with a price, these SSD’s are kind of expensive at the moment since its a new technology that just came out. Prices will come down as time goes.

I just ran into a issue when i purchased a new SSD and users requires his current SSD to be cloned onto the new one with all the data on it. As you know buying SSD is expensive to get your hands on, Intel, WD, Seagate are providing Acronis Clone utility to their valued customers.

Seagate DiscWizard Features

• Improved USB support
• Improved support for diagnostic partitions
• Image backup and image restore
• Support for Windows Vista
• Disc utilities
• Drive migration
• Create bootable media
• Manage image backups (explore,mount, & unmount image backup)

If you plan on cloning here are the links to download your utility:

Intel | Western Digital | Seagate

I tried VoIP 6 years ago and all i have to say is that it was horrible. Finally, I got rid of Bell and signed up with freephoneline.ca, I ported my number and paid for ATA file which costed me total of $84.xx. I had extra VoIP adapter sitting somewhere which is working great so far. You can bu ATA from FPL as well but total cost will be around $100.

Why i switched? I switched because there is no monthly fee ever as long as the company exists( they been around 3 years or so), free long distance within Canada. Getting the phone up and running was easy as 123 and than I wanted to make sure all the phones rang in my home.

This theory I’m going to explain should work with any VOIP provider as long as you have working phone. Before you being working on VOIPing your home you need to make sure that you disconnect the external line coming into your house (my case Bell) at the demarcation point or where all the wires come in your house in your basement. I recommend you to disconnect your main incoming line because it has higher voltage than you VoIP adapter can handle, so another words it will fry your resister .Once that is done all you have to do is hook up your VOIP adapter to one of your phone jacks.

Example of disconnecting Bell Line:

Just remove the green and orange wires from main demarcation point and leave everything else connected. Its simple as that.

If you require any info or have any question drop me a line.

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Recently my website SSL expired and needed to renew the certificate. Since I never used Apache, it was nice learning how to setup new certificate. Our SSL is hosted with GoDaddy.com, depending on your provider some steps maybe differ.

There are few steps that need to be taken in order for you to setup the new SSL, and also before completing the setup you will need to revoke your old certificate because if you don’t you will get “Common Name yourdomain.com is already present in a current certificate”

1. Open up CMD ==> browse to your openssl.exe  ==> Enter

2. Once openssl is open ==> genrsa -out domainname.key 2048
NOTE: yourdomain.com put in your actual domain name

3. Command above will create a file called yourdomain.key in C:apache2.2conf
NOTE: files will be created where ever you opened OpenSSL from. For me its located in C:apache2.2conf

4. Once yourdomain.key file is created ==> enter command req -new -key yourdomain.key -config “C:Apache2.2confopenssl.cnf” -out yourdomain.csr

You will be asked your 2 country  letters, province, City, common name = very important www.yourdomain.com and next few options are optional.

Once above commands are completed you should have 2 files .key and .csr. Open yourdomain.csr file with notepad and copy the code and insert the code when requesting certificate from your desired host, ie GoDaddy.

I ran into a issue where all of my virtual machines were running fine but when i tried starting another machine i get an error message “Failed to initialize”.

If your receiving error message above you can check the following to make sure everything is in order.

1. access and permissions to the configuration file, memory file and all image files
2. prior error messages in the event log
3. available RAM on the system
4. configuration settings
5. disk space for the memory file and any expanding virtual hard disks

In my case, 95% of physical memory was being used. To resolve your issue make sure your not assigning VM un-necessary memory, free some memory from your current vm’s that are currently running, and also turn off any vm not needed.

I have been situations where  you have de-join a machine from domain, set it all up from scratch, and re-join to the domain with same name again. When you start installing all the applications you notice you can’t push down DPM client from DPM Manager….. because manager still thinks the machine is being protected when its not.

In this tutorial i walk you through setting up the protection agent manually. There are 3 steps to successfully install the agent manually.

First
1. Goto Start ==> Run ==> and type  location of the C: drive of the actual DPM server where the Manager is installed
For Example:
\DPMserverc$\tordpmc$Program FilesMicrosoft DPMDPMProtectionAgentsRA3.0.7696.0

depending on you system either choose i386 (32bit) or AMD64 (64bit) folder ==> run the DPMAgentInstaller_x32 OR 64.exe

Second
1. Once you install the file as above open CMD prompt and goto

<drive letter>:Program FilesMicrosoft Data Protection ManagerDPMbin

2. at prompt type in the following command

DPMserver – is the actual name of your DPM server not your current machine.

Third

1. Open up DPM Manager on your server ==> Select Install from top right corner and attach agents option and follow the onscreen prompts to add your computer name to the list.

I hate it when I run into issue with one of the services that get stuck in stopping mod. Before I use to reboot the system in order to fix this but sometimes you can’t do it because it might be a production system and you can’t afford to bring it down during the day.

I found program called Process Explorer which allows you to completely kill any service running on your system, doesn’t matter if its stuck in stopping mode.

Here is a screen shot of Process Explorer in action:

Process Explorer works on most of the systems (windows), make sure you run it as administrator. You can download it ==> here.