I do believe it's Core CAL. I shall have to verify that, though I'm betting we're not big enough for Enterprise CALs.
Pity... Kurt On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a fan of Lync > > I think that Enterprise Voice is not part of the Core CAL it may be part of > the Enterprise CAL. Witch CAL are you using with your EA? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2013 10:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel > installation > > That is an intriguing thought. > > Given that we have an EA, it might make a very case to argue for dropping > ShoreTel. > > I think I'll do a little research on this topic. > > Kurt > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I run into this all the time for various Windows-based telephony and UM >> systems. Cisco used to be this way also. Don't know if they still are. Two >> of the other vendors I work with are. >> >> Lync has Enterprise Voice and it can be a complete replacement for a PBX, >> given an appropriate gateway to the PSTN. >> >> Asterisk also has patching issues, don't let anyone fool you there... as far >> as I have seen, Microsoft does this better than anyone else. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 7:01 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [NTSysADM] A little afield of the normal topic - ShoreTel >> installation >> >> All, >> >> We are using ShoreTel for our phone solution. Works well. >> >> I have just recently upgraded from 10.2 to 11.2 to 12.3, after I moved it to >> a new VLAN - that was a bit of a late night... >> >> However, it's running on an ancient SuperMicro server, on Server 2003 R2. >> >> It's time to move it to a new Dell machine, running 2008 R2, and to get to >> the current version of 13.2. >> >> I've looked at the prerequisites for installing 12.3, and am appalled at >> what they suggest, and was hoping for a bit of feedback from anyone here >> regarding this. >> >> Here's what they want me to do: >> >> o- Turn off the firewall - disable all of the profiles (Domain, Public and >> Private), then turn off and disable the service. >> o- Turn off the Base Filtering Engine (disable the service) >> o- Set DEP for essential Windows programs and services only >> o- Turn off UAC >> o- Do not apply patches released past a certain date, stating >> "When releasing a new build, ShoreTel publishes build notes >> listing the Microsoft >> patches that are certified against the build. ShoreTel also >> highlights software >> changes required by the Microsoft patches. Note that no additional >> Microsoft >> updates should be applied to your ShoreWare server between >> ShoreTel builds. If >> you install Microsoft updates between ShoreTel builds, they may >> have an adverse >> effect on your telephone system. >> Disable Microsoft updates until you review the detailed >> certification provided with >> each release." >> >> >> If you are running ShoreTel, have you run into this, and how do you protect >> your ShoreTel environment, other than firewalling the subnet that it's on? >> >> To me, this seems like egregiously broken software, requiring me to reduce >> the security of the server to near zero. >> >> Thoughts appreciated. >> >> Kurt >> >> > >
