Blog entries tagged mobile

IE7 and IE8 - self signed SSL certificate not trusted?

Tom Finnis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Although proper SSL certificates from providers such as Digicert and Verisign have become much cheaper nowadays there are still many occasions when you might prefer to just use a self signed certificate. One of the most common occurences of this is with SBS server, to provide SSL secured web services such as OWA and RPC over HTTP. However the certificate warning you get everytime you open the web site is annoying and maybe confusing for less experienced users. In older versions of IE you coulRead More...

Public Folders on Windows Mobile & Blackberry

Tom Finnis — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

This is a subject I haven't looked at for some time, maybe surprisingly its something we don't get asked about all that often. A typical scenario might be where a company has an Exchange Calendar Public Folder containing details of company events, important dates and so on. They want their mobile users to be able to view this calendar on their Blackberrys or Windows Mobile phones so how do they go about it?

The short answer I discovered at the time was that they can't Read More...

Integrating OCS with Asterisk

John Hudson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We have been using Asterisk for the last four years; it facilitates our distributed model of operation, effectively bridging the gap between traditional PSTN and VoIP. Asterisk enables us to bring important customer calls into our head office via trustworthy ISDN technology whilst at the same time linking branch offices and remote users via VoIP. If we cannot make an outbound call with our SIP and IAX2 trunks, we simply fall back to ISDN.

Many organisations use Asterisk in conjRead More...