Cisco has been hard-at-work adding new features to CUCM.  Here's a spreadsheet I've created with descriptions of all the new features for CUCM 7.  I'll soon be publishing sheets for CUCM 7.1 and CUCM 8.  Enjoy:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AjU-M37pyCMfdEFtYUlWUFZlYmF3bk5NZ1lFbzFaWkE&hl=en&single=true&gid=0&output=html

You may have shut down a link or expected a link failure but seen "sh cdp neigh" still displaying an active connection, well that is all due to the CDP Holdtime.  It has to run down to 0.  The default is 180 seconds, which can certainly lead to some confusion if you are troubleshooting a recently failed link.  The default can be changed with the "cdp holdtime" global parameter.  Once you're used to looking for it, you can see that the holdtime is unusually low for the failed link, which should lead you to figure it really is down w/out waiting for the entire holdtime to exp  ...  read more »

I recently spent a day getting my new server (AthlonII-Quad, 4 Gig RAM, Windows 7 64-bit) up and running with the INE topology.   I ran into a few snags along the way:

1. UltraVNC is the best VNC App with Windows 7, as it is a 64-bit app and runs fast.  RealVNC and TightVNC are still 32-bit and are awefully slow.  A few notes aboue UltraVNC:  ...  read more »

• Be sure to set a different password for the view-only Password than you do for the VNC Password