Friday, July 20, 2007

3.1 MSS - Link speed and duplex / Network Media Type

This seems to happen a lot with the MSS backend especially when systems are newly installed:

These speeds (Network Media Type) are changed on both the corporate and the private connections on the MSS usually to 100/F but do not get changed on the MAS servers.

This puts a powerful Whammy on the voicemail system and all manner of strange weirdness can ensue. Things such as people not being to get into their mailboxes or being able to get into their mailboxes but not able to fwd messages, and getting that oh so lovely, “I’m sorry there is a problem with the system…” And I have even seen 1 tech do this then wonder why the MISCM would not complete??? If you are going to change the NIC speeds do it after the install and then do it on all servers.

All of this goes away if you change the NIC’s speeds on the MAS to match what they have the MSS setup for. It takes seconds for the network connections to reset themselves.

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