Archive for August, 2009

Can’t delete a user from Unity Connection

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

This week we closed one of our satellite offices and therefore I had to remove the office from, among other things, Cisco Unity Connection. I started deleting the users and hit a problem when I tried to delete the Operator User. The error I receive was:

“Operation cannot be completed because the object is in use”

Now since I had just finished removing this office from the Cisco Unified Communications Manager box, I expected to have the option in Unity to actually see what object is using the User that I’m trying to delete, as I did in UCM. But no such luck.

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Monitoring WildBlue Satellite Usage

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Where I live I have no access to cable or DSL for broadband internet. My choices are dial-up or satellite, so the decision is clear, I went with satellite through WildBlue. I signed up with them through Dish Network since they’re a partner. I’m mentioning this because what I’m about to explain, I’m pretty sure won’t work if you’re a direct WildBlue customer or have signed up through another one of their partners. So, bottom line, if you have WildBlue through dish Network read on. I’ll show you how to monitor your bandwidth usage directly from your desktop.

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