http://marketingtools.avaya.com/knowledgebase/businesspartner/ipoffice/mergedProjects/bulletins/techbulls/tb001.pdf

I started working on these in 2003 with R1.3. I immediately both loved and hated it. Loved it cause it was cool and hated it cause the 403 was kinda grumpy and like playing with explosives. Boom. There goes the config.

I really liked the 406V2 and now I am rather fond of the IP500V2. The day I programmed spam calls to route back to the received ID was a particularly happy day. Ah the memories...

So happy belated birthday to you.

Now, I've routed spam calls to disconnect but back to itself, that's genius. Thanks

I got in around 2005 with 3.0
It was love at first sight.
 

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

Me too got in touch with it in 2005 with 3.0(40).

It was HATE at first SIGH.

Then I started loving

Now I started hating the avaya support....


 

Me and Nortel divorced and I am dating the IPO now. I think I love her but not sure. We are in the learning phase. I do feel like slapping her sometimes though.

SHK Certified (School of Hard Knocks)
NCSS, ATSP/IP

I started with the Network Alchemy 1.1 > 2.1 and then got back with the IPOffice on 3.2

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It works! Now if only I could remember what I did...

Dain Bramaged (Avaya Search tool http://tinyurl.com/bas1234 )
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This forum and the member of it has/have helped at least 50x more people than Avaya support ever has, I can say for for certain

Went to 1.4 boot camp. the last day there r2.0 came out.

Agree with amriddle01, this forum been the boots on the ground for Avaya, they are extremely lucky to have it as Avaya's websites and tech support has alot of improving to do.  The people of this forum are the lifeblood of Avaya, not the office jockeys complicating every process.

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I too am dating the IPO after a hot/cold relationship with Nortel!  

I'm very happy not having to deal with printing DESIs for those tiny buttons! - but I'm not quite ready to think about marriage yet...  

Been here since the 1.3 release.  I agree this forum has been a better resource than Avaya support.  There are even some user created resource sites from some of the members here that are from real world.  Sure do appreciate these people and this site.   

Just TODAY I came across the VMPro training workbook from my first training in April 2002.  IPO was just being released and Accenture was just taking over training for Avaya.  The instructor was working from the help screens just like we were...

Had a course just when 1.2 was released and the trainer gave his first course and had less of a club than the colleague I went with. Loved the features hated (and still do) the reboot but at least you don't have to reboot for everything any more.
Getting again to the point where Avaya is losing it and should do more testing but seems marketing dictates the pace of releases and not common sense and engineers.  

Joe W.

FHandw, ACSS

Don't know about you guys but I'm feeling older after trading this!

ah the good old days....Not. who remembers the old 401 where you could upgrade the ports with a kit?

I'm new compared to most of you.  I started this game on the tail end of release 5.0.  Even with its quirks, the IPO beats the Nortel stuff I used to work on in the 10 years prior.

Ive been married to the IP Office for a while now. We get along most times, but I just dont like it when her parents (Avaya) try to give me a rectal probe every now and then. (licensing, bugs, fast releases)

ACSS - SME
General Geek

Yes, the mother in law can be a bit annoying once on a while
 

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

I remember saving my first config on a 403 back in the 2.1 range.  I was terrified as the reboot took about 5 minutes and I thought I bricked the unit.   

I went to boot camp on 3.1, 3.2 came out that same week. My first install was 4.1. Self taught from then on. Love it!!!

My first exposure was to Network Alchemy @ V2.1

I learnt the hard-way how to recover a wiped unit with an Argent office that I had obtained from a friend with no details on passwords or IP addresses after trying AT-X in desperation.
 

A Maintenance contract is essential, not a Luxury.
Do things on the cheap & it will cost you dear

Started around 3.1

Love it, even if it is a pain sometimes. Nothing quite like sitting on site trying to DTE a unit. Fun fun fun.

Agree with the playing with explosives part. *

www.twitter.com/tem1985
APSS/ACIS/ACSS-SME
not arrogant, just succinct.

DTE is not that hard.
Get a spare unit and do it a couple of times.

You can even upgrade it that way

It will save you some stress when it actually is needed on a site.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

Oh I'm well versed in how to do it, but doing it on a demo system isn't quite the same as doing it on site with a brick.

www.twitter.com/tem1985
APSS/ACIS/ACSS-SME
not arrogant, just succinct.

If you want then i can brick it for you
 

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

no way. breaking it in the first place is the fun part!

www.twitter.com/tem1985
APSS/ACIS/ACSS-SME
not arrogant, just succinct.

I still have a 403 that blinks at me that I know I can recover....

Reading all this makes me think you are all rookies, I started working with IP Office from release 1.0. and I still do work with it. Before that I have installed a lot of Network Alchemy systems and I've installed the first AVAYA INDeX networked with the IPNC (which is a IPO as a linecard in the INDeX) outside the UK.
I think IPO is older then 10 years but i can't remember, the tech bulletins started later as the introduction of the IPO.

If it ain't dutch it ain't much

But Intrigrant, you are a bit older then i am
I still remember the course you gave to me and some colleagues in 2005.
The brand new 5400 range phones which you showed me with a smile.
I was introduced to it because Avaya bought Tenovis which i was doing in these days.

Time flies when you are having fun.
Hopefully there will be another 10 years of IPO coming (and i hope a lot more)
  

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

Perhaps it did start earlier but how often do we refer to tech bulletin 1. Also the tech bull is IPOs effective birth certificate. Its born-on date.

My children were born when they started breathing and not on the day my family and friens received a birth card.....
And yes I am old and crumpy but I always liked working with IP Office although I lost most of my hear when we started to deploy release 3.0

If it ain't dutch it ain't much

IPO has paid for two houses and two relationships haha Started at Index and NA 2.1.

Cannot shake it
 

Started in UK 2003 version 1.3. Just before joining this forum.

Boot camp instructor insisted the IPO was not a PABX. It was a router with some telephony function.

Was happy when they gave it a bit more telephony function.

 

Started at 2.0. Have supported some NA's and IPNC's linked to IPO's. I still miss the pickup button flashing up on the 2030's when a member of your group was ringing! There's a feature I'd like to see return...

ACSS (SME)

One of these days everything will work as it should, and then we'll all be out of a job!

We did the second ever install in the States.  The site had a 406 with 100 phones and 1.1 software.  My son was born a week before the install and I swear that I didn't see him until he was 1.

The training we received was comical.  The instructor told us that T-1s can only have 24 numbers associated with them because they only have 24 lines.  The three day course was cancelled after the instructor finally said - "To hell with this!" and left on the second day.

I sat with our demo 403, 2 4412s and my laptop for three days with the VMPRO Exercise book that an Avaya Support person sent me and just learned it.

That site is still our customer which is unbelievable since they lived through four Avaya Engineer visits, constant rebooting and 10 incremental upgrades in that first year.

I do love this product and anytime I start to hate it I just remember how pissed off I would get trying to connect to WINSPM through a modem and have it just disconnect.

Kevin Flounders

www.comstar-usa.com

Nice post Gents! I've found my earliest tech spec from 14th January 2002 issue 2, I still have all the old Admin VM pro and PM software zips even when VM pro was free with the Alchemy.

There was more to learn more about "what not to do" then what it could do! I've definitely bricked a few in my time. :)

Independent Engineer
Avaya IP Office - ACSS, Panasonic and Samsung PBX's

Well. I got in with v4. And my memory has cases when I had to reset on IPO using DTE through remote PC 1000 miles away.
We all hate and love IPO but I think we should admit that it brings us bread and butter for dinner (sometimes even more)

Kolob4all, 4.0 was a real challenge

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

I don't know I think R7 and R8 have been just as bad if not worse than R4 was, what with all the patches and basics broken, licencing issues, handset functioning issues etc, it's pretty bad

I know, i haven't seen it as bad as it is now

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

You can't beat 3.1.65. Best build EVER!

ACSS (SME)

One of these days everything will work as it should, and then we'll all be out of a job!

As far as fixing major issues, I will always be thankful for 1.3.30.

Kevin Flounders

www.comstar-usa.com

2.1(27) every time for me.

ACSS - SME
ACA - Implement IP Telephony

great comments!
I was actually outside the delivery room when she was born!

Married my first wife SDX back in 1994(now that was a real rocky relationship) after a couple of years she had major surgery and transformed her looks and skills and changed her name to INDeX, after a while she attracted this very nice man called lucent who later became AVAYA, they had a baby called network alchemy, I adopted and helped bring her up, the early years were terrible, always having a tantrum and then wanting to sleep until you woke her up again to the tune of 240volts, she had an imaginary friend called cyber gear gold,
there have been good times and some real horrors but I have watched her grow into beautiful ip500 princess.
We have since moved back closer to bugville, but im sure all will be good, I think youll find some pretty astounding stuff coming via a distributor near you soon..