Jason Antonacci: Clever Guy

I enabled two-factor authentication for all my Google services several weeks ago.  So far, it has been relatively uneventful.  On a few occasions I have had to come downstairs to read the default SMS message and verify, but on other occasions I opted for a voice-based alternative.  I added my Google Voice number as the alternate two-factor authentication line, so all our phones ring.    More Google two-factor authentication info at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/ensuring-your-information-is-safe.html .  Also see the getting started guide at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283 . Also checkout Google Voice which makes an excellent ICE (In Case of Emergency) phone number.

Successfully integrated Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8.5.1 (VOIP) with our central authentication and directory service Novell eDirectory 8.8.3 (LDAP) after 2 days research and testing. All 15,000+ users were imported quickly and with no issues. While Novell eDirectory is not officially Cisco supported, supported LDAP directory Oracle SunOne is remarkably similar. The LDAP SSL certificate CN and LDAP server hostname must match correctly.  The following changes were made to integrate CUCM with our enterprise directory services on Novell eDir: LDAP attribute uid is a secondary mapping for eDir CN.  The eDir attribute uniqueID does not have a LDAP mapping. Search results are increased from 200 to 1000 entries. Search timeout is decreased from 20 to 0 (unlimited). Persistent search is disabled (default is enabled). The BindDN user object is permitted 5 concurrent connections (increased from 1). The eDir/LDAP services were restarted via the ndsmanage utility (