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Install on Debian Stretch 9.4 the fabulous Asterisk 14 + Freepbx 14

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….I know…. there are other alternatives compared to FreePbx that are equally effective, but…. I know well FreePbx and I do not want to learn new Asterisk-GUI !

For this reason in this post I’ll write about FreePbx.

The very first step is to install Debian 9.1: below some critical points.

Disk Partition
My choice: Guided – use entire – all file in one partition
In my situation the device is equipped with a small SSD HD, and it is useless to create strange partition-geometries: the machine is used only for the Asterisk-PBX.

Software Selection
My choice: only SSH server & standard system utilities Continue reading →

Configure Postfix to use Office365 SMTP Relay on Ubuntu 16.04

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In this post I’ll show how to install and configure Postfix on Ubuntu 16.04 to use Office 365 services like smarthost/mail relay.

apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
apt-get install postfix sasl2-bin mailutils

sasl2-bin is an API thet implement Cyrus SASL API, and permit to integrate authentication mechanisms in Postfix
mailutils is a simple mail commands that will help testing our configuration. Continue reading →

Set Up VNC remote access on Linux Mint 17

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VNC remote access allows one to view remotely and interact with real x displays on Linux box (i.e. a display corresponding to a physical monitor, keyboard, and mouse), and using windows, linux, mac or any other operating system SO where exist a vnc viewer.
To access in Linux Mint I prefer x11vnc instead of the default Vino server or other package. Continue reading →

How to install Ms Sql Server vNext on Debian 8 Jessie

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better_linux_boxMicrosoft surprised the IT world with the announcement about the new MS SQL Server that is able to run on Linux. In this post I’ll show hot to install Sql Server on Debian 8 Jessie.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install curl apt-transport-https sudo

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list this backports

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

After that you’ll be able to install jessie-backports openssl

apt-get install -t jessie-backports openssl

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