WiFi 6Ghz In Australia 6E

 Wi-Fi 6E – 6GHz is now approved for use in Australia.  Certified 6E devices will be able to use the 6GHz Wi-Fi band .

Australian Communications and Media Authority has approved 500MHz at the low end of the 6GHz band (5925–6425GHz). 

ACMA has limited the transmission strength (mW) to ensure that Wi-Fi 6E will not go outside the building.   WiFi 6E Unbuilding ONLY currently

5925-6425 MHz (U-NII 5) frequency band adopts the use of IEEE 802.11ax / Wi-Fi 6E protocol capabilities with WPA3 and Enhanced Open.    

So we have 25 channels at 20Mhz width or  12 at 40MHz

Graphic From Cisco Blog by Joseph Vasanth Louis

The channel numbering is interesting.

Best practice currently is to have 5Ghz and 6Ghz running on the AP so devices like apple can discover the network

Currenly  21/4/2023  Cisco AP are not Certified to work in AUS yet.

you get this error....

Mist APs are working in AUSTRALIA now.

Remote Desktop to Azure AD Joined Computer

Add the following to the bottom of the RDP file.

enablecredsspsupport:i:0

authentication level:i:2

For the user name field should be formatted as .\AzureAD\email@company.com

Adding the dot slash (.\)  will save you having to add AzureAD\ to the beginning of your user name each time you try to log in.)

Monitor Interfaces

 

Monitor Interfaces

Display Port is the most common now

Followed by HDMI

Trend Email Security allow Voicemail Messages from Microsoft Teams

 Exchange Admin Center in Office 365 to allow voicemail messages from Teams Microsoft. 

Create this rule:

1. Navigate to Exchange Admin Center > Mail Flow > Rules

2. Click on "Create a new rule"

3. Create a new rule that:

Name: Teams Bypass For Trend

Apply this rule if: "The message type is"> include the message type > "Voice Mail"

Sender's IP address is in the range

13.107.64.0/18
52.112.0.0/14
52.120.0.0/14
52.238.119.141/32
52.244.160.207/32
2603:1027::/48
2603:1037::/48
2603:1047::/48
2603:1057::/48
2620:1ec:6::/48
2620:1ec:40::/42 

latest Teams IP addresses - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/urls-and-ip-address-ranges

4. Do the following...

"Require TLS Encryption"

Then

Chose a mode for this rule: Enforce

Tick

"Stop processing more rule"

5.  Click Save

Move above the ONLY accept Mail from Trend Micro)

Starlink with Meraki SD-WAN

Customers using Starlink can run into issues using Meraki SDWAN  if they use 192.168.1.0/24

The Starlink router uses 192.168.1.0/24 for the local LAN subnet.

If your office uses 192.168.1.0/24  as well then this will cause issues for SDWAN and VPN Traffic 

Prior to version 15.44  you could have the WAN subnet the same as a subnet on the  SDWAN   the route on the SDWAN took preference.

after 15.44 the traffic would go out of the WAN port and get lost.

This issue was fixed again in 18.0.2 but requires Meraki support to do a back-end fix.

The best solution would be to change the WAN subnet to a different range but this has been impossible.

I recently had a Starlink at my office and with the help of support, there is a solution now.

Starlink allows you to bypass the modem but you must have the ethernet adaptor

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To bypass the router, go to the App home page > Settings > Advanced

Starlink App version must be at least 2.0.19 to work

The toggle button on to bypass the Starlink router

This allows you to completely disable the Starlink Wifi Router.

You would need to utilize a Starlink ethernet adapter in order to plug in your own equipment.

While Bypass mode is enabled, router commands will not work.

If the toggle switch does not appear in the Settings tab, can factory reset the router and/or delete and re-download the app.

App Message in red text when Bypass is enabled: "Bypass Mode will completely disable the built-in Starlink Wifi router. this is an advanced feature that requires a Starlink Ethernet adapter and your own network equipment. A manual Factory reset will be required to reverse this."

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As an interesting aside..  MY voice MOS scores change changed from 4.4  to 4.2  when using Starkink  and Packet loss was about 1% 

How to change the Starlink subnet.