G7Eleven

We got a chance this evening to do some work on 3CX V9 RC.   Here are some initial thoughts.

First, Myphone does not use 5000 as its port anymore, everything is on 5481 (if using the new – not Cassini – webserver).   Therefore, if like us you are using the external name of your server to connect call assistant V8, the error message will not load as we only had port 5000 open.  First thing to fix that was get rid of 5000 in your firewall rules, and leave in 5481.

If you were using Version 8, and you upgrade, a must is to send your users the new welcome email, which includes a really nice feature to auto install and provision the version 9 Call assistant!   This really is very impressive!   No longer will you have the pain of setting up remote users!

One feature that seems to have gone missing (though I may simply be overlooking it) is the ability to send unanswered calls to one extension to the mailbox of a different extension.   3CX, if you are listening, please can we have that back?

Sad to see that there is not an embedded playback on the Myphone interface, nor a “playback on phone” option.   Hopefully that will make version 10.

Also very glad to see the new Snom 870 in the provisioning templates!   Video on the 3CX Phone also very impressive!

A full list of the new features is available here