3CX Phone System 10 Service Pack 6 – Maintenance Update
3CX is pleased to announce a new release of 3CX Phone System 10, build 24018 – Service Pack 6.
To combat software piracy, we require all 3CX Phone Systems to be reactivated on their next start-up. This service pack will allow you to reactivate 3CX Phone System. Download this update by simply logging into the 3CX Windows Management Console and navigate to the 3CX Phone System Updates node.
IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION: Before upgrading 3CX Phone System 10 to Service Pack 6, make sure you have your 3CX license information handy. A reactivation of the license is required after performing this update as 3CX Phone System may fall back into FREE Mode. After the update, open the 3CX Management Console > Settings > Activate License and reactivate 3CX Phone System with your license Key.
New Features, Improvements and Bug Fixes
Fixed: 3CX Wallboard has now been updated to work with the latest version of Google Chrome.
Fixed: The 3CX Tunnel can now traverse more NAT networks & firewalls, reducing the number of one way audio connections (3CX SIP Proxy Manager must be updated if in use).
Fixed: Grandstream crash related to BLF Keys caused by a firmware update (Re-provision required)
Fixed: Message waiting indicator in Cisco SPA Phones fixed (Re-provision required)
Fixed: Removed 24 hour re-provision for Cisco SPA Phones. Cisco Phones will now check at 2AM in the morning.
Fixed: In some rare cases, queue calls coming via PSTN gateway could result in one way audio issues.
Fixed: Correct updating in ports, trunks and inbound rules pages when forwarded to extensions set to DEFLECT (302 diversion header).
Added: Ability to round up call costs to any specified value in minutes. The parameter is named “BILLFREQUENCY” and available in Settings > Advanced > custom parameter table.
Added: SIP phone provisioning templates for Yealink T32 and T38.
If you have the 3CX Hotel Module installed, you will need to update your installation from here.
If you have the 3CX VAD – (Voice Application Designer) installed, you will need to update your installation from here.
If you have 3CX Multitenant, it is required to take a backup of all tenants, uninstall, install the latest version and restore. To obtain 3CX Phone System Multi Tenant, please contact the 3CX Sales Team.
Users of 3CX Phone System 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are recommended to upgrade to 3CX Phone System 10. If you do not have Upgrade Insurance and wish to upgrade 3CX Phone System to version 10, click here.
Comment 47
February 15th, 2012
“To combat software piracy, we require all 3CX Phone Systems to be reactivated on their next start-up.”
Good action.
You should do this more often.
Thanks for the updates.
February 15th, 2012
Is that list complete? 5 fixes and 2 adds?
February 16th, 2012
Unfortunately, this Service Pack doesn’t contain many new Features or strongly needed improvements.
It seems to me, that the only reason for this SP is the Piracy-combat…
February 16th, 2012
We got the demo license back in May 2011 and now it fails after loading SP6, do we have to re-register? We are still testing 3CX.
February 16th, 2012
Thanks for staying on top of the issues.
February 16th, 2012
@3CXTESTER Yes as the blog post states, after the service pack you need to reactivate the license.
February 16th, 2012
To update the 3cx sip proxy manager, does that require an uninstallation of the existing SPM, or is it sufficient to go over the top?
In either case, is the configuration preserved?
Thanks, Les.
February 16th, 2012
Les – you can install over. No need to uninstall the older one.
And yes – the configuration is preserved. It will keep the last working configuration you had before.
February 16th, 2012
@Nick
To clarify… we did as the blog post states.
…we keyed in our May 2011 demo key and it failed and revoked the license. How quaint.
So…we re-registered on your web site, hopefully we get a new key via email to continue testing.
February 16th, 2012
I don’t mind the reactivation requirement but do wish that a web proxy could be used as the box hosting 3cx on a couple of customer sites doesn’t have direct web access. So I will have to plug a 3g dongle in to allow it to activate. Could web proxy settings for be looked at as a future feature please.
February 16th, 2012
@3CXTESTER – Then the problem is different. What is the error message you got? You mention the word “revoked”. In this case 3CX Staff intentionally disabled and revoked this key. I can already start to understand why – I think it is about time you finalize your software testing. I have seen massive companies deploy, rollout and launch 3CX Phone System installations in less than a month.
February 16th, 2012
@James – This activation is just a one off. So in all the previous service packs, this was never required.
As for the proxy, we have nothing to fix from our side. You need to simply make an exception for 3cx.com.
Some companies use Proxy servers to establish a connection to the Internet. Fair enough.
3CX Phone System requires an Internet connection on port 443 (SSL) for the license activation. This is NOT going to change.
The Management console of 3CX Phone System cannot foresee proxy connections, and does not use the proxy settings from broswer so in this case you can try to instruct Windows to redirect the data traffic to the proxy server. Try this command in cmd
netsh winnt set proxy proxy-server=[IPADDRESS or PROXY NAME] bypass-list= *.3cx.com
February 16th, 2012
@Tom New features go into new versions, not service packs. Whilst we have put quite a few new features in previous service packs it does not mean that all service packs will have new features. You need this update to reactivate your license.
February 16th, 2012
@3CXtester. The system did not revoke your license upon activation. Your key has been disabled a long time ago and you are not licensed to use it. You have to either purchase 3CX or stop using it.
February 16th, 2012
Hi
Great function however:
Updating a Tentant went well, but after activating I do get a:
“Unexpected error: Failed to open registry key Licence: 66 System:0″
The licens I´m trying to activate is a NFR which expire in july 2012.
Will I be able to update another tentant with a bought licens?
Thanks
/Jesper
February 16th, 2012
For multitenant, it is required to
Take a backup of all tenants
Uninstall
Download the new multitenant installation
Restore backups
OR as a temp workaround open registry
HKLM\Software\3CX and create “PhoneSystem” (without quotes) key
For now make the registry edit however I suggest that for production purposes you download the latest multitenant and install the full installer because we made changes
February 16th, 2012
Are there any issues with selecting the tick box on the 3CX Service Packs/Updates page? My tickbox doesn’t register the action and allow for download..? The other, previously downloaded SPs’ tick boxes also don’t allow for the tick to be set, and all other update tick boxes on other update sections operate. I have restarted all the services, but no joy. Is there a 3CX site link to download directly?
February 16th, 2012
@Nick
Thanks for your quick reply
HKLM\Software\3CX does NOT exist, perhaps because I did the SP6 update:-|
I will have to uninstall, and make a new installation as you recomend.
/Jesper
February 16th, 2012
No 3CX Key must exist. Check in WOW.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\3CX\PhoneSystem
February 16th, 2012
Question: I have a pirate key, will the pbx still function if I don’t install the service pack?
February 16th, 2012
@John – Let me have your key via email and i will check what will happen.
February 16th, 2012
Just like james, i’ve the same issue’s.
Is it possible to create an activation by Phone(system) option.
so 3CX-PBX will connect by ‘phone’ to a telephony system of 3CX?
with kind regards,
and keep up the good work!
Jos Greeve
February 16th, 2012
Good morning,
I alos went to update a tenant license NFR test and havethe same issuse as Jasper:
Updating a Tentant went well, but after activating I do get a:
“Unexpected error: Failed to open registry key Licence: 66 System:0″
We have an open support ticket.
Updating stand alone machines have gone with little or no issue other than on an IIS installation behind Windows 7 we lost IIS and had to reinitiate it via Control Panel on the local machine.
The blog is very good with the basic information. I know that we would like more detail particularly on what the updated phone templates are updated for on Grandstream and Cisco phones.
Thank you
February 16th, 2012
@Bruce – For multitenant you need to create a key named PhoneSystem
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\3CX\PhoneSystem but this is a work around.
In real environments, you need to take a backup, uninstall and install MT INstallations because the previous version was a BETA install.
The error of the license should not happen on normal 3CX Phone System installations because phonesystem key is already there.
Re IIS – not a 3CX Problem.
Re grandstream and cisco I am going to update the blog post and put more information on it yes. Thanks for this
February 16th, 2012
@Nicky- Thank you for the assist.
All up and working great now.
Thank you
February 17th, 2012
Thanks Guys,
In need of the Desktop Component MSI before proceeding to install. Is this available somewhere that I have not yet found? Thanks.
Craig
February 17th, 2012
@Craig – no need – Desktop components was not changed. There were no changes from SP5 to SP6. If you had it updated for SP5, then you are ok.
February 17th, 2012
@Nick
You are right, the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\3CX\PhoneSystem does exist.
However I did a uninstall and a re-install (thanks to your perfect working Backup system:-))
Is the 10.0.24018.2322 the newly announced “ready for operation” Cloud version?
/Jesper
February 18th, 2012
Hi
I believe the requirement to update the sip proxy manager needed to be better thought out. Steps:
1. In our case, Service Pack 6 needs to be installed after hours.
2. Sip Proxy Manager needs to be updated and has to be done after hours to avoid a service interruption.
3. People who use a remote extension are not available after hours for me to be able to remotely connect to their computers and upate the SPM.
Does ths mean all remote extensions will not communicate with the PBX after SP6 has been applied via the SIP Proxy Manager until all Proxy Managers have been updated? If this is so, this causes an interruption in work flow because the people who use remote extensions will have to wait until I connect to each computer remotely and install the latest SIP Proxy Manager after applying Service Pack 6.
I suggest you come up with a better way to update the SIP Proxy Manager especially for future multi-tenant installations which seems to be the same as a remote extension.
Thank you – John @ Fox
February 18th, 2012
@John@Fox
SP6 needs to be installed after hours in any company that cannot afford downtime. This is a 5 minute procedure.
Same applies for sip proxy managers. This is a 1 minute procedure. Total tunnel downtime after an update would be 10 minutes.
It is required that the admin needs to access the remote offices and update the SPM. Configuration will remain the same and there are no questions asked at install time. You can install over the previous installation.
The older Sip Proxy manager is still compatible with SP6 so you do not need to install them both together.
In all fairness, there aren’t many Sip Proxy Manager updates released. In 1 year we had 2 updates only.
@Jesper – The latest version is the version that should be used yes.
February 19th, 2012
Thanks Nick. Can you make sure that a note goes in the release about Desktop Component details.
February 23rd, 2012
Same issue that MikeFikuart.
It is no possibity to select and download the service pack. The 3CX1PSSB (8SC) license is regularly registered, service restarted, pc rebooted…
February 23rd, 2012
@ Antonio Are you using Web browser or winforms?
February 24th, 2012
@Nick
Sorry for the delay.
With Winforms (the Windows application), by browser is refused this type of operation (there is an explicit message shown by the interface itself in the browser).
February 25th, 2012
After the update we are no longer getting CID on calls forwarded to cell phones or other external numbers. It is only showing the main number of our SIP trunk. This changed with the installation of SP6 and was working properly until then.
February 25th, 2012
@Antonino – Are you using multitenant installation? What is the version you see on the management console login screen?
@Nathan – I doubt this is related to the update. You can see from the change log and we changed nothing in this area. I think some settings were changed either in the outbound parameter tab of the VoIp Provider SiP trunk or maybe the provider changed something from their end. Some providers see this as CID spoofing.
What is the sip trunk you use?
If you want to check this go to the outbound parameters of the sip trunk and change the CID related fields to ORIGINATOR CALLER ID Example From Display Name -> ORIGINATOR CID. (NOT Outbound CID) If you have this already, make a wireshark capture and confirm that 3CX is actually sending the originator CID not the outbound CID of the line. If wireshark shows ok, then you need to go to the provider. If wireshark shows that in the From you have the outbound CID of the line, open a support ticket with 3CX Support.
I can assure you that this service pack contains EXACTLY what is specified in the change log above. Nothing more Nothing less.
February 25th, 2012
i have removed 3cx phone system from my (not deliberate)through add/remove in the control panel but when i wanted to install it again
an error message appeared “a previous version of 3cx phone system is installed on my computer”
February 25th, 2012
@amr – the first check is made at registry level
X64 bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\3CX\PhoneSystem or
X86 bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\3CX\PhoneSystem
if it stil does not install contact support
February 27th, 2012
Hmm… Not good. After upgrade, the services will not start up again..! seems like I have to reinstall.
(Running on Windows Server 2008 R2)
February 27th, 2012
@Andy – That is because you did not reactivate your license. See blog post!
February 28th, 2012
@Nick Borg
That fixed it, thanks. I am not sure why this changed but if I load up a pre SP6 snapshot of the VM that setting was intact. As an aside it looks like a one off because I had this setting on 6 client deployments and I ran the update at all 6 locations the same night and had no problems. All of them are running near identical setups to ours accept for the NFR license. Not a game breaker, I just didn’t think to look there for some reason and that is my bad.
February 28th, 2012
@Nathan – Thanks for the update. Much appreciated.
February 28th, 2012
@Nick Galea – I have the free version. How can I reactivate? I dont have any key, but i tried…
February 28th, 2012
@Nick Borg
Hi Nick, it’s a regular, standalone installation diretly on the “PBX-PC”.
I don’t know why but, when I connected yesterday to verify the version on my customer 3CX PC, I attempted to select the SP6 another time…and this time the operation went straight…
As specified in the post I had to reactivate the license and all was OK
March 6th, 2012
Hey Guys,
Upgraded to sp6, and now when I re-enter the licence key, 3cx is complaining that the key isn’t valid…., and the system is dropping back to the free version. Anyone else have this trouble?
Could someone at 3cx contact me to sort it out. I recommended 3cx for the company phone system, and the boss will be really pissed tomorrow if all he has is the free version……..
For the record, I personally bought the license, so I know its valid, and the free upgrade period has another couple of weeks to run.
While it may be possible I stuffed up, I have checked the key combination and re-entered several times :)
(I took a screenshot of the old key as well and it matches)
Regards,
Mat
March 6th, 2012
@Matthew – What is the exact error message? If the key is not valid, then it has been revoked. Can you contact sales and send them the key so they can check it out for you?
March 6th, 2012
Thx Nick,
Issue resolved. Operator error, not a 3cx issue. Thanks for the assistance of your team.
Regards,
Mat