Why move the Auto Attendant into the Contact Center?
Many Call Center applications have an Automated Attendant front end call tree. Typically, you might have an Automated Attendant that plays the familiar On-Hours recoding: “Thank you for calling our company, press 1 for technical support…
Mobile Call Manager for the iPhone?
One of the benefits of a successful blog, is the talented people you meet and the ideas that you exchange with other industry professionals. Through an earlier blog on the subject of connecting an Apple Iphone to a ShoreTel System as a SiP extension,…
ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center Call Routing based on Schedules!
If you have been following our tech tips, you know that route points in the ShoreTel IPBX have a matching IRN in the Contact Center. If you want to route a call to a different destination based on the date and time that a call hits the Contact…
VoIP QOS Network Monitoring and Pathview Cloud!
Trouble Shooting VoIP issues in a multi-site deployment is a challenge to even the most talented network engineer. It is often difficult to determine what is a voice equipment issue and what is an issue aggravated by a network conditions. As…
ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center "Change Call Profile" icon
How many people hit the Auto Attendant and then dialed one for Sales? One of the most requested reports from ShoreTel clients is the analysis of Automated Attendant key strokes. With in the ShoreTel iPBX there are probably several ways to implement…
SIP firmware for ShoreTel handsets?
To the sales team, I sound like a broken record as I repeated the engineering driven mantra: “A VoIP solution is only as good as the network it is build on”. No matter how many times we tell clients that you can not obtain reliable,…
Fun with ShoreTel Voice Mail
Stuck on how to get a WAV file of a professionally recorded voice mail greeting into the right ShoreTel Voice Mail box? After all there is no import utility as there is during the creation of an Automated Attendant. I can’t speak for you,…
Trouble Shooting ShoreTel SGT1 Caller ID
Caller ID is an interesting area and we see a variety of client request regarding this functionality. On analog lines, there is not much room for configuration. Generally this information is transmitted as FSK (i.e. modem tones) in either the…
Trouble shoot "one way media" with the ShoreTel "phonectl" command!
One of the most common make/break/fix support tickets that come into the TAC center, have to do with “one way media”. In this scenario, a ShoreTel VoIP phone user calls another phone user, or places an outside phone call and the called party…
ShoreTel Route Point Configuration
Thecr ShoreTel IPBX “Route Points” are powerful configuration tools, generally used to enable third party applications. Using route points, an external application can gain complete call control. For example, when you configure a ShoreTel…
PDF and Email those ShoreTel Historical Reports!
“Historically”, excuse the pun, we always had a challenge with ShoreTel Contact Center Historical report!There were two issues.First, though you could schedule a report to be run automatically at a present time, you had to chose between…
To VLAN or not to VLAN, that is the question!
An assumption in this blog is that if your company has a "network administrator" on staff, you have a network that is large enough to require constant "care and feeding". As such dumping a bunch of VoIP phones onto your network…
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