How does a ShoreTel SBS compare to a CISCO CCME in $?
I am always being asked to compare ShoreTel and CISCO in one or another area. CISCO has a family of products that range from the UC500 through the CCME and on to the full blown Unified Communications Call Manager. One way to compare…
Leave a Message by spell by name?
In an early April Blog entitled Add ShoreTel Extension Lists to your Automated Attendant we talked about limiting a callers ability to dial internal extensions. This is the same feature you might use to provide “tenant services” to a ShoreTel…
ShoreTel Enteprise Contact Center Tool Bar Setup Options
As noted in a previous post, there are reasons that you might want to consider using the standard Agent tool bar. The Standard Agent tool bar enables the manipulation of an call center contacts (voice, email and chat) with an unobtrusive GUI.…
ShoreTel ECC Integrated Tool Bar
The ShoreTel Contact Center or Enterprise Contact Center product development effort has and continues to be a “process” not an “event”. That is what characterizes software development efforts in general. You have to know…
Memorial Day and ShoreTel Holiday Greetings Schedules!
It happens every year, every holiday at exactly the same time. Usually, at 4PM the day before the “holiday” that everyone know was coming, your entire client base calls to ask you how to change the Automated Attendant for a holiday greeting!…
New family of ShoreTel SG voice enabled switches!
ShoreTel has a family of new media gateways. The more interesting switches are referred to as SGV switches. There is an SG50V and an SG90V that differ only in the number of FXO and FXS ports that they support. What makes these switches (i.e.…
Deploying the ShoreTel Personal Call Manager through AD Group Policy!
Installing a ShoreTel IPBX solution is a process not an event. I have previously published a book entitled “VoIP System Planning Guide” that can be download from the DrVoIP site. This guide covers the basics for planning and managing a VoIP…
ShoreTel Enterprice Contact Center Skills Based Routing!
The ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center provides for “Skills Based Routing” an often confusing and misunderstood feature. It is important to note that this function might not achieve the desired result as it is only effective when there is…
ShoreTel Contact Center Call Select or Agent Select
Configuring a ShoreTel ECC is better understood if we start from the Agent and work back to the caller. In the ShoreTel Enterpriser Contact Center we first define Agents whom we then assign to Groups which are generally the “destination”…
ShoreTel Star Codes!
Though I know we have readers out there who have never seen a rotary dial telephone (or a 33 RPM record), many readers will be familiar with “star codes”. Star Codes have been generally well known to most phone users since the inception…
ShoreTel Tools for Checking remote dial tone?
Sometimes there is nothing like a telephone lines mans test set to hear exactly what is going on! VoIP solutions have a double challenge: First it is hard to put a butt set on an IP connection; and secondly what happens when that connection…
VoIP and SRST/AES Encryption!
Encryption of VoIP traffic was, for some of us a humorous concept. I remembered as a young development professional how much fun it was to use a packet sniffer to capture the bosses packets and reassemble his email over the LAN. Years before…
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