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The ShoreTel Workgroup Monitor Kicks Butt!

As you can tell from our video library and blogs, we are very excited supporters of the ShoreTel Contact Center!  You can not find a more feature rich or cost effective  solution to call routing, email routing  and web collaboration!    To…
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How to create ShoreTel AA and ECC audio Files!

You can hardly install a Automated Attendant with out creating the Audio files!    If you have looked at any of our videos on setting up the ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center, you know that we urge you to create all of your audio files before…
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ShoreTel PCM 9.1 Microsoft Installation Error

When installing the ShoreTel PCM 9.1 call manager software on a PC that has been upgraded to Windows XP service pack 3, occasionally there is a Microsoft Installer error that prevents the ShoreTel software from being installed. The error is…
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More on ShoreTel V switches!

When installing a Shoregear switch, one of the parameters that you enable is to indicate which server is to manage this switch!    Normally this is no big deal, but with the V switch, you need to pay attention to this parameter as it will…
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ECC Medical Applications

With all the talk about "health care" you would expect growing demand for  more application integration for this particular industry vertical!  The ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center can process "dial lists" that enable the system  to make…
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The ShoreTel Prefix Option

In this economy, there are a growing number of mergers and acquisitions, or “marriage by shotgun”. When companies combine they have the challenge of integrating their data and telecommunications systems. For example, we have witnessed an…
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ShoreTel Contact Center Overflow Concepts and Direct Calls to Agent!

I would like to kill call center challenges with one blog!   In many call center environments, it is possible that an agent has a Direct in Dial (e.g. DID) number that a client might call and bypass the entire call center process!   For a…
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More on ShoreTel LLDP - follow up to previous blog post!

This is a follow up post to an earlier post on LLDP-MED. VoIP phones on the market today follow the same basic boot and operations process: 1 – Wait for an LLDP packet from the Ethernet switch 2- Send a DHCP discovery packet to find the DHCP…
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How to cause a ShoreTel phone to dial from within Outlook

We see a lot of request that can be summarized as   "can we dial from within<(insert your favorite application here>?   Outlook, for example, has an ability to let you select the ShoreTel TAPI line so that you can dial from a Contact.…
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Putty Telnet into ShoreGear SG50V/SG90V

We had a lot of requests for examples of telneting into the SG Voice switches, so we though we would do a quick video on that process. The V switch is a very different animal from the rest of the SG family. Basically, a small Linux server lives…
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ShoreTel SIP Trunk Configuration Parameters for Level 3

Generally, we do not fill out forms given to us by Carriers.   Most Carrier forms use nomenclature that is "Marketing Speak" and not technically driven.   It seems we have 100 different ways to refer to a TDM with PRI signaling and only one…
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How to set up Backup for ShoreTel VG50 and VG90 V siwtches!

Both models of the ShoreTel VG90 and VG50 are availabe in V switch configurations.   The V switch configuration enables you to provide local voice mail and autoamted attendant functionality to a smalll site economically.  Compared to the cost…

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