
How to install the ShoreTel Virtual Switches!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersVirtualization has significantly altered the options available for your choice of deployment models. With the introduction of ShoreTel 14.2 you can completely virtualize your VoIP deployment right down to the Gateways! If you have no Analog…

ShoreTel V14 Real-time Diagnostic and Monitoring Dashboard
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersI am found of repeating that "product development is a process not an event"! Though the marketing folks need to package, position and promote products based on feature sets, generally products emerge over time. Building on previous releases,…

ShoreTel Version 14.2 is "Virtually there"!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe have previously argued that ShoreTel should shed the hardware business and focus on software development only. Just our opinion and personal hangup! We believe that unless you have the Market Capitalization of an Apple, it is hard to…

ShoreTel Stock Update - Should Mitel and ShoreTel Merge?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & MitelBack in the summer we did a blog on ShoreTel from a Shareholders perceptive. There were a number of issues troubling us which did not seem to make sense and for which we, as outsiders, could not fully appreciate. Having purchased ShoreTel…

UCCX Scripting - Working with XML documents
Cisco & UCCX, Legacy Services, Technical ManagersWhen writing call control scripts for Contact Centers (ShoreTel ECC, CISCO UCCX ) do you really have to start over each time? Are there really that many differences between contact center applications? Well, yes and no! As we continue…

WebRTC, ShoreTel ECC and CISCO UCCX?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical Managers
What is WebRTC? Think of it as a teleconferencing system built right into your browser! For some time now, call centers have been slowly integrating web chat functionality into the call center tool set. Visitors to the company website…

A Cure for the common Hold?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Technical Managers, Telephony ArchivesThe Symptoms - Help! My on-hold recording warbles like a wounded canary! If your customers are kvetching over the aches and pains of listening to your wobbly, distorted on-hold recordings, it's time to seek medical help.
The Causes - The…

Hacking ShoreTel!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersI though I had seen it all!
When you have been involved with the design, deployment and management of customer premise telephone systems for as long as we have, you think you have seen it all. Over the years as we learn from our mistakes…

In search of the Killer Contact Center Script (UCCX or ECC)!
Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersThe "Killer UCCX Contact Center Script"
After your first 100 or so Contact Center Scripts, you begin to wonder if it would be possible to generate a “killer script”! No matter how many hours you sit with clients and do your very best…

Most Annoying Business VoIP Marketing Gotcha's
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesIf you have ever tried to decide on a new hosted business VoIP solution for your company, then you have most likely run into, and been frustrated by some of the "gotcha's" that VoIP company's use to get you to consider their service above all…

What is going on at ShoreTel now?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & MitelI very seldom comment, in this technology blog, on company policy and just try to stay focused on VoIP. This time I am speaking out as a ShoreTel Shareholder.You know, one of the people who bought into the $10 a share IPO (at about the time…

Open Letter to CISCO Certification Management!
Cisco & UCCX, Legacy Services, Technical ManagersMartin Sloan CCIE Voice Candidate #211151677 speaks for the entire CCIE Candidate community (DrVoIP included) when he wrote the following letter:
I'm writing you this morning to express my great disappointment in regard to Cisco's recent announcement…
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