
First Look at ShoreTel Mobility Router
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersThe ShoreTel Mobility Routers (aka SMR) is an exciting product that can make fixed/mobile convergence a reality! It builds heavily on inherent SIP functionality in call setup, call flow and Session Description Protocol. It acts as both a SIP client and as a SIP proxy server (e.g. B2BUA). If you are comfortable with SIP protocol, the SMR is a relatively simple device to understand. The products primary contribution to the state of the art is the ShoreTel Roam Anywhere Client (aka SRAC) and the fact that it is available now; it works and there are plenty of reference accounts.

Stupid phone trick #7 – How to make iPhone calls from my ShoreTel handset!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersYeah, I am sure you were just dying to know how to call your iPhone and have your ShoreTel phone ring? Better yet, pick up your ShoreTel handset and make a call out your iPhone? Actually, it is a useful integration and one that I recently…

Virtualize your ShoreTel Contact Center or ECC on ESXi?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersRunning the ECC on a virtual server is “not a supported configuration”, but will it work? Often we encounter installed base solutions that are pushing the support envelop with market driven customer requirements. Windows 7 may not be…

Have you set your Holiday Phone Message Schedule yet?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersIt was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a create was stirring, except the technical support team! It does not matter what holiday it is, the result is always the same. At 4:45PM the day before the Holiday our Call…

Implementing Active Directory Integration with ShoreTel 11
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersHistorically I have recommended that the ShoreTel server not be a computer in your domain. To many times, an Active Directory administrator will create a new Group Policy and forget about the ShoreTel user account. The end result is a down…

ShoreTel “Twinning” ring your desk and cell at the same time!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersSo there I am, on the my desk phone, talking to some very important client and I now have 45 minutes to make an appoint that is 1 hour away by car! The client is important and we have been trying to link up for days! I also have to be at…

ShoreTel Browser Based Call Management Options!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersIf you have ever installed a ShoreTel solution in an environment with other than Windows desktops, you know you lose some of the Sizzle! The Personal Call Manager could not be installed on Mac computers for example! Well known to those who know…

Skills Based Routing in the ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersAssuming there is more than one Agent available to service an inbound contact center call, a “skill” level can be applied to route the call to the most suitable agent. It is important to note that the system will only use this criteria…

Creating a “Personal Workgroup” to help answer your phone!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersOne of the great attributes of a Personal Call Manager, is the multiple call appearance functionality. When you have an active phone call you can actually see a new call ring in, on your screen. I like to think of this as “priority…

ShoreTel Version 10+ “Find Me/ Follow Me” Enhancements!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersMobility and Office Extensibility continue to be "must have" feature sets for success in todays hyper competitve market place. Nobody seems to care if it is after business hours in your time zone. When a client wants you, they want you…

ShoreTel Compatible Audio Conference Bridge on a Plug Server?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersThe Sheevaplug computer is an amazing appliance! Think of the applications you could create on this 3 watt PC often confused as a wall transformer by the uninitiated. In fact I have a bunch of "wall warts" under foot for a variety of…

Log Blog – Debugging ShoreTel Voice Mail with vmail.log
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe should probably do several blogs on logs! Logs to an engineer are like finger prints to a cop! Both professionals need to play “detective” and gather all the hints they can in an exhaustive effort to figure out what went wrong! …
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