
VPN's and VoIP - Getting Connected!
Cloud Services, Networking & Connectivity, Technical ManagersWe see a lot of VoIP deployments that come to us for trouble shooting. A common problem statement is that our HQ site can call both Chicago and Dallas, but Dallas and Chicago can't call each other. Savvy network administrator will have figured…

VPN's and VoIP - Getting economical "full mesh" Connectivity without MPLS!
Cloud Services, Networking & Connectivity, Technical ManagersWe see a lot of VoIP deployments that come to us for trouble shooting. A common problem statement is that our HQ site can call both Chicago and Dallas, but Dallas and Chicago can't call each other. Savvy network administrator will have figured…

ShoreTel SIP Trunk Configuration - Version 14 update Part 1
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersOur older posts on this subject are getting a bit dated and an update is long over due. ShoreTel has been using a version of SIP since day one. We say a version of SIP because at the formation of ShoreTel, SIP standards had not yet been…

ShoreTel fail over options using Vmware – Part 3 the “HA" and "FT" Option!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersA quick review of vocabulary before we go into this subject any further. First when we refer to vSphere, we are talking about the entire VMware ecosystem and all of its components. It is just a short hand for the entire system solution. …

ShoreTel fail over options using VMware – Part 2 the "Poor Man" Option!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersA simple yet very effective step you can take to assure a high availability is all but free! It occurs to us that it is no longer acceptable to install ShoreTel on anything other than a VMware ESXi server! Lets face it, you have to purchase…

WebRTC "peer to peer" Call Center Demo!
Business Managers, Cloud Services, Communications & Collaboration, Technical ManagersWhat is a “peer to peer” call center? The concept is a fully functioning call center that exists only in the internet browser of the workgroup agents and supervisor participating. In fact, no telephone lines are needed, beyond the published…

A ShoreTel Communicator for the Mac?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe recently had an opportunity to work with a ShoreTel client that was exclusively using Apple Mac's throughout their enterprise. We asked how they made that decision given the clear cost advantage WinTel PC hardware had over your basic…

Find the password from behind the ********** and other security vulnerabilities!
Cloud Services, Security & Privacy, Technical ManagersIf you are paying even the slightest attention to current technology trends, you will notice that many of your desktop applications are taking on the appearance of a browser! The entire Microsoft Office suite, for example, has been optimized…

ShoreTel iPBX phone system Training!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersPhone Training is a double edged sword. Everyone wants it but nobody really wants to make the time commitment required to get comfortable with the new phone features that a system like ShoreTel brings to your business. Most folks…

ShoreTel fail over options using Vmware - Part 1 Building a VMware Test Lab!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersThe most often asked question we hear among ShoreTel system administrators is how best to achieve "fail over", assure high availability and assure business continuity? There is no simple answer to this question nor is there any one "best practice".…

AWS S3 - a ShoreTel backup strategy!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersAmazon Web Services (AWS) has a range of storage options that make them our first choice in cloud based storage solutions and an ideal location for our ShoreTel data backup. In fact, now that ShoreTel has moved to virtualized hardware for voice…

ShoreTel ECC MySQL rants, raves and solutions for email, chat and text (SMS) messaging!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersIf you have worked with ECC custom integrations for any length of time, you have build a library of solutions to work with. Most recently you have discovered that a 32 bit application like ECC, running on a 64 bit Windows 2008 or 2012 server…
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