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Quick Peek at ShoreTel Connect - What's in ShoreTel V15!

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Deploy in the Cloud, on premise or Both! For those of us who have been working with ShoreTel since version 3.1, the introduction of a new ShoreTel release is always exciting!   The marketing folks are naming this release, ShoreTel Connect…
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Upgrading CISCO with Prime Collaboration Provisioning

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Don't Procrastinate! Sooner or later you will find you need to upgrade your VoIP deployment, regardless of the vendor.   Differing upgrades is just prolonging the inevitable and increasing the complexity and the pain level.   Let’s take…
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Use an Ingate SIParator and you are “virtually there”!

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We have written on the subject of SBC quite extensively in the past and have also covered the easy installation of the Ingate product (see DrVoIP here).   Readers must find this interesting because the hit counter for our Ingate videos continues…
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ShoreTel fail over options using Vmware – Part 3 the “HA" and "FT" Option!

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A 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.   …
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ShoreTel fail over options using Vmware - Part 1 Building a VMware Test Lab!

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The 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".…
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ShoreTel Virtual Trunk Switch - Configuration and License impact!

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ShoreTel currently has three virtual appliances that can be used in place of the Orange ShoreGear voice gateways and conference servers.  These three virtual appliances are shipped within the ShoreTel core Server Software and consist of OVA…
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Run ShoreTel on Vmware Player or Oracle VirtualBox!

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With the release of ShoreTel Version 4.2 the company introduced the concept of virtual appliances. These software objects, had the potential of replacing the Orange ShorGear hardward boxes that typically characterize a ShoreTel deployment. The…
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Deploying VoIP in the Cloud or rolling your own "hosted PBX" - Part 1 Server Deployement

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The entire subject of Virtualization and all things "cloud" has become something that even none technical people talk about.    You might say it has gone "viral" and captured the interest of geeks, business people, professional technology…
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How to install the ShoreTel Virtual Switches!

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Virtualization 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…
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ShoreTel Version 14.2 is "Virtually there"!

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We 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…
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Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Overview Part 1

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As both a ShoreTel Certified VoIP Engineer and a CISCO CCVP I  have been working exclusively in VoIP since 1998.   For this reason,  one of the questions that is most asked of me is which is a better solution: ShoreTel and CISCO?   Since…
Compare ShoreTel (SHOR) and CISCO (CSCO) Unified Communications Manager

Virtualize your ShoreTel Contact Center or ECC on ESXi?

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Running 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…

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