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ShoreTel Communicator Not Installing Properly – Fixes

If you’ve got a new ShoreTel system install, there are a few things that can go wrong with installing Communicator on people’s machines. Several problems I’ve run into are the following: ShoreTel Communicator install isn’t writing the registry key. It seems to install fine otherwise. Communicator fails midway through the installation. Communicator demands to have […]

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PRI Trace on ShoreTel Switch

This post is about how to do a PRI trace on a ShoreTel T1 switch. I couldn’t find good text instructions on how to do this on the internet. Dr Voip has instructions on how to debug caller ID but if you need a trace log, it won’t help much. It’s probably in the ShoreTel […]

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How To Look Up Phone Service Providers By Area Code and Extension

Sometimes you need to not only know where a phone number is dialing from (area codes tell you this) but who provides the phone number, and whether it’s a cell phone or not. Typically you can get all this information from one website. Here’s how to do it and how to interpret what comes back. […]

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How to Swap out a T1 Voice Switch Shoretel

Short one today. I’ve been having a few issues with phone calls here, so after getting a new circuit and all that the problem didn’t resolve, so i’m thinking it’s our T1 switch. I wanted to make a few notes on how to go about swapping them out.  Step 1 – First set up the […]