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USB to Serial Adapters and Kit Suggestions

Way back in 2008 or so I got a couple of serial adapters for my laptop so I could set up various network devices. Most business class devices, even in the 21st century still use the serial port approach to first set up. Something about security or making things harder for technicians to do their […]

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Disable Outlook Call Handling In ShoreTel Director

One of the more helpful, or not helpful features of the ShoreTel phone system is Outlook Calendar integration. I’ve worked with the ShoreTel phone system since roughly 2007 in various capacities and this is one of those features that either works, or doesn’t depending on version of Office, ShoreTel, and phase the moon is in. […]

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Site Changes

I had to change the theme of the site. I haven’t used Chrome in a long time due to it having been a total piece of garbage on most of my machines. Anyway, put it on my trusty Surface 3 as Firefox was taking up a ton of memory, notice basically no links or anything […]

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Dock Your iPhone to Your ShoreTel Phone? Coming Soon! Sort of…

I saw a press release for ShoreTel Dock this morning. Heard about it through the grapevine a few months ago but wasn’t sure what it was. Here’s the ShoreTel announcement page for it. http://www.shoretel.com/dockit.html I looked over the specs for the Dock phone and I have to say, that as big a fanboy as I […]

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Schedules In ShoreTel

Every once in a while you come across something in your field of expertise that you have just completely forgotten how works. With me it’s usually because I haven’t messed with something in a while and just can’t remember how it works. How schedules work in ShoreTel was one of those things. Since it’s so basic […]