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phone shoretel tech

How to Factory Reset a ShoreTel Phone

This is again a hard piece of information to find as most of the time you only get walked through this when talking to TAC. I found this written down in my IT journal. No idea why I haven’t posted it. Resetting a phone to factory defaults is a good way to troubleshoot a phone […]

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phone shoretel tech

Call From Specific Phone Line With ShoreTel

Occasionally your ShoreTel system will just flat refuse to dial certain numbers on certain phone lines. In my experience this happens most with PRI/Voice T1’s dialing to specific  area code/prefix combinations. A lot of times this is due to those no-contract prepaid cell phones you get for $30 at Wal-Mart. Other times it’s weird long distance […]

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cyberoam firewall tech

Cyberoam PPTP VPN For Telecommuters

Have recently done some experimenting with the Cyberoam PPTP VPN for road warrior connections. We were having a LOT of instability issues with L2TP VPN. The biggest reason for using L2TP is security as it encrypts all traffic, but if your user’s apps and everything are encrypted anyway, this can cause a bottleneck. Another issue […]

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geeky Home Technology tech

Intermediate Home Internet Troubleshooting

So  you’ve having trouble with your internet at home. It may or may not be completely down and you are trying to figure out where the problem is. It might be slow, it might drop off a lot.  Your router and modem have been rebooted many times, but before you call Tech Support and get […]

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phone shoretel tech

Install a Multi-Tech Fax Server on ShoreTel System

It’s funny but I’ve probably been on twenty ShoreTel system installs and I don’t think a single one of them didn’t have a fax server somewhere in the mix. It just makes sense right? You spend all that money on a phone system that will pay for itself twice in a year if you have […]