My Geek Finds

Received a request from our CEO the other day, he wanted to be able to just click on a contact in his Outlook Contacts and have it dial their number on his Cisco IP Phone.

Cisco has a plugin called Click to Call that let’s you do just that.

Follow these instructions from Cisco to set it up.

Pretty painless.  Make sure the device you are dialing from is associated with your Call Manager End User. Also remember that Application Dial Rules are applied in order – this table gives you a good example of the dial rules.

It is more than just a click in Outlook, you have to select Additional Actions from the right click menu, but it does allow you to select which number for the contact you want to call (Business, Work, Cell).

I think the coolest thing about this little app is being able to dial directly from FireFox or IE.  Just highlight the number on a webpage, right click, Call.