Dial Your Phone And Contact Phone From Within Outlook?

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I am wondering what the best solution is for initiating a call from Outlook Contacts. I imagine something that would start the call from the outlook card (or similar) and then dial the user’s extension and the contact’s phone number and place them in a bridge.

Anyone use something like this?

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5 thoughts on - Dial Your Phone And Contact Phone From Within Outlook?

  • I’m not familiar with Outlook; but I imagine it must have the ability to run external helper programs, substituting placeholders in the command line with fields from the contact’s database record, to perform actions such as dialling numbers.

    Here, we use Kontact (part of KDE) which definitely has such an ability. So I configured it to use wget to fire off a request to a CGI script which generates a call file; then you just click to dial a contact’s number, your phone begins to ring, you answer it and the remote contact’s phone begins to ring.

    The backend script is fairly simple. We can determine the extension number nearest to the user from their IP address (the DHCP server is configured always to offer the same IP address to the same hardware address, so workstations effectively have static IP addresses), which will be passed to the script by the Apache server.

    If you can fire off a wget request when clicking on a number, you should be good to go. (You can request a non-existent script at first; the request will show up in /var/log/apache2/error.log .) If you need help with the script, ask again 🙂

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    From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] I am wondering what the best solution is for initiating a call from Outlook Contacts. I imagine something that would start the call from the outlook card (or similar) and then dial the user’s extension and the contact’s phone number and place them in a bridge.

    Anyone use something like this?

    Travis Ryan Director of Information Technologies Oscar Winski Company
    2407 North Ninth Street Lafayette, IN 47905
    ryant@oscarwinski.com
    (765) 742-1102

    We’re not the IT department….We’re the I-TEAM department!

  • Is TAPI still available on Windows 10, for instance ?

    2016-03-02 23:22 GMT+01:00 Neeraj Chand :

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