{"id":293393,"date":"2019-09-06T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=293393"},"modified":"2019-09-06T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:21:15","slug":"how-to-set-a-preferred-softphone-in-jabra-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/how-to-set-a-preferred-softphone-in-jabra-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set a Preferred Softphone in Jabra Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293413\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2019\/08\/how-to-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2019\/08\/how-to-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2019\/08\/how-to-2-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2019\/08\/how-to-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2019\/08\/how-to-2-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you used Jabra Direct 2.0? It is a free, new version of Jabra software designed for users to personalize and optimize the use of their <\/span><a href=\"\/manufacturer\/jabra\/corded-headsets\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'jabra');\"\n><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jabra USB headsets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the desktop interface. Jabra Direct offers complete integration of your softphone and <\/span><a href=\"\/manufacturer\/jabra\/lync-headsets\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'jabra');\"\n><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jabra headsets<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at absolutely no cost!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we are going to show you how to set your softphone as the preferred softphone in Jabra Direct. Let\u2019s get to it!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How to Set a Preferred Softphone in Jabra Direct<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get started, you will need to download Jabra Direct 2.0 from <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jabra.com\/direct\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.jabra.com\/direc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Once you have the software installed, simply follow these steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Jabra Direct<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click Settings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Softphone Integration, Preferred Softphone, select your preferred softphone.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your organization has decided to manage the setting centrally, as indicated by a Lock icon, contact your IT department for more information.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that if you are using a <\/span><a href=\"\/manufacturer\/jabra\/wireless-headsets\/jabra-dect-headsets\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'jabra direct');\"\n><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jabra Engage 75<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"\/manufacturer\/jabra\/lync-headsets\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'jabra headsets');\"\n><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jabra Pro 9470, 9465, 9460, Jabra Dial 550, or Jabra Motion Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the preferred softphone selected in Jabra Direct will override the softphone that is selected on the device itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is this article helpful? Have you tried Jabra Direct 2.0? Start personalizing your headset and share your experience with us!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you used Jabra Direct 2.0? It is a free, new version of Jabra software designed for users to personalize and optimize the use of their Jabra USB headsets in the desktop interface. Jabra Direct offers complete integration of your softphone and Jabra headsets at absolutely no cost!\u00a0Today we are going to show you how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6693,1573,1221,1225,1055],"tags":[1144],"class_list":["post-293393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-voip-how-tos","category-q-a","category-small-business-voip","category-voip-hardware","category-voip-software","tag-jabra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293433,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293393\/revisions\/293433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}