Remember the original issue:
"a customer who's downsizing that wanted to disconnect phone and data connections in a vacated part of the building"
Active ports plugged into vacant locations and his standard Tone Generator and Inductive Amplifier isn't working for him.
What I would do is tag and disconnect all dark drops from a switch then put tone on a vacant jack(s) (if you have more than one toner that would really speed things up). Then find the drops back at the switch with your probe.
If your toner/probe can't work with unterminated CAT5 you need a better one! The probes with the insulated tips are junk.
What I've done also is to use my STM-8 cable mapper with several remotes plugged into several jacks. Just take the drops at the switch and connect them to the mapper one by one. When it shows a remote you found a jack.
Easy peasy.
-Hal
