I use shielded Ubiquiti ToughCable and Ubiquiti ToughCable connectors for ALL outdoor installs between the POE injector and the Ubiquiti radio and insure the POE is plugged into a properly grounded outlet.
Even if using shielded cable was not a condition of
Ubiquiti's 1 year warranty, I'd do it anyway because ESD here in rural Alabama during the numerous thunder storms is ferocious and doing so might prevent or limit damage from nearby lightning strikes. I know that no installation method or surge device of any kind will guarantee total ESD protection here, especially from a direct hit, as I've seen MANY surge devices literally vaporized into oblivion and the 'protected' device blackened, melted and destroyed. The best ESD defense could be to unplug the device at the device end every time we suspect a storm is coming and we all know that's not practical and just won't happen. So I use the shielded between the POE and the device to perhaps stack the deck in my favor just a tad.
To facilitate getting the thick, twisted conductors to lay properly and into the connector I strip about 2" of the black outer jacket and the inner gray jacket off then with my thumbnail untwist all of the pairs. I bend all but 1 conductor (half of a pair) back over the jacket out of my way and allow that 1 conductor to stick straight out, I then use the UN-SERRATED, SMOOTH portion of my needle nose pliers to GENTLY press along the length of the single conductor, about a 1/4" at time, holding the tool horizontally, flattening it out in one plane. I then rotate the needle nose pliers 90 degrees and do the same thing along the length of the conductor again, GENTLY flattening. I may do this a couple of times until I feel the conductor is reasonably straight.
I then fold the straightened one back and pick another one. I do this one at a time until all 8 are pretty straight and lay next to one another very well. Then I arrange them to T-568B, trim the length, check layout, push into the connector, check layout and crimp. When both ends are done I test.
Some of you may be able to do this straightening with your fingers, I cannot. At age 68 and 45 years of using my fingers to manipulate wires and connectors I have to use the needle nose pliers. It works for me and I'm used to it. I can actually perform the above fairly quickly now, I estimate it takes me about 6-7 minutes to do the above and I have a good success rate, perhaps I have to re-do 1 out of every 30 or so.