[cisco-voip] Broadcast voicemail

[Ed Leatherman]

Something else to consider, with the broadcast messages the users have to
listen to the whole message before it will be marked as "Read" and not
played any longer. We tried this last year with our annual benefits
enrollment notice from HR, and it was not well received at all because the
message was rather long. Very easy to set up though.

On the other hand, with using just a public distribution list, if you have a
large number of subscribers you might run into it taking a long time to
light all the MWI's.. it takes over 2 hours on our system and i'm sure there
are plenty of sites with larger implementations than ours. Then you have all
the traffic on your voicemail ports from everyone logging in at once to
check the message.

To send to the distribution list, i think you just need to assign a directly
number to it within Unity and then send the message as you would to any
subscriber.. been awhile since I did it though.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Saskin <matt at saskin.net> wrote:

> I believe you are spot-on Lelio, the lack of MWI may not be an issue if
> the end-users are constantly checking their VM on a schedule.
>
> Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
> > i'll leave it to others to describe how to do it, but i think there was
> > a difference between broadcast message and distribution list. the
> > biggest is that a broadcast message does not set MWI to on. it is also
> > one copy only and saves diskspace.
> >
> > the fact that it does not set MWI is a bit of a concern if you want to
> > 'alert' people to the message.
> >
> > i'm sure i will be corrected if i'm wrong in this
> > Lelio
> >
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> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     *From:* Kevin Dunn <mailto:cheesevoice at gmail.com>
> >     *To:* Cisco Voice <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:51 AM
> >     *Subject:* [cisco-voip] Broadcast voicemail
> >
> >     I know Unity can do this, I just don't know how:
> >
> >     Sales Team check Voicemail by the hour and email by the day, so the
> >     boss wants to call one extension and send a voicemail to all sales
> >     team at once (each mailbox receives same message) for meeting
> >     changes and such.
> >
> >     I looked at Public Distribution but plain and simple I couldn't
> >     figure it out. Anyone care to point me in a direction?
> >
> >     Kevin
> >
> >
> >
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Ed Leatherman
Senior Voice Engineer
West Virginia University
Telecommunications and Network Operations
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