[cisco-voip] Broadcast voicemail

[Pat Hayes]

Note that for broadcast messages, there isn't a way to just call a DN 
and leave a message and have it broadcast out, as the original poster 
mentioned. To do that, you'll need to stick with PDLs. To do that, you 
can setup a dummy phone to CFA to Unity, then create a callhandler with 
that same extension. Give it whatever greeting you want and then set the 
'after greeting action' to 'take message' and set the 'message 
recipient' to be the PDL.

2 hours sounds like an awful long time to activate all your MWIs, are 
you sure you're not thinking of a resync? In either case, just wanted to 
point out that, if you're worried about everyone calling in at the same 
time, you can enable MWI throttling, so that they don't all go out at once.

-------- Original Message  --------
From: "Ed Leatherman" <ealeatherman at gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Saskin" <matt at saskin.net>
Cc: Cisco Voice <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re:[cisco-voip] Broadcast voicemail
Date: 3/26/2008 1:18 PM

> 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 
> <mailto: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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>      > Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
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>      >
>      >     ----- Original Message -----
>      >     *From:* Kevin Dunn <mailto:cheesevoice at gmail.com
>     <mailto:cheesevoice at gmail.com>>
>      >     *To:* Cisco Voice <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>     <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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