[cisco-voip] Broadcast voicemail
Kevin Dunn
cheesevoice at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 16:39:05 EDT 2008
Pat
Worked GREAT, thanks
Kevin
On 3/26/08, Pat Hayes <pat-cv at wcyv.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.
> > > Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G
> 2W1
> > > (519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)
> > >
> >
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Java-Clavis-Domus Theorem: The ability to keep your hands on the
> home
> > > keys is inversely
> > > related to the amount of caffeine ingested in the last 30
> minutes.
> > >
> > > ----- 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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