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Avaya Distributed Office
voice mail Quick Reference
Guide
03-602108
Issue 2
May 2008
This guide explains how to use Avaya Distributed Office voice mail.
Logging in from an onsite location
1. Enter the Distributed Office voice mail extension, ____, to access
the voice mail system.
2. Identify your mailbox:
- From your own telephone extension press #.
- From another telephone extension, enter your extension, and
then press #.
3. Enter your Password, and press #.
- Note: When you first log in, your password is not set. Press #.
Follow the prompts to enter a new password, record your name
and select your preferred language (if applicable).
Logging in from a remote location:
1. Call in on a line that is answered by the Distributed Office
Messaging Automated Attendant or Call Answer Service. When
you hear the menu or greeting, press *7. See your system
manager for the voice mail service number.
2. Enter your extension, and press #.
3. Enter your password, and press #.
- Note: When you first log in, your password is not set. Press #.
Follow the prompts to enter a new password, record your name
and select your preferred language (if applicable).
4. The system announces the number of new messages and old
messages that you have in your mailbox.

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Options
After you log in, choose an option:
Press For
1 Recording and sending messages.
2 Listening to messages
3 Recording or deleting a Personal Greeting
4 Changing your Personal Operator
5 Personalizing your mailbox.
6 Using Outcalling
8 Choosing Call Answer Mode
*8 Transferring to another extension
You r m es sa ge s
About message categories
You can assign Priority, Private, and
Return Receipt categories to messages
you send.
• Priority messages are heard first
when listening to new messages.
• You cannot forward Private
messages.
• Return Receipt messages notify you
when the message is listened to by
the recipient.
You can assign one, two, or all categories to a message.
Listening to messages
1. Log in to voice mail.
2. Press 2 to get messages. The
system plays the message header.
3. Choose an option:
- To listen to the message,
press 0. If the message is a fax it
will be transferred to your email
(if configured).
- To skip the message, press #.
The message will remain as “new”
until you listen to the body.
- To replay the header only,
press 23.
- To delete the message,
press *3.
- To play or replay the message,
press 0.
- To change the message status
back to new, press *6, then
press # to go to the next
message. The next time you log in
for messages, you hear this
message again as a new message.
- To return to the previous message,
press *5. To backup to the
desired message, press *5
repeatedly.
- To respond to the message,
press 1.
Note: Delete faxes which you have
transferred in order to free space in your
voice mail.

Responding to messages
1. After the recorded message plays,
press 1 to respond to the recorded
message.
2. Choose an option:
- To reply to the sender by voice
mail, press 1. Go to step 3.
Note: the sender must have a
mailbox in the system.
- To forward the recorded message,
press 2. Go to step 5.
- To call to an internal sender back,
press 3. Go to step 5.
3. Record your response and then
press 1.
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- Enter the extension of an a
recipient, then press #.
- To use your Personal Mailing
Lists, press *5 Then enter
the Mailing List number (from
1 to 10). Then press #.
- To use the Directory to add an
extension, press *2. (See
Using the Directory to find an
extension by name).
- To delete the last recipient,
press *3.
- Repeat the above steps to
address the message to other
recipients.
4. Choose an option:
- To approve, press #.
- To play back your comments,
press 23.
- To re-record your response,
press 21.
- To cancel responding or
forwarding, press *3.
5. Do one of the following:
- If you are responding to the
message, go to Step 6.
- If you are forwarding the message,
do one of the following:
- Record a comment that will be
heard by the recipients before
the message, then press 1.
- To play back the recording,
press 23.
6. Press # when you finish.
Recording and sending messages
1. Log in to voice mail.
2. Press 1 to record a message.
3. Record your message.
4. Press
1 when you finish recording.
5. Choose an option:
- To approve the recorded message,
press #. Go to Step 6.
- To play back the recorded
message, press 23.
- To re-record the message,
press 21. Go to Step 3.
- To delete the recorded message
and return to the voice mail
Activity Menu, press *3.
- To re-record the comment,
press 21.
- To delete the comment,
press *3.
- To approve the recording,
press #.