How to set up Announce only with no voicemail

[marr11]

I have IP office 8.1
I have some users that I want to turn off the voice mail but still have an announcement on their phone. e.g. "Im not here now please call me back at 1:30". then drop the call or something (don't care really)
However when I turn VM off the phone just rings and rings with no message.
How can I set it up so that it will announce with message but no Voice Mail.
Thanks.

[henry58]

Hello

You could try turning off voicemail for the user and using the Announcement tab. Try setting a "Wait before first announcement" to something similiar to the length of time that voicemail is picked up and have the user record their greeting.

[marr11]

I don't know much about the system but when I tried this an announcement comes on and says all operators are busy please wait for one to be available.
I don't think this tab is for announce only calls. Unless you can provide more details on setting it up. There must ( I hope) be just a box that allows announcements but no vm?

Thanks.

[markgallagher]

The answer depend very much on which voicemail you have (embedded or Voicemail Pro) and in which mode it is running (IP Office mailbox mode or Intuity mailbox mode).

[marr11]

Well we have VM pro 8.1 and IP office 8.1. I dont know anything about the other options. However when I open system preferences I see "Default Telephony Interface " Intuity. Does that tell you the right Info to get started???

Thanks.

[kirchenlo]

Hallo,

setup the user with voice mail, than tell them to record the greeting they wish to give to the caller. Then in vociemail (if using embedded voice mail) choose option 4 to save the greeting. This will save the greeting without giving an option to the caller to leave a message. The greeting will then played contentiously.

Here an extract out of a description I ahve written for a customer;

Press 3 to select the option to edit your greeting.
Press 2 to change your greeting.

When prompted, speak your new greeting. The greeting must be longer than 3 seconds. A long (approximately 10 seconds) period of silence will disconnect you from voicemail.

Press 2 when you have finished recording your greeting.
Press 1 to listen to your new greeting. After you have listened to your greeting:

To save the new greeting: Press 3. Do not use this option, use Option “4”
To re-record the new greeting: Press 2.
To save the new greeting as a continuous loop: Press 4.

Callers are not able to leave messages. Note that when you select this option, you can only change the greeting back to a normal greeting by recording a new greeting.

Hope that this helps you.

[kirchenlo]

Just forgot, my customer runs embedded voice mail in IP Office mode.