User`s guide

5-40 Making voice recordings
Recording and sending broadcast messages
Standard 1.0 System Administration Guide January 1998
Restrictions on network broadcast messages
A user must have “Broadcast Capability” and “Network
Broadcast Capability” set to “Yes” in their Class of Service to
send network broadcast messages.
The acknowledgment message tag cannot be applied to network
broadcast messages, or to any Personal Distribution List
containing a network broadcast address, because this could
result in the system attempting to return thousands of messages
to the sender.
Network broadcast messages can only be sent to sites running
MM11 and later releases. Network broadcast messages sent to
MM10 and earlier releases will fail, with no NDN delivered to
the sender.
Location-specific
broadcast message
option for NMS-MM
users
Users who have NMS-MM can choose to send broadcast
messages to all users at
• a single NMS location, either the prime location or a
satellite location
• a combination of locations (this involves incorporating the
network prefix numbers and broadcast mailbox number for
each location into a Personal Distribution List)
• all locations
Note:
If Meridian Mail Networking is also installed, all the
above applies to locations at remote sites as well as local ones.
Setting up a broadcast
mailbox
To set up a broadcast mailbox, you assign a mailbox number to
the broadcast mailbox in the Voice Messaging Options screen.
You do not need to set up an actual mailbox through User
Administration. For more information about setting up
broadcast mailboxes, see Chapter 20, “Voice messaging
options”.
Who can compose
and send broadcast
messages
Any user who knows the broadcast mailbox number and has
access to a mailbox with broadcast capability can compose and
send broadcast messages. It is recommended that users try to
avoid sending broadcast messages during busy hours.