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Avaya VM Pro Nights Fallback Different Greeting

You might need to have a greeting for the “main” route and one for the “nights” mode. VM Pro doesn’t really operate as you might intuitively think with the help documentation. You would think that the Night Fallback Group would go directly into that auto-attendant, but it doesn’t. So how do you do it?

First, you need to create two groups. The first group can be called Main and the second will be Nights. Next, make a new short code *800 where Feature: VM Collect and Telephone Number: #Nights. You will also create a virtual user called NightUser. A virtual user is nothing more than a user with no extension. Make this virtual user unconditional forward to *800 (the new short code).

For the Main group:

1. Make sure queuing if off
2. Make sure voicemail is on
3. The ring mode should be collective
4. Fallback for the night service will be the Nights group
5. Add your users that should ring in the office

For the Nights group:

1. Make sure queuing is off
2. Make sure vm is on
3. Ring mode has to be sequential
4. for all fallback groups
5. Add ONLY NightUser to this user list

Now, you can build 2 different auto-attendants. One for Main and one for Nights.

Avaya IP Office SMTP and VM Pro

Here’s a quick how-to on getting your Avaya VM Pro to use your Exchange server over SMTP. It’s actually pretty simple, but the settings are in 3 different areas:

1. Go into Manager and add an email address for the user. I would choose the “alert” option as WAV files can get pretty big fast, and telling your users to manage their emails is almost useless. People will want to save their VMs.

2. Go on the VM Pro server and go to Control Panel. You will see an icon for VM Pro. Open it up and click “cancel” on the user account. Click on the SMTP tab and put in the FQDN of your exchange server. This assumes you set VM Pro correctly and you have the appropriate forward lookup DNS zone.

3. Go to the VM Pro client and go to the general preferences. By default, VM Pro is setup to use MAPI. Here you can change it to SMTP. Don’t forget to “change and make live”.

Finally, restart both VM Pro services.

Enjoy!

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