How to Order a New Telephone, Get Voicemail or Make Telephone Changes:
A New User’s Guide
Updated 2/24/06

General concept.  Welcome to ITA!  The Hoover Building’s Voice-over-IP phone system is an integrated computer system.  Each phone is a small computer that must be specifically programmed to work within the system.  Thus, the technician needs to know exactly what the phone’s configuration needs to be.

 

Features.  Your phone system offers numerous features, such as a corporate directory; a list of all placed, received, and missed calls; and an address book.  The Department periodically emails ITA users about its monthly training sessions.  For more information on how to use your phone’s features, please visit the Department’s telephone website at http://home.osec.doc.gov/wiring/hchb1.html.

 

Voicemail: Please download the new instructions guide for Cisco's Unity VoiceMail System.

Repairs and Changes.  If you have a mechanical problem, call 2-5010 directly for repairs.  If you need to order a new phone, get voicemail, add or modify a telephone directory listing, or change how the phone works:

1.       Fill out a Telephone “MAC” (Machine Access Control) form, which can be found at http://home.osec.doc.gov/wiring/HCHBmoves.html.

2.       Save it.

3.       Email the form to TelephoneServices@ita.doc.gov.

4.       It will be reviewed (sometimes in consultation with the requestor), approved and forwarded to DoC’s “Hdesk” telephone contractor who will do the work.

 

Form Instructions:

(1)     Use a separate form (sheet) for each phone instrument.  However, you can many sheets for several phones into one Excel workbook.

(2)     Make sure you put the correct “MAC” number (Machine Access Number) since this is the way that the technician finds a phone unit in the system. You can find it on every phone, if you select "Settings", then "4 - Model Information", and look at the 4th line down, at the number starting with "000".

(3)     Voicemail.  Indicate whether you want a change to the Unity Voice Mail system.

(4)     New equipment orders.  If you are ordering new equipments (phones, sidecars, etc.), be sure to provide your office’s accounting code.

 

Form Definitions:

(5)     Type of Problem:  Describe what you are asking for, such as: new phone, new user, reconfiguration, move, or other problem.

(6)     Point of contact (POC).  If the person making the request is different from the end user, or if there is another contact phone # while request is being processed.

(7)     Caller ID is what other people will see when you call them in the HCHB (such as your name and office name, or intern, vacant) etc.

(8)     Line Text is what the phone's display screen will look like.  The default is the phone number, but you request it display your name, office, or other identifiers.

 

Questions?  Call Jeff Scherr at 2-3266 or Hamilton Humes at 2-6123 with questions.