Mailbox Password Rules

Last Updated : Sep 29, 2020 |

About this task

The IP Office system controls the rules applied to mailbox passwords. These are:

• Whether the password has a minimum length and what that length is.

• Whether complexity rules are applied when passwords are changed. When applied, the complexity rules are:

  • No forward or reverse sequence of numbers, for example 1234 or 4321.

  • No repeated digits, for example 1111.

  • No match to the extension number.

Note: You can set and change (though not see) mailbox passwords through the system configuration. The passwords set there do not need to comply with the password enforcement rules. However, when the password is changed by the user, the password enforcement rules are applied.

This process sets the voicemail mailbox password rules that the system applies to all mailboxes.

Procedure

  1. Using IP Office Manager, receive the configuration from the system.
  2. In the navigation pane, click System.
  3. Select Voicemail.
  4. To apply system-wide password rules, select Enforcement. The following settings are then applied when users attempt to set or change their voicemail password.
  5. The Minimum length setting set the minimum password length allowed. The default is 4 digits.
  6. Select whether the system should also enforce additional rules by selecting Complexity.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Save the configuration back to the system (File > Save Configuration).
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