I'm a new employee. I don't know the former person's password and no one else does. How do I reset the password on a Norstar M7310 telephone system if I don't know the old password?

Before you can do anything you need a M7310. Programming a Nortel voice mail requires M7310. It uses the 3 soft keys under the display to program it. You can get one cheap on EBAY. Next you need to find out what type of Voice Mail System in connected to your Nortel phone system. Below is a link to a Older StarTalk manual. You may have a StarTalk, StarTalk Flash, or a Call Pilot.
http://www.myuserguides.com/Nortel_Norstar_Startalk.pdf#page=15&zoom=auto,-69,407

Below is a link that tells how to reset the System Manager Password.
Reset Admin Password Norstar Meridian and Nortel BCM Help Guides

The default code and password for System Admin is F983 and 1020000 or 1021111. The photo below shows a system admin programming tree. Hope this helps
Charlie

yes it is feature 981 after you get the screen to show something like pass word then log in to it the when you press 8 then 4 you can the change your password.

Do you know how to get into phone system programming? The extension names are changed in there.

Sounds like your going to have to reset the administrator password to get in.To reset the administrator pasword enter feature 985 press 9, at the password prompt enter 73738767793 (resetsmpwsd) and press ok or #,press yes to reset password. password should be defaulted to 0000. then try Feature 983. if your system has 2 digit intercom #s your password is 120000 if your system has 3 digit intercom #s your password is 1020000.

enterd wrong password on vm too many times and was locked out

how do I reset it?

Feature 983 is system admin

1. Log into system administration
To Reset a Mailbox Password:
1. Log into system administration
2. Select the softkey under “MBOX”
3. Select the softkey under “Chng”
4. Enter the mailbox number you want to reset the password for
5. The display shows “Reset Password”
6. Select the softkey under “RESET”
7. Press the release key
*The new password will be “0000′, the system will ask the user to change

Actually, even as a technician, you will never know the origonal password.
But you can get in to reset the existing password back to 0 0 0 0.

There are a couple of steps; depending on your voicemail system, voicemail's are done differently, but try this first.

got to a M7310 set
-> dial FEATURE 9 8 3
-> password: 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
-> you should now see ADMIN and under that MBOX, AA, OTHR
press MBOX
-> press CHNG
-> dial the extension of the phones that you need changed
-> you should now see PASSWORD and under it RESET, press RESET (This resets the mailbox back to 4- zero's)
-> hit the * to back up and repeat fopr all the other extensions.
-> hit RLS after all is done and voila... you have now changed those passwords to those mailboxes.

Now when the new users dial F981 at their desks, and dial 0 0 0 0 the first prompt they get is pleasde change password.

Your system administrator (usually your senior secretary or whoever runs the phone system) needs to reset the password (automatically resets to 0000).

the mailbox needs to be reset by your telephone admin person.

The manual was no help but this website was a lifesaver
http://norstarsupport.com/Support/DR5_Chg_name_phone.htm