My voicemail on my nortel platinum is locked

This is dependent on you being able to access your voicemail mailbox (a mailbox has been setup for you by the administrator and you know the codes to login to your mailbox). Go to your voicemail which should be:

1. press the message key.
2. Enter your mailbox number, then press #
3. Enter your password, then press #. (if you don't know this then you will have to contact the administrator for the telephone system)

When logged into this:

1. press 82.
2. Press 1 for external greeting, 2 for internal greeting, 3 for temporary greeting, or 9 for Personal Verification (spoken name)
3. Press 5 to record then wait for tone.
4. Press # to end recording
5. Press 2 to listen to the greeting
6. Press 76 then 5 to delete the greeting and re-record it.
7. Press 4 to return to your messages.

After entering the mailbox access F981, press "#", the display should change from Pswd: to Log:. Now, enter the alternate mailbox number followed by the password for that box and "#". The remainder of the prompts should be the same as accessing the 'native' mailbox.

Feature 983 log in is 120000 (if 2 digit extension, 1020000 if 3 digit, 10020000 if 4 digit extensions)
Select Mbox, enter that locked extensions mail box number, You will see password RESET. Select RESET. Release out. This will reset that mail box password to 0000. Use feature 981 on that phone and enter the new default password of 0000. you will then be prompted to change the password.

Feature 985 will show you the extension of the phone you are using.

To reset your voice mail password,on press feature 983 the screen should say log:
enter 1020000 (default password) if you have a 3 digit intercom number, 120000 if you have a 2 digit intercom number
the display should say mbox, AA, and othr above the three soft keys
press the mbox soft key
the screen should say add, del, and chng above the soft keys
press the chng soft key
enter in the mailbox number you wish to reset the password on
press ok
the screen should say reset and next above the soft keys
press the reset soft key
press the Rls key
your password should be reset to 0000

Sounds like the call forward no answer isn;t set up on your extension. The first thing to do is to find out what the voice mail pilot number is. That's done by pressing feature 982. The display should say "set:xxx". The set number provided is the voicemail pilot number. Next you'll need to enter system programming. Programming is done on 7310, 7324 and 7316 type sets. Enter programming by pressing the feature key followed by **266344.When prompted to enter the password enter 266344.
The screen should say TERMINALS&SETS. The 4 top line/feature keys are now used for programming
At the terminals&sets prompt, press the show key (top right arrow). The display should now ask for an extension number. Enter extension number you want to change call forward no answer on.
Press the show key (top right arrow)
The display should say LINE ACCESS
Press the next key (bottom right arrow) .
The display should say CAPABILITIES.
Press the show key (top right arrow) .
The display say foward no answer.
press theshow key (top right arrow)..
The display should say none. Press the chng key and enter in the voice mail pilot number. press the show key again (top right arrow) To review the rings til forward. Press the chng key if you wish to change the ammount of rings til answered. Press the release key when finished

I dial my number and press ** when the VM picks up, then it should run you through the regular login process.

Generally, you dial feature 981 to get in, then extension number and password. If you have no new messages it will say that, then give you the option to review old messages. To delete a message you press 76. If that doesn't work, login to your mailbox, press 8* then 6 to get to "go to message" then press the message number and #. If you have an on-site administrator, they can delete your mailbox as well, otherwise you will have to call your tech help service and have them erase it remotely.

Call in a pro, sounds like the voicemail either took a ****, or just needs rebooting.

Have you set up the voicemail before?

OK, from your set;
-> dial FEATURE 9 8 1 (this is the code to get you to the voicemail)
-> then your passcode, if you never set up the voicemail, the temporary password is 0 0 0 0 (four - zero's).
-> if this is a new installed voicemail, the telephone system will tell you al that you need to initiate the voicemail box.

To reset passwords for Feature 983 do the following

Press Feature 985
Press 9
Enter 73738767793
Press OK

Now go back to Feature 983
Enter 120000 for 2-digit extensions, 1020000 for 3-digit or 10020000 for 4-digit