Have there been any new recent developments or has a timeline been defined for this crucial feature of Extension dialing from auto attendant in MS Teams? TIA

lcfowler MS told us today it has now been pushed to the end of the year with further announcements about this feature to be advised at MS ignite.

DAUJLA Looks like this is rolling out now.

Confirmed! I’ve had the setting available for a few weeks now and it works well.

Adam Sharpe yes. on the azure AD you have to populate the user's contact info, under Office Phone with the same lineuri as on teams. The autoattendant app performs the search on AZAD, so you need to update that. I did it with powershell as I had a lot of users to update. I wonder why MS doesn't do this automatically when you enable the user for teams and assign the number.

DAUJLA The lastest I've seen is from waseemhashem in may 2019 that it is coming later, but no date. The closest feature is that you can search users and connect by saying their name if you are running English language in your AA. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Auto-Attendant-and-Call-Queues-Service-Update/ba-p/564521#M3003

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SiplifiGroup
Brass Contributor
Jun 02, 2020
We found a few things to be aware of when setting up this feature in relation to entering a users phone number in Azure AD. We've written a post about the requirements to get dial by extension working correctly, we hope this helps users out. Thanks.

https://siplifi.com/microsoft-teams-dial-by-extension/
- Brentos
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 05, 2020
  SiplifiGroup Have you seen any issues with the extensions not updating after the 12 hours?
  We were ready to push forward with a migration but extensions are not being populated in the auto attendant (says it can't find the person) even after 12 hours (waited days in one test)
  We opened a ticket with Microsoft and they ran some sort of background index sync and that fixed it but adding a new user does not work.
  - friccicr
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 02, 2021
    Brentos
    
    I'm on the same situation ..... I keep getting a message that the extension can't be found, however dialing from a teams client works fine...did you ever got a response or definitive solution from MS?
LinusCansby
MVP
Feb 03, 2020
DAUJLA Looks like this is rolling out now.
- DAUJLA
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 04, 2020
  Thanks for showing me
- lcfowler
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 04, 2020
  Confirmed! I’ve had the setting available for a few weeks now and it works well.
  - DAUJLA
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 04, 2020
    lcfowler
    Thanks for the heads up guys. Will need to check this out now.
LinusCansby
MVP
Sep 10, 2019
DAUJLA The lastest I've seen is from waseemhashem in may 2019 that it is coming later, but no date. The closest feature is that you can search users and connect by saying their name if you are running English language in your AA.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Auto-Attendant-and-Call-Queues-Service-Update/ba-p/564521#M3003
- DAUJLA
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 16, 2019
  We've reached out to MS and they've advised us it should be ready by November 2019. Was supposed to be ready in Q2 2019. Lets wait and see. Thanks
  - lcfowler
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 23, 2019
    Hey DAUJLA. Have you heard anything new on the roll out of dialing by extension through the Auto Attendant? We want to ditch our current PBX and go Teams / MS Phone system but we're very invested in our current extension layout (email signatures, business cards, general user dialing habits, etc.).
    
    Hoping it's just around the corner like you heard earlier.

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