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Sep 30, 2019

Microsoft Teams Rooms systems - join button for known external services

I've spent a couple of weeks down the rabbit hole of video calls between us an other organisations. We want to be as flexible as possible, allowing externals to join our conferences from their endpoi...

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ryan-whitehelm

Brass Contributor

Nov 04, 2019

Ilya Bukshteyn Very happy with what was announced at Ignite on this front, can't wait to start testing it.

Quick question, in the blog at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025#meetings it mentions "This capability will be supported on a new generation of meeting room devices with embedded web technology."

I'm in the middle of a rollout of Logitech Tap with Intel NUC MTR systems. Are we likely to see this functionality as part of the regular upgrade cycle, or does "a new generation" mean we'd need new hardware for the new features?

Ilya Bukshteyn

Microsoft

Nov 04, 2019

Sorry for the confusion on that language. All MTRs will get this capability as a software update. We had to put that language in for Cisco as not all (older) Cisco VTCs can be updated with webrtc support.

ryan-whitehelm
Brass Contributor
Nov 04, 2019
Ilya Bukshteyn Ahhh, that makes perfect sense. In that case I'm back to being excited for this and can't wait for it to ship. Thanks for the quick response!