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Some questions to Microsoft Teams Room hardware and Office 365 tenant setup
That's a lots of questions. I answer which ones I can
- You need to assign a license to each MTR device (ie, room). MTR license is quite good value for that, since it includes also all other parts of Office 365 needed to do the job.
- It is a special version of Teams aimed for specific scenario.
- It is like a resource, as far as I know. Haven't configured this myself.
- as far as I know user's license is totally different. MTR license doesn't affect users (unless they need telephony as you said).
- According to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/room-systems/skype-room-systems-v2 you can use Direct Connect with MTR since the license includes Phone System.
- MTR meeting is just like any other Teams meeting. Externals can join in via web.
- Zoom / Cisco interop is coming https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/microsoft-teams-rooms-will-soon-be-able-to-join-zoom-and-webex-meetings-and-zoom-and-cisco-rooms-will-join-microsoft-teams-meetings/
- Check https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/room-systems/skype-room-systems-v2 :
If you are currently using E1, E3, E4, E5 SKUs with Skype for Business Plan 2 with Audio Conferencing or with Office 365 Phone System and a Calling Plan, these will continue to work. However, you should consider moving to a simpler licensing model in the table above after current licenses expire.