Some questions to Microsoft Teams Room hardware and Office 365 tenant setup

DanHuber I think Vesa Nopanen  answered much of this, but let me take a stab at making sure we covered everything.

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DanHuber wrote:

• I believe that an MTR system only makes sense with the Office 365 Meeting Room (MR) licenses to be added to the Office 365 tenant. Correct? - Typically this is the most cost effective way to license a room, but you could also license it using E licenses. For example in education where E1 is often free this is a viable option.
• The MTR system is just that. Its' running a special version of a Teams client, limited to calling and video conferencing. It cannot be used for any other function, either Teams features or completely different applications like on any other Windows 10 PC. Correct? Correct, don't mess with the device, consider it as an appliance.
• The MR license setup is similar to a resource (room). For example, it will have AutoAccept functionality like any Office 365 room resource and act like a resource. Correct? Is it also scheduled like a resource? I've seen examples where the meeting room was added as normal attendee to meetings and not as a room (hence my question for AutoAccept functionality). Correct, you configure the Exchange mailbox to automatically accept meetings within the rules you set using Set-CalendarProcessing, by also designating it as a mailbox of type room, and adding to room lists it is easily bookable in Outlook or Teams.
• If the Office 365 tenant only uses Business Essentials (BE) licenses for it's users, I can add the MR license to it, just for the meeting room. Any other BE user would not need to upgrade to E1 or E3, as long as they do not need PSTN (telephony). Correct? No, at Ignite a couple of weeks ago Microsoft introduced Microsoft 365 Business Voice, to allow small businesses access without Enterprise licensing, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business-voice
• Yet, the MR license would allow the MTR system to connect to the public telephony network via Direct Connect. Correct? An MTR can connect via Direct Routing or by assigning it a Microsoft Dial Plan
• External attendees would connect to the video conference either via Teams app, or via Web connection. This works with standard Teams video conferences between PC's. Does it also work together with an MTR system? The MTR is simply an attendee of a meeting, so everything that owrks in a meeting works with an MTR joining. For example if the organiser of the meeting has a licenses that includes audio conferencing people can dial in from a PSTN phone, the MTR jsut joins the meetings and doesn't need the audio conferencing licenses itself.
• Once I setup an MTR system, can it be used to connect to other meeting types, like Zoom for example? Not today, but it was announced at Ignite that in the 1H2020 they would be adding the ability to join Zoom or WebEx meetings form the MTR.
• Can I run an MTR system with a standard Office 365 BE license, instead an MR license? I know that I would loose functionality, like meeting AutoAccept and such. Are there other consequences? It needs Exchange and Teams comonents enabled, but that is all. I've not tried but I don;t see why there would be an issue with a BE license. It then couldn;t have it's own phone number. The AutoAccept is an exchange feature, I'm pretty sure you can still apply it to any mailboxes.

 

 

Thanks for your help

 

Dan

 

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