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charlesbw
Apr 06, 2022Copper Contributor
Teams Phone at Work and Home
We have a situation where several employees work from the office and from home. What is the best way to handle their Teams phones since they all want a physical phone in both locations? I do not se...
charlesbw
May 13, 2022Copper Contributor
After going through numerous iterations with MS Tech Support, the short answer is, there is not a good solution to this problem for work-from-home users. Dynamic location assignment works, BUT you must setup Trusted IP addresses as the first step (all other settings for WAP, subnet, etc. do not work until Trusted IP is setup). The problem for work-at-home users is very few are going to have a static IP assignment from their ISP, so your Trusted IP is only as good as the length of time that user is assigned that IP. True, most ISPs will let home users purchase a static IP block, but what a totally unnecessary hassle if MS had just put a little more thought into this and a bit of simple development. The solution only involved the ability to assign a Location to a device, how hard is that? Seems like it would be a defect option for devices that are generally not mobile, like desk phones, conference room panels, etc., which all also have a unique MAC ID.
Net-net, this is very disappointing, especially when so many have transitioned to either full-time part-time work from home employees. We are just going to setup the home devices as CAPs and then try to handle the call routing with Call Queues for each user containing both their office number and work-from-home CAP number. Of course, that eliminates the whole power of Teams devices by being unable to tap into the user account signed into the phone.
Net-net, this is very disappointing, especially when so many have transitioned to either full-time part-time work from home employees. We are just going to setup the home devices as CAPs and then try to handle the call routing with Call Queues for each user containing both their office number and work-from-home CAP number. Of course, that eliminates the whole power of Teams devices by being unable to tap into the user account signed into the phone.