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Use Microsoft Teams to call into Zoom or Webex Meetings
Hi Kiril
Use a third party for video conferencing interop. See here -
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/cloud-video-interop
Hope this answers your question!
Best, Chris
- KirilFeb 18, 2020Iron ContributorHi Chris,
thank you for that. I am trying to achieve that, but the response I am getting from the third party interop providers is that Teams cannot dial into other meetings. The interop is used such that other people/services can call you. So, if I am invited to a Zoom meeting, I am not able to directly join.
Do you use a third party video conferencing interop provider?- LinusCansbyFeb 18, 2020MVP
Hi,
You are correct you can't from Teams call into a meeting hosted by Webex, Zoom or others. And I'm not sure that you will be able to since all of these platforms offers a web client for meetings and that will be better for users. When you are using the CVI it will add some extra information in the invite that allows other systems to join Teams meeting, not the other way.
For Microsoft Teams Rooms systems there will come and update that will allow you to join Cisco Webex and Zoom meetings from these devices, but it will not use the Teams software builtin to the device, it will instead use the Webex and Zoom web applications.
Cisco is one of the new partners to Microsoft that announced that they will release a Cloud Video Interop gateway, not sure exactly how or when. But this might allow you to join Webex meetings from the Teams client, but I doubt it.
- KirilFeb 18, 2020Iron ContributorHi Linus,
thank you for the information.
Switching to Teams only mode basically renders video conferencing useless for us, because 90% of the video conferences are set up by the remote party using Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans etc.
There aren't any plans to keep the SIP or integrate a SIP calling feature in Teams?