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Use Microsoft Teams to call into Zoom or Webex Meetings
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?
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.
- Hi 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?- I doubt the Teams client will use SIP, and I if Microsoft build it SIP-support it will probably not be the same SIP dialect as Webex. Since it will be hard for Microsoft to support all changes in the different platforms they will not build in support into Teams. If there is an update in Webex, Microsoft have to change the Teams-client and if it doesn't work they have to support it, can be a mess. But this only what I think.
For the user it better to click the Join link in the invite and then the web browser opens with the latest Zoom, Webex, Bluejeans, etc. web application. If there is an update on server side the web application will also be updated and work for the users.
The gateway you are using today (lync.webex.com) is working cause webex created a gateway that supports Skype, it is not Microsoft that created that and supports Webex meetings with the Skype-client. So if you want to be able to join Zoom meetings with Teams client, then Zoom have to setup a Teams gateway. In the same way as Microsoft have their CVI partners creating gateways allowing other clients joining meetings hosted in Teams.- Hi Linus, thank you for the clarification.
So, in order to make Teams Rooms System as inter operable as possible I should use a third party service, and create the meetings myself. Thus the probability is higher, that the other party will be able to join.