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'Meeting Room' license vs 'Common Area Phone' license vs 'E1+Phone System' license
We have 7 meetings rooms (a mix of Polycom VVX and Logitech SmartDocks), what is the best way to license them? I can see there is a thing called 'Meeting Room' which is $20.60, 'Common Area Phone' which is $11.00 or 'E1+Phone System' which is $20.40.
What should I be using? and what is the difference between them?
Thanks
Trent.
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I have one conference room that I was planning to put a Yealink T55a phone. I am trying to choose the license required.
If the room is being used for a web based meeting, they will use a PC logged in as a user that is already fully licensed and they can join or host the meeting as required.
The T55a would primarily be used to join an audio conference only or be able to make outbound calls.
Is a CAP license with a calling plan or communication credits added sufficient for this?
TIA
TRYuill Yes, if you only need to make and receive phones calls then the CAP license is ideal.
Jeff_Schertz Thanks
Hi
We have recently purchased the new Meeting Room SKU that was released on the 1st December 2018 but there seems be very little information around.
Is it possible by assigning the Meeting room licence to a device/meeting room resource for a licenced user under tenant to access there normal files and folders, even if it was by accessing there OneDrive account?
We purchased the meeting room licence to try and avoid licensing each user with an audio conferencing licence but if users can't get access to there files we may have to re-think using the meeting room sku.
Thanks
Kris
Common Area Phone will give you the Skype for Business/Teams capabilities and Phone System licenses, so this is for a basic phone like a Polycom VVX in a common area (like a conference room).
With the Meeting Room license you get more stuff: Teams, Skype for Business, Phone System, Audio Conferencing and Intune. The mailbox you will setup as a room mailbox (no license).
With the E1+Phone system you will get some stuff you won't need and you won't get the Intune and Audio Conferencing that you get with the Meeting Room license.
So Common Area Phone licenses for the VVX and Meeting Room license for the Logitechs. You might need to add Calling Plan license to these if you want to dial out from these devices but that depends on your Phone System setup.
LinusCansby I have a similar question.
The Common Area Phone includes the Phone System (required for calling plan). If we assign the Common Area Phone to a User and then assign the Calling Plan, does this provide Microsoft Teams calling ability to Users.
Note: This is not for a physical phone but for the User.
manoj_cse What will you use that user for? Will they use the Teams client to sign in so that they already have a E1/E3 license? Then I guess the Phone System Add-On is better.
Hello Team
Thank you so much for this. I do have a dilemma though. I have a Polycom Trio 8800 and it is assigned the Common Area license. The meet now is enabled on the phone and it does work, however, I was thinking with that we will be able to have a full audio conference on it, but does not seem to be the case. I am sure am missing something. Do I need to assign the Meeting Room license to the user, if yes, will that give it an audio conference number with PIN ext for users to dial into? Any recommendation and advise will be highly appreciated
DEBEL77 The main difference between Common Area Phone and Meeting Room licenses is that the CAP license does not support Exchange, while the Meeting Room licenses does. Common Area Phones which simply are used to place audio calls are what the CAP license was designed for, and bookable rooms where users join meetings from a calendar are what the Meeting Room license was created for.
