Forum Discussion
'Meeting Room' license vs 'Common Area Phone' license vs 'E1+Phone System' license
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.
LinusCansby The User already has the Office 365 Business Premium License with Common Area Phone License. So if we now add the calling plan license, would he be able to make calls, considering the Common Area Phone comes with Phone System.
The doubt is if the Common Area Phone license works for Users. Is it specifically and only used for physical phone licensing?