Forum Discussion
Polycom RealPresence Trio 8800
Forrest, while sign-in times should be short than that the inteded use case for the Trio is not for it to be constantly signed in and out of during the work day. Normally the setup and provisioning is handled by IT and would be registered using a dedicated conference room account (either a standard SfB user or a MeetingRoom type can be used) and users should be including the room on meeting requests in Outlook. This is the same workflow as the CX3000 or LRS or any other number of current and upcoming SfB meeting room solutions.
If someone is going to be working in the conference room for extended periods of time then they can leverage the standard USB port to use the Trio as their SfB audio device, just like any other supported USB speakerphone. This retains the phone's own registered identity but also allows it to be used as the audio device for a Windows SfB user.
We (Microsoft and myself) could never figure out how to get a Skype license assigned and working for anything other than a standard user when using Office 365 E1,3. According to the documentation I read the Calendar (sharing and delegation) and Conferencing and PSTN calling only works for full user license on 365. On-Premise can be configured for Meeting Room but not the SfB Online. I heard there is some work going on to allow Meeting Room to have a Skype license but when we tried it never worked. That being said, I am leaning toward assigning a standard user license for Skype for Business with Conferencing and PSTN calling and then making a group of many users delgates to the Trio user so they can plan meetings.