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Skype for Business; conference call confusion
Russell_Morris You need the Audio Conferencing add-on, for the person scheduling or hosting the meeting, this adds a conferencing telephone number when creating a Skype or Teams meeting that delegates can phone to join the meeting.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams-add-on-licensing/skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams-add-on-licensing#what-features-can-i-get-with-add-on-licenses
There are various steps to make this work that is outlined here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/audio-conferencing-in-office-365/set-up-audio-conferencing.
Russell_Morris You need the Audio Conferencing add-on, for the person scheduling or hosting the meeting, this adds a conferencing telephone number when creating a Skype or Teams meeting that delegates can phone to join the meeting.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams-add-on-licensing/skype-for-business-and-microsoft-teams-add-on-licensing#what-features-can-i-get-with-add-on-licenses
There are various steps to make this work that is outlined here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SkypeForBusiness/audio-conferencing-in-office-365/set-up-audio-conferencing.
Dear Cian, thank you for your reply.
But under the Skype Admin dashboard I can see 'Users enabled for audio conferencing: 2', which appeared after I took out the 'Meeting Room' add-on and assigned it to two users.
So does 'Microsoft 365 Audio Conferencing' replace 'Meeting Room', or are they both required? As it stands, Meeting Room has already allowed me to assign a conference number.
Edit: Ah, Is Meeting Room strictly for device licences? I was confused as **bleep** allowed me to assign them to users.
Russell_Morris This explains (including the linked article) what meeting room licence is for, it's meant for meeting room devices such as Microsoft Teams Rooms and Microsoft Surface Hub. Some of the comments talk about they didn't find this SKU as useful as they thought they would and just used Audio Conferencing:
Ah thank you! I shall remove the meeting room and give conferencing a go.
