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Microsoft Teams Phone AMA

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We are very excited to announce a Microsoft Teams ‘Ask Microsoft Anything’ (AMA) specific to Teams Phone!

 

The AMA will take place on Thursday, June 9, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. PT in the comment section below. 

 

An AMA is a live online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with members of the product engineering team who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.

JohnSteckroth
Updated Aug 27, 2025

62 Comments

  • LakGautam's avatar
    LakGautam
    Copper Contributor
    Why does calling does not route using the local voice routing set in operator connect when there are other sites using direct routing in the same tenant?
    • Roy Kuntz's avatar
      Roy Kuntz
      Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
      Hi LakGautam - can you provide more clarity upon what you mean by local voice routing set?
      • LakGautam's avatar
        LakGautam
        Copper Contributor
        Well I am setting up Operator Connect in my test account where I have also Direct Routing employed too at a different location. After setting up, when test user is calling, the caller id shows the earlier Direct Routing setup. I have a seperate Dial Plan as well as Voice Routing policy setup for Direct Routing and the test user is not using them.
    • dinocaputo's avatar
      dinocaputo
      MVP
      With Operator Connect, there is typically no voice routes defined so all calls will automatically route to the OC provider, except when there is an exact match on a voice route. If so, then that voice route should be used assuming its configured for a Direct Routing voice route.
      • LakGautam's avatar
        LakGautam
        Copper Contributor
        Will you be able to please elaborate this? Thanks.
  • JohnSteckroth's avatar
    JohnSteckroth
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager

    Welcome to the Microsoft Teams Ask Microsoft Anything for Teams Phone

    Welcome to the Microsoft Teams Ask Microsoft Anything for Teams Phone! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback directly to the team.

     

    Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread below.

     

    To start, introduce yourself by replying to this thread and tell us where you’re logging in from!

  • NukeLaser's avatar
    NukeLaser
    Copper Contributor

    When can we expect pronoun functionality to be added in to Teams (and Office 365 at large)?

    • oh_robot's avatar
      oh_robot
      Copper Contributor
      I would very much like an answer to this as well. There are several requests for this over the past year and a half that have been upvoted and received little to no response from Microsoft.
      • oh_robot's avatar
        oh_robot
        Copper Contributor
        "Hope to see it soon" has been the answer from Microsoft for over a year and a half. This isn't an acceptable answer considering the needs of your diverse set of users and the fact that most of your competitor apps have had this feature for quite a while.
  • Since our users are using the Teams app, I don't want them to install WebEx teams app. I would like a seamless calling experience for WebEx and Teams. When IT rolled out the WebEx soft phone application, I had them hide all the other features such as meetings, chat, groups. This is what the WebEx app looks like for our users. Would like to have users only need to open one application--Teams and the WebEx calling is ready. Now they do calling in WebEx and everything else in Teams--chat, meetings, Teams, file management. 

    • Sean_Gilmour_MSFT's avatar
      Sean_Gilmour_MSFT
      Icon for Microsoft rankMicrosoft
      Hi Susan, Can you provide more details here - we're not entirely sure what you need in this case? Are you asking to be able to hide the Teams calling app from the left rail? Or is it you'd like to be able to use the Teams calling app for WebEx calling? You should be able to hide the calls app the same way chat and channels are hidden. Unfortunately, our calling app isn't open for third parties to use in place of their calling experience so in the case of using WebEx for calling it would be necessary to use their app. Thanks Sean
      • SusanMcClements's avatar
        SusanMcClements
        Iron Contributor
        You answered my question. No I don't want to hide Teams calling. I was wondering if we could configure the calling to be WebEx calling. Our users will have to have the WebEx calling app plus the Teams app. Thanks
  • Petri-X's avatar
    Petri-X
    Bronze Contributor

    Can you go through all of these items:

    LMO's known issues

    And give some deeper information, when those will be fixed, and how we could identify if users are facing these issues?

    • Therese_Solimeno's avatar
      Therese_Solimeno
      Moderator
      Thank you for the question - we will need to take these to the larger engineering team and get back to you with a response.
    • Therese_Solimeno's avatar
      Therese_Solimeno
      Moderator
      Thank you for the question - we will need to take these to the larger engineering team and get back to you with a response.
  • Petri-X's avatar
    Petri-X
    Bronze Contributor

    Teams Phones and local media optimization, is that scenario supported?

    • Therese_Solimeno's avatar
      Therese_Solimeno
      Moderator
      Thank you for the question - we will need to take these to the larger engineering team and get back to you with a response.
    • Therese_Solimeno's avatar
      Therese_Solimeno
      Moderator
      Glad to hear it. Do you have a question for the Teams Phones engineering team?
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