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Make calls on behalf of Call Queue (or resource account)
We have been testing out Direct Routing calling functionalities in Teams for a while now and everything seems to be working fine but unfortunately we have run into a problem that is a show stopper for us and our customers.
Our employees, and our customers employees, are often members of multiple call queues and need to be able to make outbound calls on behalf of all the queues (resource accounts) they are members of. If I'm not wrong this was possible in Skype for business, right? At the moment users that are part of a call queue can only make outbound calls as themselves or alternatively you can set up a policy for outgoing Caller ID to set it to a Service Number. Being able to set up a policy for the caller ID on outgoing calls is a step in the right direction but not good enough as a user can only have one caller ID policy at a time so a user can still not make outbound calls from any queue they are member of.
There are multiple requests for this on UserVoice (see links below) so I hope Microsoft will consider adding this feature ASAP as, for now, it is sopping us and many others from using Teams as a phone system.
UserVoice requests:
- Make a call on behalf of a Call Queue – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
- Make calls on behalf of a resource account used for a Call Queue or Auto Attendant. – Microsoft Teams UserVoice
Also, setting up a policy for caller ID is not an option for us as we are using direct Routing and you cannot use your own phone numbers...another flaw that needs to be addressed ASAP!
Anyone else considering this a problem? Looking forward to hear your opinions...
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- Anybody know if this functionality to call out as an Auto Attendant is available using a Poly CCX 400 or any other Teams Desktop Phone?
mattias-skog You can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queue if you assign a channel for Calling answering instead of individual users or groups.
When the channel is assigned you will see a call tab in the channel and agents can choose to make outbound calls as themselves or as the queue.
- Hi Dewalt Kotze, can you please provide a screenshot to illustrate the above statement: "agents can choose to make outbound calls as themselves or as the queue". I have configured this and the queue I use is now routing between the Chanel members. They however cannot use the Call Queue Phone number the make a call on its behalf.
There is 2 ways to use this feature; either by using a channel in a Team or the default dialer (this is not available everywhere yet)
Team channel:
After connecting a Teams channel to a Call Queue, you get an extra Tab named "Calls". There is a new dialer on the right side of the screen. After you enter the number if you click on the arrow, you can select whether to dial as yourself or as the Call Queue:
Every member of this Team will be able to answer calls or call on behalf of the CQ.
Default dialer:
After filling in the number, you have to click on the arrow next to ""Call". You can then select whether you want to call as yourself, as the person you are a delegate for (2nd option, if configured as a delegate ofcourse) or as a call queue (3rd option).
The default dialer feature is being rolled out by Microsoft at the moment, so it is possible your enviroment hasn't been enabled yet.
https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86992
DWFL1 this works fine on the Teams Windows-Application
. Do you also have a idea for the mobile APP?
- In the call queue configuration there is an option for call answering where you would usually add the agents. If you select the Choose a team option instead you can select a Team and channel which calls will be routed to. Once this is done you should see a calls tab added in the channel selected.
Inbound calls will now be routing between members of the Team that are listed as agents in the calls tab. Call between agents routing is still going to be determined on how you configure it in the queue configuration.
mattias-skog - I couldn't agree more! Ring Central was the best solution for this with a dropdown selection of numbers available to set/mask your outbound Caller ID. I have an issue where my service numbers are assigned to an auto attendant for time based routing but then hit call queues to ring my users.
This is definitely needed as these same users only need some of there outbound phone calls to appear from the service number, which can be assigned as their outbound caller id but it applies to all calls.
