Jan 25 2018 11:50 PM
Hi
This week we had a meeting with our phone company.
Since we still have an on premise pbx we want to get rid of this.
We have 5 sites Belgium /France /Uk /US.
We want all this sites on cloud pbx with SFB or Teams.
Now the phone company tells us we cannot get numbers From Microsoft.
Ofcource if we would take E5 we wouldn need them anymore.
So what i would like to know.
- can we get pstn numbers in Belgium and phone in and out ?
- Do we still need an on prem lync or sfb server or some gateway ?
when i look at this page it should be possible .
Regards,
David
Jan 26 2018 12:04 AM - edited Jan 26 2018 12:05 AM
SolutionHi David,
Belgium is also active on Microsoft Phone System (old name: Cloud PBX)
Country's who have porting features now:
- US
- UK
- Belgium
- France
- Netherlands
- Ireland
- Porto Rico
- Spain
You don't need to have E5 for PSTN Calling. If you have for example E3 (can also be done with E1), you need to buy the Phone System license and a calling plan (domestic or domestic+international). A calling plan you also need to buy when you have E5, in the E5 license the Phone system license is included.
If you need a on-premises environment is totally depending on your Phone feature needs.
Jan 26 2018 12:10 AM
Hi
Thanks for the quick reply.
So i i understand correct we can transfer our numbers to Microsoft ?
Can i get some more info on the last sentence you wrote ?
Like what can we do without onprem server and what is extra when we put a server on site ?
Regards,
David
Jan 26 2018 12:18 AM - edited Jan 26 2018 12:22 AM
Yes, you can port your numbers to Microsoft.
I've a small comparison table, which is listing features. The right column is Skype for Business On-premises.
Jan 26 2018 12:35 AM
Hi Erwin
Thanks
Is there somewhere a full feature comparisation with sfb online and Hybrid ?
Regards,
David
Jan 26 2018 12:40 AM
Hi David,
Some issues I ran into. migrating a customer in NL and FR)
- Every Users needs a number (besides Phone System and Domestic Calling Plan subscription) to make phone calls.
- CallingLineIdentity (suppress the outgoing number) policy is not working on al Carriers (tested in FR and NL)
-Permium numbers (numbers you have to pay for extra) are not reachable (stil in the progress of getting this active)
Besides this issues it works fine.
Jan 26 2018 12:48 AM
Hi Marcel
Thanks for the reply.
So here we have like 20 phone numbers for 100 ppl.
What you are saying with sfbo we need 100 numbers ?
Its hard to find ppl in Europe with experience especially since its changing so fast.
If you see blog posts of ppl next week its not acurate anymore...
Regards,
David
Jan 26 2018 12:49 AM
Jan 26 2018 12:50 AM
Jan 26 2018 12:55 AM
Ok thanks.
Did you guys work with a partner to go into details ?
Cause i have the feeling that when you talk to some partners im more uptodate then they are.
It would be great to have a partner who could give us advice for al our sites so we can consolidate as much as possible.
Jan 26 2018 12:56 AM
Jan 26 2018 12:58 AM
Jan 26 2018 01:03 AM
Jan 26 2018 01:38 AM
So do we still need to go for SFB or is teams the better choice.
Thats also a question thats haunting me.
Regards,
David
Jan 26 2018 01:45 AM
Hi Marcel
i know.
But what is soon SFB doesnt have all featured needed yet.
So i think they are limited with the SFB backend.
And that they can make extra features in teams since that is on a new backend.
So again a hard decision to make or not ?
Jan 26 2018 01:46 AM
Jan 26 2018 12:04 AM - edited Jan 26 2018 12:05 AM
SolutionHi David,
Belgium is also active on Microsoft Phone System (old name: Cloud PBX)
Country's who have porting features now:
- US
- UK
- Belgium
- France
- Netherlands
- Ireland
- Porto Rico
- Spain
You don't need to have E5 for PSTN Calling. If you have for example E3 (can also be done with E1), you need to buy the Phone System license and a calling plan (domestic or domestic+international). A calling plan you also need to buy when you have E5, in the E5 license the Phone system license is included.
If you need a on-premises environment is totally depending on your Phone feature needs.