Audio Conferencing extended to Microsoft Team and pay-per-minute offering added for more options
This week at Ignite, we are excited to officially announce a few updates to the Audio Conferencing (formally PSTN Conferencing) capabilities in Office 365 which have expanded the conferencing scenarios for more Office 365 users and increased its availability to more Office 365 products. These updates include: Audio Conferencing is now Available in Microsoft Teams in Public Preview Audio Conferencing pay-per-minute available starting October 1 st PSTN Conferencing & PSTN Consumption renamed to Audio Conferencing & Communications Credits
Toll Free Audio Conferencing - License Requirements
Hi All, I am looking at using Teams Audio Conferencing to replace our current dial in meeting provider. All I need is for users to be able to book Teams meetings and have a toll free number for the external attendees to dial in via. We don't need any "phone system" functionality to make regular calls, got this covered by a traditional IP phone system, this is only for meetings. Am I right that I have two choice, an add on to our E3 lics paid monthly or, as we are on an EA agreement, we can use the per-min option? What I am not clear on are conferencing credits, would this be needed for both standard audio conf lics and the per-min solution? Finally, it seems the MS link to the costings for this is broken - can anyone point me at the costs of this , based in the UK so UK pricing please. I just need to be able to compare the cost of a audio conf add on vs the per-min option. Thanks all.Teams Rooms
There are some good answers to questions on here already that got me close to understanding teams rooms, but I have a few specific questions I can't seem to gather answers for yet. Using without a certified room system: For a "Room" is it possible to set up some custom hardware to act in the place of a "Room System"? Really the entirety of the need is a device that is internet connected, and can connect to some video/audio equipment, and run the teams app. I suspect this is not possible, but it's pretty much the deal-breaker for us. Room systems are crazy expensive, and we would basically like to "hack it" with something like a tablet/conf room computer and some peripheral devices! Can the "Room License" be used outside of a proper certified room system? Audio conferencing call-in (normal phone number): It seems like this is possible, to license audio-conferencing to ONLY the teams room "user" and allow 3rd parties to call in via phone, but I don't fully understand all the pieces needed to get that working. What kind of licensing is needed? Even some pointers on documentation to read might help me a lot, though I have been sifting through most of it I can find. Thanks in advance.
Audio Conferencing Add-on Requirements
Hello Everyone, We have E1 Office365 subscriptions. We would like to add Audio Conferencing to a few of our users. The MS tech who answered our inquiry about an error we receive when trying to set up audio conf services for a test user, says that we also need to purchase Phone system licenses for all Audio Conferencing users. We can't find any mention of this. Can anyone confirm this one way or the other? Thank you!!Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Service
Do you have questions around Microsoft Audio Conferencing Services? All the Answers to Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing. Let me know if any of the questions or queries is unanswered will try to address the same in the Blog. Microsoft Office 365 Administrator Always find it difficult to justify the Audio-Conferencing Billing for the Microsoft Audio Conferencing Services. The Audio-Conferencing services has been running since Skype for Business Online and now the same is be rolled into as an Integration into Microsoft Teams as well. What is Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Services? All the users can join the Microsoft Teams Meeting using different Microsoft Teams Client on the Desktop Client, Mobile Client, Web Client on all the different platforms. What if the user trying to connect to the meeting has a bad internet connectivity? Or do not have Teams Client on the device which they are using. Hence Microsoft has now offered Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Services wherein the users can join the Microsoft Teams Meeting using the PSTN Conferencing Services and participate in the Microsoft Teams Meeting using the PSTN Audio Who can purchase the Microsoft Audio Conferencing Services? All the customers who have Microsoft Enterprise Plan E1 and E3 needs to add an Audio-Conferencing Add-on to existing SKU and utilize the services. For Microsoft Enterprise Plan E5 Audio-Conferencing SKU is by default included in the services For the users with Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium and Microsoft Office 365 Business Essential can also buy Audio Conferencing Services as an Add-on to the services. Did we ever notice the Audio Conferencing Numbers? Since the Audio-Conferencing Services for both Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams is same the Numbers provisioned by Microsoft is also same for both the services. The only thing that differs is the Conference Bridge which is generated for the different meetings What is Dial-Out Feature in Microsoft Audio Conferencing Services? With the Audio Conferencing Services the Enterprise customer also get a feature for 60minutes of Dial-Out from the Microsoft Audio Conferencing Services per user. This 60minutes is pooled on the Tenant Level let’s say if you purchase 10 Licenses the customer gets 600 pooled minutes monthly. This 600 minute needs to be consumed monthly and cannot be carried forward to the next month. The only difference in the service would be Dial-Out Feature is not available for the Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium and Microsoft Office 365 Business Essential customers. What if I consume all my Dial-Out Minutes will my Dial-Out Feature Stops? Yes, that’s correct once the complete tenant’s pooled minutes are consumed the dial-out feature gets stopped. Now the interesting feature Office 365 Global Admin can restrict who can dial-out from the Microsoft and who cannot dial-out from the Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Services. Communication Credit is an additional feature wherein the customers can add-on Prepaid Balance which can be used per minute basis for dial-out to specific countries. The rates are fixed, and we can always calculate the numbers of minutes we have been billed from the Office 365 basis on the usage. All the billing and the enterprise admin can be notified if the Communication Credit balance is going beyond the threshold limit. Which is the Zone A Countries where Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing Dial-Out Feature is available? Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States. How do I the monitor the dial-out minute pool in my organization from office 365? You can monitor the usage against your dial-out minute pool in the “legacy” Skype for Business Admin Center. In the Microsoft Teams Admin Center, navigate to Legacy portal > Reports > PSTN Minute Pools
