We are proud to announce the Microsoft Teams Calling Direct Routing case study of POST Luxembourg with SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT. With POST Luxembourg’s CloudVoice solution, employees are easily accessible and can effortlessly make internal and external calls, wherever they are. It enables companies to assign unique telephone extensions to every individual employee, which are implemented in Microsoft Teams. In times, in which mobility, flexibility and reachability are a necessity, CloudVoice is the reliable solution for every workplace.

You can download the full article here: Microsoft Teams Calling Direct Routing with POST Luxembourg CloudVoice.

For further information, please visit: https://www.post.lu/en/independants-et-pme/catalogue-produits/telephone/cloudvoice.

Please find our interview on the POST Luxembourg’s CloudVoice solution here:

Effective October 1, 2020, Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Premium Device Subscription Licenses (SLs) are available. Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Premium was previously referred to as Meeting Room and Managed Meeting Rooms.

Microsoft Teams Rooms allows you to Teams-enable your conference room, creating the ability to easily join a scheduled conference or start an ad hoc meeting.

The Teams Rooms subscription covers access to Microsoft Teams, Phone System, Audio Conferencing, Microsoft Intune.

The September 2020 Online Services Terms (OST) explain, that only CACD may be licensed through Teams Rooms: A Common Area Communication Device (“CACD”) is a device shared by multiple users who do not log into the device with their Office 365 credentials and which supports calls, meetings and/or conferencing over voice, Voice over IP, and/or video. Microsoft’s Common Area Phone and Meeting Room offerings are Device SLs that may only be assigned to a CACD. Each CACD Licensed Device may be accessed and used by any number of users.

Teams Rooms devices are offered by Creston, HP/Poly, Lenovo, Logitech and other manufacturers. They are managed in the Teams Admin Center. Instead of managing Teams Rooms devices themselves, customers can delegate such management and monitoring to Microsoft by obtaining a Teams Rooms Premium Device Subscription License (DSL).

Note that with the old approach Managed Meeting Rooms is an add-on to Meeting Room, whereas the new approach Teams Rooms Premium offers a superset of the Standard edition.

For the original announcement, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/07/21/microsoft-teams-meetings-hybrid-workplace-options/.

For further information on Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Premium, please visit: https://rooms.microsoft.com/.

For an introductory video, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4N-Z6mT09Q.

Please visit the Teams devices catalog for a complete list of Teams Rooms devices: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/across-devices/devices/category?devicetype=20.

Effective August 1, 2020, Microsoft Advanced Communications for Microsoft Teams is available. This add-on to any paid Microsoft 365 or Office 365 subscription provides a new set of capabilities for large meetings up to 20,000 participants, communication policies, and integrations, in addition to advanced tools for IT management. Microsoft Advanced Communications is only available through the Enterprise Agreement (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS), Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) and Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA).

For further information on Microsoft Advanced Communications, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/08/03/take-communnext-level-microsoft-teams/ and you may also check out: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-add-on-licensing/advanced-communications.

Until April 1, 2020, unlimited Priority Notifications in Microsoft Teams were available for all users. Since April 1, 2020, licensed users are able to send Priority Notifications according to the terms of their subscription. Microsoft Teams Premium Messaging is available as an add-on to Microsoft 365 and Office 365 offers that include paid Microsoft Teams.

With Microsoft Teams Premium Messaging, messages tagged as urgent will notify recipients every 2 minutes, for a period of 20 minutes. It also enables targeted communications in chats, channels and tasks.

For further information on Microsoft Teams Premium Messaging, please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-add-on-licensing/pri-message and, for details on managing messaging policies in Microsoft Teams, please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/messaging-policies-in-teams.

Microsoft Teams is a pivotal part of the remote work experience, and Microsoft is committed to making Teams available to everyone. As part of our response to the impact of COVID-19, SCHNEIDER IT MANAGEMENT offers a 6-month free trial of Microsoft Teams for 1000 users. Please contact us to request the free trial. Please note, that we provide the free trial license only.

For a Microsoft Teams Product overview, click here: https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software. For the deployment of Microsoft Teams, please refer to the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-overview.