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• Manage call queue and greetings
• Manage calls
• Call forwarding, call groups, and simultaneous ring
• Merge calls
• Share a phone line with a delegate
• Check your voicemail
• View or add contacts
• View your call history
• Manage your support call queue

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Microsoft Teams Rooms (Windows)

Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows (formerly Skype Room Systems version 2) brings HD video, audio, and content sharing to Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business calls and meetings of all sizes, from small huddle areas to large conference rooms.

What do you want to do?

Learn about the touchscreen console.

The touchscreen console in a conference room is the heart of every meeting. It automatically wakes up when it detects motion. On the screen, there are a few things you can do:

Join an upcoming scheduled meeting by selecting Join .

Scan the room QR code to join a meeting on your mobile device using the room system or to cast content from your mobile device to the room display.

Cast content onto the room display from your desktop or mobile device .   

Select Help ?  to report a problem or give feedback.

Select Room controls to switch to an OEM-provided application for in-room media or room lighting and/or blind controls. This option is available when configured by your IT admin.

When you're in a meeting, you'll have options to manage your camera and mic, chat with participants, share content, manage participants, invoke reactions, change layouts for the in-room display, and leave the meeting.

Note:  To get a meeting to show up on the room console, organizers should set the room as the meeting location.

Invite a room to a meeting

Use Outlook to reserve a room equipped with Microsoft Teams Rooms  

Tip:  To prevent the meeting name from being displayed on the Teams Room front-of-room and touchscreen consoles for anyone in the room to see, mark the meeting as "Private" in Outlook.

Open Outlook and go to your calendar.

Select New Teams Meeting  in the Teams Meeting section or New Meeting , then Teams Meeting .

Select Room Finder in the meeting scheduler or type the conference room email address.

Select  Show a room list and find a building or list.

Choose a room from the list of available rooms.

Complete the meeting invitation as you would for any other meeting before sending.

Use Microsoft Teams to reserve a room equipped with Microsoft Teams Rooms

Open Microsoft Teams and go to your calendar.

Select New meeting to schedule a meeting. Select a meeting type from the drop-down menu to schedule a webinar or live event.

Select Add required attendees in the meeting scheduler and type the conference room name or address.

Note:  For live events, you can add a room as a presenter but not as a producer or attendee.

Use Microsoft Teams to add a Microsoft Teams Room to an existing meeting

Join the meeting from your personal device.

Select  People .

Search for the room name (it's on the console) and select  OK .

Accept the call on the console to join the meeting.

Use Teams or Outlook to add a Microsoft Teams Room to an existing meeting

Open the meeting in Teams or Outlook on your personal device.

Add the room name (it's on the console) to the participants list or find the room using Room finder in the meeting scheduler (available in Outlook) and send the update.

If the meeting is accepted, it will appear on the console.

Select the meeting on the console to join.

Join a meeting

Join a scheduled meeting

Find your meeting on the console and select Join to enter.

The room schedule displays the current meeting on top. Upcoming meetings and available slots are found under the current meeting. You can select an upcoming meeting to view its details.

If your room settings allow joining third-party meetings, find other meeting providers on the calendar and select Join to enter.   

Join a scheduled meeting that's not on the console

Join the meeting on your personal device.

Then, the room will ring. To join the meeting, select  Accept on the room console.

Note:  Make sure the audio on your personal device is off before you accept the call on the room console, or you could cause echo.

Start an instant meeting

Under  Type a name , search for who you want to invite.

Select peoples' names from the search results.

Select Request to join  to add them to the meeting.

Make a call

Share content.

Share your screen in a Teams Room (outside of a Teams meeting)

You can also cast content from your personal device. To learn more, see  casting from a mobile device or casting from a desktop . 

Share your screen with all meeting participants (during a Teams meeting)

There are three ways to share with both in-room and online participants from a personal device:

Cast content from your personal device. Learn more about casting from a mobile device or casting from a desktop . 

Share in-room content (during a Teams meeting)

Content cameras allow you to stream a traditional whiteboard into meetings so remote participants can clearly see what's being drawn. While you write, we’ll square up the board, enhance the ink, and make anyone in front of the whiteboard transparent.

Note:  Depending on your device settings, you may see different content sharing options.

To stop sharing, select  Stop sharing  on the room console.

Manage participants in a meeting

Add a participant

In the meeting, type the name of the participant you want to add in the search bar.

Pin a participant

When you want to focus on specific participant(s), select their name(s) on the room console, then Pin for me .

Note:  This will only pin the video for the room, not for others in the meeting.

Remove a participant from the meeting

To remove someone from a meeting, select their name on the room console, then Remove from meeting .

Change your view in a meeting

Manage the view on the front of room display

Note:  Depending on the type of license assigned to your room account, some functionalities may not be available.

Manage other meeting options

Change meeting settings

The meeting controls on the touch console are similar to those found on the Teams desktop app.

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• Updated: Aug. 05, 2024, 4:34 p.m.
• | Published: Aug. 05, 2024, 4:05 p.m.

• Dan Labbe, cleveland.com

BEREA, Ohio — The Browns showed off their new weight room to the media in a tour on Monday, and calling it a weight room is doing it a disservice. It speaks to the team’s efforts to gain an edge in their performance using data and technology to better prepare their players for Sundays.

Shaun Huls, the Director of High Performance, offered the tour to the media. He took us through all three floors of the new area, located on the south end of the indoor practice area, overlooking the practice fields.

The first floor features a more traditional weight room with some high-tech additions, namely the Oxefit machines that have touch screens, allowing players to customize their training.

The second floor is where the cardio area is located, with stationary equipment that overlooks the outdoor fields. On the other side of the cardio station is where the real fun is found.

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First, there’s a players’ lounge that features a golf simulator and video game systems.

Next to the lounge are two 25-yard long screens with about 10 yards of field turf in front of them. The coaching staff can use the screens to show game film and, using tracking data, plays can be presented in “Madden” format, where players can simulate their actions against certain fronts and movements.

The Browns new weight room features 25-yard wide screens for players to watch film in a more interactive way. John Kuntz, cleveland.com

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The Official NPS App – Your Ultimate National Park Companion! • Explore 420+ national parks effortlessly with interactive maps, self-guided tours, and essential on-the-ground information. • Interactive Maps: Plan your trip with detailed park maps, including points of interest, trails, and essential information. • Park Tours: Discover park highlights with self-guided tours, just like having a ranger by your side. • Amenities: Find transportation, dining, restrooms, and more for a hassle-free visit. • Plan Your Visit: Access fee and pass information, operating hours, and other essential details to help you plan your visit. • Accessibility: Enjoy a fully accessible experience with audio descriptions for points of interest and exhibits, making it inclusive for all. • Offline Use: No internet? No worries! Download park content for offline exploration, perfect for remote areas. • Share Your Visit: Create virtual postcards to share your park experiences with friends and family. • Things to Do: Explore hiking, bus tours, museums, ranger programs, and more for a fun-filled visit. • News, Alerts & Events: Stay updated with park news and events. • Passport Stamps, Fees & More: Access park-specific details all in one place. Discover all 420+ National Park System sites, from iconic landmarks like Yellowstone and Yosemite to hidden gems. Download the official NPS App now for an unforgettable park adventure!

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Useful app but info not available from other devices

The information on the NPS Park app is very helpful. It contains detailed information about the parks, history, access, parking, lodging, and other amenities. A few areas of improvement would be: 1. to be able to retrieve information saved on one device from another device For example, if you save all the parks that you have visited over the years onto one phone, you can’t retrieve it from a tablet or laptop. On top of which once you get a new phone there’s no way to transfer the information. You have to enter it all over again since there’s no way to retrieve that history. 2. The app has a lot of good information but is not the most intuitive to navigate. Frequently you are told where you can locate information, but there is no link provided to let you go to that page. 3. A note to the NPS developers. While there are buttons on each page that ask whether the page was helpful, there is no place to provide general feedback so that the end-user could provide suggestions.

Awesome start. Hoping for many more features.

Honestly this is one of my favorite apps. Even if I’m not traveling, I like to load the app and explore parks from afar. I love how much love and energy went into this app. It’s obvious that the content comes from people who love the parks as much as we do. Here’s what I’d love to see: Improve offline access: being able to save parks for offline use is awesome. However, the app spends a really long time trying to load when you don’t have internet access before finally giving an error message and then loading after a delay. I wish the app would start in offline mode (offline is default) and then access the internet once the app is loaded. Sort by ability or activity level: I wish I didn’t have to load every single item in a list to see if a trail or thing is ADA accessible. Maybe add an icon to the items on a list… or add a filter. Passport stamp locations: I love this feature. Can the items on this list be clickable? Take me to the entry for that visitors center, so I can find info on accessing it. More pictures: I’m disabled and physical access can be an issue. It’s so cool to be able to see places I’ll never be able to visit. Show me the super advanced hikes I’ll never get to. And show us more wildlife we might have trouble seeing on our visit! I’ve got a million suggestions but you all are busy people. Thanks for making a cool app. Looking forward to updates.

You fixed it!

After the latest update (1.16) the app was no longer opening! It kept crashing but looks like you fixed it! Thank you so very much! It’s a nice build now that’s it’s working again. For everyone out there who was having issues like me, this is what I did to make it work again. I had to completely delete the app and then reinstall it. Unfortunately I lost all my data in the process. That is a bummer and have to start logging all my stops again but it’s worth it. The version is very smooth and doesn’t freeze up anymore! It was worth it. This app is great and so are the people who work on it for us. Also, for those of you who wants your lists back, they are still there, under favorites you can make as many new lists as you like just like before. This app helps tremendously with all your NPS needs and planning. May I remind everyone also that’s it’s free! Safe travels everyone and happy exploring!

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Buzzing on Microsoft Teams Rooms technology internally at Microsoft

And for good reason—The Hive is where we in Microsoft Digital (MSD), Microsoft’s IT organization, create cutting-edge meeting experiences that get rolled into Microsoft Teams Rooms, our video conferencing product in Microsoft Teams.

Our aim is to create innovative, inclusive hybrid meeting experiences for both our employees here at Microsoft, and for our Microsoft Teams Rooms customers. What better way to show off what we’re doing than to bring customers into a real, live lab setting. — Matthew Marzynski, principal product manager, MSD team, The Hive

Until recently, The Hive has been an internal-facing resource where we, with our partners in Global Workplace Services and the Microsoft Teams Product Group, experimented with ways to improve meeting experiences at Microsoft.

However, as the work-from-home movement took off and customer interest in what we were doing in The Hive exploded, we made the decision to invite customers into our lab.

“Our aim is to create innovative, inclusive hybrid meeting experiences for both our employees here at Microsoft and for our Microsoft Teams Rooms customers,” says Matthew Marzynski, a principal product manager on our MSD team at The Hive. “What better way to show off what we’re doing than to bring customers into a real, live lab setting.”

To this end, our team has built a new customer experience at The Hive that features live demonstrations that show customers how to visualize how Microsoft Teams Rooms function in different settings.

Magic laboratory tours

Tours at The Hive are kind of like a meeting technology “speed dating” experience. Rather than just presenting a slide deck, we take a hands-on approach, spinning up a meeting (complete with realistic bot attendees) across a variety of spaces so customers can experience different room sizes, technologies, and scenarios in one walk through the facility. We can even invite their remote colleagues in for an additional point of view.

“We bring customers into The Hive, tour them through, and demonstrate how Microsoft creates cutting-edge meeting experiences in hybrid work environments,” Marzynski says. “And then we share our processes and know-how to help them create their own inclusive hybrid work meeting experiences at their companies.”

The tours are so popular that interest far exceeds our team’s capacity. In response, we’ve launched a streaming series called “The Hive Live,” where we invite account teams and customers for a live guided tour of our facility and a Q&A with our experts. We’ve also built virtual room tours , where you can go online to see how actual Teams Rooms look and feel around our campuses. “It’s kind of like teleporting around a house you’re interested in on a real estate site,” Marzynski says.

Microsoft Teams Rooms are represented as about a dozen different archetypes ranging from a Focus room for four people to an executive boardroom for over 30 people. These function as design references to inspire and unblock customers.

“Internally, we go super-deep with room specifications down to the last cable and screw required in the room,” Marzynski says. “While we do share those, it can be confusing when facing down a hybrid-work transformation challenge. Archetype thinking helps customers get out the weeds and imagine how to scale out a common room experience across a whole real estate portfolio.” Ultimately, our team is focused on using The Hive to empower our customers to build their own experiences using Teams Rooms and other Microsoft technologies.

Building innovative hybrid meeting experiences

Interacting with external customers at The Hive has allowed us to more deeply understand our customers and their pain points. Understandably, we learned that customers want to create a welcoming, inclusive hybrid work environment while controlling costs.

We’re not just working with expensive, experimental, showy new technologies at The Hive. We have three points of view through which we evaluate our work there: Capability, collaboration, and cost.

Capability refers to what people can accomplish in a meeting space with the right technology. Collaboration alludes to how we take advantage of moments that matter to make collective effort in meetings as seamless and productive as possible, and cost translates as ensuring that we’re driving value and recommending the most durable investments in hybrid work experiences.

With these central ideas in mind, The Hive created an entirely reimagined meeting room that we’re now using across the company—the Signature Teams Room.

Signature is the most evolved embodiment of Microsoft Teams Rooms. It’s designed to provide a fully inclusive and collaborative meeting experience for all attendees, whether they’re joining remotely or in-person. It includes specialized furniture, displays, cameras, and audio devices that are arranged in a way that makes it easier for all attendees to engage with each other.

“It’s where the engineering of the technology and the design of the furniture and physical environment are fully integrated to create the most hybrid-friendly, inclusive experience possible,” Marzynski says.

One of the key features of a Signature Teams Room is a relocated central focal point for meeting attendees.

In a traditionally laid-out meeting room, the focal point of the meeting tends to be the center of a table, as it has been since meetings were invented. Remote participants tend to be off to the side of the room on a monitor, away from this focal point.

“Remote attendees can feel like observers, rather than participants, in a poorly thought-out traditional design,” Marzynski says. “You’re looking through what feels like a security camera, at a room of people that are sitting around a table, often facing away from you. And the in-room experience suffers as well, since everyone is forced to pay a cognitive tax to simultaneously balance two different types of interactions in two different parts of the room.”

By altering the room’s layout and selecting complementing hardware, Signature Teams Rooms have what is called a “circle of inclusion,” which welcomes in remote attendees and places them at natural eye gaze points. The result is that hybrid meetings feel more organic than in a traditionally designed room, like sitting around a half-digital, half-physical conversation circle.

Changes, such as shifting the meeting camera to be in between remote and in-person participants, make hybrid meetings more equitable. Employees are more likely to feel included and valued. — Margie Strite, product marketing manager, Microsoft Teams

All Signature Teams Rooms have the following properties:

• In-person and remote attendees face each other
• Camera is at eye level
• Spatial audio can match a person’s voice to their location
• Remote participants have a clear view of everyone in the room

These seemingly small changes have a huge impact on how meetings are experienced.

Our solutions are very individualized. Signature Teams Rooms show customers how to optimize their spaces for hybrid work, so all employees have great meetings regardless of where they join from. — Matt Hempey, lead principal group product manager, MSD Digital Workplace Productivity and Collaboration team

“Changes, such as shifting the meeting camera to be in between remote and in-person participants, make hybrid meetings more equitable,” says Margie Strite, a product marketing manager for Microsoft Teams. “Employees are more likely to feel included and valued.”

Other small shifts, such as including a content camera aimed at an analog whiteboard for meetings or including digital collaboration devices like the Surface Hub, offer ways to increase engagement between in-person and remote participants. The exact methods used and specifications for each Signature Teams Room built can vary for each customer and are based on their unique scenarios.

“Our solutions are very individualized,” says Matt Hempey, lead principal group product manager on the MSD Digital Workplace Productivity and Collaboration team at The Hive. “Signature Teams Rooms show customers how to optimize their spaces for hybrid work, so all employees have great meetings regardless of where they join from.”

At The Hive, we aim to design experiences that are as easy to deploy as possible. We’re introducing new features and innovations with our internal product teams and key industry partners to create a playbook that enhances meeting experiences across all of our room archetypes – while driving down cost and complexity. — Sam Albert, principal product manager at The Hive

The Hive also concentrates on resourcefulness, deploying meeting rooms that provide excellent hybrid meeting experiences while limiting costs.

Reducing costs while upgrading meeting rooms

The reduction of cost is vital when building a new meeting room experience can cost as much as building a new house.

While some organizations might be comfortable spending large amounts of their budget to update and improve meeting rooms, many want to strike a balance between experience and cost-efficiency. This is largely why The Hive focuses on creating individualized solutions with its Signature Teams Rooms. Most of the time, a lot of energy is put into making the most of what already exists within a room, rather than remodeling everything. There are also new, modular solutions being built within Microsoft.

“At The Hive, we aim to design experiences that are as easy to deploy as possible,” says Sam Albert, a principal product manager at The Hive. “We’re introducing new features and innovations with our internal product teams and key industry partners to create a playbook that enhances meeting experiences across all of our room archetypes—while driving down cost and complexity.”

A new low-cost, modular approach to deploying room solutions that our experts designed at The Hive bypasses the usual built-in technology and keeps costs down, even when the technology needs to be updated in the future.

We designed the modular solution so that in-person presenters and remote participants can all view raised hands, the person speaking, and the content being presented. We wanted employees to feel heard, seen, and valued with this solution. — Danielle Chelles-Blair, senior designer, MSD

For example, in a large multi-purpose room, this solution features a mobile pod that works with Microsoft Teams Rooms and is equipped with audience-facing cameras, a presenter-tracking camera, and scalable audio. During a meeting room refresh at Microsoft, this modular solution helped cut our cost by 75 percent as compared to how we would traditionally upgrade the same meeting room.

Despite being more cost-effective and less intensive than traditional solutions, the modular solution is still designed to create inclusive hybrid meeting experiences.

Customers don’t necessarily want to be their own guinea pigs. The experimentation that The Hive does, and shares insights from, really saves other organizations time, money, and effort spent on finding the best meeting experience solutions. — Margie Strite, product marketing manager for Microsoft Teams

“We designed the modular solution so that in-person presenters and remote participants can all view raised hands, the person speaking, and the content being presented,” says Danielle Chelles-Blair, a senior designer in MSD. “We wanted employees to feel heard, seen, and valued with this solution.”

In addition to inclusivity and cost-savings, for many organizations, the reduced trial-and-error to find effective meeting experience solutions is a marked benefit of turning to The Hive.

“Customers don’t necessarily want to be their own guinea pigs,” Strite says. “The experimentation that The Hive does, and shares insights from, really saves other organizations time, money, and effort spent on finding the best meeting experience solutions.”

Go here to see and virtually experience a Signature Teams Room for yourself.

To sign up for an upcoming Hive Live session, browse our topics and register here .

If you’re thinking about getting started with Microsoft Teams Rooms, here are some tips to help you get started:

• Plan your deployment: Before you start deploying Microsoft Teams Rooms, it’s important to plan your deployment. This includes identifying the rooms where you want to deploy Microsoft Teams Rooms, selecting the right hardware, and ensuring that your network infrastructure is ready for video conferencing.
• Get familiar with the features: Microsoft Teams Rooms comes with a range of features that can help you make the most of your video conferencing experience. Some of these features include one-touch join, proximity detection, and content sharing. It’s important to get familiar with these features so that you can use them effectively during your meetings.
• Ensure that your devices are up-to-date: To ensure that you have the best possible experience with Microsoft Teams Rooms, it’s important to keep your devices up to date. This includes updating the firmware on your cameras, displays, and audio devices.
• Train your users: Finally, it’s important to train your users on how to use Microsoft Teams Rooms effectively. This includes teaching them how to join meetings, how to share content, and how to troubleshoot common issues.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses

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Microsoft offers two licenses for Teams Rooms systems that participate in Teams meetings and calls:

Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro delivers enhanced in-room meeting experiences like intelligent audio and video, front row and large galleries, and dual screen support. The Teams Rooms Pro license also provides advanced management features like remote device management, conditional access policies, and detailed device analytics.

Teams Rooms Pro is a great fit for medium and enterprise organizations, as well as smaller organizations with larger room counts or more advanced needs. Teams Rooms Pro licenses can be used to license both certified Teams Rooms systems and Teams Panels.

Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic provides core meeting experiences to organizations that purchase a certified Microsoft Teams Rooms system, at no additional cost. The Teams Rooms Basic license includes scheduling, joining meetings, content sharing, and collaborative white boarding, as well as basic security and management capabilities out-of-the-box.

A Teams Rooms Basic license can be used to license a single certified Teams Rooms system in a room. If you want to log into more than one Teams Rooms system in a room using the same resource account, you need to use a Teams Rooms Pro license.

You can assign up to 25 Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic licenses to Teams Rooms systems in your organization. If you need to license more than 25 Teams Rooms systems, those additional licenses need to be Teams Rooms Pro licenses. Teams Rooms Basic licenses can be used to license Teams Rooms systems only and not Teams Panels.

A Teams Room system can be one of the following:

• A Teams Rooms on Windows compute module and attached touch console
• A Teams Rooms on Android device and touch console connected via either an IP-based or USB connection
• A Surface Hub

The remote administration tasks you perform on a Teams Rooms system or device in the Teams admin center depend on the license that's assigned the system or device. For more information, see Microsoft Teams Rooms license overview in Teams admin center .

• Microsoft Teams Rooms devices need specific licenses like "Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro" or "Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic" to work. Other user licenses won't function with meeting devices. Meeting devices without a Teams Rooms license will be unable to sign in until they obtain one.
• Microsoft Teams Shared Devices licenses are not supported with Teams Rooms devices. Only assign Teams Rooms Basic or Teams Rooms Pro licenses to these devices (Teams Rooms legacy licenses are also acceptable).

Teams Rooms license service plan comparison

The following table shows the services included in each Teams Rooms license.

1 To verify service availability, see Country and region availability for Audio Conferencing and Calling Plans . Communication Credits may apply for additional services, such as toll-free, international minutes for domestic plans, and so on. You can disable these features to avoid additional billing. Conference Phones with Meeting Interface requires Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro License.

2 Microsoft Intune Plan 1 and Plan 2.

3 Included to enable certain legacy authentication methods. Effective October 1, 2023 Microsoft Teams Rooms will no longer support connections to Skype for Business server.

4 You need to add and assign a free Teams Rooms Basic license for each device via the Microsoft 365 admin center. You need to provide payment details, although no charge will be made for Teams Rooms Basic licenses. see subscriptions and billing documentation for details.

Switching from Teams Rooms Standard and Teams Rooms Premium

If your organization has meeting devices that use the Teams Rooms Standard or Teams Rooms Premium legacy licenses, you can continue using those licenses until their expiration date. Upon the expiration date of your existing legacy licenses, we recommend that you transition to the Teams Rooms Pro license. The meeting and management features * available in both of the legacy licenses have been combined in the Teams Rooms Pro license.

Legacy licenses won't automatically transition to the new licenses. Upon expiration of a legacy license, you'll need to purchase a new Teams Rooms Pro (recommended) or Teams Rooms Basic license. Teams Rooms Pro licenses can be purchased through the Microsoft 365 admin center or your preferred sales channel. Teams Rooms Basic licenses can only be purchased through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

If your organization has an Enterprise Agreement, you can continue using your existing legacy licenses until your next renewal period. You can also continue to reserve additional legacy licenses until your next renewal period. For more information, contact your Microsoft representative.

For information about legacy licenses, see Microsoft Teams Rooms legacy licenses .

* Microsoft Service engineers will no longer serve as intermediaries to incident response starting October 1, 2022.

As a companion to this article, we recommend using the Microsoft Teams Rooms automated setup guide when signed in to the Microsoft 365 admin center. This guide will customize your experience based on your environment. To review best practices without signing in and activating automated setup features, go to the Microsoft 365 setup portal .

Teams Rooms Basic and Teams Rooms Pro feature comparison

The following tables compare the Teams Rooms Basic and Teams Rooms Pro licenses and show what features are available with each. If a feature isn't available for a license, that feature can't be used on Teams Rooms devices that have been assigned that license. To use a feature on a Teams Rooms device, assign the license in which that feature is available to that device.

Meeting join

Share and collaborate, meeting engagement, intelligent audio and video, security and compliance, device management, pro management portal licensing, license type overview.

The Pro Management Portal's license type offer a clear and comprehensive summary of all devices licensing status. To access the licensing information:

• Use your credentials to log into the Pro Management Portal.
• Go to Rooms and Inventory views.
• In both views, locate the License Type column to see device licensing status.

Inventory View

In the Inventory view, devices are categorized into:

• Pro : Devices with pro licenses.
• Premium : Devices with premium licenses.
• Basic : Devices with basic licenses.
• Standard : Devices with standard licenses.
• Syncing : For new devices, the license information will appear 24 hours after room reboot due to syncing.
• Unlicensed : Devices lacking Pro, Premium, Basic, or Standard licenses.

In the Rooms view, you'll find:

• Pro : Devices with Pro licenses.
• Premium : Devices with Premium licenses.
• Please note that for Basic and Standard licenses, the presence of the red alert sign on the left side indicates that these licenses will not grant access to the Pro Management capabilities starting October 2. To continue enjoying the benefit with Pro Management capabilities, an upgrade to Pro license is required by the end of the grace period which is September 30, 2023.
• Starting October 2, 2023 all devices without Pro or Premium licenses assigned to them will lose access to the pro management capabilities until valid licenses are assigned to them.
• Once a license expires, access will be restricted; however, a 30 day grace period follows, preventing immediate disruptions. During this grace period, licenses can be renewed to reinstate access. Failure to renew within this period will result in loss of access.
• When changing the account of the device, please ensure that the new account has the valid license to avoid any interruption with the device. The 30 day grace period will not be applying when using an expired account to enroll new devices or changing account on current devices.

Troubleshooting licensing status:

If you encounter devices showing an incorrect “unlicensed” status even though they possess the proper licenses, this can result from account sign-out or improper sign-in of your devices. To resolve these issues, follow the steps outlined below:

• For MTR-W devices, consult our documentation page on and follow the steps here that outline how to sign in properly.
• For MTR-A devices, kindly open an incident with the TAC team to ensure that the correct account information is sent to the service.

Assigning additional licenses:

Teams Rooms licenses include all necessary services for Teams Rooms functionality, and additional licenses are neither needed nor supported for these devices, with the exception of telephony. Customers requiring outbound calling features should purchase an appropriate calling plan for the device or configure direct routing for the room account.

Teams Rooms devices managed by central IT should not be assigned any licenses beyond Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro, Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic and those required for calling. However, if a device is used by an executive to conduct meetings and access their personal calendar, it is permissible to set up the executive's user account on the device, provided the device also has a valid Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license. The executive's account needs to satisfy the device's authentication requirements. Signing in with a user account doesn’t provide personal device experience on the device. An IT administrator should independently evaluate this scenario to determine if it aligns with company policies and permits such exceptions.

• Microsoft Teams rooms are communal devices and should not be regarded or utilized as personal ones.
• Avoid assigning Microsoft OneDrive for Business licenses to a Teams rooms account if the resource account is IT-managed. This can prevent user content, like recordings or transcripts, from being saved on the room's OneDrive, ensuring better content management.

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The ambitious Josh Shapiro asked about his role as vice president. The battle-tested Mark Kelly was already seen as a third option. And the happy-go-lucky Mr. Walz promised to do anything for the team.

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When Vice President Kamala Harris gathered some of her closest advisers in the dining room of the Naval Observatory on Saturday, they had more choices than time.

Her team had just wrapped up the fastest, most intensive vetting of potential running mates in modern history, a blitz of paperwork and virtual interviews that had concluded only on Friday. The advisers were there to present their findings on a list that still technically ran six deep to Ms. Harris, who had less than 72 hours to sift through it to make her final decision.

One by one, the circle of her most trusted confidants ran through the pros and cons of each possible No. 2. The sessions went long enough to be broken up with sandwiches and salads as the team eventually focused on the three men she would meet the next day for what would prove to be pivotal in-person interviews: Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.

Polls had been conducted. Focus groups had been commissioned. Records reviewed. And the upshot, Ms. Harris was told, was this: She could win the White House with any of the three finalists by her side.

It was the rarest of political advice for a political leader at the crossroads of such a consequential decision. And for Ms. Harris, a vice president who had spent much of her tenure trying to quietly establish herself without running afoul of President Biden, the advice was freeing rather than constricting.

She could pick whomever she wanted.

On Tuesday, she did just that, revealing Mr. Walz as her running mate after the two struck up an easy rapport in a Sunday sit-down at her residence, forming a fresh partnership that will define the Democratic Party in 2024 and potentially beyond. The story of how Ms. Harris came to pick Mr. Walz was told through conversations with about a dozen people involved in the selection process, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe deliberations and discussions that were intended to remain private.

For Ms. Harris, it was an instinctive reaction to an instant connection rather than a data-driven exercise that many had expected would elevate Mr. Shapiro, the popular governor of Pennsylvania, the nation’s most important battleground state. But her team’s polling did not suggest that either Mr. Shapiro or Mr. Kelly would bring a decisive advantage to their crucial home states.

“She wanted someone who understood the role, someone she had a connection with and someone who brought contrast to the ticket,” said Cedric Richmond, a former White House adviser who was part of Ms. Harris’s selection team.

Mr. Shapiro had privately appeared more circumspect about the vice presidency, according to multiple people familiar with the selection process, asking about his role and responsibilities. Mr. Shapiro, 51, is widely seen as harboring his own presidential ambitions, which could have complicated any relationship where his chief job would be to serve as a dutiful No. 2.

In contrast, Ms. Harris would later describe Mr. Walz — who explicitly told her not to pick him if he could not help her win — as “joyful” and willing to do anything for the team.

“He’s just so open,” Ms. Harris marveled privately after her meeting with Mr. Walz, according to one person with knowledge of her comments. “I really like him.”

Appearing on Tuesday in Philadelphia at his first rally , Mr. Walz said at several points that Ms. Harris had infused joy into her campaign, reinforcing the idea that both of them want this race to feel invigorating and not like a white-knuckled slog to November.

“Thank you, Madam Vice President,” Mr. Walz said in his opening remarks. “Thank you for bringing back the joy.”

The shadowy Democratic mini-primary

Ms. Harris, who had been a presidential candidate for only two weeks and two days when she made her choice, sought input from a range of party leaders, including Mr. Biden, former President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Clintons saw Ms. Harris at a funeral in Texas last week and have stayed in regular touch, according to two people familiar with their conversations. Mr. Obama has also been an informal adviser.

From the start, Ms. Harris had been looking to balance the ticket just as she had four years ago. She is a history-making Black and South Asian woman from coastal California. The final shortlist was composed entirely of white men, most of them from the nation’s interior.

Ms. Harris had bypassed a Democratic primary race, securing the nomination almost seamlessly and instantly after Mr. Biden stepped aside. But in some ways the vice-presidential sweepstakes had played out as a primary in miniature: progressives lining up with the folksy Mr. Walz and his liberal accomplishments in Minnesota, while pragmatists drooled over Mr. Shapiro’s soaring approval ratings and Mr. Kelly’s sterling astronaut-turned-senator résumé.

Mr. Shapiro was a favorite of many insiders, with a rhetorical flourish reminiscent — some say too reminiscent — of Mr. Obama. Mr. Kelly was battle-tested in a Sun Belt swing state, campaigning comfortably in a fighter-pilot jacket affixed with the Navy and NASA seals.

By comparison, Mr. Walz had just burst onto the scene by coining the party’s latest catchphrase, calling Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio, “weird.”

Bakari Sellers, a Democratic strategist who is close to the Harris operation, said there was an advantage in avoiding political risk.

“There is something to be said for ‘do no harm,’” Mr. Sellers said of the Walz selection. Jamal Simmons, Ms. Harris’s former communications director as vice president, called Mr. Walz “cuddly” on CNN.

Republicans were gleeful that Ms. Harris had bypassed Mr. Shapiro, and they quickly sought to tag Mr. Walz as a left-winger from Minnesota , circulating images of unrest in the state after the 2020 murder of George Floyd. “Tim Walz will unleash hell on Earth!” the Trump campaign wrote in a fund-raising email.

But Ms. Harris and her advisers saw strengths in Mr. Walz’s low-profile biography, according to people close to the process. They believed he had potential appeal to the blue-wall states that are at the center of her presidential bid. He is a veteran who served in the Army National Guard, a former football coach, a hunter and a gun owner and someone who once won a House seat in a district carried by Mr. Trump.

As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Mr. Walz sponsored a gay-straight alliance and has said it was important at that time for the sponsor to be “the football coach, who was the soldier and was straight and was married.” When he won his House seat in 2006 in a conservative district, he ran on support for same-sex marriage.

To Ms. Harris and her advisers, his biography all but amounted to an appealing checklist: “Governor. Veteran. Coach. Teacher,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, the campaign chair, wrote on X . “Winner.”

Weighing and whittling the field

Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz do not have an extensive history together. But Mr. Walz did join her on her trip to an abortion clinic in Minnesota in March — the first such visit by a sitting vice president — where she praised him as a “great friend and adviser.”

“We have to be a nation that trusts women,” Ms. Harris said that day.

Ms. Harris is expected to make abortion rights a centerpiece of her campaign against Mr. Trump, and Mr. Walz has his own reproductive story, describing how he and his wife, Gwen, went through in vitro fertilization before having their daughter.

“We named her Hope,” Mr. Walz said in Philadelphia.

As Ms. Harris was deliberating, she saw something else, too: an affable potential governing partner with deep relationships on Capitol Hill and in statehouses nationwide. Mr. Walz currently serves as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

“It says to the heartland of America, ‘You’re not a flyover zone for us — we’re all together in this,’” Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, said in a brief interview on Tuesday. She said she had not spoken with Ms. Harris during the process, though she hailed the outcome: “House members are thrilled.”

Mr. Shapiro, Mr. Walz and others campaigned hard for the post, in public and private.

Both Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Walz called Democratic members of Congress and other influential stakeholders, including Randi Weingarten, the influential head of the American Federation of Teachers. Ms. Weingarten relayed to the Harris team that her labor union, which has at times had disagreements with Mr. Shapiro, would support whomever she would pick.

While Mr. Shapiro and Mr. Walz were cordial about each other, their allies were less polite.

Progressive Democrats who wanted Mr. Walz to be the pick debated the appropriateness of labeling Mr. Shapiro “Genocide Josh,” an epithet some in the discussion viewed as antisemitic given that he has had nothing to do with American foreign policy toward Israel, and circulated his decades-old and since-disavowed college writings about the Middle East. Mr. Shapiro’s supporters dismissed Mr. Walz as someone who would not deliver any state to bring Ms. Harris closer to the White House.

Going into the weekend, Ms. Harris’s choice was anything but a foregone conclusion.

On Friday, a small group of her allies conducted pre-interviews with a group of six finalists. The questioners included Marty Walsh, who had served as Mr. Biden’s labor secretary; Mr. Richmond, a campaign co-chair; Tony West, Ms. Harris’s brother-in-law; Dana Remus, a former White House counsel; and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada.

The finalists included Pete Buttigieg , the transportation secretary, and two other Democratic governors: Andy Beshear of Kentucky and JB Pritzker of Illinois . During those interviews, vetting materials, which included questions on everything from past political decisions to details on their personal lives, were reviewed with the candidates. At one point in his interview, Mr. Walz volunteered that he had never previously used a teleprompter, according to one person involved in the process.

The content of those interviews became the grist for presentations that a wider group of advisers delivered to Ms. Harris on Saturday.

In high-stakes situations like these, people who know Ms. Harris said, the vice president has long tended to pepper her advisers with questions. It is not uncommon for her to spend time deliberating before returning to her advisers with a fresh set of queries.

Nathan Barankin, who served as Ms. Harris’s top aide in the Senate and as her chief deputy attorney general in California, said the truncated timeline had worked to her benefit.

“Having unbounded time can lead to analysis paralysis,” Mr. Barankin said. “There is nothing about this campaign that can tolerate that.”

Critical moments came on Sunday, when Ms. Harris met Mr. Shapiro, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Walz in separate interviews at the vice president’s residence.

‘Let’s do this together’

Three people close to the selection process said that it had clearly come down to Mr. Walz and Mr. Shapiro after the Sunday interviews. Later that day, Ms. Harris had a debriefing with the same advisers whom she had met with on Saturday about her impressions.

Mr. Shapiro was described as asking more questions about his role and what his powers and authority would be as vice president. And compared with the others, he seemed less certain about taking the position.

Later on Sunday, Mr. Shapiro made a follow-up call, according to two people familiar with the conversation, to ask further questions of a Harris adviser.

The finalists got little word on Monday from the vice president and had to pass the time as the Harris team raced to prepare for a multistate tour beginning on Tuesday with a yet-to-be-revealed running mate.

Mr. Shapiro shot hoops in his driveway as cable news cameras rolled. Mr. Kelly and his wife, Gabby Giffords, who stayed in the nation’s capital even as the Senate was out of session, decided to head to the National Air and Space Museum near Dulles International Airport, according to a person briefed on their schedule. Mr. Walz went to a fund-raiser in Minneapolis.

“He knew that the conversations had gone well,” said Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota, who spoke to the governor at that event. “But, you know, you don’t know until you know.”

Around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Mr. Walz, dressed in khakis and wearing a camouflage baseball hat, took a call from Ms. Harris — he had missed her initial call because it came from a blocked number, one person familiar with the call said — and she asked if he would be her running mate. “Let’s do this together,” she said. Mr. Walz accepted.

Seven hours later, and with only three months to go until the election, the new pair strode onstage together, waving to a crowd of thousands in Philadelphia.

“We’ve got 91 days,” Mr. Walz said. “My God, that’s easy. We’ll sleep when we’re dead.”

Lisa Lerer and Kate Kelly contributed reporting.

Shane Goldmacher is a national political correspondent, covering the 2024 campaign and the major developments, trends and forces shaping American politics. He can be reached at [email protected] . More about Shane Goldmacher

Katie Rogers is a White House correspondent. For much of the past decade, she has focused on features about the presidency, the first family, and life in Washington, in addition to covering a range of domestic and foreign policy issues. She is the author of a book on first ladies. More about Katie Rogers

Reid J. Epstein covers campaigns and elections from Washington. Before joining The Times in 2019, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, Politico, Newsday and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. More about Reid J. Epstein

Katie Glueck covers American politics with a focus on the Democratic Party. More about Katie Glueck

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