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Peter Pendlebury
Nov 02, 2018Copper Contributor
Calling Plans and Direct Routing in the Same Office 365 Tenancy
Hi everyone, I've had a good search of other posts and can't find anything so putting up a new conversation. We're working with a customer who has offices in Europe. They run Office 365 E5 wi...
- Nov 02, 2018
Yes you can if you are using Microsoft Teams! You can have one user using Calling Plans and one Teams user using Direct Routing. But Direct Routing is a solution for Microsoft Teams not for Skype for Business Online. You could use the CCE for Skype instead of DR or move those users to Teams.
If you want to you can have one Teams user using both. So a EMEA user is calling a analog device connected to the SBC or calling to a number in Asia you could route that call outbound to the SBC instead of using Calling Plans, if you want to.
Check out the Ignite session "BRK4014 - Deep dive on Office 365 Direct Routing" (I got the pictures from that session).
LinusCansby
Nov 02, 2018MVP
Yes you can if you are using Microsoft Teams! You can have one user using Calling Plans and one Teams user using Direct Routing. But Direct Routing is a solution for Microsoft Teams not for Skype for Business Online. You could use the CCE for Skype instead of DR or move those users to Teams.
If you want to you can have one Teams user using both. So a EMEA user is calling a analog device connected to the SBC or calling to a number in Asia you could route that call outbound to the SBC instead of using Calling Plans, if you want to.
Check out the Ignite session "BRK4014 - Deep dive on Office 365 Direct Routing" (I got the pictures from that session).
Peter Pendlebury
Nov 02, 2018Copper Contributor
Great, thank you. We'll probably move the users based in Europe onto Teams before we do the project in APAC anyway so shouldn't be an issue.
Pete