MS Teams General Admin - Meeting Room License vs. Common Area Phone License

Summary:

This article will give you a Meeting Room License vs Microsoft Teams Shared Devices License (formerly Common Area Phone License) (for costs of licenses, contact support).

Teams Room Basic License:

What is a "Teams Room" Device

Microsoft Teams Room Basic license should only be used for "Teams Room" devices. A list of Microsoft Teams Rooms phones can be found here Microsoft Teams Rooms Packages and Systems | Teams devices.

Microsoft outlines this in their article here Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn. 

The Teams Room Basic license will provide you with the following: 

Please Note:

If you need to place outbound calls you will need to add a Microsoft Teams Phone Standard License to the user account as well.

• Collaborate with your team wherever they are with hybrid meeting experiences

• Instantly join meetings with one-touch join

• Easily share content with wireless sharing

• Enable real-time collaboration for every attendee, with a shared digital canvas 

• Available on Windows, Android, and Surface Hub devices

• Supported with Teams rooms on the following:     

  • Windows

  • Android

  • Surface Hub

• Can join a meeting in the following ways:n     

  • One-touch join

  • Proximity join

  • Meeting ID

  • Meet now (start ad-hoc meetings)

  • Direct guest join for Zoom and Webex meetings

• Can share and collaborate all Teams content

• For meeting engagement, Teams video gallery with multiple layout options is provided

• Peer-to-peer and group calling and receiving 

• Secure operating system and system-level security  (such as secure boot and assigned access)

• Access to Teams Admin Center enrollment and inventory

• Automatic updates

Microsoft Teams Shared Devices: 

What is a "Shared Device"?

Phones intended to be "common area phones" or "shared spaces" devices. Further information is provded in Microsofts documentation here Microsoft Teams Shared Devices licensing - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

Teams Shared Devices license will provide you with the following:

• Join meetings by dialing in 

• No Voicemail

• Peer-to-peer answering and initiating call 

• Place outbound calls

If you need more information, check out this article with Microsoft:

•  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/skype-for-business-it-pro/meeting-room-license-vs-common-area-phone-license-vs-e1-phone/m-p/315033

• Teams Rooms Licenses: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/microsoft-teams-rooms/compare-rooms-plans