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title: "MS Teams General Admin - Meeting Room License vs. Common Area Phone License"
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updated: 2026-07-27T14:13:19Z
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# 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](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/across-devices/devices/category/teams-rooms/20).

Microsoft outlines this in their article here [Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/rooms-licensing).

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

> [!NOTE]
> **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](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-add-on-licensing/teams-shared-device-license)

#### 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](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](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/microsoft-teams-rooms/compare-rooms-plans)

Webex is a suite of online meeting, web conferencing, and video conferencing applications developed by Cisco.