Teams Phone System

Enable-TeamsDRUsers GUI At the time of writing it’s not possible to enable Teams Direct Routing users via Teams Admin Center, only via PowerShell commands. This PowerShell script launches a WinForms GUI that can be used by anyone. This is useful for enabling or making changes to a couple of Teams DR users. Requirements - Microsoft Teams PowerShell module 2.0 or above - Teams Administrative Rights (Teams Service/Communications Administrator + Skype for Business Administrator) - Users must have a Phone System license ...

A very popular Topology for Direct Routing is to deploy a certified Session Border Controller into Microsoft Azure with SIP Trunks to Teams Phone System and SIP Trunks to a PSTN provider. There are Azure Datacentres all over the world, SBCs are rapid to deploy from Marketplace templates and SBC>Teams traffic effectively stays on the Microsoft CDN. Big carriers may have direct peering with Microsofts network, others will meet the Microsoft Network at Internet Exchanges (i.e. LINX in London). There’s no need to buy expensive WAN circuits and Compute costs for the SBCs are minimal, especially if on 3 year pricing. It’s just an awesome solution! ...