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Overview  Admin experience when he/she try to assign a number to an user, "No results were found"  1.  Replication delay &  License status  To address the delay in license assignment and replication from Microsoft, connecting to PowerShell is indeed a practical approach. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you figure out the status of the license assignment: Check License Status, Open PowerShell : Start by opening PowerShell with administrative privileges, Connect to Microsoft Teams : Use the  Connect-MicrosoftTeams  cmdlet to establish a connection to your Teams environment  and try following, Wait for Replication: Keep in mind that after assigning a Microsoft Calling Plan to a user, it can take up to 24 hours before they’ll see the dial pad in their Teams client, Get-csOnlineUser -Identity "madushkadias@deployskypeforbusiness.com" | fl  Output shows following and Provisioned plan missing, and so, my assumption become valid.   ...

Lot of customers looking way to end the meeting for all,  when presenter is done with the meeting. first of for this function to work correctly, it required correctly organize the meeting.  Step #1 add the co-organizer is a must. Step #2 More option in the Teams meeting Step #3 Chose co-organizer(s)  Once meeting options has been added and done, as Co-organizer you will be able to have following option in addition to LEAVE the meeting.   This feature will help you to have after meeting ends participant use for gossip using same meeting or avoid unwanted chat usage.  Enjoy!

I had very interesting experience recently related to user migration from Skype for business to Teams direct routing.  Most common issue is to missing dial pad would be following,  - Teams license assigned or assigned license change not replicate on time or delay.     License was PhoneSystem since this was Direct Routing work.  - is enable for Enter prise voice - Whether th e user assigned a  VoiceRoutingPolicy -  Whether th e user assigned a  TeamsCallingPolicy Addition to this i checked following,  -Homed location/HostingProvider of the users and whether user has been       migrated successful or not.  Get-CsOnline -Identity xxx@abc.com | fl DisplayName, LineUri, EnterpriseVoice*, HostingProvider This where the interesting part came in found a difference in another attribute which never had seen before.  Get-CsOnline -Identity xxx@abc.com | fl DisplayName, LineUri, EnterpriseVoice*, HostingProvider, ...

Teams SBA registration was showing different errors due to couple reasons and this article share the experience i went through on that.  This is the 3rd error Classic mistake i did was coping the Secret ID provided below because in Microsoft article says Application (Client ID) and Client secret.  I copied the Secret ID (which is wrong) instead of that it should be  Value should be copied and thats the client secret. Following is from Azure App registration.  Thanks to Nathan, he had a chance to work on App registration for another product prior and he was showing the mistake. This was the 1st issue which i faced, during that time i created the secret ID and App ID which i was used in wrong way but the error message i got was nothing to do with it. My expectation was is secret is wrong then Auth failure in seconds. This was the 2nd issue, This came when i try to do it on the SBA by providing Azure Application credential (being global administrator will do)  One ...

Now tenant admin can help with user for custom greetings,  DefaultGreetingPromptOverwrite and  DefaultOofGreetingPromptOverwrite many other user settings on behalf of users. This may help to end users when they are away to set up forwarding rules to another colleague or external number etc. Set-CsUserCallingSettings  -Identity "madushka@abc.com"  -IsForwardingEnabled $True -ForwardingType Immediate -ForwardingTarget taniya@abc.com -ForwardingTargetType SingleTarget - Verbose Note : You must have PhoneSystem License attached for you to have this forwarding to a another person. Basically both users must have PhoneSystem License.  Forward to external number   when you try this make sure you are using E.164 standard for phone numbers.  Set-CsUserCallingSettings -Identity " madushka@abc.com"   -IsForwardingEnabled $True -ForwardingType Simultaneous -ForwardingTargetType SingleTarget -ForwardingTarget "+1365888xxx"  - Verbose Note : You...

Hosting Provider  To share the same SIP address in On-prem and online (Teams) required hybrid to set/change Hosting Provider.  for you to run get-cshostingProvider you will required Skype for business Online (old) module or Skype for business ISO mount and install the tools. Hosting provider identity should be Office365  Proxy FQDN should be "sipfed.online.lync.com" Enable to $True Enabled Shared Address Space $True Host OCSUsers    $True VerificationLevel    $True AutoDiscoverUrl  need to set  https://webdir.online.lync.com/Autodiscover/AutodiscoverService.svc/root   Tenant Federation Configuration  SharedSIPAddressSpace should be True   Access Edge Configuration  Make sure set all the important properties you need to True  Check default configuration in this article -  Manage Access Edge Configuration for your organization - Skype for Business Server 2015 | Microsoft Docs

  I had a scenario where porting is completing and customer end devices are not ready/late delivery to the location. Had many user numbers and many reception numbers, which i didn't port everything but partial porting and this is one of the number +1 365 xxx 421 and since it is "ServiceNumber" from Local telco.  Due to the device not availability delay i have to look for an option asap. Option #1 - Convert this number to user number and add forwarder to reception number. it can be Teams client or may be number forwarded. Option #2 - Do the option#1 part of it and forward immediate Voicemail but for how many days? This wont be an option :D   Option #3 - Create new Auto Attendant immediately and Add the greeting (just like other reception number) so no one feel a difference or changes. Then all the call forwarded to existing to reception number: +1 365 xxx 6226 (Not migrated reception/main line) Best option will be Option #3 and i have created AA and ...