Teams - Open Preview of On-network Conferencing for Audio Conferencing - AC via Direct Routing?

The Open Preview of On-network Conferencing is available to all customers 👌. On-network Conferencing allows organizations to send inbound and outbound Audio Conferencing calls to Microsoft dial-in numbers through Direct Routing. This capability is not intended to extend the support of Audio Conferencing to third party dial-in numbers.

On-network Conferencing is not supported if it is used to route inbound calls to the Audio Conferencing service through third party dial-in phone numbers. 




Prerequisites

Before configuring On-network Conferencing, make sure your organization meets the following prerequisites: Ensure that all users in your organization who are enabled, or will be enabled, for Audio Conferencing are in Teams Only mode. The routing of inbound and outboud Audio Conferencing calls through On-network Conferencing is only supported for Teams meetings. Assign Audio Conferencing licenses to all users who will be using On-network Conferencing. Set up the Audio Conferencing service. Set up your Session Border Controller (SBC) for Direct Routing.

Enable the routing of dial-in calls to Microsoft Audio Conferencing through Direct Routing 

To route dial-in calls made by your on-premises users to the Audio Conferencing service through Direct Routing, you need to configure appropriate routing rules for your SBCs and Private Branch Exchange(s) (PBXs). You need to configure the telephony equipment of your sites to route calls to any service number of the conference bridge of your organization through a Direct Routing trunk. You can find the service numbers in Teams admin center under Meetings >> Conferencing Bridges or by using the Skype for Business Online PowerShell cmdlet Get-CsOnlineDialInConferencingBridge

Enable the routing of Teams meeting dial-out calls through Direct Routing Teams meeting dial-out calls are initiated from within a meeting in your organization to PSTN numbers, including call-me-at calls and calls to bring new participants to a meeting. To enable Teams meeting dial-out routing through Direct Routing, you need to create and assign an Audio Conferencing routing policy called “OnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy”. 

The OnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy policy is equivalent to the CsOnlineVoiceRoutingPolicy for 1:1 PSTN calls via Direct Routing. 

The OnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy policy can be managed by using the following cmdlets: New-CsOnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy 
Set-CsOnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy 
Get-CsOnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy 
Grant-CsOnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy 
Remove-CsOnlineAudioConferencingRoutingPolicy 

For more details about configuration please follow this article:  
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/audio-conferencing-on-network

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