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When managing your organization’s Microsoft Teams environment for the MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams exam, it’s vital to understand how to create and manage these bridges to allow seamless integration of telephony with digital collaboration.
To create a conference bridge in Microsoft Teams, you’ll begin by setting up audio conferencing for your organization. Here’s how you proceed:
Once a conference bridge is created, ongoing management is key to ensuring security, compliance, and a seamless user experience.
By maintaining good practices for creating and managing conference bridges, you ensure not only that your organization is making the most out of its investment in Teams but also that it adheres to best practices for security and compliance.
Task | Tool/Section | Description |
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Acquire Licenses | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | Purchase audio conferencing add-on licenses. |
Assign Licenses | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | Assign audio conferencing licenses to users. |
Configure/Manage Dial-In Numbers | Teams Admin Center > ‘Meetings’ | Add, assign, and manage dial-in numbers for the conference bridge. |
Set/Reset PINs | Teams Admin Center > ‘Conference Bridges’ | Assign or reset PINs for meeting organizers. |
Reporting and Usage Analytics | Teams Admin Center > ‘Analytics & reports’ | View detailed reports on audio conferencing usage. |
Manage Communication Credits | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | Ensure there are enough credits for toll-free calls on conference bridges. |
In preparing for the MS-700 exam, understanding the creation and management of conference bridges is just one component of mastering Microsoft Teams administration. As Teams evolves, staying current with Microsoft’s documentation and best practices is essential for effective and efficient management of your Teams infrastructure.
Conference bridges are a feature in Microsoft Teams that allow users to call into a meeting using a regular phone line, providing a dial-in option for participants.
Microsoft Teams conference bridges can be set up with multiple dial-in phone numbers, including numbers from different regions or countries to facilitate easy access for international participants.
C. The Microsoft Teams service administrator
Conference bridge settings in Microsoft Teams are typically configured by someone with an admin role, such as the Microsoft Teams service administrator or a global administrator.
Conference bridge settings are not managed in the Microsoft Teams desktop client, but rather through the Microsoft Teams admin center or via PowerShell commands.
The default conference bridge number, also known as the auto-assigned number, can be changed by the organization’s administrator to meet their specific needs.
D. Audio Conferencing PIN
An Audio Conferencing PIN in Microsoft Teams is used by meeting organizers to manage the meeting over a phone line, such as admitting people from the lobby.
The dial-out feature to add someone by calling their phone number from a Teams meeting is restricted to meeting organizers and presenters by default; it is not available to all participants.
E. All of the above
Microsoft Teams conference bridges support features like custom hold music, automatic transcription, entry and exit announcements for participants joining or leaving, and the ability to record meetings.
An Audio Conferencing license must be assigned to users who need to create meeting invites with dial-in phone numbers in Microsoft Teams.
C. It provides dial-in numbers for audio conferencing.
A conference bridge in Microsoft Teams provides dial-in phone numbers that participants can use to join Teams meetings via audio conferencing.
When toll-free numbers are used in conference bridges for Microsoft Teams, the organization incurs charges for the minutes used by participants dialing in with those numbers.
The organization’s administrator can set limitations on the number of dial-in participants in a Microsoft Teams meeting to control costs and manage resources.
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