If you use Microsoft Teams you may be already aware about the Microsoft Teams Room offering which allows you to setup your meeting rooms with devices running Teams (similar to Zoom Rooms).
A Teams Room device needs a Teams Room license to work and being manageable.
Well, good news as now you have 2 Teams Room licensing options:
- Free – called Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic (or Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic without Audio Conferencing if you don’t need audio conferencing for the Teams Room device)
- Paid – called Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro (or Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro without Audio Conferencing for the same reason as above)
Before jumping around as you could reduce your invoices, you first need to identify if the free Teams Room license is suitable for you:
| Capability | Teams Room Basic | Teams Room Pro |
| Automatic device updates |
✔ |
✔ |
| Basic device analytics |
✔ |
✔ |
| Basic device health |
✔ |
✔ |
| Call quality dashboard |
✔ |
✔ |
| Create and view workspaces |
✔ |
✔ |
| Real-time telemetry |
✔ |
✔ |
| Regular feature updates |
✔ |
✔ |
| Remote sign-in and sign-out |
✔ |
✔ |
| Android device configurations |
✔ |
|
| Device alerts |
✔ |
|
| Device analytics – health and utilization |
✔ |
|
| Device detail view |
✔ |
|
| Device health details |
✔ |
|
| Device tags |
✔ |
|
| Graph APIs |
✔ |
|
| Manual device updates |
✔ |
|
| Remote restart |
✔ |
|
| Windows device peripherals management |
✔ |
|
| Windows device settings |
Now you have identified if Teams Rooms Basic is suitable for you, you can then buy the subscription from your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) from the Billing\Purchase services blade and search for Microsoft Teams Rooms Basic (under the Other services filtering option)
