8x8 Phone App for Microsoft Teams
Overview
8x8 Phone App for Microsoft Teams enables Teams users to place and receive public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls from within Microsoft Teams without additional licensing requirements or software.
Online documentation for both Administrators and Users is linked below.
Applies To
- 8x8 Work
- Microsoft Teams
- 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams
- 8x8 Phone App for Microsoft Teams
Online Documentation
Requirements, Limitations, & Important Usage Info
Requirements
- At least one 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams user must be active on the 8x8 service for Phone App users to be enabled.
- 8x8 Voice for Microsoft Teams service must be configured and operational before Phone App service can be configured.
- Each Phone App user must have an 8x8 X Series license (X1-X8).
- An MS Teams Integration license in 8x8 Admin Console user profiles must be enabled for each Phone App user.
- Phone App users cannot have either a Microsoft Phone System license or Calling Plan assigned to them.
- Setup requires action by a Microsoft Global Administrator, and by an 8x8 admin with at least Users permission assigned.
- Large Tenant Mode is required to be enabled in the 8x8 Voice for Teams admin portal. This means that both Phone App users and Voice for Teams users must be added to separate Azure AD security groups.
Limitations
- For Phone App users, the following features are not supported due to Microsoft licensing and Phone App limitations:
- Click-to-call from Microsoft Teams > Calls app > Contacts
- Warm transfers
- Conference calls
- Promote call to meeting
- 8x8 Ring Groups are supported, but only when the Ring Pattern is set to Sequential (Cyclic Repetitive).
Important Usage Info
- Outbound Call Behavior
- By design, initiating an outbound call will result in the Teams user first receiving an inbound call. That inbound call must be answered to complete a connection to the called phone number. This is expected behavior.
- The native Calls app in the Teams app bar can be used for contacting other Teams users on the same Microsoft service. However, external (Non-Teams) phone number dialing is prohibited there, and will fail. This is because Phone App users do not have a Microsoft Phone System license or Calling Plan applied to them (a requirement for Phone App users).
- Call Transfers
- Call transfers must take place within the Phone App interface, not within the Teams native active-call window.
- As stated above, warm transfers are not supported in the Phone App.
- Call History
- The 8x8 Phone App has its own call history, which displays accurate inbound, outbound, and missed-call information.
- Note that call history in the native Teams Activity app in the Teams app bar will also be displayed, but all calls in that app will be marked as Inbound.
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- Contents of the 8x8 Phone App Contact list are polled only from Microsoft. Contacts are not polled from 8x8 due to Microsoft API limitations.
- The Phone App's Contacts list is drawn from the following. Contacts will only be displayed if phone numbers are assigned in the Office/Business or Mobile phone fields:
- Licensed users on the same Microsoft service.
- Contacts created by users in their Microsoft Teams client.
- Contacts listed in the user's Microsoft Outlook 365 (online).
- Microsoft Exchange GAL (Global Address List) is not polled and will not be displayed in the Phone App.