Planning for Dial-in Audio Conferencing

Lync Online Plans 2 and 3 natively support online conferences that can be initiated and attended by any user with one of the Lync conferencing clients (including the full Lync Client and Lync Web App). However, dial-in conferencing, which enables attendees to dial into the audio portion of a Lync meeting, requires purchase of a dial-in audio conferencing service from an approved Microsoft partner. This service therefore requires some planning before it can be made available to Lync Online users.

Microsoft maintains a list of partners that are approved for providing dial-in audio conferencing, in the Lync section of the Office 365 Marketplace site, as shown in Figure 28.2. The first step in the planning ...

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