Microsoft Teams Administration Cookbook

Chapter 9. Microsoft Teams Rooms

By Randy Chapman

Now that you’re using Teams for collaboration, chat, and telephony, it’s time to start using it for meetings. Teams meetings are completely integrated with Microsoft 365 and can include attendees who are internal or external to your organization. Scheduling a Teams meeting is no different from sending a standard meeting invite—you simply need to designate it as an online meeting and book the room.

A Teams Room is a meeting room with dedicated hardware that is used to conduct or attend Teams meetings and that includes features to enhance the audio, video, and content of a meeting. Meeting attendees can be both in-person and remote. Users can attend meetings using the Teams desktop, browser, or mobile client.

This chapter introduces Teams Rooms, discusses how to successfully set up a room, and details how to manage a room once it is installed.

9.1 Mixing In-Room and Remote Attendees

Problem

Users in your organization need to be able to schedule Teams meetings that include both in-person and remote attendees. You need to allow users to join the meeting and also enable high-quality, two-way audio and video between those in the room and those attending remotely.

Solution

One way to achieve the desired functionality and quality is to equip the physical meeting room with Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR), an A/V solution designed for Teams Meetings.

MTR is an evolution of similar solutions designed for Lync and Skype for Business—Lync Room ...