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Hello, I'm Matt and this is Collaboration Coach.
So I wouldn't normally put "free" in the title of the video just to get views
but there's an offer right now that I thought that viewers of this channel might be interested in.
The offer is from Microsoft, not Collaboration Coach, and they have a promotion running
which gives Microsoft 365 customers free audio conferencing for their Teams app for a year.
I've signed up for it and it's working well for me so I thought I'd share.
This feature would normally cost four dollars a month per person
and the offer is available until March 2021.
So what does audio conferencing do?
With this feature you can dial in from a phone to a Teams meeting on a regular telephone number
without having to use the Teams app or a browser
so it's great if your customers don't have Teams because they won't need a license of any kind - just a phone.
When it's enabled you can have an audio conferencing number added to every meeting that you schedule
and when you send the invitation the attendee will see the conferencing number at the bottom of the meeting.
When you start the meeting anyone who wants to dial in by phone can do so
and then you can admit them from the lobby when you're ready for them to join.
So who can use it?
To use this promotion, you'll need to already have a Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium,
Enterprise E1 or Enterprise E3 license.
The subscription will expire after one year and you'll have to start paying for the audio conferencing service after that
unless anything changes in the meantime.
And just as a disclaimer, I'm passing this information on to you as is - I'm not making anything out of it
and I can't offer any support I'm afraid, so if you have any problems with it then you should get support from Microsoft.
And I also recommend that you read the articles that I'll add to the description below
just to make sure that the offer is right for your organisation.
So how do you add audio conferencing?
Well the first thing you need to do is access the promotion and add it to your tenant.
You need to be a global admin with access to the Microsoft 365 admin centre to do this.
You just go to office.com and then you go to the admin app
or just go straight to admin.microsoft.com.
Choose "show all" and then "billing" and then "purchase services".
Scroll down to the bottom of that page and then choose "add-ons"
then scroll down the next page until you see "Microsoft 365 audio conferencing adoption promo".
Where it says "free", choose "get now" and then choose how many licenses you'll need
and then check out and complete the purchase.
Once you've bought the audio conferencing add-on,
all the global administrators will receive an email confirming that it's available
and if you go into your products list in the admin center now
you should see the Microsoft 365 audio conferencing adoption promo listed there.
You'll also be able to assign the license to individual users.
If you go into "active users" and choose someone,
in their licenses and apps section of the profile you can toggle the Microsoft 365 audio conferencing on and off.
When you assign a license to a user,
they'll receive an email with details on what the conference number is and their organiser pin
and for any assigned users, from that point on in the Teams app and in Outlook,
when they create a new meeting, the audio conferencing number will be added into the meeting details.
For Teams administrators, in the Teams admin centre they'll see an audio conferencing section in each user's profile...
...that has a license assigned.
Teams admins can turn audio conferencing on and off,
they can change the conferencing number and they can reset the user's pin.
So that's how you set up the audio conferencing promotion for Microsoft 365.
Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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