How to Set Up Teams Phone System 📞 Shared Calling 💲 Save on Business Phone System

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I'll show you from how to setup a business phone system using Microsoft Teams that will work like your current analog or digital phone system but much better integrated with the Microsoft tools you already use. Specifically, I'll show you how to setup Microsoft's Shared Calling Plan -- which is the most cost-effective solution for implementing the Microsoft Teams Phone for your business. ✅ I optimize IT for busy business owners so they can focus on their bottom line ⛳️ 👇Click below if you want to see if this will work for your business https://calendly.com/chepurny Learn about IT business solutions at https://ApexOneIT.com Main features of Shared Calling Plan: Single phone number - Multiple simultaneously calls (no real limit yet) - Same business caller ID external callers see Users don't need a unique phone number - Or can get phone number per department/group/team PAYG = Pay as You Go (only pay for outbound, inbound included) PowerShell Commands used in video: 1. Install Teams Module: Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams 2. Then connect to Teams: Connect-MicrosoftTeams 3. Enable voice for the user: Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity [email protected] -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true 4. First defining resource account email to mainaa: $mainaa = '[email protected]' 5. Get the phone number of the Auto attendant resource account: $PhoneNumber=Get-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -AssignedPstnTargetId $mainaa 6. Set the static emergency location on the resource account: $CivicAddress = Get-CsOnlineLisCivicAddress -City ‘Name of Your City’ Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -LocationId $CivicAddress.DefaultLocationId -PhoneNumber $PhoneNumber.TelephoneNumber 7. ecbn1 is your emergency phone number you acquired, set it: $ecbn1 = '+19162502681' 8. create shared calling policy: $ra = Get-CsOnlineUser -Identity $mainaa New-CsTeamsSharedCallingRoutingPolicy -Identity MainSharedCalling -ResourceAccount $ra.Identity -EmergencyNumbers @{add=$ecbn1} Microsoft Help Page: Plan for Shared Calling https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/shared-calling-plan For additional info on Teams Phone, @CollaborationSimplified is also a great resource. Best overall Teams-ready desk phone: https://amzn.to/3UUB93J All Teams Phones & Accessories: https://amzn.to/4c9GskY (amazon affiliate) Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:51 Overview of Shared Calling 4:20 Overview of Steps 6:07 Buy Licenses 11:45 Assign User License 12:27 Enable Voice for Each User 15:23 Get a Phone Number 17:30 Add a Emergency Location 18:44 Create a Resource Account 20:40 Setup Auto Attendant 26:48 Assign Phone Number to Resource Account 28:14 Create Voice Routing Policy 29:19 Create Emergency Call Routing Policy 31:51 Create Shared Calling Policy 35:57 Assign Polices to Users in Bulk 37:18 Demo Test Call! ▶️ Subscribe if you watched this video :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cFMV-yxTU-A-Rr0R-rFcQ?sub_confirmation=1 📲 Connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/bchepurny/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/apexoneit https://twitter.com/BogdanChepurny https://www.instagram.com/apexoneit Some links may be affiliate. Support the channel by using my Amazon links, from which I earn commission.