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It is possible to use your existing Microsoft Teams Room System (MTR) for joining external WebEx or Zoom meetings.

Microsoft Teams - Chat-based workspace in Office 365. Webex - Connect with anyone, anywhere, any time. A common misconception is that Cisco WebEx Room Kits don’t work with Microsoft Teams. But this isn’t true at all. In fact, Cisco WebEx Room Kits work great on the Microsoft Teams platform and should be seriously considered as an option for your conference rooms, regardless of your preferred conferencing software.

The requirement is to make sure your MTR devices are running the Microsoft Teams Room App version 4.5.35.0 or later. The update has been out for a while, since it was released back in July 2020.

For the configuration steps, I will not dive into this. Since Graham Walsh has described it in good detail in hos blog post: Microsoft Teams Room Guest Join Access – Webex

The process that Graham has describes is the configuration steps for WebEx, but the steps are the same if you want it to support for Zoom meetings as well.

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After this configuration has been done. Then all your users will have to do, when they receive a WebEx or Zoom meeting invite and want to take the meeting in the meeting room with the Teams Room System. Is to forward the meeting invite to the MTR meeting room and the Zoom or WebEx meeting will be available on the MTR device.

Tom also had a blog post describing how Zoom and WebEx meetings work with Team Room System: Join Cisco Webex meetings from Microsoft Teams Rooms with direct guest join

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Use your Cisco Webex Rooms or other SIP devices to join CVI-enabled Microsoft Teams (typically your own company’s meetings). Table 1 outlines the features and benefits of the Webex Video Integration for Microsoft Teams within an organization.

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Many modern workplaces today have a mix of different vendors across their collaboration and extended productivity portfolios, making interoperability and integrations crucial to enable and retain work productivity. Cisco Webex® Video Integration for Microsoft Teams is designed for customers that standardized on Cisco® Webex Rooms and other Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard video devices and use Microsoft Teams for a meeting solution. It enables customers to connect these devices to Microsoft Teams without having to deploy a third-party interoperability solution.

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Cisco Webex Video Integration for Microsoft Teams is a Microsoft Certified third-party solution based on Cloud Video Interop (CVI) for Microsoft Teams.

Table 1.Features and benefits

Feature

Benefit

One-Button-To-Push (OBTP) join experience with Webex Calendar Service

The optimal user experience is provided with OBTP provided by Cisco Webex Hybrid Calendar Service. Easily and quickly join meetings by pressing a join button when it’s time to attend the meeting.

Direct dial or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) when OBTP is not available

If a device has not been OBTP-enabled, users can still join from their SIP device of choice via direct dial-in or IVR.

Webex supported layouts

Users enjoy an optimized user experience, with the ability to focus on what’s important to them by taking full advantage of multi-screen systems and flexible layout options.

Bi-directional content sharing (via physical connection or wireless for on-premises device(s)

Users can connect their laptop to a Webex Room device in order to share content during their meeting. With flexible screen layouts, users can decide on the best user experience to view someone else’s sharing.

Full roster list

Attendees gain full visibility into who joined the meeting, including any other Cisco Webex Rooms as well as Microsoft Teams devices.

Lobby management

Cisco Webex Video Integration for Microsoft Teams follows the Microsoft Teams lobby policy, simplifying management and increasing meeting security.

Webex Control Hub-based configuration

Streamline the admin experience via a centralized configuration.

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