BToE
We need BToE support with our Polycom deskphones. Without it, we will have to always run Skype for Business side by side to sign in our users to the phones.
JR Walters
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69 comments
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AJ Savino
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Any update on this feature? This is a must! The ability to pair the Poly phone with Teams on PC. Please ensure it supports using PC webcam + Poly audio
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Anonymous
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12/10/2020 and we're STILL waiting for BToE?? Come on Microsoft - enough with the delays we need this rolled out!
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Anonymous
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Chad,
I have a Yealink T58A running the .116 firmware. It does support Better Together, but read those release notes again, it specifies for meetings but does not mention calls.
Yes, I can hit the join button on either the phone or the Windows App and it starts the meeting in both places (I hear audio via the phone, I see screen shares on the PC).
No, phone calls are not handled as you would expect, use the phone to dial hear audio on the phone, use the app do dial it still uses the PC for audio. -
AKArt
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The primary benefit of BToE was that when making a call from the teams app, it would initiate the call over the phone unit rather than computer audio.
Even with the latest release, the "Better Together" feature is limited to meetings. I'm running 58.15.0.110 on my Yealink T58A and can confirm that when dialing from the Teams app, it doesn't run the call out via the phone, even when the connected phone is set as the default audio device in Teams.
Weak sauce. Glad Microsoft is FINALLY starting to think about this years after the entirely false "feature parity" statement they made, but we still have a ways to go here to reclaim the good integration experience that S4B had with 3pip phones. This broken UX was one of the biggest setbacks we saw with our customers when the Teams rollout was pushed.
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Eric Miller
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Feature parity between SfB and Teams....hahahaha. Best joke and sadness lie I've ever heard in the business world.
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Chad
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It looks like this feature is now available on yealink phones. The documentation states that it works over Bluetooth. See the firmware release notes here:
http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentDetailPage?documentId=262
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Chad
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Looks like there's hope for it being available soon:
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Недялко Дедев
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BToE is a must have feature for better user experience.
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David
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PLEASE add BToE for Teams phones!
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Nikk Stevers
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Really need this enhancement. Our clients expect the same experience they have had with their S4B on-prem deployment and the current functionality has left them with a bad taste for Teams.
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Anonymous
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We need to be able to transfer the call audio back and forth between PC and Phone. Whether BTOE or another technology, just make it work!
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Anonymous
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need thew feature to have the same experience as Skype
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Anonymous
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We need better integration with the desk phone and the soft phone... Cisco Jabber has done this for years. Ex\ If I pickup a call on the desk phone I need to be able to share my screen.
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Jeff Schertz
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The first feature for Better Together which is automatic lock/unlock of the phone when paired to a workstation is now available in the June 2020 client release for IP Phones:
Future Better Together features are planned but no specific details have been provided yet for which features and when they will be made available.
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Chad
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The unlock feature mentioned with Better Together at 34:00 in this video (https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/83485) appears to have been released today. I hope the advanced features mentioned are still on the way.
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Najmudheen Mattex
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Any news regarding the above. We are planning to move teams, only obstacle is the above.
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Anonymous
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Any news, Alex?
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Aaron Marks commented
At Ignite 2019, this was committed to for release in Q1 of 2020 with the full feature set rolling out by the end of Q2 2020 (this video at 34:00: https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/83485 ).
It appears as though Q1 was missed, but is this feature still going to roll out all at once by the end of Q2 2020? If not, could you please provide us with an ETA?
Thank you!
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Ted George
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Amazing this was not a priority consideration when developing devices for teams, what's the point of the desk phone if it cant communicate with the device your sitting at? Very few places these are deployed will not have a computer system with teams already running
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Mary Ellen Arbuckle
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It's a must!