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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61 comments
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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
commented
It's a must!
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Richard Hlavienka
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It's show stopper for SfB to Teams migration
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Chris Miller
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Transitioning from USB to BToE reduced the reliability. Developing Bluetooth radio as the only pathway to integrated functionality is begging for even more reliability problems. We are definitely going to need to examine other solutions very closely as the sunsetting of SfB and mandated MS Teams adoption looms.
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Anonymous
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This would be a very useful addition to our existing functionality as the polycom desk phones are quite well used in my organisation
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Jim
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I can't believe BToE isn't available on Teams yet -- its not as if this is a new, untested feature! We are probably going to look for another UC solution if Microsoft can't provide this fairly basic feature as our user base is already using BToE and right now Teams is a definite step backwards on this front.
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Chad
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Better Together is discussed at 34:00
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Matt P
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We're also running SFB, started trying out Teams and finding it lacking a lot of features including this. The desk phones are pretty much a waste of space once we put the Teams firmware on them.
As great as Teams is for everything else the phone functionality is significantly lacking.
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Brandon
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A call comes in, maybe it has video, maybe the caller is also sharing their screen, I'd like the accept the call on my desktop and use my Teams IP phone for the audio portion of the call. While we're at it, i'd like to find the contact that I need to communicate with on the desktop, click the call button and have my Teams IP phone ring the contact. There would be a status window on my desktop telling me there's an ongoing call. I can use this status window to add video, or screen share, I can click add participants to the call via this status window.
No need to review this for very long... see Skype for Business - BTOE!!! All the logic has already been done... Do it! Do it now! -
Kelly Reed
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This is much needed, it is holding up our transition to Teams.