Transfer to voicemail option
In Skype for Business and most other phone systems, you can select to transfer a caller directly to voicemail (receptionists use this all the time). Teams does not have this option. It is very important for folks to not transfer to a ring-ring-ring experience if they simply need to leave a voicemail.
Fred
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Thanks for your feedback. The transfer to voicemail option is currently in testing and will be released soon.
Note: Direct calls to a users voicemail is a separate feature which is planned. We’ll update when we have more details to share on this one.
Thanks.
96 comments
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Gena Roberts
commented
Very needed functionality.
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Anonymous
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This feature is heavily used on our current PBX and is a usability barrier to moving users into Teams
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Dave
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please add the most basic of phone features, Transfer to voicemail, this should have been part of the original release.
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Gary Swick
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Clearly a needed feature
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Sven
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We had Skype for Business, when do we get Teams for Business? looking forward to more improvements like this
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Anonymous
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We need this! Part of being a *real* voice solution.
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Joe Hendricks
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I have a ticket open with support about this issue - but they informed me their is no road map for this feature. I am unsure why this would be available in Skype for Business (pending license type) and completely removed from Teams.
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Ian Parlaman
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If my boss is in a meeting, I don't want them to have to walk to their phone to reject a call, or just have it ring 5 times in a row while they're trying to focus on their client. This is my first priority for a new feature.
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Joe M
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Yes I cannot believe we dont have some prefixes. Such as to transfer to voicemail place a * before the transfer or some sort of character first. This is crazy.
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Per Lind Hubinette
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This is a must have if Teams should replace S4B.
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Kelly Robb
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We need to have a transfer directly to voicemail option so that a customer is not sitting waiting on hold for too long.
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Christine Barron
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having a direct to voice mail transfer feature would be a very helpful tool in the business community. Often a member of our team will request not to be disturbed for a period of time if they are working on a project and having a call continually ring at their desk when they cannot answer is a poor service distraction. On the other end of the phone, a customer has to hear their call ring for x number of times before reaching the option to leave a voice mail message. Also poor as customer service goes.
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Bishop
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Please add this! Our receptionists need to be able to send a call to a voicemail without disrupting employees.
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Fred
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This is a requirement for receptionists.
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Bishop
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This is needed by receptionists call groups.
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Elizabeth
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I agree. Though you can work-around this by telling the employee to hit the decline button, this is not an acceptable work-around in many situations.