Microsoft Teams Calling in Aberdeen
Turn Microsoft Teams into your complete business phone system — make and receive calls, keep your existing numbers, and manage everything from one platform.
What is different about microsoft teams calling in Aberdeen
Aberdeen runs on joint ventures, contractors and client tenants, which makes Teams a slightly different proposition here. A lot of the working day already happens in somebody else guest tenant, and the useful question is not whether to use Teams but whether your external numbers, call handling and recording behave properly when half the collaboration is federated with organisations you do not control.
Rotation is the local constraint again. Calling licences assigned to people who are offshore for three weeks at a time are licences doing nothing for a quarter of the year, so the assignment needs reviewing on the same cycle as the rota rather than annually. It is a small piece of housekeeping that is worth real money across a large crew.
Who you would be dealing with
John Willis and John Otto cover Aberdeen and Dyce, Westhill, Portlethen — so microsoft teams calling here is arranged by somebody you can meet rather than an account team you never see.
Questions we get asked in Aberdeen
- We work inside client and joint-venture tenants a lot. Does that complicate Teams calling?
- It complicates collaboration more than calling. External calls still run through your own tenant and numbers regardless of whose meeting you are in, so the dial plan is unaffected. What is worth agreeing early is recording — whether calls in a federated meeting are captured, and by whom, is a policy question rather than a technical default.
- Should calling licences stay assigned while somebody is offshore?
- Usually not for the full rotation, and reviewing that on the rota cycle rather than annually is where the saving is. Reassignment is administrative rather than disruptive, and across a large crew the licences sitting idle for three weeks at a time add up to a real number by the end of the year.
Bring Your Calls Into Teams
Tell us whether you already hold Microsoft Phone System licences and we will tell you which of the two routes fits and what moving your numbers involves.
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