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Within Office 365 admin centre go to Billing > Purchase Services and add Common Area Phoneīy adding the CAP it enables Phone System and SfB Online Plan 2 within the CAP SKUįirst i would check available phone numbers under Voice > Phone Numbers In SfB Admin Centre assign a telephone number if you have one available or request a new telephone numberĮnsure you have purchased the Common Area Phone SKU.Assign Calling Plan (If using Microsoft Phone System with Calling Plans) I haven’t read if CAP are supported with CCE or OPCH deployments.Create new user for the Common Area Phone.Ensure you have purchased the Common Area Phone SKU.Prepare Account for Common Area Phone for Microsoft Phone System with Calling Plans My scenario is that Batman needs to setup a common Area Phone in the batcave. There is a different phone sign in process for CAP phones and are setup as devices rather than users.
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Previously the only method to setup a Common Area Phone for Skype for Business Online was to create a full blown user and then licence them as a user then add Phone System then add a Calling Plan this made the cost of a common area phone very expensive for a common area phone.Ī common area phone is a phone that usually in shared area and is not associated to an individual user, some examples could be a phone in a canteen, meeting room, reception, door phones etc. This post is to show what steps i took to successfully setup and configure a CAP with SfB Online.Ī little about Common Area Phones in General This post follows on from my SfB Online Common Area Phone experience where at first i had a number of issues provisioning Common Area Phones for SfB Online which i had to open a Office 365 support ticket and Microsoft had several reports of the CAP Portal not working which has now been resolved.