Microsoft Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams Rooms are shared workspaces with dedicated Microsoft certified devices which enable the collaborative Teams meeting experience. The pictures below show a setup for a small Microsoft Teams Room:

On the left-hand side you can see an intelligent speaker on the table, along with a Teams Console to join and manage the meeting. There’s also a camera for participants under the display, and a content camera above the whiteboard. On the right-hand side you can see the same room with a Teams Panel outside where you can check the availability of the room.

The Teams Console is a touch device and is connected to either a “Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows compute module” or a “Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android device”. These are often referred to as MTR-W and MTR-A devices respectively. These combinations are known as a Microsoft Teams Rooms system. You could alternatively choose to use a Surface Hub since this, in effect, combines the Windows compute module and the Teams Console into a single device. Once you’ve chosen the Microsoft Teams Rooms system, you then acquire certified peripherals, such as speakers, microphones, and cameras, to complete your Microsoft Teams Rooms environment.

So, what needs to be licensed? The important components are the Microsoft Teams Rooms system and the Teams Panel, rather than any of the peripherals. There are two Microsoft Teams Rooms licenses which might be used, but also some scenarios where a Teams Shared Space license would be used. There’s a section covering the licensing rules themselves, and a licensing scenarios section with lots of different examples to show how customers may choose to deploy their Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions and the licenses that they would subsequently need.