If this is not a concern then performing the steps in this article to activate and configure the service is typically done first.

This on-premises server is an optional component to the RealConnect service, only needing to be deployed when using Skype for Business Server andor supporting Cisco endpoints with the One Touch Dial service.

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While an earlier article outlined all of the different RealConnect offerings available this series will focus solely on the cloud-based service model of RealConnect.

The recently released offering entitled RealConnect for Microsoft Teams added support for Microsoft Teams meetings.

Access to both services are provided together using the same consumption license, meaning that RealConnect can be used with any Skype and Teams meeting scheduled by any user in the organization.

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A free 60-day trial license is available today for most Microsoft Office 365 tenants worldwide.

While the trial comes with 5 concurrent licenses nearly any number of licenses can be purchased as needed.

Regardless of the number of Skype andor Teams meetings occurring at the same time, and regardless of the number of Skype or Teams participants, guests, or PSTN callers, only a VTC connecting into any of these meetings would consume a license and only while the call is active.

So, with a trial license as many as five different VTCs can use the service at one given time to join any number of scheduled Skype or Teams meetings.

In an organization which has enrolled and provisioned the service an enabled users scheduled meetings will natively include additional instructions (seen in the image below) for joining the meeting from any standards-based endpoint.

At minimum the provided calling option can be manually dialed from a VTC, but additional configuration like local speed dials, infrastructure dialing rules, or ideally the Polycom One Touch Dial service can be leveraged to provide a single Join button on supported endpoints to place the call.

These globally deployed services can receive video calls over standards-based SIP or H.323 protocols and the connect that call into a Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams meeting, where that meeting is hosted.

Note that the service does not connect Skype for Business meetings to Teams meetings in any way, those are two completely separate Microsoft meeting platforms.

The service essentially provides up to three different solutions which can all be leveraged simultaneously.

The Conference ID is dynamically created by the Microsoft scheduling services and is different for every scheduled meeting.

The Domain name in the call string will be one of three options denoting which of the three flavors of the service the call will be directed to: t.plcm.vc for Microsoft Teams meetings, v.plcm.vc for Skype for Business Online meetings, and h.plcm.vc for Skype for Business Server meetings.

The original instance of the service was launched for Skype for Business and v was used to denote video.

When support for Skype for Business ServerHybrid deployments was later added then h was used for hybrid.

As one can guess the t refers to Teams in the latest iteration of the service.).

That MCU may reside in the same Azure datacenter or a completely different datacenter, depending on the geographical location of that VTC.

Either way, all the cascaded traffic will be routed within Microsofts global network to locate the same Teams (or Skype for Business) meeting.

This is especially important when working with a trial license as the 60-day period can disappear rather quickly when potentially dealing with firewall configuration changes or anything else which may take time to address in a production network.

For example, supporting Polycom VTCs can be 100 cloud-based and thus the recommended route is to simply activate the service and then setup the endpoints for One Touch Dial, after validating connectivity to the services.

The same guidance goes for supporting Skype fir Business Server or Hybrid deployments.

Essentially, any feature or topology which requires the Cloud Relay server means that one should always get that deployed and functioning before activating the service.

Understand that there is no requirement to activate the service first or last, this guidance is simply related to maximizing usability during the trial period.

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