Microsoft Phone System Voicemail with Teams


Recently Microsoft started changing their Office 365 environment utilizing more Azure based service. One of the first services moved into an Azure model was the Exchange Voicemail service. It now resides in Azure.

This service as a product is now named Microsoft Phone System Voicemail.

The works with Skype for Business and Teams in the following setups with either PSTN Calling (Microsoft cloud based PSTN) or PSTN Hybrid Voice (PSTN On-Premise)


Calling Plan
Hybrid Voice (PSTN On-Prem)
Skype for Business
YES
YES
Teams
YES
NO



Next, we need to consider the correlation with Exchange UM and Phone System Voice Mail.

Voicemail Option with Skype for Business and Teams

Exchange UM
Phone System Voicemail

Exch UM On-Premise
Exch UM online
User Mbx homed Exch On-Premise
User Mbx homed Exch Online

SfB On-Premis
YES
YES
NO
NO
SfB Hybrid with On-Prem PSTN (user on-prem)
YES
YES
NO
NO
SfB Hybrid with On-Prem PSTN (user online)
NO
NO
YES
YES
SfB Online with Phone System + Calling Plan
NO
NO
YES
YES
SfB Online with PSTN On-Prem (CCE)
NO
NO
YES
YES

Microsoft Teams is undergoing change until end of 2018. The next table might change
Teams + Phone System + Calling Plan
NO
YES
NO
YES
Teams + Phone System + PSTN On-Prem )*
NO
YES
NO
YES

)* Teams is not supporting CCE, an On-Premise PSTN cannot be use. The Teams Road Map states an availability for 2018, where Teams will support a native SBC with PSTN On-Premise

Note:
If a user is homed on Exchange On-Premise. Make sure the Exchange Plan 2 license is NOT enabled and further ensure DNS, Azure AD Sync and OAuth is correctly setup.




Configuration Phone System Voicemail

Phone System voicemail don’t need any configuration. It is automatically activated with Office 365 Tenant activation. If the user is provisioned correctly with the correct license and is enabled for Enterprise Voice with a phone number, then Phone System Voicemail will automatically be enabled and configured in the background.

Verifying the user’s enablement for Phone System Voicemail:

Get-CsOnlineUser | fl Alias,EnterpriseVoiceEnabled,Lineuri,Hostedvoicemail, hostedvoicemailpolicy

The HostedVoiceMail parameter needs to be: $TRUE




Activating a user’s Phone System Voicemail:

Set-CsUser -Identity user@yourtenantdomain.com -HostedVoiceMail $true

Phone System Hosted Voicemail Policy


NOTE:
The Hosted Voicemail Policy “Businessvoice” is a Default Policy that exists in O365 by Design. This policy will be automatically applied for any user who is Enabled for Phone System with Calling Plan.
When a user is enabled for Enterprise Voice with an LineURI set, the Hosted Voicemail Policy attribute will also be automatically provisioned for the user (this process might take some time for newly created or moved users, sometimes up to 4 hours).
In case you find that the user still doesn’t have  attribute populated with "businessvoice" then you CANNOT manually set this attribute using remote PowerShell as the command to do this is NOT available in SFB Online PowerShell.

Get-CsHostedVoicemailPolicy




Phone System Voicemail Transcription

Voicemail transcription is enabled by default for all organizations and users; however, you can control it by using the Set-CsOnlineVoicemailPolicy and Grant-CsOnlineVoicemailPolicy cmdlets.

Get-CsOnlineVoicemailPolicy





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