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Microsoft Teams Rooms

Score8.6 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Teams Rooms?

A solution to turn any space into a meeting room designed for inclusive collaboration, where everyone can fully participate.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • User authentication

    Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Video screen sharing

    Users are able to share their screens with other meeting participants on video conference calls.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Desktop sharing

    Presenters can remotely share a view of their desktop with attendees.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Whiteboards

    Presenters or attendees can share notes or annotations they’ve made on a whiteboard/meeting space within the web conferencing UI.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Mobile support

    Attendees can access meetings/webinars from mobile devices.

    Category average: 8

  • Low bandwidth requirements

    Software is optimized so that meetings do not require a huge amount of bandwidth.

    Category average: 7.4

Excellent platform to deploy.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) in our meeting and training rooms , configured in our Yealink MTR system , Interactive display and Room panel display. Using this service we can perform daily remote meetings with our customers and providers connected by Teams , Zoom or Cisco Webex platform, allowing us to share content and record the session when is necessary.

Pros

  • Video and audio recording.
  • Sharing content.
  • Stable connection.
  • Webinar features.

Cons

  • To support 3 displays like Zoom Rooms.
  • Multicamara support.
  • Integration with Google Meet.

Return on Investment

  • We save time in transportation having more online meetings.
  • We save resources doing webinars for our customers without paying additional licenses.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zoom Rooms

Other Software Used

Yeastar P-Series PBX System, OneDrive

Food for Thought

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It allows us to communicate and collaborate with our staff and our customers. It seems to be the medium for IM, Online meetings that businesses now use. It's not as good as Cisco Webex - but it comes as part of the MS 365 Suite, so that's why businesses choose to use it.

Pros

  • Works on the Android Device well
  • Not bad alerting
  • It works well with MS Apps etc - which it should

Cons

  • Video Quality
  • Audio Quality
  • More options for in person video

Return on Investment

  • It works well with our customers
  • We use it daily

Usability

Other Software Used

Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued), Cisco Webex DX80 (discontinued), Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)

Microsoft Teams Rooms - Solution Accepted

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Teams Rooms to provide physical dedicated meeting spaces with the ability to deliver hybrid meeting capabilities. Our employees can tailor there meeting experiences with ease but also allow for, in some cases, complex scheduling requirements. Microsoft Teams Rooms is a great tool by itself, add some automation and specifically designed hardware, and you can manage professional meetings at any level.

Pros

  • Automation
  • Scheduling
  • one touch meeting join

Cons

  • Ai live captions
  • content only mode controls
  • device companion mode

Return on Investment

  • Increase in Staff confidence to use meeting equipment
  • less "device failures" during meetings
  • More and more staff have reduced the need to travel to each of our sites for a meeting.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

GoTo Room

Other Software Used

SysAid, RealVNC Connect, Adobe Acrobat Sign

Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Teams Rooms has helped our business by allowing team members from multiple locations to connect remotely without leaving their respective clinics. This increases productivity and does not take them away from their jobs as much as if all meetings had to be in person and they had to commute.

Pros

  • User friendly.
  • Cost effective.
  • Works well.
  • Saves time.

Cons

  • Requires use of an app.
  • All parties must have the app to participate.
  • Screen sharing hasn't worked at times.

Return on Investment

  • Increased productivity.
  • Keeps staff in their perspective locations.
  • Allows for spreading the message across the company without being in person.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Webex Share (discontinued) and Datazoom

Other Software Used

WebPT, Therabill by WebPT, Meta Business Manager

Justified Microsoft Teams Rooms conferencing

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Teams Rooms for our video conferencing requirement in our meeting rooms. These are very helpful when interacting with our customers on a monthly basis to present them with monthly reports. Using these makes the experience very much immersive and engaging for both the parties. Collaboration becomes easy with remote parties.

Pros

  • Camera view selection is a nice feature which allows remote users to choose the camera feedback to select for better experience.
  • Live reactions like hand claps, thumbs up, raised hands,etc can be used to indicate to presenters that a meeting attendee has a question. This is cool.
  • We can connect our laptop seamlessly to the Microsoft Teams Rooms to share our content or presentation which makes things very simple.

Cons

  • We would like to see a view which focuses on each individual and places them in a separate frame for an immersive experience.
  • It should connect to the Teams app in laptop as soon as we enter the room using some medium like mic audio.
  • Low bandwidth consumption codec to be developed to allow good quality video conferencing even in low bandwidth networks.

Return on Investment

  • User collaboration between remote employees has improved causing a positive impact on employee productivity.
  • Greater employee productivity has caused greater profits to the department.
  • Employees are happy to use new technology resulting in increased employee satisfaction.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Webex App and Yealink Conference Phones

Other Software Used

Poly Blackwire Headsets, Jabra Evolve2 Series, Webex App, Vidcast by Webex Leap