With most of the businesses worldwide now resorting to the work from home scheme, demand has grown for some reliable and secure team communication tools. While some of these apps are more open and easy to use for general purposes like catching up with friends and colleagues, there are some that are focussed more on the corporates. One such application is Microsoft’s very own ‘Microsoft Teams’.
By definition, Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. One can compare it with similar peer software like Slack or Skype for Business, but Microsoft has given this, a lot of useful features and functionalities, that make it, a go-to for organizations around the world.
Microsoft Teams can be used to set up meetings on the fly, and we have already covered how you can set up a meeting, in an earlier tutorial. Now, there are many ways to join a Microsoft Teams meeting, with one of them being the ability to dial in using our mobile phones. If enabled, a Microsoft Teams Meeting invite carries a dial-in number that participants can use, to dial into the meeting and start an audio conference. In order to ab able to add a phone number to the Meeting invite, the first thing you need is admin rights. So, if you have admin powers for the meeting on Microsoft Teams, this is how you can add a phone number to the Microsoft Teams Meeting invite.
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Log in to the Microsoft Teams Admin Center using the appropriate credentials.
On the left-hand side menu, click on the ‘Users‘ tab.
Click on the desired username from the list of available users.
Next to the ‘Audio Conferencing‘ tab, click on the ‘Edit‘ button.
You can now use the ‘Toll Number‘ or ‘Toll-Free Number‘ windows to enter the dial-in phone number.
Once the phone number is set up, you can send the complete invite to the participants, and they can simply dial the phone number and join the meeting via audio conferencing.
If you want to download the Microsoft Teams app on your Desktop, you can use the link here, to head to the download page.
