Microsoft Teams

How-to configure direct routing

During the onboarding process, peoplefone will assign you a specific domain that must be configured in your O365 account.
To configure them, go to your O365 portal, select on the left menu Setup → Domain and select Add domain

Enter the domain that you received from peoplefone (in this example 31857.uctrunk.com)

Copy-paste this screen and send it back to peoplefone so they can setup the validation

When you receive the confirmation that the TXT verification is ready from peoplefone, you must go back to this domain set up and start the verification process.
After that you must select “Skip and do this later” as no further services must be activated for the domain.

Once the domain setup’s are completed, the next step is to activate them.
For this, we will need to add a “dummy” user (with a E3 or E5 license) to this specific domain, not the default one.
When the setup is completed you can delete this “dummy” user.
IMPORTANT: This user must have the global admin role

Please note, that enabling the rules you configure on Microsoft’s pages via PowerShell can take up to 72 hours.

This How-To covers the setup for a simple solution where only Teams is enabled as communication solution in your O365 account.

If you have or plan to have a hybrid solution with Teams and Skype for Business online or Skype, then you will need to select more parameters.

More information on:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/direct-routing-plan
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/direct-routing-configure

Before starting this setup, verify that you have received the following information from peoplefone:
sbc_port
sbc_domain
sbc_nb_channels (voice channels)

In the following setup, we will use as example: (it is possible that the sbc_port is the same)
sbc_port: 6000
sbc_domain: 31857.uctrunk.com

For this setup you will need to login to your Teams Admin dashboard: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/

Go to Users -> Manage users.
Select a user.
Under Account General information, select Edit.
Under Assign phone number, from the Phone number type drop-down menu, select Direct Routing.
Enter an assigned phone number and a phone number extension if applicable.
Select Apply.

In the left navigation, go to Voice > Direct Routing, and then click the SBCs tab.
Click Add.
Enter your “xxxxx.uctrunk.com” FQDN for the SBC.
Configure the following settings for the SBC, Port->6000, Forward Call History->On, Forward PAI Header->On
For details on each of these settings, see Microsoft Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/direct-routing-connect-the-sbc#sbc-settings
Set the Concurrent call capacity according the amount of channels you ordered
When you’re done, click Save.

In the left navigation of the Microsoft Teams admin center, go to Voice > Direct Routing, and then in the upper-right corner, select Manage PSTN usage records.
Click Add, type in a name, and then click Apply.

In the left navigation, go to Voice > Voice Routing Policies
Click Add.
Give the Policy a name
Click on Add PSTN usage… and select the PSTN Usage record and Click Apply
Click Save
After creating the Policy, you assign it to users to allow them to make outgoing calls

In the left navigation of the Microsoft Teams admin center, go to Voice > Direct Routing, and then select the Voice routes tab.
Click Add, enter a name, and then add the description.
Set the priority to 1, and then set the dialed number pattern to .*
Under SBCs enrolled, click Add SBCs, select the Direct Routing Trunk then click Apply.
Under PSTN usage records, click Add PSTN usage, select the PSTN usage record, and then click Apply.
Click Save.

In the left navigation of the Microsoft Teams admin center, go to Voice > Resource accounts, and then click on Add
Give the resource account a username and select whether it is for an Auto attendant or Call queue
Select the resource account in the list and then click on Assign/unassign
Select Direct Routing as the phone number type and then enter the phone number below like with the users
You can now assign the Resource account to your call queue or auto attendant to route incoming calls to them

This How-To is based on the Microsoft documentation version published 27.06.2018 (GA)
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