Skype for Business Online conference policy overview

I have created an Excel workbook with all the available conference policies, so, during workshops, I could drill down to which policy should be assigned to the different users based on the features that should be available.

The file is available here.

New PSTN Conferencing opportunities

On October 1st, 2017 a change in PSTN Conferencing for Office 365 is coming to a tenant near you.

PSTN Conferencing will in the future, as a supplement to the well-known monthly subscription, also be available as Audio Conferencing pay-per-minute feature for E1, E3 and VL customers.

The most important notes are:

• No monthly PSTN Conferencing subscription per users
• Toll and toll-free inbound calls are charged on a per-minute basis
• All outbound calls are charged on a per-minute basis
• Available to enterprise E1, E3 and VL customers

This new feature will be a very interesting change for enterprises there are not using E5 license already. Especially if the E3 users only uses the PSTN Conferencing on a non-regular basis.

Rates for inbound calls are unknown at this point in time, but rates for outbound PSTN calls are listed here: https://products.office.com/en-us/skype-for-business/pstn-conferencing#Rates 

If a user has a PSTN Conferencing license (add-on or included) all toll inbound calls and outbound domestic (domestic to the user location) is included in the subscription fee. The add-on subscription license is $4.00 per user monthly.