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Microsoft Teams and Thirdlane Integration

Existing or new MS Teams users can benefit from using alternative voice service provider with a Thirdlane system as a gateway. This will allow to use any SIP carrier of your choice with benefits they provide and will add more configuration flexibility.

To enable integration with Thirdlane all the MS Teams users will need to have Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Phone System License, or Office 365 Enterprise E5 license.

If you don't already have it, you will also have to obtain an SSL certificate. Note that if you are using Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX you will need a wildcard certificate.

One time configuration steps in Thirdlane and MS Teams

 

In Thirdlane 

 

  • In Thirdlane Configuration Manager go to System Management -> Telephony Settings -> Microsoft Teams screen and specify your Base Domain, SIP signaling Port for Direct Routing TLS connections, and insert your certificate, its key and a root certificate. 

    In addition to any other root certificates a 'Baltimore CyberTrust Root' certificate is required and has to be added to the Root Certificate section. This root certificate can be copied from here.

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
MS Teams Domain Configuration in Thirdlane Configuration Manager

  • In the system firewall configuration and on the external firewall (if your server is behind it) create a rule for the specified port
  • In /etc/kamailio/local.cfg uncomment MS_TEAMS_FEATURE and restart Kamailio with "systemctl restart kamailio" (do not do this during working hours).
  • If using Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX you also have to configure and enable MS Teams for any tenant that will be using it

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Enabling MS Teams Integration for a Thirdlane ​​​​​Tenant

In Microsoft 365 Admin Center

If you already have base domain and users, add domain alias for the newly added Thirdlane domain for each user, otherwise, create users with the newly created Thirdlane domain. The screens below show you how to register a domain record following the Microsoft Teams documentation.

Here is how to add the domain:

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding MS Teams Domain - Step 1
Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding MS Teams Domain - Step 2

 Microsoft requires the added domain to be verified:

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding MS Teams Domain - Verification Using a TXT Record
Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding MS Teams Domain - Verification Using a TXT Record
Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding MS Teams Domain - Verification Using a TXT Record Completed

 After the domain is added, an alias has to be configured in MS 

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Adding User Alias 

 

Using Windows Desktop with PowerShell

Install required PowerShell modules using the following commands:

Install-Module -Name PowerShellGet -Force -AllowClobber

Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -Force -AllowClobber

Connect to MS Teams backend

$credentials=Get-Credential

Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $credentials

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Connecting to MS Teams backend
Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Connecting to MS Teams backend

Configure SBC using PowerShell commands:

New-CsOnlinePSTNGateway -Fqdn sbc.yourdomain.com -Enabled $true -SipSignalingPort 5062 -MaxConcurrentSessions 100 -ForwardCallHistory $false -ForwardPai $true

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Configuring Thirdlane as MS Team SBC

Configure outbound Calls from Teams

If using Thirdlane Multi Tenant PBX, run the following PowerShell command for each tenant replacing tenantx with Thirdlane tenant name, or run the command omitting tenantx if using Thirdlane Business PBX.

Set-CsOnlinePstnUsage -Identity Global -Usage @{Add=”Default”}

New-CsOnlineVoiceRoute -Identity "All" -NumberPattern ".*" -OnlinePstnGatewayList tenantx.sbc.yourdomain.com -Priority 0 -OnlinePstnUsages "Default"

Set-CsOnlineVoiceRoutingPolicy "Global" -OnlinePstnUsages "Default"

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Configuring Outbound Calls Via Thirdlane SBC

 

Setup a Normalization Rule for Outbound Dialing

 

$TCXExt = New-CsVoiceNormalizationRule -Parent Global -Name "All numbers" -Description "All numbers" -Pattern '^(\d+)$' -Translation '$1' -IsInternalExtension $false -InMemory

Set-CsTenantDialPlan -Identity "Global" -NormalizationRules @{add=$TCXExt}

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Setting Up a Normalization Rule for Outbound Dialing

 

Configure MS Teams for Each User

 

In Thirdlane Configuration Manager

 

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration

In MS Teams

 

Assign local number to the MS Teams users

Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity "userx@domainx.com" -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true
Set-CsPhoneNumberAssignment -Identity "userx@domainx.com" -PhoneNumber "extensionx" -PhoneNumberType DirectRouting

Here userx@domainx.com is the "Primary email address and username"  defined in MS Teams, and extensionx is User's Thirdlane extension number.

Disable VM box on MS Teams side

Set-CsOnlineVoicemailUserSettings -Identity "userx@domainx.com" -VoicemailEnabled $false

Here userx@domainx.com is the "Primary email address and username"  is the same as in the step above.

Microsoft Teams Thirdlane Integration
Assigning Local Number and Disabling VM in MS Teams