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Skype for Business Server 2019 hybrid implementations only use Cloud services provided by Phone System for unified messaging and do not integrate with Exchange Online. In Skype for Business Server 2019 you are now able to use the Cloud call queues and auto attendants described in Here's what you get with Phone System in Office 365.

To use an Phone System auto attendant or call queue with Skype for Business Server 2019, you will need to create resource accounts that act as application endpoints and can be assigned phone numbers, then use the online Teams admin center to configure the call queue or auto attendant. This resource account can be homed online (see Manage resource accounts in Microsoft Teams to create resource accounts homed online) or on premises as described in this article. Typically you will have multiple Phone System auto attendant or call queue nodes, each of which is mapped to a resource accounts, which can be homed online or in Skype for Business Server 2019.

If you have an existing Exchange UM auto attendant and call queue system, before you switch to Exchange Server 2019 or Exchange online you will need to manually record the details as described below and then implement a completely new system using the Teams admin center.

Overview

If your Phone System auto attendant or call queue will need a service number, the various dependencies can be met in the following sequence:

1. Obtain a service number
2. Obtain a free Phone System - Virtual User license or a paid Phone System license to use with the resource account.
3. Create the resource account. An auto attendant or call queue is required to have an associated resource account.
4. Wait for an active directory sync between online and on premises.
5. Assign the Phone System license to the resource account.
6. Assign a service number to the resource account.
7. Create a Phone System call queue or auto attendant.
8. Associate the resource account with an auto attendant or call queue: (New-CsApplicationInstanceAssociation).

If the auto attendant or call queue is nested under a top level auto attendant, the associated resource account only needs a phone number if you want multiple points of entry into the structure of auto attendants and call queues.

To redirect calls to people in your organization who are homed Online, they must have a Phone System license and be enabled for Enterprise Voice or have Office 365 Calling Plans. See Assign Microsoft Teams licenses. To enable them for Enterprise Voice, you can use Windows PowerShell. For example run: Set-CsUser -identity 'Amos Marble' -EnterpriseVoiceEnabled $true

If the Phone system auto attendant or call queue you're creating will be nested and will not need a phone number, the process is:

1. Create the resource account
2. Wait for an active directory sync between online and on premises
3. Create a Phone System auto attendant or call queue
4. Associate the resource account with a Phone System auto attendant or call queue

Create a resource account with a phone number

Creating a resource account that uses a phone number would require performing the following tasks in the following order:

1. Port or get a toll or toll-free service number. The number can't be assigned to any other voice services or resource accounts.

   Before you assign a phone number to a resource account, you will need to get or port your existing toll or toll-free service numbers. After you get the toll or toll-free service phone numbers, they will show up in Microsoft Teams admin center > Voice > Phone numbers, and the Number type listed will be listed as Service - Toll-Free. To get your service numbers, see Getting service phone numbers or if you want to transfer an existing service number, see Transfer phone numbers to Office 365.

   If you are outside the United States, you can't use the Microsoft Teams admin center to get service numbers. Go to Manage phone numbers for your organization instead to see how to do it from the outside of the United States.

2. Buy a Phone System license. See:

3. Create an on-premises resource account by running the New-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint cmdlet for each Phone System auto attendant or call queue, and give each one a name, sip address, and so on.

   See New-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint for more details on this command.

4. (Optional) Once your resource accounts are created, you can either wait for AD to sync between online and on premises, or force a sync and proceed to online configuration of Phone System auto attendant or call queues. To force a sync you would run the following command on the computer running AAD Connect (if you haven't done so already you would need to load import-module adsync to run the command):

   See Start-ADSyncSyncCycle for more details on this command.

5. Assign the Phone System - Virtual User or Phone System license to the resource account. See Assign Microsoft Teams licenses and Assign licenses to one user.

   If you are assigning a phone number to a resource account you can now use the cost-free Phone System - Virtual User license. This provides Phone System capabilities to phone numbers at the organizational level, and allows you to create auto attendant and call queue capabilities.

6. Assign the service number to the resource account. Use the Set-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint command to a assign a phone number (with the -LineURI option) to the resource account.

   See Set-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint for more details on this command.

   To assign a direct routing or hybrid number to a resource account, use the following cmdlet:

The resource account will need an assigned phone number if it will be assigned to a top level auto attendant or call queue. User (subscriber) phone numbers can't be assigned to a resource account, only service toll or toll-free phone numbers can be used.

You can assign a Direct Routing Hybrid number to your resource account. See Plan Direct Routing for details.

Note

Direct Routing service numbers assigned to resource accounts for auto attendant and call queues are supported for Microsoft Teams users and agents only.

7. Create the Phone System auto attendant or call queue. See one of the following:

8. Associate the resource account with the Phone System auto attendant or call queue you chose previously.

An example of a small business implementation is available in Small business example - Set up an auto attendant and Small business example - Set up a call queue.

Create a resource account without a phone number

This section discusses creating a resource account that is homed on premises. Creating a resource account that is homed online is discussed at Manage resource accounts in Microsoft Teams.

These steps are necessary whether you are creating a brand new Phone System auto attendant or call queue structure, or rebuilding structure originally created in Exchange UM.

Log in to the Skype for Business front end server and run the following PowerShell cmdlets:

1. Create an on-premises resource account by running the New-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint cmdlet for each Phone System auto attendant or call queue, and give each one a name, sip address, and so on.

   See New-CsHybridApplicationEndpoint for more details on this command.

2. (Optional) Once your resource accounts are created, you can either wait for AD to sync between online and on premises, or force a sync and proceed to online configuration of Phone System auto attendant or call queues. To force a sync you would run the following command on the computer running AAD Connect (if you haven't done so already you would need to load import-module adsync to run the command):

   See Start-ADSyncSyncCycle for more details on this command.

3. Create the Phone System auto attendant or call queue. See one of the following:

4. Associate the resource account and the Phone System auto attendant or call queue you chose previously.

An example of a small business implementation is available in Small business example - Set up an auto attendant and Small business example - Set up a call queue.

Test the implementation

The best way to test the implementation is to call the number configured for a Phone System auto attendant or call queue and connect to one of the agents or menus. You can also quickly place a test call by using the Test button in the admin center Action pane. If you want to make changes to a Phone System auto attendant or call queue, select it and then in the Action pane click Edit.

Tip

If your resource account has difficulties with being assigned to a call queue or auto attendant, see Known issues for Microsoft Teams and the How to fix my hybrid application instances section in the Microsoft Teams Blog.

Moving an Exchange UM auto attendant or call queue to Phone System

Migration from Exchange UM to Phone System will require recreating the call queue and auto attendant structure, directly migrating from one to the other is not supported. To re-implement a set of call queues and auto attendants:

1. Get a list of all Exchange UM auto attendants and call queues by running the following command on the Exchange 2013 or 2016 system while logged in as admin:

2. For each listed Exchange UM call queue or auto attendant, note its place in the structure, settings, and get copies of associated sound or text-to-speech files (the guid in the output will be the name of a folder where the files are stored). You can get these details by running the command:

   See Get-UMAutoAttendant for more details on this command. A complete list of options you might need to capture is at UMAutoAttendant members but the most important options to note down are:

   • Business hours
   • Non-business hours
   • Language
   • Holiday schedule

3. Create new on-premises endpoints as previously described.Assign the top-level auto attendant a temporary number for testing purposes.

4. Configure a Phone System auto attendant or call queue that uses the endpoints as previously described.

   You may find it useful to use the exercises in the tutorial titled Small business example - Set up an auto attendant to create a logical map of the hierarchies in your old Exchange UM system.

5. Test the Phone System auto attendant or call queue.

6. Reassign the phone number linked to the Exchange UM call queue or auto attendant to the corresponding Phone System auto attendant or call queue.

   At this point, if you have already migrated UM Voicemail, you should be in a position to migrate to Exchange Server 2019.

See Also

Manage resource accounts in Microsoft Teams - (to create resource accounts homed online)

This topic introduces how to create and test the device account that Microsoft Surface Hub uses to communicate with Microsoft Exchange and Skype.

A device account is an Exchange resource account that Surface Hub uses to:

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• Display its meeting calendar
• Join Teams or Skype for Business calls
• Send email (for example, email whiteboard content from a meeting)

Once the device account is provisioned to a Surface Hub, people can add this account to a meeting invitation the same way that they would invite a meeting room.

Configuration overview

This table explains the main steps and configuration decisions when you create a device account.

Detailed configuration steps

We recommend setting up your device accounts using remote PowerShell. There are PowerShell scripts available to help create and validate device accounts For more information on PowerShell scripts and instructions, see Appendix A: PowerShell.

For detailed steps using PowerShell to provision a device account, choose an option from the table, based on your organization deployment.

If you prefer to use a graphical user interface (UI), some steps can be done using UI instead of PowerShell.For more information, see Creating a device account using UI.

Account verification and testing

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There are two methods available that you can use to validate and test a Surface Hub device account: account verifications scripts and the Surface Hub Hardware Diagnostic app. The account verification script will validate a previously-created device account using PowerShell from your desktop. The Surface Hub Hardware Diagnostic app is installed on your Surface Hub and provides detailed feedback about signin and communication failures. Both are valuable tools to test newly created device accounts and should be used to ensure optimal account availability.