Source note · Teams Rooms and common area phones calling
Common area phone resource accounts are created as standard user accounts that are not bookable in Exchange, while Teams Rooms resource accounts are created as Exchange (room mailbox) user objects so the room can be booked.
Checked 2026-09-25
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Teams Phone
- Subsystem
- resource accounts
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- current as of 2026-09-25
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Set up the common area phones for Microsoft Teams — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · Step 2 - Create a new common area phone resource account and assign licenses (Important box)
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Teams Rooms and common area phones calling: source note teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type,
title = {Teams Rooms and common area phones calling: source note teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type},
note = {Source note teams-rooms-common-area-phones-cap-account-type, checked 2026-09-25}
}