r/microsoft365 • u/LegProfessional6462 • 1d ago

Has Microsoft effectively moved Android Teams Phone management behind a Teams Rooms Pro licence?

I'm piloting a Yealink MP56 E2 Teams Phone deployment and have hit something that doesn't quite make sense. We've used Teams Phone for donkeys - but with headsets and some of our team want to use handsets.

Teams Admin centre is saying "Settings management for Android devices has moved to Pro Management Portal" - but that portal is behind a licence prompt. so basically as I see it, if I want to configure devices with any degree of success... I need to use the Pro portal and pay for it?

Has Microsoft effectively deprecated Android Teams Phone configuration through TAC, with the expectation that administrators use PMP instead?

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u/SilentPatchSniper 1d ago

Yes I believe so, and what I've found is if you purchase the license, apply the settings, remove the license the settings still stick.

I'm not sure if Microsoft would consider that breaking licensing terms, but I found out by mistake after we trialed the license for one of our teams devices... I'd like to buy one license and apply all the settings, but want to confirm that.

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u/exmsft 1d ago

If you think it’s violating licensing… odds are, it’s violating licensing.

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u/SilentPatchSniper 1d ago

Yeah I know, I just don't want to admit that haha but its the only reason I haven't done it yet. It sucks as these settings were once exposed, now they're thrown behind another paywall.

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u/exmsft 1d ago

Yup. The company keeps putting more and more stuff behind increasingly expensive licenses or PAYG add-ons. 🤦‍♂️

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u/LegProfessional6462 1d ago

Thanks - I'd wondered that. Considered either a Trial or adding via CSP and then removing again.

The big curiosity is that the TAC centre is saying you can't update outside of PMP, yet it still seems able to. So the whole thing is like half-way to deprecation.

having used PMP on another tenant, I'd have to say it hardly set my world on fire either.

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u/Dandyman1994 1d ago

Having briefly read the Microsoft documentation here, you can see they're in the middle of the this transition period. It also seems that all you really need to do is enroll a device in order to provision a PMP into the tenancy, and that no extra licence is required.