Dial-in Conferencing in Lync now just requires Enterpreise CAL

Some time ago the CAL licensing for dial-in conferencing was changed. The change is that for users to be able to invite to a Lync meeting where users are able to dial in from a phone or a mobile now just require that this user has an enterprise CAL. Earlier the users that could invite to such meetings needed to have plus CAL in order to do this. The scenario is that users now can invite to a phone conference without being enabled for Enterprise Voice which requires Plus CAL. This is ofcourse policy controlled on the Lync server and has always been possible, but not from a licensing perspective.

Figure 1: Dial-in Conferencing in Lync

Feature	New or Improved	Standard CAL	Enterprise CAL	Plus CAL
Initiate an impromptu (ad-hoc) multiparty (3+ users) meeting with audio and video (including dial-out to PSTN or PBX users)	Improved		●
Initiate an impromptu (ad-hoc) multiparty (3+ users) meeting with audio (including dial-out to PSTN or PBX users)	Improved			●
Schedule and invite attendees to meetings with audio (including dial-out to PSTN or PBX users and hosted audio conferencing features), video, web conferencing and content sharing	Improved		●
Automatically join meeting audio from PBX or other phone number	Improved		●
Enable use of Lync Room Systems	New		●

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/microsoft-lync-licensing-overview-lync-for-multiple-users-FX103789668.aspx

5 thoughts on “Dial-in Conferencing in Lync now just requires Enterpreise CAL”

The licensing guide available at that link doesn’t show the same information as figure 1 above. It actually shows ECal for all Features.

Ståle Hansen says:

20/12/2013 at 15:53

Good call, but actually the table is correct, there is a wording difference here. If you do a audio only ad-hoc multiparty call with pstn dialout capabilities, it requires plus cal, but if it includes video it does not require plus cal.. Maybe its a documentation error. I will update the table accordingly

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