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
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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 |
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| Initiate an impromptu (ad-hoc) multiparty (3+ users) meeting with audio (including dial-out to PSTN or PBX users) | Improved |
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| 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 |
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| Automatically join meeting audio from PBX or other phone number | Improved |
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| Enable use of Lync Room Systems | New |
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