New Office 365 licensing options for Surface Hub

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A new Microsoft Teams Meeting Room License is now available on Office 365.
For Surface Hub owners, this new license is great news -- It joins other Office 365 licensing options to help maximize your productivity and improve your meeting experience.

The new license is called ‘Meeting Room’ (SKU Part Number: MEETING_ROOM) under the SKU code: 6070a4c8-34c6-4937-8dfb-39bbc6397a60.

The complete bundle includes the following services:

SKYPE FOR BUSINESS ONLINE (PLAN 2)	MCOSTANDARD	MCOSTANDARD (0feaeb32-d00e-4d66-bd5a-43b5b83db82c)
SKYPE FOR BUSINESS CLOUD PBX	MCOEV	MCOEV (4828c8ec-dc2e-4779-b502-87ac9ce28ab7)
MICROSOFT TEAMS	TEAMS1	TEAMS1 (57ff2da0-773e-42df-b2af-ffb7a2317929)
INTUNE	INTUNE_A	INTUNE_A (c1ec4a95-1f05-45b3-a911-aa3fa01094f5)
AUDIO CONFERENCING	MCOMEETADV	MCOMEETADV (3e26ee1f-8a5f-4d52-aee2-b81ce45c8f40)

When you purchase the new Meeting Room license, you will immediately have access to the full Teams bundle features and the ability to turn them on/off, as shown below:

This new SKU will allow existing Surface Hub customers to begin migrating to a modern platform, making the upcoming transition to Surface Hub 2S even more seamless:

No exchange Online license is required for Meeting Room Mailbox.
Customers can run both Skype for Business and/or Teams with the full conferencing feature.
Customers can leverage Surface Hub’s preferred management tool with Microsoft Intune.

The transition to the new Meeting Room license is easy and immediate – no downtime or heavy PowerShell-lifting required. Customers that already assigned other Office 365 licenses to a Surface Hub can now switch to this licesnse instead without losing any functionality.

If you’re creating a new Surface Hub account, this license will dramatically simplify the set-up process. After creating the Exchange Online Resource Mailbox, you no longer need to run the Enable-CsMeetingRoom cmdlet from Skype for Business Online Management Shell; Assigning this license to the account (via Azure AD PowerShell or Office 365 Management Portal) will automatically enable the account for Skype for Business Online and/or Microsoft Teams.

Remember that if you’re using Skype for Business as your preferred Communications app, running Enable-CsMeetingRoom has special features (Meeting room prompt for audio, Lobby hold) that you may want to preserve by running this cmdlet for new accounts.

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