Published Dec 6, 2024
Microsoft Teams will automatically associate BYOD rooms and peripherals using meeting room invite data. The rollout starts mid-January 2025 for Targeted Release and late January 2025 for General Availability, completing by late March 2025. Users will benefit from auto selection of devices, shared display mode, speaker attribution, and more.
Updated February 21, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
In order to automate BYOD user experience (BYOD mode) for users in meeting rooms, the peripherals that users plug in must be associated to those rooms in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro management portal. The Pro management portal will soon use meeting room invite data to intelligently associate peripherals to rooms, automatically creating inventory relationships for you. The association logic relies on many unique users joining a meeting with a specific meeting room booked and the same peripheral plugged in, as identified by serial number and VIDPID. Auto association can also keep up with the times by re-associating a peripheral if it gets physically moved to another room.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 469495.
When this will happen:
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by mid-January 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late January 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously early February).
How this will affect your organization:
For you: Shared peripherals (peripherals used by multiple unique users who are in the office) will be automatically associated to your BYOD rooms in the Pro management portal. This automatic process will enable you to see the peripherals in each room.
For your users: After this rollout, users who plug in an associated peripheral will automatically have BYOD mode activated because we can be confident these users are in a meeting room. BYOD mode will have these benefits:
Note: This process relies on bookings and peripheral plug-ins. It may take some time. Do not expect to see associations on day one of launch. We recommend checking back once a week or once a month to see how the process is going.
You will also be able to:
This change will be available by default.
What you need to do to prepare:
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current room inventory to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.
Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.