New admin role in Microsoft Entra: Teams Telephony Administrator

Microsoft added a new admin role for Teams Telephony in Entra in March. Although the Teams Telephony Administrator role is not yet been described in the documentation for admin roles, it is included in the documentation for Teams Administrator Roles.

The role includes the description and can be opened or assigned to accounts via the Entra Admin Center > Identity > Roles & Admins.

Assign the Teams Telephony Administrator role to users who need to do the following tasks:

• Manage voice and telephony, including calling policies, phone number management and assignment, and voice applications

• Troubleshoot user call quality issues using advanced tools

• Access, monitor, and troubleshoot tenant call quality and reliability using data exposed in the Call Quality Dashboard (CQD), including the users who are impacted by poor call quality

• View user profile page

• Create and manage support tickets in Azure and the Microsoft 365 admin center

The template ID of the new role is aa38014f-0993-46e9-9b45-30501a20909d.

Neue Admin Rolle Teams Telephony Administrator
New admin role Teams Telephony Administrator

The role now provides a total of six roles for Teams Administration.

  • Teams Administrator
  • Teams Communications Administrator
  • Teams Communications Support Engineer
  • Teams Communications Support Specialist
  • Teams Devices Administrator
  • Teams Telephony Administrator
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Tobias Asböck

Tobias Asböck

Tobias is a Senior System Engineer with more than 10 years of professional experience with Microsoft 365 products such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams Collaboration, Entra ID, Information Protection, Universal Print, and Microsoft 365 Licensing. He also has 15+ years of experience planning, administering, and operating SharePoint Server environments. In his spare time, Tobias is busy with updates in the Microsoft 365 world or on the road with his road bike and other sports activities. If you have additional questions, please contact me via LinkedIn or support@topedia.com.

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