It would still be possible to manually dial into a meeting if the invitation includes an audio conferencing number, but the invite would still not be viewable on the phone itself to see the dial-in information. This is the main reason that they should not be deployed in a typical conference room as without a mailbox there is no calendar, and without a calendar there is no way to invite that device to a scheduled meeting.
Throughout the Microsoft UC journey the common area phones have had a very deliberate distinction that there is no mailbox available to them. Then depending on the configuration and licensing of the account assigned to the phone various additional features could be made available, like searching for other users or placing non-emergency calls to local or even international numbers. Often the baseline requirement is for a phone that will always be registered so that emergency services can be dialed without issue or delay.
They are not tied to a specific person and thus features like contacts, voice mail, or a calendar are not really applicable. These are phones which may be located in areas like break rooms, front lobbies, shared spaces, warehouses, factory floors, etc. Common spaces typically don’t have calls coming into them as usually no one would know who is in that space at a given time, less anyone at all. Essentially the requirement is just for ‘dial tone’ to facilitate placing outbound calls to other users in the same organization, other organizations, PSTN numbers, and/or emergency services. Thus a core trait of the common area phone scenario is providing basic calling capabilities and not much of anything else. Generally the ideal of a common area phone is just that: a phone located in a shared space which only needs to provide the ability to place phones calls to other users and/or phone numbers. The deployment and administrative experience for a Common Area Phone (CAP) across Microsoft’s UC platform has changed over the years as it has matured from an on-premises software release with Lync to hybrid offerings of Skype for Business only to eventually be replaced by the cloud-only Microsoft Teams solution.
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