How to transfer Microsoft Teams calls to another device

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Microsoft Teams is simply a Swiss Army weapon of functions including calendaring, instant messaging, record sharing and conferencing. Learn however you tin easy transportation your calls to different instrumentality successful Teams.

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My institution made the power to Microsoft Teams astir 2 years ago, and we haven't looked back. Teams is simply a versatile app offering some one-on-one and radical instant messaging, audio and video calling capabilities, record sharing, entree to OneNote and a calendar synchronized with your Outlook calendar. 

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Teams and Outlook (which needs nary introduction) are wherever I spent much than fractional my workday engaging successful connection and collaboration. I adjacent person a abstracted enactment laptop successful my location bureau which has Teams and Outlook up astatine each times for instant entree to information, which I instrumentality astir the location with maine erstwhile I request a alteration of scenery from my location workstation.

Since I person Teams connected aggregate devices and americium often engaged successful league calls, I often person to transportation an ongoing telephone to different instrumentality specified arsenic my telephone oregon my abstracted enactment laptop, specified arsenic if I'm getting successful the car oregon going to beryllium retired connected the deck. 

It's imaginable to conscionable disconnect the telephone from 1 instrumentality and articulation it from the different arsenic good arsenic to person Teams telephone your telephone fig to adhd that instrumentality to the meeting, but a amended enactment is to transportation the telephone straight implicit truthful you don't miss anything.

How to transportation a Microsoft Teams telephone to different device

Normally telephone transfers enactment successful either a "push" oregon "pull" script wherever 1 instrumentality either hands disconnected the telephone to different oregon the people instrumentality takes the telephone from the source. Teams works via the second scenario, which I deliberation makes things seamless and little chaotic, particularly erstwhile you're successful a hurry oregon person already walked distant from your workspace.  

To bash marque the transfer, entree Calendar successful Teams connected the intended target device.

Locate the ongoing gathering and pat Join.

You volition beryllium fixed 1 of 2 options (Figure A):

Figure A

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If you're conscionable going retired to the mailbox and not apt to request to speak, Add This Device volition enactment good (you tin besides unmute if you bash request to chime in). 

If you're going determination for a longer duration oregon actively contributing, pat Transfer to This Device. You'll request to pat Transfer to corroborate the 2nd choice.

The telephone volition beryllium dropped from the root device. To execute the reverse conscionable travel these aforesaid steps oregon driblet the telephone connected your mobile and articulation the gathering from your desktop/laptop if the league telephone is winding down.

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