Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa

Microsoft Teams (Free) users can currently join Teams for work (or school) meetings only as guests, which requires them to use a browser and results in a sub-optimal experience. The new feature rolling out will allow these users to join Teams for work (or school) meetings in one click, without being redirected to the browser or asked to fill in their name/surname. They will also be able to continue collaborating with the meeting organizer and other participants via meeting chat after the meeting.  The feature will work in the opposite way as well, so Teams for work (or school) will just as easily be able to join meetings hosted by a Teams Free user with one click. This is associated with Roadmap ID: 167326

Missing Meet URL for users of Lync Hoster Pack v2

The company I work for deployed Lync Hoster Pack v2 in the fall of 2013. At first, all things seemed fine, but after a while we received incident tickets regarding users who did not get the meet url published when creating a new meeting.

It has been a long road tring to find the root cause of this issue, especially since we at first saw no difference between the users we created where it worked, and users where it did not work. All users were deployed through the Citrix Cortex service for provisioning.

All users were provisioned correctly with Domainmap, TenentID and ObjectID. And if we moved users from one place to another it started working again.

It all turned out to be a rights issue in Active Directory. The root OU had it's correct settings, but when we deployed several resellers through the Cortex service, these reseller OU's did not inherit the rights from the parent OU. Applying the correct rights to all the sub OU's in the tree fixed the issue for all customers.

Here's a quick script to set the correct rights for hosting on all OU's in a tree:

Import-Module activedirectory
Import-Module lync
$counting = 0
$moreISH = Get-ADOrganizationalUnit -LDAPFilter '(name=*)' -SearchBase `
'ou=reseller,ou=hosting,dc=domain,dc=net'| select DistinguishedName
foreach ($ou in $moreISH){
Grant-CsOuPermission -OU $ou.DistinguishedName -Verbose -ObjectType user
$counting ++
}
Write-Host "Set rights on $counting OU's" -ForegroundColor Green

The commands above must be run a computer where the Active Directory and the Lync module is available.

These are the changes made by the command http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849655(v=ocs.14).aspx

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