Onboarding Prerequisites

The following table summarizes the actions to perform for setting up the Operator Connect customer.

Onboarding Prerequisites

Step

Action

Management platform

Tier

Documentation  Reference

Obtain Program Approval from Microsoft

The service provider adminmust obtain approval from Microsoft to be part of the Operator connect program.
The service provider adminshould have a Microsoft Entra ID subscription with Admin access.

Service Provider Microsoft Entra ID Azure account

AudioCodes Professional Services

 

Setup AudioCodes Microsoft Entra ID for Operator Connect

Instruct the service provider admin how to setup their Microsoft Entra ID for Operator Connect.

Service Provider Microsoft Entra ID Azure account

AudioCodes Professional Services

 

Create App Registration

Create an App Registration on Microsoft Entra Service Provider subscription.

Service Provider Microsoft Entra ID Azure account

AudioCodes Professional Services

Deploy Sync App on AudioCodes Azure Subscription

Deploy Application to AAD tenant

Describe how to attach the Operator Connect application in Azure to the Microsoft Entra tenant and to assign Users and Groups.

Service Provider Microsoft Entra ID Azure account

AudioCodes Professional Services

Deploy Live Platform Portal Application to Tenant

Fill JSON File

The service provider configures the information that they wish to display and enable the end customer to configure when they select the Operator in their Teams admin center. For example:

Focal Point Contact details
Countries of Services
Type of numbers (calling, conference etc.)

JSON

Service Provider admin

 

Submit JSON file to Operator Connect Onboarding Team

Open an ADO ticket and attach the JSON file to load into the system.

ADO

Professional Services or Service Provider admin

Configure Operator Offerings

Add sub-domains to Microsoft 365 to match the SBC certificate.

Configure the subdomain FQDN that is configured in the certificate of the SBC trunk in Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure

Professional Services

Validate the SBC Domain

Verify authentication to Live Platform portal.

Verify that you can connect to the Live Platform portal with the relevant Microsoft Azure operators that are configured on the Enterprise application in your Microsoft Entra ID.

Multitenant portal

Professional Services or Service Provider admin

Deploy Live Platform Portal Application to Tenant

Validate the SBC Domain

Validate the domain FQDN that is configured in the certificate of the SBC trunk in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This FQDN must also be configured in the DNS server configuration (see below).

Microsoft Admin Center

Professional Services

Validate the SBC Domain

Define all Trunks on DNS Server (Configure DNS A-records for each managed SBC device).

Configure service provider domain that is used by its’ customers for direct routing registered in Azure DNS, so that it can be configured by Live Platform. A record pointing to SBC FQDN should be created for each SBC site location name (Short Customer name).

AudioCodes Azure Portal

Professional Services

Define all Trunks on DNS Server

Configure Teams Trunks (SBC devices)

Configure all SBC devices

Multitenant Portal

Professional Services

Configure Teams Trunk

Test access to the Operator Connect portal

The Operator Connect portal is a back end interface for managing Operator Connect functionality between Live Platform and Microsoft. It is used mainly for managing leads, configuring trunks and calling profiles and for number configuration.

Operator Connect portal

Professional Services

Test Access to the Operator Portal

Configure Calling Profiles

The Calling Profiles should be configured including:

Type of supported calling
Deployed SBC devices
Emergency Calling parameters

Operator Connect portal

Professional Services

Once configured, verify they have been synchronized to Live Platform Multitenant portal (seeManaging Calling Profiles).

Provide Teams Test Tenant

Provide onboarder with a maximum of 3 Teams test tenants to be used for pre-production testing.

Email

Professional Services