Onboarding Prerequisites for Essentials Plus and Pro

The following table describes the procedures to perform prior to Onboarding.

Procedure

Mandatory or Optional

Reference

Microsoft requirements for Direct Routing hosted SBC.

Microsoft Guidelines

Microsoft Direct Routing with Multiple Tenants

Verify that a license is available for on the customer tenant. An M365 is license is required for activating the PSTN trunk (customer sub domain).

Mandatory

Verify License Availability

Setup the DNS server connection between the end customer domain and the service provider domain for DNS provisioning.

Mandatory

Register End Customer Tenant DNS Sub domains

Setup Token authentication for connecting to customer M365 platform. The Token connection is used for customer onboarding and synchronization with the customer M365 platform.

Mandatory

Secure Token Connection

Exclude customer tenant Azure account (used for Token authentication) from Conditional Access rules that forces session reauthentication. Failure to perform this action will cause Token invalidity. In addition, configure per-User MFA as an additional measure to ensure Token continuity.

Mandatory

Configure Conditional Access Rules and MFA