Microsoft is moving management of Teams Rooms on Android, panels, phones and SIP devices out of the Teams Admin Center (TAC) and into the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal (PMP), and says the first stage of that deprecation starts by mid-November. IT teams will need to update and restart these devices from the new portal once the cutoffs pass.
In public clouds, TAC administration for SIP devices, Teams Rooms on Android and panels starts deprecating by mid-November and is due to finish by the end of the month, Microsoft says in its transition guide. Phones follow, starting in early December and finishing by December 15.
That gives admins until those dates to get every device, admin and license in order, because devices that miss the move "could have limited management capabilities" once the TAC features go, Microsoft warned in message center notice MC1448373, updated on October 29.
A Deadline That Has Already Moved
The switch-off has already slipped once. The same notice says the deprecation was "originally planned for September 2026" and has been extended into November "to allow additional time for remaining feature dependencies and customer migration." When UC Today covered the move on October 2, the timetable had the removal finishing by the end of September, so the new schedule pushes the finish back about two months for rooms and panels, and further for phones.
There is also a discrepancy in Microsoft's guidance. The Learn article that sets out the November and December dates, last updated on October 29, gives a different timetable in its FAQ on the migration deadline, saying deprecation "will begin in October 2026 and is expected to be completed by the end of October 2026." The timeline and the notice agree, which suggests the FAQ answer is out of date, but the page doesn't say so, and the timeline notes that "dates are subject to refinement." Until Microsoft clarifies, admins should plan to the earliest date that applies to them.
Government Cloud Dates
In GCC High and DoD, TAC device administration starts deprecating in early December and finishes by December 15, while GCC starts in early January and finishes by January 30. Phones in all three government clouds follow the January schedule. Microsoft doesn't state the year for those dates, though 2027 is implied, and government-cloud devices need a later Admin Agent minimum, version 856, compared with 830 in the public cloud.
Licensing Requirements
Microsoft lists three qualifying routes into the portal. The organization must hold at least one Teams Rooms Pro, Teams Rooms Basic or Teams Rooms Standard license, or at least one Teams Shared Space license, formerly Teams Shared Devices, or it must already have at least one Teams device enrolled in the portal, a route mainly meant for customers who manage only Teams phones. Existing phones enroll automatically once they reach Admin Agent 830, while a tenant new to the portal must sign in to at least one phone to set it up.
