Unified communications

Your phone system, rebuilt inside Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams Calling, Teams Rooms, IVR design and telephony migration, planned and delivered end to end so calls, chat, meetings and video finally live in one place. Included as standard in every synfo managed IT plan, and available as a complete standalone engagement if you just want your phone system moved to Teams without taking on broader managed services.

Teams Calling as your phone system
Number porting planned, not improvised
Custom IVR & call flow design
Standalone or fully managed
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Single application for calls, chat, meetings and video across desktop and mobile.
Certified
Teams Rooms hardware, sized to the room rather than sold as a one-size kit.
Custom
IVR menus, call queues and auto attendants designed around how you actually work.
End-to-end
Migration project management from discovery through to cutover and training.
The business case

Why a separate phone system stops making sense.

Most businesses already run Microsoft 365 for email and files, and Microsoft Teams for internal chat and meetings, while a completely separate PBX or hosted phone system handles inbound and outbound calls. That's two vendors, two support queues, and two sets of hardware to maintain for something that could be one platform. Moving calling into Teams collapses that overhead without asking staff to learn a new tool.

Staff already live in Teams.

If your team is already chatting and meeting in Teams, adding calling to the same application removes an entire piece of software from every desktop, without retraining anyone on how to use it.

Legacy phone systems are ageing out.

On-premise PBX hardware is increasingly hard to maintain, patch and expand. Moving calling into the cloud removes a physical box, its maintenance contract, and the single point of failure it represents.

One vendor, one accountable partner.

Instead of chasing a telco for a phone issue and an IT provider for everything else, one partner designs, migrates, supports and is accountable for the whole communications stack.

Microsoft Teams Calling & Teams Rooms

Calls, meetings and rooms, on one platform.

We design, configure and support Teams as your full business phone system, from desk phones and softphones through to fitted-out meeting rooms, so every conversation, whether a quick call or a boardroom meeting, happens in the same place your team already works.

Teams Calling as your PBX

Inbound and outbound business calling built directly into Microsoft Teams, with the calling plan, routing and number configuration designed and managed for you rather than left as a self-serve licence.

Certified Teams Rooms

Meeting rooms fitted with certified cameras, microphones, speakers and displays that turn any room into a one-touch Teams meeting space, so remote attendees get an equal seat at the table.

Desk phones, softphones & mobile

Certified desk handsets for staff who want one, the Teams app for staff who don't, and full mobile calling for anyone working away from a desk, all on the one number and platform.

Custom IVR & auto attendants

Menu options, department routing, business-hours logic and after-hours messaging designed around how calls actually need to flow through your business, not a generic default template.

Call queues & hunt groups

Incoming calls distributed across a team rather than ringing one desk, with overflow, hold music and reporting configured to match how each department wants to handle its call volume.

Call analytics & quality reporting

Visibility into call volumes, missed calls and voice quality, so issues are found and fixed proactively rather than discovered when a client mentions a dropped call weeks later.

What's included as standard

The detail behind a Teams Calling deployment done properly.
  • Calling plan designSized to your call volume and users
  • Number portingKeep the numbers you already have
  • IVR & auto attendant buildConfigured, tested, documented
  • Handset & Teams Rooms supplyCertified hardware, sized correctly
  • User trainingShort, practical, role-specific
  • Ongoing supportMoves, adds, changes handled for you
  • Call quality monitoringProactive, not reactive
  • Included in every managed tierOr available fully standalone
Telephony migration

Moving your phone system without a rocky cutover.

Migrating a live business phone system is one of the few IT projects with zero tolerance for surprises: missed calls during cutover cost real business. We run telephony migrations as a proper project, not a weekend licence swap, whether you're moving from a legacy on-premise PBX, another hosted provider, or a patchwork of mobiles and landlines.

Discovery & call-flow mapping

Every existing number, extension, hunt group and IVR menu is documented before anything changes, so nothing gets quietly dropped in the move.

Number porting management

We manage the porting process with the losing and gaining carriers directly, tracking every number through to confirmation so business lines stay reachable throughout.

Parallel run before cutover

New call flows, queues and IVR menus are built and tested in parallel with the existing system, so cutover is a planned switch-over rather than a live experiment.

Staged, out-of-hours cutover

Where possible, we schedule the actual switch outside business hours and stage it by site or team, minimising the window where anything could be in flux.

Hypercare after go-live

Extra support coverage in the days immediately following cutover, so anything unexpected gets caught and fixed fast, before it becomes a pattern of complaints.

Rollback plan, just in case

Every migration is planned with a documented fallback path, so if something genuinely doesn't work as expected on the day, there's a clear, tested way back.

FAQ

Common questions on Teams Calling & migration.

Do we have to give up our existing phone numbers?
No. Existing business numbers are ported across as part of the migration wherever technically possible, so clients and suppliers keep dialling the number they already have. We plan number porting up front so there's no gap in service on the day of cutover.
What is Microsoft Teams Calling?
Teams Calling turns Microsoft Teams into your business phone system, so calls, chat, meetings and video all live in one application on desktop, mobile and desk phones. Instead of running a separate PBX alongside Microsoft 365, your phone system becomes part of the same platform your team already uses every day.
What are Teams Rooms?
Teams Rooms are meeting rooms fitted out with certified cameras, microphones and displays that turn a physical room into a one-touch Teams meeting space. Remote and in-room participants get a genuinely equal meeting experience, rather than one side crowded around a laptop.
Can you build custom call flows and IVR menus?
Yes. We design auto attendants, call queues and IVR menus around how your business actually wants calls handled: department routing, after-hours messaging, hunt groups and overflow behaviour, then configure and test them before go-live.
Is this only available if we're a synfo managed IT client?
No. Unified Communications is included as standard for every synfo managed IT client, and it's also available as a standalone, à la carte engagement for any Australian business wanting to move to Teams Calling, whether or not you take up a broader managed agreement.

Find out what a Teams Calling migration looks like for you.

Start with a free audit of your current phone system and call flows. We'll map out a migration plan, timeline and cutover approach with no obligation to proceed.