setting up conference room phones

[Isaac]

Collaboration Community,

   I am looking to setup a couple conference room phones but would like to not utilize more than one DN if possible, is it recommended or considered best practice to use a shared DN between conference phones or utilize one DN for each and every conference room phone? 

[jason-mcgee]

Isaac,

You can certainly set it up that way, but you will probably run into issues when you have separate conferences going on simultaneously and they have someone call into the conference room phone number to join. Then it will ring both phones at the same time. If you aren't worried about that, or similar situations arising, then certainly set it up that way and you should be fine, but I can see where the people having the meetings/conferences will run into an issue and try and have you change it.

[Chris Deren]

There are really no best practices when it comes to this, it boils down to requirements, do you want/desire/need stared line between conference room phones, usually that is not something you'd do.  What is the concern with assigning separate number to each conference phone?  Are you running low on DIDs? Does the number need to be a DID?