Teams Rooms on Android SIP Join: What Admins Need to Know
Teams Rooms on Android SIP Join: What Admins Need to Know
Publish Date: 2026-06-01 09:03:00
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If your meeting rooms run on Android and you’ve been watching Windows Teams Rooms users get native SIP interop since 2024, that wait is nearly over.
Microsoft has begun rolling out SIP-based cross-platform join for Teams Rooms on Android as of early June, with general availability worldwide expected by mid-August 2026. Once fully rolled out, Android Teams Rooms devices will be able to join meetings on Zoom, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, Amazon Chime, RingCentral, and any other SIP-enabled platform directly from the room’s Teams interface, with no secondary device or workaround.
It arrives off by default, so admins need to enable it. For IT teams managing Android room estates, now is the time to get ahead: test with lower-ring devices, check Pro licensing, and engage with Pexip on CVI provisioning before mid-August. Teams Rooms on Android has until now relied on Direct Guest Join for third-party meetings, a WebRTC-based approach with real capability limits. Pexip’s Connect for Teams Rooms brought SIP-based join to Windows devices in 2024. Until now, Android devices have been waiting.
SIP Join vs Direct Guest Join: What Changes in Practice
According to Microsoft Teams MVP Graham Walsh, SIP interop delivers 1080p video and dual-screen support with HDMI ingest. Direct Guest Join tops out at single-screen 720p with no HDMI content sharing.
Direct Guest Join works by embedding the third-party platform’s web experience inside the Teams Room interface. It needs no additional licensing and works across Teams Rooms Basic and Pro. What it does not deliver is the consistent, protocol-level experience SIP provides: native one-touch join from the calendar, in-room content sharing via HDMI, full dual-screen layout, and the same interface behaviour regardless of which platform hosts the meeting.
Writing in March 2026, Anders Løkke of Pexip noted: “Most organisations do not operate a single room type. Many have mixed Windows and…
