Saturday 28 March 2020

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial offer

The Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial is replaced by Microsoft Teams Exploratory beginning in January 2020. To learn about this new offer, read Manage Teams Exploratory license.

The Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience lets users in your organization who have Azure Active Directory (AAD) and are not licensed for Teams initiate an exploratory experience of Teams. Admins can switch this feature on or off for users in their organization. The earlier Microsoft Commercial Cloud Trial is now replaced by The Teams Exploratory experience.

Who's eligible?

As long as the user has a managed AAD domain email address and currently does not have/haven't been assigned a Teams license, they are eligible for this experience. For example, if a user has Office 365 Business (which doesn't include Teams), they're eligible for the Teams Exploratory experience.

How users sign up for the Teams Exploratory experience

Eligible users can sign up for the Teams Exploratory experience by signing in to Teams (teams.microsoft.com). They will be assigned this license automatically and the tenant admin will receive an email notification the first time someone in your org starts the Teams Exploratory experience.

Differences between Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams free

Microsoft Teams free
Microsoft Teams
Features
Maximum members
500,000 per org
Potentially 
unlimited 
with an 
enterprise 
license
File storage
2 GB/user and 10 GB 
of shared storage
1 TB/user
Guest access
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1:1 and group online 
audio and video calls
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Channel meetings
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Screen sharing
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Scheduled meetings
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Meeting recording
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Available with 
MS Stream
Phone calls and audio 
conferencing
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Administration
Admin tools for managing 
users and apps
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Usage reporting for 
Office 365 Services
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99.9% financially-backed 
SLA uptime
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Configurable user 
settings and policies
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More info and sources: Microsoft Support website, Microsoft Docs