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Office 365 plan licenses (original)

When the Office 365 plans were originally launched, they were the same for organizations all over the world. Today there are versions of the plans that do not include Teams, and there are restrictions on who can buy the original…

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EMS plan licenses

There are two EMS suites – EMS E3 and E5 – with, as you would expect, more features and functionality in EMS E5. Originally they were collections of licenses which could either be purchased standalone or as part of the…

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Teams or (no Teams)?

When the Frontline Worker plans were originally launched they were the same for organizations all over the world. Today there are versions of the plans that do not include Teams, but unlike for the Office 365 Enterprise and Microsoft 365…

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Frontline Worker plan licenses

There are three plans for Frontline Workers as shown in the table below. Organizations choose Office 365 F3 when they want their users to use the Microsoft 365 for mobile apps and Microsoft 365 for the web and to have…

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Upgrades

There are no Step-up licenses available in CSP. In the original, legacy CSP system a partner could simply reduce the number of one type of license and increase the number of another if a customer needed to move to a…

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Teams or (no Teams)?

When the Microsoft 365 plans were originally launched, they were the same for organizations all over the world. Today there are versions of Microsoft 365 E3/E5 that do not include Teams, and there are restrictions on who can buy the…

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Affected programs

The restrictions and licenses offered only affect customers purchasing through an Enterprise Agreement or CSP. The (no Teams) licenses are not available through the MPSA or Open Value programs.

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Buying Teams licenses

New customers must purchase Office 365 Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Enterprise licenses without Teams for their region. If they do want to use Teams they must additionally purchase Microsoft Teams EEA User SLs if they are in the EEA or…

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Impact on customers

The impact on customers is different depending on whether they are an existing customer or a new customer: Existing customers can choose to buy the original licenses that include Teams, OR the new licenses that do not. They must buy…

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Rest of the world

On April 1, 2024 Microsoft announced that they would make the following plans available without Teams for areas outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland: Office 365 Enterprise plans Office 365 E1 Office 365 E3 Office 365 E5 Microsoft…

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