Introducing a free version of Microsoft Teams

Awesome, question. Will this fix all the guest access problems with teams and users with hosted office 365 email or tenants that don’t have teams enabled to be able to now join Teams as a guest? 

Been dealing with with this consistently where someone unknowingly has their email somehow tied to a office 365 work account and Teams isn’t enabled so they can’t join as a guest to another tenant as the client wants to log in to their teams by default when using that login.  

Jacob Hodges, the free version of Teams isn't available to users with an existing Office 365 commercial account. Only consumer email addresses and non-Office 365 (AAD) corporate domains.

With Office 365 Business, you will be eligible for a 1yr free trial of Teams that is on its way soon! More info here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/i-d-like-to-sign-up-for-teams-free-but-i-can-t-why-b77286e2-b875-4e9b-8b94-540269ddccd2?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

As usual great announcement, but the sign up process is broken, not just me we keep getting caught in a loop asking for our details. it resets stage 2 every time. I can confirm I am using my own individual non 365 subscribed account to login. Just my regular hotmail account.    

Not the first time for a product has this happened on a launch. 

Really off putting, since if your first experience is not being able to sign up.  What are the chances that the product is any good? 

I'm excited to give the new free tier of Teams a try but I'm also having trouble with the sign-up.  My Microsoft Live ID was previously associated with O365, and while I'm no longer subscribed to a plan the Teams registration tells me I cannot go any further.

Steps

1. Went to the /microsoft-teams/free page and clicked 'Sign Up For Free' under the 'Free' plan.

2. Entered the address associated with my Live ID and clicked 'Set up account'

3. Get a message that reads 'You already have an Office 365 work or school account.  If your organization is already using Teams, just sign in'

4. Click 'Sign in'

5. Open the web app or download the Windows binary

6. Receive message 'You're not on Teams yet, but you can set it up for your organization.'.  Click on the 'Sign up for Teams' button

7. System takes me back to Step 1.

Raanah Amjadi I suppose that's the point I'm making. My company has an Office 365 Business plan to provide staff with a copy of Office. We do not use any of the other Office 365 services. So for anyone on an Office 365 Business plan, or even a plan for a single app such as Visio, you can't get access to Teams. To switch plans would be a substantial cost increase. Please include free access to Teams for customers who already have some sort of Office 365 subscription. Otherwise we're forced to use a competitors product, which is exactly what we are doing now. 

 Hi Raanah Amjadi

I have a questions, if i have Office 365 Business in my tenant, how can activate Microsoft Teams free?

Because when I try to activate the free account, I get the following error message: "/licenseError?errorCode=AdminUserLicenseNotPresentForbidden"...

My user is not assigned an Office 365 Business license.

Thanks,

How do I enable this if I am already using the Office 365 Business plan?

What an awesome announcement! Microsoft have been investing heavily into Teams to make it the product to collaborate in. Now that it's freeview they open that door to letting the world in to experience the product and to realise its benefits.

A very exciting announcement in my opinion with wide reaching implications for businesses, not for profits, and many small organisations!

Good job Microsoft!

Jacob Hodgestry using your personal Microsoft account if you want to tap into the free version of Teams. Or just add the product to your licence as Raanah has suggested (or the trial when it's available).

Giving Teams away for free to the public, while charging O365 subscribers for it is unacceptable. At the very least, give something that may be reduced in functionality.

There is a certain level of absurdity that comes with saying that if we dump our entire O365 subscription (and say go with G Suite), we could get Teams for free… yet if we continue to pay for O365, we need to pay more.

As an O365 Business subscriber, I feel bullied into top tier plans. This needs to be addressed.

Went to try and create a Free Teams tenant on my MSA account today and discovered it's not straight forward if your MSA account is already a guest of another tenant. Decided to create a quick blog about it. Hopefully this will save some folks some time :). 

https://webbtech365.blogspot.com/2018/07/creating-free-microsoft-teams-on-msa.html