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Pleun Nijhoff's avatar
Pleun Nijhoff
Former Employee
Nov 03, 2016
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Activate teams for part of my organisation

Saw the event on MS teams, which looks very promising. I know we can enable it in our tenant now, but is there any way we can limit who this is released to, rather than releasing to all in our tenant...
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  • Cian Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Nov 03, 2016

    I have the answer, it's in the (very good) admin https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Frequently-asked-questions-about-Microsoft-Teams-%E2%80%93-Admin-Help-05cbe533-2181-4e95-a4b0-52cd7695fafc, which I have just come across:

     

    Can I enable Microsoft Teams for only a portion of the organization?

     

    At this time, user-level control is not yet available. Administrators can control access only at the organization level. We expect this capability to be available soon . After it is available, you can turn on or turn off the Microsoft Teams license for individual users.

     

    That's great to know the feature can be expected soon.

KevinCrossman's avatar
KevinCrossman
MVP
Dec 27, 2016

I see it too, but it's defaulting to ON for those users. Which means that when we flip the master switch then everyone gets it. Do you know how to disable Teams for all but a small handful of users? We have 10000 users and manually disabling the license isn't a solution...

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tvanscot
Brass Contributor
Dec 28, 2016
It is an ugly process. You can access the licensing through PowerShell, extract all your users, run the command to unlicense them through a script, then enable only the ones you want. It is not ideal by any means. Worse yet, any new users that are enabled in the tenant will most likely default to on as well so those will need to be managed.

Maybe not so bad in an small org, but our tenant has 15k accounts and you can only manage 5k at a time through powershell (if it doesn't time out).

Note we have not done this yet. But it is the same process we ran through with Yammer.
  • Conny Eriksson's avatar
    Conny Eriksson
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 28, 2016

    Been looking into this and true not the best solution , cant answer for huge companies.

     

    For existing user you only need to remove team service not the license cant find any issues with thottling when it comes to services on a specific licens anyway below should fix for existing users

    https://technet.microsoft.com/sv-se/library/dn771769.aspx

     

    And then maybe use below for bulk add new users(

    https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Office365-License-cfd9489c

     

     

    I think because teams is so integrated with office365 which behaves in the same way that when you enable for tenant its service enabled on all user in the tenant.

    They cant handle it in any otherway , but i sure hope they will find a way :)

    • Scott Johnson's avatar
      Scott Johnson
      Brass Contributor
      Dec 31, 2016
      Connie: Thank you for TechNet posts!
  • KevinCrossman's avatar
    KevinCrossman
    MVP
    Dec 28, 2016

    Sure hope MS is listening to this (cc: Laurie Pottmeyer)

     

    This is the way it should work.

     

    1) Tenant settings off = user licenses off. Turn on individual users for testing

    2) Tenant setting on = user licenses on. Turn off license for users who've abused chat or for other reasons

     

    As it stands, we sort of have the worst-of-both-worlds. Once you turn it on, it's basically impossible to disable it unless you're in a tiny org.  This SURELY is not in the spirit of having per-user licensing in the pre-production rollout period.