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johnjohn-Peter
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Oct 17, 2024
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Can i access Teams mainly to test Team app without having a mailbox

I work as a consultant for a company, their main email are inside Gmail. but they also have Office 365 tenant. My responsibility is to modify a Teams App and test it. now i got an username with compa...
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    deanshepherd
    Oct 17, 2024

    As your using a tenant account your tenancey admin needs assign your onmicrosoft account with a teams licence it then should work fine.(these are free but need to be added\enabled on the account)

    here are the limititions if you use a teams account without an exchange mailbox:

    eDiscovery Search: User IM’s and data stored within the ExO Mailbox are not discoverable. While the data will appear in the TEAMS client, that is data reflected from the TEAMS Cosmos database. eDiscovery does not search this location. Instead, the substrate service within M365 places a copy in the ExO mailbox for the user which is indexed and discoverable.
    Legal Hold: TEAMS data within the ExO mailbox can be placed on legal hold. Without an ExO mailbox this is not possible.
    Retention of TEAMS Chat History: The user’s chat history is stored within the user’s ExO mailbox. This allows administrators to apply retention policies against the data.


    hope this helps
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deanshepherd
Brass Contributor
Oct 17, 2024

As your using a tenant account your tenancey admin needs assign your onmicrosoft account with a teams licence it then should work fine.(these are free but need to be added\enabled on the account)

here are the limititions if you use a teams account without an exchange mailbox:

eDiscovery Search: User IM’s and data stored within the ExO Mailbox are not discoverable. While the data will appear in the TEAMS client, that is data reflected from the TEAMS Cosmos database. eDiscovery does not search this location. Instead, the substrate service within M365 places a copy in the ExO mailbox for the user which is indexed and discoverable.
Legal Hold: TEAMS data within the ExO mailbox can be placed on legal hold. Without an ExO mailbox this is not possible.
Retention of TEAMS Chat History: The user’s chat history is stored within the user’s ExO mailbox. This allows administrators to apply retention policies against the data.


hope this helps
D