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Former Employee

Mar 22, 2020

Is Teams the right recommendation for this person

A friend of mine started his own small business and started doing classes to teach people more about it. I recomended to him to do remote meetings during the COVID crisis but want to be sure Teams is...

MVP

Mar 22, 2020

Hi,

He can invite externals as guests, but there is an license limitation. There is no Teams license required for Teams guests but since they are using Azure AD there are a 1:5 ratio for guests, so for each license you buy you can invite 5 guests.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/active-directory/b2b/licensing-guidance

The guests can be member of a Team and read chats and files in the Team.

KatHobson89

Former Employee

Mar 22, 2020

LinusCansby

so guest access applies to free users too? I wasn't sure if guest meant they also pay for a license but just not part of your org.

Thank you this was very helpful.

LinusCansby
MVP
Mar 23, 2020
KatHobson89 you can have guests in the Teams free version to and then there is no license restriction to think about since it is free for up to 300 users. But there is no meeting scheduling or meeting recording in Teams free version.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/differences-between-microsoft-teams-and-microsoft-teams-free-0b69cf39-eb52-49af-b255-60d46fdf8a9c