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Please explain how to create *free* Teams account with a business email address (not Office 365)
martycleverer Hello, there are several articles that covers this topic.
Accounts
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-up-and-create-a-teams-free-org-with-a-microsoft-account-31deb1c0-c49a-499e-844f-e284539e6ebe
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-up-and-create-a-teams-free-org-with-a-gmail-account-5e6db51b-1edf-400d-bf55-51366cf4384e
Support pages Teams free
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/welcome-to-microsoft-teams-free-6d79a648-6913-4696-9237-ed13de64ae3c
Teams Exploratory MS docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory
Hello DanHuber This article talks about requirements for using Teams, and it includes instructions on how to create your own domain. Let us know if you still have questions after reviewing this.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/upgrade-plan-journey-prerequisites
Thank you for being a member of the Teams community.
Hello ThereseSolimeno,
Let me rephrase.
- One can get Teams for free.
- See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/free
- However, this is only working with MSN Adresses
First question:
Is it true that the free Teams account can only be used with an MSN account?
I presume the answer is yes.
Digging a bit more into the issue:
- If there is an attempt to get the free Teams with a non-MSN Emailaddress, there is always an error "<emailaddress> hasn't been added to your organization's directory. Contact your admin or try a different email."
- This is misleading at first view because it implies that the email domain has been setup already. This is not the case.
Second question:
It seems that all non-MSN addresses being tried lead to exactly that error message.
Except if the domain used is actually registred in Office 365.
Is this assumption correct?
Going on:
- If the domain is not registered in Office 365, but it has been used to i.e. register a Volume License Account, one can "take over admin" as described in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/domains-admin-takeover
- Doing this actually creats a "registration" of that very domain in Office 365, albeit without licenses.
- Login in to portal.office.com with that just taken over admin account, allows me to add a new user. That user won't have any license, though.
- Registering that user now with the free Teams account (see link above), equips that login in the Office 365 portal with a so called "Microsoft Teams Exploratory" license
Question three:
It seems to me that this is the only way to get Teams "for free" for a non-MSN account. Is this correct?
Daniel
- DanHuber how did you get the teams exploratory licence? Or did you find how to do this another way? I’m stuck
martycleverer Hello, there are several articles that covers this topic.
Accounts
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-up-and-create-a-teams-free-org-with-a-microsoft-account-31deb1c0-c49a-499e-844f-e284539e6ebe
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sign-up-and-create-a-teams-free-org-with-a-gmail-account-5e6db51b-1edf-400d-bf55-51366cf4384e
Support pages Teams free
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/welcome-to-microsoft-teams-free-6d79a648-6913-4696-9237-ed13de64ae3c
Teams Exploratory MS docs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory
