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bensummers
Sep 19, 2019Copper Contributor
Upgrading from Teams Free to Paid
Hi - hoping someone can help with this! I need to upgrade our Teams Free to the Paid version, but according to the https://support.office.com/en-us/article/for-admins-upgrading-from-teams-free-to-a-p...
- Sep 20, 2019Hi Ben,
Thanks for providing the screen shot.
Just to confirm - is it only Teams free you are using for the whole organisation? Or do you have some users in the tenant that use free and some that use paid licences such as Business Premium?
If it is the second option, all you should need to do is log in to https://login.microsoftonline.com as a global admin, go to billing and order a licence such as business premium and then apply that to the user who has a free licence.
AFAIK, there isn’t a way to upgrade specific users through the Teams client itself.
Hope that makes sense! Let me know how you get on!
Best, Chris
Sep 20, 2019
Hi Ben,
Thanks for providing the screen shot.
Just to confirm - is it only Teams free you are using for the whole organisation? Or do you have some users in the tenant that use free and some that use paid licences such as Business Premium?
If it is the second option, all you should need to do is log in to https://login.microsoftonline.com as a global admin, go to billing and order a licence such as business premium and then apply that to the user who has a free licence.
AFAIK, there isn’t a way to upgrade specific users through the Teams client itself.
Hope that makes sense! Let me know how you get on!
Best, Chris
Thanks for providing the screen shot.
Just to confirm - is it only Teams free you are using for the whole organisation? Or do you have some users in the tenant that use free and some that use paid licences such as Business Premium?
If it is the second option, all you should need to do is log in to https://login.microsoftonline.com as a global admin, go to billing and order a licence such as business premium and then apply that to the user who has a free licence.
AFAIK, there isn’t a way to upgrade specific users through the Teams client itself.
Hope that makes sense! Let me know how you get on!
Best, Chris
bensummers
Sep 20, 2019Copper Contributor
Hi Chris,
Despite not seeing an upgrade button it looks like this upgraded at some point as I can now see admin options that I know aren't available in the free version! Very strange, but at least it's sorted now. Thanks for your help!
Ben
Despite not seeing an upgrade button it looks like this upgraded at some point as I can now see admin options that I know aren't available in the free version! Very strange, but at least it's sorted now. Thanks for your help!
Ben