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Microsoft 365 Business Premium grant is being discontinued
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Every time I leave a reply it disappears. This will be my last try. Everyone can still keep Business Premium, but Microsoft is taking TEAMS away. TEAMS will be a different sku that will need to be purchased separately. Yes, we will lose our 10 free. It will be cheaper to just go to an E3 license for users. Whomever is moderating, please stop deleting my replies!! Hopefully I don't end up with 10 replies....lol If I do my apologies
At the moment M365 BP will remain available with Teams. Yes, Microsoft is introducing M365 BP without Teams. But there's been no announcement that they will enforce the BP without Teams in the future. They will keep both M365 BP (with Teams) and M365 BP without Teams available.
So no, Microsoft is not taking away Teams in the BP licenses.
This has only happened with the Enterprise suite, not with the Business suite.
I hope you are correct. But everything I have read and have been told is saying otherwise. TEAMS is now its own sku that will need to be added. Is the cost the same? Maybe? I have heard this from my Microsoft Rep, and my Dell rep. as we are in the process of solving this debacle. Again, I hope you are correct, time will tell.
I agree that there're indications for this, yes. But no official statement stated that Business suite will split from Teams.
This might give some insights as well: May 2025 announcements - Partner Center announcements | Microsoft Learn
Komatoast Your post is likely being removed because it's not completely true. While Microsoft is ending Teams bundling, it's ALSO ending the Office Premium for nonprofits, and the only choices are to downgrade to basic, or pay a discounted rate for Premium. You are conflating two separate issues.
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Komatoast sorry you had trouble leaving a reply. Did you post it and it didn't show up?
Yes, my replies just take 10min or so to show up, but we are good!! I'm not patient enough...lol Thank you 😁
Where do you see that TEAMS is being taken away? When I compare Business Premium, Business Basic, and Business Standard, Teams seems to be included in all three:
https://blog.fivenines.com/microsoft-licensing-teams-no-longer-included
Is this EU only?
