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What is Microsoft Teams?

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What is Microsoft Teams?

What Microsoft Teams is: chat, meetings, telephony, and collaboration in Microsoft 365, how it fits the platform, the licensing shape, and running it well.

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Is Microsoft Teams included in Microsoft 365?

In Business plans, yes. For new enterprise subscriptions Microsoft sells E3 and E5 without Teams and offers Teams Enterprise as a separate add-on, following EU regulatory action; existing enterprise customers could keep…

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What is the difference between a team and a channel?

A team is a group of people with a shared Microsoft 365 group, SharePoint site, and mailbox. Channels are topic areas inside the team; standard channels are open to the whole team, private channels to a subset, and shar…

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Can Teams replace a phone system?

Yes, with Teams Phone: a cloud PBX with auto attendants, call queues, voicemail, and desk phones, connected to the public network via Microsoft Calling Plans, Operator Connect (a carrier's service), or Direct Routing (y…

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