Source note · UC licensing models compared
From 1 April 2024, new Microsoft enterprise customers must buy an E1, E3 or E5 suite without Teams plus a standalone Teams Enterprise or Teams EEA licence; in the EEA and Switzerland this took effect on 1 October 2023, and existing subscribers with Teams-inclusive suites may keep renewing them.
Checked 2026-09-25
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Teams
- Subsystem
- licensing
- Deployment
- multi-tenant
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- 2023-10-01 (EEA) and 2024-04-01 (rest of world) onward
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- Microsoft Teams add-on licenses — Microsoft · tier 2 current vendor documentation · section 'Overview of all add-on licenses', Important callout after the table
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). UC licensing models compared: source note uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024,
title = {UC licensing models compared: source note uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024},
note = {Source note uc-licensing-models-teams-unbundling-2024, checked 2026-09-25}
}