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

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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}
}

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