Meet the new Microsoft Teams Essentials!
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As of Dec 01, 2021, Microsoft launched Microsoft Teams Essentials, a standalone version of Teams. Let Qual help you to provide an exceptional platform and customer experience.Teams Essentials is a new subscription that brings the best of the Teams at an affordable price. This new subscription will allow you to stay connected and learn, create and innovate together. It is designed to transform the way people work and interact with each other, with collaboration firmly in mind. It will help you connect naturally, stay organized, and bring ideas to life.
Teams Essentials is built for small businesses...
As we evolve into an era of ‘remote work’, the future of work is being shaped before our eyes. Teams Essentials will play a pivotal role for those looking to get the maximum value of Teams for chat, messaging and video messaging. As per Microsoft Work Trend Index Report: 73% of workers say they want flexible remote work options and today more than ever Organizations have more budgets put aside for hybrid workplace models and applications, making Teams Essentials an easier sell.With Teams Essentials, small businesses from restaurants to retailers to professional services can easily meet, collaborate, communicate, and serve customers in new ways. From virtual consultations to collaboration with colleagues, Teams essentials can help you to deliver faster, friendlier, and more cost-effective patient care with Teams.
Traditional for-profit small enterprises aren't the only ones in need of low-cost communication solutions. Nonprofits, religious organisations, schools, and community organisations all face similar challenges in connecting and collaborating efficiently. Teams Essentials makes it feasible for these organisations and small enterprises to get up and running quickly, and it does so without the requirement for IT experience. Teams Essentials makes it simple and effective for anyone with and without a Teams account to participate. While the free version of Microsoft Teams is still available, Teams Essentials includes additional features such as longer meetings and greater storage. Let's look at how Teams Essentials can help you meet your goals.
Expansive meeting limits and easy-to-use features let you host professional meetings
Working closely with customers and partners can be a challenge for any business without the right communication tools. Teams Essentials brings existing Teams capabilities together with features specifically designed for small businesses and community groups:
- Extended meeting times—With meetings that can last up to 30 hours, there’s no need to worry about your Teams Essentials meeting running over its time limit, whether you’re meeting one-on-one or in a group.
- Large meeting capacity—With the ability to host up to 300 people at once, Teams Essentials offers the ability to bring everyone into the same virtual room.
- Calendar integration—In addition to integration with Outlook Calendar, the new Google Calendar integration in Microsoft Teams means you can use your existing calendaring tool to stay on top of schedules and manage your meetings. *Google Calendar integration coming soon.
- Simple, easy invitations—Inviting people to a meeting is easy. Simply add them to the Teams meeting invitation using their email address. They will receive a meeting invitation with a link to join. And if they don’t have Teams, the meeting will open directly in their browser. No sign-up, sign-in, or installation is required.
- Interactive meetings—Professional meeting tools and capabilities like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds, Together mode, live closed captions, live reactions, and more allow any organization to host engaging meetings.
With the ability to connect existing tools and store content in one place, it’s easy to stay organized
Teams Essentials simplifies communications for small businesses and community groups with a single solution for chat and meetings—saving time, and most importantly, keeping meetings and conversations in context. It includes tools to work effectively with anyone, including Office web apps, file sharing, group chats, task management, and more.
- Additional cloud storage—Don’t worry about running out of storage or wasting time searching for documents. Easily co-author, view, edit, and store Office 365 files. Teams Essentials offers a total of 10 gigabytes (GB) file storage, which is twice the amount of storage available in the free version of Teams.
- Ongoing chat—All conversations in Teams are persistent, helping you to keep the conversation going so you never lose context or continuity. The conversation doesn’t end when the meeting ends.
- Small business group chat template—Quickly start a group project and host meetings with anyone, assign tasks to teammates, and create polls to receive feedback quickly all in one hub, taking productivity to the next level. *Coming soon to desktop and web.
- Chat, meet, and collaborate with anyone—Whether you are working with someone within or outside your organization, using the Teams app, or dialing in, your chat and collaboration experience is kept in one place. There’s no need to jump between app experiences when you’re working on a project with an outside company.
- Mobile chat dashboard—Just click on dashboard view in any one-on-one or group chat to conveniently access all shared content neatly organized into categories such as locations, photos, files, task lists, upcoming events, weblinks, and more. *Available for customers purchasing directly from Microsoft.
Teams Essentials offers the value and support small businesses need
Costs are top of mind for every business and community. Microsoft Teams Essentials offers the most value at the best price. And with a simplified interface that is easy to learn, it is straightforward and easy for employees to quickly be productive.
- Get the most from your technology tools—With rich communications features at the lowest cost in the market, at $4 per user per month, Teams Essentials offers outstanding value for small companies and community groups.
- Support from Microsoft—Teams Essentials is backed by Microsoft and runs in the Azure cloud. This means security, reliability, performance, and support. Microsoft is here to help with the technology you need—within your budget.