With the increased need for secure collaboration solutions for home working Microsoft has announced a six month Office 365 E1 Trial which includes Microsoft Teams.
What does Office 365 E1 include?
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- 50 GB Exchange Online Mailbox
- 1 TB of OneDrive Storage
- Manage tasks and teamwork with Planner
- Create communication sites throughout your intranet with SharePoint
- Teams
- Host unlimited HD video conferencing meetings with up to 250 people
- Host meetings for up to 10,000 people with Microsoft Teams Live Events
- Collaborate with this hub for teamwork
- Plan schedules and daily tasks
- Collaborate across departments and locations with Yammer
- Create, manage, and share videos securely across your organisation with Stream
- Create, engaging interactive web-based reports, and more with Sway
This license would typically cost $8.00 user/month but instead is now free for 6 months with this latest offer from Microsoft. As far as what isn’t included, this would be your desktop apps like Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Publisher.
What happens when the six month trial expires?
After you’ve activated the trial license, as an administrator you will treat these licenses the same as any other paid subscription. However, if the trial period ends and the end-user has not been upgraded to a subscription that includes Teams, that user’s data will still be retained. Since that user still exists within your Azure AD environment this means all Teams data will still persist there as well. Once you assign a new license to that user to enable the Teams functionality again, all content will continue to exist.
Eligibility
The partner-initiated Teams trial is open to new and established Microsoft customers who don’t currently have licenses that include Microsoft Teams (such as Exchange Online and Office 365 Business). This trial is available only through CSP.
Resources for Education partners
In the wake of the impact on schools, for education customers, Microsoft has extended the following three new offers:
- Office 365 A1 – Free versions to all educational institutions: This version provides unlimited chat, built-in group and one-on-one audio or video calling, 10 GB of team file storage, and 2 GB of personal file storage per user. You also get real-time collaboration with the Office apps for web, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. No restrictions for # of users.
- Microsoft Teams for Free (Individuals and IT roll-out – in Office 365 A1 above): This version provides unlimited chat, built-in group and one-on-one audio or video calling, 10 GB of team file storage, and 2 GB of personal file storage per user:
- Minecraft: Education Edition; We’ve extended access to Minecraft: Education Edition to all free and paid O365 Education accounts through end of June 2020 and published a M:EE remote learning toolkit with links to >100 Minecraft lessons and STEM curriculum.
For more information on the Education offers and resources, please see the EDU Partner Flash on Yammer.
