

Of course, if you do not want your users to do this, uncheck the options.īut besides the Microsoft Teams license, there’s a lot more in the Exploratory license, like an Exchange Online P1, Forms, Planner, Stream etc. Open this and check if the Let users access the Office Store and Let users install trial apps and services are checked. Check the Office 365 admin portal and select Settings | Org settings | User owned apps and services: Typically, this self-assign option is enabled in your tenant, but that might not always be the case. The Microsoft Teams Exploratory License is for users to self-assign a license the first time they logon to the service.

This one user is the user that was logged in to Teams in the previous step. I have written “without” in quotes, when you navigate to the license portal you will see that the Microsoft Exploratory License is added and one license is (automatically) assigned: When logged on for a couple of seconds a license error is shown, and a minute later the user is successfully logged on to Teams, “without” a license: When a user without a (Teams) license logs on for the first time to Teams via he must login (of course) and the standard logon screen is shown: This Exploratory license replaces the previous Microsoft Commercial Cloud Trial. For this Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Teams Exploratory license. Now with all this Working from Home going on you might want to use Teams, even if you don’t have a valid Office 365 license that contains the Teams software.
