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How To: Activating and Configuring Microsoft Teams in the Office 365 Admin Center
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You must be an Office 365 Administrator to activate Microsoft Teams.
Begin my logging into the Office 365 Portal with your credentials and then clicking/tapping on Admin to get started.
Under Settings click/tap on Services & Add-ins in the sub-menu.
Look for Microsoft Teams under the list of add-ins. Click/tap on it to get to the settings for Microsoft Teams.
Toggle the On/Off switch to On and that is all you need to do so that your users can take advantage of the Microsoft Teams Preview.
No other changes are necessary but there are additional options that can be configured.
See the following screenshots for a review of those items which are pretty self-explanatory.
This week in New York City Microsoft announced its latest addition to Office 365 for Business and Enterprise customers - Microsoft Teams.
While many, including Slack, see Microsoft Teams as direct competitors they are different in a couple of key ways with the primary one being that Teams is a closed network compared to Slack that is open to anyone to build a team site.
The closed aspect of Teams is because it is required to have an Office 365 Business or Enterprise subscription and with all of Microsoft Teams taking advantage of services and software that are already in Office 365 it makes a lot of sense. Plus, according to Microsoft's recent quarterly financial reports, there are 85 million subscribers to Office 365 so the pool of users for this free add-on to their subscription is pretty deep.
The Microsoft Teams Preview is now live for those Office 365 Business and Enterprise subscribers but it is not turned on by default so this gallery will show you how to do that in the Office 365 Admin Center. Also included are screenshots of the various configuration options that are available for the service.
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