Can You Use Microsoft Teams Without Office 365
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This article is part of the Technical Readiness stage of your upgrade journey, an activity you complete in parallel with the User Readiness stage. Before proceeding, confirm that you've completed these activities from previous stages:
If you don’t have Microsoft 365 and you don’t use a business or school account, you can get a basic version of Microsoft Teams. All you need is a Microsoft account. To get a basic free version of Microsoft Teams: Make sure you have a Microsoft account. Start using the breakout rooms. By default, meeting participants are moved to their assigned rooms as soon as you open the room, but you can turn off this setting; see Turn off automatic entry to breakout rooms. To open all the rooms at the same time, select Start rooms. To open a single room, select More options next to the room and then Open room. Last updated October 29th, 2020. Microsoft 365 Groups is a service that works with the Microsoft 365 tools you use already so you can collaborate with your teammates when writing documents, creating spreadsheets, working on project plans, scheduling meetings, or sending email.
Teams combines multiple Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services, and is therefore dependent on the correct implementation and operation of these services. These services include—but aren't limited to—SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and OneDrive for Business.
Although not all services are required, we highly recommend that you implement all of them. If you choose not to implement certain services, it will affect the functionality that Teams can offer your organization. For example, though you don't have to implement SharePoint Online, Teams does rely on SharePoint Online for certain functionality such as file sharing in group conversations, so not implementing this service will reduce the functionality offered through the client.
See the following articles to learn about prerequisites and how Teams interacts with other technologies:
Add Teams To Office 365
If your organization hasn't deployed any Microsoft 365 or Office 365 workloads, see Get started.
If your organization hasn't added or configured a verified domain for Microsoft 365 or Office 365, see Domains FAQ.
If your organization hasn't synchronized identities to Azure Active Directory, see Identity models and authentication in Microsoft Teams.
If your organization doesn't have Exchange Online, see Understand how Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact.
If your organization doesn't have SharePoint Online, see Understand how SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business interact with Microsoft Teams.
To learn how Microsoft 365 groups and Microsoft Teams interact.
If your organization is an educational institution and you use a Student Information System, see Welcome to Microsoft School Data Sync before deploying Microsoft Teams.
If your organization is considering Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calling options, see Voice - Phone System and PSTN connectivity, Which Calling Plan is right for you, and Phone System Direct Routing.
To ensure all network requirements have been met before rolling out Teams, see Prepare your organization's network for Microsoft Teams.
If you are currently using Skype for Business Online Connector to manage your services, you will need to move to the Teams PowerShell module and update your existing PowerShell scripts. See Move from Skype for Business Online Connector to the Teams PowerShell module for more information.
How To Get Microsoft Teams Without Office 365
After you've verified that your environment meets all applicable prerequisites, evaluate your current environment for Teams.