Microsoft has disclosed Teams Essentials, a version of Teams focused on small businesses. It’s a standalone product that nestles between the free Teams plan and the features that accompany a Microsoft 365 subscription.
Teams Essentials costs $4 per client per month. It incorporates unlimited group meetings for as long as 30 hours and upwards of 300 members, contrasted and an hour long time limit and a maximum of 100 members on the free plan. Clients likewise get 10GB of cloud storage — twice as much as those on the free tier — and joining with Outlook and (soon) Google calendars.
Other features from the free tier are incorporated, for example, access to Office web applications, chats with colleagues and clients, file sharing, polls and group projects. Meetings, chats, calls and documents are totally scrambled. Clients can send meeting welcomes to somebody who doesn’t have a Teams account — they absolutely need that individual’s email address. Virtual backgrounds for calls, Together mode (which shows participants in a similar virtual space) and live shut inscriptions are additionally available.
It’s somewhat less costly than Microsoft 365 Business Basic, which costs $5/month per client (expanding to $6 in March), yet the reserve funds can add up. That arrangement’s elements incorporate gathering records, ongoing interpretations, versatile adaptations of Office applications and 1TB of distributed storage per individual. Groups Essentials is accessible from Microsoft’s cloud accomplices or straightforwardly from the organization.
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