MS Office and MS Teams

Question

I want to use MS Teams because one of my clients uses it, I think. I typically use Zoom for direct calls to other people. But when this particular client (a large corporation with hundreds of users and and an entire IT staff) send a meeting request and I accept, it is loaded onto my MS Outlook calendar. I can click on my calendar and it takes me to a link for a video meeting (which I don't think is Zoom). I think it's MS Teams but I'm not sure. By the way, I am a one man consulting company so I am the IT guy, and not a very good one.

I have a subscription to MS Office 365 'Apps for business'. I assume this is a MS Office business account but there seems to be many different types.

When I start to load Teams, it opens by saying 'Let's create an Account'. I don't want to create (another!) Microsoft account.

My question: Can I not just load Teams and use it just like Excel, Word, and Outlook?
Question #2: What is Skype for Business? It doesn't work at all.

Thank you for your help
Martin Richmond

Answer 1

Hi @Martin Richmond ,

Based on my research, Office 365 App for Business is not contained Teams service. For your reference, we've included this master table of the subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft Teams.

If you just use Teams to join the meeting, you can join the meeting as anonymous users in the web client. With anonymous join, anyone can join the meeting as an anonymous user by clicking the link in the meeting invitation. For your reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/join-a-meeting-without-a-teams-account-c6efc38f-4e03-4e79-b28f-e65a4c039508?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

Skype for Business can be licensed as a stand-alone product or as part of the Office 365 application suite.
It is available as an on-premises server, known as Skype for Business Server, or a cloud-based service, known as Skype for Business Online

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