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I have a doubt about "limitations" of the Microsoft Teams Essentials :
basically we have an integration in place calling the Graph API that create users, assigns license, create groups, teams, channels and make them interconnected via Teams. That's it.
Now one of our client would like to try/move from current license to Microsoft Teams Essentials . Everything should be compatible, I'm only afraid of losing all the teams/channels that exists till now because of the Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard license. Cause I didn't get if the Microsoft Teams Essentials is capable of generating and handling the teams/channel items.
Here (Microsoft Teams Essentials comparison) this schema confuses me : under "Chat and collaboration" the field Teams and Channels there's no Yes .
Does it mean teams and channel CANNOT be created with this license?
Any help would be appreciated
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I had the same concern and discovered that Teams Essentials does not afford one the ability to create channels/teams. It appears that base feature is now only available in the business versions of the product. This begs the question why call it “Teams” when this core feature has been removed?
The differences between Microsoft Teams Essentials and Microsoft 365 Business Basic plans are primarily around Teams functionality and cloud storage. Essentials only offers 10GB of OneDrive storage, compared to the 1TB available on Business Basic. Essentials also lacks meeting recording and transcripts functionality, real-time translation, breakout rooms, and whiteboard integration.
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Does it mean teams and channel CANNOT be created with this license?
No, it will not affect your organization to create Teams and channels normally. As sreejukg said above, the difference you could find from the provided table.
It has been a while, how is everything going?
If you have any update about this issue, please feel free to post back.