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Important Notice: Changes to Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams licensing.

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JillArmourMicrosoft
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Apr 01, 2024
On April 1, 2024, in regions outside the EEA and Switzerland, we're introducing commercial Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites that don't include Teams, plus a new standalone Teams offering.   Im...
Updated Apr 03, 2024
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Oct 15, 2024

I'm not seeing people buy M365 Business w/ Teams and then "switch" to M365 Enterprise w/ Teams.

I think the "upgrade" is intended for customers with M365 E SKUs in place using in annual / long-term (EA) contracts to be able to renew, upgrade (E5 anyone?), add, etc.

 

I haven't personally tried establishing a new commitment using M365 F3 w/ Teams and then securing a "step-up" to (for example) M365 E3 w/ Teams. That would be curious. 

 

Finally, some customers have month-to-month CSP contracts as overflow. Although I haven't seen it in Microsoft documentation, other sources indicate you can change billing frequency of an existing subscription commitment (monthly/annual payments) but you can't transition a month-to-month commitment to annual as an "existing customer" - meaning you'd end up having to buy Enterprise SKUs/ w/o Teams, then buying the additional Teams Enterprise license if you move to annual.