Microsoft Teams Essentials

Teams Essentials is an affordable, professional meeting solution designed to help small businesses communicate and collaborate in an easy, secure, and reliable way.

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Overview Requirements

Features

Unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours

Up to 300 participants per meeting

10 GB of cloud storage per user

Unlimited chat with coworkers and customers

Calendar works with Outlook and Google

File sharing, tasks, and polling

Data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files

Free support available anytime

Connect your business

Host meetings & make calls

Meet from anywhere. Schedule online meetings with up to 300 participants for up to 30 hours per meeting.

A Teams video call with hundreds of participants.

Instantly message & chat

Keep everything in one place. Have unlimited chats with coworkers and customers before, during, and after meetings and refer back to them at any time.

A Teams chat titled the Essential Dream Team sharing Word documents and GIFs in the chat.

Share & co-edit files

Get things done together. Access shared files across devices with 10 GB of cloud storage per user and work with others in real time or on your own time.

A Word document titled Experiences built for focus.

Connect & work securely

Work with confidence. Collaborate worry-free knowing your data is encrypted in all chats, calls, meetings, and files.

The Privacy tab in the Settings of Teams.

Thrive with Microsoft Teams Essentials

Microsoft Teams Essentials enabled Every Morning Consulting to not just weather a difficult business environment but to thrive by reducing costs while expanding reach to new far-away customers.

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Three people sitting in chairs having a conversation.

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Hardware requirements for Teams on a Windows PC

Detailed hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams are also available for Mac, Linux, Mobile, and Virtual Desktop.

View Microsoft Teams hardware requirements


Computer and processor	Minimum 1.1 GHz or faster, 2 core Note: For Intel processors, the maximum speed achieved using Intel Turbo Boost Technology (Max Turbo Frequency) must be considered
Memory	4.0 GB RAM
Hard disk	3.0 GB of available disk space
Display	1024 x 768 screen resolution
Graphics hardware	Windows OS: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update)
Operating system	Windows 11, Windows 10 (excluding Windows 10 LTSC), Windows 10 on ARM, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2. Note: We recommend using the latest Windows version and security patches available.
.NET version	Requires .NET 4.5 CLR or later
Video calls and meetings	Requires 2-core processor. For higher video and screen share resolution and frame rate, a 4-core processor or better is recommended. Background video effects require Windows 10 or a processor with AVX2 instruction set. See hardware decoder and encoder driver recommendations for a list of unsupported decoders and encoders. Joining a meeting using proximity detection in a Microsoft Teams Room requires Bluetooth LE, which requires Bluetooth to be enabled on the client device, and for Windows clients it also requires the 64-bit Teams client. This feature is not available on 32-bit Teams clients.
Teams live events	If you are producing a Teams live event, we recommend using a computer that has a Core i5 Kaby Lake processor, 4.0-GB RAM (or higher), and hardware encoder. See hardware decoder and encoder driver recommendations for a list of unsupported decoders and encoders.

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