Microsoft Teams

Product Conditions:

Provides additional information related to acquiring the Product, such as prerequisites for purchase, prior versions, and the applicable Product Pool.

Notices

The Communication Services Notices apply (refer to Notices). Any onboarding, migration, or deployment services provided to Customer are subject to the Professional Services terms (refer to Professional Services terms).

Core Features for Office 365 Services

During the term of Customer’s subscription, the Office 365 Services will substantially conform to the Core Features description provided (if any) in the Office 365 service-specific sections, subject to Product restrictions or external factors (such as the recipient, message rate, message size and mailbox size limits for e-mail; default or Customer-imposed data retention policies; search limits; storage limits; Customer or end user configurations; and meeting capacity limits). Microsoft may permanently eliminate a functionality specified in the Office 365 service specific sections only if it provides Customer a reasonable alternative functionality.

Administration Portal

Customer will be able to add and remove end users and domains, manage licenses, and create groups through the Microsoft Online Services Portal or its successor site.

Office 365 Education

If Customer is provisioned outside of the EU or EFTA, and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription but has not purchased an Advanced Data Residency for Education add-on, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of the Product Terms, Microsoft may provision Customer’s Office 365 Education tenant in, transfer Customer Data to, and store Customer Data at rest anywhere within Europe or North America. If Customer is provisioned in the EU or EFTA, and Customer has an Office 365 Education subscription but has not purchased an Advanced Data Residency for Education add-on, then notwithstanding the “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” section of the Product Terms, Microsoft may provision Customer's Office 365 Education tenant in, transfer Customer Data to, and store Customer Data at rest anywhere within the European Union.

Service Encryption with Customer Key

Customer assumes all risks of data deletion, inaccessibility, and service outages that result from any unavailability of an encryption key caused by Customer.

Cortana 

The Cortana core platform service integrated within Office 365 Services, in certain instances, may allow for users to connect to Microsoft services outside the Office 365 Services; if permitted by Customer, users electing to use such services are subject to terms of use other than theses Product Terms for use of such services and with respect to which Microsoft is a data controller, as identified in product documentation.

Microsoft Threat Experts

Any services provided to Customer through the Microsoft Threat Experts service are subject to the Professional Services terms (refer to Professional Services).

Endpoint Compliance Features

If Customer does not have an active subscription to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, an instance will automatically be provisioned for the limited purpose of enabling the endpoint features of the Compliance Services.

Viva Engage

For Office 365 Services that include Viva Engage, External Users invited to Viva Engage via external network functionality do not need User SLs.

Notices

The H.264/AVC Notice applies to all Office 365 Services that include Microsoft Teams (refer to Notices).

External User Entitlements and Meeting Join License Requirements

User SLs are not required for any user to join meetings, webinars, and live events hosted by licensed users. User SLs are also not required for External Users to participate in Teams channels as a Guest with a Microsoft Entra External ID.

Health Sector Customers

Customer is solely responsible for: (1) the accuracy and adequacy of information and Data furnished through use of Microsoft Teams; (2) implementing a secure application-to-application authentication method between any Customer application and/or service and Microsoft Teams; (3) obtaining appropriate consent from end users in connection with end user’s and Customer’s use of Microsoft Teams; and (4) displaying appropriate warnings, disclaimers, and acknowledgements to end users in connection with end user’s and Customers use of Microsoft Teams.

Any information provided by Customer or its patients in Microsoft Teams (including meeting recordings if enabled by Customer, or any Microsoft Teams apps enabling virtual appointment services) that's necessary for medical records continuity or retention purposes should be downloaded, copied, and/or notated directly in such records by Customer. This service does not maintain legal medical record or a designated record set.

Trials

Microsoft Teams Exploratory Experience may only be initiated by individual end users. Customer may not initiate a Microsoft Teams Exploratory Experience on behalf of end user employees. This offer is not valid for users that have formerly used Teams from a paid, unpaid or trial license.

Please note these resources are provided for reference purposes only and are not considered to be part of the Product Terms.