Officedocs-skypeforbusiness: How long does the trial last? whast is the expiry date?

[Lumute]

Could you please clarify what is the length of the Trial?

Our company does not have an enterprise agreement, we get our Office 365 licenses from a CSP so how do I know when these people who are currently using the trial "Exploratory Experience" licenses will need a full Office 365 license that includes Teams in order to continue using it? we need to be able to account and budget for that... Looking at the subscription in the Office 365 Admin Center the expiry says "Expires July 1, 2853", somehow I don't think this is the date when the trial itself for each user will run out, that would basically make them perpetual... Looking at how things are going these days I don't think humanity in general will reach that year...

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• Content: Manage the Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience - Microsoft Teams
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[scanum]

@Lumute Thank you for submitting feedback and contributing to the docs. We are currently investigating this.

[lindspea]

@Lumute thank you for reaching out and helping improve MS Docs. I'm not seeing where it states "2853"? The article says "The Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience is available at no additional cost until your next enterprise agreement anniversary or renewal on or after January 2021." Let me know if you need further help.

[Lumute]

@lindspea No, it does not say it in the article, the article is lacking information because not everyone has an EA agreement. As I stated in my comment the only indication of when could this expire is the subscription expiry in the company's admin portal, that's where the 2853 comes from and likely not the real trial expiry date.... yes we do need further help, we need to know when this trial really expires for regular / no EA customers...

[royalhomemilk]

@lumute AMEN BROTHER. NOT EVERYBODY HAS EA licenses and they still see the expiration date of 2853 AND EVEN the customers with EA licenses see expiration date of 2853 or something.
Please MAKE IT CLEAR WHEN THE EXPIRATION DATE IS.

[lindspea]

@Lumute I'll check with the team and get back to you as soon as I have a definite answer.

[bkeski]

I have >600 customers (tenants), none of them have EA - so how long this Teams Exploratory lasts? How is possible to make Teams Exploratory available to all customers but not to know how long this trial lasts (except for EA cutomers)?

[lindspea]

@LolaJacobsen could you perhaps assist with the answer please? Is it the same 1 -year trial as the Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial was?

[Richsaunds]

@lindspea we also need an answer on this for several of our customers who are also all CSP based, with no EA.

Thanks
Rich

[sm709]

Hi any update here? i have CSP customers asking the same question!!

[lindspea]

@LolaJacobsen under admin portal, billing > Products & Services, Microsoft Teams Exploratory Trial, it says it expires 5/23/53. Please could you let us know how long the trial lasts?

[turbon13]

Great, wish this was published around the place more. I would expect that expiration to be accurate.

As an on prem customer and non O365 customer or EA holder, I would expect nothing less when others can access a freemium version.

We're under 100 seat thankfully, but think that user limit should also be given consideration to have another zero added to it or the limit totally removed.

Anything Microsoft can do stop people using other products given the current climate, complexity of Teams signup issues for domain environments and quantity of programs on offer and their ease of use/signup; is worth considering.

[LolaJacobsen]

@Balu-msft please review this PR. Let me know if you approve and I'll merge.

[LolaJacobsen]

We updated the article in response to the issue yesterday - check it out:
https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory

[bkeski]

We updated the article in response to the issue yesterday - check it out:
https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory

I can't see any new information about ending for non-EA customers

[royalhomemilk]

Neither do I see anything about non EA subscribers.. Also even the
customers with EA licesenses see 2085 expiration date... Does it mean the
subscription will last until 2085?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 2:25 PM bkeski [e-mail] wrote:

We updated the article in response to the issue yesterday - check it out:
https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/teams-exploratory

I can't see any new information about ending for non-EA customers

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[royalhomemilk]

Will the EA license customers lose access to Teams Exploratory after January 2021? (Even with the product & services tab showing the expiration year of 2085.) If so, shouldn't it be fixed or something on the portal webpage..... The customers will think the subscription lasts forever.

[lindspea]

@Lumute This applies to any agreement or renewal post Jan 2021.

[Hakuon]

Thanks for the sharing