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Finally, at the top end are the O365 enterprise plans. You will have probably seen these referred to as “E” plans, i.e., E3 or E5. There are variations of these plans for education, government, and nonprofit organizations. See Table 1.4. There are also add-on licenses specifically used for Teams telephony elements, but they are not covered here, as we will go into much more detail in the chapter on telephony.

TABLE 1.4 Office 365 for Enterprise Subscriptions

Subscription	RRP (per Month)	Office Desktop	Cloud Services	Includes Teams?	Notes
Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise	$12	Yes	OneDrive for Business (1TB)	No
O365 E1	$8	No	Teams Exchange OneDrive for Business SharePoint	Yes
O365 E3	$20	Yes	Teams Exchange OneDrive for Business SharePoint	Yes
O365 E5	$35	Yes	Teams + Phone system and conferencing Exchange OneDrive for Business SharePoint	Yes	Also includes Phone System and Audio Conferencing Teams add-on licenses

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/compare-office-365-plans

As you can see, Teams is considered by Microsoft as a core part of O365. Wherever you get any cloud software solution, Teams is included as part of that.

Teams is also due to take the baton from Skype for Business Online (SfBO) as the communications platform for O365. Microsoft has announced a date (currently July 31, 2021) when SfBO will be shuttered and no longer available for use, so you will see many organizations looking at how they can migrate their communications workloads to Teams. This is actually such an important part of the planning to deploy Teams that there is a whole part of the exam dedicated to it.

Teams is one of the most rapidly evolving products that Microsoft has ever produced and has come on in leaps and bounds since it was first launched in March 2017. This makes it exciting to work with but can also present challenges. What was not possible yesterday could be available tomorrow, buttons could move around the UI, or new sections could appear in the Teams Admin Center (TAC).

This section has set the scene for why Teams is a fun product to work with. It covers a lot of different areas, which may seem daunting a first, especially if you have not dealt with some of them before, such as PSTN telephony, but this is what makes Teams really rewarding to deploy. It is so powerful and can truly transform how companies operate, and you get to help them do that!