Microsoft will launch a self-service trial for Teams Premium, rolling out in general availability starting next month.
Exclusive to business customers, the 30-day trial will empower companies to explore Teams Premium's advanced, AI-powered feature set without committing to full, paid licences. Each business with a trial license can equip up to 25 users to trial Teams Premium's features during the 30 days, including intelligent meeting recaps, virtual appointments and personalised management tools.
The official 365 Roadmap reads:
When rolled out, users within your organization will be able to directly initiate a Teams Premium trial(...) Microsoft Teams Premium helps make your Teams meetings more intelligent, protected, and engaging. Unlike other meeting and collaboration tools, Teams Premium brings advanced capabilities for meetings, virtual appointments, and webinars together for one low cost."
Users can directly initiate a team trial within their organisational tenant and cancel at any time, while admins can manage these trials like their other Microsoft subscriptions and have complete visibility of their usage.
Users inside a customer's business can initiate the trial using their Azure Active Directory (AAD)/Entra ID credentials without inputting payment information. Admins will have control over whether the trials convert to paid licences as there is no auto-renew functionality — if a user within the organisation would like to upgrade to the paid subscription, they will need to collaborate with the admin to do so.
To prepare for the arrival of Teams Premium trials, admins can access self-service purchase controls to disable self-service trials while leveraging the subscription management capabilities to control trial licenses on the "Your Products" page in the "Billing" space of the Microsoft 365 admin centre.
The trials will begin rolling out in late September and will not be available for Government customers. Trial licenses will be separate from existing Teams Premium licenses within the organisation.
Teams Premium - The Story So Far
Teams Premium was first revealed at Microsoft Ignite in October 2022, promising to offer "more personalised, intelligent and secure" meetings.
While built on the collaborative experience of Teams, Teams Premium introduced next-gen technologies to the platform, including Large Language Models powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5.
