Microsoft Teams Essentials - Annual subscription

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

10 GB of cloud storage per user
Real-time collaboration with file sharing, tasks, and polling
Team meeting recordings with transcripts and live captions (English)³
Standard security with data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files
Microsoft 365 Copilot, available as an add-on

Microsoft 365 apps and services

Have unlimited meetings with recordings and transcripts

Include up to 300 participants per meeting

Get 10 GB of cloud storage per user

Enjoy unlimited chat, including guest access

Connect your calendar with Outlook or Google

Share files, assign tasks, and create polls

Include up to 300 participants per meeting

Get data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files

Access customer support anytime

Connect your business

Make calls and host meetings

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

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 person working from their desk at home and using Teams.

Share and collaborate on 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.

Connect & collaborate securely

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

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.

Microsoft Teams Essentials