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You can join a Teams meeting anytime, from any device, whether or not you have a Teams account. If you don't have an account, follow these steps to join as a. If you have one of the right.edu email addresses, whether you are a student, a teacher, or possibly even an alum, you can get the full Office 365 product for free.

This article is part of the Technical Readiness stage of your upgrade journey, an activity you complete in parallel with the User Readiness stage. Before proceeding, confirm that you've completed these activities from previous stages:

• Sep 23, 2019 If you have one of the right.edu email addresses, whether you are a student, a teacher, or possibly even an alum, you can get the full Office 365 product for free.
• Learn more about what’s included with Office 365 A1 for your students and for teachers, faculty, and staff. Nonprofit organizations: Eligible nonprofit organizations can qualify for donated offers of Microsoft 365 Business Premium or Office 365 E1, which include Microsoft Teams, depending on the organization size.
• Start using the breakout rooms. By default, meeting participants are moved to their assigned rooms as soon as you open the room, but you can turn off this setting; see Turn off automatic entry to breakout rooms. To open all the rooms at the same time, select Start rooms. To open a single room, select More options next to the room and then Open room.

Teams combines multiple Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services, and is therefore dependent on the correct implementation and operation of these services. These services include—but aren't limited to—SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and OneDrive for Business.

Although not all services are required, we highly recommend that you implement all of them. If you choose not to implement certain services, it will affect the functionality that Teams can offer your organization. For example, though you don't have to implement SharePoint Online, Teams does rely on SharePoint Online for certain functionality such as file sharing in group conversations, so not implementing this service will reduce the functionality offered through the client.

See the following articles to learn about prerequisites and how Teams interacts with other technologies:

Can Someone Use Microsoft Teams Without Office 365

• If your organization hasn't deployed any Microsoft 365 or Office 365 workloads, see Get started.

• If your organization hasn't added or configured a verified domain for Microsoft 365 or Office 365, see Domains FAQ.

• If your organization hasn't synchronized identities to Azure Active Directory, see Identity models and authentication in Microsoft Teams.

• If your organization doesn't have Exchange Online, see Understand how Exchange and Microsoft Teams interact.

• If your organization doesn't have SharePoint Online, see Understand how SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business interact with Microsoft Teams.

• To learn how Microsoft 365 groups and Microsoft Teams interact.

• If your organization is an educational institution and you use a Student Information System, see Welcome to Microsoft School Data Sync before deploying Microsoft Teams.

• If your organization is considering Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) calling options, see Voice - Phone System and PSTN connectivity, Which Calling Plan is right for you, and Phone System Direct Routing.

• To ensure all network requirements have been met before rolling out Teams, see Prepare your organization's network for Microsoft Teams.

• If you are currently using Skype for Business Online Connector to manage your services, you will need to move to the Teams PowerShell module and update your existing PowerShell scripts. See Move from Skype for Business Online Connector to the Teams PowerShell module for more information.

Can You Join Microsoft Teams Without Office 365

After you've verified that your environment meets all applicable prerequisites, evaluate your current environment for Teams.