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Overview
Microsoft Teams Premium is a Teams add-on license that allows organizations with Office 365 & Microsoft 365 subscriptions to enhance their Teams experience with features like:
- More personalized and intelligent meetings and webinars
- Enhanced protection for meetings
- Advanced management and reporting capabilities for IT
- Advanced Virtual Appointments
NOTE
For a detailed feature comparison between Teams and Teams Premium, refer to Microsoft's Teams Premium Licensing article.
Current Teams Features Moving to Teams Premium
The below features are moving to Teams Premium. In order for your users to keep using these features, you'll need to purchase and assign Teams Premium licenses.
| Feature | March 2023 | April 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Custom organization Together mode scenes |  | |
| Virtual Appointments: SMS notifications | | |
| Virtual Appointments: Organizational analytics in the Teams admin center | | |
| Virtual Appointments: Scheduled queue view | | |
| Live translated captions | | |
| PowerPoint live chapters | | |
| Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for when a user left or joined meetings | |
Teams Premium Licensing
Teams Premium is a $10 USD per-user add-on license for users already licensed with a base plan that includes Microsoft Teams. For example:
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium
- Microsoft 365 F1/F3/E3/E5
- Office 365 F3/E1/E3/E5
NOTE
The Microsoft 365 E5 base plan does not include Teams Premium. You still need to purchase the Teams Premium add-on license for users assigned a Microsoft 365 E5 license.
There is no license requirement for Virtual Appointments external participants.
Teams Premium Setup Requirements
Most of the Teams Premium features require an IT admin to configure the feature in the Teams Admin Center before users can access the feature. Here's a list of those features:
- Using end-to-end encryption on meetings up to 50 participants.
- Adding watermarks to meetings.
- Adding sensitivity labels.
- Preventing copy and paste in meeting chats.
- Using organization customized backgrounds.
- Using organization customized Together mode scenes.
- Admin must create the custom Together mode scene.
- Being assigned a custom policy package.
- Using organization customized meeting templates.
- Seeing organization customized branding.
- Using eCDN for Live Events.
- Using RTMP-In.
- Customizing Virtual Appointment lobby rooms with branding.
NOTE
For IT Admin instructions, refer to Microsoft's Teams Premium - Overview for administrators article.