Microsoft Teams Essentials is an affordable, professional communication and meeting solution designed for small businesses. It provides online meetings, unlimited chat, file sharing, collaboration, calendar integration, meeting recordings and transcripts, and secure communication in one platform.
Teams Essentials supports meetings with up to 300 participants, meetings of up to 30 hours, and provides 10 GB of cloud storage per user.
| Requirement | Minimum / Supported |
|---|---|
| Windows Processor | 1.1 GHz or faster, 2-core |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB available disk space |
| Display | 1024 × 768 or higher |
| Graphics | DirectX 9 or later; WDDM 2.0+ for supported Windows configurations |
| Windows | Windows 10 version 10.0.19041 or higher; Windows LTSC is not supported by the current Teams desktop client |
| WebView2 | Latest version |
| Camera | USB 2.0 video camera or compatible webcam |
| Audio | Compatible microphone and speakers/headset |
| Mac | Dual-core processor, 4 GB RAM, 1.5 GB storage |
| macOS | One of the three most recent versions |
| Web Browser | Latest 3 versions of Edge, Chrome, or Firefox; latest 2 versions of Safari |