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Teams_EssMicrosoft Teams Essentials

Teams_Ess is the SKU part number Microsoft uses for Microsoft Teams Essentials. You'll see it in Graph, PowerShell, licence reports and group-based licensing errors.

Product nameMicrosoft Teams Essentials
String ID (SkuPartNumber)Teams_Ess
GUID (SkuId)fde42873-30b6-436b-b361-21af5a6b84ae
Service plans1

Service plans included (1)

Service planNameID
TeamsEssMicrosoft Teams Essentialsf4f2f6de-6830-442b-a433-e92249faebe2

Is it in your tenant?

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Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "Organization.Read.All"
Get-MgSubscribedSku | Where-Object SkuPartNumber -eq "Teams_Ess" |
    Select-Object SkuPartNumber, ConsumedUnits, @{ n = "Purchased"; e = { $_.PrepaidUnits.Enabled } }

Assign it to a user

For more than a handful of people, use group-based licensing instead. The user needs a usage location set first.

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Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All"
Set-MgUserLicense -UserId "jane.doe@contoso.com" `
    -AddLicenses @{ SkuId = "fde42873-30b6-436b-b361-21af5a6b84ae" } -RemoveLicenses @()

Who has it?

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Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.Read.All"
Get-MgUser -Filter "assignedLicenses/any(x:x/skuId eq fde42873-30b6-436b-b361-21af5a6b84ae)" `
    -ConsistencyLevel eventual -CountVariable n -All |
    Select-Object DisplayName, UserPrincipalName

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