Set up Microsoft Teams Essentials, our new most affordable option. Get the best of Teams with easy instant meetings for anyone — whether they have Teams or not. The Microsoft Teams Essentials experience starts at just $4 per user per month with no meeting time limits. Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, walks you through step-by-step setup options.

• Sync your existing calendar with Teams. Configure email to be delivered to both Google and Microsoft services with dual delivery. • Use Teams without migrating your mailboxes to the cloud. Allow read and write access across calendars in your on-prem mailboxes when using Microsoft Exchange. • Experience rich online meetings with video and voice, chat-based collaboration with everyone on your team, your customers, or your partners • Easily share your screen or other content with anyone in the meeting, and work simultaneously on documents in the Microsoft Office experience.

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00:00 - Introduction 01:31 - Setup options 02:19 - Paths to deploy Teams Essentials 04:07 - Walk through configuration 05:42 - Sync calendars with Teams 09:18 - Route mail from Microsoft 365 to Gmail 10:17 - Set up mail flow rules 11:34 - Wrap up

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Check out setup options and sign up for the service at https://aka.ms/TeamsPlans Find a Microsoft certified partner near you at https://aka.ms/PartnerFinder If you are the partner or looking to tackle this yourself, go to https://aka.ms/ExchangeHybridCalendar To learn more, check out https://aka.ms/TeamsEssentials

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