If your organization uses Microsoft Azure AD and wants to explore Teams before committing to paying for it, Teams Exploratory is here to help. It lets you experience Teams as if you have the paid license, but without actually paying for it. Here’s everything you need to know about Microsoft Teams Exploratory.

Microsoft Teams Exploratory is essentially a license that can be used for Microsoft Teams premium access (trial) without having to pay for it up front. It is designed for organizations that are part of the big Microsoft service called Azure AD. As explained by Microsoft, the Exploratory experience allows users in an organization to start exploring Teams without having to have a paid license to do so.

If an organization's admin turns on the Exploratory experience for users in their organization, users in that organization can assign themselves Teams licenses if they don't have them. Admins can also assign a longer-term Teams trial license to those who don't have a Teams license or a Microsoft 365/Office 365 license.

Yes. Microsoft offers the Teams Exploratory experience at no additional cost to organizations that actively use Azure Active Directory (AAD). So the Exploratory experience is available for free until the next anniversary of the Enterprise Agreement, at which point users or the organization will need to transition to a paid license that allows them to use Microsoft Teams.