Fix: Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message

If you cannot use Microsoft Teams with your work account and received Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message, fix it here!

Kapil Arya
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Due to pandemic situation, working remotely has been preferred by organizations. Software such as Microsoft Teams has emerged as a reliable solution for this purpose. Microsoft Teams offers you to collaborate with your colleagues in the real time. You can create your own teams, channels and manage work instantly using this amazing software. Though, you can use Microsoft Teams free of cost for your personal use. While, if you’re using it for your company, you should have proper license to use it. You’ve to use your corporate account to sign into Teams while using it for work. However, sometimes, you might encounter You’re missing out! Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams for {Company Name} message.

Due to this message, you may not be able to use Microsoft Teams for your work. In this article, we will see how you can fix this problem. Here is the screenshot showing that message:

Fix: Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message

You can clearly see that there is only a Sign out option on the error screen, which you can use to login with different account and then use Teams. So how to actually fix this problem? Well, this error is expected to occur, if your work or company account do not have Microsoft Teams license assigned. To resolve this issue, you have to simply reach out to your IT admin and ask them to assign a Microsoft Teams license to your account.

If you are the IT admin, here’s how you fix this for your client:

Fix: Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message

1. Go to https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal, and sign in with your administrator account.

2. Under Microsoft 365 admin center, in the left pane, click on Users > Active users.

3. Now in the corresponding right pane, locate the client facing this problem. Click onand select Manage product licenses.

Fix: Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message

4. Then product license pane should open now. Here, select a location for the user and under Licenses, check Microsoft Teams license. Finally, click on Save changes.

Fix: Ask your admin to enable Microsoft Teams message

After sometime, when affected client will try to sign into Microsoft Teams again, they will no longer face this problem now. In this way, the issue should be resolved.

That’s it!

Related: Someone Has Already Setup Teams For Your Organization.

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Kapil Arya
11x Microsoft MVP · Admin

Kapil holds Microsoft MVP title in Windows IT Pro expertise, 11-times in a row (2014-2025). He is 8-times Windows Insider MVP as well, and author of 'Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting' book. In 2015, Microsoft India accomplished him as 'Windows 10 Champion'. Being passionate Windows blogger, he loves to help others on fixing their system issues. Kapil has worked with official Microsoft Community Engagement Team (CET) on several community projects. You can subscribe him for news/updates and fixes for Windows.

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