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1. Microsoft 365 Plans Comparison Pdf
2. Microsoft 365 Plans
3. Microsoft 365 Plans Canada
4. Microsoft 365 Plans Comparison
5. Microsoft 365 Login Portal

Microsoft 365 for enterprise is a complete, intelligent solution that empowers everyone to be creative and work together securely.

Microsoft 365 for enterprise is designed for large organizations, but it can also be used for medium-sized and small businesses that need the most advanced security and productivity capabilities.

Components

Microsoft 365 for enterprise consists of:

• Microsoft 365 Enterprise: Available in E3 and E5 configurations - those labels borrowed from Office 365 - for firms subscribing more than 300 employees in a plan.The included OS license is Windows.
• The Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Office 365 Enterprise plans (including standalone plans such as Exchange Online) and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise are available for annual commitment payment. Annual commitment payment: You sign up for a one-year subscription, but you can choose to pay month to month or pay for the entire year at the time.

While a service may be available across Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans, the features available in each plan may differ. To see the details of features that are available for each plan, refer to the individual service description or contact your Reseller or Microsoft sales representative for more information.

Plans

Microsoft 365 for enterprise is available in three plans.

If you have Microsoft 365 E3, you can also get these add-ons:

• Identity & Threat Protection
• Information Protection & Compliance
• Microsoft 365 E5 Insider Risk

Microsoft 365 E3 users can use these add-ons to take advantage of some of the additional features Microsoft 365 E5 includes.

For more information, see Features and capabilities for each plan.

Get the big picture

The Microsoft 365 for enterprise poster is a central location for you to view:

• The benefits of Microsoft 365 for enterprise, and how apps and services map to its value pillars.
• Microsoft 365 for enterprise plans and which components they contain.
• The key components of the Microsoft modern workplace, which Microsoft 365 for enterprise enables.
• The Microsoft 365 Productivity Library and representative scenarios for some common organization departments.

You can also download a copy of the poster.

Transition your entire organization

To get a better picture about how to move your entire organization to the products and services in Microsoft 365 for enterprise, see the transition poster.

This two-page poster is a quick way to inventory your existing infrastructure. It helps you to find guidance and move to the corresponding product or service in Microsoft 365 for enterprise. It includes Windows and Office products and other infrastructure and security elements, such as device management, identity, and information and threat protection.

End of support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 clients and servers

Windows 7 reached end of support on January 14, 2020.

These products reached end of support on October 13, 2020:

SharePoint Server 2010 will reach end of support on April 13, 2021.

For a visual summary of the upgrade, migrate, and move-to-the-cloud options for these products, see the end of support poster.

This one-page poster is a quick way to understand the various paths you can take to prevent Windows 7 and Office 2010 client and server products from reaching end of support, with preferred paths and support in Microsoft 365 for enterprise highlighted.

You can also download this poster and print it in letter, legal, or tabloid (11 x 17) formats.

Plan for and deploy

There are three ways to plan for and deploy the products, features, and components of Microsoft 365 for enterprise:

• In partnership with FastTrack

  With FastTrack, Microsoft engineers help you move to the cloud at your own pace. See FastTrack for Microsoft 365.

• With the help of Microsoft Consulting Services or a Microsoft partner

  Consultants can analyze your current infrastructure and help you develop a plan to incorporate all the software and services of Microsoft 365 for enterprise.

• Do it yourself

  Start with the Networking roadmap to build out or verify your existing infrastructure and productivity workloads.

For an example of how a fictional but representative multinational organization has deployed Microsoft 365 for enterprise, see the Contoso Corporation case study.

Additional Microsoft 365 products

• Bring together the best-in-class productivity and collaboration capabilities with device management and security solutions to safeguard business data for small and midsize businesses.

• Empower educators to unlock creativity, promote teamwork, and provide a simple and safe experience in a single, affordable solution built for education.

• Empower United States public sector employees to work together, securely.

Best together with Surface and the Edge browser

Optimize your user’s integrated and secure productivity with the best-together combination of Microsoft 365 for enterprise, Microsoft Surface devices, and the Microsoft Edge browser. This cross-product integration provides:

• A common identity and sign-in security infrastructure.
• Integrated local and cloud apps for search, collaboration, productivity, and compliance.
• Comprehensive and integrated security for hardware, browser, local app, and cloud apps.
• A common infrastructure for IT management of installs and updates.

Here is an example for an enterprise organization.

For more information and configuration examples for a small and medium business and an educational institution, download the Best together poster.

Microsoft 365 training

To learn more about Microsoft 365 and work toward a Microsoft 365 certification, you can start with Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals.

See also

Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your organization.

Service families and plans

The following table lists the different service families and plans available in Microsoft 365 and Office 365. For a high-level overview of features and pricing information, or to chat with an online representative, select any of the links in the Plans column.

Service availability within each Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plan

Each Microsoft 365 or Office 365 plan includes a number of individual services, such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The following table shows the services that are available in each plan.

Important

While a service may be available across Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans, the features available in each plan may differ. To see the details of features that are available for each plan, refer to the individual service description or contact your Reseller or Microsoft sales representative for more information.
Several of the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans have add-ons that you can buy for your subscription. An add-on provides additional functionality to the subscription. For more information, see Buy or edit an add-on for Office 365 for business.

¹ Azure Information Protection is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on and will enable the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. Some Azure Information Protection features require a subscription to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, which is not included with Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, Microsoft 365 F1, Microsoft 365 F3, Office 365 E1, Office 365 A1, or Office 365 F3.
² To learn more about which Azure Information Protection features are included with Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans, see Azure Information Protection.
³ Office 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 E5 contain Phone System and Audio Conferencing. To implement a Calling Plan requires an additional plan purchase (either Domestic or International).
⁴ Includes 2 GB storage.
⁵ Includes Exchange Online Plan 1.
⁶ Includes Exchange Online Plan 2.
⁷ Includes Exchange Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features.
⁸ Includes Exchange Online Kiosk.
⁹ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 with basic client limitations.
¹⁰ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 without any client limitations.
¹¹ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features.
¹² Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 with voice support and without any client limitations.
¹³ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 1.
¹⁴ Microsoft Teams is now the primary client for messaging, meetings, and calling in Microsoft 365. As of Oct. 1, 2018, new customers with 500 seats or less are onboarded to Microsoft Teams and do not have access to Skype for Business Online. Tenants that are already using Skype for Business Online are able to continue doing so (including provisioning new users) until they complete their transition to Microsoft Teams.
¹⁵ Includes Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance, which provides automatic classification and retention, Customer Key, Advanced Message Encryption, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Information Barriers, Customer Lockbox, Privileged Access Management, Advanced Audit, Records Management, and Advanced eDiscovery capabilities; and Microsoft 365 E5 Security, which includes Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Azure Active Directory Plan 2, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Cloud App Security, and Safe Documents.
¹⁶ Microsoft 365 F1 does not include rights to an Exchange mailbox. To enable a full Teams experience, M365 F1 licenses may come with the Exchange Online K1 service plan enabled. Although the Exchange Online K1 service plan will provision a mailbox for the user, M365 F1 users are not entitled to use the mailbox. We recommend that your customers disable Outlook on the web via these steps and ask users not to access the Exchange mailbox via any other methods.
¹⁷ Includes SharePoint Online Kiosk. Cannot be administrators. No site mailbox. No personal site.
¹⁸ Microsoft 365 F1 users can read files using Office for the web, but do not have create/edit/save rights.

Basic client limitations

The following features are available in the full client, but are not available in the basic client:

• Manage team call settings
• Manage delegates
• Make calls on behalf of another contact (manager/delegate scenario)
• Handle another's calls if configured as a delegate
• Manage a high volume of calls
• Initiate a call to a Response Group
• Call park
• Group call pickup

Microsoft 365 Plans Comparison Pdf

Changing or mixing plans

Microsoft 365 Plans

As the needs of your organization change, you may need to change your Microsoft 365 plan. You can switch from your current subscription to another subscription:

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• In the same service family: For example, you can move from Microsoft 365 Business Basic to Microsoft 365 Business Standard, or from Office 365 E1 to Office 365 E3.
• From a standalone plan: For example, you can move from Exchange Online Plan 1 to Office 365 E1.
• To a different service family: For example, you can move from Microsoft 365 Business Basic to Office 365 E3.
  For information about how to change subscriptions, including how to move from a trial to a paid subscription, see Switch to a different Microsoft 365 plan or subscription.

You can combine Enterprise, Business, and standalone plans (for example, Exchange Online Plan 1) within a single account. However, existing limitations on the number of seats per plan do not change. For example, you can have up to 300 seats per plan on both Microsoft 365 Business Basic and Microsoft 365 Business Standard, but an unlimited number of users on Exchange Online Plan 1.

Standalone services

The following online services are available on their own, as standalone plans. They can also be added to Business and Enterprise service family plans that don't already include them. For pricing information, or to chat with an online representative, select any of the plans listed in the following table.

Microsoft 365 Plans Comparison

Feature availability

Microsoft 365 Login Portal

To view feature availability across Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 platform service description.