Adds desktop Office apps and a fuller Exchange/SharePoint/compliance feature set to E1 — the standard mid-tier Enterprise productivity plan.
Office 365 Enterprise ladder
Variants
Same product, different region/billing/bundling flavor — the base SKU is listed first.
- Office 365 E3 (this page)
- Office 365 E3 (no Teams) — (no Teams)
- Office 365 E3 EEA (no Teams) — EEA (no Teams)
Related moves
- SPE_E3 — Adds the Microsoft 365 E3 device-management/security layer (Intune, Entra ID P1, AIP P1, Windows Enterprise) on top of the same Office 365 E3 productivity suite.
Included products
Derived from the service plans Microsoft provisions with this SKU — Microsoft publishes no product-in-bundle mapping.
What's included
Curated capability groupings first, then every remaining service plan Microsoft provisions with this SKU — together they're the complete list, nothing is hidden.
| Security |
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| Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 Protects email and collaboration content from phishing, malware, and malicious links via Safe Links and Safe Attachments. Protects mail and collaboration content from phishing and malware: Safe Links, Safe Attachments, and anti-phishing at Plan 1; adds automated investigation/response, attack simulation, and threat hunting at Plan 2. |
| Compliance |
| Litigation Hold Hosted Exchange mailboxes with a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive, compared to Exchange Online Plan 1. Preserve all mailbox items (including permanently deleted ones) indefinitely or for a set period, so nothing can be altered or purged during a legal matter. Requires Exchange Online Plan 2 — mapped here as the enabling plan, since Litigation Hold itself has no separate license line item. |
| Sensitivity Labels Manual labeling Manual sensitivity labeling for Office documents and email to classify and protect content. Classify and protect content (encryption, watermarking, access restriction) by applying labels users pick or that get applied for them. Manual, user-applied labeling is the base tier; automatic labeling (content is scanned and labeled without user action) needs the higher tier. |
| Purview Information Protection (analytics) Standard Reporting on sensitivity-label usage and information-protection activity across the tenant. Visibility into where labeled/sensitive content actually lives and how it moves (Content Explorer, Activity Explorer) — distinct from Sensitivity Labels itself, which covers creating and applying the labels; this is the reporting/analytics layer on top. |
| Productivity |
| Exchange Mailbox Plan 2 Hosted Exchange mailboxes with a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive, compared to Exchange Online Plan 1. The hosted Exchange Online mailbox itself — email, calendar, and contacts. Plan 1 is the standard tier; Plan 2 adds a larger mailbox quota and an in-place archive; Kiosk is a lighter, lower-quota tier for frontline/deskless workers. |
| SharePoint / OneDrive Storage Tier Plan 2 |
| Teams (core / shared channels) Chat, meetings, calling, and file collaboration in shared team and channel workspaces. Chat, meetings, calling (within the org), and file collaboration — including shared channels for cross-team and cross-org collaboration without switching tenants. |
| Desktop Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) The full desktop Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and more) with click-to-run installation and automatic updates. |
| Bookings Online appointment scheduling and calendar management for customer-facing bookings. A public-facing, self-service appointment-scheduling page synced to staff calendars — common for clinics, salons, and internal 1:1 scheduling. |
| Planner Task and project management with boards, buckets, and assignments for team-based work tracking. Kanban-style task boards for team work, integrated with Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups. |
| Power Apps / Power Automate (seeded) A seeded entitlement for building and running custom low-code business apps within Microsoft 365. The Power Apps and Power Automate usage rights included at no extra cost with most Microsoft 365/Office 365 plans — enough to build apps and flows against Microsoft 365 data. Premium connectors, per-app/per-user plans, and Dataverse capacity are separate, purchasable Power Platform licenses not covered here. |
| Viva (core) The core Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) community and communication experience integrated into Microsoft 365. The employee-experience platform surfacing engagement, community, and knowledge-sharing (Viva Engage, the modernized Yammer) inside Microsoft 365. Viva has several separately licensed modules (Insights, Learning, Goals, Glint) beyond this core. |
| Other service plans |
| Office for the Web Browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for viewing and editing documents without installing desktop apps. |
| Azure Rights Management · RMS_S_ENTERPRISE Encrypts and applies usage restrictions (view-only, no-forward, expiration) to documents and email so protection travels with the file. |
| Avatars for Teams Customizable 3D avatars users can appear as on Teams calls instead of their camera video. |
| Avatars for Teams (additional) Additional avatar styles and customization options layered on top of the base Avatars for Teams entitlement. |
| Commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot Extends Microsoft 365's commercial data-protection commitments (no training on customer data, tenant isolation) to Copilot prompts and responses. |
| Common Data Service · DYN365_CDS_O365_P2 The underlying Dataverse storage and data model that Power Apps, Power Automate, and other Power Platform tools are built on. |
| Common Data Service for Teams · CDS_O365_P2 |
| Immersive spaces for Teams |
| Insights by MyAnalytics Personal productivity and wellbeing insights (focus time, collaboration patterns, after-hours work) delivered by email digest and a Teams add-in. |
| Microsoft 365 Lighthouse (Plan 1) A management portal for Managed Service Providers to monitor security, device compliance, and configuration across multiple customer tenants. |
| Microsoft Forms (Plan E3) |
| Microsoft Kaizala Pro · KAIZALA_O365_P3 |
| Microsoft Search Unified search across Microsoft 365 apps and connected data sources, including third-party content via Graph connectors. |
| Microsoft StaffHub A retired scheduling and shift-management tool for frontline teams, superseded by Shifts in Microsoft Teams. |
| Microsoft Stream for Office 365 E3 Video storage, sharing, and playback for Microsoft 365 content such as Teams meeting recordings. |
| Mobile Device Management for Office 365 Basic mobile device management for Office 365 apps and data — PIN/encryption enforcement and remote wipe of company data, without a full Intune deployment. |
| Nucleus An AI-generated recap of a meeting's transcript, notes, and action items in Outlook and Teams. |
| Power Virtual Agents for Office 365 · POWER_VIRTUAL_AGENTS_O365_P2 A seeded entitlement for building and publishing simple chatbots without writing code. |
| Project for Office (Plan E3) Lightweight, web-based task and project tracking bundled into qualifying Microsoft 365 E3 plans. |
| Skype for Business Online (Plan 2) Legacy enterprise voice, video, and instant-messaging service, superseded by Microsoft Teams. |
| Sway A web-based app for creating interactive presentations, reports, and newsletters from text, images, and video. |
| To-Do (Plan 2) Personal task management with lists, reminders, and Outlook task integration. |
| Viva Learning Seeded A hub inside Teams for discovering, sharing, and tracking learning content from Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning, and other providers. |
| Whiteboard (Plan 2) A freeform digital canvas for real-time visual collaboration and brainstorming. |
Defender for Office 365
Litigation Hold
Sensitivity Labels
SharePoint / OneDrive Storage Tier
Teams (core / shared channels)
Desktop Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Bookings
Planner
Power Apps / Power Automate (seeded)
Viva (core)