Business Standard plus a slice of enterprise security — Intune device management, Entra ID P1, and Defender for Business — for small businesses that need managed devices.
Microsoft 365 Business ladder
Variants
Same product, different region/billing/bundling flavor — the base SKU is listed first.
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium (this page)
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium (no Teams) — (no Teams)
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium Donation — Donation (Non-Profit Pricing)
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium EEA (no Teams) — EEA (no Teams)
Related moves
- SPE_E3 — The common ~300-seat move: Business Premium tops out at 300 users, Microsoft 365 E3 has no seat cap.
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.
| Identity |
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| Conditional Access Advanced identity and access management: Conditional Access, group-based access management, and self-service password reset with on-premises write-back. Enforce sign-in rules (require MFA, block legacy auth, require a compliant device, restrict by location) based on user, app, and risk signals. |
| Multi-Factor Authentication Requires a second sign-in verification step (phone call, SMS, or app notification) in addition to a password. |
| Self-Service Password Reset With on-premises writeback (Entra ID P1) Advanced identity and access management: Conditional Access, group-based access management, and self-service password reset with on-premises write-back. Let users reset or unlock their own account without a help desk call. Basic cloud-only SSPR is available broadly; on-premises writeback (syncing the reset back to Active Directory) requires Entra ID P1. |
| Device Management |
| Intune Device Management Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices. Enroll, configure, and manage Windows, iOS, Android, and macOS devices: compliance policies, app deployment, and remote wipe. |
| Windows Autopilot Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices. Provision and configure new Windows devices out of the box, straight from the cloud, with no imaging. Autopilot itself has no separate license line item — it’s an Intune-dependent deployment workflow, mapped here to Intune Plan 1 as the plan that actually enables managing the enrolled device afterward. |
| BitLocker Management Cloud-based mobile device and application management — enroll, configure, and enforce compliance policies on company and personal devices. Centrally enforce BitLocker drive encryption policy and escrow recovery keys. BitLocker itself ships with Windows Pro/Enterprise; cloud-based policy and key escrow specifically need Intune, mapped here as the enabling plan since there’s no dedicated BitLocker-management license line item. |
| Universal Print Cloud-based print management that lets users print to registered printers without on-premises print servers. Cloud-based print management — no print servers, printer drivers pushed and managed centrally, permissions via Entra ID. |
| Security |
| 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. |
| Defender for Business |
| Compliance |
| eDiscovery Standard |
| Data Loss Prevention |
| Productivity |
| Exchange Mailbox Plan 1 The standard hosted Exchange mailbox plan, with a smaller mailbox quota and no in-place archive compared to Plan 2. 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 1 |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| Clipchamp A browser-based video editor for trimming, combining, and exporting video content. Browser-based video editor for quick marketing, training, and social clips — templates, stock media, and text-to-speech built in. |
| Exchange Online Archiving |
| Loop Portable, collaborative components and workspaces that stay in sync everywhere they are shared across Microsoft 365 apps. Portable, live-synced content blocks (Loop components) that stay updated everywhere they’re shared — in Teams chat, Outlook, or a Loop workspace. |
| 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 |
| Exchange Foundation The baseline Exchange Online mailbox service included in most Microsoft 365 plans — hosted email, calendar, and contacts. |
| Office for the Web Browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for viewing and editing documents without installing desktop apps. |
| Azure Information Protection Premium P1 Classify and protect documents and email with sensitivity labels, including on-premises scanner support for protecting files at rest. |
| 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. |
| Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Discovery Discovers which cloud apps are actually being used in the organization, without the full Defender for Cloud Apps control capabilities. |
| 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. |
| Azure Active Directory A small-business directory entitlement that ships alongside Microsoft Entra ID P1 in Business Premium — it does not replace the P1 plan listed separately on this page, and it grants no additional identity features on its own. |
| 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_P3 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_P3 Dataverse storage scoped for Power Platform apps built and used within Microsoft 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 365 Lighthouse (Plan 2) Adds further multi-tenant management capabilities on top of Microsoft 365 Lighthouse Plan 1 for Managed Service Providers. |
| Microsoft Forms (Plan E1) Create surveys, quizzes, and polls, and view response results and analytics. |
| Microsoft Intune |
| Microsoft Invoicing |
| Microsoft Kaizala Pro · KAIZALA_O365_P2 |
| 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 E1 |
| 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. |
| Office Shared Computer Activation |
| Power Virtual Agents for Office 365 · POWER_VIRTUAL_AGENTS_O365_P3 A seeded entitlement for building and publishing simple chatbots without writing code. |
| Project for Office (Plan E5) Lightweight, web-based task and project tracking bundled into qualifying Microsoft 365 E5 plans. |
| RETIRED - Outlook Customer Manager |
| 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 1) 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 1) A freeform digital canvas for real-time visual collaboration and brainstorming. |
| Windows 10/11 Business |
| Windows Update for Business Deployment Service Cloud-orchestrated Windows update deployment with per-device rollout scheduling and safeguard holds. |
Conditional Access
Multi-Factor Authentication
Intune Device Management
Universal Print
Defender for Office 365
eDiscovery
Exchange Mailbox
SharePoint / OneDrive Storage Tier
Teams (core / shared channels)
Desktop Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Bookings
Clipchamp
Loop
Planner
Power Apps / Power Automate (seeded)
Viva (core)