| Feature | Microsoft 365 Business Standard ✕ | Microsoft 365 Business Premium ✕ | Microsoft 365 E3 ✕ | Microsoft 365 E5 ✕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key questions | ||||
| Business email Exchange Online mailbox & calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Teams Chat, meetings and channels | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites, file storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop |
| Conditional access Entra ID Premium sign-in policies | — | P1 | P1 | P2 |
| Device management Intune for laptops and phones | Basic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Endpoint protection Microsoft Defender on devices | — | Business | Plan 1 | Plan 2 |
| Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 | — | Plan 1 | Plan 1 | Plan 2 |
| Data loss prevention Stop sensitive data leaving | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| eDiscovery Legal hold and investigations | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Insider risk Detect risky user activity | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Teams Phone Cloud phone system | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Power BI Pro Reports and dashboards | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Windows Enterprise Enterprise edition licence | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email & collaboration | ||||
| Bookings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clipchamp (video editor) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email & calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email archiving & retention | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Forms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kaizala | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Loop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Planner & To-Do | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Skype for Business (legacy) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stream (video) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sway | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Teams (chat & meetings) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viva Engage (Yammer) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Files & content | ||||
| Microsoft Search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Office for the web | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SharePoint & OneDrive | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Universal Print | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meetings & voice | ||||
| Audio conferencing | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Teams Phone (PBX) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Office apps | ||||
| Excel advanced analytics | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Office desktop apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Identity & access | ||||
| Entra ID P1 (Conditional Access, SSO) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Entra ID P2 (Identity Protection, PIM) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-factor authentication | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Devices & management | ||||
| Basic Mobile Device Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intune (full device management) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft 365 Lighthouse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Enterprise | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows Update / Autopatch | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Threat protection | ||||
| Cloud App Security for Office 365 | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Defender for Cloud Apps | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Defender for Endpoint (Plan 1) | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Defender for Endpoint (Plan 2) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Defender for Identity | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Defender for IoT | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Defender for Office 365 (Plan 2) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Microsoft 365 Defender (XDR) | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Information protection & compliance | ||||
| Advanced auditing | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Communication compliance | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Customer Key | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Customer Lockbox | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Data loss prevention (DLP) | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| eDiscovery & investigations | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Information barriers | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Information protection & encryption | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Insider risk management | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Privileged access management | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Records & information governance | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Sensitivity labels & classification | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics & automation | ||||
| Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dataverse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power Apps (seeded) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power Automate (seeded) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Power BI | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Viva Insights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Viva Learning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI | ||||
| Copilot chat (data protection) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business applications (Dynamics 365) | ||||
| Dynamics 365 (business applications) | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
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