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Capabilities Technical detail
Only show differences 26 capabilities shared · 32 differ
Feature Microsoft 365 E5 ✕ Office 365 E1 ✕
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 Web & mobile
Conditional access Entra ID Premium sign-in policies P2 —
Device management Intune for laptops and phones ✓ Basic
Endpoint protection Microsoft Defender on devices Plan 2 —
Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 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 ✓ ✓
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 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) ✓ ✓

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