Office 365 Business Premium
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Microsoft 365 Business Premium is an integrated solution bringing together the best-in-class productivity of Microsoft 365 with advanced security and device management to help safeguard your business from advanced threats. This service description describes the plan options and features. For more information about Office 365, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions.
Feature availability across Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans
Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium (starting at $12.50 per user per month on an annual subscription for the version we tested) integrates dynamic email hosting as well as the best of Microsoft. One solution for running and growing your business. With Office 365 Business Premium you get premium versions of all the Office apps you know and love, plus email hosting with 50 GB mailbox and custom email domain address, file storage and sharing with 1TB of OneDrive storage, and 24/7 phone and web support. But the official 'service description' for Microsoft 365 Business, which includes a comparison of features to Office 365 Business Premium is also available from Microsoft.
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Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes essentially all the features available in Microsoft 365 Business Standard along with additional Microsoft security features.
Office 365 Business Premium Devices
| Plan options | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office 365 platform | Yes | Yes | |
| Exchange Online | Yes1 | Yes1 | |
| SharePoint Online | Yes | Yes | |
| OneDrive for Business | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Teams | Yes | Yes | |
| Office for the web | Yes | Yes | |
| Office applications | Yes | Yes | |
| Yammer Enterprise | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Bookings | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Power Automate | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Forms | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Planner | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft PowerApps | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft StaffHub | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Stream | Yes6 | Yes6 | |
| Microsoft 365 administration | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | |
| Azure AD Connect sync tool | Yes | Yes | |
| Shared computer activation | No | Yes | |
| Message policy and compliance | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | |
| Long-term archiving of Exchange Online-based mailboxes | No | Yes3 | |
| Azure Information Protection Plan 1 | No | Yes2 | |
| Office 365 Message Encryption | No | Yes2 | |
| In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold | No | Yes3 | |
| In-Place eDiscovery | Yes | Yes | |
| Transport rules | Yes | Yes | |
| Data loss prevention | No | Yes | |
| Privacy, security, and transparency | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | |
| Built-in anti-spam protection | Yes | Yes | |
| Built-in anti-malware protection | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 | No | Yes7 | |
| Secure Score4 | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 | No | No | |
| Azure AD Premium P1 is available to Microsoft 365 Business Premium customers. | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 |
| Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Administrative units | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud app discovery | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic groups | No | Yes | Yes |
| Self-service password reset for cloud identities | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Self-service password reset with on-premises AD write-back | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| Device objects two-way synchronization between on-premises directories and Azure AD (device write-back) | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| Conditional access (based on group, location, or device state) | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| Company branding (logon pages/access panel customization) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Application proxy | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) user CAL | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| Connect Health | No | Yes9 | Yes |
| SLA 99.9% | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device and application management Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes full Intune capabilities for iOS, Android, Mac OS, and other cross-platform device management.8 | Microsoft 365 Business Standard | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | |
| Intune Mobile Device Management (MDM) for PCs, Macs, and mobile devices5 | No | Yes | |
| Mobile Device Management (MDM) auto-enrollment | No | Yes | |
| Intune Mobile Application Management (MAM) for Office apps and LOB apps | No | Yes | |
| Windows update management, Defender, Firewall policies5 | No | Yes | |
| Data protection - selective wipe | Yes | Yes | |
| Security group (SG) targeting for policies | No | Yes | |
| Install Office apps on enrolled Windows 10 devices | No | Yes | |
| Windows Defender configuration | No | Yes | |
| Deploying device profiles and security configuration5 | No | Yes | |
| Enterprise State Roaming for Windows 10 with Azure AD join | No | Yes | |
| Self-service BitLocker recovery | No | Yes | |
| Windows Virtual Desktop | No | Yes | |
| Windows 10 Pro management If you have devices that are licensed for Windows 7 and 8.1 Professional, Microsoft 365 Business Premium provides an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.9 | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | ||
| Simplified deployment with Windows AutoPilot | Yes | ||
| Subscription activation | Yes | ||
| Organizational control of device screen on idle | Yes | ||
| Organizational control of user access to apps from Microsoft Store | Yes | ||
| Organizational control of user access to Cortana | Yes | ||
| Organizational control of Windows tips and advertising from Microsoft | Yes | ||
| Windows 10 devices kept up-to-date automatically | Yes | ||
| Windows 10 Security | Microsoft 365 Business Premium | ||
| Protect PCs from viruses and other threats using Windows Defender Antivirus | Yes | ||
| Protect PCs from web-based threats in Microsoft Edge | Yes | ||
| Use rules that reduce the attack surface of devices | Yes | ||
| Protect folders from threats such as ransomware | Yes | ||
| Help protect files and folders on PCs from unauthorized access with Bitlocker | Yes |
Office 365 Business Premium Vs Standard
Office 365 Business Premium Features Price and Trial Accounts Insert an object in your Excel spreadsheet Disclaimer: The Questions and Answers provided on are for general information purposes only. With Microsoft 365 Business Premium (Previously Microsoft 365 Business), we’re on a journey to deliver a comprehensive productivity and security solution for businesses with less than 300 employees. It integrates your favorite Office apps and collaboration tools including Microsoft Teams with advanced security and device management capabilities.
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Notes
1 Includes Exchange Online Plan 1.
2 Azure Information Protection (AIP) enables the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. AIP Plan 1 is included in Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
3 Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes Exchange Online Archiving subscription. Each Exchange Online Archiving subscriber initially receives 100 GB of storage in the archive mailbox. When auto-expanding archiving is turned on, additional storage is automatically added when the 100 GB storage capacity is reached. For more information, see Overview of unlimited archiving.
4 Available at https://securescore.office.com. Requires admin permissions. For more information, see Microsoft Secure Score.
5 Simplified Windows 10 device management built into the Microsoft 365 admin center. Intune management capabilities of iOS, Android, macOS, and other cross-platform device management built into the Device management admin center, also licensed for use with Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Third-party apps and configuration of things like WiFi profiles and VPN certificates can also be managed in the Device management admin center.
6 This plan comes with Microsoft Stream Plan 2, which includes Video portal, Speech to text transcription, Deep Search, and Face Detection.
7 Microsoft 365 comes with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1. For more information, see Microsoft 365 Business Premium security and compliance features.
8 Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscribers are licensed to use full Intune capabilities for iOS, Android, MacOS, and other cross-platform device management. Features not available in the admin center in Microsoft 365 Business Premium, like third-party app management and configuration of WiFi profiles, VPN certificates, etc., can be managed in the full Intune console.
9 If you have devices that are licensed for Windows 7 and 8.1 Professional, Microsoft 365 Business Premium provides an upgrade to Windows 10 Pro. However, this license does not cover Windows 7.1 or 8 Home Edition with Windows 10 Pro. With Microsoft 365 Business Premium you not only get Microsoft Defender security features that come enabled in Windows Pro, you also get access to premium features like network protection for web-based threats and host intrusion prevention rules to mitigate ransomware. When you set up your Microsoft 365 Business Premium account, you select app protection, and device configuration settings. These settings determine the policies that are applied automatically to devices when they join Azure Active Directory.