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What is Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft 365 Business Premium (formerly Microsoft 365 Business) is a comprehensive subscription service for businesses with less than 300 employees. It integrates your favorite Office productivity apps and services, and collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, with advanced security and device management capabilities.

Watch this video for a quick overview of Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

If you found this video helpful, check out the complete training series for small businesses and those new to Microsoft 365.

Microsoft renamed its 365 Business plan to Business Premium when the P1 license was added. This was part of a wider renaming of all their small- and medium-sized business-focused offerings. The Business Premium plan is still intended for SMBs with 300 users or less. Microsoft 365 Business Standard 12-Month Subscription, 1 person Premium Office Apps 1TB OneDrive cloud storage PC/Mac Download Brand: Microsoft Platform: Mac OS Sierra 10.12, Windows 10, Mac OS Mojave 10.14.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium is meant for up to 300 licenses. If you need more licenses, see Microsoft 365 Enterprise documentation for more information.

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See the Microsoft 365 Business Premium service description for the entire list of features.

Small business security needs

Your business data can be compromised in many ways. You and your users can compromise your organization's security when you sign in with compromised credentials or view organization data on different devices and applications. More specifically, your organization is at risk from:

  • Compromised or weak sign-in credentials.
  • Compromised device with a weak pin, or a user owned device.
  • Users who can copy/paste/save your organization's data to personal apps​.
  • Users who install and use third-party apps with weak security​.
  • Email vulnerabilities, including sharing sensitive data, phishing attempts, malware, and so on.
  • When people who should not, can access documents with sensitive information.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium helps safeguard your data in each of these instances. The security features that protect your business data are detailed in the following figure.

How your data and devices are protected

Microsoft 365 Business Premium helps defended against threats by:

  • Scanning links in emails and documents in real time to block unsafe web sites (Safe Links).

  • Performing advanced analysis of email attachments in a sandbox environment to detect newly developed malware (Safe Attachments).

  • Enabling anti-phishing policies that use machine learning models and impersonation detection to provide protection against advanced attacks (Anti-phishing in Defender for Office 365 intelligence).

  • Setting up advanced policies that disable access from untrusted locations or bypass multifactor authentication from trusted places such as your office network (Azure MFA including trusted IPs, and Conditional Access).

  • Enforcing malware protection across all your organization's Windows 10 devices and protecting files in key system folders from changes made by ransomware (Windows Defender)

Your business data is protected by:

  • Using automatic detection to help prevent sensitive information such as Social Security numbers or credit cards from leaking outside your business (data loss prevention).

  • Encrypting sensitive emails so you can communicate securely with customers or other people outside your organization. This ensures that only the intended recipient can read the message (Office 365 Message Encryption).

  • Controlling who has access to company information by applying restrictions such as Do Not Copy and Do Not Forward to email and documents (Azure Information Protection, Plan 1).

  • Enabling unlimited cloud archiving so you can retain all your organization's email, including the mailboxes of former employees (Exchange Online Archiving).

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Your devices are secured by:

  • Controlling which devices and users can access your Microsoft data, with options to block users from signing in from home computers, unapproved apps, or outside of work hours (Conditional Access).

  • Applying security policies to protect business data on iOS and Android devices. For example, you can require users to provide a PIN or fingerprint to access business data, and encrypt data on mobile devices (App protection for Office mobile apps).

  • Keeping business documents, emails, and other data within approved Office mobile apps and preventing employees from saving these to unauthorized apps and locations (App protection for Office mobile apps).

  • Remotely wiping business data from lost or stolen devices without affecting personal information (Intune selective wipe).

  • Using simplified controls to manage policies for all the Windows 10 PCs in your company, enforcing BitLocker encryption and automatically installing critical Windows updates (Enforce Windows update policies).

To see the full list of security features, see Microsoft 365 Business Premium security features. After you Set up Microsoft 365 Business Premium, see increase threat protection and set up compliance features to get started with the security features that aren't included as a part of the guided setup. Read also Top 10 ways to secure Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans for a good overview on how to set up protections against cyber criminals and hackers.

Get Microsoft 365 Business Premium

  • If you have a partner, they'll get Microsoft 365 Business Premium: Get Microsoft 365 Business Premium from Microsoft Partner Center.

  • If you don't have a partner and want to get Microsoft 365 Business Premium, you can buy it here and follow the sign up instructions.

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Microsoft 365 Business Premium Features

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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.

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Feature availability across Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Microsoft 365 Business Premium plans

Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes essentially all the features available in Microsoft 365 Business Standard along with additional Microsoft security features.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium Features

Plan optionsMicrosoft 365 Business StandardMicrosoft 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 1No
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

Notes

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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.