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- Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E2
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Microsoft 365 for enterprise is a complete, intelligent solution that empowers everyone to be creative and work together securely. Microsoft 365 for enterprise is designed for large organizations, but it can also be used for medium-sized and small businesses that need. A Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise account. A Microsoft 365 Personal account. A Windows 10 device with enough free storage space to hold all the files, emails.
Microsoft 365 for enterprise is a complete, intelligent solution that empowers everyone to be creative and work together securely.
Microsoft 365 for enterprise is designed for large organizations, but it can also be used for medium-sized and small businesses that need the most advanced security and productivity capabilities.
Components
Microsoft 365 for enterprise consists of:
| Services | Description |
|---|---|
| Local apps and cloud-based apps and productivity services | Includes both Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, the latest Office apps for your PC and Mac (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and others), and a full suite of online services for email, file storage and collaboration, meetings, and more. |
| Windows 10 Enterprise | Meets the needs of both large and midsize organizations. It's the most productive and secure version of Windows for users. For IT professionals, it also provides comprehensive deployment, device, and app management. |
| Device management and advanced security services | Includes Microsoft Intune, which is a cloud-based enterprise mobility management service that helps enable your workforce to be productive while protecting your organization data. |
Plans
Microsoft 365 for enterprise is available in three plans.
| Plan name | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| E3 | Access the Microsoft 365 core products and features to securely enhance workplace productivity and drive innovation. |
| E5 | Access the Microsoft 365 latest products and features. These include Defender for Office 365, security tools, and collaboration tools. This plan includes all E3 capabilities, plus advanced security, voice, and data analysis tools. |
| F3 | Connect with your first-line workers through purpose-built tools and resources that they can use to help them do their best work. |
If you have Microsoft 365 E3, you can also get these add-ons:
- Identity & Threat Protection
- Information Protection & Compliance
- Microsoft 365 E5 Insider Risk
Microsoft 365 E3 users can use these add-ons to take advantage of some of the additional features Microsoft 365 E5 includes.
For more information, see Features and capabilities for each plan.
Get the big picture
The Microsoft 365 for enterprise poster is a central location for you to view:
- The benefits of Microsoft 365 for enterprise, and how apps and services map to its value pillars.
- Microsoft 365 for enterprise plans and which components they contain.
- The key components of the Microsoft modern workplace, which Microsoft 365 for enterprise enables.
- The Microsoft 365 Productivity Library and representative scenarios for some common organization departments.
You can also download a copy of the poster.
Transition your entire organization
To get a better picture about how to move your entire organization to the products and services in Microsoft 365 for enterprise, see the transition poster.
This two-page poster is a quick way to inventory your existing infrastructure. It helps you to find guidance and move to the corresponding product or service in Microsoft 365 for enterprise. It includes Windows and Office products and other infrastructure and security elements, such as device management, identity, and information and threat protection.
End of support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 clients and servers
Windows 7 reached end of support on January 14, 2020.
These products reached end of support on October 13, 2020:
SharePoint Server 2010 will reach end of support on April 13, 2021.
For a visual summary of the upgrade, migrate, and move-to-the-cloud options for these products, see the end of support poster.
This one-page poster is a quick way to understand the various paths you can take to prevent Windows 7 and Office 2010 client and server products from reaching end of support, with preferred paths and support in Microsoft 365 for enterprise highlighted.
You can also download this poster and print it in letter, legal, or tabloid (11 x 17) formats.
Plan for and deploy
There are three ways to plan for and deploy the products, features, and components of Microsoft 365 for enterprise:
In partnership with FastTrack
With FastTrack, Microsoft engineers help you move to the cloud at your own pace. See FastTrack for Microsoft 365.
With the help of Microsoft Consulting Services or a Microsoft partner
Consultants can analyze your current infrastructure and help you develop a plan to incorporate all the software and services of Microsoft 365 for enterprise.
Do it yourself
Start with the Networking roadmap to build out or verify your existing infrastructure and productivity workloads.
Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise E2
For an example of how a fictional but representative multinational organization has deployed Microsoft 365 for enterprise, see the Contoso Corporation case study.
Additional Microsoft 365 products
Bring together the best-in-class productivity and collaboration capabilities with device management and security solutions to safeguard business data for small and midsize businesses.
Empower educators to unlock creativity, promote teamwork, and provide a simple and safe experience in a single, affordable solution built for education.
Empower United States public sector employees to work together, securely.
Best together with Surface and the Edge browser
Optimize your user’s integrated and secure productivity with the best-together combination of Microsoft 365 for enterprise, Microsoft Surface devices, and the Microsoft Edge browser. This cross-product integration provides:
- A common identity and sign-in security infrastructure.
- Integrated local and cloud apps for search, collaboration, productivity, and compliance.
- Comprehensive and integrated security for hardware, browser, local app, and cloud apps.
- A common infrastructure for IT management of installs and updates.
Here is an example for an enterprise organization.
For more information and configuration examples for a small and medium business and an educational institution, download the Best together poster.
Microsoft 365 training
To learn more about Microsoft 365 and work toward a Microsoft 365 certification, you can start with Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals.
Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise License Cost
See also
-->Microsoft 365 Apps is a version of Office that's available through many Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) plans. It includes the applications that you're familiar with, including Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Skype for Business, Teams, and Word. You can use these applications to connect with Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) services such as SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Skype for Business Online.
Note
- Project and Visio aren't included with Microsoft 365 Apps, but are available from other subscription plans.
- For more information about Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) plans, see https://products.office.com and the Office 365 Service Descriptions.
Microsoft 365 Apps is similar to other versions of Office
Microsoft 365 Apps is similar to other versions of Office that you can deploy to your users. Here are some important similarities:
Microsoft 365 Apps is a full version of Office.
Its system requirements (for example, memory, hard disk space, and operating system) are similar to other current versions of Office. For more information, see System requirements for Office.
Like other versions of Office, Microsoft 365 Apps is available in a 32-bit and a 64-bit version. To decide which version is right for your environment, carefully review Choose between the 64-bit or 32-bit version of Office before you deploy.
When you deploy Microsoft 365 Apps, it's installed on the user's local computer. Microsoft 365 Apps is not a web-based version of Office. It runs locally on the user's computer. Users don't need to be connected to the internet all the time to use it.
You can use many of the same tools to deploy and configure Microsoft 365 Apps that you're already using to deploy Office. For example, you can use Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to deploy Microsoft 365 Apps. For more information, see Choose how to deploy.
In addition, you can use many of the same Group Policy settings that you use with other versions of Office to configure and enforce Microsoft 365 Apps program settings.
What's different about Microsoft 365 Apps?
Even though Microsoft 365 Apps is a lot like other versions of Office, there are differences, including for Deployment differences and Licensing differences.
The most significant difference is that Microsoft 365 Apps is updated regularly, as often as monthly, with new features, unlike non-subscription versions of Office. For a list of new features, see What's new in Microsoft 365.
Deployment differences
By default, Microsoft 365 Apps installs as one package. This means that all Office applications are installed on the user's computer. But, you can configure the deployment to exclude or remove certain Office applications, such as Access, from client computers.
Because Microsoft 365 Apps uses a different installation technology, called Click-to-Run, there's a different way to apply software updates, such as security updates. By default, Microsoft 365 Apps is configured to automatically install updates from the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the internet. But, you can configure Microsoft 365 Apps to install updates from a location within your own network or you can manage updates to Microsoft 365 Apps with Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager.
Microsoft 365 Apps also provides the ability to control how often users receive feature updates. For example, users can get new features to Microsoft 365 Apps as soon as they're ready, or once a month (on the second Tuesday of the month), or twice a year (in January and July, on the second Tuesday). For more information, see Overview of update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps.
Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) provides a web-based portal where users can install Microsoft 365 Apps themselves. Keep in mind that users have to be local administrators on their computers to install Microsoft 365 Apps. If users aren't local administrators, you'll have to install Microsoft 365 Apps for them. Also, if you don't want your users to install from the portal, you can prevent that. For more information, see Choose how to deploy.
Licensing differences
Users can install Microsoft 365 Apps on up to five different computers with a single Office 365 license. For example, a user can have Microsoft 365 Apps installed on a computer in the office, on a laptop to use when traveling, and on a home computer. Users can also install on up to 5 tablets and 5 phones.
Microsoft 365 Apps is offered as a subscription. If you cancel your subscription, Microsoft 365 Apps goes into reduced functionality mode. In reduced functionality mode, users can open and view existing Office files, but users can't use most of the other features of Microsoft 365 Apps. For more information, see Overview of licensing and activation in Microsoft 365 Apps.
To use Microsoft 365 Apps, a user must have an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) account and have been assigned a license. If the user's license or account is removed, the user's installations of Microsoft 365 Apps go into reduced functionality mode.
Even though users don't need to be connected to the internet all the time to use Microsoft 365 Apps, users must connect to the internet at least once every 30 days. This is so that the status of their Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) subscriptions can be checked. If users don't connect within 30 days, Microsoft 365 Apps goes into reduced functionality mode. After users connect to the internet and their subscription status is verified, all the features of Microsoft 365 Apps are available again.
More information about Microsoft 365 Apps
You can use Microsoft 365 Apps with supported versions of Exchange Server (Exchange Server 2013 or later) or SharePoint Server that are installed on-premises in your organization. Or, if they're part of your Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) plan, you can use Microsoft 365 Apps with Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
Users can store the files they create with Microsoft 365 Apps on their local computers or elsewhere on your network, such as a SharePoint site. Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) also provides cloud-based file storage options.
Microsoft 365 Apps isn't the same as the web versions of the Office applications. The web versions let users open and work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote documents in a web browser. The web versions of these Office application are included with all Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) plans.
Read the Office 365 Service Descriptions to learn more about what's included in Office 365 (and Microsoft 365).
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