Description
Powerful productivity apps with enhanced security and compliance capabilities. Includes unified endpoint, identity, and access management; powerful productivity apps including Microsoft Teams and Windows for Enterprise; plus enhanced security, cloud storage, and web-connected AI chat.
Plan highlights:
– Supports organizations of any size
– Enhanced identity and access management
– Desktop, web, and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps
– 1 to 5+ TB of cloud storage per user
– Chat, call, meet, and host webinars with Microsoft Teams
– Deploy, manage, and update devices at scale with Windows Enterprise
– Shadow IT discovery capabilities, antivirus, antimalware, phishing, and ransomware protection
– Manage, monitor, and ensure compliance across endpoints
– AI chat that provides the latest web information, writing assistance, and data analysis
– Anytime phone and web support
| Component | Microsoft 365 E5 | Microsoft 365 E3 |
| Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Word,Excel,PowerPoint,Outlook desktop) |
✅ | ✅ |
| Office for the web & mobile apps | ✅ | ✅ |
| Exchange Online Plan 2 (100 GB) | ✅ | ✅ |
| SharePoint Online Plan 2 | ✅ | ✅ |
| OneDrive for Business Plan 2 | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Teams | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Power BI Pro | ✅ | ❌ |
| Teams Phone Standard (cloud PBX) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Audio Conferencing | ✅ | ❌ |
| Defender for Office 365 | Plan 2 | EOP only |
| Advanced eDiscovery & Audit | ✅ | ❌ |
| Windows 11 Enterprise | E5 | E3 |
| Microsoft Intune Plan 1 | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) | P2 | P1 |
| Defender for Endpoint | Plan 2 | Plan 1 |
| Defender for Identity | ✅ | ❌ |
| Defender for Cloud Apps | ✅ | ❌ |
| Purview Information Protection (AIP) | Plan 2 | Plan 1 |
| Insider Risk Management & Communication Compliance | ✅ | ❌ |
(“EOP only” refers to Exchange Online Protection, the basic email security built into every Microsoft 365 mailbox, without Safe Links / Safe Attachments / Attack Simulator.)
Microsoft 365 E3 the default choice for most enterprises: everything included to fully manage a modern workplace from Microsoft, including Windows and Intune. Suitable from around 50 employees where Business Premium (300-user cap) no longer fits.
Common Ground
• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Access as desktop apps for PC and Mac
• Office for the web and mobile apps: the same apps in browser/iOS/Android
• Exchange Online Plan 2: 100 GB mailbox, in-place archive, DLP basics
• SharePoint Online Plan 2: unlimited sites, content management
• OneDrive for Business Plan 2: at least 5 TB storage per user
• Microsoft Teams: chat, meetings, collaboration
• Microsoft Loop, Planner, To Do, Forms, Stream, Sway, Clipchamp
• Exchange Online Protection (EOP): baseline anti-spam, anti-malware and anti-phishing for email
What does E5 add over E3?
1. Telephony & meetings
Teams Phone Standard: full cloud PBX (no separate PBX license required). Audio Conferencing: dial-in to Teams meetings via local phone numbers.
2. Analytics
Power BI Pro: publish and share reports with colleagues.
3. Advanced email & collaboration security
Defender for Office 365 Plan 2: Safe Links, Safe Attachments, Threat Explorer, Attack Simulator and Automated Investigation & Response.E3 plans only get the baseline EOP protection;Plan 2 usually requires the purchase of additional components separately
4. Compliance & investigations
Advanced eDiscovery & Audit: for legal hold, audit trails and forensic investigations
In Microsoft 365 E5 you additionally get: Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 (instead of Plan 1), Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Entra ID P2, Purview Information Protection P2, Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance.
