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1. Compare Microsoft 365 Enterprise software plans including Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 for Office productivity apps, and F3 for your frontline workers.
2. I've read some article and it says that Microsoft 365 E3 can be use to activate 5 machines. Is there an option to configure the shared machines so that users can use more than 5 similar to Office 365?
3. Customers with Microsoft 365 E3 subscriptions are eligible to purchase Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance and Microsoft 365 E5 Security as add-ins to their Microsoft 365 E3 subscriptions.
4. The Office 365 E3 license indeed has unlimited archive mailboxes storage. For more details, you can view Storage limits across Office 365 options section in this article. For auto-expanding online archive storage feature, I believe there is no other limits with this feature.

Even when your company size is 50 people. You could start using Microsoft Business, full cloud. With real value and benefits as in Microsoft 365 E3. You could even use M365 E5 for small business when data control and cloud security is required. Micrososoft 365 E5 License overview Office 365 – standard set.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium has everything you need for your small business, combining the best-in-class cloud-based productivity apps with simple device management and security. If you currently have an Office 365 E3 subscription, but don't have more than 300 employees, consider switching to Microsoft 365 Business Premium for added security features.

Migrating is easy: First you switch licenses and all your data and user information in your current subscription is maintained. After the migration, you'll need to set up the features that are added in Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

Differences between Office 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Business Premium

This table shows the differences between Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Office 365 E3.

¹ The Microsoft 365 Business Premium version of the Office apps doesn't include volume activation through Group Policy, app telemetry, update controls, spreadsheet compare and inquire, or business Intelligence.

Migration

To migrate your subscription, see Change plans manually for instructions if you want to move just a few people to Microsoft 365 Business Premium. You can also upgrade everyone automatically, or work with a partner to move your E3 subscription and licenses to a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription.The following sections describe the changes you need to make, if any, and what you can do after the migration.

Office 365 E3 subscription configuration and data

You don't need to do any changes to your current subscription or data before migrating, which includes:

• Subscription configuration, such as DNS records and domain names.
• User and group accounts and authentication settings, such as multi factor authentication or conditional access policies.
• Productivity service configurations and their data, such as Teams, Exchange Online mailboxes, SharePoint Online sites, OneDrive for Business folders, and OneNote notebooks.
• Office applications will scale automatically. Office 365 modern licensing will check the user’s license assignment every 72 hours and will convert Office applications to the version that matches the user subscription.

Windows 10

If your Windows aren't already on Windows Pro Creator update, upgrade them to Windows Pro Creators Update.

Set up policies to protect user devices and files

Note

If you set up Office 365 MDM policies and devices, those devices will be listed on the Devices page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Any policies you set up will show up in the list of classic policies in the Intune portal.

After you have assigned licenses to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, you can start protecting the users' devices and files.

If you upgraded everyone in your organization to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, you'll see the setup wizard on the Home page, and can follow the Set up Microsoft 365 Business Premium in the setup wizard steps to protect files and mobile devices.

You can also complete these steps on the Devices page:

1. In the admin center, in the left nav, go to Devices > Policies.

2. On the Device policies page, choose Add.

3. In the Add policy pane give the policy a name, and then choose a Policy type from the drop-down.

   You can set up application policies for protecting files on Android and iPhone devices, as well as Windows 10, and you can set up device configuration policies for company owned Windows 10 devices. See the following links for details:

4. Once you set up policies, you and your employees can set up devices:

• See Set up Windows devices for Microsoft 365 Business Premium users for steps for Windows devices.

• See Set up mobile devices for Microsoft 365 Business Premium users for steps for Android phones and iPhones.

Mailbox Size

Microsoft 365 Business Premium has a 50 GB storage limit as it uses Exchange Online Plan 1. While migrating to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, if any of your users exceed 50 GB of mailbox storage, it is recommended that you assign this user an Exchange Online Plan 2 and remove the Exchange Online Plan 1 as it's not feasible to assign both.

Threat protection

After migrating to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, you have Defender for Office 365. See Microsoft Defender for Office 365 for an overview. To set up, see set up Safe Links, set up Safe Attachments, and set up Anti-phishing in Defender for Office 365.

Sensitivity labels

To start using sensitivity labels, see Overview of sensitivity labels and create and manage sensitivity labels video.

This article was originally published on: http://jasperbernaers.com/the-value-of-microsoft-365-e3-or-e5

Creating the modern workplace!

• Digital business transformation. Every company has a digital transformation initiative. Microsoft 365 drives this digital transformation.
• Increasing agility. The ability to respond to and drive market change quickly is the fundamental measure of business agility.
• Empower information workers and firstline workers so they can collaborate and communicate. Internally as with customers.
• Support different working styles for millennial's, Gen Z, Gen X, Baby boomers.
• Generate better intelligence and analytics with a single view into your company information!
• Increase mobility. people are working from home. From clients and during travel. In regard to collaboration, 98% of information workers collaborate or communicate with someone else at work on a weekly basis.
• Improve security and compliance. Most of the time there is no control of data compliance in the current on-premise environment. Security systems are complex and static without growing or proven improvements. Start with a Zero Trust model.
• Elaborate on collaboration. The rich eco-system of Office 365 with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive will help shift collaboration to 1 dedicated system, with document management and rich possibilities as PowerPlatform and other Microsoft tech.

Microsoft 365 E3 or Microsoft 365 E5?

• Device, make it simple. 2-3 Flavors of license scenario's or strategies are fine.. Dangerous to thinkyou can do a thing with M365 E3 if MFAimplementation is complex.. Invest in fast, create a roadmap for the next years. build trust, choose platform, choose Microsoft.
• Start with activating basic security mechanisms. Start with what you are using. grow. Don't buy E5 when you are not mature. Buy E5 and enable CASB to understand shadow IT or act when people extract crucial organization data... etc..
• Don't think it's complex. Even when your company size is 50people. You could start using Microsoft Business - full cloud. With real value as M365 E3. You could even use M365 E5 when data control and cloud security is import.

Office 365 - standard set

• Every company is using e-mail, calendar, contacts move to exchange Online. it's a proven standard.
• Voice, Video, Meetings. Microsoft Teams. It's used by 500.000 organization and became a standard. Shift to Microsoft Teams for better collaboration.
• Office ProPlus: Everyone is using rich office clients: Word, Excel, PowerPoint. It's there for decades and became a standard.
• Planner, Yammer, OneDrive, SharePoint,.. it isn't always a standard but we currently have tools to Plan tasks, Share thoughts, Share Documents and colleborate in our organization. Proven standard

Office 365 - advanced

• 'Built-in' Analytics - did you know there are free/default/built-in dashboards for a lot of Microsoft 365 Services. I know. These are not organizational related. So they can give rich insights of usability of Office 365 tools.
• Workplace Analytics for example: Measure progress toward transformation goals or Evaluate effectiveness of change efforts. Measure meeting hours, Discover inefficient processes, Identify hurdles to innovation, Gaps in learning, Identify Influencers,..

• MyAnalytics: It's not to control - it's to to help to find out how work is done. People in your organization can find out their own habits because of their Analytic-insights.

Microsoft 365 E3 or E5?

1. Protection across the attack kill chain. This slide shows the real value of Microsoft 365 E5. A lot of customers al laughing with MDATP because they think this is a isolated product. And are going deep in the license compare strategy of their current antivirus. Have a separated anti-spam solution, NO Azure AD Protection, NO cloud App Security..

2. Microsoft 365 E5 has: O365 ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP + Cloud App Security. Read below!

3. Cloud App Security: Cloud App Security shows you exactly whether data is passing on all endpoints. Document data, lateral movements, usage of applications, global traffic, count of applications in use in your organisation. Risk levels, GDPR proof applications. Bring network devices logging in CASB to have more insights.

4. Security & Compliance: I've seen that there a not enough organizations aware of the richness of the Security & Compliance possibilities in Microsoft 365. Because of shifting to Microsoft 365 the compliance will be in control of your organization. Even if you leave some file-servers and SharePoint services on-premise.

5. Identity & Access management: Because of simplified Identity management organizations are able to work with Security perimeters to protect their users and organization. Because of these simplified configuration users will be able to reset their own password, control their own devices, or configure additional security components. (ZERO-IT)

6. Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)is an Azure Active Directory (AD) feature that enables users to reset their passwords without contacting IT staff for help. People can unblock themselves and continue working no matter where they are.

7. Managed Mobile Device: Cloud intelligence drives management. Use Autopilot to roll-out new devices and Increase productivity, reduce help-desk costs and Provide the best employee experience. Manage you Windows 10 devices and your mobile devices. Stop allowing personal devices without taking control of organization data. Use MAM and be diplomatic for end-users.

8. Microsoft Defender Security Center Security operations dashboard: The Security operations dashboard is where the endpoint detection and response capabilities are surfaced. It provides a high level overview of where detections were seen and highlights where response actions are needed. USE your built-in possibility for SECOPS reporting. You HAVE IT.

9. Identity driven Security: Because of the use of a single identity in Azure. Or hybrid synced from your local Active Directory services organizations will be able to protect and automatically act when necessary. request for update your password if breached. Ask MFA when your device is not trusted. etc.. let your users update their password from home. Increase ⬆️productivity.

10. Risky Sign-ins:This great feature will bring based on cloud intelligence insights to understand the RISK of a user. for example unfamiliar location, anonymous IP addresses, leaked credentials.. (more info here)

11. Information Protection: To start with classification and labeling of document choose your battles. Define 1-2-3 labels for example: 'High-Confidential Internal Only', 'Public' and 'Internal Only'. It's a good start without auto-labeling documents so people can learn how to protect their confidential data. In a later phase you can enable auto-labeling when a document is highly confidential because of there are credit-card numbers, personal information etc in this document. The activation of Information Protection could come from the fact that 1 million files are shared with external people. Or that you want to stop third-party applications so company data stays safe in the environment.

12. Advanced Threat Protection:Work with Microsoft Defender Security Center (previous WDATP) it will give you insights for Applications, OS, Network, Accounts, Security Controls + Give insights for Software patching, Top vulnerable software, Top exposed machines. Most reports are built-in and seamless integration is done in the Eco-system of Microsoft 365 E5.

13. Windows 10 Enterprise with MODERN approach

Windows 10: My personal favorite. I really love customers which did their homework and started using Windows 10 without policies, governance, Intune (for example), management solutions and now they are stuck in the patching & management of these systems. This is wrong! ❌

Microsoft Windows 10: Windows 10 has been released to insiders in 2015. version. 1507 afterwards 1511, 1607, 1703,1709, 1803,1809,1903,1909. Microsoft did understand the pain of shifting from Windows XP to Windows 7, Windows 8 to 8.1 and Windows 10. And now they want you to work on this NEW versions in a different way.

Microsoft's Windows 10 Enterprise: comes in the flavor of continues improvement. And needs to be implemented in a service-model with automatic updates, roll-outs, deployment, patching, updating, software requests (self-service) and even more! ✅

Set compliance policies: Because of deep integrations you will be able to work on the compliance of the devices and grow to a recurrent update-model.

14. Desktop Analytics: Thanks to desktop analytics you will be able to evaluate the changes during updates as software distribution and compatibility issues. You can bring your organization to a next level. In case you were afraid that automation took your job, think again. These things need huge attention!

15. Native PowerBI Integration: Because of the rich Eco-system within Microsoft 365 everything can be measured. This report is default/standard without any manipulation of Power-bi. I know it sounds stupid, but without insights that can grow fast. You have nothing. Features/services are changing every year. Be prepared. Start consolidation and start using standards to built on.

365 E3 Mailbox Size

Start with a action Plan

365 E3 Visio

• Start with a STRATEGY. Do you want to: increase agility, empower information workers create intelligence increase mobility short: Drive transformation. AND invest in your SECURITY MATURITY -> than you should start with a STRATEGY. Non of all these things are technical. Even if we think it's technical. DECIDE.
• PLAN: Everything starts with a plan. PLAN to start a Microsoft Teams pilot. PLAN to evaluate. PLAN to pick-up the finding. PLAN To go further. Most important PLAN to write a ROADMAP which describes the road ahead.
• READINESS CHECK: Are you technically READY to start with a Microsoft Teams Roll-out? Is your company READY to start? Are the people READY to start? Is everyone involved? Are you READY?
• IMPLEMENTATION: This is the easy part. Implement Microsoft Teams. Enable the features, check the boxes. Activate the subscriptions, copy the templates. Start the Pilot. Ask experts to deliver the technical requirements.
• NEW WAY OF WORK: Microsoft Teams as used in this example as 'new tech', think about the groups we had in the top of the article. millennial's, Gen Z, Gen X, Baby boomers. Do you think you should make some scenario's? training and standard adoption programs to help them work as they never did before? YES!
• TRANSFORM(ATION): Real transformation is successful when you KNOW/MEASURE it went well. Wen you see the activation/usage ratio in numbers. When you know the people are confident and happy to use new technology. When nobody is complaining and the organization has grown to a higher level of collaboration. And even when it fails or needs more improvements start over with this S-P-R-I-N-T.
• This article was originally published on: https://jasperbernaers.com/the-value-of-microsoft-365-e3-or-e5/