How do I know if I have too many or too expensive licenses?
Many SMBs have Premium licenses where they use 20 percent of features, or pay for people no longer employed. A license cleanup often delivers a nice saving in year one.
Try this first
- 1Pull the active user list and compare it to payroll, ex-employees with active licenses are pure waste.
- 2Per user: check which features they actually used in the last 90 days, not what they theoretically could.
- 3For people who only need mail and calendar, a lighter license can be enough.
- 4Company add-ons like Power BI Pro or Project: count active users, not seats purchased.
When to bring us in
If you want a license cleanup on your tenant without doing the digging yourself, we can pick it up quickly.
See also
- What does Managed IT actually cost for a 10-person SMBNo fixed number, but an honest breakdown. A full package for ten people is not 50 euros a month and not 5000 either.
- Microsoft 365 Business Standard versus Premium, what is extraThe price jump is real but Premium does not add Word features. It adds security and device management.
- Microsoft announces another price hike, what do I doSince NCE Microsoft adjusts pricing structurally. Without action you renew at the new price for a full year.
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