What is Microsoft 365 Business Premium in plain language?
Business Standard plus the security pieces you would otherwise buy separately. Intune for laptops, Defender for mail and files, Entra ID P1 for MFA and Conditional Access. Under 300 staff this is what most SMBs land on.
Try this first
- 1Standard gives you Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Office apps. Premium adds three things that cost real money on their own: device management, anti-phishing, identity protection.
- 2Concretely: lost laptop? Under Premium you wipe it remotely. Phishing mail with an attachment? Scanned before delivery. 03:00 login from Lagos? Blocked or challenged.
- 3The per-user monthly delta is modest per the Microsoft price list, ask your CSP partner for the current list price in your currency.
- 4Stack the separate Defender, Intune and Entra licenses yourself and you usually overshoot Premium in cost without the same integration.
When to bring us in
Unsure about the upgrade timing or about rolling out Intune and Defender without breaking the office? We do phased Premium rollouts often, ask us.
See also
- Outlook crashes or freezes on large attachmentsUsually the mailbox cache is the culprit, not Outlook itself. Shrinking or relocating usually helps within ten minutes.
- Teams: they cannot hear me, or I hear nothingIn our experience Teams usually picked the wrong audio device after a Windows update or a new headset.
- OneDrive has stopped syncingThe cloud icon is grey or has a warning. Locally changed files are not showing up for colleagues.
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