Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

If you’re looking for a comprehensive business package that will help you work more efficiently, then Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium might be right for you. It’s designed to provide businesses with a complete set of office solutions, including email, document management, web conferencing, and instant messaging.

Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Microsoft 365
Business Premium

Microsoft 365 Business Premium brings together best-in-class Office apps and powerful cloud services with comprehensive security that helps protect your business against advanced cyber threats.

  • Stay up to date with the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
  • Connect with customers and coworkers using Outlook, Exchange, and Teams.
  • Manage your files from anywhere with 1 TB of cloud storage on OneDrive per user.
  • Defend your business against advanced cyberthreats with sophisticated phishing and ransomware protection.
  • Control access to sensitive information using encryption to help keep data from being accidentally shared.
  • Secure devices that connect to your data and help keep iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac devices safe and up to date.
Compatible with Windows 10/11 Pro. Some management features are not supported in Windows Home. All languages included.
 

Apps and services included

Microsoft 365
Business Premium Features

Get the latest features and capabilities with fully installed and always up-to-date versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Windows or Mac, OneNote (features vary), and Access and Publisher (PC only).

Activate Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to help guard against viruses, spam, unsafe attachments, suspicious links, and phishing attacks.

Edit and share documents, photos, and other files from anywhere on all your devices with 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

Apply security policies to help protect work data on company-owned and employee devices. Keep company data within approved apps. Remove business data from lost or stolen devices with Microsoft Intune.

Use enterprise-grade email through Outlook with a 50 GB mailbox per user and send attachments of up to 150 MB.

Help employees securely access business apps wherever they work with conditional access. Safeguard against password loss or theft with advanced multifactor authentication.

Get your team on the same page using group chat, online meetings, calling, and web conferencing with Microsoft Teams.

Encrypt sensitive emails and restrict copying and forwarding of confidential business information with Azure Information Protection. Enable unlimited cloud archiving.

Simplify how customers schedule and manage appointments with Microsoft Bookings. Provide your customers with an easy-to-navigate webpage where they can find and book appointments around the clock.

Get protection against sophisticated ransomware attacks across devices—Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS—with next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response.

Always available

Have peace of mind with 99.9% financially backed uptime guarantee.

Comprehensive security

Get the best-in-class productivity of Microsoft 365 with advanced security and device management to help safeguard your business from cyberthreats.

Easy to set up

Quickly deploy and manage all your devices across your company, no IT expertise required. Add and remove users in minutes.

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Frequently Asked Question?

Microsoft 365 Business Premium was purpose built for small and medium-sized businesses with under 300 users. It provides them with the best-in-class productivity capabilities of Microsoft 365 Business Standard plus advanced security features to safeguard business data and assets across devices.

Microsoft has a variety of productivity and security management offerings that small to medium-sized customers may consider, each bringing increasingly powerful features and functionality.

Microsoft 365 Business Standard combines best-in-class Office apps and powerful cloud services like business-class email, cloud file storage, and Microsoft Teams. Microsoft 365 Business Premium includes all the same apps and services plus advanced cyber threat protection and device management capabilities. Many businesses with less than 300 employees can be best served with Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

Microsoft 365 for enterprise is a set of licensing plans that offer increased levels of compliance and security management over Microsoft 365 for business. They are designed for enterprise customers and those customers that have over 300 users. In addition, Microsoft 365 enterprise plans provide additional business intelligence and analytics functionality.

Customers who wish to run Microsoft 365 Business Premium in their organization must be running Windows 10 Pro* on their desktops in order for the service to manage their PCs.
*Windows 10 Pro upgrade rights are included with Microsoft 365 Business Premium if the machines are presently running Windows 7 Pro or 8.1 Pro.

Simply contact us by email hello@it.ie or phone (01) 8424114 and we’ll assist you in deploying Microsoft 365 Business premium. We can help you understand your options and make the best recommendations for deploying Microsoft 365 Business Premium in your organization.

Yes, customers can combine their Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscriptions with plans and add-ons from Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365.

No, not everyone needs a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription, although the security and management benefits are available only to those users with devices managed with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription.

Standardizing an IT environment serves to help reduce maintenance and security costs over time and is a state that businesses should strive to attain. However, some small and medium-sized customers update their software primarily when they upgrade their hardware, over an extended period. These businesses can deploy Microsoft 365 Business Premium to part of their organization, but for best protection of sensitive business data and consistent collaboration experiences, deployment to all users is recommended.

If the hardware you run today runs Windows 7 Pro or later, it likely meets the minimum requirements for Microsoft 365 Business Premium. See the Windows 10 Pro system requirements for additional details.


Existing desktop (Win32) app compatibility is strong in Windows 10, with most existing app working without any changes. Customers and their trusted IT advisors should read the recommended app testing process for Windows 10 compatibility and review the Office system requirements to ensure a smooth transition to Microsoft 365 Business Premium.

Yes, customers may switch their plans from a qualifying plan to Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Depending on the customer’s current plan there may be a decrease or increase in monthly charges.

You can find more details about Microsoft 365 Business Premium capabilities including technical documentation, set up instructions and more here.

Microsoft 365 is the productivity cloud designed to help each of us achieve what matters, in our work and life, with best-in-class Office apps, intelligent cloud services, and advanced security.

They changed the name to be more reflective of the range of features and benefits in the subscription. Microsoft 365 includes everything you know in Office 365, including best-in-class Office apps, intelligent cloud services, and advanced security.

Office 365 business plans are now Microsoft 365 business plans. New name, same great value, same price.

• Office 365 Business Essentials is now Microsoft 365 Business Basic
• Office 365 Business Premium is now Microsoft 365 Business Standard
• Microsoft 365 Business is now Microsoft 365 Business Premium
• Office 365 Business is now Microsoft 365 Apps for business

No, there are no price or product changes for small and medium business plans. The same plans are available, only with updated names. cloud services, and advanced security.

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