M365 Feature

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🔹 Office Apps & Productivity

  • Office desktop apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access (PC only), and Publisher (PC only)

  • Office on the web: Online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more

  • Teams: Chat, meet, call, and collaborate in one place

  • OneDrive for Business: 1 TB per user of cloud storage

  • Exchange Online: 100 GB mailbox per user with business-class email

  • SharePoint Online: Team and intranet sites for content sharing and collaboration

  • Microsoft Loop (in preview): Real-time collaborative canvases

🔐 Security & Compliance

  • Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP): For Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint

  • Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard): For searching content across M365

  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1): Protection from phishing, malware, and other threats

  • Microsoft Entra ID P1 (formerly Azure Active Directory P1):

    • Conditional Access

    • Self-service password reset

    • Hybrid identity support

  • Information Rights Management (IRM): Protect documents/emails

  • Customer Lockbox: Control access to your content by Microsoft support

🧠 Device & App Management

  • Microsoft Intune (basic capabilities):

    • Mobile device and app management (MDM/MAM)

    • Conditional access

  • Windows Autopilot support

  • Windows Enterprise E3 license:

    • Includes Windows 11 Enterprise

    • Virtualization rights

    • AppLocker, Credential Guard, and more

📊 Analytics & Insights

  • Microsoft Viva Insights (personal): Work habit suggestions (like focus time)

  • Microsoft Delve: Discover content relevant to you

  • Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics in Power BI

📄 Compliance Features

  • Litigation Hold (Exchange/SharePoint)

  • Basic auditing and retention policies

  • Core eDiscovery

  • Content search

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