If your organization is 300 users or less you’d be a fool to pick E3 over the Business SKU. So at this point, Microsoft 365 E3 seems like a pretty stupid SKU for the SMB. So we previously had about 80% of the features of Azure AD Premium P1, but that made for some difficult conversations and explanations with customers. The value of these other subscriptions is quickly diminishing compared to the juggernaut that is Microsoft 365 Business.Īnd today I’m happy to say I woke up to find this little nugget in the Message Center: Small and mid-sized businesses, defined for the purposes of Microsoft’s licensing model as 300 users or less, should be flocking to this subscription from wherever they started their journey–Office 365 Business Premium, E3, whatever. Maybe not by total number of seats, since the Enterprise has so many people in it, but certainly by number of customers/tenants (because there are MANY more small businesses than Enterprises). I am calling it now–the Microsoft 365 Business SKU is going to be the most widely deployed 365 subscription someday (and perhaps soon).
