- 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.
- M365 Business Premium Sales Fundamentals August 2020 The training contents are focused on M365 Business Premium. The session is designed to help the trainers to redeliver SMB Sales Fundamental trainings to their partners in the field. For more Instructor content join Teams Site available at README FOR INSTRUCTORS.docx.
Sep 22, 2020 Microsoft 365 Business Premium is a comprehensive suite of collaboration products and enterprise-grade security tools curated specifically for businesses with 1 to 300 employees. It includes Office productivity apps and services plus advanced security and device management capabilities to help defend businesses against cyberthreats, protect.
Calls to other Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams users are free, but if you want your users to be able to call regular phones, and you don't already have a service provider to make voice calls, you need to buy a Calling Plan. For more information, see Phone System and Calling Plans.
Here are the Calling Plans options:
- Domestic Calling Plan: Licensed users can call out to numbers located in the country/region where they are assigned in Microsoft 365 or Office 365.
- Domestic and International Calling Plan: Licensed users can call out to numbers located in the country/region where their Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license is assigned to the user based on the user's location, and to international numbers in 196 countries/regions.
All users in the same country/region (this is the user country location defined in the licensing area of the Microsoft 365 admin center) with the same Calling Plan share a pool of minutes. For example, if you have 100 users located in the same country/region with a 120 minutes Domestic Calling Plan assigned, they share a pool of 12,000 minutes. All calls exceeding these minutes are billed per minute.
Visit Country and region availability to find out about monthly minutes available for each organization in each country/region.
M365 Business Premium Mailbox Size
![M365 Business Premium M365 Business Premium](/uploads/1/1/8/7/118796433/338489372.jpg)
Important
The country/region is based on the location of the user's license in the Microsoft 365 admin center > Active users and NOT the billing address listed under the Organization Profile in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
For detailed information about usage limits and terms of use, see Audio Conferencing complimentary dial-out period.
How to buy a Calling Plan
- You must first purchase a **Phone System add-on license. To do that, sign in to the Microsoft 365 admin center and choose **Billing > Purchase services > Add-on subscriptions > Buy now.NoteDepending on your plan, you may need to buy more add-ons before you can buy Phone System licenses. To learn more, see Microsoft Teams add-on licensing.
- After you buy Phone System licenses, you can buy the Calling Plan by signing in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, choose Billing > Purchase services > Add-on subscriptions, and then clicking Buy now. You'll see the Calling Plans there.
You can buy and assign different Calling Plans to different users, depending on the needs of your organization. After you select the Calling Plan you need, proceed to checkout. You assign a plan to each user in the Microsoft 365 admin center. To learn how, see Assign Microsoft Teams add-on licenses.
Do you have a service provider that provides on-premises PSTN connectivity for hybrid users?
If so, you don't need to buy a Calling Plan. Office 365 Enterprise E5 includes the Phone System add-on, so you can proceed to checkout.
Then, assign the Enterprise E5 or Phone System add-on licenses to users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. To learn how, see Assign Microsoft Teams add-on licenses.
Pricing information
For more information
Here are more articles that explain how to set up your Calling Plans:
Related topics
-->This article compares encryption options in Microsoft 365 including Office 365 Message Encryption (OME), S/MIME, Information Rights Management (IRM), and introduces Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Microsoft 365 delivers multiple encryption options to help you meet your business needs for email security. This article presents three ways to encrypt email in Office 365. If you want to learn more about all security features in Office 365, visit the Office 365 Trust Center. This article introduces the three types of encryption available for Microsoft 365 administrators to help secure email in Office 365:
- Office Message Encryption (OME).
- Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME).
- Information Rights Management (IRM).
How Microsoft 365 uses email encryption
Encryption is the process by which information is encoded so that only an authorized recipient can decode and consume the information. Microsoft 365 uses encryption in two ways: in the service, and as a customer control. In the service, encryption is used in Microsoft 365 by default; you don't have to configure anything. For example, Microsoft 365 uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt the connection, or session, between two servers.
Here's how email encryption typically works:
- A message is encrypted, or transformed from plain text into unreadable ciphertext, either on the sender's machine, or by a central server while the message is in transit.
- The message remains in ciphertext while it's in transit in order to protect it from being read in case the message is intercepted.
- Once the message is received by the recipient, the message is transformed back into readable plain text in one of two ways:
- The recipient's machine uses a key to decrypt the message, or
- A central server decrypts the message on behalf of the recipient, after validating the recipient's identity.
For more information on how Microsoft 365 secures communication between servers, such as between organizations within Microsoft 365 or between Microsoft 365 and a trusted business partner outside of Microsoft 365, see How Exchange Online uses TLS to secure email connections in Office 365.
Watch this video for an introduction to Encryption in Office 365.
Comparing email encryption options available in Office 365
M365 Business Premium Vs Standard
Email encryption technology | |||
---|---|---|---|
What is it? | Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) is a service built on Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS) that lets you send encrypted email to people inside or outside your organization, regardless of the destination email address (Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, etc.). As an admin, you can set up transport rules that define the conditions for encryption. When a user sends a message that matches a rule, encryption is applied automatically. To view encrypted messages, recipients can either get a one-time passcode, sign in with a Microsoft account, or sign in with a work or school account associated with Office 365. Recipients can also send encrypted replies. They don't need a Microsoft 365 subscription to view encrypted messages or send encrypted replies. | IRM is an encryption solution that also applies usage restrictions to email messages. It helps prevent sensitive information from being printed, forwarded, or copied by unauthorized people. IRM capabilities in Microsoft 365 use Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS). | S/MIME is a certificate-based encryption solution that allows you to both encrypt and digitally sign a message. The message encryption helps ensure that only the intended recipient can open and read the message. A digital signature helps the recipient validate the identity of the sender. Both digital signatures and message encryption are made possible through the use of unique digital certificates that contain the keys for verifying digital signatures and encrypting or decrypting messages. To use S/MIME, you must have public keys on file for each recipient. Recipients have to maintain their own private keys, which must remain secure. If a recipient's private keys are compromised, the recipient needs to get a new private key and redistribute public keys to all potential senders. |
What does it do? | OME: Encrypts messages sent to internal or external recipients. Allows users to send encrypted messages to any email address, including Outlook.com, Yahoo! Mail, and Gmail. Allows you, as an admin, to customize the email viewing portal to reflect your organization's brand. Microsoft securely manages and stores the keys, so you don't have to. No special client side software is needed as long as the encrypted message (sent as an HTML attachment) can be opened in a browser. | IRM: Uses encryption and usage restrictions to provide online and offline protection for email messages and attachments. Gives you, as an admin, the ability to set up transport rules or Outlook protection rules to automatically apply IRM to select messages. Lets users manually apply templates in Outlook or Outlook on the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App). | S/MIME addresses sender authentication with digital signatures, and message confidentiality with encryption. |
What does it not do? | OME doesn't let you apply usage restrictions to messages. For example, you can't use it to stop a recipient from forwarding or printing an encrypted message. | Some applications may not support IRM emails on all devices. For more information about these and other products that support IRM email, see Client device capabilities. | S/MIME doesn't allow encrypted messages to be scanned for malware, spam, or policies. |
Recommendations and example scenarios | We recommend using OME when you want to send sensitive business information to people outside your organization, whether they're consumers or other businesses. For example: A bank employee sending credit card statements to customers A doctor's office sending medical records to a patient An attorney sending confidential legal information to another attorney | We recommend using IRM when you want to apply usage restrictions as well as encryption. For example: A manager sending confidential details to her team about a new product applies the 'Do Not Forward' option. An executive needs to share a bid proposal with another company, which includes an attachment from a partner who is using Office 365, and require both the email and the attachment to be protected. | We recommend using S/MIME when either your organization or the recipient's organization requires true peer-to-peer encryption. S/MIME is most commonly used in the following scenarios: Government agencies communicating with other government agencies A business communicating with a government agency |
What encryption options are available for my Microsoft 365 subscription?
For information about email encryption options for your Microsoft 365 subscription see the Exchange Online service description. Here, you can find information about the following encryption features:
- Azure RMS, including both IRM capabilities and OME
- S/MIME
- TLS
- Encryption of data at rest (through BitLocker)
![Microsoft 365 apps for business Microsoft 365 apps for business](/uploads/1/1/8/7/118796433/286036625.png)
You can also use third-party encryption tools with Microsoft 365, for example, PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). Microsoft 365 does not support PGP/MIME and you can only use PGP/Inline to send and receive PGP-encrypted emails.
What about encryption for data at rest?
'Data at rest' refers to data that isn't actively in transit. In Microsoft 365, email data at rest is encrypted using BitLocker Drive Encryption. BitLocker encrypts the hard drives in Microsoft datacenters to provide enhanced protection against unauthorized access. To learn more, see BitLocker Overview.
More information about email encryption options
For more information about the email encryption options in this article as well as TLS, see these articles:
OME
IRM
S/MIME
M365 Business Premium Price
TLS