Jeremy Moskowitz Enterprise Mobility MVP & Lead Trainer If you want to test drive all of the features that E5 has to offer, the good news is that you can sign up for an E5 trial. Your decision also depends on what other Microsoft cloud services you subscribe to as well such as Office 365. So should you get E3 or E5? Well, just like buying a car, this isn’t a decision that a business should make without a little time and consideration concerning what the needs of the organization actually are, as well as their budget. P2 includes all of that plus offers Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and advanced capability concerning identity protection.Į5 of course is more expensive. It also offers multifactor authentication (MFA) conditional access and advanced security reporting. For instance, the P1 bundle for Azure Active Directory gives you the ability to secure single sign-on to cloud and on premise apps. So what is P1 and P2? Well P2 includes more advanced features and capabilities. As of today, there are two EMS bundle offerings which are outlined below: Microsoft then offered EMS combos that bundled features together in a single option for simplicity’s sake. Before EMS, Microsoft only offered their products separately such as:

That combination pairs your options down to one of two Enterprise Mobility Suite packages (EMS). You want the ability to do mobile device management, which means Intune.

For the sake of this blog series, we are going to make it simple. There are so many ways to slice and dice subscription licensing when it comes to Office 365, Intune, Azure, etc. For instance, here is a screenshot of just some of the available licensing for a school system that currently utilizes Microsoft cloud services.Īt first glance, trying to wrap your head around all of the available licensing options can be as exhaustive as contemplating the size of the universe. College algebra, quantum physics and Microsoft pricing when it comes to their cloud services. There are a number of things that are complicated and hard to comprehend at first.

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