Microsoft's entry-level enterprise subscription, available under both Office 365 and Microsoft 365 branding. Anyone on it can use Copilot Chat, and SharePoint Advanced Management accepts it as a qualifying base.
Also called Office 365 E1 or Microsoft 365 E1.
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Terms in this definition
- Enterprise
Any group of organisations with shared goals. Examples range from an entire company or one of its divisions to a government department, or several organisations working as partners or along a supply chain.
- subscription
Entitlement bought for a product under VCF 9.0 licensing, carrying a set capacity. Where active ones share the same site, unit and product, their capacity is combined into licences, which are then allocated to vCenters.
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.
- SharePoint Advanced Management
An add-on for SharePoint governance, bundled with Microsoft 365 Copilot, that helps detect and cut oversharing via site access reviews, restricted content discovery, restricted access control and data access governance reports.