
For small and medium businesses, Microsoft 365 Business Premium is often the best choice. It combines the Office apps and collaboration with management and security that used to be for large companies only. Here are five reasons to start with it.
Five reasons
- All in one. Office apps, email, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint, plus management and security, for up to 300 users.
- Manage devices with Intune. Configure laptops and phones centrally, deploy apps and wipe a stolen device remotely.
- Conditional Access. With Entra ID P1 you only allow safe devices and sign-ins.
- Protection against attacks. Defender for Business on your devices and Defender for Office 365 against phishing and malicious attachments.
- Protect data. Sensitivity labels, encryption and DLP to keep confidential information from leaking.


Basic, Standard or Premium?
Business Basic and Standard have no Intune and no Conditional Access. If you really want to secure your devices and data, choose Premium. Read the plans compared.
How to start
- Turn on MFA and Conditional Access. See what is MFA?
- Set up Intune and enroll your devices.
- Check your Secure Score.
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