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Understand the Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 Extra Features license

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This article only applies if you bought a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Original subscription through an Enterprise Agreement (EA). If this applies to you, you now see the Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features or Microsoft 365 E5 Extra Features product on the Licenses page in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

If you have a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Original subscription that you bought through an Enterprise Agreement (EA), you now also have a subscription for Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features or Microsoft 365 E5 Extra Features. The Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Original package includes the following products and services at no additional cost.

  • Office 365 E3 or Office 365 E5
  • Enterprise Mobility and Security E3 or Enterprise Mobility and Security E5
  • Windows E3 or Windows E5
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1

The new Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Extra Features product is now included in this list. To provide the features for your users, assign them licenses for Microsoft 365 E3 and/or E5 Extra Features.

What’s provided by Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Extra Features?

Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Extra Features provides additional features for your users. Some features are only available for E5 subscriptions. The following table indicates which features are available in Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features and Microsoft 365 E5 Extra Features subscriptions.

Feature Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features Microsoft 365 E5 Extra Features
Avatars for Teams Yes Yes
Microsoft Copilot Yes Yes
Microsoft Clipchamp Yes Yes
Microsoft Loop Yes Yes
Windows Autopatch Yes Yes
Windows Update for Business deployment service Yes Yes
Customer Lockbox No Yes
Defender for IoT - Enterprise IoT Security No Yes
Immersive spaces for Teams No Yes
Information Protection and Governance Analytics - Premium No Yes
Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office No Yes
Machine Learning-Based Classification No Yes
Microsoft Endpoint DLP No Yes
Microsoft Insider Risk Management No Yes
Safe Documents No Yes
Universal Print Yes Yes

Assign the Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Extra Features license to users

To use any of the features provided by Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 Extra Features, you must assign a license for it to your Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 users. We recommend that you assign the license to your users as soon as possible, so that they can use the features and improve their Microsoft 365 experience.

You can use any of the following ways to assign the licenses.