This page provides an overview of the features included specifically in the Microsoft Education A5 (advanced) license. The A5 license also includes the features in the A1 (baseline) and A3 (standard) licenses, which aren't included here. For a list of features available in all education licenses, see Microsoft 365 Education licenses.
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This legend provides a quick reference to the icons used in the tables in this article.
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Microsoft 365 A1 license |
License fulfilled by A1 license |
Microsoft 365 A3 license |
License fulfilled by A3 license |
Microsoft 365 A5 license |
Student Use license |
Office 365 A1 license |
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Office 365 A3 license |
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Office 365 A5 license |
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A1 license purchase available (faculty), Students Use available |
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Analytics
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Power BI Pro |
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Data lifecycle management
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Rules-based automatic retention policies |
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| Machine Learning-based retention |
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| Records Management |
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Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| DLP for Teams chat |
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| Endpoint DLP |
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eDiscovery and auditing
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| eDiscovery (Premium) |
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| Audit (Premium) |
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Identity and Access Management
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Microsoft Entra ID Plan 2 |
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| Microsoft Entra ID Protection |
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| Risk Based Conditional Access / Identity Protection |
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| Privileged Identity Management |
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| Access Reviews |
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| Entitlement Management |
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| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Azure Information Protection Plan 2 |
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| Automatic sensitivity labeling in Microsoft 365 apps |
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| Automatic sensitivity labels in Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive |
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| Default sensitivity labels for SharePoint document libraries |
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| Sensitivity labels based on advanced classifiers (for example, trainable classifiers, EDM, named entities, contextual) |
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| Advanced Message Encryption |
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| Customer Key |
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Insider Risk Management
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Insider Risk Management |
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| Communication Compliance |
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| Customer Lockbox |
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| Privileged Access Management |
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Meeting, calling, and chat
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Teams Phone Standard |
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| Audio Conferencing** |
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Microsoft 365 apps
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Microsoft Editor premium features |
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Threat Protection
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 |
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| Safe Documents |
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| Microsoft Defender for Identity |
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| Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2* |
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| Microsoft Defender Application Guard for Office |
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Note
*Student Use Benefit = Microsoft Defender for Microsoft 365 Plan 1
Viva Insights
| Description |
M365-A1 |
M365-A3 |
M365-A5 |
O365-A1 |
O365-A3 |
O365-A5 |
| Premium personal insights and experiences |
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Note
*Requires Exchange Online. Manager and Leader insights, Advanced insights, and other Premium personal insights are available with the Viva Insights and Viva Suite add-ons.
**Includes the Shorten a meeting feature, Delay delivery plan, and Track email open rate inline suggestions.