Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions

Microsoft 365 and Office 365 are cloud-based services designed to help meet your organization's needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity. The articles in this library provide detailed descriptions of the services and features that are available with Microsoft 365 and Office 365.

Available plans

For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 see the Microsoft 365 Enterprise full subscription comparison table. For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft 365 business basic, standard, and premium, go to the Microsoft 365 Business Plan comparison table. For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for the Microsoft 365 Education, go to the Microsoft 365 Education comparison table.

For detailed plan information on subscriptions that enable users for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 and are currently available in European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland see the Microsoft 365 business plan comparison for EEA and Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan comparison for EEA.

Feature availability

To get started, see the following service descriptions:

Note

1 Includes availability of Microsoft 365 suite features, such as Office Delve, Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Graph API, Microsoft Lists, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Stream and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

Learn more

  • For support articles and information, see Office Help & Training, and Office documentation for admins and IT professionals.

  • Microsoft offers the FastTrack Center Benefit for Microsoft 365 designed to help you deploy Microsoft 365 and Office 365 services (for eligible subscriptions). You can use FastTrack services with a new or existing qualifying subscription. The benefit lets you work remotely with Microsoft 365 specialists to get your environment set up. For more information, see the FastTrack Center Benefit.

Note

If you're looking for the service description comparison spreadsheet, it's been retired. The product feature availability tables on each service description page have been updated to better help you choose the version of Office 365 that suits your needs.

Disclaimer

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