Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Business Premium is the most-deployed SKU for SMBs we work with. It bundles desktop Office, full Exchange Online, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint with Defender for Endpoint P1, Intune device management and Entra ID P1 — covering security, identity and productivity in one license.
Defender for Endpoint P1
EDR, anti-malware, ASR rules, tamper protection.
Intune
Endpoint management — Windows/macOS/iOS/Android.
Entra ID P1
Conditional Access, MFA, hybrid identity.
Purview AIP P1
Sensitivity Labels for document classification.
Why this is the SMB flagship
Business Premium consolidates productivity (Office + Teams), security (Defender + Conditional Access + MFA), device management (Intune), identity (Entra ID P1) and document protection (Sensitivity Labels) in a single per-user cost. For 50-300 user companies it typically wins on TCO vs assembling equivalent capability from separate vendors.
Limits — what's NOT in Business Premium
- Defender XDR (Endpoint P2, Identity, Cloud Apps) — that's E5.
- Microsoft Purview Suite (advanced DLP, eDiscovery, audit) — that's E5.
- Entra ID P2 (Identity Protection, PIM) — that's E5.
- Phone System / Calling Plan — separate add-on.
Licensing
Per User · Monthly / Annual subscription (NCE) · Up to 300 users
- Monthly (5-20% uplift)
- 1 year (most common)
Business Premium is capped at 300 users; larger orgs move to E3 / E5. 3-year option NOT available for Business tier (only M365 E3/E5 / Teams Enterprise).
Who is this for?
Frequently Asked Questions
E3 and E5 are Enterprise tiers (no 300-user cap, with richer compliance and security). For 50-300 user SMBs, Business Premium typically delivers 80% of E5 value at a fraction of cost. For 300+ or compliance-heavy organizations, E5 or step-ups become economical.
No. Microsoft 365 Copilot is a separate per-user add-on. Business Premium provides the foundational tenant; Copilot can be layered on top with full governance.
Yes — different users can hold different SKUs (e.g. Business Premium for knowledge workers + F3 for frontline) in the same tenant.
P1 covers core EDR, anti-malware, ASR. P2 (in E5) adds advanced hunting, automated investigation, threat intelligence. P1 is sufficient for most SMBs; P2 is justified for security-sensitive environments.
Xen Bilişim Deployment Process
- 1. Discovery & sizing: Current environment, user count, OS/cloud distribution and compliance requirements analysed; correct SKU and licence count proposed.
- 2. Pilot deployment: A 10-25 device subset goes live; integration with existing security stack tested; alerting + reporting configured.
- 3. Full rollout: Phased rollout across all endpoints; policy templates applied; user training and IT runbook delivered.
- 4. Optimisation & follow-up: 90-day post-launch tuning: false-positive triage, policy hardening, KPI review and quarterly health-checks.
Typical end-to-end timeline: 2-4 weeks (varies by user count and integration scope).