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Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Desktop Office applications, business email on your own domain, Teams and 1 TB of cloud storage per user. The plan most organisations under 300 seats settle on.

Business Standard pairs the installed Office applications with hosted email, Teams and cloud storage. It stops short of the device management and advanced security layers that Business Premium adds — which is the right trade-off for organisations whose devices are already managed, and the wrong one for those where they are not.

What each user gets

  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook installed on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets and five phones
  • A 50 GB mailbox on your own domain, with Exchange Online
  • Microsoft Teams with meetings, chat and shared channels
  • 1 TB of OneDrive storage
  • SharePoint team sites and shared document libraries
  • Web and mobile versions of every application

When Standard is the wrong plan

Standard assumes your devices are managed and your identity controls are in place through some other means. If they are not, Business Premium is the better purchase even though it costs more per seat: the device management, conditional access and threat protection it adds are not optional capabilities for an unmanaged estate.

It is also the wrong plan for organisations approaching 300 seats, where the enterprise family should be evaluated before the cap forces the issue.

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Frequently asked questions

Can you transfer our existing Microsoft tenant to your billing?
Yes. Moving the billing relationship to a Cloud Solution Provider is an administrative change. Your tenant, data, configuration and users are unaffected, and there is no downtime.
Do you supply both subscription and perpetual Microsoft licensing?
Yes. Subscriptions through CSP, and perpetual licences such as Windows Server, SQL Server and Office LTSC through volume licensing. We will price both where both are viable for your scenario.
Can seat counts be reduced mid-term?
Additions can be made at any time. Reductions take effect at the subscription anniversary, which is why the renewal date is the point at which a genuine review is worth doing.

Get Business Standard pricing

Volume pricing applies from modest seat counts. Send us the number and we will quote it.