Microsoft Office 365 Plan E3 Mac

Microsoft Office 365 Plan E3 Mac 2016

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Jun 04, 2019 When Office apps are deployed through the Mac App Store, it is the sole responsibility of the App Store to keep those apps up-to-date. Conversely, apps deployed from Microsoft's CDN are updated through the Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) tool. Aug 15, 2016 A no-frills look at Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 versions. Office 365 Enterprise E3 is a more fully featured Office 365 subscription plan and sells for $20.00 per user per month.

Microsoft Office 365 is available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your organization.

Office 365 service families and plans

The following table lists the different service families and plans available in Office 365. For a high-level overview of features and pricing information, or to chat with an online representative, select any of the links in the plans column.

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Office 365 service family	Plans
Business (maximum of 300 users)	Office 365 Business Essentials Office 365 Business Office 365 Business Premium
Enterprise (unlimited number of users)	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E5 Office 365 Enterprise F3
Education (unlimited number of users)	Office 365 Education Office 365 Education E5
Government (unlimited number of users)	See all available business plans
Office 365 operated by 21Vianet in China	See all available business plans
Office 365 Germany	See all available business plans

Service availability within each Office 365 plan

Each Office 365 plan includes a number of individual services, such as Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. The following table shows the services that are available in each Office 365 plan.

Important

While a service may be available across Office 365 plans, the features available in each plan may differ. To see the details of features that are available for each plan, refer to the individual service description or contact your Reseller or Microsoft sales representative for more information.
Several of the Office 365 for business plans have add-ons that you can buy for your subscription. An add-on provides additional functionality to the subscription. For more information, see Buy or edit an add-on for Office 365 for business.

Service	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3	Office 365 Enterprise E5⁴,¹⁶	Office 365 Enterprise F3
Office 365 platform	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Exchange Online	Yes⁶	No	Yes⁶	Yes⁶	Yes⁷	Yes⁷	Yes⁹
SharePoint Online	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OneDrive for Business	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes⁵
Skype for Business Online ¹⁵	Yes¹⁰	No	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹⁰	Yes¹¹	Yes¹³	Yes¹⁴
Office for the web	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office applications	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Project Online	No¹	No	No¹	No¹	No¹	No¹	No¹
Power BI	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Yammer Enterprise	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Azure Information Protection³	No²	No	No²	No²	Yes	Yes	No²
Microsoft Kaizala¹⁷	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

¹ Project Online is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on service or added for free to the Office 365 Education plan.
² Azure Information Protection is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on and will enable the supported Information Rights Management (IRM) features. Some Azure Information Protection features require a subscription to Office 365 ProPlus, which is not included with Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Education, or Office 365 Enterprise F3.
³ To learn more about which Azure Information Protection features are included with Office 365 plans, see Azure Information Protection.
⁴ Office 365 Enterprise E5 contains Phone System, Audio Conferencing, and Calling Plan capabilities. To implement a Calling Plan requires an additional plan purchase (either Domestic or International).
⁵ Includes 2 GB storage.
⁶ Includes Exchange Online Plan 1.
⁷ Includes Exchange Online Plan 2.
⁸ Includes Exchange Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features.
⁹ Includes Exchange Online Kiosk.
¹⁰ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 with basic client limitations.
¹¹ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 without any client limitations.
¹² Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 1 plus supplemental features.
¹³ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 2 with voice support and without any client limitations.
¹⁴ Includes Skype for Business Online Plan 1.
¹⁵ Microsoft Teams is now the primary client for messaging, meetings and calling in Office 365. Starting Oct. 1, 2018, new Office 365 customers with 500 seats or less will be onboarded to Microsoft Teams and will not have access to Skype for Business Online. Tenants that are already using Skype for Business Online will be able to continue doing so (including provisioning new users) until they complete their transition to Microsoft Teams.
¹⁶ Includes Advanced Compliance, which provides the Advanced Data Governance, Advanced eDiscovery, Customer Lockbox, Customer Key, Privileged Access Management, and Long term audit log retention features.
¹⁷ Starting in May 2019, existing eligible SKUs of Office 365 and Microsoft 365 will be backfilled with Kaizala Pro. From June 1, 2019, Kaizala Pro will be included in all eligible Office 365 and Microsoft 365 SKUs.

Basic client limitations

The following features are available in the full client, but are not available in the basic client:

Manage team call settings
Manage delegates
Make calls on behalf of another contact (manager/delegate scenario)
Handle another's calls if configured as a delegate
Manage a high volume of calls
Initiate a call to a Response Group
Call park
Group call pickup

Changing or mixing plans

As the needs of your organization change, you may need to change your Office 365 plan. You can switch from your current Office 365 subscription to another Office 365 subscription:

In the same service family: For example, you can move from Office 365 Business Essentials to Office 365 Business Premium, or from Office 365 Enterprise E1 to Office 365 Enterprise E3.
From a standalone plan: For example, you can move from Exchange Online Plan 1 to Office 365 Enterprise E1.
To a different service family: For example, you can move from Office 365 Business Essentials to Office 365 Enterprise E3.
For information about how to change subscriptions, including how to move from a trial to a paid subscription, see Switch to a different Office 365 plan or subscription.

You can combine Enterprise, Business, and standalone plans (for example, Exchange Online Plan 1) within a single account. However, existing limitations on the number of seats per plan do not change. For example, you can have up to 300 seats per plan on both Office 365 Business Essentials and Office 365 Business Premium, but an unlimited number of users on Exchange Online Plan 1.

Standalone services

The following online services are available on their own, as standalone plans. They can also be added to Business and Enterprise service family plans that don't already include them. For pricing information, or to chat with an online representative, select any of the plans listed in the following table.

Service	Plans
Exchange Online	Exchange Online Plan 1 Exchange Online Plan 2 Exchange Online Protection Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection Exchange Online Archiving Exchange Online Kiosk
SharePoint Online	SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2
OneDrive for Business	OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2
Skype for Business Online	Skype for Business Online Plan 1 Skype for Business Online Plan 2
Office applications	Office 365 ProPlus Office 365 Business Office 365 Business Premium
Project portfolio management	Project Online
Yammer	Yammer Basic
Organizational insights	Workplace Analytics
Business intelligence service	Power BI
Online diagram software	Visio Pro for Office 365
Information Rights Management	Azure Information Protection
Kaizala	Microsoft Kaizala Pro

Feature availability

To view feature availability across Office 365 plans, see Office 365 platform service description.

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Applies to:Office for Mac

This article is for IT administrators and discusses frequently asked questions about the availability of Office from the Mac App Store, and the differences between downloading and distributing Office apps directly from Microsoft.

Starting in January 2019, the following Office applications are available for download from the Mac App Store:

Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft OneNote*
Microsoft OneDrive*

* These apps were also available from the Mac App Store in previous years.

What version of Office is available from the Mac App Store?

The Office apps available from the Mac App Store provide the very latest production version of Office on the Mac. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook require an Office 365 subscription to activate. OneNote and OneDrive do not require an Office 365 subscription, but some premium features may require an Office 365 subscription. All apps are compatible with Office 365 subscription plans, such as Office 365 A3, Office 365 A5, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, and Office 365 ProPlus.

Note

Some Office 365 subscriptions don't include access to downloadable Office apps. For example, the Office 365 A1, Office 365 Enterprise E1, and Office 365 F1 plans. For more information, see Office 365 plans.

Can I use apps from the Mac App Store with my Volume License?

No. Perpetual licenses, including Office 2019 and Office 2016, are not supported with Office apps available from the Mac App Store. The Volume License (VL) Serializer is not compatible with these apps. Attempts to use a perpetual license with Mac App Store apps will cause the apps to enter reduced functionality mode.

How do I deploy Office apps from the Mac App Store to computers in my organization?

You need an enterprise mobility management (EMM) tool that supports either Apple's Volume Purchase Program (VPP), Apple Business Manager, or Apple School Manager. For example, Jamf Pro is compatible with these programs and can be used to deploy Office apps. Office supports managed distribution, which allows your Mobile Device Management (MDM) server to install Office even when the user does not have an Apple ID. Office apps cannot be distributed through redeemable codes.

While a consumer may acquire Office through the Mac App Store as a bundle with a single-click download, IT admins will need to deploy the individual apps.

When deployed through the Mac App Store, does Office behave differently, or provide less functionality?

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote provide the same end-user functionality regardless of how it is deployed. IT admins have traditionally deployed Office from Microsoft's Content Delivery Network (CDN), but now have the option of deploying from the Mac App Store.

The OneDrive app, when acquired from Microsoft's CDN, offers IT admins more deployment flexibility such as pre-enabling icon overlays and system access. When acquired from the Mac App Store, users will see additional prompts to enable this functionality.

The Office builds available from the Mac App Store are production builds and are usually updated on a monthly basis. The Office Insider program is not supported through the Mac App Store. If you wish to use the Insider Slow or Fast channels, you should continue to install Office apps from the Microsoft CDN.

Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business are not available through the Mac App Store and must be deployed from the Microsoft CDN.

How do Office updates occur?

When Office apps are deployed through the Mac App Store, it is the sole responsibility of the App Store to keep those apps up-to-date. Conversely, apps deployed from Microsoft's CDN are updated through the Microsoft AutoUpdate (MAU) tool. Content caching services in macOS can be used (and is highly recommended) to optimize both the installation and update process of Office apps acquired through the Mac App Store.

The download size of monthly update packages is the same, regardless of whether the CDN or Mac App Store is used for deployment.

Can I convert an existing CDN-based Office installation to Mac App Store?

If a user launches the App Store app on their Mac, they may see that Office apps are available for download even though Office is already installed from Microsoft's CDN. Depending upon the currently installed Office build, and the build available in the Mac App Store, the existing app may or may not get overwritten. For example, if the build of Office currently installed is newer than what is available from the Mac App Store (such as an Insider build), it will not be overwritten if the user chooses to download the Mac App Store build.

There is no automated process for performing a CDN to Mac App Store conversion. Depending on your EMM's capabilities, you may be able to orchestrate the process through a script. The high-level steps for each Mac are as follows:

Close all Office apps
Remove the Office apps from the /Applications folder
Remove the Office entries from the keychain
Remove the Office package registrations (pkgutil --forget)
Trigger the MDM server to install the Office apps (such as jamf recon)

While CDN-based installations of Office can utilize the bandwidth-optimized suite installer, which is approximately 1.8 GB in size, the total size of the same apps when deployed through the Mac App Store is approximately 4 GB.

How can I tell if an Office app was downloaded from the Mac App Store?

Open Finder, and navigate to the Applications folder
Locate the Office app (such as Microsoft Outlook.app), control-click, and choose Show Package Contents
Navigate into the Contents folder
If a folder named _MASReceipt is present, the app was downloaded from the Mac App Store

How do I manage Office policies and preferences with apps downloaded from the Mac App Store?

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote offer the same policies and preferences as their CDN-based counterparts. IT admins do not need to alter existing Configuration Profiles as the bundle ID for each app is unchanged.

Note

OneNote does use a different bundle ID, and different management controls are available depending on how you obtain the app. For more information, see Deploy and configure the new OneDrive sync client for Mac.

Microsoft Office 365 Plan E3 Mac 2016

It is highly recommended that IT admins set the OfficeAutoSignIn value to TRUE in the com.microsoft.office preferences domain. For new installations from the Mac App Store, this preference will bypass the first run dialogs that ask users if they wish to purchase a new Office 365 subscription. This will mitigate calls to the help desk in commercial environments as users can only activate an existing subscription.