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This article lists the features for Office 365 education plans (A1, A3, and A5). To compare features across business and enterprise plans, see Compare Office 365 for Business plans or, for a more detailed list of features, see the relevant service description under Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service descriptions.
1 To implement Calling Plan requires an additional plan purchase (either Domestic Calling Plan or International Calling Plan).
2 Microsoft Project is not included in Office 365 but can be acquired separately. Project Online Essentials is free. If you are a student or an educational institution, you may be eligible to purchase Project Plan 3 and Plan 5 at educational prices.
3 Viva Engage core functionality is included with these Academic plans. Viva Engage premium capabilities are available to Viva suite customers.
The following table lists all platform features that are available across Office 365 education plans. For specific information about pricing and features in the plan, see Office 365 Education plans.
1 Office 365 does not provide support for any operating system that is not supported by its manufacturer.
2 If using directory synchronization with a local Active Directory, you must delete accounts or change passwords by using the local Active Directory, rather than the Office 365 portal or by using the Microsoft Entra module for Windows PowerShell.
3 To learn how to set self-service password management policies for users, see Manage Passwords in Microsoft Entra ID.
4 Reducing seats that were purchased with a term discount may be subject to an early termination fee. This is not applicable for subscriptions paid on a monthly basis.
5 Available at Microsoft Secure Score (link requires admin permissions). For more information, see Introducing the Office 365 Secure Score.
6 Microsoft Sway is not currently available for customers in certain geographies. Some legacy Office 365 plans that are no longer in market as of August 2015 may also not have access to Microsoft Sway.
7 eDiscovery (Premium) is supported in the United States and in the Western Europe (Netherlands) region. Customer data from Canada and Asia Pacific is exported to the United States. Customer data from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa is exported to Western Europe (Netherlands).
8 For information about Microsoft Stream features included in each plan, see the Stream licensing overview.
9 For more information, see MyAnalytics plans and environments.
10 The Briefing email is provided automatically to all users of Exchange Online. For more information, see Configure the Briefing email.
11 Refer to the licensing FAQs and Licensing Guide at for details including functionality limits.
The Microsoft Purview compliance portal is designed to help you manage compliance features across Office 365 for your organization. Links to existing SharePoint and Exchange compliance features bring together compliance capabilities across Office 365. Currently, many of the compliance features are still accessible through service-specific management interfaces, such as the Exchange admin center (EAC). However, this will change in the future as more service-independent compliance features are added to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
1Data governance lets users create, publish, and manually apply labels to documents; import data using drive shipping or over the network; and create and apply retention/deletion policies across workloads, users, and groups. Retention policies applied to mailboxes require Office 365 Enterprise E3 or E5.
2 Advanced data governance allows you to retain important information and delete unimportant information by classifying information based on a retention or deletion policy or both. It includes intelligent/automated actions such as recommending policies; automatically applying labels to data; applying labels based on sensitive data types or queries; and use of smart import filters. It also includes the Supervision feature for reviewing employee communications for security and compliance purposes.
3 Up to 1.5 TB of archive storage space.
4 eDiscovery (Premium) is supported in the United States and in the Western Europe (Netherlands) region. Customer data from Canada and Asia Pacific is exported to the United States. Customer data from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa is exported to Western Europe (Netherlands).
5 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is available in Office 365 A5 and as a standalone service for Office 365 A1 and Office 365 A3.
6 You can also use the Office 365 Management Activity API to retrieve events from the unified audit log.
1 Windows Server AD RMS is an on-premises server that must be purchased and managed separately in order to enable the supported IRM features.
2 Skype for Business Basic is available for all customers. The Skype for Business desktop client is a locally installed application that provides presence, instant messaging, and conferencing features for Office 365 plans that include Skype for Business Online. Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and Office 365 Enterprise E3 include the full Skype application, which includes additional features including advanced telephony support, archiving, and compliance features. A Skype for Business Online license must be assigned for each user. For more information on Lync Basic features, see Desktop client comparison tables.
3 Some schools are eligible for Education Plus, which includes Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and allows students, faculty and staff to install the latest version of Office on up to five PC or Mac computers and on other mobile devices, including Windows tablets and the iPad. Schools qualify for Office 365 Education Plus when they license Office institution-wide for faculty and staff through Enrollment for Education Solutions, Open Value Subscription Education Solutions, or a school contract. Note that Access and Publisher are available on PCs only. OneNote for Mac is available as a separate download from the Mac App Store.
4 Office for the web versions are included. For more information, see Microsoft for the web features.
The following table provides links to comparisons of Office for the web feature capabilities available in Office 365 education plans to feature-rich Microsoft Office desktop apps. Use the comparisons to discover what features are available in Office for the web and then select the feature name to read a brief description about how that feature works. You may discover that some people in your organization may need the advanced charting capability of the Excel desktop app while others may only need to view and lightly edit Word documents and PowerPoint presentations with Office for the web.
1 Windows Server AD RMS is an on-premises server that must be purchased and managed separately in order to enable the supported IRM features.
2 Transport rules are made up of flexible criteria, which allow you to define conditions and exceptions, and actions to take based on the criteria. The available criteria and actions differ between Exchange Online, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2013. For a list of available criteria and actions, see the corresponding criteria and actions topics for each product.
3 Exchange Server 2013 uses only the Microsoft anti-malware engine. Exchange Online uses multiple anti-malware engines to scan inbound, outbound, and internal messages for malware.
4 SharePoint Online must be included in the subscription plan.
5 Connected accounts are supported for POP and IMAP accounts, but disabled for Outlook.com (Hotmail).
6 Using a cmdlet to work with the Address List and Global Address List is not supported.
7 Some third-party web parts and add-ins may not be available.
8 For eDiscovery, you need a separate query for on-premises vs. cloud.
9 Table indicates whether the client works with the associated plans. It does not mean the clients are necessarily included in the purchase of these plans.
Address list limit - The maximum number of address lists that can be created in an Exchange Online or Exchange Server 2013 organization. This number includes the default address lists in Exchange Online, such as All Contacts and All Groups.
Using journaling, transport rules, or auto-forwarding rules to copy messages to an Exchange Online mailbox for the purposes of archiving is not permitted. A user's archive mailbox is intended for just that user. Microsoft reserves the right to deny additional archive storage space in instances where a user's archive mailbox is used to store archive data for other users or in other cases of inappropriate use.
Prohibit Send - The user receives a prohibit-send notification email when the mailbox size limit is reached. The user cannot send new messages until enough email is deleted to bring the mailbox below the size limit.
Prohibit Send/Receive - Exchange Online rejects any incoming mail when the mailbox size limit is reached, and sends a non-delivery report (NDR) to the sender. The sender has the option to try resending the mail later. To receive messages again, the user must delete email until the mailbox is below the size limit.
These limits are intended to limit mailboxes to known dimensions that can be supported in Exchange Online. The goal of these limits is to prevent an infinite number of mailbox items per folder, an infinite number of folders per mailbox, or an infinite number of public folders per Exchange Online organization. For practical purposes, mailbox folder limits are in effect unlimited and sufficient to support most Exchange Online mailboxes and on-premises mailboxes that are migrated to Exchange Online.
Maximum number of messages per mailbox folder - Specifies the maximum number of messages for a mailbox folder. New messages can't be delivered or saved in a folder when this limit is reached.
Warning for number of messages per mailbox folder - Specifies the number of messages that a mailbox folder can hold before Exchange Online sends a warning message to the mailbox owner. When this quota is reached, warning messages are sent once a day.
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