
O365 E5 Licensing – what you don’t get with E3ĭepending on what your organization is already paying for an E5 license may be more than what you need, below is a list of what you would get from an O365 E5 license and not an E3 license. So, you should only end up needing to pay that US$32-$57 user/month price for a handful of E3 or E5 licenses depending on how many people you would want to be accessing advanced analytics reports, creating DLP policies or creating AIP/classification labels. In order for users to view or change the AIP label, they will need an AIP P1 license (US $2/user) or AIP P2 license (US $5/user) if automatically applying classification rules. All O365 users regardless of license will still be able to view AIP protected files after a label has been created and applied to a document but they will not be able to see the label itself.

I’ll answer that question up front if that is what you were looking for when you found this blog: An organization will need an E5/E3 licensed account to view any advanced analytic reporting, create new DLP policies in the compliance center and/or create AIP labels. One of the main reasons I looked into this in the first place was to figure out how features which require high levels of licensing translate to general users. This blog is written with the assumption that you know what features you are interested in buying and/or at have a basic understanding of the O365 E3/E5 license suites security features.

Microsoft’s licensing can be a little confusing when it comes to figuring out exactly how many E5/E3 licenses you will need to actually leverage the security features associated with a given license.
