Kurt Shintaku's Blog

There’s a misconception that the only difference between the Office 365 E1/G1 and E3/G3 suites  just the availability of the Office 365 ProPlus/Microsoft 365 Apps.

The following capabilities are not included in Office 365 E1/G1, compared to Office 365 E3/G3.

• Office Suite
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-applications-service-description/office-applications-service-description)
  • Office ProPlus – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, Access, Infopath, MacOffice (Win32 clients)
    (Office Mobile for Android/iOS is available to E1 however Outlook for Android is NOT)
  • Excel Features – PowerMap, PowerPivot, PowerQuery, PowerView
  • Multilanguage User Interface
• Enterprise Messaging/Email
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-service-description)
  • eDiscovery
  • In-place Hold & Litigation Hold
  • Message Encryption
  • Inactive Mailboxes
  • Unified Messaging Reports
• Enterprise Security
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  • Data Loss Prevention for all email & files
  • Cloud App Security P1 (Cloud App Discovery)
  • Rights Management Services
  • Azure Information Protection
• Enterprise Reporting for Microsoft 365
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-platform-service-description)
  • Top DLP policy matches for mail
  • DLP policy matches by severity for mail
  • DLP policy matches, overrides, and false positives for mail
  • Top DLP rule matches for mail
• Enterprise Management
  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans)
  (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-applications-service-description/office-applications-service-description)
  • Group Policy Support
  • Office Cloud Policy Support
  • Office telemetry
  • Administrative blocking cloud-based file storage
  • Roaming settings
• Differences in service capacity
  • Exchange Mailbox size gets smaller (100GB—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Archive size gets smaller (Unlimited—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Public Folder Mailboxes size gets smaller (100GB—>50GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Storage quota for Recoverable Items folder in Archive Mailbox – not on hold (Unlimited—>30GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • Exchange Storage quota for Recoverable Items folder in Archive Mailbox – on hold (Unlimited—>100GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/exchange-online-service-description/exchange-online-limits)
  • OneDrive for Business storage (Unlimited—>1GB)
    (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/onedrive-for-business-service-description)