
StaffHub and Planner to manage daily staff tasks.OneDrive for Business with 1TB cloud storage.Communication and team sites with SharePoint.Email and Calendars via Microsoft Exchange.O365 E1 is the “lightest” version of the Enterprise-level plans. In the rest of this article, I’ll give you an introduction to each of the three versions, a more detailed comparison table, some special considerations for different industries, and a video overview. The short table below gives you a quick overview. With each successive level, you get more features - but what is included, exactly? In summary, we're attempting to find if we can have a business case for using Volume Licensing over retail particularly in the area of allowing a greater level remote access in to the office, ease of license transfer and any other benefits we're unaware of.Microsoft Office 365 comes in three different flavors for Enterprise: E1, E3, and E5. We're aware that in the conditions for Office 2007 VLs, that the connecting device must be licensed for the version of Office that the server has so we've restricted non-laptop users from using Office when connecting. In terms of our setup, we have around 70 devices, with around 30-40% being laptops as well as having an RDP server for users to connect to for remote working. What we're also unsure about is the right of transfer for retail licenses and whether retail licenses allow you to connect to, and use, Office on a RDP server. None of the above though are seen as good enough benefits for us to justify the spend.

VL allows easier transfer of licenses between devices.VL also has management and key access through the VLSC.Volume licensing entitles you to downgrade rights.We've since been unable to find any direct comparison of usage rights and benefits between the volume license and retail versions, instead only finding out the following: At this point, we're struggling to find the business case for spending the additional funds on purchasing the volume licenses. One thing that we've noticed, in UK prices, is that the price of a volume license is twice that of a retail copy. With the approaching EoL for Office 2007 next year, we've started looking at pricing and options for the future of our Office licensing.
