- Added a new diagram for Microsoft Entra Workload ID.
- Added "Microsoft 365 Copilot" add-on eligibility to "Microsoft 365 Business Standard" and "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" in Feature matrix: Link
- Added "Domain Services" to "Related Services" under "Microsoft Entra": Link
- Added "External ID" to "Related Services" under "Microsoft Entra": Link
- Added "Internet Access" to "Related Services" under "Microsoft Entra": Link
- Added "Private Access" to "Related Services" under "Microsoft Entra": Link
- Added "Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence API" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Corrected "Entra ID Governance" and "Entra Workload ID" in Feature matrix, these were mistakenly included in the last update before they were ready.
- Removed "Lifecycle Workflows (preview)" from "Azure AD Premium Plan 2" / "Entra ID Plan 2" as it is now Generally Available as a part of "Entra ID Governance".
- Removed all "preview" and "coming" labels from feature names. By linking to documentation the diagrams will be more accurate at any given point in time, and print-outs won't be wrong as often. Always check the documentation for the availability of features.
- Removed expired "Partner Offers" from "Microsoft 365 Consumer" plans.
- Renamed all "Azure Active Directory" services to the "Microsoft Entra ID" brand model: Link
- Moved "Azure AD" diagrams from "Enterprise Mobility + Security" section on the Home page to new "Microsoft Entra ID" collection.
- m365maps.com: Added a toggling "Select All" / "Select None" button to the image selection dialog on the Settings page.
- m365maps.com: The "Feature Map" header on the Feature matrix page is now a checkbox that filters the visible features to only those with feature map elements.
- m365maps.com: Fixed broken diagram downloads from the diagram view pages.
- m365maps.com: Fixed an issue with the PWA Service Worker whereby it would try to cache external content.
- m365maps.com: Updated Teams App to version 1.3.0 using manifest version 1.16.
- m265maps.com: Observing 404 traffic to "/apple-touch-icon.png" and "/apple-touch-icon-120x120-precomposed.png", so moved the main icon and added a 120x120 one.
- m365maps.com: Fixed a view page edit mode bug where removing the highlight colour using the right-click-drag eraser method wouldn't revert an automatic contrast adjusted text colour change.
- m365maps.com: Corrected spelling mistakes.
- Added a new diagram for Azure Active Directory, including "Azure AD Free" and "Azure AD for Office 365".
- Added "Azure AD Free" feature breakout to "Microsoft 365 Business Basic" and "Microsoft 365 Business Standard" diagrams.
- Added "Basic Security & Usage Reports" to "Azure AD Free": Link
- Added "Passwordless Authentication" to "Azure AD Free" and higher plans: Link
- Added "Customized Sign-In Page" to "Azure AD for Office 365" and higher plans: Link
- Added "Self-Service Activity Reports" to "Azure AD for Office 365" and higher plans: Link
- Added "Service Level Agreement" to "Azure AD Premium Plan 1": Link
- Added "Custom Security Attributes (preview)" to "Azure AD Premium Plan 1": Link
- Added "Lifecycle Workflows (preview)" to "Azure AD Premium Plan 2": Link
- Added "Verified ID" to all "Azure AD" plans: Link
- Added "eDiscovery (standard)" to "Microsoft 365 F5 Compliance" diagram.
- Added "Content Search" to all Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "LAPS" to all Windows Pro, Education, and Enterprise plans: Link
- Added "Defender for Individuals" to "Microsoft 365 Personal" and "Microsoft 365 Family": Link
- Added "Teams DLP & Export Graph API" to "Microsoft 365 Information Protection & Governance" licenses: Link
- Added "Browser Extensions Assessment" to "Defender for Servers Plan 2": Link
- Added "Defender for Endpoint Plan 2" to "Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro" (announced in message centre post MC557824) and blog: Link
- Added "Class Notebook" to "Related Services" under "Education": Link
- Added "Security Copilot" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Intune Suite" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Defender CSPM" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Defender for Servers" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Defender for Business Servers" (add-on to "Defender for Business") to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Viva Pulse" to "Related Services" under "Employee Experience": Link
- Added "Azure Automation" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Azure Backup" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Azure Bastion" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Azure Log Analytics" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Azure RBAC" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Syntex Archiving (coming)" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added "Syntex Backup (coming)" to "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- Added a new license plan to the Microsoft 365 consumer offerings "Microsoft 365 Basic": Link
- Added a note to Education Student Use Benefits diagram to explain that "The Windows A3 Student Use Benefit does not provide Universal Print for students".
- Moved "Defender for Cloud Apps Integration" from "Defender for Endpoint Plan 2" to "Defender for Endpoint Plan 1": Link
- Moved "Remote Help" in "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance" to align with its inclusion in "Intune Suite".
- Moved "SharedPoint Advanced Management" in "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance".
- Corrected "Intune" to make it clear that "Intune Plan 1" is not included in "Intune Plan 2" or "Intune Suite". "Intune Plan 2" and "Intune Suite" are add-ons to "Intune Plan 1".
- Corrected the accidental inclusion of "Windows Autopatch" in the Education plans, it is not included. This was correct in the Feature matrix, but incorrect in the diagrams.
- Corrected Feature matrix accidental inclusion of "eDiscovery (standard)", "Retention Policies", and "Retention Labels" in E5/A5 Compliance add-ons.
- Fixed incorrect link on Compare Diagrams page for CALs diagram.
- Fixed incorrect link on "Test Base for Microsoft 365" in "Related Services" under "Companion Products & Services".
- Included all related services to the Feature matrix with links and indications of which licenses they can be added to.
- Moved "App Governance" from being an add-on to being included in all plans with "Defender for Cloud Apps": Link
- Moved "Windows Autopilot" to "Azure AD Premium Plan 1" and "Intune for Education" (but not "Intune Plan 1"): Link
- Removed "Imagine Academy" from "Related Services" under "Education", the service was discontinued on December 30, 2022: Link
- Removed "Career Coach" from "Related Services" under "Education", the service has been unavailable to purchase since March, 2023 and is discontinued from June 30, 2023: Link
- Removed the 'blacked-out' Windows features on the Frontline and Student Use Benefits diagrams that were meant to denote a feature specifically excluded by product terms, but were instead causing some confusion. Folks will need to read the notes on the diagram or compare in the Feature matrix to spot the difference going forward.
- Renamed "Anti-phishing" in "Defender for Office 365" to "Advanced Anti-Phishing" as there is basic anti-phishing capability in "Exchange Online Protection", and updated link: Link
- Renamed and consolidated "Glint" into "Viva Suite" as "Viva Glint" in "Related Services" under "Employee Experience": Link
- Expanded "Windows 365" in "Related Services" with separate "Business" (Link), "Enterprise" (Link), and "Frontline" (Link) services.
- Expanded "Microsoft Priva" in "Related Services" with separate "Privacy Risk Management" (Link) and "Subject Rights Requests" (Link) services.
- Expanded "Microsoft Purview" in "Related Services" with separate "Data Catalog" (Link), "Data Estate" (Link), "Data Map" (Link) and "Data Policy" (Link) services.
- Added "Microsoft Entra" to "Related Services" with separate "Identity Governance" (Link), "Permissions Management" (Link), "Verified ID" (Link), and "Workload Identities" (Link) services.
- Updated "Multi-Geo" link in "Related Services" under "Security & Compliance": Link
- m365maps.com: Moved the m365maps.com website to Azure Static Web App hosting, which provides more flexibility and features over the previous GitHub Pages hosting.
- m365maps.com: Moved modal dialog over to HTML native Dialog control type for better compatibility and accessibility.
- m365maps.com: Added the item text into the prompt for adding/modifying a note or link on a diagram.
- m365maps.com: When applying a highlight colour to a diagram element, the text colour is now updated to black or white depending on the lightness of the highlight colour to make it more readable.
- m365maps.com: Can now change the text colour of existing labels inside a license diagram, not just labels added by the user.
- m365maps.com: Added license diagrams links to Feature matrix entries that have one on the site.
- m365maps.com: Added a page for Australian regional resources.
- m365maps.com: Added image list filtering to the Settings page. This allows you to filter out images you don't want to scroll past when adding images to diagrams or feature maps.
- m365maps.com: View page - Moved the Save button to the Edit Menu.
- m365maps.com: View page - Moved the Export buttons to a single button on the Edit Menu and added a JPG export option.
- m365maps.com: View page - Reduced the Download buttons to a single button on the Main Menu and added an SVG download option.
- m365maps.com: View page - Updated the text tool to allow updating the text colour of diagram elements.
- m365maps.com: View page - Closing the Main Menu now collapses the Edit Menu but keeps it functional to free up screen space.
- m365maps.com: View page - Corrected the 'visibility' of off-screen menus that have been closed to improve tab stops and screen reader compatibility.
- m365maps.com: View page - Hides the zoom controls when printing now. This is useful for Print-to-PDF.
- m365maps.com: Updated the process around saving a diagram or exporting as SVG to re-align the bounding box of the image.
- m365maps.com: Added ability to export the feature matrix view to CSV in addition to existing XLS format.
- m365maps.com: Corrected slide in edit and image controls menu positioning on view page for devices with safe regions (i.e. notch).
- Added a new diagram for "Intune", including the new Plan 1, Plan 2, and Suite license types: Link
- Added a new diagram for "Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management" (CSPM): Link
- Added a new diagram for "Microsoft Defender for Servers": Link
- Added "Clipchamp" to "Microsoft 365 Family and Personal": Link
- Added "Mobile Threat Defence" to "Defender for Endpoint Plan 1": Link
- Added "Authenticated Scan For Windows" to "Defender Vulnerability Management (premium)": Link
- Added "Hardware & Firmware Assessment" to "Defender Vulnerability Management (premium)": Link
- Added "Next Gen Protection" to "Defender for Endpoint Plan 1" and "Defender for Business": Link
- Added "SharePoint Advanced Management" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Insider Risk Management Forensic Evidence" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Endpoint Privilege Management" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Universal Print Jobs" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft Industry Clouds" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Drive Shipping for PST Import" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 Dev Program" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Workplace Discount Program" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Digital Contact Center" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Teams Phone Mobile" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "App Assure" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 Copilot" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "(retiring)" note to "Career Coach" in "Related Services".
- Corrected Azure AD edition included in "Microsoft 365 Business Basic" and "Microsoft 365 Business Standard" to "Azure AD Free": Link
- Corrected feature name and link for "Automated Investigations" in "Defender for Endpoint Plan 2": Link
- Corrected missing "Delve" feature for "Office 365 E1" on Feature matrix page.
- Corrected missing "Cross-Platform Support" feature for "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" through "Defender for Business" on Feature matrix page.
- Corrected missing "Webinars" feature in the the "Office 365 E3" panel of the "Office 365 F3" diagram.
- Corrected "Microsoft 365 F5 Security + Compliance" diagram to show full "Defender for Endpoint Plan 2" instead of the step-up.
- Corrected "Dataverse Storage" link in "Related Services": Link
- Fixed broken link for "Data Loss Prevention": Link
- Renamed / Consolidated "Yammer" to "Viva Engage": Link
- Renamed "Litigation Hold & eDiscovery" feature tile in "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" to "eDiscovery (standard)" for consistency with other diagrams. Note that hold is a feature of "eDiscovery (standard)".
- Renamed "Microsoft Threat Experts" feature in "Defender for Endpoint Plan 2" to "Endpoint Attack Notifications": Link
- Renamed "Office 365 Message Encryption" to "Message Encryption (basic)" and added a note to in Microsoft 365 F1 & F3 that this feature comes "from EMS E3" suite inclusion of "Information Protection".
- Renamed "Office 365 Advanced Message Encryption" to "Message Encryption (advanced)".
- Renamed "Office Mobile App" to "Microsoft 365 Mobile App": Link
- Renamed "Related Services" feature "Viva Insights (premium)" to "Viva Insights - Manager & Leader".
- Removed all MDM and Group Policy restriction notes (Windows edition checks) from "AppLocker": Link
- Removed "Microsoft Store for Business" / "Microsoft Store for Education" from all Windows plans in line with end of March, 2023 feature retirement: Link
- Removed "Microsoft" from "Microsoft Defender Antivirus" feature name for simplicity / consistency.
- Removed "Message Encryption (basic)" from "Office 365 F3" diagram, this was mistakenly included from the "Microsoft 365 F3" feature set.
- Removed "Related Services" feature "Experts on Demand" as it is a part of "Defender Experts for Hunting".
- Removed "Related Services" feature "Education Insights (premium)" as the functionality is being moved down into the standard included benefit: Link
- Replaced "Intune" feature tiles with expanded "Intune Plan 1" across affected license types and moved "Config Manager" and "Endpoint Analytics" into it: Link
- Split out "Software Inventory" and "Software Usage Insights" from "Software Assessment" in "Defender Vulnerability Management (core)".
- Split out features "Azure AD Join" and "Domain Join" into separate tiles for consistency and to align with Feature Matrix page.
- Split out features "BitLocker" and "BitLocker to Go" into separate tiles for consistency and to align with Feature Matrix page.
- Split out features "Retention Labels" and "Retention Policies" into separate tiles for consistency and to align with Feature Matrix page.
- Split out features "Office for the Web" and "Microsoft 365 Mobile App" into separate tiles for consistency and to align with Feature Matrix page.
- m365maps.com: Fixed exporting a diagram as PNG such that any annotations outside the space occupied by the original diagram are now included, where they were previously being clipped to the original diagram dimensions.
- m365maps.com: Aligned Feature matrix page feature names with diagram feature names to make it easier to find features in either location.
- m365maps.com: Removed Internet Explorer and JavaScript warnings from front page, the site expects a modern browser that would be compatible with Microsoft 365.
- m365maps.com: Fixed a bug introduced in the last update that ignored all favourite diagram selections.
- m365maps.com: Fixed a bug introduced in the last update that would fail to register the m365maps PWA if the user entered via a direct link to a diagram.
- m365maps.com: Fixed a bug introduced in the last update where the 404 not found page wouldn't make new location recommendations.
- m365maps.com: Fixed IOS export PNG scaling bug.
- m365maps.com: Doubled the resolution of dynamically exported PNG files.
- m365maps.com: No longer bothering with minification of CSS and JS, having moved to imports and modules, and given the size of the site and the inclusion of caching through PWA features, it is a much simpler project to build, debug, and maintain by avoiding any low value build steps.
- Added "Exchange Online Protection" to "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1", in certain rare cases a customer might acquire Exchange Online Protection through a Microsoft Defender for Office 365 purchase where they didn't otherwise own the right: Link
- Added "Microsoft Lists" missing feature tile to "Microsoft 365 F1" and "Microsoft 365 F3".
- Added "Bookings" to "Microsoft 365 Business Basic", "Office 365 E1", "Office 365 A3 Student Use Benefits" and associated diagrams: Link Link
- Added "Centralized Management" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1": Link
- Added "Manual Response Actions" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1": Link
- Added "Project & Roadmap View Access" to Office 365 F3, Microsoft 365 F3, Office 365 E1, Microsoft 365 Business plans, Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, and Office 365 E5: Link
- Added "Exact Data Match" to all "Information Protection & Governance", "E5/F5/A5 Compliance", and "Office 365 E5/A5" plans: Link
- Added "Activity Reports" to all Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Adoption Score" to all Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Compliance Manager" to all Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Secure Score" to all Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Education Insights" to all Office 365 Education plans: Link
- Added "Information Barriers" to all Office 365 Education plans: Link
- Added "Viva Engage" to all Office 365 plans that include Yammer: Link
- Added "Briefing Email" to all Office 365 Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Business plans: Link
- Added "Administrative Units" to "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1": Link
- Added "Dynamic Groups" to "Azure Active Directory Plan 1": Link
- Added "SMS Sign-In" to "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1": Link
- Added "Temporary Access Pass" to "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1": Link
- Added "MFA Registration Policy" to "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2": Link
- Added "Windows Autopatch" to "Windows E3" (not M365 A3 or F3 per note in product documentation): Link
- Added "Windows Virtualization Rights" to Windows Enterprise, and Windows Education & Student Use Benefits plans. Be sure to read the licensing brief "Windows 10 licensing for Virtual Desktops" as conditions apply: Link
- Added "Custom Logon" to Windows Enterprise and Education plans: Link
- Added "Custom Shell" to Windows Enterprise and Education plans: Link
- Added "Keyboard Filter" to Windows Enterprise and Education plans: Link
- Added "Unbranded Boot" to Windows Pro and above: Link
- Added "Assigned Access" to Windows Pro and above: Link
- Added "Sentinel Benefit" to all Microsoft 365 E5, F5, and A5 Security plans: Link
- Added "Microsoft Search" to all plans that include SharePoint Online: Link
- Added "Graph Connector Index Quota (500 per user)" to all Office 365 E5 entitlements (does not include Education plans): Link
- Added "Remote Help" to all Microsoft 365 Education plans: Link
- Added "retiring" note to "MDOP" in Windows plans: Link
- Added "3x Premium & Custom Compliance Templates" to Office 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance license plans: Link
- Added a new diagram for "Defender Vulnerability Management": Link Link
- Added a new diagram for "Teams Premium": Link Announcement: Link
- Added the "Information Protection & Governance", "Insider Risk Management", and "eDiscovery & Audit" mini-suites inside "Microsoft 365 F5 Compliance", which align with the E5 mini-suites: Link
- Added to the Product name changes page a missing entry, "Office 365 Business" renamed to "Microsoft 365 Apps for Business" in April 2020: Link
- Added to the Product name changes page a missing entry, "Common Data Service" renamed to "Microsoft Dataverse" in November 2020, this is important to note because in the licensing section of the admin portal you may still see this referred to by the old name: Link
- Added "Microsoft Entra" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Remote Help" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Defender Experts for Hunting" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Experts on Demand" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Defender for Cloud" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 Unattended RPA" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "EHR Connector for Teams" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft Tunnel" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Defender Threat Intelligence" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Defender EASM" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 Lighthouse" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "ProDirect" and "Unified Support" options to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Dataverse Storage" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "LinkedIn Learning" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "LinkedIn Glint" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Viva Goals" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Viva Sales" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Microsoft eCDN" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Cross-Tenant Migration" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Teams Premium" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Advanced Data Residency" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Azure Communication Services" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Test Base for Microsoft 365" to "Related Services": Link
- Clarified Windows "AppLocker" support. Group Policy management is only supported on Windows Enterprise and Server versions, but Intune/MDM management is supported for all Windows versions: Link
- Corrected the OneDrive links in the "Microsoft 365 Consumer" diagrams to consistently direct to the consumer version instead of the enterprise version: Link
- Corrected missing "6-Months Searchable Data" feature tile on stand-alone Windows diagrams inside "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2".
- Fixed broken links on "Microsoft 365 Consumer" diagrams.
- Moved all license diagrams into a "files" folder on the site and renamed all diagram files that included spaces which were being converted to "%20" in URLs and file downloads. This means bookmarks to specific diagrams will all need to be updated. The site 404 error page should redirect you to the new destination for any file that has been renamed / moved.
- Moved all "Related Services" panels from individual diagrams into a new stand-alone "Microsoft 365 Related Services" diagram: Link
- Removed "Microsoft" from the start of all "Defender" product names as it is implied and creates visual clutter.
- Removed "1 vCPU" option from "Windows 365" as per official guidance: Link
- Removed "Safe Documents" from "Microsoft 365 F5 Security" and "Microsoft 365 F5 Security + Compliance" plans: Link
- Removed "Azure Virtual Desktop" from Windows license plans to avoid confusion. Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 (depending on plan) have pre-requisites for Windows and other features, please check the documentation for those products when planning your license needs.
- Removed "Voice, Pen, Touch, Ink, and Gesture" from Windows license plans as it doesn't represent a differentiating feature between plan levels.
- Removed the discontinued license type "Defender for Endpoint (server)" from "Related Services" in favour of the preferred "Defender for Cloud" licensing (Note: The product is not discontinued, just the stand-alone license).
- Removed "Desktop Analytics" from Windows, which has been discontinued: Link
- Removed separate feature tiles of Windows "MDOP": "App-V" and "User Experience Virtualisation".
- Renamed "Azure Purview" related service to "Microsoft Purview": Link
- Renamed "Intune MDM & MAM" feature tiles to just "Intune" to remove any misconception about the features of the product.
- Renamed "Microsoft To-Do" to "Microsoft To Do" (removed "-").
- Renamed "Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager" to "Config Manager": Link
- Renamed "System Center Endpoint Protection" to "Config Manager Endpoint Protection" (long overdue): Link
- Renamed "Privacy Management" related service to "Microsoft Priva": Link
- Renamed "Threat & Vulnerability Management" in Defender for Endpoint/Business to "Vulnerability Management (core)" with the introduction of the new "Defender Vulnerability Management" plan in preview, which I will refer to as "Defender Vulnerability Management (premium)" in an effort to reduce confusion. Updated link to: Link
- Renamed "Rules-Based Classification (AIP Client & Scanner)" to simply "Rules-Based Classification (Client & Scanner)", as the AIP brand is being removed: Link
- Replaced previous Teams Rooms licensing plans with new "Basic" and "Pro" plans: Link
- Replaced "SharePoint Syntex" related service with new "Microsoft Syntex", which has an expanded feature set: Link
- Separated "Live Events" and "Webinars" feature tiles. All Office 365 plans except E1, Business Standard, and Business Premium get both. Office 365 E1 only has "Live Events". Business Standard and Premium get "Webinars". Education A1 plans do not receive either feature.
- Simplified "Azure AD External Identities" to "External Identities", as it is part of "Azure AD" and no other Microsoft 365 service shares this name, the extra text was unnecessary.
- Simplified "Azure AD Password Protection" to "Password Protection", as it is part of "Azure AD" and no other Microsoft 365 service shares this name, the extra text was unnecessary.
- Simplified "Azure Identity Protection" to "Identity Protection", to reflect the name that is now used in Microsoft online documentation.
- Updated Dial-in "Audio Conferencing" feature tile to reference the free add-on needed and link to further information: Link
- Updated label for "Scheduler" in "Related Services" to indicate the feature is "retiring", as it will be discontinued on 2023-09-01: Link
- Updated label for "Windows Information Protection" to indicate the feature is "retiring": Link
- Updated label for "Partner Offers" in "Microsoft 365 Consumer" diagrams to indicate offer availability ends 2023-06-30: Link
- Updated link for "Manage by MDM" Windows feature: Link
- Updated link for "Real-Time Reports" in "Defender for Office 365 Plan 1" (thanks to Karin Løkke for the suggestion): Link
- Updated link for "Teams Data Loss Prevention" feature: Link
- Updated link for "Microsoft Whiteboard" feature: Link
- Updated all docs.microsoft.com links to learn.microsoft.com
- "Azure AD Join for Windows 365" is now generally available: Link
- "Defender for Business" is now generally available: Link
- Added recent Microsoft Purview announcements to the Product name changes page and updated diagrams:
- Renamed "Audit Logging" and "Advanced Audit" to "Audit (standard)" and "Audit (premium)", and updated links.
- Renamed "eDiscovery" and "Advanced eDiscovery" to "eDiscovery (standard)" and "eDiscovery (premium)", and updated links.
- Renamed Office 365 "Information Governance" to "Data Lifecycle Management" and updated link: Link
Note: I have not added "Purview" to the start of each included feature names, this has been avoided for simplicity. If this creates confusion then I will add "Purview" naming in a future update.
- m365maps.com: Added "Download" and "Export" buttons to the Feature matrix page. The Download link in the page menu will provide the source Excel file with the full matrix, the Export link in the filter panel will provide the live view of the matrix on screen.
- m365maps.com: Added a created date tooltip to saved diagram entries in the Saved Diagrams and Compare Diagrams pages.
- m365maps.com: Fixed a bug in the diagram processing that introduced visual errors in the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Landscape, Microsoft 365 Consumer, and Windows 365 diagrams.
- m365maps.com: Further optimisation of the diagram SVG and HTML files to reduce file size and complexity.
- m365maps.com: Moved to 300 dpi for PNG image files, this supports higher quality bitmap printing.
- m365maps.com: Feature matrix incorrectly listed "Defender for Cloud Apps Integration" as an inclusion of "Microsoft 365 E3" and "Microsoft 365 A3". This was partially corrected in the previous update, but the matrix slipped through. Sorry about that.
- m365maps.com: Added a note to the privacy policy that third party services are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policy.
- m365maps.com: Added Zoom In/Out/Reset controls on all diagram views.
- m365maps.com: Added custom colour palettes to the Highlight, Draw, and Text edit menu items.
- m365maps.com: Added quick colour change with the 1 through to 0 keys for the Highlight, Draw, and Text edit menu item colour palettes.
- m365maps.com: Added the quick colour change palettes to the Settings page.
- m365maps.com: Added GitHub Pages info to site privacy policy on the User guide page.
- Added "Client Access License (CAL)" diagrams and diagrams for various "CAL Bridges".
- Added "Viva Connections" to all Office 365 plans.
- Added "Viva Learning (Basic)" to all Office 365 plans.
- Removed "Workplace Analytics" from the "Related Services" as "Viva Insights (Premium)" replaces it.
- Renamed "Azure Sentinel" to "Microsoft Sentinel": Link
- Renamed "Phone System" to "Teams Phone": Link
- Added stand-alone Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Office 365 Enterprise E5 license diagrams.
- Added "Office 365 Message Encryption" to various Office 365 plans that include both "Exchange Online" and "Information Protection", and have added it to the Feature matrix page: Link
- Added "Productivity Server CAL" to Office 365 Education A3 and above, and Enterprise E1 and above, but not Frontline licenses: Link
- Added "Skype for Business Plus CAL" to Office 365 E5/A5 plans: Link
- Moved "Defender for Cloud Apps Integration" from "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint" Plan 1 to Plan 2, and removed from "Microsoft Defender for Business", in line with product documentation being updated to reflect this.
- Corrected "Microsoft 365 Frontline F5 Security + Compliance" stand-alone diagram which incorrectly showed "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 Step-up", but it should not say "Step-up", it is a full Plan 2 included.
- Updated link for "Exchange Online Protection" to use the service description instead of the product page: Link
- m365maps.com: Simplified the home page by removing the tagging of diagrams. The diagram list now only shows a heart symbol next to diagrams that have been flagged from their view page.
- m365maps.com: Added a Product name changes page to the site and Teams App.
- m365maps.com: Updated the Teams App to version 1.1 to add a new tab for product name changes. To get the update you must "re-install" the app into Teams.
- m365maps.com: Added a new edit mode "Image", which allows you to upload and insert images into a diagram.
- m365maps.com: Added a new edit mode "Link", which allows you to modify existing hyperlinks or add links to your own text and images added to a diagram.
- m365maps.com: Added a new edit mode "Notes", which allows you to add short text notes to diagram elements which display as 'tooltips' in your browser.
- m365maps.com: Moved all edit modes to a dedicated edit menu.
- m365maps.com: The back button on diagram pages will now take you to the home page if you were sent to the site from an external link.
- m365maps.com: Removed "Print" button from the diagram menu for visual space, the button was adding nothing over and above the built-in print function of the browser (which remains available).
- m365maps.com: Removed SVG animation from move, resize, rotate, and erasing icons that would show in the menu bar, dramatically reducing the site's CPU usage.
- m365maps.com: Small style update for printing to improve page layout.
- m365maps.com: Updated the social media link preview graphic.
- m365maps.com: Updated the PWA manifest to add categories and language direction for completeness.
- m365maps.com: Updated the PWA home icon.
- m365maps.com: Removed accidental inclusion of a diagram not yet finished in the compare diagrams page.
- m365maps.com: "Saved diagrams" page "Import SVG" button now supports importing multiple files at the same time.
- m365maps.com: Removed links to feedback and bug reporting forms. These things often need a conversation to work through. The user guide page now recommends reaching out on social media platforms.
- m365maps.com: Reduced edit mode drawing line opacity to 80%. This makes any drawings you make onto the diagrams just slightly transparent.
- m365maps.com: Updated the site colour palette to improve accessibility.
- m365maps.com: Dark mode now affects the menus on the diagram view pages.
- m365maps.com: Added a thin border around the menus on the diagram view page.
- m365maps.com: Added a "Save Selection" button to the Feature matrix page. Saving your selected licenses means that every time you visit the page these selections will be automatically applied.
- m365maps.com: Removed rel="noopener" from all link tags as this is implied by target="_blank" in all supported browsers.
- m365maps.com: Removed the offline status indicator from all pages. As the site operates fully cached offline already the only function that is lost is the ability to download files, which is expected behaviour when offline.
- m365maps.com: Added a custom 404 error page.
- m365maps.com: Changed the default theme from "Light" to follow the system theme. Users running in dark theme on their browser or operating system settings may see a change in the theme of the site on refresh.
- m365maps.com: Corrected numerous typos in this change log and the User guide page.
- Added a new diagram for Windows 365 (Business and Enterprise).
- Added a new diagram for Microsoft Defender for Business (preview).
- Added a new diagram for Microsoft Visio.
- Added "Microsoft Defender for Business (preview)" to "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" and "Related Services" panel on Microsoft 365 Business diagrams: Link
- Added missing "OneDrive for Business (2 GB)" back into "Microsoft 365 F1" diagrams and Feature Matrix page.
- Corrected "Core eDiscovery" missing from "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" on Feature Matrix page.
- Renamed "Microsoft Cloud App Security" to "Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps": Link
- Added a note to "Microsoft Store for Business" to indicate the service is retiring in the first quarter of calendar year 2023: Link
- Added "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1" to "Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard".
- Removed the frontline worker license limitation "Users cannot be administrators". This was previously stated on product description pages but has been removed.
- Removed the frontline worker license limitation "No OneDrive for Business sync".
- As of November 1st, 2021 "Exchange Online Archiving" no longer provides unlimited storage and is now limited to 1.5TB per user/mailbox: Link
- To avoid confusion and to reduce file sizes the Minecraft Pickaxe logo has been replaced with a standard feature tile for "Minecraft Education Edition" in relevant education plans.
- Added notes to the "Microsoft 365 Education Student Use Benefits" diagrams to indicate that "Microsoft 365 A3 Student Use Benefit" does not include "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1" and "Microsoft 365 A5 & Microsoft 365 A5 Security Student Use Benefits" do not include "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2".
- "Microsoft Viva" is now generally available: Link
- "Privacy Management" is now generally available: Link
- "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 1" is now generally available: Link
- "App Governance" is now generally available: Link
- Fixed a broken link for "Viva Connections".
- Fixed a broken link for "Microsoft 365 Business".
- m365maps.com: Small correction to the Feature Matrix page to show "Microsoft 365 E5/F5/A5 Security" licenses include "Azure AD Premium Plan 2" features and not the Plan 1 features, Plan 1 features are included in the pre-requisite licenses.
- m365maps.com: Feature matrix page was missing "Office for the Web" and "Office Mobile" from "Microsoft 365 Education A5".
- m365maps.com: Diagram pages no longer uses scroll bars. Now uses custom scroll and pinch to zoom methods to keep the menu visible, create a better user experience, and improve readability.
- m365maps.com: All diagrams now load horizontally and vertically aligned to the middle of the page.
- m365maps.com: Added "drawing mode" to freehand draw on top of diagrams. Ctrl + Click to draw straight lines. Shift + Click to automatically close the drawing shape. Click a drawing to cycle through colours.
- m365maps.com: Added "text mode" to add your own text labels on top of diagrams. Ctrl + Click and drag to rotate, Shift + Click to resize. Click text to cycle through colours.
- m365maps.com: Added a new Zoom setting "Original Size" which displays the diagram at it's full 1:1 size.
- m365maps.com: Added a prompt when leaving a diagram page that has unsaved changes. Includes a colour change to the save icon and '*' added to the title when unsaved changes exist.
- m365maps.com: Further optimised diagram sizes, reducing the size of the pages significantly.
- m365maps.com: Removed limitation on exporting diagrams in iOS Edge browser.
- Fixed a broken link for "Defender for Office 365".
- Corrected a bug in the export process for all the diagrams to dramatically reduce their file size.
- Split "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint" into "Plan 1 (preview)" (Microsoft 365 E3 & A3 only) and "Plan 2" panels: Link
- Added "6-Months Searchable Data" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2": Link
- Added "incl Visio", temporarily, to denote the addition of "Visio for the Web" in references to "Office for the Web": Link
- Added "Power Automate Attended Desktop Flows" to "Windows Pro", "Windows Enterprise", and "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" diagrams: Link
- Added "Bookings" to "Office 365 F3", "Microsoft 365 F1", and "Microsoft 365 F3" diagrams.
- Added "Insights by MyAnalytics" to "Office 365 A3" and related diagrams.
- Added "Windows 365 (Cloud PC)" to "Related Services" panels: Link
- Added "Audio Conferencing (Dial in only)" to various Office 365 and Microsoft 365 plans: Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 A1 for Devices" Education plan: Link
- Added "Education Insights Premium" to "Related Services" panel on "Microsoft 365 Education" diagrams: Link
- Added "Compliance Premium Assessments" to "Related Services" panels: Link
- Added "Privacy Management (preview)" to "Related Services" panels of Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Education plans: Link
- Added "MCAS App Governance (preview)" to "Related Services" panels of Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Frontline, and Education plans: Link
- Removed "Skype for Business Online" from all plans due to the long-noted service discontinuation.
- Removed the "10" from references to "Windows 10" as they will be inclusive of "Windows 11" in the future.
- Corrected missing "Information Protection for Microsoft 365" in "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" and "Microsoft 365 Frontline F3" plans. The inclusion is due to EMS E3, which provides coverage for Office 365 services. I'm trying to be more explicit about feature inclusions that carry over from some other component.
- Corrected "OneDrive for Business" plan from "Plan 2" to "Plan 1" in "Office 365 Education A1" and related plans.
- Created a stand-alone "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint" diagram.
- Created a stand-alone "Microsoft Defender for Office 365" diagram.
- Created stand-alone "EMS E3" and "EMS E5" diagrams.
- Created a stand-alone "Azure AD Premium" diagram.
- Created single plan "Microsoft 365 Education" diagrams.
- Moved "Microsoft Viva" panel into the "Related Services" panel to create more visual space for additional "Related Services".
- Moved "Viva Connections" from "coming soon" to "preview": Link
- Changed layout of "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" diagram from portrait to landscape.
- Added note to Education "Student Use Benefits" diagrams to make it clear that "Microsoft 365 A5 Compliance" does not have "Student Use Benefits".
- m365maps.com: Added a Compare Diagrams page to visually compare two diagrams from the combined set of all diagrams plus Saved Diagrams.
- m365maps.com: Added Terms of use to the User guide.
- m365maps.com: Added "Licensing Resources and Documents" page to the References section in the User guide: Link
- m365maps.com: Added "Office 365 E3" and "Office 365 E5" license types to Feature matrix.
- m365maps.com: Removed Internet Explorer support as Internet Explorer is no longer supported for access to Microsoft 365.
- m365maps.com: Changed Zoom sensitivity for slower / more fine-grained control over zoom.
- m365maps.com: Added keyboard shortcuts to Zoom In/Out/Reset. Zoom in with +, out with -, and reset with =.
- m365maps.com: Feature Matrix text search will now keep features in a group visible when the group name is matched.
- m365maps.com: Saved Brightness image filter was not loading.
- m365maps.com: Removed obsolete "apple-touch-icon-precomposed".
- m365maps.com: Prevented the image controls panel from printing.
- m365maps.com: Custom checkbox styling now matches to overall site theme.
- m365maps.com: Replaced all JavaScript alert, prompt, and confirm calls with modal dialog. This improves compatibility, user experience, and works when embedded in Microsoft Teams.
- m365maps.com: When viewing a diagram the save button now stays visible outside of edit/highlight mode, making the save diagram option quicker to access and creating less visual layout movement when switching modes.
- Teams app: Version 1.0.0
- Teams app: End-user installation instructions added to the User guide.
- Teams app: Teams admin installation instructions online: Link
- Corrected a small mistake with "Office 365 F3" / "Microsoft 365 F3". These plans include "Retention Labels", the manual application of labels for retention, but not "Retention Policies".
- m365maps.com: Added standalone license indicators to the Feature Matrix page to highlight where Office 365, EMS, or Windows features are aligned to a stand-alone SKU. For example, inside Microsoft 365 E3 is Office 365 E3, EMS E3, and Windows E3, so in the Office, EMS, and Windows row headers for the Microsoft 365 E3 column you will find "E3" to indicate that standalone SKU inclusion.
- m365maps.com: Minor visual improvements for IE11 users.
- m365maps.com: App will now auto-update the page if there is an update available, instead of waiting for the user to close and reopen the page/app.
- Renamed "Windows Virtual Desktop" to "Azure Virtual Desktop" per announcement: Link
- Removed "MileIQ" from the Standard and Premium "Microsoft 365 Business" plans as it was discontinued as a benefit for new customers from May 1, 2021.
- Added "Phone System" as a related service to "Microsoft 365 Frontline" diagram.
- Added "Microsoft Project" diagram to collection: Link
- Added "(with SCA)" to "Microsoft 365 Apps for Business" tile on "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" stand-alone diagram to indicate that this license includes the "Shared Computer Activation" entitlement.
- Changed the Minecraft block logo in the Education diagrams to a simpler pick-axe logo I've created directly in the source Visio, this reduces the diagram storage size substantially and makes the site more friendly for low bandwidth users and search engines.
- Added "Exchange Online Kiosk (Calendar)" to "Microsoft 365 F1" to highlight that a calendar is included, but no mailbox rights.
- Changed the order of "Self-service password reset" and "Self-service group management" as they were out of alphabetical order in all diagrams.
- 'Greyed-out' "App-V" and "User Experience Virtualisation" on "Microsoft 365 F3" diagrams as they are "MDOP" features that are not included due to the exclusion of "MDOP".
- Added "Retention Policies" to "Microsoft 365 F3": Link
- Added "Basic Mobility & Security" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Azure AD for Office 365" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Scheduler" to "Related Services" panel on Microsoft 365 diagrams: Link
- Added "Career Coach" to the "Related Services" panel on the "Microsoft 365 Education" diagram: Link
- Added "Imagine Academy" to the "Related Services" panel on the "Microsoft 365 Education" diagram: Link
- m365maps.com: Added a "Feature Matrix" page that lists all "Microsoft 365" plans and features in a table layout, including search and filtering capability for targeted comparisons: Link
- m365maps.com: Added an image controls flyout to the navigation menu when viewing a diagram. This allows adjustment to brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation.
- m365maps.com: Optimised the site icons for storage size and better visual scaling.
- m365maps.com: Moved all diagrams to individual html pages instead of loading dynamically from one view page. This should improve SEO and hopefully avoid getting flagged by SafeScreen again.
- m365maps.com: Added a privacy policy to the user guide to explain that the site does not request, collect, store, process, or manage any personal information: Link
- m365maps.com: Added a downloads page to collect all the diagram download links in one place: Link
- m365maps.com: Added a reference to the user guide for "Product names and service plan identifiers": Link
- Removed "Windows to Go" which is no longer part of Windows 10 from the "2004" release: Link
- Updated Microsoft 365 Education diagram to call out that Microsoft 365 A1 Office 365 benefits are derived from the free Office 365 A1 per user license.
- Moved "Defender for Endpoint (Mac)" into "Defender for Endpoint" / "Windows E5" as the online documentation that called this out as a Microsoft 365 E5 Security feature was previously wrong: Link
- Combined iOS and Android "Defender for Endpoint" tiles to make room for Mac tile.
- Fixed broken link for "Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Fixed broken link for "Microsoft Teams Rooms": Link
- m365maps.com: Replaced the plain looking flag and unflag icons with heart shaped icons to more clearly convey their purpose.
- m365maps.com: Added a warning for IE11 users that support for Internet Explorer will be removed in a future release: Link
- m365maps.com: Corrected some layout issues, including Z-order on "Azure AD Premium Plan 2" grouping around feature tiles.
- m365maps.com: Added a feedback form: Link
- m365maps.com: Added a bug report form: Link
- m365maps.com: Made the web site installable (Progressive Web App / PWA) for offline access to diagrams.
- m365maps.com: Added a slide out menu on diagram pages, click the handle to expand and collapse. Allows navigation to the home page, pinning the diagram for offline access, printing, highlighting mode, and downloading the current diagram as a PDF or PNG.
- m365maps.com: With highlighting enabled from the menu, clicking a tile toggles highlighting on/off for that tile. Middle-Click clears all highlights while in highlighting mode. Shift+Click and Control+Click apply alternate highlight colours configurable in the Settings page.
- m365maps.com: Added Scroll Wheel to zoom in/out on diagrams without effecting other UI elements. When zooming the image centres around the mouse position. Middle-Click will reset the zoom.
- m365maps.com: Added Click-Drag to scroll whilst zoomed in on a diagram.
- m365maps.com: Added support for Dark Mode, configurable to be forced Light or Dark, or to follow the System settings. Defaults to Light theme to match previous web site appearance.
- m365maps.com: IE 11 should work for most features, except offline access / PWA features.
- m365maps.com: Added a user guide page and moved the "read me" content from GitHub into it: Link
- m365maps.com: Added a change log page and moved the "change log" content from GitHub into it: Link
- m365maps.com: Various bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Removed tooltips from diagram links as they only repeated the text you could already see. "Aria-Labels" are used for accessibility.
- Reduced margins around each diagram for better web site and printing experience.
- Updated "Student Use Benefit" diagram product terms links: Link
- Removed "Advanced Threat Analytics" from "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" - this was incorrectly documented as included.
- Replaced "Attack Simulator" in "Defender for Office 365 Plan 2" with "Attack Simulation Training": Link
- Added diagram for "Microsoft Teams Rooms" showing the inclusions in the service offerings: Link
- Added diagrams for "Microsoft 365 Consumer" and "Office Consumer" licensing: Link
- Added "Universal Print" to "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" after I mistakenly left it out, though it was in the release notes for December.
- Added "Azure Purview" to "Related Services" panel: Link
- Added "Extra Graph Connector Capacity" to "Related Services" panel: Link
- Added "Teams Operator Connect" to "Related Services" panel: Link
- Added "10-Year Audit Log Retention" to "Related Services" panel: Link
- Updated all references to "Azure AD B2B" to "Azure AD External Identities" as this new feature supersedes the functionality of the previous Azure AD B2B benefit: Link
- Removed "Azure AD External Identities" from the "Related Services" panels.
- Added "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching" to "Related Services" panel on "Microsoft 365 Education" diagram: Link
- Updated "Microsoft Cloud App Security" link: Link
- Updated "Delve" link: Link
- Updated "OneDrive for Business" link: Link
- Updated "Office for the Web" link: Link
- Updated "Azure AD Conditional Access" link: Link
- Updated "Intune" link: Link
- Updated "Microsoft Defender for Identity" link: Link
- Updated "Microsoft Defender for Office 365" link: Link
- Updated "Microsoft Lists" link: Link
- Updated "Microsoft To-Do" link: Link
- Updated "Exchange Online Protection" link: Link
- Updated "Bookings" link: Link
- Reworked the colour palette to improve visual accessibility (targeting WCAG AA).
- Changed the text font to Arial for broader cross platform compatibility than Segoe UI.
- Microsoft marketing reverted the term "Firstline" to "Frontline", so all F-SKU related material has been updated to use "Frontline".
- Added "F5 Security", "F5 Compliance", and "F5 Security + Compliance" SKU's to Microsoft 365 Frontline diagrams: Link
- Removed Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Enterprise benefits from the Frontline page and removed E3 and E5 from the same page to focus it on Frontline offers only.
- Added "Student Use Benefit" diagrams for Education plans, thank you to Ben Fletcher for help getting these completed. Please refer to the full Microsoft Product Terms for detail on Student Use Benefit ratios, and terms & conditions: Link
- Added a "Microsoft Viva" panel to Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added "Viva Topics" as a related service on Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added "Viva Insights (preview)" as a related service on Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added "Viva Learning (coming soon)" as a related service on Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added "Viva Connections (coming soon)" as a related service on Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added "Related Services" panel to "Microsoft 365 Business" diagram.
- Added "Microsoft 365 Business Voice" to "Related Services" panel on "Microsoft 365 Business" diagram: Link
- Expanded and added the short descriptions to the "Related Services" panel on "Microsoft 365 Enterprise" full and Venn diagrams to match the Landscape, Frontline, and Education diagrams.
- Added "Azure Sentinel" to "Related Services" panel for Microsoft 365 Enterprise, Education, Frontline, and Business diagrams: Link
- Added SVG versions of every diagram.
- Created a web page version of the diagrams. It's built on GitHub Pages and uses the live up-to-date SVG version of each diagram directly from GitHub: Link
- Added a donation option for folks that would like to give back for the value they've received from the diagrams, if this can help cover the domain registration and associated costs with maintaining these diagrams then I'll be over the moon: Link
- Made the page title on each Microsoft 365 diagram link to the GitHub Pages web site for the diagrams: Link
- Changed the label on the Windows feature "Conditional Access" to "Windows Conditional Access" to remove ambiguity with the Azure AD "Conditional Access" feature.
- Corrected a mistake where "Bookings" was in "Office 365 E1", it should have come in at "Office 365 E3". Thank you to Xu Ying for spotting this first!
- Removed duplicate "Yammer Enterprise" tile in "Microsoft 365 F3" stand-alone diagram.
- The feature "Trainable Classifiers" is no longer in preview and is now Generally Available: Link
- The feature "Application Guard for Office" is no longer in preview and is now Generally Available: Link
- Added "Step-up" to elements of some of the diagrams to more clearly denote where the diagrams show "Full USL" or just the extra elements a step-up provides. Thanks to Brian Reid for the feedback that resulted in this change.
- Renamed "Office Device Licenses" in "Microsoft 365 Enterprise Benefits" to "Office Professional Plus" to align with the language used in the Product Terms.
- Renamed "Productivity Server Licenses" in "Microsoft 365 Enterprise Benefits" to "Office Servers" to align with the language used in the Product Terms.
- Added qualifier to "Office Servers" in "Microsoft 365 Enterprise Benefits" explaining CSP/MCA is excluded. Thanks to Jeroen Huylebroeck for spotting the gap. See Product Terms: Link
- Fixed broken link for "Cloud App Security Integration" in "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint", thanks to Sven Wasmer for spotting this: Link
- Added "Real-Time Reports" to "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1": Link
- Updated "Information Governance" link: Link
- Updated "Advanced Message Encryption" link: Link
- Updated "Microsoft 365 E5/A5/F5 Security" links: Link
- Updated "Microsoft 365 E5/A5/F5 Compliance" links: Link
- Updated "Double Key Encryption" link: Link
- Updated "Endpoint DLP" link: Link
- Updated "Information Barriers" link: Link
- Updated Office 365 "Privileged Access Management" link: Link
- Updated "SharePoint Syntex" link: Link
- Updated "Universal Print" link: Link
- Fixed "Mile IQ" link on relevant Microsoft 365 Business plans: Link
- Wrote a link checker for Visio files to stay on top of any broken links going forward, it's not perfect, but it helps: Link
- Wrote a bulk export VB code to create PDF, PNG, and SVG diagrams quickly, also available here: Link
- Wrote an SVG file cleaner to remove comments, title and desc tags, and whitespace from SVG files exported from Visio, also available here: Link
- Removed Windows E3 "Voice, Pen, Touch, Ink, and Gesture" feature tile to create visual space for "Attack Surface Reduction" to be added. This feature is common to all Windows editions and hasn't really got anything to do with licensing, so it seemed like the most obvious one to retire from the diagrams.
- Added "Attack Surface Reduction" into the Enterprise Windows license diagrams now that the online documentation explains the difference between Windows Enterprise and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint feature inclusions. Thank you to the many people that provided feedback around ASR's inclusion in these diagrams over the last year. Link
- Added "Enhanced ASR" to "Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Expanded "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1" on "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" diagrams.
- Added "Advanced Threat Analytics" to "Microsoft 365 Business Premium": Link
- Added "Endpoint Analytics" to "Microsoft 365 Business Premium": Link
- Updated "Information Protection (Office 365)" link: Link
- Updated "Rules-Based Classification (Office 365)" link: Link
- Updated "Information Protection" (EMS) link: Link
- Updated "Rules-Based Classification (AIP Client & Scanner)" link: Link
- Made the note in the readme that these diagrams only cover publicly confirmed license types and do not include retired or off-list license plans. Some customers will have retired SKUs in their Enterprise Agreement and won't find them on these diagrams, they should work with their Microsoft team to understand the differences.
- Removed "on a Page" from file names to shorten them for easier navigation on GitHub.
- Updated Defender product names in line with Ignite 2020 announcements: Link
- Reorganised diagrams to order all boxes alphabetically left-to-right, top-to-bottom, per English language labels. This is intended to help make it easier to locate a feature as they now have a logical order.
- Renamed "Additional Licensing" table in diagrams to "Related Services", as not all items are 'licensing', some are consumption services.
- Added "Advanced Comms" (Advanced Communications) to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Power BI Premium" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "SharePoint Syntex" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Teams Rooms" to "Related Services": Link
- Added "Web Content Filtering" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "Endpoint DLP" to "Microsoft 365 E5 Information Protection & Governance": Link
- Corrected "Advanced Audit" placement back into "Office 365 E5" and out of "Microsoft 365 E5 eDiscovery & Audit": Link
- Added "Microsoft 365 Business Basic" and "Microsoft 365 Business Standard" diagrams and comparison to "Microsoft 365 Business on a Page".
- Stopped referring to Windows in "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" as "Windows 10 Pro", as there are some small additions and one large additional benefit, namely "Windows Virtual Desktop".
- Added "Power Virtual Agents" to Related Services: Link
- Added "AI Builder Capacity" to Related Services: Link
- Added "Campaign Views" to "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2": Link
- Added "Compromised User Detection" to "Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2": Link
- "Safe Documents" is now Generally Available (GA): Link
- Removed "Group-Based Access Management" in "Azure AD Premium Plan 1" from the diagram as it is a low value feature and the space in the diagram is better used for a higher value feature.
- Added "Azure AD Password Protection" to "Azure AD Premium Plan 1": Link
- Updated "Advanced eDiscovery" link: Link
- Removed "Next Gen Protection" from "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint" as this was confusing and vague
- Added "Evaluation Lab" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "MIP Integration" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "Cloud App Security Integration" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "Double Key Encryption" to "Information Protection & Governance": Link
- Replaced "Microsoft Forms Pro" in the "Related Services" section as this has been replaced with a Dynamics 365 product "Dynamics 365 Customer Voice": Link
- Added "Microsoft Dataverse for Teams" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Microsoft Dataverse" to the "Related Services" section: Link
- Added "Microsoft Teams Rooms" to the "Related Services" section: Link
- Added "Universal Print" to "Windows E3", "Microsoft 365 Business Premium", and "Microsoft 365 F3": Link
- Corrected "Direct Access" to "DirectAccess"
- Added "Always On VPN" to "Windows E3": Link
- Replaced "Windows Analytics" with "Desktop Analytics" in Windows E3, Windows A3, and Microsoft 365 F3: Link
- Updated the "Information Barriers" link: Link
- Added "Microsoft Lists" to all plans that include "SharePoint Online": Link
- Added "Bookings" to "Office 365 E3": Link
- Added "InfoPath App" to "Office 365 E3": Link
- Added "Endpoint Analytics" to "EMS E3": Link
- Updated the "Privileged Identity Management" link to remove US-English forcing component: Link
- Updated link for "Phone System" to: Link
- Updated link for "Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance" to: Link
- Renamed "ML-Based Classification in Office 365 (preview)" to "Trainable Classifiers (preview)" to be consistent with majority of online documentation, and updated link: Link
- Updated link for "Advanced Threat Analytics" to: Link
- Renamed the "Comms Compliance" tile to "Comm Compliance" to align better with the true product name "Communication Compliance"
- Updated the link for "Microsoft Defender for Identity" to: Link
- Renamed "Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise" in Education plans to "Microsoft 365 Apps for Education": Link
- Added "Azure AD for Office 365" to "Microsoft 365 Education A1" in "EMS": Link
- Added "(retiring)" to "Advanced Threat Analytics": Link
- Modified layout of "Related Services" in landscape views as there were too many items to fit in the old layout.
- Coloured "Related Services" tiles consistently across portrait and landscape views.
- Added "Microsoft Whiteboard" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Microsoft To-Do" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "Power Virtual Agents for Teams" to Office 365 plans: Link
- Added "App Assure" to "Windows E3": Link
- Added "Resilient File System (ReFS)" to "Windows E3" plans: Link
- Added "Persistent Memory" to "Windows E3": Link
- Added "SMB Direct" to "Windows E3": Link
- Added "Unified Write Filter" to "Windows E3": Link
- Added "Windows Autopilot" to all Windows plans: Link
- Added "Application Control" to all Windows plans: Link
- Added "Edge for Business" to all Windows plans: Link
- Added "Windows Firewall" to all Windows plans: Link
- Added "Block at First Sight" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "Tamper Protection" to "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint": Link
- Added "Azure AD External Identities" to "Related Services": Link
- Repackaged "Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance" offerings to add "Insider Risk Management", "Information Protection & Governance", and "Discover & Respond" suites. Note that there is functionality that only resides in the suite SKUs and not inside the individual Office 365, EMS, or Windows 10 SKUs. These are known as "suite only" features. Customers that previously bought Microsoft 365 E5 licenses may need a zero-cost add-on to get suite only features.
- Renamed all F1 license types to F3 and added new "Microsoft 365 F1". Note: there is no Office 365 F1, only F3 now.
- Added "Information Barriers": Link
- Expanded "Office 365 ATP Plan 1" to show inclusion of "Safe Links", "Safe Attachments", and "Anti-Phishing".
- Added "Safe Documents" to "Microsoft E5 Security" as it is a feature of having both "Office 365 ATP" and "Microsoft Defender ATP".
- Removed "Office 365 Advanced Compliance" as this SKU is now retired.
- Changed "Supervision Policies" to superset "Comms Compliance".
- Changed "Data Loss Prevention for Teams" to "Teams Data Loss Prevention" for clarity, also known as "Communications DLP".
- Changed "Advanced Data Governance" to "Information Governance".
- Replaced "1 Year Audit Log Retention" with "Advanced Auditing".
- Changed "Azure Information Protection Plan 1" to "Information Protection".
- Changed "Azure Information Protection Plan 2" to "Rules-Based Classification (AIP client & scanner)".
- Changed "Azure Information Protection - Office 365" to "Information Protection (Office 365)".
- Renamed "Office 365 ProPlus" to "Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise" / "Microsoft 365 Apps for Business": Link
- Added "Defender ATP for Windows Server" to "Additional Licensing".
- Replaced "Meeting Broadcast" with "Live Events".
- Added "retiring" to "Kaizala Pro" as the capabilities are being merged into Teams over time, leading to the eventual retirement of Kaizala.
- "Microsoft Cloud App Security" is now a feature of both "Microsoft 365 E5 Security" and "Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance" via "Microsoft 365 E5 Information Protection and Governance".
- Renamed "Microsoft 365 Business" to "Microsoft 365 Business Premium": Link
- Replaced "Conditional Access with MFA" and "Self Service Password Reset" in "Microsoft 365 Business Premium" with full "Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 1": Link
- Renamed "Office Mobile" to "Office Mobile Apps" and "Office Online" to "Office for the Web". Where this is compressed to one tile for space, the wording "Office Web & Mobile Apps" is used.
- Removed "Slices" and "Simple" tabs from Visio file to reduce ongoing workload in updating the diagrams.
- Various Alternate Text inclusions, improvements, and corrections.
- Various broken links fixed.
- Published separate PDF files again due to popular demand.
- Moved Planner to F1 and above: Link
- Microsoft Flow renamed to Power Automate, link updated: Link
- Microsoft PowerApps renamed to Microsoft Power Apps (with a space between 'Power' and 'Apps').
- Corrected MyAnalytics E3/E5 differences: Link
- Updated Microsoft 365 F1 EMS rights and clarified that Microsoft 365 F1 Windows does not include KMS activation.
- Added Supervision Policies to Office 365 Advanced Compliance: Link
- Changed the labels for Windows Rights Management and Azure Rights Management to "Active Directory RMS" and "Azure RMS" respectively to reduce potential for confusion. This change is visible in license diagrams containing EMS E3.
- Added Self-Service Password Reset to Microsoft 365 Business EMS.
- Added "Exchange Online Archiving" in Microsoft 365 Business Office 365.
- Removed Outlook Customer Manager from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Business plans. Retiring June 2020: Link
- Removed Invoicing from Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Business plans. Retiring February 2020: Link
- Renamed "Office Applications" to "Office 365 ProPlus" in Business plans to align with enterprise plan naming.
- Removed "Skype for Business Plan 2" from Business plans as since September no customer with less than 500 users is eligible for Skype for Business Online. This precludes all Business plans as they only support up to a maximum of 300 users.
- Skype for Business Online links in Enterprise plans now link to the service description to ensure customers have the latest information about the Skype for Business Online end of service: Link
- Fixed broken link in "PLC Groups" on Office 365 Education plans: Link
- Added MFA to Conditional Access in Microsoft 365 Business: Link
- Added "Data Loss Prevention" and "Litigation Hold & eDiscovery" to Microsoft 365 Business: Link
- Corrected Windows E5 "Threat & Vulnerability Management" link to: Link
- Renamed "System Center Config Manager" to "Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager" and updated link: Link
- Added "FastTrack" to the "Microsoft 365 Enterprise Benefits" panel.
- Updated "Microsoft Managed Desktop" description to call out that "Microsoft 365 E5 Security" is the minimum license required.
- Added "Insider Risk Management (preview)" to the Microsoft E5 Compliance plan. Note: This is not part of any Office 365, EMS, or Windows plan.
- Added "Azure Information Protection for Office 365" to Office 365 E3 plans and collapsed "Office Mobile" and "Office Online" into one tile to make room on the diagrams.
- Added "Office 365 Cloud App Security" to Office 365 E5 plans. There was some confusion because this was retired as a stand-alone SKU (I.E. you cannot buy it on its own, only as part of Office 365 E5), but I've confirmed it is still part of Office 365 E5.
- Updated all Exchange Online links to a plan comparison page as the old links just redirect to Plan 1 details.
- Replaced "Office 365 ATP Plan 2" feature "Threat Explorers" link, previous link is now broken.
- Replaced Office 365 "Advanced Data Governance" link, previous link now redirects to retention policy information.
- Replaced EMS "Microsoft Identity Manager" link, previous link now redirects to generic EMS page.
- Updated EMS "3rd Party MFA" link, previous link no longer reaches the correct anchor in the article.
- Added "Long Term Servicing Channel" to all Windows E3 diagrams.
- Collapsed Windows E3 references to "BitLocker" and "BitLocker to Go" into single "BitLocker & BitLocker to Go" tile to create space.
- Collapsed all references to Windows "Azure AD Join" and "Domain Join" into single "Azure AD & Domain Join" tile to create space.
- Corrected "User Experience Virtualisation" (UE-V) link, previous link was going to Windows Analytics.
- Settled on "Windows Defender Antivirus" instead of "Microsoft Defender Antivirus" when referring to the specific capability in the context of Windows licensing. "Microsoft Defender ATP" does not use the Windows naming because it grants benefits for usage on 3rd party operating systems (i.e. Mac OS).
- Replaced "Windows Defender Antivirus" link, previous link now redirects to generic Windows page.
- Added "Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)" to rights not included in "Windows 10 E3 for Microsoft 365 F1", as per Microsoft Product Terms, January 2020.
- Changed references to Office 365 E3 "Audit Logging" to "Audit Logging & Alerting" to reflect the new alerting feature, except where a separate tile just for "Alert Policies" has been added to plans below Office 365 E3: Link
- Replaced "Office 365 ATP Plan 2" feature "Threat Investigation & Response" with "Automated Investigation & Response" to highlight the enhancements in this area, updated link.
- Added "1 Year Audit Log Retention" to "Office 365 Advanced Compliance".
- Renamed "Forms" to "Microsoft Forms" to highlight the product name and avoid confusion.
- Added "Microsoft Forms Pro" to "Additional Licensing" panel on Microsoft 365 Enterprise diagrams.
- Azure Active Directory Premium Plan 2 "Entitlement Management" is no longer in preview, it is now Generally Available.
- Added "Records Management" to "Office 365 Advanced Compliance" / "Office 365 E5" offerings.
- Collapsed separate PDF files down to a single file per license map type for simplicity and speed to publish.
- All PNG files are now exported directly from Visio at 300 DPI.
- Licensing Changes:
- Added Conditional Access to Microsoft 365 Business license maps.
- Added Multi-Geo to "additional licenses" panel of Enterprise license maps.
- File Changes:
- Accessibility improvements to VSDX, PDF, and PPTX files, including more Alt Text.
- Reduced margins on Microsoft 365 Enterprise on a Page variants, making the license map fill the page more fully.
- Consolidation of Microsoft 365 Enterprise on a Page variants into single VSDX.
- Added Office 365 E1 -> E3 -> E5 license map.