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Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features license
I now see a new license in our admin console.
Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features
It did not auto apply to existing Office 365 E3 or EMS E3 users.
What is in this line item?
What’s provided by Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features?
Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features provides the following features for your users:
- https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/furthering-our-ai-ambitions-announcing-bing-chat-enterprise-and-microsoft-365-copilot-pricing/—An AI-powered copilot for the web, with commercial data protection. It ensures user and business data are protected, won’t leak outside the organization and won’t be used to train the large language models.
- https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2023/07/31/introducing-microsoft-clipchamp-unlock-the-power-of-video-at-work/—A video editing tool for anyone to create professional-looking videos, even with no prior experience.
- https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/22/new-microsoft-loop-app-is-built-for-modern-co-creation/—A co-creation app that lets teams bring together all the parts of a project in one place and collaborate across the apps and devices they already use.
- Avatars for Teams—A service that lets users create personalized avatars for Teams meetings that express their appearance, style, or mood for the day.
- Windows Autopatch—A service that manages and automates Windows 10, Windows 11, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 software updates.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/licenses/e3-extra-features-licenses?view=o365-worldwide#whats-provided-by-microsoft-365-e3-extra-features
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This is so annoying. What is this license covering? Why isn't there any clear statement in Azure what it does? Typical MS.... Confusing...
What’s provided by Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features?
Microsoft 365 E3 Extra Features provides the following features for your users:
- https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/furthering-our-ai-ambitions-announcing-bing-chat-enterprise-and-microsoft-365-copilot-pricing/—An AI-powered copilot for the web, with commercial data protection. It ensures user and business data are protected, won’t leak outside the organization and won’t be used to train the large language models.
- https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2023/07/31/introducing-microsoft-clipchamp-unlock-the-power-of-video-at-work/—A video editing tool for anyone to create professional-looking videos, even with no prior experience.
- https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/22/new-microsoft-loop-app-is-built-for-modern-co-creation/—A co-creation app that lets teams bring together all the parts of a project in one place and collaborate across the apps and devices they already use.
- Avatars for Teams—A service that lets users create personalized avatars for Teams meetings that express their appearance, style, or mood for the day.
- Windows Autopatch—A service that manages and automates Windows 10, Windows 11, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 software updates.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/commerce/licenses/e3-extra-features-licenses?view=o365-worldwide#whats-provided-by-microsoft-365-e3-extra-features
According to message center ID MC676293 https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/home?#/MessageCenter/:/messages/MC676293
- Assign the Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Extra Features license to the Microsoft 365 E3/E5 “Original” users you desire to have access to Clipchamp.
- This license enables features that are not enabled via the Office 365 E3/E5 and EMS E3/E5 licenses provided via the Microsoft 365 “Original” SKUs.
- Note: The Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Extra Features license is available at no additional cost.
"The Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Extra Features licenses enable features that are exclusive to Microsoft 365 E3 and/or E5 and are not available via the Office 365 E3/E5 or EMS E3/E5 licenses provided via the M365 E3/E5 Original SKUs.
By assigning the Microsoft 365 Extra Features license, you will also have access to other such features in the future, such as Big Chat Enterprise and Microsoft Loop."
- One feature in this must be the Bing Chat Enterprise. Turning it on made Bing chat switch to protected mode.
Here it shows a relation to "Windows_Autopatch" could that be or how is it related to Bing Chat Enterprise? Is this license free and why has it been added, by itself?
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/licensing-service-plan-referenceEdited: It could be related to Bing Chat and other Features, see below:
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing-chat-enterprise/faq
- It may take up 48 hours before they can access Bing Chat Enterprise.
- The Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Extra Features license is available at no extra cost.
- Bing Chat Enterprise FAQ - Microsoft Community Hub
- Endpoint DLP, Insider Risk Management, Microsoft ML-Based Classification and Office 365 SafeDocs.
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing-chat-enterprise/faq
- Steve,
This appeared in our console as well on August 4 (according to the History tab on our Licensing page). We are unsure what's included, and have reached out to our VAR for clarification.
That said, it appears that adding it to an employee's Office 365 E3 license (*not* Microsoft 365 E3), gives them access to the new Bing Chat Enterprise (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/bing/chat-enterprise?form=MA13FJ).
Erik
