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New Service Plans in Office 365 for Education
Hi, I personally mean, that this is some kind of "core" Exchange Online service. It is contained with plans which offer some e-mail functionality to other online services. Like Stream and Project Online. See SKU and Service Plan ID.
Just as a follow-up, our Exchange_S_Foundation service plan changed from PendingActivation status to Success status, and it won't disable via PowerShell. It doesn't appear in the admin panel so I can't disable it there either. It seems that this is intended to be on for everyone, but there is not description of what it enables which is a concern.
This also hosed my automated licensing scripts since it sees everyone as out of spec with their license template. I have a ticket in with Office 365 support now so hopefully they can shed some light on this.
Office 365 support has confirmed that the Exchange_S_Foundation service plan cannot be disabled, and also that it does not add any features or capabilities. It appears to be something of a placeholder. I think this is a bad idea and have posted this feedback in the hopes that this won't happen again in the future:
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/273493-office-365-admin/suggestions/19067395-remove-exchange-s-foundation-service-plan
Please vote it up if you agree. Thanks!
