We decided that we wanted to deploy it for everyone vs managing different skus for different customers and different user types. We bundle o365 with our service, so, we did it silently, and at renewal just did a price increase to cover it and cited new security features, teams dial in support, etc. MFA is required BusPrem or not, but CAPs make it easier and more precise to manage that (amongst other things). Anyway i depise line iteming things because that means i have to sell every line item, to every customer. 10 line items to 10 customers is 100 different sales justifications. And then when you make a change, have to justify that change to 10 customers, and some won't buy or accept it. So, i don't give them a choice. What we want is bundled and the only choice is to find someone else. Customers really don't know or care about the stack specifics. More on reddit.com

We switched about a week ago, no noticeable difference so far with the clients. I will note that we previously had unlimited storage for mailboxes, but were provisioning people down to various limits. Once the license changed, everyone switched to a 50 GB limit. Not a big deal, but just something to be aware of. We are waiting to hear back if we will need to reinstall clients. We use the Office Deployment Tool with the OfficeProPlusRetail product ID. Not sure if we will need to change to OfficeBusinessRetail yet or not. Hoping not but if so, not a huge task. More on reddit.com

No directly from office 365 I can’t get onto my business admin account More on reddit.com

Premium on all for a few reasons: I personally believe securing any tenant correctly requires conditional access policies, which come with AADP1 which now comes with M365BP. You can stack aadp1 on top of std but there's no real advantage there. You can put one aadp1 or m365bp on a tenant and it would work but that's pirating. This is the main thing for us here, we're not managing per user MFA and we're not going to have someone get hacked and be like "well CAP would have solved this but that would have cost you $80 more per month in licensing! you'll thank us for those savings!" Like, them, their lawyers, their insurance companies will TOTALLY understand you saving the customer the equiv of 1 or 2 hours of labor cost a month by just using security defaults. /s Intune for intune things but also you now offer an MDM at no extra charge to you, congrats! This always comes up after your onboarded. "also can we and can you manage our ipads?" OME. Most everyone has a need to send encrypted email and the big encryption button in OWA and that you can add to outlook desktop is, IMHO, the best solution out there as the integration with o365 and everyone else using o365, makes it great. It used to be you needed e3 or e5 or whatever to get OME and desktop apps, it was outrageous. BP made it affordable and perfect for small HIPAA outfits. i like that they're about to bundle in teams dial in numbers, which was previously a $4 or $5/user/mo add-on for M365BP. now that there's some schnazzy defender thing going in, i can see people dropping their main AV (webroot, sophos, BD, whatever), using this now, and pocketing the savings of the main AV and keeping the secondary on (huntress or whatever) stack unification: yes, we could use std + intune + aadp1 at some places or some users could be cheaper skus that don't have desktop apps but do have AADp1 features and teams or whatever. I feel micromanaging those things, especially now with NCE enforcing terms, has a low return. Just charge the same for each user, which you accounted for BP in your costs, and give them BP, because they're paying for it. Every time there's a "reduced user" who gets less so you get beat up on price, 3 months later "that user needs desktop apps, they're doing this new job thing and they need what everyone else has..." More on reddit.com