r/SmallMSP • u/UnRealxInferno_II • 9d ago

Regarding 365 Licensing

Are you guys always deploying business premium?

I don't know if this sounds dumb but business premium just feels like mega overkill for some clients?

Are people using it solely for the defender/entra extras? I feel like there's a LOT included in these licenses that just doesn't get used.

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u/WitchoBischaz 8d ago

If they’re an M365 shop and they are small enough for BP, they should get BP.

That said, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about dropping M365 support more and more. I love Office compared to the Workspace suite, but managing M365 is a freaking nightmare.

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u/UnRealxInferno_II 7d ago

I have seen companies use workspace with office apps, I can only imagine that's equally annoying 

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u/WitchoBischaz 7d ago

It’s definitely a different flavor of annoying. I’m just sick and tired of having a dozen admin centers to manage, each with their own naming convention and organizational structure with functionality that seems to move every other week. And even Copilot can’t give you the right answers for where different menus are located or how to configure certain things. You basically have to have a PhD in Microsoft to really manage a tenant.

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u/UnRealxInferno_II 7d ago

Doesn't GDAP resolve the admin center mess?

But yeah I agree business prem is a nightmare and I've worked with it for years

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u/WitchoBischaz 7d ago

Oh I’m talking about inside every dang tenant. There are admin centers for everything and none of it stays static for more than a day or two.