Licensing M365 Manager Plus

M365 Manager Plus is available in four editions - Trial, Free, Standard & Professional Editions. All Editions come packaged as a single download. During the evaluation phase, the professional edition is installed and can be evaluated for 30 days. After 30 days, it is automatically converted to the free edition, unless the standard or professional edition license is purchased.

M365 Manager Plus Trial Edition

The trial edition of M365 Manager Plus allows you to manage unlimited users for a period of 30 days. And it allows 3 Help Desk technicians and 1 Super Admin.

M365 Manager Plus Free Edition

Once the evaluation period expires, M365 Manager Plus automatically converts to a free edition which offers:

To manage more users, please upgrade to the standard or professional edition. If you have further questions, write to us at m365managerplus-support@manageengine.com. To get a quote or buy the solution, please contact sales@manageengine.com.

M365 Manager Plus Standard Edition

The standard edition of M365 Manager Plus offers:

If you require Microsoft 365 monitoring, audit, alert and advanced delegation features, upgrade to the professional edition of M365 Manager Plus.

M365 Manager Plus Professional Edition

The professional edition of M365 Manager Plus provides you access to all the features of M365 Manager Plus namely reporting, management, auditing, monitoring, alerting, automation, content search and delegation of Microsoft 365 tasks for the number of users or mailboxes purchased in your professional edition license plan, without any restriction. You can also purchase the Exchange Online backup add-on to backup and restore your Exchange Online data.

Steps to upgrade from Trial/Free Edition to Standard/Professional Edition

Managing M365 Manager Plus License

M365 Manager Plus is licensed based on the number of users you wish to manage. This section allows you to manage licenses and select the users that you need to manage. To manage licenses, click on Tenant Settings found in the top right corner of the application → Manage Licenses.

The Manage Licenses screen displays the following information at the top of the table.

To modify the users to be managed:

In some cases, the number of Microsoft 365 users managed and the number of licenses purchased might be different. In such cases, when new users/ additional licenses are added, the product automatically adds users to the managed users list.

Case 1 - Licenses purchased is greater than the number of users managed : In such a case, all existing users will be managed by the product. When new users are added, the product will automatically link the unused licenses with the new users.

Case 2 - Licenses purchased is lesser than the total number of users : In such a case, only the selected users will be managed by the product. When additional licenses are purchased, the unmanaged users will automatically be added to the managed users list based on availability of licenses.

Note: If you haven’t installed the Azure AD module, the pop-up while clicking the count in Managed Users column, gives details on mailboxes.

Supported Licenses

ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus license

ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus license, provides access to some of the features of M365 Manager Plus.

ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus Standard Edition license, provides access to:

ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus Professional Edition license, provides access to:

Irrespective of the type of Exchange Reporter Plus license, you don't have access to the M365 Manager Plus features of the following services:

Note: "Your ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus license does not provide access to this feature. Please purchase and apply M365 Manager Plus license to unlock this feature." This message will appear when you try to access the M365 Manager Plus features of above-mentioned services. To gain access to those features, you have to purchase and apply M365 Manager Plus license.

ManageEngine ADManager Plus license

ManageEngine ADManager Plus license, provides access to some of the features of M365 Manager Plus.

ManageEngine ADManager Plus Standard Edition license, provides access to:

ManageEngine ADManager Plus Professional Edition license, provides access to:

Irrespective of the type of ADManager Plus license, you don't have access to M365 Manager Plus features of the following services:

Note: "Your ManageEngine ADManager Plus license does not provide access to this feature. Please purchase and apply M365 Manager Plus license to unlock this feature." This message will appear when you try to access the M365 Manager Plus features of above-mentioned services. To gain access to those features, you have to purchase and apply M365 Manager Plus license.

Upgrade your license to manage more users.

You will get this message when the maximum users count is reached, which depends on the number of user licenses you have purchased.

To check the purchased user license count :

You have reached the maximum technicians count.

You will get this message when the maximum technicians count is reached, which depends on the number of technician licenses you have purchased 

To check the purchased technician license count :

Steps to purchase and apply M365 Manager Plus license

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