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How does licensing work for SharePoint Advanced Management?

SharePoint Advanced Management uses a per-user licensing model. You can purchase a standalone SharePoint Advanced Management license for each user in your organization. External users don't require this license.

If your organization has a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and at least one user is assigned to a Copilot license, SharePoint administrators automatically receive access to the SharePoint Advanced Management features required for Copilot deployment.

SharePoint Advanced Management standalone license

To use SharePoint Advanced Management as a standalone license, your organization must have one of the following base licenses: Users must be licensed for SharePoint K, P1, or P2 via standalone or a Microsoft 365 suite.

You can purchase the SharePoint Advanced Management Plan 1 add-on in the Microsoft 365 admin center, through a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), or through volume licensing enrollment. Contact your Microsoft account manager for further information.

SharePoint Advanced Management is available for Commercial, WW Commercial Public Sector, Education, and Charity. Support for US GCC, GCC-High, and DoD customers is coming soon.

SharePoint Advanced Management is $3 per user per month for commercial customers. For more details on licensing, contact your account manager.

SharePoint Advanced Management features in Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses

The following table lists SharePoint Advanced Management features that are included in Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses:

Feature M365 Copilot (WW)​ M365 Copilot (GCC)​ M365 Copilot (GCC-H)​ M365 Copilot (DoD)​
Manage permission and access
Content management assessment: The hub for a comprehensive set of tools for assessing and improving your organization's content management practices with actionable insights and recommendations. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Block download policy: Create and manage block download policies to block downloads for:
- Files in SharePoint and OneDrive sites
- Teams meeting recording files specifically
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Catalog management: Organize and govern SharePoint sites by grouping them into logical categories based on regions, departments, users, information barriers, and custom properties. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Enterprise app insights: Gain insights on the various non-Microsoft applications registered to your Microsoft Entra admin center and how they access your SharePoint content. Yes Yes Yes Yes
SharePoint agent insights: Find the Get AI insights button next to various reports in the SharePoint admin center. Once selected, the AI insights feature extracts patterns from the report and offers a list of potential actions. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Conditional Access policies: Use authentication contexts to connect a Microsoft Entra Conditional Access policy to a SharePoint site. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Restricted access control (RAC): Restrict access to:
- SharePoint sites by security groups
- OneDrive sites by security groups
- Specific OneDrive sites
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Restricted content discovery (RCD): Limit the ability of end users to search for files from specific SharePoint sites and prevent the sites from surfacing in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat, unless a user had a recent interaction. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Restrict site creation by apps: Specify the non-Microsoft applications that can create SharePoint sites in your organization. Not in M365 Copilot Not in M365 Copilot Not in M365 Copilot Not in M365 Copilot
Data access governance reports
Sharing links Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sensitivity labels (Requires E5 or G5) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Everyone except external users (EEEU) insights Yes Yes Yes Yes
Permission state reports for sites, OneDrive sites, and files Yes Yes Yes Yes
Site access review for all reports: Delegate the process of reviewing data access governance reports to site owners of overshared sites. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Content lifecycle
Change history - site settings: Create change history reports to track changes made to:
- Individual SharePoint sites
- Organization settings in the SharePoint admin center
Yes Yes Yes Yes
Recent admin actions: Review and monitor the last 30 changes you made to a SharePoint site's properties (such as renaming a site, deleting a site, changing storage quota) within the last 30 days in the SharePoint admin center. Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manage content sprawl
Site ownership policy (active mode): Define who should be responsible for each site, set minimum owner or admin counts, and automate notifications when sites don't meet your criteria. Yes Yes Yes Not yet
Site ownership policy (simulation mode​) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Inactive SharePoint sites policy (active mode): Detect inactive sites and notify site owners via email. Yes Yes Yes Not yet
Inactive SharePoint sites policy (simulation mode) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Site attestation policy (active mode): Request regular reviews by site owners or admins to check and confirm the accuracy of site information, including the site's necessity, its owners, members, permissions, and sharing settings. Yes Yes Yes Not yet
Site attestation policy (simulation mode) Yes Yes Yes Yes

The following other SharePoint Advanced Management features are also included:

  • Advanced tenant rename
    • Renaming for tenants with fewer than 10,000 sites is available in all tenants.
    • If there are more than 100,000 sites, SharePoint Advanced Management is required.
  • Compare SharePoint site policies: Easily identify sites with similar content but different security policies. This feature helps you review and adjust site policies and settings, ensuring consistent security across your organization.

Which Microsoft 365 Copilot SKUs include SharePoint Advanced Management?

The following Copilot SKUs include the SharePoint Advanced Management:

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC
  • Microsoft Sales Copilot for Faculty
  • Microsoft Sales Copilot for Students
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Finance
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot Developer
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot (Education Faculty)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot (Education Student 18+)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Finance (Education Faculty)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Finance (Education Student 18+)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales (Education Faculty)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales (Education Student 18+)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service (Education Faculty)
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot for Service (Education Student 18+)

Note

The features listed in this article are essential for enabling Copilot deployment and are included as part of SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM). Future features developed for SAM may not be included in the current Copilot SKUs. Customers with Copilot SKUs have access to the current SAM features necessary for Copilot deployment.