Getting Started

Plans and Licensing

Learn to recognise that features depend on subscription and organisation settings and identify when an administrator must confirm availability in this beginner-friendly Microsoft 365 lesson.

Learning outcomes

  • Explain how to recognise that features depend on subscription and organisation settings.
  • Complete the guided practice safely.
  • Check that you can identify when an administrator must confirm availability.

Step-by-step instructions

  1. Open Microsoft365.com or the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and confirm you are using the intended account.
  2. Check the account's product information without changing billing.
  3. Pause and check permissions, filenames, recipients, dates or settings that affect the task.
  4. Test the result: identify when an administrator must confirm availability.
  5. Confirm the account, app and storage location you used, then note any difference from the screenshots or labels described.
Ian's practical tip: Use sample information first. Once the workflow is correct, repeat it with approved work information and the minimum necessary access.

Practical activity

Check the account's product information without changing billing. Your expected result is to identify when an administrator must confirm availability.

Good-practice checklist