Microsoft 365 for Business — Licensing, Migration & Support

Microsoft 365 is Microsoft's subscription suite for business: Exchange Online email on your own domain, the Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook apps, Teams for chat and meetings, SharePoint and OneDrive for files, and Entra ID for identity — managed centrally from an admin centre and licensed per user per month.

Tech Geum is a Microsoft 365 partner and an indirect Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) reseller. That means we can licence Microsoft 365 to your organisation, invoice it in INR with GST, and handle implementation, migration and ongoing support in the same relationship. We do not claim a Microsoft Solutions Partner designation or any partner tier, because we do not hold one.

No. Buying through a CSP reseller is not a surcharge on Microsoft's pricing. What changes is how you are billed and what comes with it — an INR invoice with GST instead of an international card charge, and setup, migration and a named support contact included rather than self-serve. We quote per organisation based on plan and user count.

It usually comes down to three questions: do people need the desktop Office apps, do you need device management and advanced security, and do you want Teams. Business Basic is web and mobile only. Business Standard adds the desktop apps. Business Premium adds Intune device management, Defender for Business and policy-based conditional access. Microsoft also sells a separate line without Teams at lower prices. We size this before you buy rather than after. Plan details checked 21 September 2026.

Microsoft applied a packaging and pricing update to its commercial suites on 1 July 2026. In practice the headline Business Standard and Business Premium SKUs now include Microsoft 365 Copilot and are priced accordingly, the plans without Teams are a distinct and cheaper line, and a Frontier tier appeared above E5. A lot of pricing pages still published online show the pre-July figures. Everything we quote here was checked on 21 September 2026 and is dated for that reason.

Yes. Mail, contacts and calendars are copied across and verified while your current system stays live, so nothing depends on one switchover moment. The MX record change is scheduled for a low-traffic window, and mail arriving during the transition is delivered once DNS propagates. We have done this from Google Workspace, cPanel and IMAP webmail, on-premise Exchange, and loose PST files.

Not at all, and the two are commonly run together — Microsoft 365 for email, documents and collaboration alongside Zoho CRM or Books for sales and accounting. Tech Geum implements Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Zoho, so we can give you a straight answer about which combination fits rather than steering you toward one product line.

It depends on what your work actually consists of. If your business runs on desktop Excel, on long formatted documents, or on software that expects Outlook, Microsoft is the better answer. If simultaneous real-time collaboration and a simpler admin surface matter more, Google usually is. We resell both, so the recommendation costs us nothing either way.