What is a Microsoft Office 365 tenant?

Every business owner and organization needs a secure and feature-rich capable way of storing data and communicating with its customers and its internal employees. In today’s economy, geography is no longer a barrier to hiring or acquiring customers. Businesses have both employees in customers all around the world. Microsoft has offered productivity software for a long time now, and there innovation of Office 365 hasn’t disappointed. Microsoft now offers Office 365 tenants. A Microsoft 365 tenant is a dedicated instance of the services of Microsoft 365 and your organization’s data stored within a specific default location, such as Europe or North America.

This location is specified when the tenant is created.

Your Microsoft 365 tenant also includes a Microsoft Entra tenant, which is a dedicated instance of Microsoft Entra ID\Microsoft Azure for user accounts, groups, and other objects.

Every Microsoft 365 tenant offers the following benefits. Email accounts, Instant messaging with Teams, document storage and organization with OneDrive and SharePoint, Project Management with Planner, To-Do listings, online web meetings via Teams and finally a booking system. The above features are just the beginning as Microsoft 365 tenants offer even more benefits when you pay for various capabilities. You also get many integration capabilities as many vendors build their software platforms to integrate with Microsoft tenants including a robust array of plug-ins. The biggest benefit of the Office 365 tenant is the Microsoft Office license which entitles every user to install 5 instances of the full desktop version of office on different devices. This is a huge benefit.

The best way to obtain a tenant is by working with a reseller like TranscendentIT. This is good approach as it does take some expertise to successfully navigate and configure a Microsoft tenant for your business needs.