How do I upgrade our Microsoft Office 365 'Business Base' licenses to 'Business Standard' licenses.

Patricia Klomp 1 Reputation point
2020-08-31T13:58:23.467+00:00

We have a license package of 6 Microsoft Business Basic 365 licenses. How do I upgrade 3 of these licenses to MS Business Standard 365 licenses.

Thank you in advance for your quick reply.

Kind regards,

Patricia Klomp
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  1. Antoon Bouw 1 Reputation point
    2020-08-31T14:07:21.553+00:00

    Hi there,

    The only way you can do this is by buying Business Standard licenses and lowering the Business Basic license count.
    How to do this you can find on Microsoft Learn: buy-licenses

    I am familiar with the work of Hydraloop, a great cause!

    Best regards,
    Antoon Bouw

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  2. Emily Hua-MSFT 27,581 Reputation points
    2020-09-01T03:00:48.76+00:00

    Hi Patricia,

    Generally, Microsoft 365 for business subscription is associated with your work or school email account, do you have the admin account to log into Admin center?

    I find the articles below, which describe how to change Microsoft 365 for business plans manually, I think they may be helpful. The first one applies to the old admin center, the second one applies to new admin center.
    Change plans manually
    Switch Microsoft 365 for business plans manually

    As we are mainly responsible for general issues of Office desktop applications, but your question focus more on Microsoft Admin and subscriptions, it's better to contact Microsoft to have a confirmation.

    For more related information, please refer to "Upgrade to a different plan".

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