The discounts have an expiry date: E7 offers die 30 September, E3 offers last to New Year

After the July price increases the recurring question is: can we still act? The answer is yes, Microsoft runs a set of promotional discounts through CSP (Cloud Solution Provider, the partner model). But they have hard expiry dates, and some are right around the corner.

The key thing to understand is that these are partner promotions, not permanent price cuts. They are built to get you to commit, typically for one or three years, in exchange for a discount that only applies to that period. Some require a certain number of licenses. And they disappear on the date without warning.

I go through the three most relevant here: E7, E3 and Purview for Business Premium. For all of them, the exact terms and your eligibility must be confirmed with your CSP partner, because the promotion structure in the CSP channel changes over time.

Microsoft 365 E7 (the Frontier Suite at $99/user/mo, bundling E5, Copilot, Agent 365 and Entra Suite) has launch discounts that stop entirely.

The offers are 10% and 15% on 1-year agreements and 15% on a 3-year agreement. They can only be bought through 30 September 2026. From 1 October 2026 the E7 promotions retire, and then only the list price remains.

If you are considering E7, this is real time pressure. If you already pay E5 ($60) plus Copilot ($30), that is $90, so E7 at $99 is only $9 extra to also get Agent 365 and Entra Suite. With a 3-year 15% discount on top the math gets sharper, but only if you act before 30 September.

Microsoft 365 E3 ($39/user/mo after July) has discounts that last longer, to 31 December 2026.

There are two offers:

• •10% on a 3-year agreement (typically for customers new to the offer).
• •20% on a 1-year agreement. This requires a purchase of between 250 and 9,999 E3 licenses with a 1-year commitment through CSP.

Be honest about what that means for you: the large 20% discount targets bigger organizations. If you have fewer than 250 employees, you are not in the target group for that one. It is worth saying out loud, so you don't build a budget on a discount you can't get.

If, on the other hand, you are a larger Danish business that has to renew E3 anyway, 20% for a year is a significant amount. Get your CSP partner to run the numbers before New Year.

This is the most overlooked of the three, and it fits smaller businesses well. Microsoft Purview Suite (compliance and data governance tools, normally reserved for E5) can be bought as an add-on to Business Premium at 50% off through 31 December 2026.

The condition is that you have Business Premium plus either Copilot Business or Microsoft 365 Copilot. The discount applies to an annual commitment and the first year only.

The point is worth understanding: it gives a route to advanced compliance for an SMB on Business Premium, without having to jump all the way up to E5 ($60/user/mo). For a business working toward NIS2 or the D-mærke that already has Copilot, it is a concrete way to get more compliance tooling at under half price.

The promotions are only worth money if you act in time and on the right basis:

Sources: TrustedTech: Microsoft 365 promotions and discounts 2026, Microsoft Learn: Partner Center announcements August 2026, Microsoft Security: Purview Suite for Business Premium.