| Feature | Short description | Reference | Office 365 Enterprise E3 | SharePoint Online Enterprise External Users |
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| Access Services | Build web databases and publish them to a SharePoint site. SharePoint visitors can use your database application in a web browser by using SharePoint permissions to determine who can see what. And you can start with a template so that you can start collaborating immediately. | Plan for Access Services in SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| App Catalog (SharePoint) | Publish your apps to an internal corporate catalog, hosted on your SharePoint deployment, to make them available to users who have access to that SharePoint deployment. | publishing apps for Office and SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| App Deployment: Autohosted Apps | Autohosted Apps are installed to a host web on the customer’s SharePoint Online tenancy, with components automatically installed into a Windows Azure website account. The Windows Azure Web Sites infrastructure manages isolation of tenancies. | hosting options for apps for SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps | Cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint includes at least one remote component and may also include SharePoint-hosted components. Cloud-hosted apps include both autohosted and provider-hosted apps. | Yes | Yes | |
| App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps | SharePoint-Hosted Apps allow you to reuse common SharePoint artifacts, such as lists and Web Parts. When you take this approach, you can use only JavaScript and you cannot use any server-side code. | Yes | Yes | |
| App Management Services | The App Management Service database stores licensing information for all of the apps for SharePoint. | App Management Service | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: Alerts for External Lists | SharePoint now provides the capability of using alerts for external lists, just as they have been used for traditional lists. A user can subscribe to be alerted when data changes on an external list. | external events and alerts in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs) | With the addition of the new App model in SharePoint, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) can now scope external content types at the App level instead of at the farm level. This gives great flexibility to App developers by allowing them to use external data inside their Apps. | app-scoped external content types | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: Business Data Webparts | Business Data Webparts are special web parts that work with external data. They are used like standard SharePoint web parts, but are based on external content types, which are XML descriptions of connections to the external data. | Use the Business Data Web Parts | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: External List | An external list is a special kind of SharePoint list that displays data from an external data source. It is built on an external content type that describes the data source, and allows users to work with the data in a familiar SharePoint interface. | external content types | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: OData connector | The OData connector is new for SharePoint. It allows for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to use a RESTful OData endpoint as a data source for external lists, Business Data WebParts, and custom user interfaces. | Using OData sources with Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: Profile Pages | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) provides a special WebParts page called Profile pages. Profile pages allows for BCS to display details of the external data in addition to its related external content types. | External content types in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| BCS: Rich Client Integration | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Business Connectivity Services (BCS) uses a complimentary client and server-side architecture that allows for Office clients, such as Outlook and Excel, to work directly with external data exposed to SharePoint through external content types. | Business Connectivity Services Client Runtime | No | No |
| BCS: Secure Store Service | The Secure Store provides single sign on capabilities to Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Using Secure Store, SharePoint Administrators can map user account credentials to external system account credentials so that data can be secured. | Secure Store Service | Yes | Yes |
| BCS: Tenant-level external data log | Tenant-level external data logging allows for logging of transactions that affect specific SharePoint tenancies. | Tenant-level external data log | Yes | Yes |
| Browser-based customizations | You can customize your site without any special tools or coding expertise just by using the site settings. For example, you can change the look, title, and logo, change the navigation links, change the contents of a page, or change the appearance of views for lists and libraries. | customizing sites | Yes | Yes |
| Client Object Model (OM) | SharePoint 2013 has three client object models for managed code: .NET, Silverlight, and mobile. In addition, SharePoint includes a JavaScript client object model. Learn more about choosing the right API set in SharePoint 2013. | choosing the right API set in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Client-side rendering (CSR) | Client-side rendering provides a mechanism that you can use to produce your own output for a set of controls that are hosted in a SharePoint page. | customizing a field type using client-side rendering | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Site Definitions | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can create their own site definitions that customize and extend standard SharePoint site templates. Learn more about creating custom site definitions. | creating custom site definitions | No | No |
| Custom Site Provisioning Page | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers get a quick and easy way for users to make their site requests and to start using their sites quickly. | SharePoint Online Dedicated Service Description | No | No |
| Developer Site | Use an Office 365 Developer Site as a development and testing environment to shorten your setup time and start creating, testing, and deploying your apps for SharePoint. Learn more about signing up for an Office 365 Developer Site. | signing up for an Office 365 Developer Site | Yes | Yes |
| Forms Based Applications | A form view is basically a view that contains controls. A Forms Based Application lets the user create and use one or more forms within the application. | Forms Based Applications | Yes | Yes |
| Full-Trust Solutions | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can create full-trust solutions. Also called farm solutions. Unlike apps for SharePoint, farm solutions contain code that is deployed to the SharePoint servers and makes calls to SharePoint’s server object model. These assemblies always run with full trust. Farm solutions should be used for customizations of SharePoint administrative functions, such as custom timer jobs, custom Windows PowerShell cmdlets, and extensions of Central Administration. | building farm solutions in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| InfoPath Forms Services | Forms Service provides a Web browser form-filling experience in SharePoint, based on form templates that are designed in InfoPath. | InfoPath Forms Services | Yes | No |
| JavaScript Object Model | SharePoint provides a JavaScript object model for use in either inline script or separate .js files. It includes all the same functionality as the .NET Framework and Silverlight client object models. The JavaScript object model is a useful way to include custom SharePoint code in an app. It also enables web developers to use their existing JavaScript skills to create SharePoint applications with minimal learning curve. | JavaScript API reference for SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint provides Aps for accessing list and library data in the server object model, managed and JavaScript client object models, and the REST web service. | .NET Server, CSOM, JSOM, and REST API index | Yes | Yes | |
| Remote Event Receiver | To handle events in an app for SharePoint, developers can create remote event receivers and app event receivers. Remote event receivers handle events that occur to an item in the app, such as a list, a list item, or a web. Learn more about handling events in apps for SharePoint. | handling events in apps for SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| REST API | SharePoint 2013 provides an implementation of a Representational State Transfer (REST) web service that uses the OData protocol to perform CRUD operations on SharePoint list data. Use this when you must access SharePoint data from client technologies that do not use JavaScript and are not built on the .NET Framework or Microsoft Silverlight platforms. | programming using the SharePoint 2013 REST service | Yes | Yes |
| Sandboxed Solutions | A sandboxed solution, compared to a farm solution, enables site collection administrators to install custom solutions in SharePoint Foundation without the involvement of a higher-level administrator. | Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Design Manager | The Design Manager enables a step-by-step approach for creating design assets that you can use to brand sites. Upload design assets—images, HTML, CSS, and so on—and then create your master pages and page layouts. | SharePoint 2013 site development | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Designer | Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers can quicky create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. | SharePoint Designer for developers | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Store | The SharePoint Store provides a convenient location for developers to upload new app solutions that are aimed both at consumers and businesses. | publishing apps for Office and SharePoint. | Yes | Yes |
| Workflow 2010 (.NET 3.5) | SharePoint legacy workflow functionality, compatible with .NET 3.5. | workflows in SharePoint Foundation | Yes | Yes |
| Workflow 2010 (out of the box) | Use out of the box workflows included with SharePoint to model common business processes. | SharePoint 2013 Approval & Publishing Workflows | Yes | Yes |
| Workflow 2013 | SharePoint 2013 workflows are powered by Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF), which was significantly redesigned from earlier versions. Perhaps the most prominent feature of the new workflow infrastructure is the introduction of Windows Azure as the new workflow execution host. | what’s new in workflows for SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Workload API: ECM APIs | Extend SharePoint enterprise content management capabilities using the Search APIs available in the server, .NET client, and JavaScript object modelsand REST service. | SharePoint 2013 Sites and Content server class library | Yes | Yes |
| Workload API: Search APIs | Extend SharePoint search capabilities using the Search APIs available in the server, .NET client, and JavaScript object models and REST service. | SharePoint 2013 Search server class library | Yes | Yes |
| Workload API: Social APIs | Extend SharePoint social capabilities using the Social APIs available in the server, .NET client, and JavaScript object modelsand REST service. | SharePoint 2013 Social server class library | Yes | Yes |
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| Active Directory Synchronization | If your company has existing users in a local Active Directory environment, there are tools for synchronizing those users to your Office 365 for enterprise directory. The Office 365 directory then feeds the SharePoint Online user profile. | Active Directory Synchronization | Yes | Yes |
| Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can configure alternate access mapping to map requests where the URL of a Web request received by Internet Information Services (IIS) differs from the URL that was typed by a user. | Alternate Access Mappings (AAMs) *Explained | No | No |
| Analytics Platform | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use the Analytics Platform, which replaces the Web Analytics service application, to help identify and surface the content that users consider to be the most useful and relevant. | Analytics Platform | No | No |
| Anti-malware protection | SharePoint Online provides anti-malware protection for files uploaded and saved to document libraries. This protection is provided by the Microsoft anti-malware engine that is also integrated into Exchange. This anti-malware service runs on all SharePoint Online Content Front Ends (CFEs). | Antivirus and SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Claims-Based Authentication Support | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers configure claims-based authentication for web applications that support SharePoint Server 2013 server-to-server authentication and app authentication. | claims-based authentication | No | No |
| Configuration Wizards | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use the Farm Configuration Wizard to configure some SharePoint Server 2013 services automatically. Or they can configure services manually, which gives greater flexibility in designing a logical architecture. | Farm Configuration Wizard | No | No |
| Deferred Site Collection upgrade | Site owners can perform their own self-service upgrades to their sites, when it is most convenient for them. SharePoint Online also provides new features to support upgrade, such as the health checker and evaluation site collections. | Site Collection upgrade | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed Cache | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use the Distributed Cache service to cache feature functionality, which improves authentication, newsfeed, OneNote client access, security trimming, and page load performance. | Distributed Cache | No | No |
| Host Header Site Collections | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 site collections can have their own unique host header. Creating a host-named site collection enables organizations’ to host multiple site collections with vanity URLs, which are easier for people to remember. | Host-named site collection architecture and deployment (SharePoint 2013) | No | No |
| Improved Permissions Management | Three key security elements work together to control user access to sites and site content: Permissions inheritance Permission levels (sometimes known as SharePoint roles) SharePoint groups (or SharePoint security groups) | SharePoint permissions | Yes | Yes |
| Improved Self-Service Site Creation | SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use self-service site creation to configure things such as: whether to use a custom form to create the site, whether to create a subweb or site collection, what path should be used when the site collection is created, and whether to ask or require that a site policy be selected when the site is created. | Plan self-service site creation in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Managed Accounts | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 system administrators can use a Managed Account, an Active Directory user account whose credentials are managed by and contained within SharePoint, to easily manage administrative tasks. That way the fate of your organization’s deployment does not rest on just one person’s account. | Plan for administrative and service accounts in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Minimal Download Strategy (MDS) | The minimal download strategy will use a single .aspx file (start.aspx) for your pages, with the actual URL encoded in the text following the hashmark (‘#’). When moving from page to page, only the changes between two compatible pages will be downloaded. Fewer bytes will be downloaded and the pages will appear more quickly. | Minimal Download Strategy overview | Yes | Yes |
| OAuth | Oauth is an Internet protocol for creating and managing app identity. Oauth allows for app identity to be recognized apart from user identity. This cross-platform mechanism means apps can be granted more permissions than the current user has. | server-to-server authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Patch Management | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 updates will be released by using a two-step phase process: patching and upgrading. During the patching steps, new binary files are copied to the Central Administration server. Any services that are using files that have to be replaced are temporarily stopped. There are some instances when a server must be restarted. | Updates for SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Quota Templates | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. A quota template consists of storage limit values that specify the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a site collection. When the storage limit is reached, a quota template can also trigger an email alert to the site collection administrator. SharePoint Online administrators and SharePoint Server 2013 farm administrators can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection. | Create, edit, and delete quota templates in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Read-Only Database Support | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can set content databases to be read-only. | Run a farm that uses read-only databases in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Remote BLOB Storage | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) is an add-on feature pack for Microsoft SQL Server. RBS is designed to move the storage of binary large objects (BLOBs) from database servers to commodity storage solutions. If the content databases in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 are 4 gigabytes (GB) or larger, consider using RBS as part of your data storage solution. | Overview of RBS in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Request Management | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can define rules, by using Request Manager, to do request routing and throttling to improve performance. | Configure Request Manager in SharePoint Server 2013 | No | No |
| Request throttling | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Request throttling provides SharePoint Server 2013 administrators with options for throttling HTTP requests when front-end web servers become too busy to handle all the incoming requests. | No | No | |
| Resource throttling | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Resource throttling provides SharePoint Server 2013 administrators with options for monitoring and throttling server resources and large lists for Web applications. Resource throttling can monitor such resources as CPU, memory, and Wait Time, checking resources every 5 seconds. | No | No | |
| Service Application Platform | SharePoint services can be individually consumed from any Web application. This platform provides the flexibility needed to use services, depending on application needs. Web Analytics is no longer a service application. Analyses and reporting processes were incorporated into the Search service application. Office Web Apps is no longer a service application. Office Web Apps Server is now a separate server product. Depending on what Office 365 plan your organization subscribes to, Office Web Apps may be available to SharePoint Online customers. | SharePoint service applications | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Health Analyzer | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. New for SharePoint Server 2013, site collection pre-upgrade health check examines a site collection and then generates a report listing ay potential upgrade issues and how to address the issues. For example, if a file has been customized, it will be flagged, so your organization can identify the custom file and reset it to the default template if the site definition, if you want. | Configure diagnostic logging in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| SharePoint admin center | The SharePoint admin center, available to certain SharePoint Online customers only, enables administrators to manage features such as the following: Site collections InfoPath forms User Profiles Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Managed metadata and the Term Store Records management Search Secure Store Apps for SharePoint External sharing Information Rights Management Self-service site creation | SharePoint admin center | Yes | No |
| Shredded Storage | Shredded storage is essentially the chunking of data—only differences are saved. That means if versioning is enabled and someone makes a change to a document, only changes, or “shreds,” are added to the storage footprint of that document. Shredded storage reduces storage usage and improves I/O performance by reducing how much information is retrieved by the web server from the content database. Shredded storage removes duplicate files and improves data transmission speed. Shredded Storage can’t be set up by customers in SharePoint Online. Instead, Microsoft sets up and monitors Shredded Storage to optimally account for the scale of a multitenant environment. This helps provide a more reliable experience across the service, and it allows customers to submit feedback to Microsoft that can affect future changes. | Overview of Shredded Storage in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Site Collection Compliance Policies | A site collection policy can be created in the Site Collection Policies list for the top-level site in a site collection. After a site collection policy is created, it can be exported so that site administrators of other site collections can import it into their Site Collection Policies list. Creating an exportable site collection policy enables SharePoint administrators to standardize the information management policies across the sites in an organization. | Overview of site policies in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Site Collection Health Checks | Site collection owners or administrators can use the site collection health checker to detect issues with their site collections and address them before upgrading the sites to the new version. | Site Collection Health Checks | Yes | Yes |
| State Service | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. The State Service allows SharePoint Server 2013 customers to check whether all services in their farm are configured correctly. | SharePoint 2013: State Service | No | No |
| Streamlined Central Administration | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can use Central Administration to perform administrative tasks from a single location. | SharePoint 2013 - SharePoint Central Administration | No | No |
| System Status Notifications | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 site collection owners will receive an email message and a status bar notification in a site collection when an upgrade is available. | system Status Notifications in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Unattached Content Database Recovery | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can recover content from an unattached content database by using Central Administration. | Restore content from unattached content databases in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Upgrade evaluation site collections | A key benefit of separating the process of upgrading software and data from upgrading sites is that it allows site owners or administrators to run sites in SharePoint 2010 mode until the sites are ready to be upgraded to the latest version. In preparation for upgrading the site, site owners or administrators can request an evaluation site collection, which is a copy of the site, for review purposes. Evaluation sites are set to automatically expire and be deleted. | Create an evaluation site collection | Yes | Yes |
| Usage Reporting and Logging | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 administrators use audit log reports to view the data in the audit logs for a site collection. | Site Collection audit logs | No | No |
| Windows PowerShell Support | SharePoint Online administrators can use SharePoint Online Windows PowerShell cmdlets to script and automate administrative tasks for their subscription, such as the following: Site creation Evaluation for site upgrade Site upgrade Adding and removing SharePoint users and groups Site repair Recycle bin management | SharePoint Online Management Shell | Yes | Yes |
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| Accessibility Standards Support | Most SharePoint user interface (UI) elements, such as links, form controls, and buttons are designed to use Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). MSA enables people with disabilities to interact with content by using assistive technologies, such as a screen reader. | Accessibility features | Yes | Yes |
| Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support | An Asset Library is pre-configured to use special features that help users manage rich media assets, such as image, audio, and video files. | Asset Library | Yes | Yes |
| Auditing | SharePoint Online site collection administrators can use the audit feature to track which users have taken what actions on the sites, content types, lists, libraries, lit items, and library files of site collections. | configuring audit settings for a site collection | Yes | Yes |
| Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes) | SharePoint Online site collection administrators can use the audit feature to track which users have taken what actions on the sites, content types, lists, libraries, and list items of site collections. | configuring audit settings for a site collection | Yes | Yes |
| Auditing of View Events | Site collection administrators can view audit log reports to determine who is taking what action with the content of a site collection. For example, the audit log tracks events such as changes to user accounts and permissions, workflow events, and opened and downloaded documents. | audit log reports | Yes | No |
| Content Organizer | The Content Organizer acts as a gatekeeper for documents. You can automatically manage some important library tasks, such as managing folder sizes and routing documents to different libraries or folders. This not only saves time, but can help make sure that a document library is managed consistently. | Content Organizer | Yes | Yes |
| Design Manager | Design Manager lets organizations change master pages, page layouts, mobile views, and more. This feature is especially useful for advanced site design and branding to your public-facing website or your internal site collection or portal. | site development | Yes | Yes |
| Document Sets | Document sets let users store, act on, export, and add a description to multiple files as a single entity. Policies, tagging, and templates can be applied to any document set that is created. | Document Sets | Yes | Yes |
| Document Translation in Word Web App | In Reading View, Word Web App now features an option to let organizations translate their documents directly in the browser. Even document comments are translated. | Machine Translation Services in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| eDiscovery | Electronic Discovery, or eDiscovery, features allow organizations to identify, hold, search, and export content from Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, and file shares to support case management in addition to preservation and compliance. | planning and managing eDiscovery cases | Yes | No |
| External Sharing: External Access | If your organization performs work that involves sharing documents or collaborating directly with vendors, clients, or customers, then you might want to use your SharePoint Online sites to share content with people outside your organization who do not have licenses for your organization’s Microsoft Office 365 subscription. | external sharing | Yes | Yes |
| External Sharing: Guest Link | When a site is shared in SharePoint Online, an email message is sent to the external user containing the invitation to join the site. Invitations can be sent to people with any type of email address, such as *.gmail.com, *contoso.com, or *Comcast.net. However, to sign in to the site, the email address has to be associated with a Microsoft account. | sharing a site with external users | Yes | Yes |
| Folder Sync | Users can sync a SharePoint library to their computers, and then work with those files in the library by using File Explorer. Updates to files sync to SharePoint when users are online. SkyDrive Pro or a document library on a team site can be synched. | syncing a library to your computer | Yes | Yes |
| IRM using Windows Azure AD Rights Management | SharePoint Online IRM uses Windows Azure Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), an information protection technology in Office 365. IRM protection is applied to files at the SharePoint list and library levels. | IRM in SharePoint Online | Yes | No |
| IRM using Windows Server AD RMS | No | No | ||
| In-Place Hold | hen a content source is part of an eDiscovery case, organizations can place it on hold so that a copy is preserved while people continue to work. Holds can be placed on content in SharePoint sites (including SkyDrive Pro sites), in file shares crawled by SharePoint, and in Exchange mailboxes (including archived Lync conversations). Site collection administration permissions must be granted for searching each site in SharePoint Online. | placing content sources on hold | Yes | Yes |
| Managed Metadata Service | Metadata management provides multiple taxonomies and folksonomies from a tenant-level store service that can be consumed at the site collection level. Metadata fields can even be embedded in documents. | managed metadata | Yes | Yes |
| Metadata-driven Navigation | Metadata-driven navigation makes it easier to discover content in large lists and libraries. User tagging incentives are introduced and offer anticipatory suggestions of appropriate metadata based on location and context. | setting up metadata navigation | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-stage Disposition | Retentions policies can have multiple stages, allowing you to specify the entire document lifecycle as one policy. For example, review contracts every year, and delete after seven years. | storing and managing records | Yes | Yes |
| Office ProPlus (Osub) | Retentions policies can have multiple stages, allowing you to specify the entire document lifecycle as one policy. For example, review contracts every year, and delete after seven years. | storing and managing records | Yes | No |
| Office Web Apps (create/edit) | If you’re an Office 365 customer, then you can automatically create and edit Office files using Office Web Apps from an Internet browser. | Office Web Apps Service Description | Yes | Yes |
| Office Web Apps (view) | By default, Office Web Apps are view-only. View-only functionality is provided for free. | using Office Web Apps in your organization’s SharePoint site | Yes | Yes |
| Office Web Apps Server integration | Not applicable to SharePoint Online customers. In SharePoint Server 2010, Office Web Apps was a SharePoint service application. For SharePoint Server 2013, Office Web Apps are now delivered in a new Office server product, Office Web Apps Server. A single Office Web Apps server farm can support users who access Office files through SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, shared folders, and websites. It’s a simpler way of deploying and managing Office Web Apps in an on-premises environment. | Office Web Apps Server Integration | No | No |
| PowerPoint Automation Services | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. PowerPoint Automation Services helps enterprises manage their presentations. It is a shared service that provides unattended, server-side conversion of presentations into other formats. | PowerPoint Automation Services in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| Preservation hold library | Content that is placed on hold is preserved, but users can still change it. The state of the content at the time of preservation is recorded. If a user changes the content or even deletes it, the item is retained at the time of deletion and the original, preserved version is still available. | placing content sources on hold | Yes | Yes |
| Quick Edit | Quick Edit, formerly known as Datasheet View, allows you to simply and quickly edit items inline on a SharePoint list. Quick Edit can be helpful if you have to edit many items in a list or library at the same time from within a grid, similar to a spreadsheet. | editing list items | Yes | Yes |
| Records management | In SharePoint, you can manage records in an archive or you can manage records in-place in the same document repository as active documents. | choosing how to store and manage records | Yes | Yes |
| Recycle Bin (SharePoint admin center) | SharePoint Online administrators can restore a deleted site collection by using SharePoint admin center. | Restore a deleted site collection | Yes | No |
| Recycle Bin (site collection) | SharePoint users have a Recycle Bin where deleted content is stored. They can access the Recycle Bin to recover deleted documents and lists, if they need to. Items in the Recycle Bin are retained for 90 days. The following data types are captured by the Recycle Bin: Site collections Sites Lists Libraries Folders List items Documents Web Part pages Site customizations made through SharePoint Designer are not captured by the Recycle Bin. | Manage the Recycle Bin of a SharePoint site collection | Yes | No |
| Related Items | Related Items is a site column that enables you to associate a related list item with another item. | Related Items column in SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Rich Media Management | n Asset Library is pre-configured to use special features that help you manage rich media assets, such as image, audio, and video files. | setting up an Asset Library to store image, audio, or video files | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Content Types | To share content types among site collections, you make on content type gallery the “hub” of a managed metadata service, create connections to the service from each web application that contains a site collection, and specify that site collections should use the content types in the service | sharing term sets and content types in SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Translation Services | The Machine Translation Service lets users automatically translate documents. You can create a Machine Translation service application and configure the Machine Translation Service by using Central Administration, or Windows PowerShell. | creating and configuring Machine Translation services in SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Site mailbox | A site mailbox is a shared inbox in Exchange Online that all the members of a SharePoint Online site can access. It is implemented in SharePoint Online as an app. | site mailbox to collaborate with your team | Yes | Yes |
| Surveys | Excel survey is a lightweight survey tool built on top of the Excel Web App—authenticated or anonymous users can complete the form on internal or public websites, and the data from all users is aggregated into a single private and secured workbook in SharePoint. | survey | Yes | Yes |
| Unique Document IDs | The unique Document ID services improves the managing and tracking of information by assigning a unique, human-readable identifier to every piece of content, making it easier to locate, even if the content was moved from its original location. | Document IDs | Yes | Yes |
| Video Search | An Asset Library is pre-configured to use special features that help you manage rich media assets, such as image, audio, and video files. | setting up an Asset Library to store image, audio, or video files | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Analytics | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. The Analytics Processing Component helps SharePoint Server 2013 administrators identify and surface content that users consider to be the most useful and relevant. The component analyzes both the content itself, and also the way users interact with it. The results from the analysis are added to the items in the search index so that search relevant improves automatically over time. Also, the results are used in reports that help search administrators see which manyual steps they can take to improve the search system. | analytics processing in SharePoint Server 2013 | No | No |
| WCM: Catalog | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. A catalog is a library or list that is shared across other sites and site collections. | catalog content for SharePoint authoring sites | No | No |
| WCM: Cross-site publishing | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Cross-site publishing allows SharePoint Server 2013 customers to use one or more authoring site collections to author and store content, and one or more publishing site collections to control the design of the site and to show the content. The authoring site collection contains catalogs, such as Pages libraries and lists, which contain content that is tagged with metadata. These catalogs are indexed by the search system and made available to the publishing site collection. The publishing site collection issues queries for data that was indexed and shows it on web pages by using Web Parts that use search technology. | cross-site publishing in SharePoint Server 2013 | No | No |
| WCM: Designer Tools | If an organization needs to completely redesign a site from scratch or reuse a previous site design, the Design Manager allows the modification of master pages, page layouts, mobile views, and more. This feature is especially useful for advanced site design and branding to a public-facing website or internal site collection or portal. | web content management for SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Faceted navigation | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Faceted navigation help users browser for content more easily by filtering on refiners that are tied to terms in a term set. By using faceted navigation, SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can configure different refiners for different terms in a term set without having to create additional pages. | refiners and faceted navigation. | No | No |
| WCM: Image Renditions | Image renditions let organizations have large source images on a SharePoint site and also have places on a site where pages only use smaller versions. | Design Manager image renditions | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Mobile and Device Rendering | harePoint supports targeting different devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes. Designers can create channels that allow a single publishing site to be rendered in multiple ways by using different designs that target different devices. | design channels | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Multiple Domains | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 can create host-named site collections with the host header. Host-named site collections in SharePoint provide URL management and scalability of sites within a single web application. This feature is not available to SharePoint Online customers. | authentication with AD FS in SharePoint 2013 | No | No |
| WCM: OOTB Recommendations Webparts | The Recommended Items Web Part shows content recommendations based on how users have previously interacted with the site. For example, you can add this Web Part to a catalog item page. If a user views a specific item, this Web Part will show other items that users have previously viewed, such as “Users who viewed this item also viewed these items.” | Search Web Parts | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) | Optimizing a public website for search is very important to connecting with new and returning customers. SharePoint Online includes built-in SEO features, such as customizable robots.txt and page-level metatagging so organizations can easily tune sites for better search results. | optimizing your website for search | Yes | Yes |
| WCM: Topic Pages | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Category pages and catalog item pages are page layouts that you can use to show structured catalog content consistently across a SharePoint Server 2013 site. | cross-site publishing | No | No |
| Word Automation Services | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Word Automation Services enables unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word. With Word Automation Services, tasks that previously required you to run the Word desktop application can be automated in SharePoint Server 2013. | Word Automation Services for developers | No | No |
| Insights features | ||||
| Business Intelligence Center | The Business Intelligence Center site enables you to store data connections, workbooks, reports, scorecards, and dashboards in a central, secure location. | configuring Business Intelligence Center | Yes | No |
| Calculated Measures and Members | When you create PivotChart reports of PivotTable reports that use data that is stored in SQL Server Analysis Services, you can create calculated measure and calculated members for that report. | Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services. | Yes | No |
| Data Connection Library | A data connection library is a special SharePoint library that is designed to store and manage shared data connections. These can include ODC files that you create by using Excel. | Trusted Data Connection Libraries in SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | No |
| Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts | When you create a PivotChart report, a corresponding PivotTable report is automatically created. New in Excel 2013, you do not have to display a PivotTable report on the same worksheet as its corresponding PivotChart report. You can choose to display only the PivotChart report. This capability is called “decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts”. | PivotTables and PivotCharts | Yes | No |
| Excel Services | Excel Services enables you to share workbooks with others, view and explore information in a browser window, and refresh data. Excel Services enables you to view and interact with reports, scorecards, and dashboards in a browser window, much like you would use the Excel client. Excel Services also enables you to share all or parts of workbooks with others, and control what information is displayed in those workbooks. | Excel Services | Yes | No |
| Field list and Field Support | Excel Services enables you to open the Field List and Field Well for PivotChart reports and PivotTable reports that are viewed in a browser windows. This capability makes it easy to temporarily change the information that is displayed in a PivotChart report or a PivotTable report without having to open Excel. | Business Intelligence in Excel Services | Yes | No |
| Filter Enhancements | Slicers are easier to create and connect to reports and scorecards. You can adjust the size and orientation of a slicer. You can also format slicers by applying built-in styles or defining your own style. | Analysis Services Server in SharePoint Mode | Yes | No |
| Filter Search | You can search on filter results, which makes it easy to jump to a particular item in a long list. | using filters and slicers | Yes | No |
| PerformancePoint Services | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. PerformancePoint Services enables SharePoint Server 2013 customers to create interactive dashboards that display key performance indicators (KPIs) and data virtualizations in the form of scorecards, reports, and filters. | PerformancePoint Services | No | No |
| PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. With Dashboard Migration, SharePoint Server 2013 customers will be able to copy complete dashboards and dependencies. This includes the .aspx file, to other users, servers, or site collections. This feature also allows the ability to migrate single items to other environments and migrate content by using Windows PowerShell commands. | creating Dashboards by using PerformancePoint Services | No | No |
| Power View | Power View is an add-in for Excel that enables organizations to visualize and interact with modeled data by using highly interactive visualizations, animations, and smart querying. Organizations can present insights with other through storyboard presentation capabilities. Power View is powered by BI Semantic Model and the VertiPaq engine. | Power View | Yes | No |
| PowerPivot | PowerPivot is an add-in that organizations can use to perform powerful data analysis and create sophisticated data models. PowerPivot also enables organizations to mash up large volumes of data from various sources, analyze data quickly, and share insights. | PowerPivot | Yes | No |
| Quick Explore | Quick Explore enables organizations to select a value in a PivotChart report or a PivotTable report and see additional information about that value. For example, if you are viewing a sales report and you select a value that represents total sales amounts, you can use Quick Explore to view additional information such as sales amounts across different product categories or geographical areas. | Quick Explore | Yes | No |
| Scorecards & Dashboards | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. A scorecard shows at a glance whether performance is on or off target for one or more key performance indicators (KPIs). A dashboard is a collection of views that can include scorecards and other reports. Scorecards and dashboard are designed to show current performance information and are typically rendered in a site such as a SharePoint Server 2013 site. | creating and using a report or a scorecard | No | No |
| SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode | When SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services is integrated with SharePoint, you can use powerful SharePoint collaboration and centralized document management features for SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services content. Reports are stored in SharePoint document libraries, alongside other reports such as Excel Services files. SharePoint permissions can be used to control access to Reporting Services content, and people are able to start Report Designer, Model Designer, and Report Builder within a document library. | Reporting Services Report Server | No | No |
| Timeline Slicer | A timeline slicer is a control that can be added to a dashboard created by using Excel. A timeline control enables people to view information for a particular period of time. | Business Intelligence in Excel Services. | Yes | No |
| Visio Services | Visio Services is a service application that lets users share and view Microsoft Visio Drawing (*.vsdx) and Visio 2010 Web drawing (*.vdw) files. | Visio Services | Yes | No |
| Search features | ||||
| Advanced Content Processing | To improve SharePoint Server 2013 search relevance, the document parsing functionality in the content processing component analyzes both the structure and content of documents. Documents parsers extract useful metadata and remove redundant information. For example, parsers extract heading and subheadings from Word documents, and titles, dates, and authors from slides in PowerPoint presentations. For HTML content, redundant generic information such as menus, headers, and footers are removed from document summaries in the search results. | search improvements | Yes | No |
| Content Search Web Part | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. The Content Search Web Part is a SharePoint Server 2013 feature that displays content that was crawled and added to an organization’s search index. It is a very powerful and versatile Web Part, especially when it is used in combination with managed navigation and category pages. The Content Search Web Part allows you to select a result source. This makes it very easy to specify which content should be searched. You can also use Keyword Query Language to add more filters and search terms to the query in this Web Part. | Content Search Web Part | No | No |
| Continuous crawl | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Configure crawl schedules for SharePoint Server 2013 content sources so that crawls are performed continuously. This option eliminates the need to schedule incremental crawls and automatically starts crawls as necessary to keep the search index fresh. | managing continuous crawl | Yes | No |
| Custom entity extraction | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can create and deploy custom entity extraction dictionaries to configure the search system to look for specific words or phrases (entities) in unstructured content. The extracted entities are stored in separate managed properties, and you can use them to improve your organization’s search experience, for example by creating refiners. | creating and deploying custom entity extractors | No | No |
| Deep links | The search system automatically creates links directly to sub-sections of a main page that is frequently visited. These links are called “deep links”. | SharePoint search system | Yes | Yes |
| Event-based relevancy | The search system determines the relevance of search results in part by how content is connected, how often an item appears in search results, and which search results people click. The analytics component tracks and analyzes this information and uses it to continuously improve relevance. | analytics processing | Yes | Yes |
| Expertise Search | In SharePoint, it is easier to find people with specific skills or expertise in the People Search vertical. The search results are based on information such as the metadata users have entered about themselves on their personal sites, and information from the content that they have created. | changing search vertical settings | Yes | Yes |
| Extensible content processing | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Developers can call out to an external content enrichment web service to change the managed properties of crawled items before they are indexed. The ability to change managed properties for items during content processing is helpful for tasks such as data cleansing, entity extraction, classification, and tagging. | custom content processing | No | No |
| Graphical refiners | The new graphical refiners provide a more visual way of filtering search results. | configuring the Refinement Web Part | Yes | Yes |
| Hybrid search | In a hybrid deployment of SharePoint, search result content can come from both SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013 on-premises sites. | Hybrid for SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Managed navigation | Managed navigation lets organizations define and maintain the navigation on a site by using term sets. Managed navigation supplements the existing SharePoint navigation that is based on site structure. The managed navigation structure is created by adding terms to term sets in the Term Store Management tool. | managed navigation | Yes | Yes |
| On-premises search index | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. The search index is stored in the on-premises SharePoint Server 2013 environment and is not available to SharePoint Online customers. | search schema in SharePoint Server 2013 | No | No |
| Phonetic name matching | Improved phonetic name matching finds search results for similar sounding names (is it Mike or Mike?). | managing result sources | Yes | Yes |
| Query rules—Add promoted results | In a query rule, specify conditions and correlated actions. When a query meets the conditions in a query rule, the search system performs the actions specified in the rule. The “Add promoted results” action lets you promote individual results so that they appear at the top of search results. | managing query rules | Yes | Yes |
| Query rules—advanced actions | In this query rule, specify conditions and correlated actions. When a query meets the conditions in a query rule, the search system performs the actions specified in the rule. | Yes | Yes | |
| Query spelling correction | Edit exclusions and inclusions lists to decide which queries the search results page should display alternative query spellings for. This features is often called “Did you mean?”. | query spelling correction | Yes | Yes |
| Query suggestions | Query suggestions are suggested phrases that users have already searched for. The suggestions appear in a list below the Search Box as a user types a query. Query suggestions are generated automatically, and phrases can be added to the system as “always” or “never” suggest. | managing query suggestions | Yes | Yes |
| Query throttling | If query resources become limited, you can decide how queries should be prioritized based on the client type the queries are coming from. | managing query client types | Yes | Yes |
| Quick preview | Users can rest the pointer over a search result to preview and interact with the document or site content in the hover panel to the right of the result. The preview shows rich metadata and has deep links to the main sections of the document or site. | tips for searching | Yes | Yes |
| Recommendations | The search system looks for patterns in how users interact with content items, sites and people, and can use the information to display recommendations on a site, for example, “People who viewed this also viewed”. | configuring recommendations and usage event types in SharePoint Server 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Refiners | Refiners categorize the top documents in SharePoint Server search results into groups that let users filter the search results. | configuring the Refinement Web Part | Yes | No |
| RESTful Query API/Query OM | Developers can create .NET code to access the public search object model. This includes search administration operations in addition to submitting search queries. To interact with the service side object model, the .NET code must run on a web server in the farm. A sub-set of the object mode can be accessed from a remote computer by using the Client Side Object Model (CSOM). Features of the Client Side Object model (CSOM) can be accessed by using a REST-based web service or oData. This allows developers to submit queries to the SharePoint Server 2013 farm using popular web development tools. | Using the SharePoint 2013 search Query APIs | Yes | Yes |
| Result sources | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Create and use a result source to specify a location from which to obtain search results and to specify the protocol for getting those results. Result sources replace scopes and federated locations. | managing result sources | No | No |
| Search connector framework | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 provides default connectors (protocol handlers) for the most popular protocols, which can be used to crawl and index content. To crawl content that requires a non-default connector, your organization can purchase and install third-party connectors or build your own custom connectors. | default connectors in SharePoint Server 2013 | No | No |
| Search results sorting | Users can choose to sort search results by different criteria, for example relevance, freshness, and social distance (people names). | search results sorting | Yes | Yes |
| Search vertical: “Conversations” | A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for conversations content. | configuring the Search Navigation Web Part | Yes | Yes |
| Search vertical: “People” | A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for people content. The search results are based on metadata about the people in an organization and on the content those people have produced. | Yes | Yes | |
| Search vertical: “Video” | A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for video content. | Yes | Yes | |
| Tunable Relevancy | Not available to SharePoint Online customers. The search system has strong built-in relevant that will automatically improve over time. In addition, many tools can be used to manually tune the relevancy to match content and to create specific search experiences for an organization. | managing search relevance in SharePoint Online | No | No |
| Sites features | ||||
| Change the look | You can quickly customize your team site so that it’s easier to use and reflects your professional style and brand. You can change the background image, colors, site layout and fonts with just a few clicks. | customizing team sites | Yes | Yes |
| Connections to Microsoft Office Clients | By using the Connect to Office commands, you can conveniently access commonly used libraries from a Microsoft Office program. | Connect to Office commands | Yes | Yes |
| Cross Browser Support | SharePoint Online supports several commonly used web browsers, including the latest three versions of Internet Explorer, and the latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari. | planning browser support | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Managed Paths | By defining managed paths, you can specify which paths in the URL namespace of a Web application are used for site collections. You can specify that one or more site collections exists at a specified path. This can be a convenient method of consolidating multiple site access to users in various departments. | managed paths | No | No |
| Governance | An important but often invisible part of any site is its governance model—the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that you establish to determine how the people in your group use SharePoint. | best practices for creating and managing team sites | Yes | Yes |
| Large List Scalability and Management | By planning and using key list and library features, you can ensure that you and other users quickly find information without adversely affecting the performance of the rest of your site. | managing lists and libraries | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile Connectivity | You can access SharePoint sites on the go from an Internet-connected mobile phone or tablet. You can view and update documents, lists, and other site content and collaborate with colleagues, all from your mobile device. | using a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-Lingual User Interface | Use the Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) feature to create sites in languages that are different from the default language of your SharePoint installation. | multilingual features | Yes | Yes |
| My Tasks | he My Tasks page on your personal site enables you to see all of the tasks that you are working on in one central location. Tasks are pulled from your personal site, project and team sites, Microsoft Outlook, and Project Web App. | working with tasks on your personal site | Yes | Yes |
| OOTB Web Parts | A Web Part is a modular unit of information that forms the basic building block of a Web Part page. | add a SharePoint 2013 Web Part | Yes | Yes |
| Permissions Management | SharePoint permissions are flexible and configurable enough for an organization to manage permissions at whatever level of detail that is needed. Three key security elements work together to control user access to sites and site content: permissions inheritance, permission levels (sometimes known as SharePoint roles), and SharePoint groups (or SharePoint security groups). | controlling user access with permissions | Yes | Yes |
| Project functionality for team sites | Add project functionality to your team site to help plan and track a project. This functionality includes a task list with a visual timeline, a calendar, and the Project Summary web part. | project sites | Yes | Yes |
| Project site template | Use the project site template to create a site where you can capture tasks and assign them to people in your organization, store and manage project-related documentation, and track project team events on a common calendar. | project sites | Yes | Yes |
| Project Summary web part | The Project Summary web part provides a visual timeline for a task list, and information about late and upcoming tasks and events. By default, it is included on the Home page for a project site, and it can be added to any other site that includes a task list. | Project Summary web part. | Yes | Yes |
| Project workspace | Existing project workspace sites are upgraded in this version to look similar to newly-created project and team sites that include the project functionality. Upgraded project workspace sites can be used to capture tasks and assign them to people in your organization, store and mange project-related documentation, and track project team events on a common calendar. | project sites | Yes | Yes |
| Public Website (SPO) | Your Office 365 account includes a public website that you can use to create a professional online presence for your organization. | Public Website | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Lists | list is a collection of data that you can share with team members and other site users. For example, you can create a sign-up sheet for an event or track team events on a calendar by using a list. You can use several ready-to-use lists and list templates, which provide a good starting point for organizing list items. | SharePoint lists | Yes | Yes |
| SharePoint Ribbon | Similar to the interface in products such as Microsoft Word, the ribbon is a toolbar that appears across the top of each SharePoint page and displays the most commonly-used controls and commands. The controls that appear on the ribbon vary according to the page you are viewing and the context. | most of SharePoint 2013 | Yes | Yes |
| Task list | Task lists are used for managing work in a hierarchical way, with summary tasks and subtasks appearing in a single list. Tasks can have start and end dates, can be assigned to people in your organization, and can be included in an illustrated timeline. | adding tasks to your project | Yes | Yes |
| Team Site: Drag & Drop | You can upload documents, pictures, and other types of files to your site by dragging them from your computer to a library on your site, such as Documents or your SkyDrive Pro library. | Drag & Drop | Yes | Yes |
| Team Site: Notebook | When you create a team site, a OneNote 2013 shared notebook is automatically created as part of the site. You can use this notebook to capture, compile, and share information. (This feature is available only if you have signed up with an Office 365 suite that includes Microsoft Office Web Apps support.) | Share a notebook on a SharePoint site | Yes | Yes |
| Team Site: Simplified Access | When you share a site, you invite other people to have access to the site. You can share any site in which you have the required permissions. As you set up sharing, you may be able to set permissions for the people you’re inviting to the site, depending on your own permissions. | add a user to a SharePoint site | Yes | Yes |
| Templates | hen you create a new site in SharePoint, you start by selecting a site template to base your site on. Site templates contain lists, libraries, pages, and other elements or features that support the needs of an organization. | customizing your team site | Yes | Yes |
| Themes | You can quickly customize your team site so that it’s easier to use and reflects your professional style and brand. Themes are a quick and way to apply colors and fonts to sites. | Themes overview | Yes | Yes |
| Variations | Variations enable you to create, manage, and translate locale-specific content for intranet Publishing sites. Variations is not available for Office 365 public websites. | creating a multi-language website | Yes | Yes |
| Usage Analytics | Web Analytics reports are pre-built reports in SharePoint that use usage data to analyze various aspects of sites and site collections. | View usage reports | No | No |
| Work Management Service | The Work Aggregation Service finds and pulls together tasks from all of your projects, across SharePoint, Outlook, and Project Web App. | working with tasks on your personal site | Yes | No |
| Social features | ||||
| Ask Me About | The Ask Me About section of your profile lets you list your areas of expertise, presenting yourself as a go-to person for those areas to anyone who visits your profile page. | SharePoint profiles | Yes | No |
| Blogs | Blogs can enable an organization to quickly share information among employees, partners, or customers. People can add insight to a difficult subject area, provide inspiration and guidance, or explain a new guideline or procedure. | Blog Site Template | Yes | Yes |
| Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation | When you participate in community discussions, you build your reputation as an expert and earn points and badges that reward your contributions. If you’re really into it, you can become a moderator and work behind the scenes to makes sure the community thrives. | moderating a community | Yes | Yes |
| Community | An online community is a virtual place where ideas are discussed and shared. It promotes open communication by fostering discussions among users who both share their expertise and learn from others. | creating a community | Yes | Yes |
| Company Feed | The company feed is an organization’s public newsfeed. All posts appear to the company, including those created by people that users might not be following. | Company Feed | Yes | Yes |
| Follow | Users can follow people, documents, sites, and tags to see newsfeed postings associated with people, documents, sites, and tags that interest them. | following in SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| Microblogging | Microblogging lets users post items of interest in a newsfeed and participate in conversations. | Post something to everyone | Yes | No |
| Newsfeed | A newsfeed is a place to post information and reply to other posts, and to get updates about people and content you’re following. You can post to the public newsfeed or to newsfeeds on team sites on which you’re a member. | Post something to everyone | Yes | Yes |
| One Click Sharing | You can easily share documents and sites with others in your organization, from your SkyDrive Pro and Sites pages, helping promote team collaboration. | sharing ideas, sites, and content | Yes | No |
| People, Sites, Document Recommendations | Your SkyDrive Pro and Sites pages give you suggestions for documents and sites to follow, based on your profile information and newsfeed activity. | suggested documents to follow | Yes | Yes |
| Personal Site | Each SharePoint Online users has a personal site where data is personalized for them. Personal site includes a Newsfeed, SkyDrive document library, and Sites pages. | sharing ideas, sites, and content | Yes | No |
| Photos and Presence | Exchange Online and Lync Online integration with some Office 365 plans allows users to sync their profile pictures and presence indicator with SharePoint Online. Photos appearing in a person’s About Me page are managed by Exchange Online and are no longer managed by using the SharePoint admin center. | Social | Yes | Yes |
| Profile | Part of a user’s profile is fed in from the Office 365 directory service. If an organization sets up Office 365 Directory Synchronization (DirSync), then user profiles will sync with that organization’s Active Directory accounts. | SharePoint profiles | Yes | No |
| Ratings | Users can add ratings to their SkyDrive Pro libraries that allow sites visitors to ‘Like’ a library document or to use a ‘star’ tool to rate it. | adding a ratings | Yes | Yes |
| Shared with Me | Find documents that others have shared with you. Shared with Me eliminates the worry of finding those important items, because now they're all visible in a single view from within your SkyDrive Pro. | View documents and folders shared with you | Yes | No |
| Site Feed | A site feed, similar to a newsfeed, is a place on a team site to post information, and reply to other posts. | posting something to a small group of people | Yes | Yes |
| Skydrive Pro | SkyDrive Pro is a service available with SharePoint Online that lets users sync documents to the cloud, and also to their computers. | SkyDrive Pro | Yes | No |
| Tag profiles | Tag profiles display information about tags that appear in a newsfeed. Information includes conversations that reference the tag and a list of related tags. | tags | Yes | Yes |
| Tasks integrated with Outlook | You can synchronize your SharePoint task lists with Exchange so that you can manage and add tasks by using Outlook. | Synchronize SharePoint content with Outlook | Yes | No |
| Trending Tags | Currently popular #tags references appear in public newsfeed posts. | Trending Tags | Yes | Yes |
| Wikis | A wiki is a site designed for groups of people to quickly capture and share ideas by creating simple pages and linking them together. Every team site is a wiki, but you can also add a separate wiki page library to a site, or create a large-scale Enterprise wiki as a separate site or site collection. | creating a wiki | Yes | Yes |
| Add-Ons | ||||
| Additional Storage | Should you require more storage, it is available at a cost per gigabyte (GB) per month. | Additional Storage | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services | Access Services allows business users to quickly create apps that run in Office 365 and store their data in Windows Azure SQL databases. | Add-ons | Yes | Yes |
| Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code in Azure LWR | Provider-hosted apps for SharePoint include components that are deployed and hosted outside the SharePoint farm, usually by a developer, but in some scenarios by the customer. The provider-hosted app for SharePoint interacts with a SharePoint site but also uses resources and services that reside on the remote site. | hosting options for apps for SharePoint | Yes | Yes |
| Duet Online | Duet Online for SharePoint and SAP is a jointly developed product from SAP and Microsoft that enables interoperability between SAP applications and SharePoint Online. | Duet Online | Yes | No |
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