The next in a series of blog posts on the differences between the plan offerings in Office 365.
Product
1 – Lync
2 – SharePoint
3 – Exchange
4 – Enterprise Suites
5 – Small Business Suite
6 – Office Web Apps
7 – Office 2010 Professional Plus
8 – Kiosk Suites
Things are not so straight forward now with SharePoint and the different plans because you can purchase SharePoint Online as an individual SKU (Plan 1 or Plan 2, shown below).
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SharePoint Online(Plan 1) |
SharePoint Online (Plan 2) |
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Team sites |
Yes |
Yes |
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Simple public facing web site |
1 |
1 |
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Ribbon Site designer tool |
Yes |
Yes |
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SharePoint Designer 2010 |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
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Custom workflows |
Yes |
Yes |
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Sandbox solutions |
Yes |
Yes |
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My Site |
Yes |
Yes |
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Enterprise features (Forms Services, Excel Services, Visio Services) |
No |
Yes |
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Access Services |
No |
Yes |
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Business Connectivity Services |
No |
No |
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Site collections |
Up to 300 |
Up to 300 |
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Search (across site collections) |
Yes |
Yes |
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Extranet users |
50 free |
50 free |
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Storage |
10GB + 500MB per USL |
10GB + 500MB per USL |
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Buy additional storage |
Yes |
Yes |
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Administration |
Yes, Tenant level |
Yes Tenant Level |
or as part of a suite as shown below.
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For Small Businesses SharePoint Online in P1 |
For Kiosk Workers SharePoint Online in K1/K2 |
For Information Workers SharePoint Online Plan 1 in E1/E2 |
For Information Workers SharePoint Online Plan 2 in E3/E4 |
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Team Sites |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Simple Public-Facing Website |
1 Basic Public-facing site included |
No |
1 Basic Public-facing site included |
1 Basic Public-facing site included |
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Site Designer |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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SharePoint Designer 2010 |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
Yes, for Intranet sites |
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Custom Workflows |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Sandbox Solutions (PTC) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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My Site |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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Enterprise Features (Forms Services, Excel Services, Visio Services) |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
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Access Services |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
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Business Connectivity Services (BCS) |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Site Collections |
Single Site Collection |
N/A |
Up to 300 |
Up to 300 |
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Office Web Apps |
View & Edit |
View only for K1 View and Edit for K2 |
View only for E1 View and Edit for E2 |
View & Edit |
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Search (across Site Collections) |
N/A |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Basic External Document Sharing |
Yes |
N/A |
Yes, add-on |
Yes, add-on |
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Storage |
10GB + 500MB per USL |
10GB + 0MB per USL |
10GB + 500MB per USL |
10GB + 500MB per USL |
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Buy additional storage |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Max Org Users |
Up to 50 |
TBD |
TBD |
TBD |
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Admin |
Single Site Collection |
No |
Yes Tenant level |
Yes Tenant level |
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Support |
Community* |
24×7 phone support for Admin |
24×7 phone support for Admin |
24×7 phone support for Admin |
There are come inconsistencies to note here with SharePoint plans:
– The Small Business and Professional suite includes most of the features SharePoint Plan P1 but also includes the single enterprise feature of Access Services.
– The Small Business and Professional suite is limited to a total of 2 site collections, one public and one intranet.
– The Small Business and Professional suite does not allow you to purchase additional storage beyond what is provided initially (10GB) plus the amount per user (500GB).
– The Small Business and Professional suite includes the ability to read and write using Office Web Apps.
– In Australia 24×7 phone support is provided with the Small Business and Professional suite via Telstra, elsewhere it is only community support.
– Intranet SharePoint sites use https (secure) while public facing web sites only use http. However the Small Business and Professional plan only allows http for all web sites (see link for details).
– Intranet SharePoint domains are of the form https://.sharepoint.com.
– External SharePoint support vanity domains i.e. http://www.domain.com.
Another point to consider is that Business Connectivity services has been announced for an update to Office 365 coming in November. I am unsure whether at this stage it will be available in the P plan.
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