One of our clients asked us about the Service Level Agreement Microsoft offers on its Microsoft Online BPOS environment. To be honest they were the first to ask. A common question is the uptime guaranteed by Microsoft but nobody asks for the actual SLA.
Because of their question I decided to look up the SLA's. They are available through the links below:
SharePoint Online 2010 will have a lot of new features compared to the current version. For people wanting to host websites with SharePoint one of the most interesting new features is the possibility to enable anonymous access in SharePoint online. This feature combined with all the great WCM features of SharePoint 2010 will allow people to create websites in SharePoint which are hosted by Microsoft. The details of the SharePoint Online anonymous access offering are not available yet. However it is something to look forward to.
Microsoft is working hard to get SharePoint 2010 ready for the market. Currently Microsoft runs SharePoint 2007 with Microsoft Online Services/BPOS. However a lot of information about SharePoint Online 2010 was given during the SharePoint Conference. Over the next few weeks I'll do some posts about the different options SharePoint Online 2010 will bring based on this info. For now if you want to know which SharePoint options will be available in SharePoint Online 2010 please revert to the list below.
Microsoft announced that they will make SharePoint Online 2010 available in the months following SharePoint 2010 general availability.
Below you'll find the complete list:
Available now:
Available in 2010:
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):
Available now:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Available in SharePoint Online 2010:
Not available in SharePoint Online 2010 (for the time being):
Today Dalton Kroderer of Metalogix and Myself did a presentation on migrating to SharePoint 2010 from a MOSS 2007 or SPS 2003 environment. In the presentation we also discussed migrating to SharePoint Online with the Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager.
Currently the SharePoint Site Migration Manager is fully supported by SharePoint Online Dedicated. It is also supported by SharePoint Online standard however doesn't cover all features.
Check out the presentation below:
If you want to play around with the products you can download them from the following site:
Wanna play around with the beta? Send me an email.
Wortell and Metalogix signed a partnership agreement. This partnership agreement allows Wortell to resell and implement the Metalogix products. The reason we signed the partner agreement is that we were impressed by the functionality the Metalogix software provides for migrating SharePoint 2007 environments to SharePoint 2010 environments.
Next to SharePoint 2010 migrations Metalogix can also be used for migrating content to SharePoint Online. The Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager allows you to migrate content from an on premise environment to a cloud environment. Over the next few weeks I'll post something about the steps you can take for this migration.
I just heard the great news that SharePoint Online and Exchange Online will be upgraded to 25 GB's starting the end of January. I was told by a helpdesk agent regarding a question why I couldn't buy any additional storage. The message said the following:
I have just gotten an update which explains why you are not able to buy additional storage.
From the end of January the default allocated space per user (of Share Point Online and Exchange Online ) will be 25 Gigabyte with no further charge and no further possibility for extra storage.
In the meantime, especially with regards to exchange, it is not possible to buy extra storage as it will come for free and automatically very soon.
A lot of people have been asking about this. So this is great news!!
Because the news came from a helpdesk agent and I did not have a change to verify the details please await the official announcement.
From the blog of Kevin Dean on Technet:
Great news from Educause this week! Microsoft announced that new SharePoint Online-based collaboration and productivity services will be available for students as part of the Live@edu next year. These new SharePoint-based services will offer IT departments more flexibility and control to set up and manage their school's collaboration and productivity tools in a security-enhanced environment…as well as the ability to access and manage permissions to sites, documents and content (pictures, videos) with enterprise-class control.
Separately, Blackboard plans to announce an alliance with Microsoft that will offer students and learners a streamlined access to information from their courses while navigating the Web. Under the agreement, Blackboard and Microsoft will work together to enable notifications from students' online courses to appear in their Web browser using the Bing toolbar when new course information becomes available through the Blackboard Learn™ platform. Press release can be found here.
Finally, more universities are choosing Microsoft's cloud computing offerings, to save schools time and money. In the past four months nearly 5,000 schools have enrolled with Live@edu joining the thousands of other institutions in more than 100 countries already providing Live@edu to tens of millions of students worldwide.
See the blog from Anthony Salcito, Microsoft VP for Education Worldwide.
SharePoint Online doesn’t allow custom webparts of solutions to be installed. However the data within a SharePoint Online environment can be manipulated through SharePoint webservices. Below you’ll find a list of all (un)supported webservices which are available with SharePoint Online.
The following table lists each of the Web services that are available in SharePoint Online, along with its path, a description, and a linkto further information in MSDN.
|
Web Service |
Path from <site> |
Description |
MSDN Link |
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Alerts |
/_vti_bin/alerts.asmx |
Provides methods for working with alerts for list items in a SharePoint Online site |
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Copy Web Service |
/_vti_bin/Copy.asmx |
Provides methods for copying items between locations in the SharePoint environment |
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Document Workspace |
/_vti_bin/DWS.asmx |
Provides methods for managing Document Workspace sites and the data they contain |
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Note: The following method of Document Workspace service is not available in SharePoint Online · FindDwsDoc | |||
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Imaging |
/_vti_bin/Imaging.asmx |
Provides methods that enable you to create and manage picture libraries |
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Lists |
/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx |
Provides methods for working with lists and list data |
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Note: The following method of Lists service is not available in SharePoint Online · AddDiscussionBoardItem | |||
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Meetings |
/_vti_bin/Meetings.asmx |
Provides methods that enable you to create and manage Meeting Workspace sites |
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People |
/_vti_bin/People.asmx |
Provides methods for working with security groups |
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Permissions |
/_vti_bin/Permissions.asmx |
Provides methods for working with the permissions for a site or list |
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Site Data |
/_vti_bin/SiteData.asmx |
Provides methods that return metadata or list data from sites or lists in Windows SharePoint Services |
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Sites |
/_vti_bin/sites.asmx |
Provides methods for returning information about the site templates for a site collection |
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Search |
/_vti_bin/spsearch.asmx |
Provides methods for remotely performing searches within a Windows SharePoint Services deployment |
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Users and Groups |
/_vti_bin/UserGroup.asmx |
Provides methods for working with users, site groups, and cross-site groups |
|
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Versions |
/_vti_bin/versions.asmx |
Provides methods for working with file versions |
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Views |
/_vti_bin/Views.asmx |
Provides methods for working with views of lists in Windows SharePoint Services |
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Web Part Pages |
/_vti_bin/webpartpages.asmx |
Provides methods for working with Web Parts |
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Note: The following methods of Web Part Pages service are not available on SharePoint Online · AssociateWorkflowMarkup · ExecuteProxyUpdates · GetAssemblyMetaData · GetDataFromDataSourceControl · GetFormCapabilityFromDataSourceControl · RemoveWorkflowAssociation · ValidateWorkflowMarkupAndCreateSupportObjects | |||
|
Webs |
/_vti_bin/Webs.asmx |
Provides methods for working with sites and subsites |
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Note: The following methods of Webs service are not available in SharePoint Online · CustomizeCss | |||
|
Publishing Service |
/_vti_bin/PublishingService.asmx |
Provides methods to work remotely with the publishing service |
Publishing Service Web service |
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Note: 1. The following methods of Publishing service are not available on SharePoint Online · ExportObjects · GetObjectStatusCollection · GetObjectStatusCollectionWithExclusions · ImportObjects 2. The publishing service does not have link in the MSDN and hence no URL is provided in the MSDN Link column | |||
The following table provides the list of each excluded SharePoint Online Web Services, with its path, description, and MSDN link.
|
Web Service |
Path from <site> |
Description |
MSDN Link |
|
|
Area Web Service |
/_vti_bin/areaservice.asmx |
Provides an area interface for remote clients |
Not applicable |
|
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Authentication Web Service |
/_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx |
Provides ability for Web Services to operate in conjunction with forms authentication |
Not applicable |
|
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BDC Fields Resolver Web Service |
/_vti_bin/bdcfieldsresolver.asmx |
Business Data Catalog Fields Resolver Web Service for Clients |
Not applicable |
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BDC Web Service |
/_vti_bin/businessdatacatalog.asmx |
Business Data Catalog Metadata Web Service |
Not applicable |
|
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CMS Content Area Toolbox Info Web Service |
/_vti_bin/contentAreaToolboxService.asmx |
This Web service is designed for the Office SharePoint Designer client. |
Not applicable |
|
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List Data Retrieval Web Service |
/_vti_bin/DspSts.asmx |
Provides a method for performing queries against lists in Windows SharePoint Services |
Not applicable |
|
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Excel Services Web Service |
/_vti_bin/ExcelService.asmx |
Provides methods to call the Microsoft Office Excel Services remotely or work as a callback for Web Parts |
Not applicable |
|
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Forms Web Service |
/_vti_bin/Forms.asmx |
Provides methods for returning forms used in the user interface when working with the contents of a list |
Not applicable |
|
|
Forms Services Proxy Web Service |
/_vti_bin/FormsServiceProxy.asmx |
Provides methods for Forms Services to proxy requests to remote data sources from Web-based forms |
Not applicable |
|
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Forms Services Web Service |
/_vti_bin/FormsServices.asmx |
Provides methods to call Forms Services remotely or to work as a callback for Web-based forms |
Not applicable |
|
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Official File Web Service |
/_vti_bin/officialfile.asmx |
Provides methods for sending files to a records repository |
Not applicable |
|
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Published Links Web Service |
/_vti_bin/publishedlinksservice.asmx |
Microsoft Office clients and other applications can obtain the list of published links on the server that are targeted to the current user |
Not applicable |
|
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Search Web Service |
/_vti_bin/search.asmx |
Allows access to Enterprise Search results from client applications and Web applications outside of the context of a SharePoint Online site |
Not applicable |
|
|
SharePoint Directory Management Web Service |
/_vti_bin/sharepointemailws.asmx |
Provides methods for remotely managing distribution groups |
Results in error |
|
|
Slide Library Web Service |
/_vti_bin/SlideLibrary.asmx |
Provides methods for slide library callbacks or remote publishing of slides |
Not Applicable |
|
|
Spell Check Web Service |
/_vti_bin/SpellCheck.asmx |
Provides methods for spell checking callbacks |
No Results |
|
|
Search Crawl Web Service |
/_vti_bin/spscrawl.asmx |
Provides methods for remote Office SharePoint Server 2007 farms to crawl a local farm |
Not applicable |
|
|
User Profile Change Web Service |
/_vti_bin/userprofilechangeservice.asmx |
Provides methods to query the user profiles change log remotely |
Not applicable |
|
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User Profile Web Service |
/_vti_bin/userprofileservice.asmx |
Provides a user profile interface for remote clients |
Not applicable |
|
|
Admin |
/_vti_adm/admin.asmx |
Provides methods for managing a deployment of Windows SharePoint Services, such as for creating or deleting sites |
Not Applicable |
|
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Content Deployment Remote Import |
/_vti_adm/ContentDeploymentRemoteImport.asmx |
Provides methods for a remote farm to use content deployment to get content into a local farm |
Not applicable |
|
|
Search Web Service |
SearchAdmin.asmx |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Administration Web service |
Not Applicable |
|
|
Search Application Web Service |
/SSP/Search/SearchAdmin.asmx |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Application Administration Web service |
Not applicable |
|
|
Excel Service Soap |
/SSP/ExcelCalculationServer/ExcelService.asmx |
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services Application Web service |
Not applicable |
The list of webservices has originally been published in the Microsoft SharePoint Online Developer Guide, December 2008.
During the SharePoint Conference which is being held in Las Vegas this week, Tom Rizzo explained in his opening keynote, SharePoint Online will be able to host custom code created by developers. It will now be possible to create custom code in Sandbox Solutions from within Visual Studio 2010. This custom code can then be deployed to an On Premise SharePoint environment but can also be published to a SharePoint Online environment.
Because support for custom code in SharePoint online was one of the key points SharePoint Online was missing opposed to the On Premise version I personally believe this option will drive adoption of the SharePoint Online version even faster than is the case right now.
During the SharePoint Conference which is being held in Las Vegas this week Steve Ballmer announced during his opening keynote SharePoint Online will be available in both a standard version, comparable to the current SharePoint version and an all new SharePoint Online for Internet Sites version. With this new version Microsoft will host SharePoint sites which are published on the internet for companies. SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites will be available On Premise in 2 different versions. Both a Standard and Enterprise version. Currently it is unclear which of both versions the SharePoint Online for Internet Sites will be.
