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01/14/2013 I am really trying to get a grasp on all of the features that exist and don’t exist in the various versions of SharePoint 2013 including Foundation, Standard and Enterprise for on-premises deployments.  Microsoft hasn’t specifically published an article which talks to this like they did for SharePoint 2010 ().  However, they did publish an article detailing a comparison of all of the features of SharePoint Online for the new Microsoft Office Customer Preview (i.e. SharePoint 2013 Preview) along with the various Office 365 and SharePoint online subscription plans.  Unlike SharePoint 2010 where Microsoft used the following categories to separate their feature sets: Sites Communities Content Search Insights Composites For SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has split their feature sets by the following categories: Developer IT Professional Content Insights Search Sites Social Add-ons In this comparison, one of the options they had was the feature availability across on-premisesolutions, which I am assuming is the comparison I need ().  For ease of reading, I have put all of the features in a chart, incorporated the feature description, and highlighted or greyed out some of the key differences in the features that stand out such as : Features that are missing in Standard vs. Enterprise Features that are not available at all on SharePoint Online Features that are only available in SharePoint Online Disclaimer: As SharePoint 2013 RTM has just been released, I’m sure there are still updates being made so please refer to the above TechNet article(s) for any extra information required as well as updates. Microsoft states that some values in this article may not represent the final values for SharePoint Server 2013 and that they will update the article with appropriate values as data becomes more generally available.    SharePoint 2013 Feature Description Foundation Standard Enterprise Developer         Access Services Build web databases and publish them to aSharePoint 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. No No 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. Learn more about publishing apps for Office and SharePoint. No 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. Learn more about hosting options for apps for SharePoint. No No No App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps Cloud-hosted apps for SharePoint includes at least one remote component and may also include SharePoint-hostedcomponents. Cloud-hosted apps include both autohosted and provider-hosted apps. Learn more about hosting options for apps for SharePoint. No 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. Learn more about hosting options for apps for SharePoint. No Yes Yes App Management Services The App Management Service database stores licensing information for all of the apps for SharePoint. No 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. Learn more about external events and alerts in SharePoint 2013. No 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. Learn more about app-scoped external content types. No 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. No 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. Learn more about external content types. Yes Yes Yes BCS: OData connector The OData connector is new for SharePoint. It allows for Business Connectivity Services (BCS) to usea RESTful OData endpoint as a data source for external lists, Business Data WebParts, and custom user interfaces. No 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. No Yes Yes 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. Learn more about Business Connectivity Services Client Runtime. No No Yes 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 accountcredentials to external system account credentials so that data can be secured. Learn more about Secure Store Service. Yes Yes Yes BCS: Tenant-level external data log Tenant-level external data logging allows for logging of transactions that affect specific SharePoint tenancies. No No 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. Learn more about customizing sites. Yes 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. Yes Yes Yes Client-side rendering (CSR) Client-side rendering provides a mechanism that you can useto produce your own output for a set of controls that are hosted in a SharePoint page. Learn more about customizing a field type using client-side rendering. Yes 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. No No Yes Custom Site Provisioning 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. No No Yes 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. No No although On Prem has it’s own Developer Site Template No although On Prem has it’s own Developerpowerful 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. Learn more about Reporting Services Report Server. No No Yes 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, ModelDesigner, and Report Builder within a document library. Learn more about Reporting Services Report Server. No No Yes 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. Learn more about Business Intelligence in Excel Services. No No Yes 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. Learn more about Visio Services. No No Yes Search         Advanced Content Processing Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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, andtitles, 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. Learn more about search improvements. Yes Yes Yes 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. Learn more about managing continuous crawl. Yes Yes Yes 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 toimprove your organization’s search experience, for example by creating refiners. Learn more about creating and deploying custom entity extractors. No No Yes 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”. No 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. Learn more about analytics processing. No 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.Yes 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. Learn more about custom content processing. No No Yes Graphical refiners The new graphical refiners provide a more visual way of filtering search results. Learn more about configuring the Refinement Web Part. No Yes Yes Hybrid search In a hybrid deployment of SharePoint, search result content can come from both SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server 2013 on-premise sites. Yes 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 sitestructure. The managed navigation structure is created by adding terms to term sets in the Term Store Management tool. Learn more about managed navigation. No Yes Yes On-premises search index The search index is stored in the on-premises SharePoint Server 2013 environment and is not available to SharePoint Online customers. Learn more about search schema in SharePoint Server 2013. N/A N/A N/A Phonetic name matching Improved phonetic name matching finds search results for similar sounding names (is it John or Jon?). Yes 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. No Yes Yes Query rules—advanced actions In this query rule, specify conditions and correlated actions. When a query meets the conditions in aquery rule, the search system performs the actions specified in the rule. No No 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?”. Learn more about query spelling correction. Yes 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. No 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. No 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 showsrich metadata and has deep links to the main sections of the document or site. Yes 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”. Learn more about configuring recommendations and usage event types in SharePoint Server 2013. No Yes Yes Refiners Not available to SharePoint Online customers. Refiners categorize the top documents in SharePoint Server 2013 search results into groups that lets users filter the search results. Learn more about the Refinement Web Part. Yes Yes Yes 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 beaccessed 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. Yes Yes Yes Result sources 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. Learn more about result sources. Yes Yes Yes Search connector framework 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. Learn more about default connectors in SharePoint Server 2013. No No No Search results sortingUsers can choose to sort search results by different criteria, for example relevance, freshness, and social distance (people names). Yes Yes Yes Search vertical: “Conversations” A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for conversations content. Learn more about configuring the Search Navigation Web Part. No 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. Learn more about configuring the Search Navigation Web Part. No Yes Yes Search vertical: “Video” A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for video content. Learn more about configuring the Search Navigation Web Part. No No Yes Tunable Relevancy The search system has strong built-in relevant that will automatically improveover 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. Learn more about managing search relevance in SharePoint Server 2013. No No No Sites         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. Learn more about customizing team sites. Yes 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. Learn more about Connect to Office commands. Yes 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. Learn more about planningproject sites. Yes 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. Learn more about the Project Summary web part. Yes 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. Learn more about project sites. Yes 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. Learn more about Public Website. N/A N/A N/Acan synchronize your SharePoint task lists with Exchange so that you can manage and add tasks by using Outlook. No Yes No (seems like a mistake!) Trending Tags Currently popular #tags references appear in public newsfeed posts. No 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. Learn more about creating a wiki. No Yes Yes Add-Ons         Additional Storage Should you require more storage, it is available at a cost per gigabyte (GB) per month. N/A N/A N/A App Hosting: Base The add-on is used to buy additional app hosting licenses which provide hosting resources to the Autohosted Apps in SharePoint app catalog. N/A N/A N/A App Hosting: Per User The add-on is used to buy additional app hosting licenses which provide hostingresources to the Autohosted Apps in SharePoint app catalog. N/A N/A N/A Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services Access Services allows business users to quickly create apps that run in Office 365 and store their data in SWL databases on Windows Azure. N/A N/A N/A Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code in Azure Lightweight Web Role (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. Learn more about hosting options for apps for SharePoint. N/A N/A N/A 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. Learn more about Duet Online. N/A N/A N/A   Technorati Tags: , ,   Created By: Noorez Khamis |Posted at 8:11 AM by Noorez Khamis | Category: | | |