Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Online
Published 11/13 courtesy of Bamboo Solutions Community
In the wake of our coverage of last month's SharePoint Conference sessions, this is the eleventh in a series of posts documenting the keynotes and sessions I attended at the Microsoft "Airlift" event for Office 2010. This four-day event took place in Seattle during the first week of June, was open to participants in Microsoft's Technical Adoption Program (TAP), and in essence took the form of a mini-SharePoint Conference.
Jason Cahill and David Gorbet presented the session on SharePoint 2010 Online, in which they provided an overview, a discussion of features, and a demo of the offerings. Microsoft's managed service went international in March of this year, and is available in Standard or Dedicated versions. The Standard version is represented by multiple customers sharing a single architecture, with Dedicated being a single customer per architecture (typically businesses of over 5,000 seats). WSS and MOSS are available, and though several MOSS features are not available in the hosted environment today, "the idea with 2010 is to make the 'not available' list as small as possible."
Features listed, including some functionality that's specific to SharePoint Online, include:
- Easy / customizable SharePoint experiences to minimize time-to-value
- Extranet allows users to easily collaborate outside the org
- Internet allows for easy creation of anonymously accessible sites
- SSO (Single Sign-On) and federation with on premises AD (Active Directory)
- Coexistence with on premises data sources
- Increased dev extensibility and Azure integration
- International support
There will be a four sites business model with 2010, including Portal, Standard, Enterprise, and Anonymous. Anonymous sites are synonymous with Internet-facing in this model and, it was noted, "may be sold separately."
Supported browsers for SharePoint Online include IE versions 7 and 8, and Firefox version 3, all of which are being fully tested.
During the demo it was mentioned that 250 megs per user is the quota (with an option to buy more), and that the plan is for quarterly updates with continual, feedback-driven feature enhancements. The intent is that the SharePoint Online 2010 will launch in conjunction with "the DVD product."
As a postscript, I should mention that third-party code such as Bamboo Web Parts currently runs in the Dedicated model, but is not supported in the multi-tenant Standard model at present. We are working closely with Microsoft in this area and expect changes in 2010.
Read our complete coverage of the Office 2010 Airlift sessions:
- Microsoft SVP Antoine LeBlond’s Overview of the Office 2010 Apps
- SharePoint Server 2010 Overview with Arpan Shah & Gideon Bibliowicz
- Tanuj Bansal Presents 'Social in SharePoint 2010'
- SharePoint Workspace 2010 & the Offline Experience
- Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Mobile
- Microsoft SVP Chris Capossela Presents the 3 Pillars for Office 2010
- Enterprise Search in Office 2010
- Overview of Web Content Management in SharePoint 2010
- Introduction to the Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps
- Microsoft SVP Kurt DelBene Shares His 'Top 12' for Office 2010
- Introduction to SharePoint 2010 Online
- Language Workflow in Office 2010: Reading, Authoring & Interacting in a Foreign Language
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