The entire server infrastructure is hosted and maintained by Microsoft for you. This model removes the administrative overhead of SharePoint and lets the business focus just on using the power that is SharePoint. (While this might be great for the business, it does eliminate the need for a SharePoint administrator, so many of us will consider this license option the
enemy.)
There are actually two models to consider with SharePoint Online: shared and dedicated. The shared model provides you with a slice of a shared farm and enables you to use SharePoint out of the box. Server-deployed code and customizations are not permitted.
The dedicated model enables you to run your own farm, and you are allowed to make approved customizations to the server. Any change must be packaged in a solution package and validated by Microsoft before being deployed to the server. All licenses are bought per user.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sharepoint Foundation : Search Capabilities
SharePoint Foundation is its lack of a powerful search feature. Foundation can provide search results of the SharePoint content from within a given site
collection, but that is all. It cannot pull search results from multiple site collections, and cannot add external content sources such as file shares or Exchange public folders.
Search Server 2010 Express (SSX) is a free product from Microsoft that essentially takes SharePoint Foundation and adds to it the intranet searching capabilities. You gain the capability to add content sources such as file shares, other SharePoint sites, websites, and Exchange public folders. You also get the Search Center template and all of the associated Web Parts.
And if this interests, consider deploying SSX instead of Foundation, or if you have Foundation already deployed,you can simply upgrade Foundation to SSX. The only real shortcoming of SSX is that it cannot be configured to be high availability While Search Server 2010 can be configured to avoid any single point of failure, including the Search components, SSX does not offer that capability. It can only be deployed to one server in the farm; there is no infrastructure for deploying it on multiple servers to create redundancy. If you need a highavailability
solution, you need to move up to full Search Server. The only downside to the full version
is that it is a for-purchase product.
collection, but that is all. It cannot pull search results from multiple site collections, and cannot add external content sources such as file shares or Exchange public folders.
Search Server 2010 Express (SSX) is a free product from Microsoft that essentially takes SharePoint Foundation and adds to it the intranet searching capabilities. You gain the capability to add content sources such as file shares, other SharePoint sites, websites, and Exchange public folders. You also get the Search Center template and all of the associated Web Parts.
And if this interests, consider deploying SSX instead of Foundation, or if you have Foundation already deployed,you can simply upgrade Foundation to SSX. The only real shortcoming of SSX is that it cannot be configured to be high availability While Search Server 2010 can be configured to avoid any single point of failure, including the Search components, SSX does not offer that capability. It can only be deployed to one server in the farm; there is no infrastructure for deploying it on multiple servers to create redundancy. If you need a highavailability
solution, you need to move up to full Search Server. The only downside to the full version
is that it is a for-purchase product.
Sharepoint 2010 - Flavours and Features
SharePoint Server 2010 is available primarily in two flavors - Standard and
Enterprise.
Standard introduces core functionality like social, search, and advanced web and
enterprise content management.
Enterprise focuses primarily on adding functionality through new service
applications, introducing business intelligence, line of business integration, reporting, and some Officeclient services such as Visio
Enterprise.
Standard introduces core functionality like social, search, and advanced web and
enterprise content management.
Enterprise focuses primarily on adding functionality through new service
applications, introducing business intelligence, line of business integration, reporting, and some Officeclient services such as Visio
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