Office 365 feature comparison chart all plans

Office 365 feature comparison chart all plans
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This is an updated version of a popular blogpost that I posted in January 2013. It turned out to be one of the most visited posts and it still is (This one). This time I have updated the feature comparison list to show what is included in the different Office 365 plans and subscription levels that are available. It is not easy to find the information when you are looking to buy just the right plan for your organization.
My primary goal with this post is to again make it just a little bit easier to find what feature is included in what plan, what functionality is avaiable in which plan and most importantly, where is SharePoint Online included? 😉

The complete Office 365 subscription plan comparison list

(Remember that the content in every license plan can be subject to change at any time)

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Office 365 Services	SharePoint Online, Exchange…
Office Applications	Word, Excel…
Enterprise Value	Funtionality for the Enterprise
SharePoint Online Developer features	Developer features that are supported
IT Professional features	Advanced features,
Content features	Document management, content in general
Insights features (BI)	Business Intelligence features
Search features	To-Be-Added
Sites features	To-Be-Added
Social features	To-Be-Added
Credit and reference links

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Office 365 Services

Office 365 Service	Office Professional Plus 2013	Office 365 ProPlus	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Government K1
Office 365 Platform	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Exchange Online	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Online	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OneDrive for Business	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Skype for Business Online	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Office Online	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office 365 ProPlus	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Office 365 Business	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Project Online	No	No	No 1	No 1	No 1	No 1	No 1	No 1
Yammer Enterprise	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes 2	Yes 2	Yes 2	Yes 2
Azure Rights Management (RMS)4	No	No	No 3	No 3	No 3	Yes	Yes	No 3
Office Delve	No	No	Yes 5	Yes 5	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Office 365 Groups	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Office 365 Video	No	No	No	No	Yes 6	Yes 6	Yes 6	No

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1   Project Online is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on service.
2   Yammer Enterprise is not a component of Office 365 Government, but may be acquired at no cost as a standalone offer for each user licensed for Office 365 Government Plan E1, E3 and E4. This offer is currently limited to customers which purchase Office 365 Government under Enterprise Agreement and Enterprise Subscription Agreements.
3   Azure RMS is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-on service.
4    To learn more about which RMS features are included with Office 365 plans, see Comparison of Rights Management Services (RMS) Offerings
5    Office Delve will become available for the Office 365 Business Essentials and Office 365 Business Premium plans in early 2015.
6    Office 365 Video is not available with the following plans: Office 365 Government E1, Office 365 Government E3, Office 365 Government E4

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Changing or mixing plans
As the needs of your organization change, you may need to change your Office 365 plan. You can switch from your current Office 365 subscription to another Office 365 subscription:
– In the same service family: For example, you can move from Office 365 Business Essentials to Office 365 Business Premium, or from Office 365 Enterprise E1 to Office 365 Enterprise E3.
– From a standalone plan: For example, you can move from Exchange Online Plan 1 to Office 365 Enterprise E1.
– To a different service family: For example, you can move from Office 365 Business Essentials to Office 365 Enterprise E3.
For information about how to change subscriptions, including how to move from a trial to a paid subscription, see Switch to a different Office 365 plan or subscription.

You can combine Enterprise, Business and standalone plans (e.g. Exchange Online Plan 1) within a single Office 365 account. However, existing limitations on the number of seats per plan do not change. For example, you can have up to 300 seats per plan on both Office 365 Business Essentials and Office 365 Business Premium, but an unlimited number of users on Exchange Online Plan 1. Education and Government plans cannot be combined with Enterprise, Business or standalone plans.

Office 365
Office Applications

Office Application	Office Professional Plus 2013	Office 365 ProPlus	Office 365 Business	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1Office 365 Government K1
Microsoft Word	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft Excel	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft PowerPoint	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft OneNote	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft Outlook	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft Publisher	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Microsoft Access	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Skype for Business	Yes	Yes	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes	Yes	Yes 1
Microsoft InfoPath	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Windows 8 Apps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Office for Mac for Office 365	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Office Mobile for iPad/iPhone	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Office Mobile for Android	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Office Mobile for Windows Phone	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No

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1 Lync 2013 Basic is available for all customers. The Lync Basic desktop client is a locally installed application that provides presence, instant messaging and conferencing features for Office 365 plans that include Skype for Business Online. Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Office 365 Enterprise E4 include the full Lync application, which include additional features including advanced telephony support, archiving & compliance features. A Skype for Business Online license must be assigned for each user. For more information on Lync Basic features, see Clients for Skype for Business Online.

Office 365
Enterprise Value

Enterprise Value	Office Professional Plus 2013	Office 365 ProPlus	Office 365 Business	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1Office 365 Government K1
5 installs per user on PC or Mac	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Automated user account provisioning	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multilingual user interface	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Client push deployment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Client support for on-premises Exchange	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Client support for on-premises SharePoint	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Control of software updates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Database Compare	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Desktop virtualization	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Excel Spreadsheet Compare	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Excel Spreadsheet Inquire	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Archiving and Compliance	Yes 1	Yes 1	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Group Policy support	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Information Rights Management using Azure RMS	No 2	No 2	No 2	No 2	No 2	No 2	Yes	Yes	No 2
Information Rights Management using Windows Server AD RMS	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3	Yes 3
Office Add-in, ActiveX, and BHO support	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
OneNote client access to notebooks on SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Office 365	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Office Telemetry	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Offline support for client applications	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Optimized side-by-side client installation	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Power Map for Excel	No 4	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Power Pivot for Excel	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Power Query for Excel	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Power View for Excel	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Roaming settings	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shared computer activation	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Support for blocking cloud-based file storage	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Version upgrades	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Volume activation (KMS/MAK)	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

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Note:
1   Archiving and compliance features are supported with this version of Office, but the Exchange Online and SharePoint Online plans are not included and must be purchased separately or used with supported on-premises server equivalents.
2    Azure Rights Management (RMS) isn’t included but can be purchased as a separate add-on in order to enable the supported IRM features.
3   Windows Server AD RMS is an on-premises server that must be purchased and managed separately in order to enable the supported IRM features.
4   If you have Office Professional Plus 2013 or a standalone version of Excel 2013, you can download and use the Power Map Preview for Excel 2013 as an unsupported add-in.

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SharePoint Online
Developer features

SharePoint Online Developer feature	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Government K1
Access Services	Yes	Yes	Yes 2	Yes 2	Yes 2	Yes 2
App Catalog (SharePoint)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
App Management Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
BCS: Alerts for External Lists	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs)	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: Business Data Webparts	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: External List	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: OData connector	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: Profile Pages	No	No	No	No	No	No
BCS: Rich Client Integration	No	No	No	No	No	No
BCS: Secure Store Service	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
BCS: Tenant-level external data log	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Browser-based customizations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Client Object Model (OM)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Client-side rendering (CSR)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom Site Definitions	No	No	No	No	No	No
Custom Site Provisioning	No	No	No	No	No	No
Developer Site	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Forms Based Applications	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Full-Trust Solutions	No	No	No	No	No	No
InfoPath Forms Services	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
JavaScript Object Model	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
List and Library APIs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Remote Event Receiver	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
REST API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Sandboxed Solutions	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Design Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Designer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Store	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Workflow 2010 (.NET 3.5)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Workflow 2010 (out of the box)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Workflow 2013	Yes	Yes	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes
Workload API: ECM APIs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Workload API: Search APIs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Workload API: Social APIs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Note:1 Workflow 2013 is not yet available in Office 365 Government E1, Office 365 Government E3, or Office 365 Government E4 plans.
2 Access Services is currently not available for the following plans: Office 365 Government E1, Office 365 Government E3, Office 365 Government E4, Office 365 Government K1

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SharePoint Online
IT Professional features

SharePoint Online IT Professional features	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Government K1
Active Directory Synchronization	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)	No	No	No	No	No	No
Analytics Platform	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anti-malware protection	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Claims-Based Authentication Support	No	No	No	No	No	No
Configuration Wizards	No	No	No	No	No	No
Deferred Site Collection upgrade	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Distributed Cache	No	No	No	No	No	No
Data loss prevention	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Encryption at rest	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Host Header Site Collections	No	No	No	No	No	No
Improved Permissions Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Improved Self-Service Site Creation	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Managed Accounts	No	No	No	No	No	No
Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OAuth	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Patch Management	No	No	No	No	No	No
Quota Templates	No	No	No	No	No	No
Read-Only Database Support	No	No	No	No	No	No
Remote BLOB Storage	No	No	No	No	No	No
Request Management	No	No	No	No	No	No
Request throttling	No	No	No	No	No	No
Resource throttling	No	No	No	No	No	No
Service Application Platform	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Health Analyzer	No	No	No	No	No	No
SharePoint admin center	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No 1
Shredded Storage	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site Collection Compliance Policies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site Collection Health Checks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
State Service	No	No	No	No	No	No
Streamlined Central Administration	No	No	No	No	No	No
System Status Notifications	No	No	No	No	No	No
Unattached Content Database Recovery	No	No	No	No	No	No
Upgrade evaluation site collections	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Usage Reporting and Logging	No	No	No	No	No	No
Windows PowerShell Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Note:1 Because Kiosk users can’t be administrators, tenants with Kiosk users need at least one Enterprise user to access the admin center.

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SharePoint Online Content Features

SharePoint Online Content features	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Government K1
Accessibility Standards Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Auditing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Content Organizer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Design Manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Document Sets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Document Translation in Word Online	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
eDiscovery Search	Yes 5	Yes 5	Yes 5	Yes 5	Yes 5	Yes 5
eDiscovery Hold	No 5	No 5	No 5	Yes 5	Yes 5	No 5
eDiscovery Export	No 5	No 5	No 5	Yes 5	Yes 5	No 5
Email enabled lists and libraries	No	No	No	No	No	No
External Sharing: External Access	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
External Sharing: Guest Link	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Folder Sync	Yes1	Yes1	Yes1	Yes	Yes	Yes2
IRM using Azure Rights Management	No3	No3	No3	Yes	Yes	No 3 4
IRM using Windows Server AD RMS	No	No	No	No	No	No
Managed Metadata Service	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Metadata-driven Navigation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi-stage Disposition	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office Online (create/edit)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office Online (view)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Office Web Apps Server integration	No	No	No	No	No	No
PowerPoint Automation Services	No	No	No	No	No	No
Preservation hold library	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Quick Edit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Records management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Recycle Bin (SharePoint admin center)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Recycle Bin (site collection)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Related Items	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rich Media Management	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shared Content Types	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SharePoint Translation Services	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Site mailbox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Surveys	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Unique Document IDs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Video Search	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WCM: Analytics	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Catalog	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WCM: Category page and catalog item page	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WCM: Search web parts	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WCM: Cross-Site Publishing	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
WCM: Designer Tools	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Faceted navigation	No	No	No	Yes 6	Yes 6	No
WCM: Image Renditions	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Managed navigation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Mobile and Device Rendering	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Multiple Domains	No	No	No	No	No	No
WCM: Recommendations	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Word Automation Services	No	No	No	No	No	No

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Note:

1   To use folder sync, you must have Office 2013 (Standard or Professional edition) or an Office 365 subscription that includes Office applications. Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Education E1, and Office 365 Government E1 plans don’t include subscriptions to Office 2013. However, you can use folder sync if you have Office 2013 installed and subscribe to one of these plans.
2   Kiosk accounts have limited OneDrive for Business functionality. Kiosk customers can use the OneDrive for Business folder sync client application to sync team site document libraries with a shared computer and access documents offline. But kiosk accounts do not include a OneDrive for Business Personal Site, so they do not benefit from a OneDrive for Business personal library with 1 TB of online storage.
3    Azure Rights Management (RMS) is not included, but can be purchased as a separate add-in order to enable supported IRM features.
4   Because Kiosk users can’t be administrators, tenants with Kiosk users need at least one Enterprise user to access the admin center.
5   When you use eDiscovery features, the licensing requirement for a plan that permits that feature applies to all end users that are part of the eDiscovery action (Search, Hold, Export).
6   Authenticated SharePoint Online users can access private site collections with faceted navigation.

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SharePoint Online Insights Features

SharePoint Online Insights features	Office 365 Business Essentials	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education E1 Office 365 Government E1	Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education E3 Office 365 Government E3	Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education E4 Office 365 Government E4	Office 365 Enterprise K1 Office 365 Government K1
Business Intelligence Center	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Calculated Measures and Members	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Data Connection Library	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Excel Services	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Field list and Field Support	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Filter Enhancements	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Filter Search	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
PerformancePoint Services	No	No	No	No	No	No
PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration	No	No	No	No	No	No
Power View for Excel in SharePoint	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Power Pivot for Excel in SharePoint	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Quick Explore	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Scorecards & Dashboards	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1	Yes 1
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode	No	No	No	No	No	No
Timeline Slicer	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Visio Services	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

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1 Scorecards & Dashboards are not available for the following plans: Office 365 Education E1, Office 365 Education E3, Office 365 Education E4, Office 365 Government E1, Office 365 Government E3, Office 365 Government E4, Office 365 Government K1

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Credits

Myself, I get all the credit this time! 🙂

References

Office 365 Plan Options
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-365-plan-options.aspx
Office Applications Service Description
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office-applications-service-description.aspx
Comparison of Rights Management Services (RMS) Offerings
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dn858608 ‘ _________________________________________________________

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Office 365 News – Unannounced Microsoft change to SharePoint Online access

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Microsoft recently made a change to the way users can access SharePoint Online, this may affect many thousands of customers without them knowing…

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It has been disclosed to me that Microsoft has implemented a change on all Office 365 tenants to the way an unlicensed user can access SharePoint Online services…in a bad way…

Previously, the behaviour was that if you did not give a user a the SharePoint license in Office 365, the user could not access SharePoint.
This is the expected behaviour and this is how most companies restricted access to SharePoint Before they were ready to offer the service to their organizations.
This is no more, or at least not the current behaviour…Microsft has ‘temporarily’ made a change that allows ALL users, with a license or not to have access to all SharePoint Services.
The imidiate affect may be that your organization sleeps safely in the belief that SHarePoint may not be accessed, except by you in IT or by a limited number of individuals, meanwhile, the users go crazy and start using SharePoint in ways you never intended…

Well, this is something I don’t like, I would like this change to be limited to the ones who specifically asked for it, and if you needed it, you could request it, not the other way around.

Note 1: If you find that you do not want this behaviour, you want access only to your licensed users. Open a Service Request with Microsoft and ask them to change it back, they will help you then.

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Note 2: The change does not affect OneDrive for Business, unprovisioned users do not get access to their ODfB without the SharePoint license.

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The reason given by Microsoft representatives is this: ‘Microsoft recognizes assigning licenses to users that are synced to the O365 services is cumbersome for larger tenants, to alleviate this pain point; a temporary change has been released to SharePoint Online that will allow users to access SharePoint Online even without license.’

References and Credits

None at this time…

Credits & many thanks to

Pihlen!

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Enjoy!

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Enterprise Edition of SharePoint Server 2013 – what’s in it?

Why get the Enterprise edition of SharePoint Server 2013?

That is a question you should ask yourself at the beginning of every new SharePoint Project where you are planning to set up a new farm. Depending on what features and functionality you are planning to use, the editions will offer you a different solution.
Obviously, the Enterprise edition has a bigger prisetag, but if so only one of the features is what you or your customer is looking for, you could end up saving money by using a built in feature instead of developing your own.
Say that you only need one of the Enterprise features and you end up getting the Enterprise license, you get the functionality you was looking for, but in addition, you will have all the other Enterprise features available for use at a later time. The odds tell us that the farm will evolve and new functionality will be asked for.

Note: The complete list of all features in all editions of SHarePoint 2013 can be found here: SharePoint 2013 feature comparison chart all editions

The top 10 lost of features that make customers buy Enterprise edition, at least from my experience (feedback on this is welcomed and will be considered for implementation)

1	InfoPath Forms Services
2	Excel Services
3	PowerPivot
4	PerformancePoint Services
5	Power View
6	ScoreCards and DashBoards
7	Visio Services
8	Content Search Web Part
9	Analytics Plattform
10	Host Named Site Collections

Enough with the planning and strategy/sales/aquisitions dravel…lets dive into the features!

The ‘shortlist’ of ENT features looks like this, these are the features that you DO NOT get unless you have the Enterprise edition:

SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise Edition feature Title Short description
Link to feature list	References, links

Developer – Access Services Build web databases and publish them to a SharePoint 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.
Access Services	MSDN: What’s new in Access 2013 Habanero Consulting: Access Services in SharePoint 2013
Developer – BCS – Rich Client Integration 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. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
BCS: Rich Client Integration	MSDN: BCS client object model
Developer – BCS – Tenant-level external data log Tenant-level external data logging allows for logging of transactions that affect specific SharePoint tenancies.
BCS: Tenant-level external data log	N/A
Developer – Custom Site Definitions SharePoint Server 2013 customers can create their own site definitions that customize and extend standard SharePoint site templates. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Custom Site Definitions	MSDN: Overview of Creating Custom Site Definitions
Developer – Custom Site Provisioning SharePoint Server 2013 customers get a quick and easy way for users to make their site requests and to start using their sites quickly. (Documentation states that this is Not available to SharePoint Online customers, but it is and it is available from the SharePoint administration, settings, ‘Start a site’.)
Custom Site Provisioning	Steve Paeschka(MS): Configuring Self Service Site Creation in SharePoint 2013 Navantis: Self-Service Site Creation in SharePoint 2013–Are the Changes Enough to Make this Feature Viable in the Enterprise?
Developer – InfoPath Forms Services Forms Service provides a Web browser form-filling experience in SharePoint, based on form templates that are designed in InfoPath.
InfoPath Forms Services	MSDN: InfoPath Forms Services
IT Pro – Analytics Plattform SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use the Analytics Platform, which replaces the Web Analytics service application, to help identify and surface the content that users consider to be the most useful and relevant. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Analytics Platform	Analytics Platform
IT Pro – Improved Self-Service Site Creation SharePoint Server 2013 customers can use self-service site creation to configure things such as: whether to use a custom form to create the site, whether to create a subweb or site collection, what path should be used when the site collection is created, and whether to ask or require that a site policy be selected when the site is created.
Improved Self-Service Site Creation	Steve Paeschka(MS): Configuring Self Service Site Creation in SharePoint 2013 Navantis: Self-Service Site Creation in SharePoint 2013–Are the Changes Enough to Make this Feature Viable in the Enterprise?
Content – eDiscovery Electronic Discovery, or eDiscovery, features allow organizations to identify, hold, search, and export content from Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, and file shares to support case management in addition to preservation and compliance. Learn more about.
eDiscovery	Office: Planning and managing eDiscovery cases
Content – Preservation hold library Content that is placed on hold is preserved, but users can still change it. The state of the content at the time of preservation is recorded. If a user changes the content or even deletes it, the item is retained at the time of deletion and the original, preserved version is still available.
Preservation hold library	TechNet: In-place holds Office: Placing content sources on hold
Web Content Management – Video Search An Asset Library is pre-configured to use special features that help you manage rich media assets, such as image, audio, and video files.
Video Search	Office: Setting up an Asset Library to store image, audio, or video files Jasper Oosterveld: SharePoint 2013 – The new and improved asset library TechNet: Digital asset libraries
Web Content Management – Catalog A catalog is a library or list that is shared across other sites and site collections. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Catalog	TechNet: Catalog content for SharePoint authoring sites
Web Content Management – Cross Site Publishing Cross-site publishing allows SharePoint Server 2013 customers to use one or more authoring site collections to author and store content, and one or more publishing site collections to control the design of the site and to show the content. The authoring site collection contains catalogs, such as Pages libraries and lists, which contain content that is tagged with metadata. These catalogs are indexed by the search system and made available to the publishing site collection. The publishing site collection issues queries for data that was indexed and shows it on web pages by using Web Parts that use search technology. Learn more about (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Cross-site publishing	TechNet: Cross-site publishing in SharePoint Server 2013
Web Content Management – Faceted Navigation Faceted navigation help users browser for content more easily by filtering on refiners that are tied to terms in a term set. By using faceted navigation, SharePoint Server 2013 administrators can configure different refiners for different terms in a term set without having to create additional pages. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Faceted navigation	TechNet: Refiners and faceted navigation
Web Content Management – Image Renditions Image renditions let organizations have large source images on a SharePoint Server 2013 site and also have places on a site where pages only use smaller versions. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Image Renditions	Content authoring improvements
Web Content Management – Host Named Site Collections/Multiple Domains SharePoint Server 2013 can create host-named site collections with the host header. Host-named site collections in SharePoint provide URL management and scalability of sites within a single web application. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Multiple Domains	TechNet: Plan for host-named site collections SharePoint Blues: Host Named Site Collections and Apps Host
Web Content Management – Category/Catalog item Pages Category pages and catalog item pages are page layouts that you can use to show structured catalog content consistently across a SharePoint Server 2013 site. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
WCM: Topic Pages	TechNet: Cross-site publishing
BI/Insights – The Business Intelligence Center The Business Intelligence Center site enables you to store data connections, workbooks, reports, scorecards, and dashboards in a central, secure location.
Business Intelligence Center	TechNet: configuring Business Intelligence Center
BI/Insights – Calculated Measures and Members When you create PivotChart reports of PivotTable reports that use data that is stored in SQL Server Analysis Services, you can create calculated measure and calculated members for that report.
Calculated Measures and Members	Office: Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services.
BI/Insights – Data Connection Library A data connection library is a special SharePoint library that is designed to store and manage shared data connections. These can include ODC files that you create by using Excel.
Data Connection Library	TechNet: Trusted Data Connection Libraries in SharePoint Server 2013
BI/Insights – PivotTable/PivotChart When you create a PivotChart report, a corresponding PivtoTable report is automatically created. New in Excel 2013, you do not have to display a PivotTable report on the same worksheet as its corresponding PivotChart report. You can choose to display only the PivotChart report. This capability is called “decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts”.
Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts	Office: PivotTables and PivotCharts
BI/Insights – Excel Services Excel Services enables you to share workbooks with others, view and explore information in a browser window, and refresh data. Excel Services enables you to view and interact with reports, scorecards, and dashboards in a browser window, much like you would use the Excel client. Excel Services also enables you to share all or parts of workbooks with others, and control what information is displayed in those workbooks.
Excel Services	Office: Excel Services
BI/Insights – Field List and Field Well Excel Services enables you to open the Field List and Field Well for PivotChart reports and PivotTable reports that are viewed in a browser windows. This capability makes it easy to temporarily change the information that is displayed in a PivotChart report or a PivotTable report without having to open Excel.
Field list and Field Support	TechNet: Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services
BI/Insights – Slicers Slicers are a kind of filter that you can use to select one or more items to use as a filter for reports and scorecards in a worksheet. For example, suppose that you want to see sales information for different colors of items, such as shirts that your company carries. You can create a slicer that lists shirt colors, connect it to a sales report, and then use the slicer to view sales information for the colors that are selected in the slicer.
Filter Enhancements – Slicers	TechNet: Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services
BI/Insights – Filter Search You can search on filter results, which makes it easy to jump to a particular item in a long list.
Filter Search	Use filters and slicers to focus on specific information
BI/Insights – PerformancePoint Services PerformancePoint Services enables SharePoint Server 2013 customers to create interactive dashboards that display key performance indicators (KPIs) and data virtualizations in the form of scorecards, reports, and filters. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers.)
PerformancePoint Services	PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2013 overview
BI/Insights – Dashboard Migration With Dashboard Migration, SharePoint Server 2013 customers will be able to copy complete dashboards and dependencies. This includes the .aspx file, to other users, servers, or site collections. This feature also allows the ability to migrate single items to other environments and migrate content by using Windows PowerShell commands. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration	TechNet: Create Dashboards by using PerformancePoint Services
BI/Insights – Power View Power View is an add-in for Excel that enables organizations to visualize and interact with modeled data by using highly interactive visualizations, animations, and smart querying. Organizations can present insights with other through storyboard presentation capabilities. Power View is powered by BI Semantic Model and the VertiPaq engine.
Power View	Office: Power View: Explore, visualize, and present your data
BI/Insights – PowerPivot PowerPivot is an add-in that organizations can use to perform powerful data analysis and create sophisticated data models. PowerPivot also enables organizations to mash up large volumes of data from various sources, analyze data quickly, and share insights.
PowerPivot	Office: PowerPivot – Powerful data analysis and data modeling in Excel
BI/Insights – Quick Explore Quick Explore enables organizations to select a value in a PivotChart report or a PivotTable report and see additional information about that value. For example, if you are viewing a sales report and you select a value that represents total sales amounts, you can use Quick Explore to view additional information such as sales amounts across different product categories or geographical areas.
Quick Explore	Office: What’s new in Excel 2013 – Instant data analysis
BI/Insights – Scorecards and Dashboards A scorecard shows at a glance whether performance is on or off target for one or more key performance indicators (KPIs). A dashboard is a collection of views that can include scorecards and other reports. Scorecards and dashboard are designed to show current performance information and are typically rendered in a site such as a SharePoint Server 2013 site. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Scorecards & Dashboards	Office: Create and use a report or a scorecard
BI/Insights – Reporting Services 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, Model Designer, and Report Builder within a document library.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode	TechNet: Reporting Services Report Server (SharePoint Mode)
BI/Insights – Report Viewer Web Part The SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Web Part enables people to display an existing Reporting Services report in its own Web Part in a SharePoint site. If the Reporting Services report contains parameters, people can connect filters to that report using the Web Part settings.
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRC) Web Part	TechNet: Using the Report Viewer Web Part
BI/Insights – Timeline Controls 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. (The use of existing Timeline Controls is available to SharePoint Online customers)
Timeline Slicer	Office: Business intelligence capabilities in Excel Services
BI/Insights – 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.
Visio Services	TechNet: Visio Services in SharePoint Server 2013
Search – Content Search Web Part The Content Search Web Part is a SharePoint Server 2013 feature that displays content that was crawled and added to an organization’s search index. It is a very powerful and versatile Web Part, especially when it is used in combination with managed navigation and category pages. The Content Search Web Part allows you to select a result source. This makes it very easy to specify which content should be searched. You can also use Keyword Query Language to add more filters and search terms to the query in this Web Part. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Content Search Web Part	MSDN: Content Search Web Part in SharePoint 2013 TechNet: Configure Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2013
Search – custom entity extraction 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 to improve your organization’s search experience, for example by creating refiners. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Custom entity extraction	TechNet: Create and deploy custom entity extractors
Search – Content Enrichment 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. (Not available to SharePoint Online customers)
Extensible content processing	MSDN: Custom content processing with the Content Enrichment web service callout
Search – Query rules advanced In this 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.
Query rules—advanced actions	Steve Peschka: Query Rule Conditions in SharePoint 2013 Search SharePoint ITPro blog: What happened to Best Bets? Introducing Query Rules
Search – Results formatted for Video A targeted search experience that displays results that are custom filtered and formatted for video content.
Search vertical: “Video”	TechNet: What’s new in search in SharePoint Server 2013

I hope that this compilation of facts will help you in some way, I was looking for a similar list and I know I have many times before with 2003, 2007 and 2010.

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