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Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:46:25 GMT
Body: "Business is business and business must grow.”
-Once-ler from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss.
Your feedback was clear: “We need more online storage and it needs to be cheaper.”
So we adjusted the SharePoint Online service accordingly—both in per tenant storage quota limits and the cost of additional storage. Now, you can be less constrained as you plan your content management strategy and determine how and where you share files and manage projects.
Tenant storage quota limit increase—Now up to 25 terabytes(TB)
Individual customers (tenants) can now consume up to 25TB of data and content, compared to the previous per tenant limit of 5TB. As a result, storage limits are no longer such a barrier. Go ahead and create new documents, share them, version them, move them from DRAFT to FINAL, review and approve them, populate lists, publish forms, generate new sites, upload marketing assets, create company-wide Document Centers, design your company intranet, and more.
Additional storage costs decrease—A 92 percent price reduction
Along with the recent price reductions across Office 365, the SharePoint Online additional storage add-on has decreased by 92 percent effective immediately. The reduction translates to a drop from U.S. $2.50 per GB/month, to $0.20 per GB/month. Yes, you read that right—20 cents each month. So if you need more storage than you originally received by default, go ahead. You won’t break the bank.
How much storage do you need?
There is a simple equation to help determine how much SharePoint Online content and data storage space your company gets by default when you purchase of Office 365. Please note that “seats” refers to individual user licenses.
Total available tenant storage quota |
10GB + (500MB * E1-E4 seats) + purchased additional storage |
Note: Kiosk workers (K1 & K2) and external users do not contribute to the total available tenant storage quota.
In addition to overall combined company storage, every user that gets a My Site (E1-E4) will also get 500MB of personal storage. My Sites are a central location to store and manage documents, favorite links, and personal blog and wiki pages.
Two example scenarios:
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Contoso Inc. purchases a total of 2,300 seats: 1,000 Office 365 E1, 500 Office 365 E2, 500 Office 365 E3, 300 Office 365 K2, and plans to invite 35 vendors as external users for various event activities. Contoso will not need more storage beyond its default allocation. |
· Total available tenant storage quota = 10GB + (2,000 * 500MB) = 1010GBs <~1TB>
· Individuals who get My Site storage (500MB each) = 2,000 |
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Fabrikam purchases a total of 45,000 seats: 30,000 Office 365 E1, 10,000 Office 365 E3, 5,000 Office 365 K1, and plans to invite 250 clients as external users to share drafts and final deliverables. The company will require an additional 100GB. |
· Total available tenant storage quota = 10GB + (40,000 * 500MB) + 100GB =20,110GBs <~ 20TBs>
· Individuals who get My Site storage (500MB each) = 40,000 |
You can go here to read more about SharePoint Online boundaries. And please review the SharePoint Online service description for more information on user rights across the various license types.
Thanks,
SharePoint Online Team
Published: 4/24/2012 9:00 AM
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Unlock your customer’s value by Integrating SharePoint with your CRM system
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:24:27 GMT
Body: SharePoint customers are finding new ways to leverage the power of SharePoint in combination with other Microsoft products to achieve their goals. Two customers that have taken advantage of the great integration between SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites and Dynamics CRM are Copenhagen Airports (CPH) and Boys and Girls Club of Canada (BGCC). By combining SharePoint with Dynamics CRM they have improved their customer experience and relationships while increasing site traffic and revenue goals.
Copenhagen Airports (CPH) owns and operates the airports in Kastrup and Roskilde, Denmark. Kastrup airport, with more than 22.7 million passengers in 2011, is the busiest of the Scandinavian countries.CPH wanted to improve its service to passengers and increase retail revenue, but it had no data on passengers that it could use to sell them products and services. Using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to create the program website and a related shopping website, CPH was able to launch a customer loyalty program.
Benefits to CPH:
· Able to attract 50,000 members in two months
· Improved service to travelers
· Increased initial revenues by 45 percent
· Gained platform for future expansion
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada (BGCC) provides physical, educational, and social development to more than 200,000 young people and their families in more than 700 communities across Canada.BGCC wanted to revitalize its website and also create a members-only portal where employees could share information with BGCC clubs across the country. BGCC worked with technology partner Envision IT to build a new public-facing website and employee intranet using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites. From an operations perspective, Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the key line-of-business application at BGCC. It tracks all clubs, service locations, staff, volunteers, donations, campaigns, newsletters, and marketing campaigns. It was crucial to BGCC that everything on the website feed into this program.
Benefits to BGCC:
· Increased site traffic by 20 percent
· Increased donations by 50 percent
· Improved information sharing
· Achieved annual administrative savings of US $30,000
Published: 4/10/2012 11:14 AM
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What’s new in the User Profile Service Application
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:43:59 GMT
Body: The User Profile Service Application stores information about users in a centralized location used by SharePoint’s social computing features to support natural collaboration. The User Profile Service Application is also required when provisioning My Site personal sites, enabling certain social computing features such as newsfeeds, and the creation and distribution of user profiles across server farms or sites.
The User Profile Service Application is based on technologies provided through ForeFront Identity Manager which provides a comprehensive solution for identity and credential management and identity-based access policies.
Since RTM the User Profile Service Application has been incrementally improved through Cumulative Updates and Service Packs to improve both its performance and resiliency. Recent improvements include:
Parallel SharePoint, Active Directory, and Business Connectivity Services import and export support ForeFront Identity Manager performance improvements Reduction of full table scans and indexing specific user properties Batch import of Business Connectivity Services user properties Removed automatic provisioning of users and groups to ILM MA Programmatic cleanup of large run histories Resolution of AD-Contact objects in ForeFront Identity Manager as opposed to SharePoint Server 2010
As a result of these improvements there has been a dramatic reduction of the time required to import user information into SharePoint. For example, inside of Microsoft on the RTM version of SharePoint Server 2010 with 100,000 users our profile import duration for full sychronization commonly required 2 weeks to complete and 2-3 days to support an incremental synchronization. This same scenario on SharePoint Server 2010 with the December 2011 Cumulative Update has been reduced to 120-140 hours for a full synchronization and 6 hours for an incremental synchronization.
If you’re experience delays in importing users and properties or are just looking to improve the security, reliability, and performance of your SharePoint 2010 environment we recommend installing the latest Cumulative Update or Service Pack.
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Bill Baer
Senior Product Marketing Manager (Microsoft, SharePoint)
Published: 4/5/2012 9:20 AM
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The road to the social enterprise
Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:02:43 GMT
Body: There is no doubt that the world of social networking has been heating up. As Facebook has captured the attention of the consumer world, many organizations are looking at how they can use social networking within a business context. It’s a frothy market, and there’s a lot of noise – and the stand-alone vendors have historically been more focused on features and functions than on real business outcomes. Our view is that social is about putting people at the center of your business – helping employees, customers, and partners connect with the people and information they need to complete specific tasks. People interact with your organization all day, every day, and they’re trying to get things done. Customers want to buy things and get their questions answered. Partners need to perform services and make deliveries. Employees need to complete tasks. Social helps all of these people get things done.
To make a real business impact with social, companies must provide both a connected experience and a connected social platform.
The connected experience
Social should unify a business, not fragment it. Most social technologies today require people to go to yet another place to connect with each other, when what they really need are tools that are woven into the fabric of the tools they already use. The last thing you need is another inbox.
We recently conducted research with Harris Interactive (download the summary), asking 202 business and IT decision makers in organizations with more than 1,000 employees here in the U.S. why they are implementing enterprise social networking solutions and where they see value. The results showed that when looking at the type of features organizations want in a social solution, sixty-seven percent of decision makers said instant messaging, sixty-four percent said email, and sixty-two percent said video conferencing. It was only after those that they started to say things like “likes,” “follows,” and activity streams.
By bringing all of these features together, you’re able to augment collaboration and leverage a new type of communication social introduces: serendipity (or “connecting the dots”). For example, I was in Boston last week and because I let my network know I would be at the Cambridge office, a member of the team there reached out, and we were able to have a short meeting about some very important work they’re doing. If I hadn’t shared that update, I never would have connected with the team. There’s real value in creating and leveraging those serendipitous moments.
The connected platform
A connected platform is also critical to success. According to the Harris research, ninety percent of decision makers cited security as a top concern when it comes to social; sixty-six percent are concerned about integration with other systems; and fifty-three percent are worried about compliance. A connected platform approach addresses all of those concerns, as well as ensures you have a strong system in place to manage and analyze the data your social graph generates.
Early days
The research also showed that we’re still in the very early stages, as only thirty percent of decision makers had implemented a social solution broadly across their organizations. The majority of respondents – forty-eight percent – were still in a small, pilot phase. So as we look at how companies can be successful, a pilot phase is common and a great way to address your company’s unique culture and business needs. Once you have a solid approach in place, you can start to think about expanding more broadly across your organization or add additional functionality.
Social is here to stay
Social is a big area of investment for us because it speaks to our vision for the Microsoft Office Division: putting people –employees, customers, and partners – at the center of your business to get tasks and real work done. A connected experience infuses social into the places where people already work, making the interactions more meaningful and task-oriented. A connected platform helps you manage and secure the information and interactions in the enterprise social network. If you’re looking for examples of successful social solutions, see how three Fortune 500 companies have fostered a social online community across their organizations: download the whitepaper.
So, what do you think? How are you using social? Or are you using social? Join me for a Facebook Live Chat on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific. Bring your questions and thoughts on enterprise social networking.
Look forward to talking with you then!
Jared Spataro
Published: 3/22/2012 9:34 AM
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A Perspective on the Community Ecosystem
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:36:27 GMT
Body: “Back in the day, products came with manuals. Now they come with communities.”
@ScotHillier
Well said, ahem tweeted, Scot. The gravitational pull of technology seeks the glue that binds. And that is community. Where do you turn when you are in question? Community. What sounding board is available when you have a nascent idea? Community. And most importantly, who do you SharePint with? Community. J
I wanted to share my perspective on two recent SharePoint Community events (managed by the community) that I got to take part in. One was a fast-paced hour of online text flurry, virtuous opinions, hashtags and speed replies. The other was an inaugural, in-person event with 1,875 back-to-back minutes of solid info from class-A presenters. Combined, the two events highlight the tip of what is truly a rich ecosystem of people coming together to share.
State of the SharePoint Community Tweet Jam 2012
The Tweet Jam (moderated by @markfidelman of harmon.ie, his event recap) spawned out of this original question: “Is the SharePoint Community still relevant?” And if you solely went by how many people showed up to partici-tweet, you could answer the question with an emphatic “yes!” But that’s too easy. The real beauty of the event was the tremendous dialogue squashed into 60 minutes – a flurry of Q&A: 484 original tweets, 285 retweets, 196 @mentions. The Community was active and trending in the positive with tweets like:
· “As long as people are answering and asking questions”
· “Education and training piece of the platform is huge”
· “Will be relevant as long as SharePoint is around”
The topics then spanned beyond ‘relevancy’ and dove into questions about ways to improve community effectiveness, community impact on the product, and how does community mature as the product matures. The answers to all were impressive, challenging, and engaging.
It was great to be an active participant, to represent the SharePoint Team, and watch the SharePoint community flex its muscles. The community was there and relevant way before the Tweet Jam, and so great to see people engaging - not running for the irrelevant hills. I look forward to the next #SPJam – anxious for the next topic.
Office 365 Saturday – Inaugural Event in Redmond, WA
First came SQL Saturday, then SharePoint Saturday, and now Office 365 Saturday: 175 attendees, 5 tracks, 25 sessions, 1,875 minutes of great, free content - all packed into one very active day - in Microsoft’s backyard at the Redmond campus conference center (again completely managed by the community).
I was honored to give the keynote speech. I brought three rabid SharePoint fans with me (my dad, my daughter and my son). J The content focused on Office 365 momentum, roadmap and a peek into the data centers that power Office 365. There were a lot of good questions and great to see both new and familiar faces. Here’s a screengrab of slide #1 of my deck:
Once the keynote ended, the real depth content began to flow. Topics ranged from deployment, hybrid, out-of-box solutions to coded solutions, planning and evaluation, and more. And all were delivered by fantastic presenters – who attended on their own dime (a testament to their commitment).
The hallways were the real lens into the community. With each break, the doors would open, people spilling out chitchatting about what they had learned. My favorite overheard comment was, “These events are great. I learn something every time and love seeing my peeps.” And numerous times I would hear people share best practices and advice on how they work on/with Office 365.
2012 is starting strong. Many months to come and the calendar is a-buzz – there are so many opportunities to get engaged, voice your opinions, and share ideas. Hit us up via SharePoint’s Twitter page or use #SharePoint, the SharePoint Facebook page – or a good ol’ high five any time. I look forward to hearing from, seeing, and speaking with many of you!
Thanks,
Published: 3/14/2012 9:00 AM
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