Microsoft SharePoint Online in Office 365 empowers people to share and work together, to inform and engage others across the company, to transform business processes, and to harness collective knowledge. In addition, SharePoint provides capabilities for organizations to protect and manage data and to build custom solutions. For a quick overview, see What is SharePoint?
To compare features across plans, see Compare Office 365 for Business plans.
For information about new features in SharePoint Online, see What's new in SharePoint Online.
For system requirements for Office 365, the monthly subscription-based service available for business, education, and government organizations, please see Office 365 system requirements.
There are some limits to the SharePoint Online service managed by Microsoft, such as site collection quotas, file upload limits, and storage limits. For details, see SharePoint Online Limits.
To learn more about mobile support, see Use a mobile device to work with SharePoint Online sites.
Office 365 is available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your organization. For information about different plans, including standalone plan options and information on moving from one plan to another, see Office 365 Plan Options.
Each person who accesses SharePoint Online must be assigned to an Office 365 plan or SharePoint Online Plan 1 or SharePoint Online Plan 2 standalone service. However, a Firstline plan is not sold as a standalone offer, only as part of the Firstline subscription, such as SharePoint Online Firstline. Since Firstline workers can’t be administrators, tenants with Firstline workers require at least one Enterprise administrator to manage SharePoint. Firstline workers won’t see SharePoint navigation menus, so Firstline workers have to navigate to SharePoint sites directly by URL.
OneDrive for Business (formerly SkyDrive Pro) is personal online storage for a company’s employees. It’s the place where people can store, sync, and share their work files across multiple devices with ease and security. OneDrive for Business is included in SharePoint Online and can also be purchased as a standalone plan. The OneDrive for Business standalone option includes Office Online. To see which features are included in OneDrive for Business with Office Online, see the OneDrive for Business Service Description.
External users inherit the use rights of the SharePoint Online customer who is inviting them to collaborate. That is, if an organization purchases an E3 Enterprise plan and builds a site that uses enterprise features, the external user is granted rights to use and/or view the enterprise features within the site collection they are invited to. While external users can be invited as extended project members to perform a full range of actions on a site, they will not have the exact same capabilities as a full, paid, licensed member within your organization. Learn more about what external users can and can’t do.
Use the following table to determine whether a SharePoint feature is available in an Office 365 plan.
Developer features
Office 365 Business
SharePoint Online Plan 1
SharePoint Online Plan 2
Office 365 Enterprise E1
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Office 365 Enterprise E5
Office 365 Enterprise F1
SharePoint Server 2016 Standard
SharePoint Server 2016 Enterprise
Access Services
Yes
No
App Catalog (SharePoint)
App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps
App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps
App Management Services
BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs)
BCS: Business Data Webparts
BCS: External List
BCS: OData connector
BCS: Rich Client Integration
Client Object Model (OM)
Custom Site Provisioning
Developer Site
Forms Based Applications
Full-Trust Solutions
InfoPath Forms Services
Yes17
JavaScript Object Model
Remote Event Receiver
REST APIs
Sandboxed Solutions
Yes16
SharePoint Design Manager
SharePoint Designer 2013
SharePoint Framework
SharePoint 2010 workflows (out of the box)
SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 workflows
Yes4
IT Professional features
Active Directory Synchronization
Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)
Anti-malware protection
Claims-Based Authentication Support
Customer Key for Office 365
No20
Data loss prevention
Encryption at rest
Encryption in transit
Host Header Site Collections
Mobile Device Management for Office 365
OAuth
Yes8
Patch Management
N/A
Quota Templates
Read-Only Database Support
Remote BLOB Storage
Request Management
Resource throttling
Service Application Platform
SharePoint Health Analyzer
SharePoint admin center (Office 365)
No4
SharePoint central administration center
Site Collection Compliance Policies
Usage Reporting and Logging
Windows PowerShell Support
Content features
Accessibility Standards Support
Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support
Auditing
Auditing & Reporting (e.g., doc edits, policy edits, deletes)
Catalog
Category page and catalog item page
Content Organizer
Cross-Site Publishing
Design Manager
Document Sets
Document Translation in Word Online
eDiscovery Search
Yes6
eDiscovery Hold
No6
eDiscovery Export
External Sharing: External Access
Yes9
Configurable for extranet
External Sharing: Guest Link
Faceted navigation
Yes7
Folder Sync
Yes1
Yes2
Hybrid Auditing
Yes19
Hybrid Taxonomy and Content Types
Image Renditions
IRM using Azure Information Protection
No3
No1
No3, 4
Managed Metadata Service
Metadata-driven Navigation
Multi-stage Disposition
Office Online (create/edit)
Yes15
Office Online (view)
Office ProPlus
Office Web Apps Server integration
Included
Preservation hold library
Publishing Analytics
Quick Edit
Records management
Recycle Bin (SharePoint admin center)
Recycle Bin (site collection)
Search Web Parts
Shared Content Types
SharePoint Translation Services
Unique Document IDs
Video Search
WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO)
Word Automation Services
Insights features
Business Intelligence Center
Calculated Measures and Members
Data Connection Library
Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts
Field list and Field Support
Filter Enhancements
Filter Search
PerformancePoint Services
Power BI Web Part
Power View for Excel in SharePoint
PowerPivot for Excel in SharePoint
Quick Explore
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode
Timeline Slicer
Visio Online 18
Visio Services 18
Search features
Continuous crawls
Deep links
Event-based relevancy
Expertise Search
Graphical refiners
Highlighted content (Web Part)
Hybrid search
Intelligent search (Microsoft graph)
Manage search schema
People cards
Phonetic name matching
Query rules—Add promoted results
Query rules—advanced actions
Query spelling correction
Query suggestions
On-hover preview
Ranking models
Yes5
Yes3
Refiners
RESTful Query API/Query OM
Search results sorting
“This List” searches
Sites features
Communication sites
Community
Yes13
Company Feed
Cross Browser Support
Custom Managed Paths
Document libraries
Governance
Hub sites
No21
Hybrid App Launcher
Hybrid OneDrive for Business and Sites
Large List Scalability and Management
Mobile Connectivity
Yes10
Multi-Lingual User Interface
Yes11
OOTB Web Parts
Permissions Management
Personal blogs
Yes12
Project site template
SharePoint Lists
SharePoint Ribbon
Site designs
Site themes ("change the look")
Site usage page
Task list
Team Notebook
Team Site
Variations
Site Feed (classic team site using SharePoint social)
Wikis
Yammer integration
Add-Ons
Additional Storage
Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services
Yes14
Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code in Azure LWR
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