SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online is available in two main tiers: Dedicated, which gives each customer dedicated server hardware and has a minimum requirement of 5,000 seats, and Standard, which uses shared server hardware and is available for organizations of all sizes. Both levels include SharePoint Server’s core features for building team sites and intranet portals and searching content stored within a single SharePoint site collection, and the Dedicated level adds business intelligence (BI), enterprise search, and other features.

A third Deskless Worker tier offers browser-based read-only access to material stored on a SharePoint Online collection. The SLAs for all three tiers offer the same 99.9% uptime and regular data backup to provide restoration in the event of a service failure.

SharePoint Online Dedicated

Of the three online tiers, Dedicated offers the most features, customization, technical support, service continuity planning, and failover testing. To ensure adequate bandwidth at all times, dedicated communications links connect the customer’s internal network with Microsoft’s data centers. The Dedicated tier offers two-way synchronization with the customer’s Active Directory Domain Services implementation, which can speed new user provisioning and enables single sign-on from corporate networks.