Microsoft Office SharePoint Standard Online white paper

Microsoft published a white paper describing the services and features that are included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Standard Online.

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company. Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this hosted service is ideal for storing project documents in a central location and sharing them with others. By using SharePoint lists, libraries, and Web Parts, project members can work more efficiently and productively.

Although the SharePoint Online part only supports the languages: English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, it is available in the following 20 countries:

• Australia
• Austria
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

You get 250MB of storage per user account and 50GB per site collection and a total of 1TB per company. You can create up to 20 site collections per company.

Like all Microsoft Online Services offerings, SharePoint Online has 99.9 percent scheduled uptime with financially backed service level agreements covering any instances when this service availability standard is not met. Two metrics commonly used in service continuity management to evaluate disaster recovery solutions are a recovery time objective (RTO), which measures the time between a system disaster and the time when the system is again operational, and a recovery point objective (RPO), which measures the time between the latest backup and the system disaster, representing the nearest historical point in time to which a system can recover. SharePoint Online has set an RPO and RTO in the event of a disaster:

• 12-hour RPO: Microsoft protects an organization’s SharePoint Online data and has a copy of that data that is equal to or less than 12 hours old.
• 24-hour RTO: Organizations will be able to resume service within 24 hours after service disruption if a disaster incapacitates the primary data center.

Data protection services are provided to prevent the loss of SharePoint Online data. Backups are performed every 12 hours.

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