Tento článek je z kategorie “fast published”, je reakcí na množící se dotazy zákazníků, kteří hledají jasnou a jednoduchou odpověď na otázku: “V čem je SharePoint online, tedy SharePoint provozovaný v rámci O365, funkčně omezen oproti SharePointu provozovaném v privátním cloudu?”

Zde je tedy výčet hlavních bodů, bez podrobného komentáře vysvětlujícího popis uvedených funkcí. Nejedná se o kompletní přehled, ale o body, funkcionalitu, kterou považujeme za klíčovou, či přesněji řečeno využívanou a chtěnou majoritou klientů.

• BCS: Rich Client Integration
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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.
• Custom Site Definitions
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers can create their own site definitions that customize and extend standard SharePoint site templates.
• Quota Templates
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. A quota template consists of storage limit values that specify the maximum amount of data that can be stored in a site collection. When the storage limit is reached, a quota template can also trigger an email alert to the site collection administrator. SharePoint Online administrators and SharePoint Server 2013 farm administrators can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection.
• Auditing of View Events
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. SharePoint Server 2013 customers who deploy on-premises can track and log when someone views a document.
• WCM: Cross-site publishing
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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.
• PerformancePoint Services
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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.
• Scorecards & Dashboards
  Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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.
• Content Search Web Part
  Content Search Web Part Not available to SharePoint Online customers. 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.

Detailní přehled srovnávající on-premise a Cloud funkcionalitu naleznete v článku SharePoint Online Service Description.