sharepoint

Note-to-self: OneDrive (For Business) vs SharePoint Online

Just got a question about the differences between OneDrive (for Business) and SharePoint Online… As it’s not my core knowledge, I just did some quick research, which might serve your knowledge too… Here we go.

Sources:

The page on OneDrive for Business Service Description has a very interesting comparison, but IMHO, it’s missing a bit of color.
So, I’ve reworked the page slightly (but all credits to the Microsoft Product team.

 

Table of Contents

 

Developer features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Access Services		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

App Catalog (SharePoint)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

App Deployment: Cloud-Hosted Apps		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

App Deployment: SharePoint-Hosted Apps		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

App Management Services		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

BCS: Alerts for External Lists		 No No No Yes

BCS: App Scoped External Content Types (ECTs)		 No No No Yes

BCS: Business Data Webparts		 No No No Yes

BCS: External List		 No No No Yes

BCS: OData connector		 No No No Yes

BCS: Profile Pages		 No No No No

BCS: Rich Client Integration		 No No No No

BCS: Secure Store Service		 No No No Yes

BCS: Tenant-level external data log		 No No No Yes

Browser-based customizations		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Client Object Model (OM)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Client-side rendering (CSR)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Custom Site Definitions		 No No No No

Custom Site Provisioning		 No No No No

Developer Site		 No No Yes Yes

Forms Based Applications		 No No Yes Yes

Full-Trust Solutions		 No No No No

InfoPath Forms Services		 No No No Yes

JavaScript Object Model		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

List and Library APIs		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Remote Event Receiver		 No No Yes Yes

REST API		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Sandboxed Solutions		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

SharePoint Design Manager		 No No Yes Yes

SharePoint Designer		 No No Yes Yes

SharePoint Store 2		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Workflow 2010 (.NET 3.5)		 No No Yes Yes

Workflow 2010 (out of the box)		 No No Yes Yes

Workflow 2013		 No No Yes Yes

Workload API: ECM APIs		 No No Yes Yes

Workload API: Search APIs		 No No Yes Yes

Workload API: Social APIs		 No No Yes Yes

 

IT Professional features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Active Directory Synchronization		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Alternate Access Mapping (AAM)		 No No No No

Analytics Platform		 No No Yes Yes

Anti-malware protection		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Claims-Based Authentication Support		 No No No No

Configuration Wizards		 No No No No

Data loss prevention		 No Yes No Yes

Deferred Site Collection upgrade		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Distributed Cache		 No No No No

Encryption at rest		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Host Header Site Collections		 No No No No

Improved Permissions Management		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Improved Self-Service Site Creation		 No No No No

Managed Accounts		 No No No No

Minimal Download Strategy (MDS)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

OAuth		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Patch Management		 No No No No

Quota Templates		 No No No No

Read-Only Database Support		 No No No No

Remote BLOB Storage		 No No No No

Request Management		 No No No No

Request throttling		 No No No No

Resource throttling		 No No No No

Service Application Platform		 No No Yes Yes

SharePoint Health Analyzer		 No No No No

SharePoint admin center		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Shredded Storage		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Site Collection Compliance Policies		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Site Collection Health Checks		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

State Service		 No No No No

Streamlined Central Administration		 No No No No

System Status Notifications		 No No No No

Unattached Content Database Recovery		 No No No No

Upgrade evaluation site collections		 No No Yes Yes

Usage Reporting and Logging		 No No No No

Windows PowerShell Support		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

 

Content features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Accessibility Standards Support		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Asset Library Enhancements/Video Support		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Auditing		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Auditing & Reporting (e.g. doc edits, policy edits, deletes)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Content Organizer		 No No Yes Yes

Design Manager		 No No Yes Yes

Document Sets		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Document Translation in Word Online		 Yes4 Yes4 Yes4 Yes4

eDiscovery Search		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

eDiscovery Hold		 No Yes No Yes

eDiscovery Export		 No Yes No Yes

Email enabled lists and libraries		 No No No No

External Sharing: External Access		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

External Sharing: Guest Link		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Folder Sync		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

IRM using Azure AD Rights Management		 No1 No1 No1 No1

IRM using Windows Server AD RMS		 No No No No

Managed Metadata Service		 No No Yes Yes

Metadata-driven Navigation		 No No Yes Yes

Multi-stage Disposition		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Office Online (create/edit)		 Yes Yes No No

Office Online (view)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Office Web Apps Server integration		 No No No No

PowerPoint Automation Services		 No No No No

Preservation hold library		 No Yes No Yes

Quick Edit		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Records management		 No No Yes Yes

Recycle Bin (SharePoint admin center)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Recycle Bin (site collection)		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Related Items		 No No Yes Yes

Rich Media Management		 No No Yes Yes

Shared Content Types		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

SharePoint Translation Services		 No No Yes Yes

Site mailbox		 No No Yes Yes

Surveys		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Unique Document IDs		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Video Search		 No No No Yes

WCM: Analytics		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Catalog		 No No No Yes

WCM: Category page and catalog item page		 No No No Yes

WCM: Search web parts		 No No No Yes

WCM: Cross-Site publishing		 No No No Yes

WCM: Designer Tools		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Faceted navigation		 No No No No

WCM: Image Renditions		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Managed navigation		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Mobile and Device Rendering		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Multiple Domains		 No No No No

WCM: Recommendations		 No No Yes Yes

WCM: Search Engine Optimizations (SEO)		 No No Yes Yes

Word Automation Services		 No No No No

 

Insights features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Business Intelligence Center		 No No No Yes

Calculated Measures and Members		 No No No Yes

Data Connection Library		 No No No Yes

Decoupled PivotTables and PivotCharts		 No No No Yes

Excel Services		 No No No Yes

Field list and Field Support		 No No No Yes

Filter Enhancements		 No No No Yes

Filter Search		 No No No Yes

PerformancePoint Services		 No No No No

PerformancePoint Services (PPS) Dashboard Migration		 No No No No

Power View for Excel in SharePoint		 No No No Yes

Power Pivot for Excel in SharePoint		 No No No Yes

Quick Explore		 No No No Yes

Scorecards & Dashboards		 No No No No

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode		 No No No No

Timeline Slicer		 No No No Yes

Visio Services		 No No No Yes

 

Search features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Advanced Content Processing		 No No No No

Continuous crawls		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Custom entity extraction		 No No No No

Deep links		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Event-based relevancy		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Expertise Search		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Extensible content processing		 No No No No

Graphical refiners		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hybrid search		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Manage search schema		 No No Yes Yes

On-premises search index		 No No No No

Phonetic name matching		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Query rules—Add promoted results		 No No Yes Yes

Query rules—advanced actions		 No No No No

Query spelling correction		 No No Yes Yes

Query suggestions		 No No Yes Yes

Query throttling		 No No Yes Yes

Quick preview		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Ranking models		 No Yes Yes2 Yes2

Refiners		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

RESTful Query API/Query OM		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Result sources		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Search connector framework		 No No No No

Search results sorting		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Search vertical: “Conversations”		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Search vertical: “People”		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Search vertical: “Video”		 No No No Yes

“This List” searches		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

 

Sites features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Change the look		 No No Yes Yes

Connections to Microsoft Office Clients		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Cross Browser Support		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Custom Managed Paths		 No No No No

Governance		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Large List Scalability and Management		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Mobile Connectivity		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Multi-Lingual User Interface		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

My Tasks		 No No Yes Yes

OOTB Web Parts		 No No Yes Yes

Permissions Management		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Project functionality for team sites		 No No Yes Yes

Project site template		 No No Yes Yes

Project Summary web part		 No No Yes Yes

Project workspace		 No No Yes Yes

SharePoint Lists		 No No Yes Yes

SharePoint Ribbon		 No No Yes Yes

Site folders		 No No Yes Yes

Task list		 No No Yes Yes

Team Site: Drag & Drop		 No No Yes Yes

Team Site: Notebook		 No No Yes Yes

Team Site: Simplified Access		 No No Yes Yes

Templates		 No No Yes Yes

Themes		 No No Yes Yes

Usage Analytics		 No No Yes Yes

Variations		 No No Yes Yes

Work Management Service		 No No Yes Yes

 

Social features OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Ask Me About		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Blogs		 No No Yes Yes

Communities Reputation, Badging, and Moderation		 No No Yes Yes

Community		 No No Yes Yes

Company Feed		 No No Yes Yes

Document Conversations with Yammer		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Follow		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Microblogging		 No No Yes Yes

Newsfeed		 No No Yes Yes

One Click Sharing		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

People, Sites, Document Recommendations		 No No Yes Yes

Personal Site		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Photos and Presence		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Profile		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Ratings		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Shared with Me		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Site Feed		 No No Yes Yes

OneDrive for Business		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Tag profiles		 No No Yes Yes

Tasks integrated with Outlook		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Trending Tags		 No No Yes Yes

Wikis		 No No Yes Yes

 

Add-Ons OneDrive for Business Plan 1 OneDrive for Business Plan 2 SharePoint Online Plan 1 SharePoint Online Plan 2

Additional Storage		 No No No No

Azure Provisioned Apps: Access Services		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Azure Provisioned Apps: Custom Code in Azure LWR		 Yes Yes Yes Yes

Duet Online		 No No No No

(Last update: 2020-12-31)

Note-to-self: Sharepoint maintenance for FIMsters (#FIM2010 running out of disk space?)

When you’re taking care of your FIM Server, more specific the FIM Portal server running Sharepoint, you might encounter some events in the event viewer, where Sharepoint is complaining about the lack of disk space.

But it’s very likely that you have plenty of disk space …

If you don’t have plenty of disk space, (*) then stop reading and fix it, bookmark this page and come back.

 

So, you have plenty of diskspace…
Then it’s very likely you have enough memory in your system to run your FIM Server smoothly… (if not go back 2 lines, and execute *)

Now, plenty of memory and plenty of disk is the problem.

By default Sharepoint runs the health analyser and has gotten 2 rules that compare the amount of memory against the amount of free space.

See here for more explanation: Drives are running out of free space (SharePoint Foundation 2010)
“This rule checks disk space as a proportion of the RAM on the computer. When disk space is less than twice the RAM on the computer, the health rule triggers an error. When disk space is less than five times the RAM on the computer, the health rule triggers a warning. Accordingly, server computers with lots of RAM are more likely to experience a failure of this rule.”

So if you have a huge amount of memory, this rule can easily fill up your application event error log in your event viewer.

What can you do about it?

First of all, there are more and other rules, tools and checks that will warn you if you REALLY have a disk issue:

  • the operating system will warn you if your hard drive is going below the usual free space thresholds
  • Better make sure you’ve got a system monitoring active (like System Center Operations Manager)
  • There are additional health rules in SharePoint that monitor the disk for % of free space

Secondly, you can disable the redundant error messages by the SharePoint Health Analyser.
Check out this post:
“SBS2011: The SharePoint Health Analyzer detected an error. Drives are running out of free space. Available drive space is less than twice the value of physical memory. [Solved]
http://www.vspbreda.nl/nl/2013/11/sbs2011-the-sharepoint-health-analyzer-detected-an-error-drives-are-running-out-of-free-space-available-drive-space-is-less-than-twice-the-value-of-physical-memory-solved/

Although the post is focusing on SBS2011, it does also apply to SharePoint Server 2010 (Foundation).

The post provides a step by step guide to disable the 2 disk analysis jobs:

  • Disks are at risk of running out of free space. (free disk space < 5x your server’s RAM)
  • Disk are running out of free space (free space < 2x your server RAM)

 

For WSS and SharePoint 2007, it’s slightly different, check this out:

http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/premierfieldengineering/archive/2009/05/09/timer-jobs-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

And also: SharePoint Timer job reference (Office SharePoint Server) at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678870(v=office.12).aspx#section1

Note-to-self: Troubleshooting #FIM2010 Sharepoint error event id 6481 Application Server job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance

Error Details:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server
Date:          2014-05-21 03:04:00
Event ID:      6481
Task Category: Shared Services
Level:         Error
Keywords:
User:          DOMAIN\SPFARMSvcAccount
Computer:      FIMPORTALSERVER.DOMAIN.LOCAL
Description:
Application Server job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance (0a460b52-213c-4cd3-8e0a-b7e33ac6b8d6).

Reason: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by DOMAIN\SPFARMSvcAccount, in the OWSTIMER (5016) process, on machine FIMPORTALSERVER.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.

Technical Support Details:
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by DOMAIN\SPFARMSvcAccount, in the OWSTIMER (5016) process, on machine FIMPORTALSERVER.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.UpdateWithRetrying()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.Synchronize(Boolean calledFromSearchServiceInstance)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event”&gt;
<System>
<Provider Name=”Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server” Guid=”{C33B4F2A-64E9-4B39-BD72-F0C2F27A619A}” />
<EventID>6481</EventID>
<Version>15</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>3</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime=”2014-05-21T01:04:00.220244700Z” />
<EventRecordID>110139</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID=”{B3E7929C-18F3-208C-0D4A-7E9CBD19AFB8}” />
<Execution ProcessID=”5748″ ThreadID=”3392″ />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>FIMPORTALSERVER.DOMAIN.LOCAL</Computer>
<Security UserID=”S-1-5-21-00000000-811273523-976865563-261671″ />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name=”string0″>Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance</Data>
<Data Name=”string1″>0a460b52-213c-4cd3-8e0a-b7e33ac6b8d6</Data>
<Data Name=”string2″>An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by DOMAIN\SPFARMSvcAccount, in the OWSTIMER (5016) process, on machine FIMPORTALSERVER.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.</Data>
<Data Name=”string3″>Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPUpdatedConcurrencyException: An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object SearchDataAccessServiceInstance was updated by DOMAIN\SPFARMSvcAccount, in the OWSTIMER (5016) process, on machine FIMPORTALSERVER.  View the tracing log for more information about the conflict.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.UpdateWithRetrying()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchDataAccessServiceInstance.Synchronize(Boolean calledFromSearchServiceInstance)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Solution:

1. Check the SharePoint Farm account password, Try to (re)start the sharepoint timer service. Check for logon failure.

See: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2663487c-748d-413e-a8fc-81f41f216297/update-conflict-in-search-service-application

2. Clear the SharePoint cache on the server where the timer service is running.

Refers to: http://www.social-point.com/sharepoint-2010-event-id-6482-application-server-administration-job-failed-for-service-instance-microsoft-office-server-search-administration-searchserviceinstance

 

#FIM 2010 Quicktip: Troubleshooting the FIM 2010 portal loading a blank page

Working on a case where a FIM configuration has moved from development to production.
The customer’s production environment is a highly secured environment with a server security lockdown. The customer is using a custom tool for server profiling and local security lockdown.

After installing and configuring FIM, the FIM portal was loading blank.

 

The Application Pool account had changed. When adding the Application pool account to the local administrators group, the portal loaded again…

So we needed to investigate what was going wrong.

Some references we got from our Sharepoint colleagues…

Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445(v=office.12).aspx

How to change service accounts and service account passwords in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934838/en-us.

They also advised to run a security reset on the SharePoint portal, see: Command-line reference for the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (Office SharePoint Server)http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263093(v=office.12).aspx

secureresources Performs SharePoint Products and Technologies resource security enforcement on the server. For example, security is enforced on files, folders, and registry keys.

Example

psconfig.exe -cmd secureresources

Although very useful to reset the security, it didn’t change the behaviour on the portal (still loading blank page).

Using procmon (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx), we found out that we had quite some errors.
Just a hint: exclude ‘success’ messages and filter on the targeted application pool account.

We first checked the default WSS group memberships for the AppPoolAccount.

For reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863(v=office.15).aspx

 

Just to double check, during troubleshooting we removed the WSS_WPG group from the FIM Portal application pool (default Sharepoint Application pool).

This is the result:

HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error

The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

clip_image002

So that made the situation even worse.

Back to the procmon results, as procmon threw errors on the impersonation of the application pool account we checked the local security policy. And the AppPool account appeared to be removed from the setting or was not member of the groups referenced in the setting.

Solution:

Do not make the Application pool account member of the local admins.

Make sure the Application Pool account has the “Impersonate a client after authentication” right in the local Security Policy.

image

 

Need more information? Check these articles …

Account permissions and security settings in SharePoint 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863(v=office.15).aspx)

Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445(v=office.12).aspx