Top 10 New SharePoint Online Features

New user interface (UI) The entire UI across Office 365

on down to SharePoint Online has been reimagined. It's easy on the eyes, easy to navigate and easy to accomplish common tasks. And it's snappy performance will delight!

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SkyDrive ProSkyDrive Pro is cloud storage for employees that is now a core part of SharePoint Online. SkyDrive Pro is intended to meet your usage criteria and provide organizational control. Everyone who has use rights to a Personal Site (what used to be called "My Sites") gets SkyDrive Pro, along with 7GB of personal storage quota--that's increased from 500MB.

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Learn more about SkyDrive Pro here.!

YammerWe are very excited about Yammer! Yammer is becoming the social layer across many Microsoft products. This is most prevalent with SharePoint and CRM today--it's our big bet for enterprise social. Office 365 is our next step - Yammer will be included with a SharePoint Online or Office 365 investment (compare plans).

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Learn more about SharePoint Newsfeed and other mobile offerings.

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Guest LinksExternal Sharing just got better. Now you can share sites, folders, and individual documents with the new Guest Links feature that enables users to invite others from inside and outside the company to collaborate on individual Office documents. To share and collaborate, guests enter a username and password, or they can use  anonymous co-authoring.  

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New and improved Public Website The public website in

SharePoint Online includes a new design and new features for customizing the site and individual pages. Because the website is built on the SharePoint platform, you now get publishing capabilities, more Web parts (social media add-ins, blogging and commenting, new Apps for SharePoint from the Office Store), SEO property options and advanced design options.

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To learn more, view the Get Started with your public website video and read the Get started with your public website article.

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eDiscoverySharePoint Online brings improved ways to help you protect your business with eDiscovery. From a single eDiscovery management site, you can add sources and create queries to discover content across sites and document libraries, mailboxes and discussions and keep them in-place --in SharePoint Online, in Exchange Online and in Lync Online.

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! Learn more about how to plan and manage eDiscovery cases.

Site MailboxWhen two world-class services come together, you get the benefit of both worlds. Combine SharePoint Online's document management strengths with Exchange Online's powerful email solutions and you get Site Mailboxes - powerful project-based "inboxes" that help teams organize project-related content and email into a single view, while everything is preserved in its original location as documents in SharePoint Online and email in Exchange Online.

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Learn more about Site Mailboxes on Office.com Help.!

Enterprise search Quickly identify if you've found

the right person or document before investing time "searching beyond the search results." Users can move their cursor over a search result, and with on-hover, they can get a deep, rich look into the item without opening it.

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Learn more about all the new Search offerings in SharePoint. !

Cloud app model (CAM) The Cloud App Model in SharePoint

Online enables you to build apps for SharePoint by using familiar tools and a rich set of features. For the developer and IT Pro audiences, SharePoint Online in Office 365 now includes this new programming model for the development, installation, management, and use of apps.

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Visit http://dev.office.com/ to further explore the new Cloud app model.

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PowerShell for SPO SharePoint Online Administrators now can

use Windows PowerShell to manage their subscription. Connect to SharePoint Online from your desktop and remotely create new site collections, perform upgrade activities, add and remove SharePoint Online users and groups, repair sites, and recycle bin management. These kinds of management tasks can be scripted, automated and performed in bulk to save you time and minimize errors caused by common repetition mistakes.

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For more information, see Introduction to the SharePoint Online Management Shell.

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Storage and file upload improvements Limits are made to be exceeded. We

received a lot of great feedback during the Office 365 Preview and were able to improve a great number of common requests. Users' storage, SkyDrive Pro, has been raised to 7GB - up from 500MB. Site Collections limits have been raised - 3,000, up from 300. And we've designed for file upload sizes up to 2GB. The complete storage story is shown in the below table across the primary Office 365 plans, plus additional row items to help best plan for your use and migration of SharePoint Online.

SharePoint Online storage table, all maintained here with real-time updates regarding numerous SharePoint Online boundaries and limits.

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