Hosted Microsoft SharePoint

Hosted Microsoft SharePoint is a service for businesses of all sizes. Instead of installing and deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises, any business can now simply subscribe to Hosted SharePoint to provide their employees with an enterprise-grade solution for creating sites to share documents and information with colleagues and customers.

Hosted SharePoint helps businesses of all sizes to:

• Work together effectively. Share your team's documents and track project milestones to keep everyone in sync.
• Keep documents up to date. Manage your team's important documents online so the latest versions are always at hand.
• Easily access information online. Provide everyone on the team with access to critical business information when and where they need it.
• Easily protect critical business information. Control who can access read and share documents and information.

Hosted SharePoint also works with familiar Microsoft Office applications. It's easy to create Office documents and save them directly to SharePoint online, or co-author documents with Microsoft Office Web Apps. Users can access important documents offline or from familiar mobile devices, and set document-level permissions to protect sensitive content.

By allowing Microsoft to operate and manage the infrastructure that is associated with Hosted SharePoint, businesses can focus their resources on what is important-running their businesses.

Why Hosted SharePoint?

The Hosted SharePoint service enables teams to work together easily to share critical business information on Hosted SharePoint sites. Colleagues and customers can access the documents they need from virtually anywhere. With your documents and information managed in one place, everyone has access the latest version. Enhanced search features help you quickly locate information and people across the company while security features let you control who can read, edit and access individual documents. And they can do this through various types of sites:

• My Sites: share and manage personal documents and information
  • Create your own personal My Site to share personal information and professional expertise.
  • Access and manage important documents from your PC, phone, or browser.
  • Follow your colleagues' latest activities and updates using notes and activity feeds.
  • Protect sensitive personal content and control who can read, edit and access files.
• Team Sites: keep teams in sync and manage important projects
  • Manage and share important documents to help teams work together efficiently.
  • Track key project milestones and schedules with shared-calendars.
  • Create, edit and review documents and proposals in real-time.
  • Manage important meeting notes and project delivery schedules.
  • Share documents and information easily with trusted business partners.
  • Enable real-time communication with colleagues right from within SharePoint.
  • Apply your own unique look and feel to team sites with custom theming and branding.
• Intranet Sites: keep up to date with company news and information
  • Keep employees up to date with the latest company news and information.
  • Access key business process information (incl. policies and procedures, training guides and expense reports).
  • Find important documents and people easily.
  • Share ideas and seek input from the company using community discussion forums and surveys.
  • Alert employees to news and business developments using blogs.
• The tools and services provided by Hosted SharePoint enable individuals and teams to:
  • Build out company-wide intranet sites.
  • Share information more securely with colleagues and trusted business partners.
  • Maintain granular control of sites, documents and lists with user and group permissions
  • Upload documents to online libraries, share documents with others, and manage how documents are used.
  • Display project calendars to track milestones and resource availability.
  • Show announcements and alerts.
  • Publish blogs and RSS feeds, or provide a list of links to other blogs, forums, and resources.
  • Maintain a list of contact names and information.
  • Create navigation for your Hosted SharePoint sites that best meets your organization's needs.
  • Provide links to other important websites.
  • Create specialized websites-Document Workspaces and Meeting Workspaces-to help manage particular projects or work items.
• The new co-authoring capabilities help people work simultaneously with colleagues on Office documents.
  • For example, more than one person can edit a Word document or slides in a Hosted SharePoint document library at the same time. For example, to review a document, users can send a link to the document in a SharePoint library, and all of the reviewers can provide their feedback in the document simultaneously.
  • No more attachments-users can, for example, store all of their recent documents in their My Site and work on them at the same time with other colleagues.
• Work with SharePoint sites, libraries, and lists offline and synchronize their changes when you reconnect to the corporate network using SharePoint Workspace 2010. Major benefits of this offline and online capabilities include:
  • Users can quickly view, add, edit and delete Hosted SharePoint library documents or list items while they are offline.
  • Two-way synchronization between a users' computer and the network-that is, updates to data and documents on the computer or on the network-are automatic while they are connected to the network. And only the changes, not the whole document, are pushed over the wire for quick syncing and updating
  • Content is automatically synchronized when people take their computer offline and then go back online.