Microsoft SharePoint Online

2013: Due to active mastering of Office 365 the cloud platform of group interaction of Microsoft allows to load files up to 2 GB in size now, supports more various types of files, and remote files are saved in a basket longer term.

As reported^[1] in the corporate blog Mark Keshman, the senior manager on products of division SharePoint Marketing, company, considering the active growth of popularity of Office 365, weakens a number of the set limits for a cloud platform of group work of Microsoft SharePoint Online. 'Users load more and more documents into SkyDrive Pro, the working groups create the numerous group websites for interaction with other internal groups of the organization and also external clients and partners there, and the companies create the websites of corporate intranets' — he wrote.

At the increasing competition from providers of cloud data storage like Box the company more than trebled volumes of disk memory for the accounts SkyDrive Pro — from 7 GB to 25 GB. In case of purchase of additional amount of memory on 20 cents for 1 GB a month administrators can expand a single-user pool of memory from standard 25 GB to 50 GB or 100 GB.

In parallel Microsoft mitigated SharePoint restrictions that users could dispose of the increased resources of cloud memory better. The extreme size of each loaded file is increased from 250 MB to 2 GB, and now drag and drop it is possible to load several files at once.

'Users nowadays will be able to load and share larger files, for example CAD drawings, video files, documents of big projects, etc., and both in personal storages SkyDrive Pro, and in libraries of documents of the group websites' — Keshman noted. Limits for collections of the websites are increased from 3000 to 10,000, and the number of interrelations for linked lists increased from 8 up to 12 that will allow to create more wide range of difficult custom solutions for the websites.

Due to the wishes of users service began to support files with the .exe and .dll expansions that pulled together its opportunities with the local SharePoint environment. According to Keshman, this change will save users from emergence of clock errors of unsupported types of files.

Also possibilities of independent recovery of files improved. Remote files will be stored in a basket before automatic complete removal not 30, but 90 days now. It is announced that new libraries SkyDrive Pro will support by default storage of document revisions in files of Office. A new system will be able to remember up to 10 versions of files of Office that should reduce the frequency of panic appeals of users to services of IT support.

'Preserving of document revisions solves a problem in case of its wrong removal or accidental rewriting of information. The user has an opportunity to recover the document in the previous type' — Keshman explained. The new feature is useful also in processes of group work. SharePoint Online, according to him, 'supports the managed flows of works on documents in which it is required to declare small or large adjustments and allows to return easily to specifically specified last version'. Besides, Keshman added, the organizations can 'register programmatically document revisions as a step on approval of work or for fixing of the fact of completion of editing'.

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