SharePoint/Project Server – On-prem, O365, Azure

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2.66K viewsMay 25, 2020Microsoft Azure Project WorkflowsSP2016

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Rick Gresham0 March 29, 2016 0 Comments

Hi,

Brand new to the community. This will be my first posting. Trying to understand the transitions I perceive occurring in the SharePoint/Project Server, O365 and Azure space.

First, Project Web App versus O365 Planner – are they targeted at different user groups? As I understand it, PWA comes with SharePoint/Project Server while O365 Planner comes with O365 subscription. I haven’t had a chance to play with either; are the two tools similar in functionality, purpose?

On Prem vs the cloud – we (City of Portland, OR) have O365. I’m leading a project to implement a SP site in the PMO. Usual objectives (collaboration, task lists, content mgmt., resources, stakeholder mgmt., workflow, forms, etc). I’m comparing hosted (basically on-prem but on somebody else’s prem) with O365/Azure and trying to understand what’s the same, what’s different in terms of functionality. I’m not see a lot but maybe there’s a lot I’m not seeing. For the basics, is there much functionality difference between on-prem and cloud-based SP/PS 2016?

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lewishamilton304 Answered question May 25, 2020

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2020-05-25T14:49:15+00:00

Microsoft Office Project Server is a project management server solution made by Microsoft since 2000. It uses Microsoft SharePoint as its foundation and supports interface from either Microsoft Project (Professional edition) as a client application or by web browser connecting to its Project Web App (PWA) component.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2016-03-30T20:22:00+00:00

Hello Rick,

Welcome to the SharePoint Community. There are always some pros and cons about each of the version available. You can find the feature comparison between the Server Edition and Online Version on MS Site here https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/compare-sharepoint-plans

Please find some of the difference between Hosted & Online SharePoint:

	SharePoint On premise	SharePoint Online
Investment	Licensing Cost more- Windows Server, SQL, SharePoint, SharePoint CALs for each user Hardware Cost more- Physical server, Network Infra, storage One time investment Technically trained staff required –Admins and Architects	Licensing Cost less- only per user per month licensing cost No Hardware Cost- no hardware setup required on premise to access Pay as you use No technical staff required to manage SharePoint Infra
Security	Manual security enforcement needed- Buy SSL and implement For Data encryption, any custom security can be implemented	By default configured with SSL (always https) and not manual effort needed For Data encryption, no custom security can be implemented and you have to choose from the existing ones such as ISO 27001, Safe Harbor, SSAE16 SOC1 Type II, FISMA etc
Development	Full trust solution can be deployed- Features in farm solutions can have scope as wide as the site collection, web application, or whole farm Public facing website with much of customization is possible Custom “Managed Path” allowed More control can be delegated to power users	Full trust solution cannot be deployed- Only Sandbox solutions possible with scope up to the site collection level Public facing website with much of customization is not possible Custom “Managed Path” allowed More control cannot be delegated to power users and maxim privilege level is Site Collection level.
Auditing	Good Out of the box audit feature with details of user actions on Site, List, List items, Library, Library files etc. of site collection Customization with Custom Development possible to get more information	Poor out of the box audit feature and only provides very basic information Much of customization with Custom Development not supported (only minimal support such as resolving GUIDs through client object model)
Automation	Implementing complex workflows for any almost kind of business logic is possible Automating the business processes is easy	Implementing complex workflows is not supported Automating the business processes is not easy
Backup	Enterprise grade reliability needs to be ensured by yourself by investing on manpower , hardware infra, and involves more work You can define your own backup strategies such as frequency of backup, type of backups etc. You will always have full control over your backup and will be accessible to you	Enterprise grade reliability assured by Microsoft: Office 365 comes with a financially-backed 99.9% up-time guarantee! You will not have the freedom to define your strategy and you have to trust Microsoft You will not have control over the backups by default. You might have to raise a ticket to Microsoft to access the backup.
Data Management	Managing GBs or TBs of data is easier (good for organizations with huge internal data) More control on how you would want to manage your data with more of custom code support In case you would want to discontinue using SharePoint, it would not be so difficult to get all your data out of SharePoint	Managing TBs of data is comparatively very difficult (not so good for organizations with huge internal data) Less control on how you would want to manage your data as not much of custom code is supported In case you would want to discontinue using SharePoint, it would be very difficult to get all your data out of SharePoint
Global Presence	If your company has operations across the globe, there are some options to have local SharePoint server setup with the same content. You can replicate the SharePoint content on multiple servers across geographies so that the site access would be local to the region and would be faster	If your company has operations across the globe, then there could be performance issues with SharePoint online, because, while subscribing for SharePoint Online, you would have to select a region and based on that the nearest datacenter will be allotted. There are no provisions as such to get your SharePoint online site hosted on multiple datacenters at different geographies.

You can also check some of the offerings given by https://www.cloudappsportal.com/ as they have custom made solutions that can fit your plan. Along with that you get excellent technical support.

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Edwin

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SharePoint/Project Server – On-prem, O365, Azure

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