New Service Descriptions for Office 365 Wave 15

Note: This post was originally published when Office 365 in the Wave 15 version was in Preview. It has been released in the meantime, but the contents of this post will still be updated to reflect any changes. Also, please note that the downloads below do not include the whole Service Descriptions, but an overview of the features only. Please refer to the online version whenever needed
Note: Last Update 13 March 2013. See changelog at the bottom of this post.

Fellow MVP Tommy Clarke let us know that the Service Descriptions for Office 365 Wave 15 (based on all the 2013 products) have been pre-released at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819284.aspx. I started to have a look especially at SharePoint Online, it’s interesting to see the feature set available for each plan. However the tables aren’t easy to read if you want to get a good overview of what is available in which plan, and therefore I created a slightly improved version with colours:

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You can download the tables for Exchange Online, Lync Online, Project Online, the Office 365 Platform, and Office 365 ProPlus as well:
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Changelog

13 March 2013
SharePoint:

• Active Directory Synchronization not available for Small Business and Small Business Premium
• Records management, Recycle Bin (SharePoint admin center), Recycle Bin (site collection) added
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode not available for E3/A3/G3/E4/A4/G4

28 February 2013
Generally: The E2 plan has been removed, as it was merged with E1

Lync Online: The following items were added: “Media path optimization”, “Network Quality of Service (QoS) – Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)”, “XMPP and Sametime federation”, “Server-Side Recording and Playback”, “Call park”, “Outgoing Direct Inward Dialing (DID) manipulation”, “Support for analog devices (for example, fax)”, “Private line (secondary DID for executives)”, “Remote call control (RCC) (also known as “click-to-call”) with on-premises PBX”, “Malicious call trace”, “Unassigned number”, “Phone number management”, “Call detail recording (CDR) and billing reporting”, “Integration with call center solutions(Aspect)”, “Survivable Branch Appliances for branch office resiliency”, “Call admissioncontrol (CAC)”.  “”Archiving interoperability with Exchange Online”” was updated

Office 365 Platform: Wording changes. Added: “Windows Azure AD Rights Management”, “Multiple administrator roles available”, “Allow a partner to administer Office 365 for you”, “IPv4 and IPv6 protocols”. Removed: “Office 365 sign-in URL”, “Allowed IP addresses”, “IP protocols”. Simplified: “Privacy, Security, and Transparency”

SharePoint Online: Updated: IRM

Exchange Online: Added: “Inactive Mailboxes”, “Unified Messaging Reports”

31 January 2013
Exchange Online: added sections “Mailbox types and storage limits”, “Capacity alerts”, “Message and recipient limits”

26 December 2012
Office 365 ProPlus: minor changes
Office 365 Platform: several minor changes; sections added: Service Updates, Help & Training, Networking, Privacy, Security, Compliance, Service Continuity, BlackBerry, Partners, Service Level Agreement, Product Use Rights

13 December 2012
Exchange Online: updated comments
Lync Online: E/A4 plan now includes Lync Voice; Lync Online Administration and Management section added
SharePoint Online: comparison with SharePoint 2013 standalone has been moved into its own section (not part of the PDF)
Project Online: added
Office 365 ProPlus: added
Office 365 Platform: added

7 December 2012
Exchange Online: Updated Capacity Alerts numbers (not in PDF above).
Lync Online: Smaller fixes
SharePoint Online: Host Header Site Collections, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Integrated Mode, Continuous crawl, Custom entity extraction, Refiners, Variations