A Real Comparison of SharePoint 2013 Versions

Yesterday I wanted to compare various Microsoft offerings for SharePoint. I needed to understand the real differences between Office 365 and On-Premise features. Naturally I directed my browser at a certain popular search engine and typed in "SharePoint 2013 version comparison".

Also naturally I was presented with a wall of articles and pages ranging from complete uselessness to semi-useful. Nothing really seemed to bridge the gaps I needed to understand.

And then I came across an official Microsoft page claiming to list feature availability across different Office 365 and On-Premise offerings. Light at the end of the tunnel at last!

Or was it?

Microsoft seemed to do their usual best at providing all the relevant information but in a format dreamed up in a special hell reserved for marketing professionals. Here I had all the information I needed but in a format I just could not use.

Fast forward to an hour later. Through some very useful copy-paste and Excel tools I produced a spreadsheet containing all the information provided by Microsoft but in a format that can actually be used by humans. I can now even compare Office 365 to On-Premise despite Microsoft's best attempts at thwarting me. Hurrah!

Obviously I need to share this with the world. So here it is in downloadable format.
I hope you find it useful.

MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0 Search Indexer Gets Stuck

Now I know this is not a new subject and the solutions are out there. So I'm writing this (short this time) article as a basic summary of what I've come across.

So what's the problem?
Some of you must have come across this before. The Shared Service Provider's crawler get stuck and you can't stop it. It also does not add any new items to the index.

I've found two great articles that deal with this issue.
The first one by Mike Hanley explains how to resolve this issue with clear instructions and good screenshots. It can be found here.
The second is a support KB by Microsoft which expands what is explained in Mike's article by adding more tables which need fixing. It can be found here under KB930887.