Essentials - Full Trust Solutions (4222296)

This KB addresses the following topics below for Full Trust Solutions in Essentials

1. What are they for? 
2. Are they still needed? 
3. Is there an online equivalent if still needed? 
4. If not how do we workaround or ignore issues? 

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1) Full Trust Farm solutions allow functionality or customizations to be created within an OnPremise Farm

2) In SharePoint Online they are not used 

3) As there is no way to deploy solutions in SharePoint Online, Microsoft instead suggests the use of Apps to be deployed.

4) To workaround or ignore issues depended on Full Trust Solutions would be in 2 parts

     a. To verify if there is an equivalent of the OnPremise Full Trust solution available in Online

     b. If Essentials is able to handle the customizations brought by the Full Trust solution