Resources are considered to be in one of the following three states:
Free. The server or resource is not used by any reseller or organization.
Dedicated. The server or resource has been sold to a single reseller or organization.
Shared. Capacity on the server or resource has been sold to one or more resellers or organizations.
The current state of the resource is listed on the resource page and the resource overview page.
Some services, such as Hosted Exchange, also consider resources to be shared or dedicated, based on the number of organizations they can host. For example, a shared mailbox store can be shared by multiple organizations. However, it can also be sold to a single organization. In the latter case, the shared mailbox store would be in a dedicated state.