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SharePoint

Developer(s) Microsoft Corporation

Initial release March 28, 2001; 20 years ago

Stable release 2019[citation needed] / 2018-10-22[±]

Operating system Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019[1]

Platform x64

Available in Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese,

Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,

French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,

Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian,

 Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,

Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai,

Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese and Welsh[2]

Type Content management system

License Proprietary software

Website sharepoint.com 

Microsoft SharePoint for Android

Developer(s) Microsoft Corporation

Stable release 3.26.0 / October 25, 2021; 3 months ago[3]

Operating system Android Marshmallow and later

Size 27.31 MB

License Proprietary commercial software

Website www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

Microsoft SharePoint for iOS

Developer(s) Microsoft Corporation

Stable release 4.40.1 / November 20, 2021; 2 months ago[4]

Operating system iOS 13 or later

Size 79.6 MB

License Proprietary commercial software

 Website www.microsoft.com/en-ww/microsoft-365/sharepoint/collaboration

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office.

Launched in 2001,  SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and
[5]

storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage varies substantially
among organizations.
According to Microsoft, as of July 2017 SharePoint had 190 million users across
200,000 customer organizations. [6]

Contents

 1Editions
o 1.1SharePoint Standard
o 1.2SharePoint Server
o 1.3SharePoint Enterprise
o 1.4SharePoint Online
 2Applications
o 2.1Enterprise content and document management
o 2.2Intranet and social network
o 2.3Collaborative software
o 2.4File hosting service (personal cloud)
o 2.5Custom web applications
 3Content structure
o 3.1Pages
o 3.2Web parts and app parts
o 3.3Content item, Content Type, Libraries, Lists, and "Apps"
o 3.4Sites
 4Configuration and customization
o 4.1Web-based configuration
o 4.2SharePoint Designer
o 4.3Custom development
 5Server architecture
o 5.1Farms
o 5.2Web applications
o 5.3Site collections
o 5.4Service applications
 6Administration, security, compliance
o 6.1Compliance, standards and integration
o 6.2Other SharePoint-related Microsoft products
 7History
o 7.1Origins
o 7.2Versions
o 7.3Notable changes in SharePoint 2010
o 7.4Notable changes in SharePoint 2013
o 7.5Notable changes in SharePoint 2016
o 7.6Notable changes in SharePoint 2019
 8See also
 9References
 10External links

Editions[edit]
There are various editions of SharePoint which have different functions.
SharePoint Standard[edit]
Microsoft SharePoint Standard builds on the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation in a few
key product areas:

 Sites: Audience targeting, governance tools, Secure store service, web

analytics functionality.
[7]

 Communities: 'MySites' (personal profiles including skills management, and search tools),

enterprise wikis, organization hierarchy browser, tags and notes.
[8]

 Content: Improved tooling and compliance for document & record management, managed
metadata, word automation services, content type management. [9]

 Search: Better search results, search customization abilities, mobile search, 'Did you
mean?', OS search integration, Faceted Search, and metadata/relevancy/date/location-
based refinement options. [10]

 Composites: Pre-built workflow templates, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) profile

pages. [11]

SharePoint Standard licensing includes a CAL (client access license) component and a
server fee. SharePoint Standard may also be licensed through a cloud model.
SharePoint Server[edit]
SharePoint Server is provided to organizations that seek greater control over
SharePoint's behavior or design. This product is installed on customers' IT
infrastructure. It receives fewer frequent updates but has access to a wider set of
features and customization capabilities. There are two editions of SharePoint Server:
Standard and Enterprise. A free version called 'Foundation' was discontinued in 2016.
 These servers may be provisioned as normal virtual/cloud servers or as hosted
[12]

services.
SharePoint Enterprise[edit]
Built upon SharePoint Standard, Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise features can be
unlocked by providing an additional license key.
Extra features in SharePoint Enterprise include:

 Search thumbnails and previews, rich web indexing, better search results.
 Business intelligence integration, dashboards, and business data surfacing.
 PowerPivot and PerformancePoint.
 Microsoft Office Access, Visio, Excel, and InfoPath Forms services.
 SharePoint Enterprise Search extensions. [13]
SharePoint Enterprise licensing includes a CAL component and a server fee that must
be purchased in addition to SharePoint Server licensing. SharePoint Enterprise may
also be licensed through a cloud model.
SharePoint Online[edit]
Microsoft's hosted SharePoint is typically bundled in Microsoft 365 subscriptions, but
can be licensed separately.  SharePoint Online has the advantage of not needing to
[14]

maintain one's own servers, but as a result lacks the customization options of a self-
hosted installation of SharePoint.
It is limited to a core set of collaboration, file hosting, and document and content
management scenarios, and is updated on a frequent basis, but is typically comparable
with SharePoint Enterprise.  Currently, additional capabilities include:
[15][16]

 Support for SharePoint Framework extensions

 New "Modern" (Responsive) SharePoint UX (partially included in 2016 - Feature Pack 1)
 Yammer Integration & Office 365 Groups
 Integration with Outlook Web App
 Newer versions of Online Office Document Editor Tools
 Removal of various file size/number limitations
 Apps Concept
Missing capabilities include:

 Some search & UI customizations

 Many web publishing capabilities
 Service Application administration options
 Many customization/solution types will not run
 No ability to read error (ULS) logs
 No ability to share a Site Page (ASPX) to external anonymous visitors; only documents
(Word, Excel, Picture, ...) may be shared as such
Microsoft lists changes in SharePoint Online on its Office Roadmap.
SharePoint online is available in all Microsoft 365 Plans

Applications[edit]
SharePoint usage varies from organization to organization. The product encompasses a
wide variety of capabilities, most of which require configuration and governance. [17]

The most common uses of the SharePoint include:

Enterprise content and document management[edit]
Main articles: Enterprise content management and document management

SharePoint allows for storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management,

and reporting on electronic documents and records. Many of the functions in this
product are designed around various legal, information management, and process
requirements in organizations. SharePoint also provides search and 'graph'
functionality.  SharePoint's integration with Microsoft Windows and Microsoft
[18][19]

Office allow for collaborative real-time editing, and encrypted/information rights

managed synchronization.
This capability is often used to replace an existing corporate file server, and is typically
coupled with an enterprise content management policy. [20]

Intranet and social network[edit]

Main articles: Intranet portal and Social Network

A SharePoint intranet or intranet portal is a way to centralize access to enterprise

information and applications. It is a tool that helps an organization manage its internal
communications, applications and information more easily. Microsoft claims that this
has organizational benefits such as increased employee engagement,
centralizing process management, reducing new staff on-boarding costs, and providing
the means to capture and share tacit knowledge (e.g. via tools such as wikis).
Collaborative software[edit]
SharePoint contains team collaboration groupware capabilities, including: project
scheduling (integrated with Outlook and Project), social collaboration, shared
mailboxes, and project related document storage and collaboration. Groupware in
SharePoint is based around the concept of a "Team Site".
File hosting service (personal cloud)[edit]
Main articles: Personal Cloud and File hosting service

SharePoint Server hosts OneDrive for Business, which allows storage and

synchronization of an individual's personal documents, as well as public/private file
sharing of those documents. This is typically combined with other Microsoft Office
Servers/Services, such as Microsoft Exchange, to produce a "personal cloud",
WebDAV can be used to access files without using the web interface. However,
Microsoft's implementation of WebDAV doesn't conform to the official WebDAV protocol
and therefore isn't compliant to the WebDAV standard. For example, WebDAV
applications have to support the language tagging functionality of the XML
specification  which Microsoft's implementation doesn't. Only Windows XP to Windows
[21]

8 are supported.
Custom web applications[edit]
Main article: Software framework

SharePoint's custom development capabilities provide an additional layer of services

that allow rapid prototyping of integrated (typically line-of-business) web applications.
 SharePoint provides developers with integration into corporate directories and data
[22]

sources through standards such as REST/OData/OAuth. Enterprise application

developers use SharePoint's security and information management capabilities across a
variety of development platforms and scenarios. SharePoint also contains an enterprise
"app store" that has different types of external applications which are encapsulated and
managed to access to resources such as corporate user data and document data.