SharePoint

SharePoint
Developer(s)Microsoft Corporation
Initial releaseMarch 28, 2001; 25 years ago (2001-03-28)
Stable release
Subscription Edition (SE) / November 2, 2021; 4 years ago (2021-11-02)
Operating systemWindows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022
Platformx64
Available inArabic, 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
TypeContent management system
LicenseProprietary software
WebsiteSharePoint.com

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates natively with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage varies substantially among organizations.

According to Microsoft, as of December 2020 SharePoint had 200 million users.

History

Origins

SharePoint evolved from projects codenamed "Office Server" and "Tahoe" during the Office XP development cycle.

"Office Server" evolved out of the FrontPage and Office Server Extensions and "Team Pages". It targeted simple, bottom-up collaboration.

"Tahoe", built on shared technology with Exchange and the "Digital Dashboard", targeted top-down portals, search and document management. The searching and indexing capabilities of SharePoint came from the "Tahoe" feature set. The search and indexing features were a combination of the index and crawling features from the Microsoft Site Server family of products and from the query language of Microsoft Index Server.

GAC-(Global Assembly Cache) is used to accommodate the shared assemblies that are specifically designated to be shared by applications executed on a system.

Versions

Successive versions (in chronological order):

Notable changes in SharePoint 2010

Changes in end-user functionality added in the 2010 version of SharePoint include:

Notable changes in SharePoint 2013

Notable changes in SharePoint 2016

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Notable changes in SharePoint 2019

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Notable changes in SharePoint Subscription Edition (SE)

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References

  1. ↑ "Hardware and Software Requirements for SharePoint 2019". Microsoft TechNet. Microsoft Corporation. July 24, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ "System requirements for SharePoint Server Subscription Edition". Microsoft Documentation. Microsoft Corporation. November 2, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Install or uninstall language packs for SharePoint Servers 2016 and 2019". Microsoft Docs. Microsoft Corporation. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Oleson, Joel (28 December 2007). "7 Years of SharePoint - A History Lesson". Joel Oleson's Blog - SharePoint Land. Microsoft Corporation. MSDN Blogs. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Spataro, Jared; Microsoft 365, Corporate Vice President for (December 8, 2020). "Over 200 million users rely on SharePoint as Microsoft is again recognized as a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant Report". Microsoft 365 Blog. Retrieved March 27, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Sharepoint History". MSDN. Microsoft corporation. October 5, 2009. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  7. ↑ How-To Videos - Microsoft Office. Microsoft.com. Retrieved on February 22, 2014.
  8. ↑ "New and improved features in SharePoint Server 2016". technet.microsoft.com. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  9. ↑ "New Features in SharePoint 2016 - Overview - Centillion Technology Systems". April 6, 2016. Archived from the original on July 8, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Announcing General Availability of SharePoint Server 2019". techcommunity.microsoft.com. October 22, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
  11. ↑ "SharePoint Server Subscription Edition General Availability". techcommunity.microsoft.com. November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  12. ↑ "New and improved features in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition". docs.microsoft.com. November 2, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2021.

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