Microsoft SharePoint is not a new technology it is among us
since 2001. Microsoft's continues enhancements each and every year make it more
scalable, robust and powerful. Now in 2012 this product is on its full boom and
popular everywhere. But Microsoft is still enhancing this product and makes more changes;
you might have heard Microsoft is releasing SharePoint 15. I am not going to
that path now :) I am new student of SharePoint and I have to dig it from scratch.
In this post I am going to explain history of SharePoint when it was started and where it is standing now.
I have referenced this article from book [SharePoint 2010 User's Guide by Seth Bates and Tony Smith]
Microsoft’s SharePoint technology was initially introduced
in 2001 with the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001. This product
provided some fundamental tools made to allow users to publish and find documents.
It allowed for the creation and management of document taxonomies and
represented the first step in providing a way to catalogue and search for
documents across an enterprise.
Microsoft next released SharePoint Team Services, which extended the document and publishing capabilities of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 by providing information collaboration. It allowed groups of individuals to work together to manage documents and lists of information, such as contact lists, event lists, and link lists.
Microsoft next released SharePoint Team Services, which extended the document and publishing capabilities of SharePoint Portal Server 2001 by providing information collaboration. It allowed groups of individuals to work together to manage documents and lists of information, such as contact lists, event lists, and link lists.
In 2003, Microsoft company totally re-architected SharePoint
and also released windows SharePoint Services 2 .0 and SharePoint Portal Server
2003 as Part of first Microsoft Office system.
In 2007, Microsoft released windows SharePoint Services 3.0
and also Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With the release of these
technologies Microsoft extended its Office vision to include the capabilities
needed to support the creation of business solutions. These capabilities
include content management; collaboration; business information management;
workflow; intranet, extranet, and Internet support; and business integration
services. With this release, SharePoint became a business productivity platform
allowing for the creation of full-featured business applications and the aggregation
of information from other applications, data sources, and systems.
With the release of SharePoint 2010, the SharePoint platform
has been enhanced to make it easier to create full-featured business solutions
and allow the platform to be leveraged as your organization’s main platform for
document management, reporting, and web content management. The enhancements
made include updates to the previously existing collaboration, workflow,
business intelligence, and data integration capabilities. This version also
introduces new capabilities, including full-featured records management, new
Office integration services, global metadata and taxonomy management, and
social networking services. SharePoint 2010 connects people and enables them to
work together in the most effective ways, which in turn, allows people to
respond to business needs by quickly creating business solutions that can be
integrated with enterprise business data, tools, and processes.
SharePoint Services History
SharePoint Srever History
I hope now you might have good understanding of Evolution of SharePoint, Please don't forget to comment thanks
I was really curious to know about the history of this popular tool. The technology is a powerful one and its products are in high demand. With this post I learn so much about its evolution.
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