History of SHAREpoINt

Hi All,

It has been very interesting and important to knowing about the History. History will teaches us about lessons and we can learn lot from it .Why I am talking about this ?Yes, In our current post we are going see about the SharePoint brief history.

Microsoft has released 5 versions of SharePoint Technologies. Each release has included an underlying core infrastructure product and second product that adds business values to the Infrastructure.     

footsteps of SharePoint,

Year	Core infrastructure product	Business value product
2001	SharePoint Team Services	SharePoint Portal Server 2001
2003	Windows SharePoint Services 2.0	Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003
2007	Windows SharePoint Services 3.0	Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
2010	Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010	Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
2013	Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013	Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

 SharePoint 2001 

It allowed users to create sites, lists, and document libraries on demand based on a data-driven design. The implementation was based on a Microsoft SQL Server database that tracked the creation of sites and lists by adding records to a static set of database tables.

As  this is initial version of SharePoint ,it had a couple of noteworthy shortcomings.

1. It was unmanageable to customize sites.

2.  files uploaded to a document library were stored on the local file system of a single, dedicated web server, which made it impossible to scale out SharePoint Team Services sites by using a farm of web servers.

SharePoint 2003

It is the first version to be implemented on top of the Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET.

This version began to open up new opportunities for professional developers looking to extend the SharePoint environment with Web Parts and event handlers.

Microsoft altered the implementation for document libraries to store files inside a back-end SQL Server database, which made it possible to scale out SharePoint sites by using a farm of web servers.

SharePoint 2007

It introduced many new concepts to the underlying SharePoint architecture, including site columns, content types, and features and solution packages.

Microsoft also improved the integration of SharePoint with ASP.NET, which made it possible for .NET developers to extend SharePoint sites by creating familiar ASP.NET components such as master pages, user controls, navigation providers, authentication providers, and custom HttpModule components.

SharePoint 2010

It was the fourth release of SharePoint technologies. It included Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

SharePoint 2010 introduced the new service application architecture and a significant modernization to the user interface experience with the server-side ribbon, model dialogs, and new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) behavior that reduced the need for page post backs. It was also with the SharePoint 2010 release that the Microsoft Visual Studio team released the original version of the SharePoint Developer Tools, which moved SharePoint developers out of the dark ages and into a far more productive era.

SharePoint 2013

It is the fifth and most recent release of SharePoint technologies. It includes SharePoint Foundation 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013.

The most significant changes that Microsoft has made to SharePoint 2013 have been done to adapt the SharePoint platform for hosted environments in the cloud, such as SharePoint Online in the Office 365 environment. This is a big change for developers because the SharePoint platform has been split in two. There is the older, familiar SharePoint platform in scenarios in which a company has deployed SharePoint on-premises. And now there is a second SharePoint platform in which developers are called upon to provide business solutions for hosted environments such as SharePoint Online.


Thanks,

Related Post