| Feature | Description | |--------|-------------| | | Team, community, document center, records center, BI center | | Lists & Libraries | Announcements, tasks, calendars, document libraries, asset libraries | | Ribbon UI | Contextual actions similar to Office 2010 | | Versioning | Major/minor versioning, approval workflows | | Alerts | Email notifications on changes | | Workflows | Out-of-box (Approval, Collect Feedback) or custom (SharePoint Designer 2010) | | InfoPath Forms | Browser-enabled electronic forms | | Managed Metadata | Taxonomy, term sets, enterprise keywords | | Search | FAST search integration (separate license) or standard search | | Excel Services | Interactive Excel workbooks in browser | | Access Services | Share Access databases in browser | | Visio Services | Render and refresh Visio diagrams |
Integrated directly into SharePoint (no longer a separate server). This provided enterprise-grade dashboards, KPIs, and scorecards pulling data from SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). microsoft sharepoint server 2010
SharePoint Server 2010 was a collaboration and document management platform integrated with the Microsoft Office suite. It allowed organizations to create centralized web portals to store, track, and share digital assets. | Feature | Description | |--------|-------------| | |
: The foundational, free tier replacing Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. It provided core deployment infrastructure, basic document libraries, and fundamental collaboration web parts. It allowed organizations to create centralized web portals
For developers, the introduction of the and a robust REST/OData API allowed external applications (including mobile and desktop tools) to interact with SharePoint data seamlessly. Visual Studio 2010 included first-class, built-in tooling for building, packaging, and debugging SharePoint solutions.
Moreover, SharePoint 2010’s social features were a precursor to Microsoft’s later Viva and Teams ecosystems, albeit far less integrated. For IT historians, SharePoint 2010 represents the peak of on-premises, monolithic collaboration suites before the disaggregation into cloud services (OneDrive, Teams, Lists, and Syntex).
When it was released, SharePoint Server 2010 was Microsoft’s most ambitious attempt to unify a wide range of business applications onto a single platform. It wasn't just a tool for document management; it was positioned as a central hub for enterprise collaboration, content management, business intelligence, and process automation. For many organizations, it became the de facto solution for building intranets, corporate websites, and team workspaces. As one reviewer put it, SharePoint 2010 was a "significant improvement" that allowed IT departments to streamline their infrastructure and cut costs.