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Understanding SharePoint products

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Understanding SharePoint products

As if SharePoint itself wasn't complex enough, Microsoft has made it a little more complex by having multiple versions of SharePoint. Now there have been various versions of SharePoint since really SharePoint 2000 but, in SharePoint 2013 we have four different versions of SharePoint. The first is SharePoint 2013 Foundation. And Foundation is the most widely distributed version of SharePoint because it is included with Microsoft Windows Server. So if you're in an environment where you are prompted by Windows to log onto a network, some place nearby there is SharePoint 2013 Foundation that would be available for you to use. Then there's SharePoint Server 2013, Standard version. This is a separate product that larger organizations can purchase, and install. It has all of the bells and whistles of Foundation, plus a few more things, improved search, and so on. Then SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise. Now, SharePoint Server Enterprise has a lot more capability, because in addition to…

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