Happy 20th Birthday SharePoint!!
Many candles were lit on Saturday, March 27th, 2021. You know why? It was for SharePoint.
Yes, you heard it right!!
Many many happy returns of the day, SharePoint!
SharePoint completed its 20 years on 27th March 2021. Hope you had a chance to enjoy all the birthday celebrations. If not, you can visit https://www.sharepointbirthday.com/ SharePoint’s 20th Birthday Party! Page and enjoy the same.
Hundreds of SharePoint engineers sang “Happy Birthday, SharePoint” via Teams on this day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCGiR9CDUU
This content piece is intended to pay honor to our established friend SharePoint on its 20th Anniversary.
Time flies quickly and with time software develops or dies.
Let’s have a glance through the timeline view of the history of SharePoint (1998–2021).
Source — Microsoft
- 1997–1999 | Site Server & Site Server Commerce Edition
- 1999 | SharePoint begins as codename Tahoe connected to WebDAV
- Alongside codename Platinum — aka, the next version of Exchange
- 1999 | Digital Dashboard Starter Kit (tools to help you customize Outlook 2000 — already billed as “
- knowledge management solution from Microsoft)
- Introduced “Nuggets”, what would become web parts
- 2000 | Digital Dashboard Resource Kit, aka, Tahoe beta 1 sitting on SQL Server 2000
- 2001 | Add a portal UI to the Digital Dashboard Resource Kit and SharePoint Portal Server 2001 is born
- 2001 | Microsoft acquires nCompass; re-branded the product Content Management Server 2001
- 2001 | Free Office 2000 add-on = Microsoft SharePoint Team Services (aka, the start to an online, extensible, collaborative platform)
- 2003 | SharePoint Team Services becomes Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 emerges
- 2005 | Microsoft acquires Groove (Peer-2-peer sync; pre-cursor to OneDrive sync) & Frontbridge and enters the hosting infrastructure market
- Note: Sarbanes-Oxley rears its head related to document and records management practices.
- 2005 | Microsoft introduces Hosted and Collaboration version 3.0; includes SharePoint Services 2.0
- 2007 | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, aka MOSS, combines STS, CMS
- Microsoft acquires ProClarity and rebrands as Microsoft Performance Point 2007 — aka, the basis for BI at Microsoft.
- 2008–2009 | Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) expands to offer Exchange Online, Office Communications Online, Office Live Meeting, and SharePoint Online (built using SharePoint Server 2007)
- Microsoft also acquires FAST, the precursor team and technology behind Microsoft Search
- 2010 | SharePoint Server 2010; Groove is renamed SharePoint Workspace
- 2010 | Steve Ballmer’s famous “We’re all in” speech at UW (March.4.2010)
- 2011 | BPOS rebrands — Office 365 launches, with SharePoint Server 2010 as its foundation
- Live Meeting and Office Communicator are combined to form Lync 2010 Online — the precursor to Microsoft Teams
- 2012 | SharePoint Server 2013; Groove sync tech is rebranded as SkyDrive Pro
- 2014 | OneDrive for Business, Office Delve, Office Graph (now Microsoft Graph) & Office 365 Video
- 2016 | SharePoint Server 2016
- 2017 | SharePoint Framework #SPFx, Microsoft Stream and Microsoft Teams
- 2018 | SharePoint Server 2019
- 2020 | Microsoft Lists & SharePoint Syntex
- 2021 | Microsoft Viva (Connections, Topics, Learning, and Insights)
Since its inception SharePoint is been the preferred application for developing enterprise applications. SharePoint, a web-based platform is commonly used for enterprise content management, and document management. With more additional features like Flow, PowerApp, Power BI, Dynamics 365, Yammer, new user experience, OneDrive integration, and much more SharePoint is an application platform for creating and engaging various solutions.
SharePoint along with Microsoft 365 app gives a strong foundation and gives many building blocks for additional development. The reason for this is it very well integrates with Microsoft areas like Microsoft Graph, Power Automate, Azure Functions, allowing an even stronger app development platform. This supports App developers to concentrate more on solving business problems without worrying about technical issues.
When we have come so far, let’s glance through some old SharePoint links that take you down the passage time:
- Microsoft Tahoe “documentation” by Tom Rizzo
- SharePoint Server 2001 “RC1 of Tahoe” article
- 2009 ZDNet / Mary Jo Foley interview with Jeff Teper
- Bill Gates speech: SharePoint Conference 2006
- SharePoint Conference 2012 (keynote session) — full video with Jared Spataro, Jeff Teper, Scott Guthrie, and David Sacks.
- Jeff Teper and Satya Nadella 1993 DevCast video
At last, I would like to thank you SharePoint, and wish you a great, innovative, intelligent, and mobile future ahead.
Once again Belated Happy Birthday SharePoint.
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