Feature Comparison - SharePoint Foundation vs SharePoint Server
Our service is delivered using SharePoint Foundation 2010. This should be noted as a matter of importance, because a number of features are not included when compared to SharePoint Server Standard or Enterprise
For delivery of SharePoint Server Standard or SharePoint Server Enterprise, you will require a dedicated VPS incurring additional month-to-month licensing costs depending on the amount of users granted access to the service.
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Blogs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Discussion Forums | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Photos and Presence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Wikis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Ask Me About | ✓ | ✓ | |
Colleague Suggestions | ✓ | ✓ | |
Colleagues and Membership | ✓ | ✓ | |
Enterprise Wikis | ✓ | ✓ | |
Keyword Suggestions | ✓ | ✓ | |
My Network | ✓ | ✓ | |
My Sites: People Profiles and Personal Sites | ✓ | ✓ | |
Note Board | ✓ | ✓ | |
Organization Browser | ✓ | ✓ | |
Ratings | ✓ | ✓ | |
Recent Activities | ✓ | ✓ | |
Social Bookmarks | ✓ | ✓ | |
Status Updates | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tag Clouds | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tag Profiles | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tags | ✓ | ✓ | |
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Business Connectivity Services: BDC Service | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Business Connectivity Services: External Data Column | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Business Connectivity Services: External Lists | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Business Connectivity Services: External Data Search | ✓ | ✓ | |
Business Connectivity Services: Profile Pages | ✓ | ✓ | |
Business Connectivity Services: Secure Store | ✓ | ✓ | |
Business Connectivity Services: External Data Web Parts | ✓ | ||
Business Connectivity Services: Office Client Integration | ✓ | ||
Browser-Based Customizations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sandboxed Solutions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Workflows | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Designer 2010: Customization | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Designer 2010: Workflows | ✓ | ✓ | |
Access Services | ✓ | ||
InfoPath Forms Services | ✓ | ||
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Microsoft Office Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Support for Accessibility Standards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Compliance Everywhere | ✓ | ✓ | |
Document Sets | ✓ | ✓ | |
Metadata Driven Navigation | ✓ | ✓ | |
Multi-stage Disposition | ✓ | ✓ | |
Rich Media Management | ✓ | ✓ | |
Shared Content Types and the Managed Metadata Service | ✓ | ✓ | |
The Content Organizer | ✓ | ✓ | |
Unique Document IDs | ✓ | ✓ | |
Word Automation Services | ✓ | ✓ | |
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Business Data Web Parts | ✓ | ||
Chart Web Parts | ✓ | ||
Data Connection Library | ✓ | ||
Excel Services | ✓ | ||
Filter Framework | ✓ | ||
PerformancePoint Services | ✓ | ||
Status Indicators | ✓ | ||
Visio Services | ✓ | ||
Web Analytics Customization | ✓ | ||
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Site Search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Best Bets | ✓ | ✓ | |
Common Connector Framework for Indexing and Federation | ✓ | ✓ | |
Duplicate Results Detection | ✓ | ✓ | |
Federated Search | ✓ | ✓ | |
Mobile Search Experience | ✓ | ✓ | |
People & Expertise Search | ✓ | ✓ | |
Performance: Sub-second query response time | ✓ | ✓ | |
Phonetics & Nickname Expansion | ✓ | ✓ | |
Query Suggestions & Related Queries | ✓ | ✓ | |
Recently Authored Content | ✓ | ✓ | |
Refinement Panel | ✓ | ✓ | |
Relevancy Tuning by Document or Site Promotions | ✓ | ✓ | |
Scale up to 100,000,000 documents via improved topology architecture | ✓ | ✓ | |
Search Scopes | ✓ | ✓ | |
SharePoint Desktop Search for Windows 7 | ✓ | ✓ | |
Social Behavior Improves Relevance | ✓ | ✓ | |
Social Tags | ✓ | ✓ | |
Sortable Search Results | ✓ | ✓ | |
Taxonomy and Term Store Integration | ✓ | ✓ | |
View in Browser | ✓ | ✓ | |
Advanced Content Processing | ✓ | ||
Build Multiple Relevance Profiles | ✓ | ||
Build Search-Powered Applications | ✓ | ||
Deep Refinement with Exact Counts | ✓ | ||
Rich Web Indexing Support | ✓ | ||
Scale to 500,000,000+ documents | ✓ | ||
Search in Context | ✓ | ||
Similar Results | ✓ | ||
Sorting on Custom Properties | ✓ | ||
Thumbnails and Previews | ✓ | ||
Visual Best Bets | ✓ | ||
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Audience Targeting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cross-Browser Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fluent User Interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Mobile Connectivity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Office Client Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
OOB Web Parts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Workspace Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Enterprise Management Operations | ✓ | ✓ | |
Scalability | ✓ | ✓ | |
Tagging | ✓ | ✓ | |
Video Support, REST and Silverlight | ✓ | ✓ | |
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Client Object Model | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Developer Dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Event Receivers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Installs on Windows 7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
LINQ for SharePoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Packaging Solutions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
REST and ATOM Data Feeds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Ribbon and Dialog Framework | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sandboxed Solutions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Lists | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Service Architecture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Timer Jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Silverlight Web Part | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Web Parts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Workflow Models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
XSLT Views | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Feature | Foundation | Server Std. | Server Ent. |
Accessibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Claims-Based Authentication Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Confiugration Wizards | ✓ | ✓ | |
Cross-Browser Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
High-Availability Architecture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Improved Backup and Restore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Improved Governance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Improved Setup and Configuration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
UC, OCS, Exchange Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Large List Scalability & Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Managed Accounts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Lingual UI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-tenancy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Patch Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Permissions Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Quota Templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Read-Only DB Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Remote SQL Blob Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Resource Throttling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Secure Store | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Service Application Platform | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SharePoint Health Analyzer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SQL Server Integration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Streamlined Central Administration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Unattached Content Database Recovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Upgrade Improvements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Usage Monitoring and Logging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Visual Upgrade | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Windows PowerShell Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |