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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |