SharePoint
web application platform part of Microsoft 365
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform primarily used for building corporate intranets, document and content management, and file sharing. Developed by Microsoft, it is primarily used as part of the hosted service Microsoft 365, but it can also be hosted by an IT department or service provider, using an on premises version called "SharePoint Server". Launched in 2001, SharePoint was originally licensed under the Microsoft Office Server suite (alongside Microsoft Exchange), and a feature limited version was bundled with Windows Server. These were unified under the SharePoint brand in 2010. The feature limited version, SharePoint Foundation, was discontinued in 2013. SharePoint today is primarily distributed as part of Microsoft 365, with the SharePoint Server available on a Microsoft 365 billing subscription.
SharePoint provides the storage layer for OneDrive, Microsoft Teams files, and Microsoft Loop components, and is the primary grounding source for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
According to Microsoft, as of March 2026, more than one billion users interact with SharePoint each year, with around two billion files uploaded and two million sites created daily.
Applications
The most common uses of SharePoint include:
Enterprise content and document management
SharePoint allows storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management, and reporting on electronic documents and records. Many of the functions in this product are designed around various legal, information management, and process requirements in organizations.
The public source identifies “SharePoint” as web application platform part of Microsoft 365. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around SharePoint, application and platform.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18833. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2010, 2013 and 2026.
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This entry incorporates text from “SharePoint” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.