Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Basic Features of SharePoint Foundation 2010

The following list provides an overview of the standard features included in SharePoint Foundation, many of which are examined in more detail throughout this chapter. This very basic list ignores a number of features, but gives a basic summary:

• Document libraries—This basic component of a SharePoint site is designed to store and manage documents, and allows the administrator to add additional columns of data to the library (called metadata) as well as create custom views, track versions of the documents, and control access on a document level. Many other features are available in a document library, such as requiring checkout before a document can be edited or creating alerts that send email when ...