Feature Comparison

 

S.No	Feature	Usage	Sharepoint Foundation	Sharepoint server Enterprise
1	Access Service	Use Access Service in Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010 to edit,Update  and create linked Microsoft Access 2010 databases that can be viewed and manipulated by using an Internet browser, the Access client, or a linked HTML page.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
2	Excel Services	Excel Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is designed to help you analyze business data and increase business intelligence. Excel Services is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 shared service that you can use to publish Microsoft Excel client workbooks on SharePoint Server. The published workbooks are available throughout your organization for knowledge workers to use	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
3	Managed metadata service	The managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 provides a central store for keywords and a hierarchically organized metadata	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
4	Search Service	Related to Crawling Content	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
5	Secure Store Service	Secure Store is a feature in SharePoint Server 2010 that helps provide access to data outside SharePoint Server 2010 (for example, SQL Server data) by allowing a Business Intelligence service application to use a set of credentials with data access on behalf of a SharePoint Server 2010 user who is attempting to access that data.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
6	State Service	Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 components to store temporary data across related HTTP requests in a SQL Server database. In SharePoint Server 2010, the State Service is required by InfoPath Forms Services (including out of the box and custom workflow forms), the SharePoint Server 2010 Chart Web Part, and certain Microsoft Visio 2010 scenarios that do not use Microsoft Silverlight 3.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
7	User Profile Service Application (including My Site)	The User Profile service application stores information about users in a central location. Social computing features use this information to facilitate productive interactions which enable users to collaborate efficiently. In order to provision My Sites, enable social computing features such as social tagging and newsfeeds, and create and distribute profiles across multiple sites and farms, you must enable the User Profile service application.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
8	Visio Graphics Service	The Visio Graphics Service is a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 service application that allows users to share and view Visio web drawings using Visio Services. The service application also enables data-connected Microsoft Visio 2010 web drawings to be refreshed and updated from a variety of data sources.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
9	Web Analytics Service	In Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, the Web Analytics service application enables you to collect, report, and analyze the usage and effectiveness of your SharePoint Server 2010 sites. (web)	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
10	Word Automation Services	Word Automation Services is a new SharePoint Server 2010 technology that enables unattended, server-side conversion of documents that are supported by Microsoft Word.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
11	Enterprise Search Center	The new enterprise search features and functionality in SharePoint Server 2010. With these new capabilities, search administrators can configure an optimal, secure search infrastructure that enables end users to find information in the enterprise quickly and efficiently.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
12	Records Center	The Office SharePoint Server 2010 Records Center site template is designed to implement records management and retention.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
13	My Site Host	A My Site host location is a special site collection that hosts the profile and newsfeed for My Sites. Content for My Site is hosted in its own site collection, which is created automatically for each user when a user clicks My Content.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
14	Basic Search Center	This site template is functional but it doesn’t give you the ability to do a people search.  This effectively corresponds to the Search Center site template just simply search the content	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
15	Publishing Portal	Publishing in SharePoint Server 2010 consists of two separate features. The SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature provides publishing functionality at the site collection level, and the SharePoint Server Publishing feature provides publishing functionality at the site level. The subset of features and functionality of each feature supports the goal of publishing as part of a Web content management solution.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
16	Enterprise Wiki	An Enterprise Wiki is a publishing site for sharing and updating large volumes of information across an enterprise. If an organization needs a large, centralized knowledge repository that is designed to both store and share information on an enterprise-wide scale, consider using an Enterprise Wiki.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
17	Business Intelligence Center	Business intelligence applications and tools enable you to organize your vision of organizational goals, processes, and performance requirements in a useful manner, and to present that data as meaningful information.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
18	FAST Search Center	FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint across multiple servers to meet demanding requirements for redundancy, performance and capacity.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
19	Visio Process Repository	It leverages SharePoint’s collaboration features -- including check-in and check-out, versioning, and workflow -- and integrates with several of Visio’s new process management features. The result is that in just a few clicks, a SharePoint administrator can create a Visio Process Repository that is pre-configured for easy storage and management of Visio process diagrams.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
20	SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection Features	Office SharePoint Server Standard site collection featuresIncludes features, such as user profiles and search, that are included in the Office SharePoint Server Standard license.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
21	SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure	Activating the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature adds the Administrative links on the Site Settings page, including the ability to manage Master Pages for both publishing and non-publishing Web sites, Navigation, Searchable columns, Content and Structure, Content and Structure Logs, Variations and Translatable columns	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
22	Publishing approval Workflow	Viewing the properties of a document in the document you will see your document now has a field called Document ID:	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
23	Content Type Syndication Hub	Content Type Syndication helps ensure uniformity across lists so that they use the same content types, and therefore the same columns. In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, a content type is set at the site-collection level. By using content type syndication in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, a content type can be shared within the farm or outside the farm with the managed metadata service application.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
24	Disposition Approval Workflow	The Disposition Approval workflow is designed to support records management needs within an organization. This workflow manages the document expiration and retention process by allowing participants to decide whether to retain or delete expired documents or items.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
25	Document ID Service	SharePoint 2007 lacks the ability to link to a document without using its path, which is a problem when a document is moved to a different document library, site collection or farm. A link could ultimately become a broken link as soon as the targeted document path is changed. The new Document ID feature in SharePoint 2010 now fixes this issue as it assigns a unique ID and associates a permanent URL to any new document added.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
26	Document Sets	Document Set enables users to group multiple documents, that support a single project or task, together into a single entity. All documents in a Document Set share the metadata and the entire set can also be versioned.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
27	In Place Records Management	Microsoft have  made a huge effort in 2010 to enable you to do effective records management in collaborative spaces.   Auditing, Retention, Expiration, Reporting, Records Workflows, eDiscovery, Legal Hold and Recordization are all features you can use in collaborative space as you are striking a balance between SharePoint’s value to end users and the need for information governance.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
28	Library and Folder Based Retention	The settings also allow a user to schedule recurrence on retention stages	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
29	Reporting	SharePoint product before users can publish reporting documents to SharePoint libraries and get report viewing and management services on SharePoint sites.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
30	Search Server Web Parts	The search Web Parts are shared for SharePoint Server search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, and so provide a unified search experience. They are built on the federated search object model, and the classes for Web Parts—such as Search Box, Refinement Panel, and Search Core Results	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
31	SharePoint 2010 Workflows	The workflow feature in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 helps automate business processes and provides consistency in the way business processes are run	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
32	Performance Point Service Site Collection Features	PerformancePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Web Front End components work together to provide monitoring and reporting functionality.	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server
33	SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Features	It also includes Business Data Catalog,Excel Service,Report Center,Infopath Forms Service	Missing in Foundation	Available in Server