Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010 Guide
Note: As of October 13, 2015, Microsoft officially ended Extended Support for SharePoint Server 2010.
SharePoint 2010 was built on the .NET Framework 3.5 and required a 64-bit environment, a radical departure from its 32-bit predecessors. This shift forced hardware upgrades but allowed for increased memory addressing and better performance. Unlike SharePoint 2007, which relied heavily on Internet Information Services (IIS) application pools for isolation, SharePoint 2010 introduced the Service Application Architecture, decoupling shared services (e.g., Search, Managed Metadata, User Profile) from specific web applications. This design enabled more flexible resource management and load balancing—a concept still present in modern SharePoint. microsoft sharepoint server 2010
Microsoft attempted to compete with early enterprise social networks (like Yammer, which it later acquired). My Sites in 2010 included: Note: As of October 13, 2015 , Microsoft