SharePoint service description
SharePoint in Microsoft 365 helps organizations share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to:
- Empower teamwork
- Quickly find information
- Seamlessly collaborate across the organization
For a quick overview, see What is SharePoint?
To see which plans include SharePoint, Powerful tools to support your enterprise. For Microsoft 365 system requirements, see Microsoft 365 and Office Resources.
To learn about SharePoint features differences for US government cloud customers, see SharePoint for US government environments.
What's new
For information about the latest features being released, see What's new in SharePoint.
Subscription options
Microsoft 365 is available in a variety of plans to best meet the needs of your organization. For information about different plans, including standalone plan options and information on moving from one plan to another, see Microsoft 365 Plan Options.
To access SharePoint, users in your organization need to be assigned a license that includes SharePoint. A Firstline plan is not sold as a standalone offer, only as part of Office 365 F3, Microsoft 365 F1 or Microsoft 365 F3.
Rights of guests
If you purchase a plan and create a site that uses enterprise features, guests you invite are granted rights to use and/or view the enterprise features within the site to which you've invited them. While you can invite guests to perform a full range of actions on a site, they won't have the same capabilities as a licensed user within your organization. For example, if your plan includes desktop versions of Office applications, guests can't install them on their own computers unless you assign them a license.
OneDrive
OneDrive in Microsoft 365 is online storage for individual users within an organization. It's the place where people can store, sync, and share their work files across multiple devices with ease and security. OneDrive is included in SharePoint and can also be purchased as a standalone plan. To learn how much OneDrive storage comes with each plan, see the OneDrive service description.
Apps
To sync SharePoint files on a computer, users can use the OneDrive sync app for Windows or Mac. For info about feature availability in the sync app, see the OneDrive service description.
To work with SharePoint sites on a mobile device, they can install the SharePoint mobile app for iOS, Android, or Windows.
Developer features
Unless otherwise noted, the following features are available across all plans that include SharePoint, and all SharePoint standalone plans:
- Add-in hosting: Partner-hosted and SharePoint-hosted
- App distribution: App Catalog
- App distribution: AppSource
- Business Connectivity Services (BCS). Requires SharePoint Plan 2, Office 365 Enterprise E3, or Office 365 Enterprise E5
- Client object models for managed code
- Developer site
- InfoPath Forms Services. Requires SharePoint Plan 2, Office 365 Enterprise E3, or Office 365 Enterprise E5
- OAuth. Some providers might be blocked in your country/region.
- REST service and OData queries
- SharePoint Designer 2013 (for classic sites). Not available for firstline workers.
- SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
- Site designs and site scripts
- Site theming
For an overview of customization options, see Customizing SharePoint.
To learn more about the availability of Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, see the Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQs.
To learn more about the availability of Microsoft Graph, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 platform service description.
IT admin features
Unless otherwise noted, the following features are available across all plans that include SharePoint, and all SharePoint standalone plans:
- App usage and error monitoring
- Activity and usage reports for SharePoint and OneDrive
- Change site URL
- Default storage and retention settings for OneDrive
- Hybrid for SharePoint Server. Firstline workers require a Client Access License (CAL) to access SharePoint Server.
- Management of site creation settings
- Management of site storage limits
- Migration: SharePoint migration tool
- Migration: Migration Manager
- Migration: SharePoint migration assessment tool
- Migration: Mover.io. Now available worldwide.
- Multi-geo (data residency). With an add-on that requires a minimum of 500 Microsoft licenses. Contact your Microsoft representative for details.
- Programmatic site provisioning
- Root site replacement
- Restore deleted sites
- SharePoint admin center. Organizations with Firstline workers need at least one Enterprise user to access the admin center.
- SharePoint modernization scanner
- SharePoint Online Management Shell. Organizations with Firstline workers need at least one Enterprise user to access the admin center.
- Site governance
- Term store - managed metadata
For info about the availability of FastTrack migration services, refer to the Eligible services and plans.
For info about features related to sharing, see the OneDrive service description.
For admin help for SharePoint, see SharePoint Online admin.
Security and compliance features
Unless otherwise noted, the following features are available across all plans that include SharePoint, and all SharePoint standalone plans:
- Access control: network location
- Access control: unmanaged devices. Requires Azure AD Premium P1.
- Encryption in transit and at rest
- Idle session sign-out
- Information management policies
- Information Rights Management (IRM). Requires Azure Information Protection standalone or as part of a suite. Some Azure Information Protection features require a subscription to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.
- Restoring a document library to a previous point in time
- Virus scanning
For info about features related to sharing, see the OneDrive service description.
SharePoint integrates with the advanced security and compliance capabilities of Microsoft 365. For info about the availability of the following features, see the Security & compliance service description:
- Customer Lockbox
- Data loss prevention (DLP)
- eDiscovery (Content Search, hold, export)
- Information barriers
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- Retention labels and policies
- Sensitivity labels
- Unified auditing (auditing SharePoint user and admin activity)
For info about Azure Information Protection, see the Requirements for Azure Information Protection
For info about the availability of Customer Key, see Service encryption with Customer Key.
Sites and content features
Unless otherwise noted, the following features are available across all plans that include SharePoint, and all SharePoint standalone plans:
- Accessibility
- Add Microsoft Teams to sites. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365, and requires the user to be licensed for Teams.
- Audience targeting
- Connect classic team sites to new Office 365 Groups. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365.
- Create a plan (Planner integration). Requires a subscription that includes Office 365, and requires the user to be licensed for Planner.
- Document libraries
- Document sets
- File cards (activity, conversations, viewers)
- Lists
- Mega menus
- Microsoft Forms integration. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365, and requires the user to be licensed for Forms.
- News
- Office desktop app integration. Requires a subscription that includes the Office desktop apps.
- Office for the web integration. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365.
- Organization assets library
- Organization news
- Page approval
- Pages
- Records management
- Recycle bin
- SharePoint mobile app
- SharePoint start page
- Site designs
- Site usage reports
- Sites: Classic sites
- Sites: Communication sites
- Sites: Home site
- Sites: Hub sites
- Sites: Modern team sites (no Microsoft 365 group)
- Sites: Microsoft 365 group-connected team sites. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365.
- Sites: Root site
- Team OneNote notebook
- Themes (Change the look)
- Web parts
- Work with SharePoint content in Microsoft Teams. Requires a subscription that includes Office 365, and requires the user to be licensed for Teams.
To learn more about the availability of Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, see the Power Apps and Power Automate licensing FAQs.
For info about features related to sharing, see the OneDrive service description.
Search features
Unless otherwise noted, the following features are available across all plans that include SharePoint, and all SharePoint standalone plans:
- Hybrid search
- Manage result sources (classic and modern search)
- Microsoft Search integration
- Promoted results (classic search)
- Remove search results (classic and modern search)
- Search center (classic search)
- Search schema (classic and modern search)
For info about Delve, see Microsoft 365 and Office 365 platform service description.