which webservices are available in which version of SharePoint

We are working on a client application, which required to access data from SharePoint too. The best way to do that is to consume webservices exposed by SharePoint. While consuming them, we wanted to make sure which services are available in which version. We tried to find any matrix for that, but could not find one. So I thought of building it myself, so that others can reference it.

This matrix is based on a information available on MSDN, however this is not a final. I will dig more and will add any missing services, which are not fully documented elsewhere.

Name

Reference

WSS 3.0

MOSS 2007

SPF 2010

SPS 2010

SPF 2013

SPS 2013

Administration

admin.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Alerts

alerts.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Area

areaservice.asmx

 

Yes

       

Authentication

authentication.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Basic Search

spsearch.asmx

   

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Copy

copy.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Diagnositcs

diagnostics.asmx

   

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Distribution Group

sharepointemailws.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Document Workspace

dws.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Enterprise Search

search.asmx

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

Yes

Forms

forms.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Imaging

imaging.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

List Data Retrieval

dspsts.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Lists

lists.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Meetings

meetings.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Organization Profile *

organizationprofileservice.asmx

     

Yes

   

People

people.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Permissions

permissions.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Published Links

publishedlinksservice.asmx

 

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Shared Access

sharedaccess.asmx

   

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Site Data

sitedata.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sites

sites.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Social Data

socialdataservice.asmx

     

Yes

Yes

Yes

Storage Synchornization

cellstorage.svc

   

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

User Profile

userprofileservice.asmx

 

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

User Profile Changes

userprofilechangeservice.asmx

 

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Users & Groups

usergroup.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Versions

versions.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Views

views.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web Part Pages

webpartpages.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Webs

webs.asmx

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Workflow

workflow.asmx

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Legends used in above table

  • WSS 3.0 – Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • MOSS 2007 – Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • SPF 2010 – SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • SPS 2010 – SharePoint Server 2010
  • SPF 2013 – SharePoint Foundation 2013
  • SPS 2013 – SharePoint Server 2013

* This was removed in Beta 2

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