SharePoint turns 25 on March 2. For me, that is more than a milestone in the Microsoft world. It is a personal checkpoint, because SharePoint has been with me throughout my entire professional life as a consultant.

My first SharePoint memories go back to the on-prem era around SharePoint 2003 and 2007. It was a different time: multi server SharePoint Farms, team sites, document libraries, and a lot of hands-on work with structure and permissions. Requirements and challenges were more on the Search and custom design side of things. At least at my customers. Who remembers that implementing a simple thing like wildcard search requires a third party addon back in the SharePoint 2007 days.