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What is SharePoint?

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Organizations use Microsoft SharePoint to create websites. You can use it as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device. All you need is a web browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox. Want to learn more? Get started with SharePoint.

Take a look at the latest version of SharePoint. When you create a new team site, this is what you’ll see for SharePoint and SharePoint Server 2019.

What is SharePoint?

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"SharePoint" can refer to one or more SharePoint products or technologies, including:

• SharePoint in Microsoft 365???????A cloud-based service, hosted by Microsoft, for businesses of all sizes. Instead of installing and deploying SharePoint Server on-premises, any business can subscribe to a?Microsoft 365 plan or to the standalone SharePoint Online service. Your employees can create sites to share documents and information with colleagues, partners, and customers. To get started storing your files on your team site, see Set up Microsoft 365 file storage and sharing. Give Microsoft 365 a try.
• SharePoint Server ???????Organizations can deploy and manage SharePoint Server on-premises or with an Office 365 Enterprise subscription to take advantage of all the latest features. And it offers additional features and capabilities, such as modern site pages, modern web parts and authoring, modern lists and libraries, modern search, integration with PowerApps, Power BI and MS Flow, and SharePoint home page. Download SharePoint Server 2019.
• SharePoint Designer 2013 ???????A free program last released in 2013. Used to build powerful, workflow-enabled solutions. And used to edit external content types for an external data solution based on Business Connectivity Services. Download SharePoint Designer 2013.
• OneDrive sync ???????A desktop program that you can use to sync documents from a team site or OneDrive for work or school to your computer for offline use. Learn more about OneDrive.

For more info?about trying, buying, or using SharePoint products and technologies, see SharePoint product information.

If you’re familiar with SharePoint and want to know what’s changed recently, see Follow the latest updates in SharePoint and Differences between SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019.Learning SharePoint for Beginners

You might wish to have a look at the YouTube video called How to use Microsoft SharePoint. It is by Kevin Stratvert and is about 22 minutes long. You might consider taking an online course to learn even more.

SharePoint Versions

There are two types of SharePoint: online and on-premises.

• SharePoint On-Premise – your data is at the company location on your own servers
• SharePoint Online – your data is in the cloud on Microsoft servers

For the on-premise versions, there are Standard and Enterprise. Enterprise has more features than the Standard version. The online version has everything that the Enterprise version has. It is recommended to use the online version unless you are against using online versions of software for security reasons.

To get the SharePoint software you need either a work or school Microsoft 365 account. Once you start SharePoint you go the the Start page. Below is a screenshot of Kevin Statvert’s example in his video mentioned above.

In the above screenshot under the Frequent Site section it looks like Kevin is a member of three team sites (Live, Work and Give) and a member of one Communication site called Communication site. Above that, you can see some of the news from the sites Kevin is a member of. Since there could be a lot of news items, you may want to save it for later by clicking on the bookmark icon at the bottom of the news item and it will be added to the Saved for Later section on the left. In the Frequent Sites section you can click the star icon at the top of the site to add it to your Following section at the top left of the page.

In the top left corner you can create a new site.

Sites

When it comes to sites there are two different types of SharePoint sites: team sites and communication sites. Communication sites are for everyone in your organization and team sites are for a specific group of people in your organization. You can have as many sites as you like. It’s very flexible. You can have a company-wide site, a department site, a regional site, a special project site, a site for the board of directors, a site for top executives, a hobby site, a site for those people that specialize in a specific industry, and a social site.

Modern vs. Classic

There are two “flavours” of SharePoint. By default SharePoint is Modern. Each looks different from the other. There are some features and apps that only exist in the old classic and do not yet exist in the Modern version. Eventually, all of these apps and features will be available in the Modern version