- This is a Microsoft SharePoint team site
created in SharePoint online.
SharePoint is a platform for building websites
and those websites are used
to share documents, data and apps.
In other words, we build websites with SharePoint
and then collaborate in those websites.
When we say SharePoint we mean more than one thing
because there different SharePoint products.
There's SharePoint Online, which I'll be using
for demonstration in this course.
There's also a on-premises version of SharePoint,
SharePoint Server.
And, if you're familiar with OneDrive for Business,
OneDrive for Business is actually a service
of Microsoft SharePoint.
And to make thing a little more complex but accurate,
if you were using Microsoft teams and you were storing files
those files are actually being stored
in Microsoft SharePoint.
The features that made SharePoint famous include
robot support for documents and authoring.
Documents are stored in libraries
which are a specialized kind of list and we can co-author,
in libraries, multiple users in a site,
authoring the same document at the same time
and you can include versioning and approval processes
for those documents.
With data, we have excel-like lists
and there are built-in lose types
but there is also ability to custom your own list
to track whatever data you need to track.
And you can easily create lists in excel
and publish or promote those to SharePoint,
for shared or work group use.
When we create SharePoint sites for collaboration,
we create team sites
and these are the original SharePoint sites.
Within a team, members collaborate on documents and data
and they have a shared news feed.
We also have, in modern SharePoint, communication sites
that are usually used by a group to share information
with the larger oraganization.
SharePoint has list-level integration
with a Microsoft Power Platform
which means that if I am looking at a list
or a library in SharePoint,
I'll see options right in the list for power apps
to create new apps or to customize forms
or power automate, also know as flow
to create a new flow into configure flows
right here in Microsoft SharePoint.
Because SharePoint supports large document repositories,
SharePoint also has to have world class search and it does.
You can search within SharePoint in news feeds,
you cans search for text within a particular document,
you can search for documents as a whole
for the people who created documents and so on.
SharePoint also features world class security
for ease of administration and security management
has build-in security groups
but you can customize those groups
or create groups of your own.
With this feature set it is not surprising
that SharePoint has seen wide adoption.
There are tons of millions of SharePoint users
around the world.