15 Facts About SharePoint

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates natively with Microsoft Office.

SharePoint Server is provided to organizations that seek greater control over SharePoint's behavior or design.

Microsoft's hosted SharePoint is typically bundled in Microsoft 365 subscriptions, but can be licensed separately.

SharePoint Online has the advantage of not needing to maintain one's own servers, but as a result lacks the customization options of a self-hosted installation of SharePoint.

SharePoint allows for storage, retrieval, searching, archiving, tracking, management, and reporting on electronic documents and records.

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SharePoint intranet or intranet portal is a way to centralize access to enterprise information and applications.

SharePoint contains team collaboration groupware capabilities, including: project scheduling, social collaboration, shared mailboxes, and project related document storage and collaboration.

SharePoint contains an enterprise "app store" that has different types of external applications which are encapsulated and managed to access to resources such as corporate user data and document data.

SharePoint Site is a collection of pages, lists, libraries, apps, configurations, features, content types, and sub-sites.

Examples of Site templates in SharePoint include: collaboration sites, communication sites, organization sites, wiki sites, blank sites, and publishing sites.

SharePoint farm is a logical grouping of SharePoint servers that share common resources.

SharePoint Central Administration is a web application that typically exists on a single server in the farm; however, it is able to be deployed for redundancy to multiple servers.

Structure of the SharePoint platform enables multiple WAs to exist on a single farm.

The SharePoint 'Tenant Administration' is an optional web application used by web application owners to manage how their web application interacts with the shared resources in the farm.

SharePoint evolved from projects codenamed "Office Server" and "Tahoe" during the Office XP development cycle.