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SharePoint 2019 For Dummies
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SharePoint 2019 For Dummies

by Ken Withee, Rosemarie Withee
May 2019
Beginner
416 pages
10h 22m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 1

Getting to Know SharePoint

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Gaining a general understanding of SharePoint

Bullet Exploring how the product is put together

Bullet Getting familiar with SharePoint concepts

Bullet Seeing how SharePoint works at a fundamental level

When we first heard about SharePoint, we just didn’t get it. What the heck was this thing called SharePoint? We knew it was a Microsoft product that was supposed to do lots of things, but we just couldn’t figure out exactly what it was or how to get started working with it.

Well, after years of working with SharePoint, we have finally figured a few things out. SharePoint is a web-based software platform that is definitely capable of doing lots of things — more than you could ever imagine. And therein lies the problem. If you ask ten people what SharePoint does, you’re very likely to get ten different answers. SharePoint has such a depth to it that it’s hard to get your head around it.

In this chapter, we help you see the SharePoint big picture. You discover how SharePoint works and gain understanding on exactly what the term SharePoint means. This chapter ...

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