SharePoint and Communication Sites: An Introduction
To begin, we take a glimpse of SharePoint Online and its associated functionalities—the hub site, team site, and communication site. Once you have a good understanding, we move to SharePoint’s community sites and explore various features in depth.
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SharePoint and Communication Sites: An Introduction To begin, we take a glimpse of SharePoint Online and its associated functionalities—the Hub site, Team site, and Communication site. Once you have a good understanding, we move to SharePoint’s community sites and explore various features in depth.
Introducing SharePoint Online SharePoint Online is a service available under the Microsoft Office 365 product family. SharePoint Online is technically different from SharePoint. SharePoint Online is a cloud-based service that’s part of the Office 365 product family and SharePoint is an on-premise version of SharePoint that can be installed in your environment in your own infrastructure, unlike SharePoint Online. With SharePoint Online, you can collaborate on work-related stuff and share content globally with your colleagues, partners, and customers. Internal sites, files uploaded, and any information hosted over SharePoint Online can be accessed easily from anywhere in the world, using mobile devices. © Charles David Waghmare 2019 C. D. Waghmare, Beginning SharePoint Communication Sites, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4203-2_1
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dvantages and Disadvantages of A SharePoint Online Similar to SaaS, Software-as-as-Service products, SharePoint Online offers rich user experiences without an installation process. With a single click, users can explore rich content management and collaborative features that help them effectively perform their business tasks. Here are a few advantages of SharePoint Online. •
Easy sharing and collaboration—Empower sharing of content and collaboration between global teams. Offer space for people to share and collaborate information to remain updated. Enrich your Intranet and make it a place for sharing information.
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Connect people—Inform and communicate to your global employees. Publish breaking news and announcements with SharePoint dynamic pages.
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Make decisions faster with intelligence—The powerful search engine will help you find sites, attachments, and profiles. Built-in intelligence delivers relevant results to make decisions and discover vital information.
Besides these advantages, there are a few disadvantages of SharePoint Online as well:
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Due to the cloud factor in SharePoint Online, some companies have refrained from using it or they have decided to use a combination of on-premise and cloud versions
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There is less opportunity for customized development, as most of its features are available out of the box.
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There is no backend control and no content migration from other sources.
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Additional bandwidth is needed to access the platform.
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Integration with non-Microsoft products is not possible.
SharePoint Online Features Up to this point, we talked about SharePoint Online and its power to facilitate content management and collaboration. In this section, we look at the features that make this possible and that create
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