What is SharePoint?

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What is SharePoint?

What SharePoint is: the platform behind Microsoft 365 file storage, team sites, intranets, Teams, and OneDrive — how it works and how to run it well.

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What is SharePoint used for?

Team and project file storage behind Teams, the corporate intranet (communication sites, news, hub navigation), document management with versioning and metadata, lists and forms, and the platform under OneDrive, Loop, a…

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What is the difference between SharePoint and OneDrive?

OneDrive is a personal SharePoint site for one person's files; SharePoint sites are shared spaces owned by groups. The rule: OneDrive for drafts and personal work, SharePoint for anything a team owns or that must outliv…

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Is SharePoint on-premises still a thing?

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition exists and is supported for organisations that cannot use the cloud; SharePoint 2016 and 2019 reach end of support in July 2026. New features and Copilot are cloud-only, and Micros…

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