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Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019

By : Lewin Wanzer, Angel Wood
Book Image

Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019

By: Lewin Wanzer, Angel Wood

Overview of this book

Microsoft’s latest addition to their product range, SharePoint Server 2019, is a new enterprise content management platform that brings on-premise collaboration features to life. It can be used as an isolated platform or in a hybrid connected configuration providing management and connectivity to Office 365. You can use the SharePoint framework to host sites, information, data, and applications in a robust CMS that centralizes collaborative content for enterprises. SharePoint 2019 enables new integrations and features that will allow you to work seamlessly with new and old Office products such as Microsoft Power Apps and other Microsoft Office applications. Implementing Microsoft SharePoint 2019 will help you understand the challenges, planning, migration steps, installation concepts, and configuration involved in providing this platform for your enterprise. The book will also show you what the platform brings to the table from an on-premise server perspective. If you’re new to SharePoint 2019, you’ll also be guided through how to get servers up and running so that you and your user community can become productive with this powerful new platform. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed in Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and have the knowledge you need to apply your skills in the real world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Assessing the environment

As stated in this section's title, our first order of business is to find out what we have in our current environment, what's changing in the new environment, and what's new in the new environment with regards to SharePoint Server 2019. We began this chapter by looking at deprecated features, removed features, and new features for SharePoint 2019. Now, we need to look at our current environment to see where we are now and how we can improve it. This is very important to figure out how SharePoint is running if you have a current farm configured in your enterprise before going forward with a new implementation. This should also include multi-cloud deployments that end up eating your costs and you paying more than you were in on-premises financial support.

Assessments can be done in several ways. You can do the assessment yourself using a team within your IT department to find out all the details and assess where your current environment stands...