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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)

Understanding workflows and Workflow Manager

Within SharePoint, workflows are a form of automation and provide business processes with documents and content within lists. How do we migrate them from older versions of SharePoint? In some cases, you will have to recreate workflows, especially those created in Visual Studio as custom developed solutions. If you have some out of the box workflows, you can investigate whether the tool you're using will migrate them for you without any other manual involvement. Make sure to use mappings for any accounts missing from Active Directory (AD), mappings that have been retired due to employees leaving the company, and mappings for content types and other columns that may not be present in the newer version of SharePoint.

You will also notice that, in Microsoft 365 SharePoint Designer 2010, workflows have been discontinued. In SharePoint 2019, however, these workflows are still supported. SharePoint 2019 Server gives you the option to move...