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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

SharePoint Server is an on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. It serves as a content management and web services platform, enabling users to create, publish, and discover content and applications and integrate with business systems. This SharePoint book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the SharePoint Server 2019 interface to help you configure and deploy confidently from the start. With the help of clear and succinct explanations and expert tips, this book covers SharePoint Server and SharePoint Hybrid configuration as well as the process for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online. As the book takes you through strategies and techniques for configuring and managing SharePoint on-premises and hybrid scenarios, you’ll get to grips with the concepts essential for SharePoint deployments, such as authentication, Business Connectivity Services, and the data gateway. You’ll also explore migration methods and strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of deploying SharePoint Server 2019 and be able to use this reference guide for your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Configuring hybrid sites

With SharePoint, when a user follows a site for updates, it's added to the user's Followed Sites list. However, with mixed environments (such as SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online), if users follow sites in both environments, they'll end up with two Followed Sites lists containing different items.

With hybrid sites features, the user's sites link from on-premises SharePoint is redirected to SharePoint Online so that users can maintain a single list.

It's important to note that currently followed sites in SharePoint Server are not migrated. Users will have to re-establish their followed sites once the feature is enabled.

To configure hybrid sites, follow these steps:

  1. Launch SharePoint Hybrid Configuration Wizard from the icon on the desktop or from Central Administration.
  2. After authenticating, select the Hybrid Sites option and click Next:

  1. Review the configuration summary and click Close:

With that, your hybrid sites have been...