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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
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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)

Managing an on-premises data gateway

Now that a data gateway has been installed, you can configure data sources to be used with Office 365 Power Platform applications, as well as update the settings for the gateway. In this section, you'll learn how to do the following tasks:

  • Add a data source.
  • Add a gateway admin.
  • Change the gateway service account.
  • Change the recovery key.
  • Monitor a data gateway.

Use the procedures in the following sections to perform maintenance and management tasks for the data gateway.

Adding a data source

In order to make data available to Office 365 Power Platform services, you'll need to configure one or more data sources. To manage data sources, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Power BI admin center (https://app.powerbi.com/admin-portal).
  2. Select the gear icon, and then select Manage gateways:
  1. Select the gateway to which you want to add a data source and then click on the Add data sources to use the gateway link:
  1. Enter a name into the Data...