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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)

Gathering Data Permissions and Assessing the Requirements

Many organizations use Windows network file shares or Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solutions that rely on a combination of share and NTFS permissions to manage access. SharePoint sites, lists, and libraries similarly use a combination of explicit and inherited permissions (at the collection, site, library, and item level) to control access to resources. Other applications and services may use explicit app-defined permissions, rely on Azure Active Directory (AD) or local group permissions, or may use another access control mechanism altogether.

When moving to SharePoint Online, it's important to understand how these currently work so that you can plan for how permissions will work in the future. Many tools provide some sort of mapping between on-premises security controls and SharePoint Online security controls. This can be automated through the tool's interface or through the use of a separate mapping file.

For example...