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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)

Planning and configuring the OneDrive sync client

The OneDrive sync client is used to synchronize data, typically between a user's personal computer and their server-based OneDrive (also known as My Sites) document library.

The newest version of the OneDrive sync client works with both SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online, so depending on which one your organization uses (or plans to use), you may want to specify some additional configuration settings.

Planning Group Policy configuration settings

When planning your OneDrive sync client, there are a number of configuration items to address. Many of these configurations can be managed with Group Policy objects for the OneDrive client:

  • Specify the SharePoint Server URL and organization name: When OneDrive for Business is configured against Office 365, a staging folder for the OneDrive client is created using the Office 365 tenant's name as a prefix. For example, if the tenant ID name is contoso.onmicrosoft.com and the organization...