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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)

Exploring Office service applications

As we mentioned in the introduction, Office service applications are primarily used by developers to extend the capabilities of the Office platform into SharePoint Server. The core Office service applications are as follows:

  • Access Services: Enables users to create and manage web-based Microsoft Access applications.
  • Excel Services: Enables users to work with Excel workbooks on SharePoint sites.
  • Machine Translation Service: Provides language translation services for sites and documents.
  • PerformancePoint Service: This is used to create and publish dashboards.
  • PowerPoint Automation Services: This enables unattended conversion of PowerPoint presentations.
  • Visio Services: Enables users to interact with Visio drawings on SharePoint sites.
  • Word Automation Services: This enables unattended conversion of Word documents.

Microsoft is de-emphasizing Access and Excel services and recommends that organizations use newer cloud-based technologies like Power Automate...