{"id":1532,"date":"2019-11-15T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2019-11-15T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T08:37:24","slug":"what-is-microsofts-sharepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/what-is-microsofts-sharepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Microsoft’s Sharepoint?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Sharepoint is a collaborative server environment with the purpose of sharing documents and data among multiple groups within the company\u2019s network. The groups can control workgroups, data, documents, and security. It is deployed as multiple intranet sites on a company\u2019s network. Version-controlled documents like excel sheets or word documents are most often handled using the SharePoint. To share documents, emails are used in a number of environments. It is quite complex to store a number of versions of the same document. Also, doing so will require a lot of space on the disk. Most of these issues were resolved as SharePoint provides a single platform for storing, viewing, and updating the documents.<\/br>
\nWhen multiple teams want to collaborate for their large projects, SharePoint is used to combinedly store different types of documents(videos, photographs, project drawings, schematics, workbooks, etc.) as it can easily handle almost any type of document.<\/br>
\nSome time ago, technologies available had many shortcomings. Users were not able to access the same file at the same point in time. They could copy the file to the local system and make changes to it but that also led to confusion, overwriting, etc. Microsoft SharePoint provides solutions to these problems. Some of the advantages of SharePoint are:<\/p>\n