How Sharepoint Fits In With Your IT Infrastructure (Video)

PCG talks about Microsoft Sharepoint – what it is, how it works, and how it fits in with your IT infrastructure.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hello, my name is Steve Ripper, and today I would like to tell you about SharePoint and how it can fit into your IT infrastructure. Microsoft SharePoint started as a web portal company, Intraweb product back in the early 2000s. Back then, it was installed on servers in your server room or data center, but has since evolved into a Microsoft 365 feature that comes with all of the standard plans from basic up through E5.

While SharePoint has a web front end that allows users and administrators to interact with the product, its real value in utility is in file sharing and storage abilities. SharePoint comes with a virtually unlimited amount of storage size for files and folders that is built into the cost of your 365 licensing.

In fact, it may be best understood as the file storage system for all of the other features in 365 that you are already making use of. When you save a file in Teams or OneDrive, you are in fact saving it in SharePoint, just a prebuilt section for those apps. In addition to the storage space, that is such a great value, its ability to be customized as a web front end for so many different file sharing applications really highlights its versatility. It can have sites dedicated to pictures, sites that are list- or spreadsheet-oriented, and of course visual web-based representations of your standard company file structure.

SharePoint sports a built-in backup that is maintenance free and effectively operates as a file versioning agent that can recover any version of a file immediately. The future of file storage is not in hard drives with mapped drive letters that we see so often in most small businesses these days. There is now, and will continue to be, a push towards online file sharing structures for their cost effectiveness, security location, and ability to be accessed from anywhere. SharePoint is Microsoft’s file storage solution for your company’s shared data.

While OneDrive is the solution for user data, such as the desktop and documents folders. When taken together, these two products offer a secure, easy to use, and highly mobile file solution that you are already paying for. If you would like PCG to help migrate your data structures from hard drives to SharePoint, please don’t hesitate to call.