Before going for SharePoint, let’s see something about IIS.

What is an IIS?

Internet Information Services is a web server where we can host the application to publish it to outside or to the world.

Note: When we create an application on SharePoint it gets deployed on IIS.

What is SharePoint?

  1. In Simple terms, SharePoint is a collaboration portal where we can share information or data globally or internally or either, based on the requirements. i.e., a common point of collaboration.
  2. SharePoint’s content management feature facilitates organizations or users to securely store, share or collaborate with each other.

In one of the books, it is elaborated like,

In an organization, there are various departments such as IT, Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, etc. If they want to share some documents with other departments or teams to work together, those documents can be placed in a particular repository and everyone who has access to that repository can access those documents and work together. And this repository becomes the central point for all departments or teams – this is how the point is being shared by all respective departments or teams – hence the name is SharePoint. A secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from any device. All you need is a web browser

Why should we use SharePoint?

Mainly, if there is a large amount of data then we can easily store it on SharePoint. Let’s suppose we are running different projects, different clients and they have different, different data, refer to the below diagram.

Introduction to SharePoint

Key features of SharePoint

Different ways to access SharePoint

There are two ways we can access and use SharePoint,

  1. SharePoint On-Premises
  2. SharePoint Online (Office 365)

SharePoint On-Premises

SharePoint Online