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What is SharePoint?

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What is SharePoint?

Most people find it hard to wrap their head around SharePoint and you might be one of those people. Perhaps you've been playing with this thing called SharePoint for a while and you don't really get it yet, you're waiting for that one simple description, that one simple sentence that will suddenly make it all make sense. Now you won't get that one sentence from me, because SharePoint isn't a simple thing to explain. That's because SharePoint isn't one thing. SharePoint is not a program. It's a platform. It's a collection of many very different products and technologies, all wrapped up and given a name. And from one perspective, learning SharePoint is like learning Microsoft Office. You don't. You don't really learn Office. You learn Word then Excel, then Outlook and so on. And in the same way you don't just learn SharePoint. It's a massive, massive set of solutions of different things you can do with this platform. And with every version of SharePoint, Microsoft has added more and…

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