From the course: SharePoint 2016 Essential Training

What you need for this course

From the course: SharePoint 2016 Essential Training

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What you need for this course

- [Voiceover] Starting with the next movie, I'm going to be showing you how SharePoint works. This movie is to tell you about what you'll need if you would like to work along with me, or try out some of the things that I'll be demonstrating. First, you need to have a current version of SharePoint. There are two primary current versions. The first, SharePoint Server 2016, is normally installed on severs in your organization, but it could be installed on servers that your organization has in the cloud. This version of SharePoint, though, normally installed on physical servers that your organization owns, is also referred to as SharePoint on premises or on prem. SharePoint Online is the other version. There are several flavors, but normally SharePoint Online is used as part of Office 365. This course focuses on SharePoint Server 2016. All of these SharePoint products run in a browser, so it behooves us to take a look at which browsers work, and which browsers aren't really supported. First, you can use SharePoint with Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 or 11. If you're running an earlier version of Internet Explorer, it's not necessarily supported for SharePoint, so if you're using Internet Explorer eight, it might not work. You can also use Microsoft Edge, which premiered with Windows 10. That's a fine browser for SharePoint. With the other desktop browsers, we're looking at whatever the latest version is, the current version. For example, the latest versions of Google Chrome, of Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari. All work with the current version of SharePoint. But if you looked at older versions of Apple Safari, for example, older versions of Firefox, those might not work, might not be supported at all. Often what happens is, some things will work, but something won't. So as we look at this browser list, in all cases we're being asked for the latest version, or in the case of Internet Explorer, versions, of whatever browser it is you're using. And this is the set of supported browsers. You might say, well, what other browsers are there? There are lots of other browsers, but these are the browsers that are supported for SharePoint. In other words, these are the browsers that SharePoint has tested against. So if you choose to use a browser that's not on this list, it may not work well with SharePoint. We also have the ability to use SharePoint on a mobile device. For example, I can open a SharePoint site from my iPad, or from my tablet. So we have mobile browsers that we also want to look at. For example, if you are using a Windows phone, you can use either Edge, or Internet Explorer, whatever version would run on a Windows Phone 8.1. If you're using Apple, iPad, or iPhone iOS 8 or later, then you can use either Safari or Chrome. And if you're using an Android device four point four or later, then you'll want to use the appropriate version of Chrome. If you'd really like to work along with me, and you don't yet have access to SharePoint, consider a SharePoint online subscription, perhaps as part of your Office 365 subscription. You can often go to Office.Microsoft.com, and get a free trial of SharePoint or of Office 365, or a short term subscription, so you can evaluate this great collaboration platform for yourself.

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