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Glossary

Applies to: Developer

Term Definition
Container A File Storage Container: the basic SharePoint Embedded storage unit and security and compliance boundary for files. See SharePoint Embedded overview.
Container type A SharePoint Embedded resource that defines the relationship, access privileges, billing accountability, and behavior for a set of containers. See container types.
Developer tenant The tenant that develops or owns the SharePoint Embedded application and creates its container type. See container types.
Consuming tenant The Microsoft 365 tenant where a SharePoint Embedded app is used and where containers and content are stored. See app architecture.
Container type registration Registration of a container type in a consuming tenant so the app can perform allowed operations against containers of that type. See register container type application permissions.
Single-tenant app An application model intended for use in one tenant, commonly for enterprise line-of-business scenarios. See choose an app model.
Multitenant app An application model intended for use across customer tenants, commonly for ISV scenarios. See choose an app model.
Standard billing A billing model where consumption charges are billed to the tenant that owns or develops the application. See choose a billing model.
Pass-through (customer) billing A billing model where consumption charges are billed directly to the consuming tenant registered to use the app. See choose a billing model.
Owning application The Microsoft Entra ID application registration strongly coupled with a container type; each owning app can own one container type at a time. See app architecture.
Partition The API-only SharePoint storage partition created in a consumer's Microsoft 365 tenant for SharePoint Embedded app documents. See SharePoint Embedded overview.