Introduction to SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365 for administrators
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SharePoint and OneDrive in Microsoft 365 are cloud-based services that help organizations share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to:
Empower teamwork
Quickly find information
Seamlessly collaborate across the organization
The resources on this page are designed to get you started. Depending on the needs of your organization, you may want to read about migration and governance options before you start rolling SharePoint and OneDrive out to your users.
If your organization has legal or other requirements that govern the handling of data, or if you have sensitive or confidential information that you want to protect, these references can help you configure SharePoint for your governance standards and policies.
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How to plan your compliance requirements for SharePoint and OneDrive
If you use OneDrive in your organization and you want to protect important files by saving them to the cloud, govern how much storage space users get, or govern how users sync file, these references will help you configure your policies.
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Protect important files on users' desktops or in their Documents folder
SharePoint is deeply integrated into Teams. Files that are stored in Teams are stored in SharePoint sites. When you administer SharePoint sites in the SharePoint admin center, you may find that many of them are connected to teams. Use these resources to understand how SharePoint and Teams are integrated.
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Learn about how Teams and SharePoint work together
SharePoint and OneDrive provide a rich collaboration environment where people inside and outside your organization can work together, coauthoring documents. Microsoft 365 provides a variety of options to help you create a secure and productive file collaboration environment that meets the needs of your organization. Use these resources to get started.
Administrators are often called upon to teach others in the organization how to use new technologies. Use these resources to help your users be successful with SharePoint and OneDrive.
SharePoint provides a wide range of options for customization. We recommend using the out-of-box features and functionality as much as possible to meet your organization's needs. If you do need to customize SharePoint, see these references.
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Understand how to customize SharePoint using modern tools and techniques
Demonstrate skills to plan, deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams to focus on efficient and effective collaboration and communication in a Microsoft 365 environment.