Overview of a SharePoint hybrid
The popularity of SharePoint is growing all the time, increasing our user's efficiency and allowing businesses to grow rapidly. Configuring a SharePoint hybrid allows us to build on our existing implementation and expand out to the cloud. However, there are still a lot of improvements Microsoft could make and new features they could implement to make it a smoother and richer experience. You may find that after reading this chapter you will need to engage with and investigate third-party services, depending on what you need to achieve.
You may be surprised by what you do and don't get with a hybrid configuration. You may find it's actually not the best way forward, but there are lots of benefits you can leverage to make the transition to SharePoint Online a smoother experience. So what do we actually get?
- Hybrid search: Allows the users to search both the on-premises SharePoint farm and SharePoint Online, giving them easy access to files regardless...