Glossary

SharePoint

Microsoft's web platform for shared document libraries, team sites, and intranet portals.

SharePoint is the web platform inside Microsoft 365 for storing, organising, and sharing files and pages across an organisation. It provides team sites (workspaces for groups, departments, or projects), document libraries with versioning and co-authoring, and communication sites used for intranets and company news.

SharePoint sits underneath a lot of the platform without you noticing: every Microsoft Teams channel stores its files in a SharePoint document library, and OneDrive is technically a personal SharePoint site. When people talk about "putting it on SharePoint," they usually mean uploading to a team site library rather than to a personal OneDrive folder.