1 00:00:02,882 --> 00:00:05,991 Let's start by the SharePoint 2 00:00:05,991 --> 00:00:08,470 customization options. From a historical 3 00:00:08,470 --> 00:00:11,373 perspective, SharePoint was always a 4 00:00:11,373 --> 00:00:13,914 customizable platform and the reason why 5 00:00:13,914 --> 00:00:16,833 it became so popular is because every 6 00:00:16,833 --> 00:00:19,625 company could turn SharePoint into their 7 00:00:19,625 --> 00:00:22,551 SharePoint by building line of business 8 00:00:22,551 --> 00:00:25,116 applications and integrating other systems 9 00:00:25,116 --> 00:00:28,858 in order to increase the return on 10 00:00:28,858 --> 00:00:31,312 investment on the platform. Historically, 11 00:00:31,312 --> 00:00:33,701 we had four options to customize 12 00:00:33,701 --> 00:00:36,874 SharePoint; farm solutions, sandbox 13 00:00:36,874 --> 00:00:41,103 solutions, apps which later got renamed to 14 00:00:41,103 --> 00:00:44,121 add-ins, and SharePoint framework 15 00:00:44,121 --> 00:00:46,786 solutions. Today in SharePoint Online the 16 00:00:46,786 --> 00:00:50,100 two options that we have are only add-ins 17 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:52,560 and SharePoint Framework, which you will 18 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,911 often see shortened to SPFx in the 19 00:00:55,911 --> 00:00:59,552 community and some documentation. Now let 20 00:00:59,552 --> 00:01:02,121 me clarify something as this has been 21 00:01:02,121 --> 00:01:05,965 really made confusing by Microsoft, is it 22 00:01:05,965 --> 00:01:09,778 apps or add-ins? Well, the correct term 23 00:01:09,778 --> 00:01:13,412 now is add-ins; however, in the admin 24 00:01:13,412 --> 00:01:16,119 center, PowerShell cmdlets, and a lot of 25 00:01:16,119 --> 00:01:19,322 the technical documentation and technical 26 00:01:19,322 --> 00:01:22,424 things, you will see apps in a lot of 27 00:01:22,424 --> 00:01:25,064 places. So which one is the correct one? 28 00:01:25,064 --> 00:01:28,189 Well, my advice would be to use add-ins 29 00:01:28,189 --> 00:01:30,971 wherever you can, but as you will see in 30 00:01:30,971 --> 00:01:33,670 this module, we have no choice but to use 31 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:36,805 the word apps, quite a lot of times, 32 00:01:36,805 --> 00:01:39,637 especially when we talk about the back end 33 00:01:39,637 --> 00:01:41,282 of things, and there's still a lot of 34 00:01:41,282 --> 00:01:43,745 things that are referred to as apps in 35 00:01:43,745 --> 00:01:46,147 Microsoft documentation, but just know 36 00:01:46,147 --> 00:01:49,396 that apps or add-ins are the same thing 37 00:01:49,396 --> 00:01:52,881 inside of SharePoint. Now that we know 38 00:01:52,881 --> 00:01:55,729 what type of customizations we have, where 39 00:01:55,729 --> 00:01:58,238 are they deployed? Most SharePoint 40 00:01:58,238 --> 00:02:00,285 customizations are deployed in the 41 00:02:00,285 --> 00:02:03,046 SharePoint App Catalog, which you have at 42 00:02:03,046 --> 00:02:06,979 the tenant level, but you can also have at 43 00:02:06,979 --> 00:02:09,749 the site level. While not covered in this 44 00:02:09,749 --> 00:02:12,238 course in detail, a note for a SharePoint 45 00:02:12,238 --> 00:02:14,032 administrators who come from on-premises 46 00:02:14,032 --> 00:02:17,005 and we used to have a lot of 47 00:02:17,005 --> 00:02:19,405 customizations like say at the timer job 48 00:02:19,405 --> 00:02:21,949 level. So we had timer jobs, things like 49 00:02:21,949 --> 00:02:24,499 that on SharePoint Server, but of course 50 00:02:24,499 --> 00:02:27,508 we cannot do that anymore in SharePoint 51 00:02:27,508 --> 00:02:31,301 Online. Now a lot of the back end stuff is 52 00:02:31,301 --> 00:02:34,898 done in Azure and more specifically, Azure 53 00:02:34,898 --> 00:02:38,060 Functions and Azure Web Apps, and using 54 00:02:38,060 --> 00:02:40,304 the SharePoint Framework and modern dev 55 00:02:40,304 --> 00:02:42,772 technologies makes it easy for SharePoint 56 00:02:42,772 --> 00:02:46,312 customizations to call stuff in Azure for 57 00:02:46,312 --> 00:02:49,782 the back end, but this is more for a dev 58 00:02:49,782 --> 00:02:51,626 topic and there are SharePoint development 59 00:02:51,626 --> 00:02:54,002 courses on Pluralsight which cover it, but 60 00:02:54,002 --> 00:03:02,000 today we're really going to focus on the stuff deployed in SharePoint Online.