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Blog: A Blog is a web log or online journal. A blog provides a forum for people to write com- munications that can be viewed across the entire organization or Internet. After a blog entry is posted, the content can be commented on and discussed on the blog entry page. Blogs are prevalent throughout modern society, and SharePoint provides the ability to get a blog up and running in a manner of minutes.
Cloud: A broad marketing term and buzzword that refers to accessing software over the Internet.
Discussion Board: A discussion board allows for online discussion throughout the organi- zation. A discussion board provides a forum for people to post questions and replies that can be viewed throughout the organization.
Excel Services: Excel Services is a feature of SharePoint that allows Excel documents to be accessed through a SharePoint site and thus through a web browser.
Exchange: Exchange is Microsoft’s email server designed to handle the heavy lifting of managing and routing email. In addition, Exchange handles functionality such as contacts, calendars, and tasks. Users generally use an email client such as Outlook to connect to Exchange.
Exchange Online: Exchange Online is the term for Microsoft’s cloud version of Exchange. The Online portion refers to the fact that you access your Exchange instance over the Internet while you are online. Microsoft installs Exchange on servers running in their data centers, and you connect to it and use it over the Internet.
Extranet: An extranet is a computer network that is accessible by people outside your organization’s network but is not accessible by the public at large.
InfoPath: An application designed to create nifty and useful forms that are used to collect data from people. InfoPath is being deprecated and isn’t part of Office 2019.
Intranet: An intranet is a computer network that is private and only meant for your organization.
JavaScript: JavaScript is a scripting language that is designed for the web. You can use JavaScript to interact with a web page programmatically. Since JavaScript is run from the client web browser, you can create a rich interactive experience without the web browser having to communicate with the server, resulting in the page flickering and reloading with each interaction.
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