Service Applications
Service applications are central to SharePoint 2016 and offer a wide range of functionality that can be used to extend the capabilities of SharePoint. Service applications can be used to provide a variety of services, such as search, business intelligence, and social networking. By understanding service applications, you can gain a better understanding of how SharePoint works and how to use it to meet your business needs.
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Service applications are central to SharePoint 2016 and offer a wide range of functionality that can be used to extend the capabilities of SharePoint. Service applications can be used to provide a variety of services, such as search, business intelligence, and social networking. By understanding service applications, you can gain a better understanding of how SharePoint works and how to use it to meet your business needs.
Service applications are central to SharePoint 2016 and offer a wide range of functionality that can be used to extend the capabilities of SharePoint. Service applications can be used to provide a variety of services, such as search, business intelligence, and social networking. By understanding service applications, you can gain a better understanding of how SharePoint works and how to use it to meet your business needs.
What are service applications?
Service applications are a type of SharePoint component that provides a specific set of services to SharePoint users. Service applications are created and managed in the SharePoint Central Administration website. Once a service application has been created, it can be used by any SharePoint site that has been configured to use it.
Service applications are used to provide a variety of services, including:
- Search: The Search service application provides search functionality to SharePoint sites. This service allows users to search for content across all SharePoint sites that are configured to use the service application.
- Business intelligence: The Business Intelligence service application provides business intelligence functionality to SharePoint sites. This service allows users to create and view reports and dashboards based on data from SharePoint lists and libraries.
- Social networking: The Social Networking service application provides social networking functionality to SharePoint sites. This service allows users to create and participate in social networking activities, such as following other users, liking posts, and sharing content.
Why use service applications?
There are many benefits to using service applications in SharePoint 2016. Some of the benefits include:
- Improved performance: Service applications can help to improve the performance of SharePoint sites by offloading some of the processing work from the web servers to dedicated servers. This can help to reduce the load on the web servers and make SharePoint sites more responsive.
- Increased scalability: Service applications can help to increase the scalability of SharePoint sites by allowing them to be used by a larger number of users. This can help to ensure that SharePoint sites are available to all users, even during peak usage times.
- Improved security: Service applications can help to improve the security of SharePoint sites by isolating sensitive data on dedicated servers. This can help to protect data from unauthorized access.
How to create and manage service applications
Service applications are created and managed in the SharePoint Central Administration website. To create a service application, you must be a member of the Farm Administrators group. Once you have created a service application, you can configure it to use the settings that you want. You can also manage the users who have access to the service application.
To learn more about how to create and manage service applications, see the following resources:
- Create and manage service applications in SharePoint Server 2016
- Service applications in SharePoint Server 2016
Conclusion
Service applications are a powerful tool that can be used to extend the capabilities of SharePoint 2016. By understanding service applications, you can gain a better understanding of how SharePoint works and how to use it to meet your business needs.
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