In this chapter, we introduced SharePoint Server, including the concepts of farms, servers, and site collections. You also learned how service applications are used to provide services to users and other services inside SharePoint Server. Finally, you learned about connecting to Power Platform applications in Office 365 using a data gateway.
The foundational knowledge of how farms, sites, and service applications work will be used in the upcoming chapters to show you how to design and implement successful SharePoint environments.
In the next chapter, we will begin learning about how to plan SharePoint farms, including the concepts of scalability and performance, as well as high availability and disaster recovery.
