![]() ![]() You should probably change the desktop icon to represent your new app(s), rather than it just being a SharePoint logo. If you have multiple SharePoint sites you use frequently then feel free to Appify each of them you can have a range of ‘apps’ for different tasks, which you can open, close, move around as needed each appears to be its own application, with its own icon. The window bar tools are much the same, though there are different options in the Chrome ellipsis: Core browser controls in Chrome’s ellipsis Keeping your appsĭon’t forget to pin your new app(s) to the taskbar, start menu etc. Once again you get a clean, app- like view of the SharePoint site. Give it a name for your new app and select the Open as window checkbox, then Create Appify in Chrome by creating a Shortcut In Chrome it’s a little less intuitive but the result is the same.įrom the Ellipsis, choose More Tools | Create Shortcut There are a small back button and a page refresh button lurking at the top left of the window top bar (which is one way you know it’s really a browser) and the ubiquitous ellipsis at the top right containing some of the hidden Edge features: Core browser controls in Microsoft Edge’s ellipsis Google Chrome The end result looks something like this: A SharePoint site, fully appified It’s still a browser but all the browser tools and menus are hidden so that you have a nice, clean experience and users aren’t distracted into going off into other sites etc. It will ask you for an app name, then give you a new window with just the SharePoint site. In Edge, click the ellipsis | Apps | Install this site as an app Use the Microsoft Edge ellipsis to Install this site as an app Both Edge and Chrome (and possibly others, though I don’t use Safari, Firefox, Brave etc., so can’t comment – feel free to provide information in the Comments below if you know). There is another approach if you have a need to give your staff a SharePoint desktop app, and that’s the ‘appify’ the browser version. Windows 11 has (probably, by the time you read this) the ability to mount Android apps in Windows as such you can effectively put a SharePoint app on your desktop if that’s what you want. They lack the full sophistication and features of the browser experience, being more suited to content consumption (browsing and reading) than engaging in processes or creating new content. Unsurprisingly, SharePoint is available as mobile apps for Android and iOS. Mobile apps (and Windows 11)Īpps were originally a smart phone concept it’s only recently that we have started calling everything an app (on the desktop they were generally called an application or just software). The Office 365 app can access SharePoint locations. If content access is all you need this might serve that purpose take a look at the Content button in the left navigation menu. It’s not really a SharePoint app, but it does provide access to files stored in SharePoint (and other Microsoft 365 locations). It tends to get installed when you install the Office 365 clients (Word, Excel etc.) and you can also get it from the Microsoft Store. You might also flirt with the Office 365 App for Windows. SharePoint can run in Tabs in Microsoft Teams Office 365 app The Teams app is the closest thing to an actual SharePoint app on the desktop. You can now also use Viva Connections to embed even more of SharePoint in Teams. Teams uses SharePoint for its content and also allows SharePoint pages, libraries, lists etc to be added in tabs and accessed that way. ![]() SharePoint locations are available directly in Office applications SharePoint is a location they can know about and treat as a known file location. ![]() directly from SharePoint (not just the local sync above) without needing to open the browser. Desktop Office clients (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) etc.SharePoint and OneDrive can appear in your local file system (File Explorer) You can do this for multiple instances of SharePoint if you need to. Even I do it and I really don’t much like folders. Lots of people prefer this way of interacting with files. The OneDrive sync client also synchronises SharePoint libraries which allows files stored in SharePoint libraries to be accessed via Windows Explorer just as if they were your local files. ![]() You can interact with SharePoint from the desktop in the following ways: Just because there is no ‘SharePoint app’ doesn’t mean you can’t use SharePoint on the desktop. How can SharePoint be used on the desktop It’s questionable whether there is a need for such an app, in my opinion, but let’s explore what this means in reality. Not in the way people probably mean, there is no app that replicates the browser experience. There have been a couple of technical developments that extend my answer so here the current position. Back in 2020 I answered this Quora question based on the state of the art at the time. ![]()
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