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title: "What is a federated location with SharePoint search?"  
description: "What is a federated location with SharePoint search?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-07  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1197/what-is-a-federated-location-with-sharepoint-search  
category: "sharepoint"  
tags: ["sharepoint"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a federated location with SharePoint search?

Federated locations provide information that exists outside of your internal network to your end-users.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

Federated locations provide information that exists outside of your internal network to your end-users.


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