SharePoint 2013 Essential Training

Get started using SharePoint Server 2013 for business collaboration and real-time documentation sharing.

In this course, Gini Courter shows you the basics you need to get started using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 for business collaboration and real-time documentation sharing. The course teaches SharePoint site owners and members how to create, edit, and save documents; create and use team sites; navigate permissions; maximize workflows; and fully integrate SharePoint and Office 2013.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Introducing SharePoint

• What is SharePoint?
• Understanding SharePoint roles
• Understanding SharePoint products
• Connecting to SharePoint

2. SharePoint Team Sites

• Team sites: The basics
• Navigating in a team site
• Viewing all site content
• Viewing SharePoint on the desktop

3. Editing, Saving, and Sharing Documents

• Using a library
• Opening and saving Office documents
• Using Check In and Check Out
• Uploading and creating documents in the library
• Co-authoring in SharePoint
• Working with copies
• Using OneDrive (formerly called Skydrive)
• Sharing documents, libraries, and sites
• Syncing a document library to your computer

4. Working with Library and List Apps

• Using a list
• Adding a list app to your site
• Adding a custom list app
• Using the Import Spreadsheet app
• Customizing a library
• Creating a custom view
• Creating a dynamic view
• Working with calendar views
• Viewing Exchange calendars in SharePoint
• Changing settings for files and libraries
• Changing settings for items and lists
• Using asset libraries and rich media

5. Social Networking in SharePoint

• Viewing your newsfeed
• Editing your profile
• Following people, documents, and sites
• Understanding tags and mentions
• Microblogging in SharePoint
• Keeping track of your tasks
• Viewing your sites
• Tagging documents and sites
• Posting on your blog
• Managing your blog
• Changing newsfeed settings

6. SharePoint Sites and SharePoint Site Collections

• Site collections: The basics
• Creating a new site collection
• Creating a new team site
• Branding your site
• Changing the look of your site
• Editing site navigation
• Saving a team site as a template
• Searching in SharePoint
• Improving search with query rules
• Using project sites to manage work

7. Editing SharePoint Pages

• Understanding app parts
• Adding an app part
• Adding a web part
• Modifying app and web parts
• Deleting app and web parts
• Understanding media and content web parts
• Displaying images in web parts
• Creating a wiki page
• Creating a Web Part page

8. Integration: SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013

• Outlook 2013 and SharePoint
• OneNote 2013 and SharePoint
• Excel 2013 and SharePoint
• Word 2013 and SharePoint
• PowerPoint 2013 and SharePoint
• InfoPath 2013 and SharePoint
• Access 2013 and SharePoint
• Visio 2013 and SharePoint

9. SharePoint Permissions

• SharePoint permissions: The basics
• Viewing group and user permissions
• Adding users to a security group
• Deleting users from a security group
• Creating and modifying security groups
• Setting unique or inherited permissions

10. SharePoint Workflows

• Workflows: The basics
• Using out-of-the-box workflows
• Creating workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013
• Creating workflows with Visio Premium 2013

11. SharePoint Content and Documents

• Documents and content: The basics
• Understanding content types
• Creating a content type
• Understanding document sets
• Creating a document set
• Using a document set in the library
• Creating a document center for policies and procedures
• Setting information-management policies

12. Other SharePoint Server Site Templates

• Using community sites to share across teams
• Understanding SharePoint publishing
• Controlling site appearance

13. SharePoint Server Business Intelligence Features

• SharePoint business intelligence: The basics
• Creating a business intelligence center
• Preparing a workbook for sharing with Excel services
• Sharing a workbook using an Excel Web Access part

Conclusion

• Goodbye