SharePoint 2013/2016 and SharePoint Online - Technology Overview

Overview of SharePoint Online

This module provides an overview of SharePoint Online, its key technologies, architecture and user experience. It will position SharePoint Online versus SharePoint Server 2013 and the different features available in each type.

Discovering SharePoint sites

In this module you will get familiar with the site concept in SharePoint. You will discover the different available site templates like Team Site, Blog, Enterprise Wiki and Publishing Portal and how to create custom site templates.

Topics:

• SharePoint Architecture
• Site Collections
• Discovering the Team Site
• Site Templates
• Creating SharePoint Site Templates

SharePoint Content Management

In this module you will learn more about site content. You will look at the available apps with the main focus on libraries and lists. You will work with the different lists and libraries available to store content and files in your SharePoint sites.

Topics:

• Creating site content
• Adding an app to your site
• Creating a List and Document Library
• Adding Custom Metadata
• Creating a List Template
• Creating Views
• Working with Site Columns
• Working with Content Types
• Creating Content Types

SharePoint apps

SharepPoint Online allows site owners to extend their sites using apps. You can browse a corporate or public marketplace from which you can install new functionality onto your sites.

Topics:

• What is a SharePoint app
• Working with the SharePoint app Store

Document Management

Document Management is one of the key components of SharePoint Online. This module shows how to work with versioning and approval. You'll also get familiar with Document Sets, allowing you to create a dossier.

Topics:

• Versioning
• Content Approval
• Required Check-out
• Document Sets
• Alerts
• Co-Authoring
• Recycle Bin

Synchronizing data between SharePoint Online and the Office clients

One of the many benefits of working with SharePoint Online is its collaboration with different Microsoft Office products (Word, Access, Outlook, Excel, ...). You will take a closer look at the SharePoint Online integration options with Outlook, Excel and Access. You'll also create SQL based Access applications with Access Services.

Topics:

• Synchronizing data to Outlook
• Exporting and importing SharePoint data to Excel and Access
• Access Services

Building and publishing electronic forms with InfoPath 2013 and InfoPath Forms Services

InfoPath 2013 combined with SharePoint InfoPath Forms Services gives you a powerful platform to deliver electronic forms. You will learn how to create powerful electronic forms with Microsoft InfoPath 2013, how to integrate external data and how to apply validation. InfoPath Forms Services allows users to fill out the form directly in the browser.

Topics:

• Creating form templates with InfoPath Designer
• Publishing InfoPath forms
• InfoPath Forms Services
• Working with the InfoPath web part
• Customizing list forms with InfoPath

Using and building custom workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013

SharePoint workflows allow you to automate your business processes on your content. You will start with looking at out-of-the-box workflows such as the approval workflow. With tools as SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visio you can create your own workflows.

Topics:

• Using the out-of-the-box workflows
• Customizing workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013
• Building custom workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013

Enterprise Content Management

The Enterprise Content Management features available in SharePoint 2016 will allow you to governance the large quantities of content within your enterprise, how to enforce policies like auditing, expirations, data loss prevention and how to apply record management and archiving. Participants will also learn how to work with Managed Metadata and content types at enterprise level.
Participants will learn how to manage the brand new Document Deletion Policy Center, which allows you to create and manage document deletion policies in a central location.

Topics:

• Taxonomies & managed metadata
• Tagging
• Enterprise Content Types
• Send To
• Content Organizer
• Record Management
• Creating Policies
• Document Deletion Policy Center
• Data loss prevention policies

The SharePoint Development Platform

This module will provide you with an overview of how developers can build their own applications on top of SharePoint. We demonstrate you the power of SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio 2013 and explain the different extensibility models available in SharePoint 2013: Farm solutions, Sandboxed solutions and app model.

Searching your data and people

SharePoint Online comes with a powerful search engine. Students will learn the out-of-the-box features of the search site and the different available options in customizing the end user experience.

Topics:

• Search query syntax
• Configuring the Search Engine
• Working with Result Sources
• Defining and using managed properties
• People Search
• Query Rules
• Search web parts
• Result Types

Web Content Management: Publishing Pages

SharePoint Online comes with a lot of features for building intranet, extranet and internet portals. You will learn how new page layouts can be created, how content managers can deliver and schedule new content and how content approvers can validate the new content.

Topics:

• Using Publishing Sites
• Creating and editing publishing pages
• Creating and using Page Layouts
• Site Variations
• Design Manager
• Device Channels

Web Content Management: Cross Site Publishing

Cross Site Collection Publishing allows publishing sites to display content which is aggregated from different site collections or even external data sources. It can be used to automatically generate pages for exisiting content you have stored somewhere.

Topics:

• Cross-site collection publishing
• Catalogs
• Managed and faceted navigation
• Content Search Web Part
• Category and Item Pages
• Search Engine Optimizations