Microsoft SharePoint 2013 for Power Users

Overview of SharePoint 2013

This module provides an overview of SharePoint Server 2013, its key technologies, architecture and user experience. It will position SharePoint Server 2013 versus SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Online and the available hybrid features.

Discovering SharePoint sites

SharePoint is a powerful site provisioning engine allowing you to create different sites for your projects, teams, meetings, products... In this module you will learn about site creation, the use of different site collections and the different site templates that are available.

• SharePoint Architecture
• Sites vs Site Collections
• SharePoint Team Site
• Discovering the Blog and Community Site Template
• Creating your own Site Templates

SharePoint Content Management

SharePoint offers rich content management features. Lists and Libraries are the core content management components allowing you to store data and documents. Furthermore, we look at metadata, views and content types.

• Basics of Apps, Lists and Libraries
• Discovering a Custom List, Document Library, Calendar and Task List
• Working with metadata and different column types
• Creating new views
• Creating new Content Types
• Content Type guidelines

Changing, customizing and branding SharePoint Sites

The landing page will play an important role within your site. It's probably the most visited page and should show the right information. Equally important for your users is the navigation. Navigation should be simple and intuitive to use. It allows your user to navigate to different part of your or other sites.

• The SharePoint App Launcher and Ribbon
• SharePoint Wiki Pages
• Changing the content of SharePoint pages
• How to work with Web Parts?
• Different types of Navigation
• Navigation best practices
• Modifying Composed Looks

Document Management

Document Management is probably the most popular functionality of SharePoint. SharePoint Document Libraries allow you to easily manage versions, work together with your colleagues on the same document, assign metadata or work with different document templates.

• Keep track of different versions
• Configure check-out and Approval
• Grouping documents in Document Sets
• Receive email Alerts
• Co-Authoring on Office documents
• Recycle Bin

User Management & Permissions

SharePoint allows you to store your data in a secure and protected way. As site owner you can control access to the content stored within your site. You can invitate colleagues and decide if they get read access or more. 

• SharePoint Permissions and Permission Levels
• Granting access at site and library level
• Working with users, domain groups and SharePoint groups
• Breaking permission inheritance
• Sharing your content with your colleagues

Synchronizing data between SharePoint and the Office clients

SharePoint provides a seamless integration with the Office clients Word, Excel, Outlook, Access... From simply opening and saving documents from Office to SharePoint to exporting and importing data with Excel and Access.

• Synchronizing calendars and contacts with Microsoft Outlook
• Exporting and importing SharePoint data to Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access

Building and publishing forms with InfoPath

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

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