SharePoint Server 2019 for Power Users

Overview of SharePoint Server 2019

This module provides an overview of SharePoint Server 2019, its key technologies, architecture and user experience. It will position SharePoint Server 2019 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
• Classic vs Modern sites
• SharePoint Home
• SharePoint Modern Team Site
• Discovering other 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 different list templates
• 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 parts of your or other sites.

• The SharePoint App Launcher and Ribbon
• Modern Site Pages
• Providing content on your site pages
• Wiki Pages and Web Part pages
• Working with Web Parts
• Different types of Navigation
• Changing the theme of your site

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.

• Keeping track of different versions
• Configuring 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 invite 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

Using and building custom workflows

SharePoint workflows allow you to implement and automate your business processes in SharePoint.

• Using the out-of-the-box workflows

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Content Management helps you by giving you tools to organize and manage content throughout the content life cycle, from creation to archive. It allows you to enforce different policies on your documents and to manage metadata and content types at enterprise level.

• Metadata at enterprise level with the Managed Metadata Service
• Terms and TermSets
• Publishing of Enterprise Content Types
• Moving Documents with Send To
• Classifying documents with the Content Organizer
• Record Management
• Policies: Auditing, Expiration, Data Loss Prevention and Document Deletion

SharePoint Search

SharePoint includes the ability to search for content inside SharePoint across multiple sites and site collections and outside SharePoint on file shares, websites, databases... The SharePoint Search query syntax includes the ability to refine a search based on a number of configurable refiners to find the data you are looking for. Modern SharePoint environments will not only use search by using the Search Centers but will also incorporate Search to drive navigation and to aggregate content from different locations.

• 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