This module provides an overview of SharePoint, its key technologies, architecture and user experience. It will position SharePoint Online versus SharePoint Server and the different features available in each type.
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 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.
SharepPoint Online allows site owners to extend their sites using apps. You can browse your corporate catalog or visit the public store to find the functionality your looking for.
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.
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.
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.
SharePoint workflows allow you to implement and automate your business processes in SharePoint. You will look at the out-of-the-box approval workflows and by using SharePoint Designer 2013 and Visio you will learn how to create your own workflows.
In the world of the business user you will handle information that is probably stored across different software suites, like SharePoint, Salesforce, Excel file, Access database, ... Microsoft PowerApps allows people, without any development skills, to build applications that are mobile friendly on top of their data. Allowing other people to use the built application to browse the data and maybe even modify it.
Microsoft Flow allows you to create automatic processes, called flows, that react to an event in one app or application (like SharePoint, Twitter, ...), do something with the event data, and then use this data in another service (like SharePoint, Salesforce, Twitter, ...). All this can be done without having to write a single line of code.
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.
SharePoint includes the ability to search for content across multiple sites and site collections. 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.
SharePoint comes with a lot of features for building intranet and extranet portals. The Publishing pages allow you to create a consistent branding and page structure for your portals. Pages are based on Page Layouts in which branding and layout are predefined. Content authors can publish in a controlled way.
In this SharePoint training you will get a technology overview of SharePoint Server (versions 2013 & 2016) and SharePoint Online, part of Office 365. You will discover the different areas and capabilities of the product. The goal is to make you familiar with all the SharePoint features like Document Management, Collaboration, Search... position the role of the end users, power users, developers and administrators and help you to make better technology decisions. This course does not include any hands-on exercises.
This course is targeting analysts, designers, developers, technical management without any prior SharePoint skills.