Microsoft SharePoint For Dummies
ISBN: 9788126528882
428 pages
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Description
SharePoint For Dummies will be a thorough update to show users how to make the most of all the new SharePoint and Office features while still building on the great and well-reviewed content in the prior editions. The book shows those new to SharePoint or new to SharePoint 2019 how to get a site up and running, branded, populated with content, workflow and managed. This new edition adds the high need-to-know information for administrators, "techsumers", and page admins who want to leverage the cloud-hosted features online either as a standalone product or in conjunction with an existing SharePoint infrastructure.
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with SharePoint
Chapter 1: Getting to Know SharePoint
- Up and Running with SharePoint in Three Minutes Flat
- Wrapping Your Head around SharePoint
- No, really, what is SharePoint?
- A Microsoft product
- Many different SharePoint definitions
- More than a website
- Taking a Peek at a SharePoint Site
- Getting Familiar with SharePoint Terminology
- Branding
- Business intelligence (BI)
- eDiscovery
- Identity management
- Mobile
- Records management and compliance
- Search
- Social
- Web content management
- Workflow
Chapter 2: Introducing SharePoint in Office 365
- Accessing and Using SharePoint
- Getting Familiar with SharePoint Online
- Determining What Version of SharePoint You are Using
- Understanding Why SharePoint Online Has Become So Popular
- Differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises
- Exploring the Benefits of SharePoint Online
- Data center and hardware
- Software platform
- Backup, redundancy, and security
Chapter 3: Wrangling SharePoint Functionality
- Coming to Terms with Website Templates
- Show Me the Apps
- Working with Web Pages
- Site page
- Wiki page
- Web Part page
- Publishing page
- Understanding Web Parts
- Digging into SharePoint Features
- Integrating with Office 2019
Part 2: Diving Headfirst into SharePoint
Chapter 4: Discovering SharePoint in Your Pocket
- Installing the SharePoint Mobile App
- Installing on iOS
- Installing on Android
- Signing into the SharePoint Mobile App
- Finding Your SharePoint Stuff with the Find Tab
- Exploring a SharePoint site
- Opening navigation
- Getting the Latest News with the News Tab
- All About You with the Me Tab
Chapter 5: Understanding SharePoint Sites and Hub Sites
- Accessing SharePoint Sites in Office 365
- Exploring the SharePoint Team Site
- Finding your way around
- Uploading documents
- Sharing your team site
- Creating a SharePoint Site
- Create a site from your web browser
- Create a site from the SharePoint Mobile App
- Requesting a SharePoint Site
- Grouping Sites with Hub Sites
Chapter 6: Working with Web Pages and Web Parts
- Understanding SharePoint Web Pages
- Creating a Site page
- Creating a Web Part page
- Creating a Wiki page
- Introducing the Ribbon
- Deciding What Type of Page to Create
- Digging into Web Parts
- Adding a Web Part to Your Page
- Choosing the Right Web Part
- Changing Web Part Properties
- Reviewing Web Part properties
- Editing Web Part properties
- Minimizing or deleting Web Parts
- Connecting Web Parts
- Managing Pages
- Categorizing Your Wiki Pages
- Taking a Sneak Peek into Custom Page Designs
Chapter 7: Adding Content to SharePoint
- SharePoint as a Content Management System
- Wrangling the Overwhelming Mountain of Digital Content
- Getting Your Documents into SharePoint
- Uploading a single document
- Uploading multiple documents
- Updating document properties using Quick Edit view
- Creating New Content in SharePoint
- Using the SharePoint Mobile App to Peek at Content on the Go
Chapter 8: Discovering SharePoint in Microsoft Teams
- Using Teams in Office 365
- Understanding the Marriage of SharePoint and Teams
- Accessing SharePoint files in Teams
- Using the Teams wiki and finding it in SharePoint
- Adding SharePoint Pages and Lists to Teams
Chapter 9: Working with SharePoint from Microsoft Office
- Getting Familiar with Office Versioning
- Working with Office on Your Desktop or Laptop
- Installing Microsoft Office
- Saving a new document to SharePoint
- Opening a document from SharePoint
- Working with Office on Your Smartphone or Tablet
- Saving a new document to SharePoint
- Opening a document from SharePoint
Chapter 10: Getting Social
- Sharing and Following SharePoint Sites
- Setting up alerts
- Managing alerts
- Staying Up to Date with News
- Information Sharing with Blogs and Wikis
- Creating a blog site
- Posting to a blog
- Using wikis to collaborate and coauthor
- Communicating with Discussion Boards
- Creating a Discussion Board app
- Posting and replying to a subject
- Connecting with Others Using RSS Feeds
- Viewing RSS feeds
- Reading RSS feeds with Outlook
- Using Comments in a SharePoint site
Part 3: Customizing SharePoint
Chapter 11: Customizing SharePoint with Apps
- Introducing SharePoint Apps
- Adding Apps to Your Site
- Accessing App Settings
- Configuring the General Settings
- Changing the title, description, and navigation
- Versioning settings
- Advanced settings
- Validation settings
- Audience Targeting settings
- Rating settings
- Form settings
- Developing a Custom App
- Planning Your App
- Creating Your App
- Adding columns to your app
- Working with the Title column
- Importing a Spreadsheet as an App
- Taking Your App to the Next Level: Calculated and Lookup Columns
- Creating a calculated column
- Using a lookup column
- Keeping Track of Locations
- Downloading Apps from the SharePoint Store
Chapter 12: Taking Control of Your Profile and Content
- Organizing Your Personal Content with OneDrive
- Saving stuff with OneDrive
- Creating or uploading documents in your OneDrive
- Expressing Yourself with Your Profile
- Creating a holistic profile experience
- Filling in your profile information
- Tracking Your Favorite Sites
- Reaching Out with a Blog
Chapter 13: Organizing and Viewing Content
- Working with Documents
- Using the ellipsis
- Editing a document's properties
- Viewing documents in the browser
- Sharing Your Documents
- Recovering Deleted Documents
- Uploading Documents into a Folder
- Discovering SharePoint Views
- Switching the view
- Getting to know view formats
- Creating a Standard View
- Choosing columns for your view
- Filtering apps with views
- Grouping results
- Quickly edit app data with Quick Edit
- Choosing a display style
- Managing App Data in a Datasheet View
- Using Ad Hoc Views
- Creating a Calendar View
- Displaying Tasks in a Gantt View
- Managing Existing Views
- Modifying your views
- Setting the default view
- Other SharePoint built-in views
- Displaying Views via Web Parts
Chapter 14: Creating Workflows with Microsoft Flow
- Understanding Workflow
- Introducing Microsoft Flow
- Signing into Microsoft Flow
- Getting familiar with Flow
- Building your first flow
- Using the Traditional SharePoint-Only Workflow
- Getting Up to Speed on SharePoint Designer
- Connecting to a SharePoint site
- Creating a workflow
- Rediscovering the Out-of-the-Box Approval Workflow
Chapter 15: Getting Answers with Microsoft Forms
- Signing into Microsoft Forms
- Creating a Form in Microsoft Forms
- Analyzing Microsoft Forms Data
- Displaying a Form in SharePoint
- Capturing Forms Data in SharePoint
Part 4: Becoming a SharePoint Administrator
Chapter 16: Building Business Apps with PowerApps
- Introducing PowerApps
- Signing into PowerApps
- Getting familiar with PowerApps
- Building your first PowerApp
- Sharing your PowerApp
- Using PowerApps on your Mobile Device
- Embedding a PowerApp within a SharePoint Page
- Viewing SharePoint Sites in a Web Browser on a Mobile Device
- Creating views for small screens
- Targeting devices using channels
Chapter 17: Realizing You are a SharePoint Administrator
- Changing Your Site's Basic Information
- Finding Site Settings
- Digging into Site Settings
- Look and Feel 25
- Site Actions
- Site Collection Administration
- Web Designer Galleries
- Site Administration
- Search
- Getting a High-Level View of SharePoint Features
- Turning Features On and Off
- Exploring Common Features
- Extending SharePoint with Features
- Changing the Look and Feel of Your Site
- A note on fonts
- A word on usability
- The benefits of composed looks
- Checking Out SharePoint Metrics
Chapter 18: Configuring Site Navigation
- Changing Team Site Navigation
- Staying local with Quick Launch
- Adding quick links to a page
- Taking on Advanced Navigation
- Configuring SharePoint navigation
- Configuring global navigation
- Configuring current navigation
- Configuring Static Navigation
- Navigating with Web Parts
- Understanding Managed Navigation
Chapter 19: Creating a Client or Partner Portal
- Sharing a Site with External Guests
- Inviting Guests Using Outlook Groups
- Planning for Your Client or Guest Portal
- Launching Your Portal
- Creating a Public-Facing Website
- GoDaddy
- Wix
- Working with an Existing SharePoint Online Public-Facing Website
- Reviewing what you get with your site
- Adding and editing web pages
- Updating page properties
- Changing the site's look and feel
- Using a vanity domain
Chapter 20: Securing SharePoint
- Using SharePoint Groups
- Adding users to a group
- Understanding the permission structure
- Securing a site collection
- Securing Apps, Folders, Documents, and Items
- Creating unique permissions for a subsite
- Removing existing permissions
- Creating unique permissions for an app or document
- Managing permissions scenarios
- Viewing a group's permissions
- Checking a user's permissions
- Granting Administrative Access
- Viewing Site Permissions
- Viewing Publishing Infrastructure Feature Site Permissions
- Locking Down a Partner Portal
- Permissions in SharePoint Online versus SharePoint On-Premises
- Going Further with Custom Permissions
Part 5: Managing Enterprise Content
Chapter 21: Managing Content and the Content Lifecycle
- Checking a Document In and Out
- Configuring Content Approval
- Turning on content approval
- Identifying approvers
- Casting an approving eye
- Disapproving: Not just for stern parents
- Getting alerts on approval/rejection status
- Digging into a SharePoint Records Center
- Defining the terms
- Creating information management policies
- Setting Up a Records Center
- Using the Content Organizer
- Managing Records in Place
- Placing Records on Litigation Hold
Chapter 22: Finding What You Need with Search
- Understanding How SharePoint Search Works
- Searching for Content
- Searching for a string using quotation marks
- Wildcard searches
- Including and excluding terms
- Building compound search queries using Boolean operators
- Getting fancy with the parentheses
- Finding terms in proximity
- Same meaning, different terms
- Viewing and Refining Search Results
- Making Search Your Users' Best Friend
- Removing Content from Search Results
- Reviewing Search Analytics
- Adding a Search Center Site
Chapter 23: Integrating with Power BI
- Signing into Power BI
- Installing the Power BI Desktop
- Building Your First Power BI Report
- Pulling Data into Power BI from SharePoint
- SharePoint Library app
- SharePoint List app
- Displaying a Power BI Report on a SharePoint Page
Part 6: The Part of Tens
Chapter 24: Ten Hot SharePoint 2019 Topics
- Getting Up to Speed with SharePoint
- SharePoint Online Videos
- SharePoint Online Official Documentation
- SharePoint Development
- SharePoint Workflow
- Taking SharePoint for a Spin
- Staying Current: The SharePoint Blog
- New On-Premises Features in SharePoint 2019
- Plan for SharePoint
- SharePoint from the Leader
Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Maintain Control with Governance
- Failure is Not an Option (Neither is Looking Away and Whistling)
- Getting Executive Buy-In and Support
- Building an Effective Governance Group
- Finding the Right Level
- Yours, Mine, Ours: Deciding Who Owns What
- (Re)Visiting Social Networking Policies
- Design and Branding
- Content Management
- Reusing Web Parts
- Keeping Things Current: Web Operations Management
Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Become a SharePoint Server Guru
- Getting Information from the Horse's Mouth
- Reading SharePoint Blogs
- Finding Local User Groups
- Building a Virtual Lab
- Starting with a Good Foundation
- Borrowing from Others
- Getting Certified
- Taking a Peek under the Covers
- Digging Deeper under the Covers
- Deconstructing a SharePoint Site
Index