Synopses & Reviews
Learn to:
- Get up to speed with SharePoint 2013 and take advantage of new features
- Set up and effectively manage your SharePoint site
- Use SharePoint in the cloud with Office 365 and SharePoint Online
- Leverage SharePoint capabilities to drive business value
Learn SharePoint from the ground up, get your site going, collaborate, and go mobile
No doubt about it, SharePoint is a complex creature. So this book starts by showing you just what SharePoint is, translating the terminology, and explaining the tools. Then it helps you create a site, work with apps, and master basic SharePoint administration. Next you'll learn to get social, go mobile, work with Office 365, manage content, and, best of all, wow your coworkers with the wonders of SharePoint.
- This SharePoint thing understand the technology stack and the vast assortment of features that make up SharePoint
- Making it work create a team site, add Web Parts to web pages, and create and customize apps
- Social advantages connect with others using microblogging, feeds, alerts, mentions, ratings, and likes
- Enterprising uses use SharePoint to share and approve content, find things with search, archive documents, and develop workflows
- Public or private set up a public website or an internal client portal using SharePoint
Open the book and find:
- The benefits of SharePoint for project management
- How to use social networking in your company
- What your role is as a SharePoint administrator
- SharePoint security advice
- Tips for using SharePoint on a mobile device
- How to collaborate on documents in SharePoint
- Steps for creating user profiles
- Ten ways to become a SharePoint guru
Synopsis
The bestselling guide on running SharePoint, now updated to cover all the new features of SharePoint 2013SharePoint Portal Server is an essential part of the enterprise infrastructure for many businesses. Building on the success of previous versions of SharePoint For Dummies, this new edition covers all the latest features of SharePoint 2013 and provides you with an easy-to-understand resource for making the most of all that this version has to offer. You'll learn how to get a site up and running, branded, and populated with content, workflow, and management. In addition, this new edition includes essential 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.
- Walks you through getting a SharePoint site up and running effectively and efficiently
- Explains ongoing site management and offers plenty of advice for administrators who want to leverage SharePoint and Office 365 in various ways
- Shows how to use SharePoint to leverage data centers and collaborate with both internal and external customers, including partners and clients
SharePoint 2013 For Dummies is essential reading if you want to make the most of this technology.
About the Author
Ken Withee is a longtime Microsoft SharePoint consultant. He currently writes for Microsoft's TechNet and MSDN sites and is president of Portal Integrators LLC, a software development and services company. Ken wrote Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies and is coauthor of Office 365 For Dummies.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with SharePoint 2013 7
Chapter 1: Getting to Know SharePoint 2013 9
Chapter 2: Introducing SharePoint Online 23
Chapter 3: Wrangling SharePoint Functionality 31
Part II: Diving Headfirst into SharePoint 2013 37
Chapter 4: Getting to Know the Team Site 39
Chapter 5: Working with Web Pages 51
Chapter 6: Working with Web Parts 61
Chapter 7: Getting Familiar with Apps 73
Chapter 8: Creating a Custom App 89
Chapter 9: Viewing Data in Your Apps 107
Part III: Becoming a SharePoint Administrator 125
Chapter 10: Getting Familiar with Site Settings 127
Chapter 11: Confi guring Site Navigation 139
Chapter 12: Understanding SharePoint Features 149
Chapter 13: Changing the Look and Feel of Your Site 153
Chapter 14: Securing Your SharePoint Site 167
Part IV: Getting Social and Going Mobile 185
Chapter 15: Taking Control of Your Personal Profi le and Content 187
Chapter 16: Getting Social 199
Chapter 17: Taking SharePoint Mobile 223
Part V: Managing Enterprise Content 229
Chapter 18: Sharing and Approving Content 231
Chapter 19: Finding What You Need with Search 257
Chapter 20: Archiving Documents and Records 273
Chapter 21: Gaining Total Control with Workflow 285
Part VI: Office 365 and SharePoint Online 303
Chapter 22: Creating a Public Website in SharePoint Online 305
Chapter 23: Creating a Client Portal in SharePoint Online 317
Part VII: The Part of Tens 327
Chapter 24: Ten Hot SharePoint 2013 Topics
on the Microsoft TechNet Website 329
Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Maintain Control with Governance 335
Chapter 26: Ten Ways to Become a SharePoint Guru 341
Index 347