Sharepoint For Dummies

All you need to know about SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server

SharePoint is an enterprise portal server living under the Microsoft Office umbrella. It can be used as a local installation (on-premises) or an online service. The SharePoint Online service comes bundled with Office 365. You can use SharePoint to aggregate sites, information, data, and applications into a single portal. SharePoint 2019 contains highly integrated features that allow you to work with it directly from other Office products such as Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and many others.

SharePoint For Dummies provides a thorough update on 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 up and running so that you and your team can become productive with this powerful tool.

• Find high-level, need-to-know information for “techsumers”, administrators, and admins
• Learn how SharePoint Online can get you started in minutes without the hassle and frustration of building out your own servers
• Find everything you need to know about the latest release of SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server

Get your hands on the best guide on the market for SharePoint!

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Getting Started with SharePoint 5

Chapter 1: Getting to Know SharePoint 7

Up and Running with SharePoint in Three Minutes Flat 8

Wrapping Your Head around SharePoint 12

No, really, what is SharePoint? 12

A Microsoft product 14

Many different SharePoint definitions 14

More than a website 16

Taking a Peek at a SharePoint Site 17

Getting Familiar with SharePoint Terminology 20

Branding 20

Business intelligence (BI) 20

eDiscovery 21

Identity management 21

Mobile 22

Records management and compliance 22

Search 23

Social 23

Web content management 23

Workflow 24

Chapter 2: Introducing SharePoint in Office 365 25

Accessing and Using SharePoint 26

Getting Familiar with SharePoint Online 26

Determining What Version of SharePoint You are Using 28

Understanding Why SharePoint Online Has Become So Popular 28

Differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premises 29

Exploring the Benefits of SharePoint Online 31

Data center and hardware 31

Software platform 32

Backup, redundancy, and security 33

Chapter 3: Wrangling SharePoint Functionality 35

Coming to Terms with Website Templates 35

Show Me the Apps 37

Working with Web Pages 38

Site page 39

Wiki page 39

Web Part page 40

Publishing page 40

Understanding Web Parts 40

Digging into SharePoint Features 41

Integrating with Office 2019 42

Part 2: Diving Headfirst into SharePoint 43

Chapter 4: Discovering SharePoint in Your Pocket 45

Installing the SharePoint Mobile App 45

Installing on iOS 46

Installing on Android 46

Signing into the SharePoint Mobile App 47

Finding Your SharePoint Stuff with the Find Tab 49

Exploring a SharePoint site 50

Opening navigation 51

Getting the Latest News with the News Tab 52

All About You with the Me Tab 53

Chapter 5: Understanding SharePoint Sites and Hub Sites 55

Accessing SharePoint Sites in Office 365 55

Exploring the SharePoi