SharePoint 2016 End User

SharePoint 2016

Lesson 1 – Accessing and Navigating SharePoint Sites

S HARE P OINT Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is Microsoft's web-based business collaboration platform. This is a software product that allows people working as a team to share documents and other information, as well as to communicate with each other. SharePoint stores documents, spreadsheets, presentations, contact lists, calendars, and media content in a central web-based location. It also provides access control, content management and organization, file versioning, as well as options for checking content in and out. SharePoint integrates with popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Yammer allowing users to collaborate across those social media networks. SharePoint sites are accessed with a web browser and content is opened and edited with productivity software such as Microsoft® Word or Excel. S HARE P OINT I NTEGRATION , O FFLINE AND E NTERPRISE F EATURES SharePoint integrates with Microsoft Office applications by allowing users to save and open documents directly from those applications to SharePoint sites. Users can make SharePoint sites available for offline use so that they can work when disconnected from the Internet, and synchronize changes when they come back online. The Enterprise version of SharePoint also offers content governance and business intelligence features which allows organizations and users to better utilize the content. S HARE P OINT V ERSIONS There are multiple versions of SharePoint 2013. As a user, you don't have control of which version of SharePoint your organization has implemented, but to get the most out of SharePoint

you should have a basic understanding of different versions of SharePoint. There are currently five product variants in the SharePoint product line.

VERSION

DESCRIPTION

Microsoft SharePoint Foundation

This is the most basic version of SharePoint and offers broad, centralized collaboration capabilities, built-in features, integration with Microsoft Office and content management capabilities. This version provides the features available in SharePoint Foundation as well as many enhanced and additional features such as social networking integration, additional content management options, workflow features, and improvements in search. This version provides the features in SharePoint Server Standard as well as enhanced and additional features in business intelligence, records management, and eDiscovery.

Microsoft SharePoint Server Standard

Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise

OFFICEPRO, Inc.

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