SharePoint 2016 Site Owners

SharePoint 2016

Lesson 1 – Creating a New Site

I NHERITANCE IN S HARE P OINT In most cases when there is an option to inherit settings from a parent site, the site owner configuring the new site can choose to keep or discard the inherited settings and replace them with new settings. S HARE P OINT S ITE C REATION O PTIONS When creating a new site within a Site Collection, you can choose to create the site from a template or choose to copy an existing site. When creating a new site, there are several configuration options you must configure.

CONFIGURATION SETTING

DESCRIPTION

Title and Description

A title for the page and a description of the intent of the page and site.

Web Site Address

The URL in the site hierarchy to access the site page.

Template Select

The template on which you want to base the site. Each template contains a different mix of lists, libraries, and apps laid out to facilitate a different kind of collaboration. You can customize the site after you create it. You can configure the site to inherit permissions from the parent site or set unique permissions for the site. Select to display a link on the parent site's Quick Launch bar, and/or the top link bar, to allow for easy navigation to and from the parent site to the new site. Choose to inherit the top link bar from the parent site or have a unique top link bar.

Permissions

Navigation

Navigation Inheritance

C OPYING AN E XISTING S ITE If you wish to copy an existing site, then you must first save that site as a template and select that site template under the Custom tab, in the Templates section of the New SharePoint Site page. S HARE P OINT T EMPLATES SharePoint includes several templates designed to facilitate different types of collaboration. The following table lists the site templates available in SharePoint.

TAB

TEMPLATE DESCRIPTION

Collaboration Team Site

A site for team collaboration, it includes document libraries, calendar, announcements, and other lists, libraries, and apps.

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