SharePoint 2016 Site Owners

SharePoint 2016

Lesson 1 – Creating a New Site

ACTIVITY: C REATING A S HARE P OINT S ITE FROM A T EMPLATE Scenario Develetech is a manufacturer of home electronics. Develetech is known as an innovative designer and producer of high-end televisions, video game consoles, laptop and tablet computers, and mobile phones. Develetech is a mid-sized company, employing approximately 2,000 residents of Greene City and the surrounding area. Develetech also contracts with a number of partner organizations for new product development as well as manufacturing and supply-chain support. Employees at Develetech use SharePoint extensively as their primary collaboration tool. They use it for team communications, updates, announcements and events, and document sharing as well as project specific collaboration. Now Develetech is growing and so is the SharePoint implementation. You are a team lead and supervisors have instructed team leads to set up and configure SharePoint team sites for their teams. In this activity, you will create a SharePoint team site from a template. 1) Launch subsite creation. a) Log on to your computer using the user name and password provided by the instructor. b) On the Start page, select the Desktop tile. c) Open Internet Explorer, and in the Address box, type http://sharepoint/sites/teams and press Enter. d) In the Quick Launch area, select Site Contents. e) On the Site Contents page, scroll down if necessary, and under Subsites, select new subsite.

2) Configure the new site's settings. a) On the Site Contents→New SharePoint Site page, in the Title and Description section, in the Title box, type Team b) In the Description box, type Team assigned to (For example, "Team assigned to Student1." c) In the Web Site Address section, in the URL name box, type

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