Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013: Site User

Course Description Overview

091107

1 day

In many professional environments today, people work collaboratively in teams. Information technology and applications facilitate this by allowing people to easily share, access, edit, and save information. Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 is a platform specifically designed to facilitate collaboration, allowing people to use familiar applications and Web based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location. In this course, you will learn about and use a SharePoint Team Site to access, store, and share information and documents.

SharePoint is a complex platform with many features and capabilities. A strong understanding of those features and capabilities will allow you to work more efficiently and effectively with SharePoint, and with the documents and data stored in SharePoint. Furthermore, effective use of new social networking

Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, knowledge workers in a variety of business environments will be able to effectively utilize resources on a typical SharePoint Foundation team site in the course of performing normal business tasks.

You will:

Access and navigate SharePoint content.
Add, upload, modify, search for, and preview documents in document libraries.
Add and modify items in lists, configure list views, and filter and group lists.
Create and update your profile; tag, share, and follow content on your personal sites; and create and manage a personal blog.
Access, create, save, and manage document versions and synchronize data with Microsoft Office applications.
Synchronize SharePoint data, work offline, and access data from a mobile device.

Target Student:

This course is designed for existing Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office users who are transitioning to a SharePoint environment, who will need to access information and collaborate with team members on a Microsoft SharePoint team site.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course you should be have basic end-user skills with Microsoft Windows 8 and any or all of the Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 or 2013 suite components, plus basic competence with Internet browsing. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking the following United States Career Campus courses:

Using Microsoft® Windows® 8 or Microsoft® Windows® 8 Transition from Windows® 7
Any or all of the courses in the Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, or 2013 curriculum.

Course-specific Technical Requirements Software:

DT-DC-Exch

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Standard

SharePoint

Microsoft® SharePoint Server 2013
Microsoft® Office Web Apps® Server 2013

DT-Off-Apps

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2013
Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 Standard

WorkstationX

Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2013
Microsoft® Windows® 8

Course-specific Technical Requirements Hardware:

This course requires three server computers, and one workstation for each student and one for the instructor. The Domain Controller\Exchange Server computer must have 6 GB of RAM and SharePoint server computer must have at least 8 GB of RAM or you will likely encounter errors during or after setup that are related to low memory conditions. The Office Web Apps server can run with as little as 4 GB of RAM. The student workstations should be standard Windows 8 Installations. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:

DT-DC-Exch