Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 Step by Step
Olga M. Londer
Penelope Coventry
Published by Microsoft Press
To Gregory, Dina, and Michael, with love and gratitudefor everything .
OLGA LONDER
I dedicate this book to my godchildren, Jack and Erin, Erins husband Mark, and their parents Helen and Chris. Thank you for including Peter and I in your family .
PENELOPE COVENTRY
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Introduction
A part of Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is a server-side product that provides a powerful toolset for organizing websites and content, sharing knowledge, connecting with others, providing robust collaboration environments, managing documents, and finding information and people. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Step by Step offers a comprehensive look at the capabilities and features of SharePoint 2013 that people will use most frequently.
Who this book is for
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Step by Step and other books in the Step by Step series are designed for beginning to intermediate-level computer users. The examples shown in this book teach skills that can be used in organizations of any size. Whether you are new to SharePoint, or you are already comfortable working in SharePoint and want to learn about the new features in SharePoint 2013, this book provides an invaluable hands-on experience so that you can create, modify, and share sites, documents, and other content and capabilities, and collaborate with others with ease.
How this book is organized
This book is divided into 15 chapters. The first four chapters address foundation skills such as navigating a SharePoint site, working with documents and information in lists and libraries, and creating and editing webpages. Chapters drills into the content management capabilities of SharePoint 2013.
The first part of contains introductory information that will primarily be of interest to readers who are new to SharePoint or are upgrading from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or an earlier version. If you have worked with a more recent version of SharePoint, you might want to skip past that material.
This book is designed to lead you step by step through all the tasks that youll most likely want to perform with SharePoint 2013. If you start at the beginning and work your way through all the exercises, you will gain enough proficiency to be able to work efficiently with most capabilities in SharePoint 2013. However, each topic is self-contained, so you can jump in anywhere to acquire exactly the skills that you need.
Download the practice files
Before you can complete the exercises in this book, you need to download the books practice files to your computer. We recommend you copy the practice files to a separate folder, for example, Documents\Microsoft Press\SP2013SBS, or any folder where you can access the practice files easily.
These practice files can be downloaded from the following page:
http://aka.ms/SP2013SbS/files
Important
The SharePoint 2013 software is not available from this website. You must have access to a SharePoint 2013 installation on the server before performing exercises in this book. Alternatively, you can use Microsoft SharePoint Online for most exercises in this book.
The following table lists the practice files for this book.
Chapter | File |
No practice files |
Chapter2 Team Site.wsp Chapter2 Travel Subsite.wsp Chapter2 Facilities Subsite.wsp WideWorldTravelGuidelines.docx |
OakChest.docx OakDesk.docx OakEndTable.docx OakNightStand.docx WideWorldInvoice.dcox WideWorldPurchaseOrder.docx |
Wildlife.wmv pjcov.jpg |
No practice files |
Global Proposal.docx |
Sales.jpg |
No practice files |
Chapter9 Starter.wsp Oak Chest.docx Oak Desk.docx OakEndTable.docx OakNightStand.docx Oak chairs are best with Oak tables.docx Our Oak furniture range consists of both Oak chairs and Oak tables.docx |
No practice files |
No practice files |
ExpImpoWideWorldImporters.accdb Furniture_Price.xlsx MoveWideWorldImporters.accdb Sales_Figures.xlsx |
SalesData.xlsx |
Chapter14 Starter.wsp |
Holiday budget planner.docx ProductProposalFinancials.xslx ProductProposalPresentation.pptx ProductSheet.docx |
The exercises in this book cover features across the three SharePoint 2013 solutions. Each solution provides a different set of features and functionalities, depending on the client access licenses (CALs) activated in your organization, as follows:
SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise CAL
SharePoint Server 2013 Standard CAL
SharePoint Foundation 2013
Note
SEE ALSO For SharePoint 2013 feature availability in each of the solutions, refer to .
All the exercises in the book will work in SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise. Any exercises that cover features available in SharePoint Server 2013 Standard can be completed if you are using this solution. However, you will not be able to complete an exercise that covers a feature that is not available in SharePoint Server 2013 Standard. For example, the business intelligence features are only available in the SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise, and therefore the exercises in , require SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise.
Any exercises that cover features available in SharePoint Foundation 2013 will work if you are using this solution. However, you will not be able to complete an exercise that covers a feature that is not available in SharePoint Foundation 2013. For example, promoting search results is an available functionality in SharePoint Server 2013 Standard and Enterprise, but it is not included in SharePoint Foundation 2013; therefore, the exercise on influencing the search results ranking in , requires SharePoint Server 2013.