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In this chapter, you get a tour of the SharePoint landscape, come to understand features for enhanced collaboration, and learn to build a beautiful, mobile-friendly intranet site without writing a single line of code!
Touring the SharePoint Landscape
SharePoint Online connects the people in your workplace with an intelligent content management solution that drives productivity while keeping your data secure. It is a cloud-based solution that is one of the services in Office 365. Also under the SharePoint umbrella is SharePoint Server, which is a solution similar to SharePoint Online, but it requires buying and maintaining server hardware, installing the software, keeping software or operating system up to date, and hiring people to manage the technology and troubleshoot issues. In SharePoint Online, these tasks are handled by Microsoft.
Getting to know the SharePoint personas
While SharePoint provides a platform for everyone in the organization to share and work together, there are four types of personas who use, interact with, and benefit from SharePoint.
» End users: If you access your organization’s portal or intranet on SharePoint to read announcements or any type of communications, you’re an end user. The same is true if your project team uses SharePoint for collaboration.
Throughout this book, you find useful instructions to help you quickly become a productive project team member.
» Admins: As you become familiar with the features and functionalities of SharePoint, you may become a super end user and take on administration responsibilities, such as the following:
• Site collection admin: This role is responsible for an entire site collection, which may have many SharePoint sites. A site collection admin can control which features are available for the site collection, including workflows, custom branding, and search settings.
• Site owner: When you create a new site from the Sites page (instructions are provided later in this chapter), you automatically become the site owner. As a site owner, you can provision sub-sites, manage permissions for the site, change the look and feel, and enable or disable site features according to what’s available from the site collection, and more.
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