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» IT professionals: SharePoint has built-in capabilities that cater to profession- als in an IT department or IT consultants who serve the needs of their clients. Typically, these IT professionals administer SharePoint Online to ensure the technology meets business needs. They can act as the system or SharePoint admin with access to the SharePoint Admin Center in Office 365 where they configure SharePoint settings, such as
• Enabling/disabling Yammer as the enterprise social collaboration solution • Allowing external sharing of SharePoint sites
• Configuring compliance and data loss prevention policies
• Restoring deleted sites
» Developers: These are the technical people who create applications and customizations to extend SharePoint functionalities beyond what Microsoft offers. SharePoint has rich features for the hundreds of thousands of develop- ers focused on this platform. There’s even a marketplace for these developers to publish and sell their apps and solutions: the SharePoint Store.
Landing on the SharePoint Online home page
SharePoint Online lets you share knowledge, content, apps, and rich, interactive news to a broad audience within your organization. At the heart of the ability to inform and engage employees is the foundational technology that delivers beauti- ful, modern, and mobile-friend sites and pages.
The SharePoint Online home page gives you a quick list of all the sites you belong to and are following on the left pane. The middle pane displays a card-style list of the latest news in your organization culled from all the sites you have access to as well as a list of the sites you frequently visit (see Figure 5-1).
To access the SharePoint Online home page, follow these steps:
1. LogintoOffice365fromhttp://portal.office.com.
2. Clicktheapplauncher(theiconthatlookslikeawaffleinthetopleft
corner).
3. ClickSharePointfromthelistoftiles.
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