SharePoint 2013: Site and Collection Administration

SharePoint administrators: learn how to manage sites and collections for your organization with these short, focused SharePoint tutorials.

SharePoint administrators: learn how to manage sites and collections for your organization with these short, focused SharePoint tutorials. Author Ron Davis familiarizes new and part-time administrators with common duties involved with administrating SharePoint, such as navigating the SharePoint architecture; handling permissions and quotas; backing up and restoring data; creating site libraries, lists, and site pages; and branding your SharePoint site with the Design Manager. This course is an excellent starting point to understand your responsibilities as a collection or site admin.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Navigating the SharePoint Architecture

• Understanding SharePoint terms and concepts
• Exploring user credentials and SharePoint Central Administration access
• Creating a web application and a collection
• Exploring user credentials and SharePoint sites access

2. Managing Site Collections

• Handling blocked files
• Handling locks
• Changing administrators
• Working with quotas
• Understanding the impact of Features
• Content database backup and restore

3. Site Administration

• Creating and modifying site libraries and lists
• Working with views
• Adding site pages and Web Parts
• Deciding between folders and metadata
• Creating content types
• Using document sets
• Configuring and using basic intrinsic workflows
• Branding your site with Design Manager

Conclusion

• Next steps