SharePoint

About Sharepoint

Sharepoint is a web portal can be used as a secure place to store, organize, share, and access information from almost any device

SharePoint combines various functions which are traditionally separate applications: intranet, extranet, content management, document management, personal cloud, enterprise social networking, enterprise search, business intelligence, workflow management , web content management, and an enterprise application store

Sharepoint includes

"Out of the box" Sharepoint includes:
 
Alerts

 - An opt-in feature that allows users to be notified about changes or additions to specific SharePoint sites.

Audiences 

- Groups of users who meet certain criteria. Users are said to be a member of an audience if they meet that audience’s membership criteria. Permissions are granted through

Discussions 

- Traditional newsgroup forums, document discussions and wiki discussions.

Document Workspaces 

- Sometimes called a page, a portal or a site. Contains a document library, tasks, links and other components.

 
Libraries 

- Shared storage. The default segments are document libraries, form libraries and picture libraries.

Site groups 

- A custom security group with read or write permissions for a specific SharePoint portal.

Surveys 

- A Web site component that enables users to respond to a set of questions specified by the creator of the survey. Results are tallied in a graphical summary. Surveys support a wide variety of response types from simple Yes/No answers to free-form text.

FOLLOW A DOCUMENT OR WEBSITE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Follow a document to see notifications in your newsfeed when someone updates the document or shares it with others, and to keep the document handy in a followed documents list. Follow a site to keep it accessible in a list of followed sites and to see site feed activity in your own newsfeed.

Note that the capabilities described here depend on whether your organization has set up and customized personal sites and profiles.

SHARE DOCUMENTS AND MANAGE VERSIONS

Share a document with your co‐workers to allow them to review or edit your document, and learn how to track document versions or return to a previous one.
Note that the capabilities described here depend on whether your organization has set up and customized personal sites and profiles.

POST TO THE NEWSFEED

Start conversations with people in your organization by posting to a newsfeed, either on your personal site, or in team site newsfeeds.