Lab For Blog Site Features In SharePoint 2013

Lab Objectives

The goal for this is end-to-end tour of the Blog Site features in SharePoint 2013.

After completing the lab, you will be able to:

• Know when to use Blog Site.
• Collaborate with peers/groups by sharing ideas, information, etc.
• Create Blog Posts
• Create/Save/Publish the Blog Posts.
• Categorize the Blog Posts
• Assigning Permissions (who can create blog posts, who can read posts.).
• Create/Publish blog Posts from MS Word application.

Technologies

• SharePoint 2013
• Microsoft Word 2012

Getting Started

Connect to the Lab environment:

Log on to the SharePoint virtual machine (vm) or the CloudShare environment with relevant credentials.

Exercise 1: Create Blog Site

Tasks:

• Navigate to any of the existing Site collection.
• In the Quick launch, click Site Contents.
• Scroll to the bottom and, in the Subsites area, click new subsite.
• In the Title box, type “SharePoint Blog”.
• In the URL name box, type “SharePointBlog”.
• In the Template Selection, select “Blog” site template.
  
  
  
  
• In Permissions,
  
  
  • You can go ahead with “use same permissions as parent site” if you want to have the permissions inherited.
    
    
  • You can select “Use unique permissions” if you want to assign specific permissions to the blog site.
    
    
• Rest of the settings, it depends on your needs.
  
  
• At the bottom of the page, click Create.
  
  Note: It may take several minutes for processing on the create action to complete.
  
  
  
  
• You should have successfully created the Blog site as in the preceding screenshot.

Exercise 2: Create/Save/Publish Blog Posts (Create Post)

People who are eligible/have relevant access can create blog posts.

Tasks:

• Navigate to the created Blog site.
• In the Blog Tools, click Create a post.
• In the Title box, type “What is a blog?”
• In the Body box, type “A blog is basically a type of website that enables to share idea, information across”.
• In Category, select “Ideas” and click Add button. This basically categorizes the blog post. You need to select relevant category based on the post.
  
  
  
  
• In Published (date),
  
  
  • You can leave date and time and click “Save as draft” button in ribbon in order to edit and publish the post at later point of time.
    
    
  • You can leave date and time as is and click “Publish” button to publish the Post immediately, so that this post is visible for all the targeted audience.
    
    
  • You can change the date and time and click “Publish” button to publish the post at the defined date and time.
    
    
• At the bottom of the page, click Publish button.
  
  
  
  
• You should have successfully created the Blog Post.
  
  
• Manage posts:
  
  
  • You can also create a Post by clicking “Manage Posts” in the Blog Tools.
    
  • This will navigate to Posts list and you can add an Item to the list, which will enable you to create a Post.
    
  • Apart from creating Posts, you can also do other list management activities.