What is SharePoint?
SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform integrated with Microsoft Office for file sharing and storage. In other words, it's a document and content management system for project management with a team sharing feature. This platform provides the organization a means to coordinate and communicate with the team by creating a task, scheduling, and sharing any details related to the project.
Credit: Microsoft SharePoint
The main features of SharePoint,
- Collaboration
Help different teams working on “Same Project“ to collaborate using the same platform application; a team can customize their application or build their own. - Interoperability
It allows Office and web-based documents to integrate; custom building allows solutions using different technologies. - Extensibility
Application can be deployed on premise or to the cloud. For cloud, you just need to subscribe to Office 365 and you can get the advantage for this feture.
SharePoint also come with on Premise or cloud solution.
- On Premise versions - SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019
We will defiantly find some of the IT Companies still using early versions such as 2001 and 2003. After this many years, technology evolves with SharePoint also.
Requirement for on premise has also increased with newer versions for small and medium firms who want to create SharePoint sites to collaborate with their different teams and different projects on the same platform using SharePoint Office 365.
Here are the steps to create your own SharePoint Site using Office 365.
To start with, we need to create access to SharePoint. We will use Office 365 trial to create our own SharePoint Site.
I am using Office 365 E5. Google the same and you will find something like this. Select the Microsoft portal to register.
Next, we will be creating a login. You need to fill in all the details and you need to provide your mobile number to receive security code.
This is how your first page looks like when you login the first time.
From the admin center in the left side below corner, you will find access to SharePoint and other applications.
Once you click on SharePoint, you should see the SharePoint site as shown below. The below screen concludes that you have access to SharePoint.
Next step will be to Create SharePoint Collection. Website is already created when a SharePoint service is used in Azure.
To create Site Collection, go to SharePoint admin and Create” Private Site Collection” as per the below figure.
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