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How to I customize the site title and logo?
How do I grant a user administrative rights?
How do I set up document permissions?
How to I create custom permission levels?
How do I set up email alerts?
How do I map Sharepoint to a network drive?
How do I create a group?
How do I create a team site?
How do I setup a blog site with Sharepoint?
| How to I customize the site title and logo? |
This will allow you to add your company logo to the top of all the Sharepoint sites with a description if you choose to include that.
1. Login to your Sharepoint site with with the administrative credentials.
2. In the upper right hand corner click on Site Actions then select Site Settings.
3. Under Looks and Feel click on Title, Description, and Title
4. Fill out the form accordinly and press OK
Sample.
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| How do I grant a user administrative rights? |
1. Login to your Sharepoint site with with the administrative credentials.
2. In the upper right hand corner click on Site Actions then select Site Settings.
3. Under Users and Permissions click on People and Groups.
4. Under New click Add user.
5. Type the users email address you wish to grant admin privileges for in users/groups. If you do not have a admin group created, you can directly give this user admin privileges by selecting the give user permissions directly radio button and selecting Full Control - Has full control. When finished, select OK.
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| How do I set up document permissions? |
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1. Open the desired Library. For this demo, we have selected Shared Docs.
2. Select the document and select Manage Permissions.
3. Select Actions and then select Edit User Permissions.
4. Select permission level and select OK.
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| How to I create custom permission levels? |
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SharePoint provides you with four different permission presets but if you require something different please follow these steps:
1. Login to Sharepoint as a Full Access user
2. Site Actions > Site Settings
3. Click on Advance Permissions under Users and Permissions
4. Click Settings > Permission level
5. Click on Add a Permission Level
6. From here you can customize the new permission level.
After this is saved you are able to grant this new permission level to new users or existing users.
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| How do I map Sharepoint to a network drive? |
The following instructions show how to map a network drive to your Sharepoint 3.0 site. This will allow you to drag and drop files to and from your Sharepoint site.
- In Windows, select the Start menu and select My Computer.
- Click on Tools from the top menu bar. Select Map Network Drive.
- In the Folder type "http:\\sharepointdomain.com/<folder name>" (omit quotes) i.e. http:\\intranet.19marketplace.com/folder
- Click on "Connect using a different user name" link
- Enter your user name and password for SharePoint
- Select Finish.
- Enter login info and press OK
Please note that this must be done by a person that has SharePoint admin rights.
Several customers have problems with their SharePoint drives disconnecting. If you run into this problem, please try Network places instead and put a short cut on your desktop. To setup a network place, please follow the work around described in the link below:
If you are connecting using Explorer View you may be prompted for your username and password several times. If you click Cancel Web folders are displayed. This occurs because by default Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 and above disables Basic Authentication in Webdav for security purposes.
Below is the support article from Microsoft that discusses this error and offers a workaround:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;841215&x=20&y=8
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| How do I set up email alerts? |
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1.) Open desired Library. For this demo, we have selected Shared Docs.
2.) Select Actions then select Alert Me.
3.) Add the desired users.
4.) Select your settings then select OK.
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| How do I create a group? |
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1. Login to your Sharepoint site with with the administrative credentials.
2. In the upper right hand corner click on Site Actions then select Site Settings.
3. Under Users and Permissions select People and groups.
4. Select New and then New Group.
4. Fill out the form accordingly and select Create.
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| How do I create a team site? |
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1. Login to your Sharepoint site with with the administrative credentials.
2. In the upper right hand corner select Site Actions and select Create.
3. Under Web Pages select Sites and Workplaces
4. Fill out the form accordingly. Team Site should already be selected.
5. Select Create.
Sample Team Site
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| How do I setup a blog site with Sharepoint? |
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1. Login to your Sharepoint site with with the administrative credentials.
2. In the upper right hand corner click on Site Actions then select Create.
3. Under Web Pages select Sites and Worlplaces.
4. Fill out the appropriate fields and select Blog.
5. Make any other customizations and select Create.
Sample Blog
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