SharePoint: Getting Started Guide

We offer Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 and v3.0, which allows organizations to quickly and easily create websites for Intranets and Extranets. SharePoint lets you setup websites to communicate with your coworkers, customers, and suppliers to share files, calendars, contacts, tasks, and any kind of list. The best part is that you don't need to be a technical person to build these websites - everything can be done via your web browser. However, advanced editing can be done using SharePoint Builder 2007 or FrontPage 2003.

How to Create a SharePoint Site:

1. Log into the control panel and click on "SharePoint Sites".
2. Click "Add SharePoint Site".
3. Choose the plan that is best for you.
4. Enter the SharePoint Site URL: This is the domain and subdomain for your site. NOTE: You must own the domain. E.g. intranet.yourdomain.com
5. Select a Site Owner: Your users will be listed in the drop-down menu. The user selected will be set as the site administrator.
6. Site Language: Currently the only language available is English.
7. Click Create Site.
8. Once your Control Panel information has been entered a subdomain will need to be created in the DNS for your domain. Contact the administrator who has control of the DNS for your domain and ask them to create a CNAME that points the subdomain you created in Step 4 to one of the domains listed below:
   
   
   • For SharePoint Services v3.0: SP3.MyOutlookOnline.com
   • For SharePoint Services v2.0: SP.MyOutlookOnline.com
     
     
   This change will take 1-4 hours to propagate once you make the change to your DNS.
   
   
9. From your web browser, go to the SharePoint URL you specified above. You will be asked to login; use the username/password of the Site Owner from step 5. NOTE: You must setup the URL in the DNS for the login to work; you cannot login to http://SP.MyOutlookOnline.com or http://SP3.MyOutlookOnline.com.
   
   
10. For testing purposes, you can add a new line in your hosts file:
    
    
    • For SharePoint Services v3.0: 64.95.72.198 Intranet.YourDomain.com
    • For SharePoint Services v2.0: 64.95.72.194 Intranet.YourDomain.com

You can now start customizing your SharePoint site. Click on "Site Settings" to begin.

1. Click on "Manage users" to add more users to this SharePoint site. If you want to give individuals who don't have an Exchange mailbox, such as external employees, customers, partners, vendors or consultants, access to the SharePoint website, you will need to first add them as a user via the Exchange Control Panel.
   
   
2. Click on "Manage sites and workspaces" to add sub-sites, such as a site for marketing.
   
   
3. If you are creating Document Libraries in your SharePoint site, please ensure that you have enabled the Document Version Retention.

Feel free to experiment and try the different capabilities of SharePoint. Microsoft has tutorials available for making the most of SharePoint Services: SharePoint Video Tutorials SharePoint Demo

 

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