SharePoint 2016 For Dummies

Chapter 4

Getting to Know the Team Site

IN THIS CHAPTER

Building a new SharePoint site

Understanding how to get a Team Site in Office 365

Exploring the features available on a Team Site

Discovering how to modify a Team Site to meet your needs

As you can read in Chapter 3, you create a SharePoint site using a template. You choose the template when you create the site. The most popular site template is the Team Site. A site created using the Team Site template contains a broad set of features designed for team interaction and collaboration.

In this chapter, you walk through creating or requesting a SharePoint site based on the Team Site template. You then find out how to access your Team Site and discover the available functionality.

Creating a SharePoint Site

If you have used SharePoint before, you know that there are often multiple ways to do the same thing. This sounds good in theory, but it led to a lot of confusion by users. Microsoft recently made some significant changes to reduce confusion and streamline the product. Creating a new site is a perfect example. Where you could create a site multiple ways in the past, there is now one way in SharePoint 2016. This might be frustrating at first if you’re familiar with previous versions, but it’s a good thing. At long last, all content that describes how to create a SharePoint site has come together and is the same.

You create a new site in SharePoint by doing the following:

1. Click the Settings gear icon and select Site Contents, ...