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SharePoint 2016 For Dummies
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SharePoint 2016 For Dummies

by Ken Withee, Rosemarie Withee
July 2016
Beginner
384 pages
8h 46m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 15

Taking Control of Your Personal Profile and Content

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding your personal SharePoint space

Wrangling digital content with OneDrive for Business

Staying up to date with your Newsfeed and blog

Keeping track of your favorite sites

Customizing your SharePoint profile

Throughout this book, you can read about SharePoint sites and how they can be used with teams and organizations. SharePoint also provides individualized benefits designed specifically for you. In particular, you can customize your own individual space and take control of your SharePoint experience.

In this chapter, you explore how your personal SharePoint space works. You find out about some pretty cool apps and explore how to work with these apps using only your web browser. You discover how to aggregate news and create a blog with Newsfeed, sync and organize documents with OneDrive for Business, and add and follow specific sites. Finally, you explore and set up your personal profile.

Organizing Your Personal Content with OneDrive

Your personal cloud storage location, also known as OneDrive, is where you store and organize your documents. You access OneDrive by clicking on the waffle menu (officially called the app launcher) in the upper-left corner of your screen and then choosing OneDrive, as shown in Figure 15-1.

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FIGURE 15-1: Accessing your OneDrive site.

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