This is the first post in a series based on a training course I have delivered over the past three years. The course is a half-day workshop covering the basics of what is SharePoint through to managing a site.

Managing Site Permissions

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With SharePoint Server 2007, you can easily set-up workflows to require items in a list to be approved. (Go to the list settings, click on Workflow settings and fill in the boxes.) However, if you are going to the trouble of requiring all items to be approved, you probably only want those items to become visible to everyone once they have been approved.

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When you create a site collection using the Collaboration Portal template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you get an extra web part not available in any of the other templates. It’s called ‘I need to…’ and displays a list of options, starting with ‘Set up MySite’. It starts life on the home page of the top-level site in the site collection…

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This is part 1 in a series of posts about how to create your own SharePoint theme. When you install SharePoint, it comes with a range of themes to pick from. Each theme determines the style and formatting of pages within a site. Themes are applied per site. Navigate to a site, click on Site [...]

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Alerts are a feature within SharePoint to automatically notify you about new and/or updated information. Instead of having to keep checking to find out if content has changed, SharePoint will tell you when it happens. You can create alerts on any list, library or even the results of a search query. For lists and libraries, [...]

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