SharePoint Intranet site - where to start

Matt_Hirst

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Been given a project to look at redeveloping the current intranet site into 2013, the old version is 2003.

Now I am starting from knowing nothing about SharePoint to having to get a basic site up and running in a couple of weeks, can someone point me to any good videos or resources to read up on SharePoint and creating Intranet sites?

What I need are:
* Frontpage
* This should include an list of items that are new or updated
* Links to Specific useful company areas
* List of Areas for user to select
* Employee
* This should be a page of links to specific Employee areas, phone schemes, Holiday booking, etc.
* Areas
* Notices
* Design
* Reports
* This should contain links to a number of SSRS reports on a server
* Resources
* Manufacturing
* Sales
* Innovation
* Charity

In the areas listed above a manager will be in charge to update these, with lists, documents, web pages etc.

Anyway the above is just an overview of what the companies current intranet is like and what needs to be reproduced.

Any ideas or pointers would be appreciated.


Matt
 
So far have created a base intranet site with multiple sub sites and set their permissions (seems very cumbersome, very much like Dynamics CRM).

Added a number of document stores to replicate our existing site - not 100% certain I have done this correct but there is a distinct lack of information out there on the web, well that I can follow lol.

Matt
 
Am now onto customising design masters and found out foundation doesn't support these - does anyone know of a workaround?

Also in SharePoint Foundation the designer no longer includes a visual editor as such - it's just straight into the code - does anyone know of a visual editor as using google I am failing miserably.

regards,

Matt
 
I have read it doesn't directly support publishing though there are links that say it can do it - which really confuses me.

So in Dreamweaver I can edit the design masters or the individual site pages and do it all in there and just upload the pages?

regards,

Matt
 
So the gist of it is to create a single site, with multiple pages, multiple document libraries, etc, etc.

Would the libraries be split per department or just be a repository for documents per se?

We have a team that splits data into projects, they currently use a folder structure to store data against a project, so they would have a site per project, yes? Currently our CRM system stores documents against a project / opportunity (soon to be against a project relationship), by the looks of it in a folder structure within SharePoint.

I honestly don't think we will ever move away from separate sites per department, it's how the business has been developed for many years and I cannot see it changing due to a new intranet site being developed - but hey should be fun trying.

Thanks for your help so far.


Matt

P.S. One question is why does microsoft harp on so much about team sites if you are advocating personal sites? https://support.office.com/en-gb/ar...e92-8ad3-3f8b0b6cf261?ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB
 
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Right so I have a number of sites in Sharepoint Foundation 2013.

I have created a number of document libraries on what I will call the master site - what I need to be able to do is show these document libraries on different subsites but I have tried a number of different ways , after googling but none appear to work. - Surely a better way for this would be to create one document library where all documents go into - the documents would be itemised / identified by metadata attached to them to signify what they are, the various views of this library would then be filtered - or is this totally wrong?

Any ideas on shaing the libraries, everything seems to point to me needing the paid for version of Sharepoint but at the moment without showing a few things that are possible in 2013 I won't be able to get buy-in.


Matt
 
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