Create a SharePoint Site

The Sites screen displays a list of current SharePoint sites.

• Optionally, to delete a Sharepoint site, click the checkbox next to the desired site to be deleted and click on the [Delete] button. (In this example, a new SharePoint site is being created linked to a second domain associated with the customer’s account.)

NOTE: To delete a Sharepoint site, click the checkbox next to the desired site to be deleted and click the [Delete] button (which becomes active when you select a checkbox).

The Create New SharePoint Site screen displays.

If your account contains multiple domains, select the domain to be used for your SharePoint services from the drop-down menu.

Click the [Next] button.

NOTE: SharePoint sites are often created as a subdomain of your company’s primary domain name. Additional domains or subdomains can be registered from the Hosting | Domain Overview | Domain Administration section of the Control Panel.

The Resources screen displays.

Click [Next>>].

The Service User screen displays.

Click the [Next>>] button.

The Login and Password screen displays.

You may also allow the system to generate a random password by clicking the [Generate new password] button.

Click [Next>>].

The Web Application screen displays.

Click [Next>>].

The Template screen displays.

A template consists of unique themes, colors, and pre-created content suitable for many purposes, including generic corporate intranet, help desk, event planning, employee self-service benefits, sales leads, and team sites, among others.

Any SharePoint Web parts—pre-created lists or template objects—can be added to any SharePoint site, regardless of the template on which you have based your site’s design.

Templates provide a “quick start” to pre-populate some useful combination of SharePoint Web parts.

Note that “Select at First Login” is the default option, which means that you will need to choose a template the first time you log into your SharePoint site.

You will also need to select a default Storage quota for your SharePoint site. Note that SharePoint storage is not part of the aggregate Exchange storage you may have purchased for your mailboxes. SharePoint sites have their own storage pool that you can allocate to one or more SharePoint sites (and purchase additional storage, if needed).

NOTE: If you see a “Limit Reached” status for the “Use exclusive application pool,” this is normal and simply indicates that you have not purchased a dedicated instance of SharePoint as part of your current Apptix package/purchase.

Click the [Next>>] button when you have defined all of the SharePoint site parameters.

The Roles screen displays.

In the notification e-mail input field, enter the address to which any administrative notifications/updates should be sent.

Click the [Next>>] button.

A confirmation screen displays with all the settings you have selected for your SharePoint site.

The Sites screen updates to display all of your available SharePoint sites.

The In Sync column displays “Yes” when your new SharePoint site is ready.

NOTE: If you see that a “Notice” displays indicating you cannot create any additional SharePoint sites the [Add New Site] button is grayed out. This means that you have no more available domain names for which to create SharePoint sites. You can only create one SharePoint site per registered domain name. Remember that you can create an unlimited number of sub-sites and tabs or pages within a single SharePoint site, so you normally would not need more than the single SharePoint site per domain.

Once inside your SharePoint site settings, there is a summary of the settings, administrator and site settings, and storage utilization.  The DNS tab enables you to manage the domain settings for this SharePoint site (the same domain management functionality is available from the “Domain Overview” menu).