It is easy to follow a SharePoint site and receive updates about what happens on that site. With the latest release of SharePoint, the option is as simple as clicking a star icon on the main page of a SharePoint website, as shown. Click the star on a SharePoint site to follow the site.If you are using the SharePoint Mobile App, the star is just a tap away, as shown in the following figure.

A very simple, but incredibly powerful, use for PowerApps is to let users work with a custom SharePoint List-based app using their mobile phones or tablets. Just about everyone has a smartphone now, and building an app that lets your users interact with a SharePoint list brings your intranet to their mobile devices.

Microsoft Power BI (pronounced “bee-eye” as an acronym for Business Intelligence) is a cloud-based business analytics service. Here, the focus is on how you can integrate SharePoint with Power BI. You learn how to connect your reports to SharePoint so that people can use them without ever needing to leave a SharePoint site.

Over the years, SharePoint has become the dominant product for company intranet sites. Remember, an intranet site is a website for only your organization and includes things like human resources information, company policies, time entry, and so on. Microsoft recognized that more and more people are using mobile devices; thus, it created a SharePoint Mobile App.

It is human nature to learn things by exploring and it is no different with software. You could read a hundred books about SharePoint and still barely understand what exactly it is and what it does. Our thinking is that there is no better way to get to know SharePoint than to get up and running with it, clicking buttons to see what they do.

Microsoft SharePoint provides a web-based platform that your organization can leverage to be more productive and more competitive. With SharePoint, you can manage content, publish information, track processes, and manage your overall business activities. In addition, SharePoint provides deep integration with the rest of the Office 365 applications, such as Teams, PowerApps, Flow, Forms, OneDrive, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

If RSS isn’t your thing, you can opt to receive email notifications when SharePoint apps change by creating an alert. Alerts are a great way to keep track of the changes your teammates make to documents and items.You need the Create Alerts permission to create alerts. This permission is granted usually with the out-of-the-box configuration of the Site Members SharePoint group.

SharePoint team sites display a list of navigation links on the Quick Launch navigation along the left side of the page. The Quick Launch, also known as the Current Navigation, displays links to featured site content such as apps and pages. By default, the team site Quick Launch includes three very important links: Home: A link back to the main start page for the team site.