The role of the SharePoint site owner
The SharePoint site owner is responsible for the configuration and maintenance of their site, without having global Microsoft 365 tenant administration rights. It is a pivotal role in organizations using SharePoint for their teams and projects. The SharePoint owner training delivers these skills in one intensive day.
Configuring navigation and appearance
The course places significant focus on the visual and structural configuration of the SharePoint site. Main navigation, quick links, layout, graphic theme, logo, custom homepage. These elements give identity to the site and ease daily use by the team.
SharePoint permissions management
The most delicate topic for an owner is permissions management. The course details SharePoint groups (visitors, members, owners), authorization levels (read, modify, full control), permissions inheritance and one-off exceptions.
Advanced libraries, lists and content types
The course covers advanced content structuring: creating libraries with custom columns, configuring filtered views, using content types to standardize metadata, configuring versioning and check-out.
Alerts and simple workflows
A SharePoint site owner can configure alerts (notification when a document is modified) and simple workflows (document approval, request validation). The course shows how to configure them without entering Power Automate.
Who this course is for
The SharePoint owner training is designed for team leaders, project managers, quality managers, IT support and any profile managing a SharePoint site daily. Good SharePoint user mastery is required.
Practical SharePoint training in Carouge and Le Flon
At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this SharePoint owner course runs over one day with an expert instructor and a limited group.
FAQ SharePoint owner training
What is the difference between SharePoint owner and administrator?
The owner manages a specific site. The SharePoint administrator manages the entire Microsoft 365 SharePoint tenant globally.
Do I need to know SharePoint before this owner course?
Yes, good SharePoint user mastery is required. The SharePoint for Team Site course is an ideal prerequisite.
Does this course cover Power Automate?
Briefly as alternative to simple SharePoint workflows. The dedicated Power Automate course expands on this topic.
How to inherit or break SharePoint permissions inheritance?
The course details the procedure and best practices to manage permissions inheritance without breaking everything.
Can I attend this SharePoint training in Geneva?
Yes, the course is held at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to become autonomous as SharePoint owner?
The basics are acquired in a structured day.
How to go further after this course?
The Power Automate course to automate around SharePoint, or SharePoint administration trainings to reach tenant level.
Who this sharepoint owner training is for
SharePoint site owners, functional administrators, responsible for documentary governance of a team or department. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
Concretely, what will you be able to do at the end
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
Concrete use cases in business
A site owner structuring permissions and libraries for 30 contributors without confusion. A functional admin setting up clear documentary governance policy. A leader automating approval workflows on team site. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
Articulation with other ITTA courses
This training combines well with SharePoint user to understand contributor experience, Power Automate for documentary workflows, and Microsoft 365 admin for global governance. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Why this training makes a difference in professional environment
SharePoint owner role is central in collaborative space quality: permissions, structuration, governance, automation. The 2025-2026 evolutions (modern UI, Teams integration, Loop, Viva Connections) transform this role. This training lays foundations to exercise this responsibility effectively.
Sustained anchoring after the course
Most participants signal a noticeable effect from the first or second week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional rhythm, with milestones at one, three and six months for participants wanting to track their progression more formally.
ITTA pedagogy oriented towards practice in Geneva and Lausanne
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Does the course cover documentary governance?
Yes, governance principles (retention, classification, permissions) are treated in dedicated sequence.
Need to be technical expert?
No, the course addresses functional owners. Pure IT aspects are touched but not focus.
Are workflows and automations integrated?
Yes, simple Power Automate workflows linked to SharePoint libraries are presented.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.