Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administration

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Administration

Many of today's organisations manage and share vast amounts of information in unstructured, inefficient ways. SharePoint Server 2007 revolutionises the way organisations manage information by providing effective collaboration, document retrieval and version control capabilities.

Platform Architecture and Administration

• Before you can understand SharePoint Server 2007, you need to understand how it fits into the overall SharePoint and office system platform architecture. Microsoft SharePoint architecture overview
• Services architectural view
• Product architectural view
• Administration architecture
• MOSS 2007 Platform Architecture

Install and Configure an Enterprise Server Farm

• You will learn how to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a server farm hands-on. You also see how this type of Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment is useful for organizations that want to minimize administrative overhead, but need the scalability of a two-tier topology and the flexibility of future scalability options.
• SQL Server Requirements and Architecture
• Pre-requisites for installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Changes made to your server when Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is installed
• How to install and Configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint Farm Wide Administration Operations

• Detailed Study of WSS Central Administration
• Configuring and managing the Central Administration home page
• Managing the Operations interface
• Navigation of the Central Admin to understand how to use the tools to achieve successful configuration and Management of the SharePoint farm.

Application Management

• Covers the creation and management of web applications in Central Administration. The associated administrative functions that you can configure from the application management interface also are discussed.
• Overview of SharePoint web application management
• Web application management, including creating and extending new web applications
• Creating and Associating a new Shared Services Provider (SSP)
• Managing web application security and application pools
• Setting up search and external connections
• Overview of workflow and forms services

Shared Services Providers

• Covers the creation and management of Web applications in Central Administration. The associated administrative functions that you can configure from the application management interface also are discussed.
• Overview of the Shared Service Provider
• Manage and configure the Shared Service Provider
• Use the Shared Service Provider in an enterprise environment
• Restore a Shared Service Provider

Enterprise Collaboration Portals

• Covers the services required of any collaboration portal and how Office SharePoint Server can provide those services encompassing several technologies to present a well rounded and flexible portal that can meet your various business requirements and technology platform scalability needs. You also learn how to design and implement the three primary functions of an enterprise collaboration publishing portal with the enhancements provided by SharePoint Server 2007.
• Overview of the Information Architecture process
• Introduction to site taxonomy creation
• Management of the presentation and look & feel of the portal
• Targeting content and audiences
• The Significance of MySites and Knowledge Management

Content Types and Features

• The building blocks of SharePoint Technologies are Content Types and Features. This module introduces and demonstrates how to create, administrate, and implement content types and Features, both new to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 architecture.
• Understand what content types and features are and how you can use them to add functionality to your SharePoint deployment to deliver a robust and scalable Information Architecture
• Create and deploy content types throughout sites and site collections
• Leverage content types for enhancing search and taxonomy through SharePoint sites and lists
• Create and deploy Features to inject additional functionality to new and existing SharePoint sites
• Enterprise Search Operations and Architecture
• Covers the basic and intermediate skills necessary to successfully administer, configure, and deploy a robust search and indexing environment in SharePoint Server 2007.
• Vision, Overview and history of Microsoft Search
• Relevance improvements in Search 2007
• SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search architecture
• Search Protocol handlers
• Search iFilters
• Search server roles
• SharePoint Farm-search topologies
• SharePoint Enterprise Search operations

Enterprise Search Administration

• Covers the basic and intermediate skills necessary to successfully administer Search and Indexing. We’ll discuss how to build content sources, how to view results, give an overview of the new Search Center, illustrate how to improve and manage relevance, and make other configuration decisions.
• Create and manage content sources
• Create and manage crawl rules
• Remove and exclude search results
• Add and remove indexed file types
• Create and map metadata property mappings
• Create global search scopes
• Configure editorial search results
• Configure crawl logging and reporting

Workflows

• Covers workflows, and then looks at the workflows that are built-in as part of the default SharePoint Server 2007 installation. We examine how to effectively use workflows and apply them to content throughout sites and site collections. This module also looks at how you can extend and create custom, code-free, workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007
• How to use workflows to enhance business processes and standard operating procedures
• Learn how to associate workflows with content throughout SharePoint Server 2007 sites and lists
• Create workflows using the default workflows and extend workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007
• Understand the differences between workflow functionality offered through the default workflows, those workflows created using SharePoint Designer 2007, and workflows created using Visual Studio 2008/5.

Records Management

• How to implement a document and records management and retention program for your company using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and discuss the DoD 5015.2 Add-On for the SharePoint Record Center
• Introduction to enterprise records management
• Best practices for implementing a document and records management system in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Configure a records repository
• Submitting records to the repository and routing records
• Securing documents and personal data
• DoD 5015.2 Record Center Add-On

Document Management

• Covers customizing and managing document libraries including adding content types, workflows, and versioning
• Concepts for planning and design for enterprise document management
• Document management for large content repositories
• Define and update metadata
• Manage content types
• Workflow administration

Web Content Management and Publishing

• Introduction to Web Content Management
• Business Solutions provided by Web Content Management
• Web authoring and Publishing
• Smart client authoring and content caching
• Master Pages and Page Layouts

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has exactly the same problem as every system that stores important data: At some point, something has the potential to go wrong. Whether the problem is a user deleting or modifying something that he should not, or a catastrophic failure of the server hardware, as the administrator you need to be in a position to recover any lost data. In addition to presenting the best practices for disaster recovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• List, Site, Site Collection, Web Application and Farm backup and restore strategies
• Recovering content deleted or modified by user error
• Recovering part or all of the system following server or other failure
• Reducing the risk of a disaster occurring by introducing redundancy
• Testing all aspects of the strategy

InfoPath Forms Services

• Microsoft InfoPath 2007 forms can be published to document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007. These forms are then hosted by Forms Services within SharePoint Server 2007.
• Features included in InfoPath 2007 for new generation of electronic form applications
• Create and Publish an InfoPath Form
• Configure Workflows to work with InfoPath forms
• Configuration and Management of Form Services

Site Templates

• We discuss various site templates that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We not only go over each template, but also explains how each template is connected to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 features and offers best practices on when to use each template.
• Site templates that are provided out-of-the-box with SharePoint Server 2007
• What is included in the templates
• Where you will use the various types of templates
• How to create custom site templates
• How to control the use of templates by controlling their availability

Web Parts

• In addition to discussing the Web Parts that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, we goes over how to install and configure individual Web Parts.
• Web Part Design
• Web Part Pages and Web Part Zones
• Introduction to Web Part Galleries
• Create Lists, Libraries, and Associated Web Parts in Workspace Sites
• Modify Web Part Settings
• Available OOB Web Parts
• Customize and Personalize Web Parts
• Connect Web Parts Business Intelligence, Excel Services and Business Data Catalogs In addition to discussing the Web Parts that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, we goes over how to install and configure individual Web Parts.
• Usage, Management and Administration of Excel Services
• Business Intelligence and Scorecard Management in SharePoint 2007
• KPI Lists and Web Parts
• Create a Business Data Catalog (BDC) and connect to a SQL Server Database and Web Services
• BDC Web Parts
• Building Enterprise Business Solutions using BDCs

Duration

6.00-9.00pm 8 Weeks (Mon/Wed)