Sharepoint Administration Training
Understand SharePoint Server 2007 platform architecture from the Operating System to Application Layers.
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 architecture overview
- SharePoint Services architecture
- SharePoint Product architecture
- SharePoint Administration architecture
- SharePoint Configuration and Configuration architecture
Hands On Lab: Swift Brains provided MOSS 2007 Development Virtual Machine Infrastructure
This course is for Solution Architects, IT Managers, System Administrators, Software Architects and Engineers who will be responsible for managing and administering MOSS 2007 infrastructure.
MOSS 2007 Platform Architecture and Design
Understand SharePoint Server 2007 platform architecture from the Operating System to Application Layers.
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 architecture overview
- SharePoint Services architecture
- SharePoint Product architecture
- SharePoint Administration architecture
- SharePoint Configuration and Configuration architecture
Install and Configure Enterprise MOSS 2007 Server Farm
Learn How to Setup, Install and Configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 an enterprise 3-Tier server farm following the best practices. Understand How Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment is useful for small and medium organizations that want to minimize server, network and storage administrative overhead, but need the scalability of a 3-tier topology and the flexibility of future scalability options. Because many are looking for prescriptive best practices on building SharePoint Server 2007 server farms, including preparing SQL Server, we will have some discussions surrounding farm topologies and SQL Server performance. These will be conversational in tone, and will be scenario-driven by your own questions and suggestions.
- Enterprise SharePoint Server Farm Wide Administration Operations
- Detailed Study of SharePoint Central Administration
- Configuring and managing the Central Administration home page
- Managing the Central Administration Operations interface following the best practices
- Navigation of the Central Admin to understand how to use the tools to achieve a successful configuration and Management of the Enterprise 3-Tier Server SharePoint farm following Microsoft best practices
Enterprise SharePoint Server Farm Wide Administration Application Management
Creation and management of SharePoint Web applications in Central Administration following best practices. Administrative functions that you can use to configure from the application management interface also are discussed
- Overview of SharePoint Web application management
- SharePoint Web application management, including creating and extending new web applications
- Creating a new Shared Services Provider (SSP) following best practices
- Managing application security and authentication Providers
- Setting up search and external connections
- Overview of Excel Services, Workflows and InfoPath Forms Services
- SharePoint Microsoft.NET Application Pool management and best practices
Shared Services Providers
Creation and management of SSP Web applications in Central Administration following best practices. The associated administrative functions that you can use to configure from the SSP application management interface to enable an enterprise MOSS 2007 deployment.
- Overview of the MOSS 2007 Shared Service Provider
- Manage and configure the Shared Service Provider following best practices
- Use the Shared Service Provider in an enterprise environment
- Restore/Switch a Shared Service Provider
Enterprise Information Architecture
One of the most fundamental design elements in a successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation is the underlying information architecture. Information architecture provides a common, well-understood framework for the arrangement of data. A well-considered information architecture includes how data will be structured and divided, as well as how it will be presented to and navigated by users. In this session, we will review some key implementation motivators, architectural concepts, and lessons learned from some of the larger, more complex implementations performed
- Overview of the enterprise information architecture and topology
- Navigation and Search best practices for Information Architecture
- Business Process Modeling and Information Mapping
- Wire framing and Visual Design for Information Architecture
- Scoping exercises: Customers are sometimes sold on SharePoint as a do-everything, solve-every-problem-now solution. Help them with brainstorming sessions to gather all ideas and pain points and then organize and prioritize the results.
- Document organization: Analyze the types of documents that currently exist and group them for the purposes of creating content types.
- Navigational Architecture: Work interactively with the team to experiment with, and then finalize, the site navigation.
- Site documentation: Show the site hierarchy with all libraries, lists and content types
Enterprise Intranet Collaboration and Team Portals
There are many architectural choices for collaboration in SharePoint. Should you use one site collection with many subsites, or separate site collections for each enterprise collaboration environment? In this session, we discuss when to use site collections and subsites/sites, the role of site templates and site definitions, and how to handle rollups and navigation. You’ll also see best practices for increasing the “findability” of collaboration sites and portals. How Office SharePoint Server can provide those services encompassing several technologies to present a well-rounded and flexible portal that can meet your various requirements and needs. You also learn how to design and implement the three primary functions of a portal with the enhancements provided by SharePoint Server 2007.
- Overview of the Intranet Collaboration and Team Portals best practices
- Content Taxonomy creation and management
- Best practices for management and visual presentation of content
- Audience Targeting and Content Query Web Part best practices
- My Sites, Intranet and Team Portals
Content Types and Features
Architected properly and implemented efficiently following the best practices, content types will successfully fuel your MOSS 2007 implementation for the future. Done correctly and thoughtfully, content types positively impact security, consistency, organization of data, business intelligence, where and how data surfaces, templates, workflow, information policies. Building blocks of SharePoint 2007 are Content Types and Features. Learn how to create, administrate, and implement content types and Features following best practices. Content types present a consistent message, hasten user acceptance, promote MOSS creativity, and allow for growth of organizations. They empower users yet provide stability to the infrastructure.
- Understand what content types and Features are and how you can use them to add functionality to your SharePoint deployment following best practices
- Create and deploy site columns, content types throughout sites and site collections in an enterprise deployment
- Leverage content types for enhancing search, information architecture and taxonomy through SharePoint sites and lists.
- Create and deploy Features to add additional functionality to new and existing SharePoint sites based on user roles.
Enterprise Search Architecture and Best Practices
Successfully administer, configure, and deploy a robust search and indexing environment in SharePoint Server 2007 following the best practices. Successful search strategies will include at least some basic customizations but the focus must remain on ease of use and useful results. This session will cover search design considerations and best practices in implementing the feature for which SharePoint is best known: Search. We will also introduce some uses which will have your mind racing with the possibilities.
- Enterprise Search vision for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Overview and history of Microsoft Search Architecture and its future
- Relevance improvements in Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2007
- Enterprise Search architecture and best practices
- Protocol handlers, content sources, crawl rules, crawl logs, search alerts
- iFilters best practices
- Enterprise Search server roles
- Farm level enterprise search topologies
- Search operations to manage millions of items
Enterprise Search Administration
Successfully administer Enterprise Search and Indexing. 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 based on best practices.
- 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 and manage search scopes, best bets and keywords
- Configure editorial search results
- Configure crawl logging and search reporting
SharePoint Workflows
Workflow in SharePoint is an exciting new capability. However, it is a capability that is often misunderstood when it comes to the impact it has on your environment. For small environments, the out-of-the-box settings, configurations and architectural approach are probably sufficient. But what about an environment that will be processing thousands of documents per day? How can you make sure that those environments will not falter under the load, but still meet SLA’s for performance and responsiveness? This session will explore why focusing on your workflow subsystem is important, and cover the needs of a large scale workflow environment from the farm level down to individual workflow design specifications. Learn why all workflows need to be looked at in light of performance and scalability as well as how to build workflows that scale in an environment that scales, monitor workflow processing and overcome common obstacles. we explore how to automate common business tasks without programming, such as document review and approval using SharePoint, InfoPath Forms Services, browser-based forms and Windows Workflow. Participants learn to use the preconfigured workflow templates and how to design simple custom workflows.
- How to use workflows to enhance enterprise business processes following best practices
- Learn how to associate workflows with content throughout SharePoint Server 2007 sites and content types
- 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
Document Management
Customize and manage document libraries including adding content types, workflows, and versioning following the best practices and information architecture.
- Plan for enterprise document management
- Define and update metadata with site columns and document library columns
- Associate and Manage content types with document libraries
- Workflow administration for document management
- Concepts for planning and design for enterprise document management
Records Management
Plan, design and learn how to implement an enterprise level SOX compliant document and records management and document retention platform for your company Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Introduction to records management
- Best practices for implementing a document and records management system in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Configure and Manage an enterprise records repository
- Submitting records to the repository, Legal Holds, Records Routing
- Securing documents and personal data
- Electronic Discovery
- DoD 5015.2 Toolkit and Records Management Compliance
Web Authoring and Publishing
Web Content Management (Publishing) is a new capability added to SharePoint in the 2007 release. Following in the footsteps of Content Management Server 2002 the WCM capabilities of SharePoint offer a variety of customization opportunities for the developer or designer. But as with most new technologies it has taken time for Best Practices to emerge. In this session we’ll discuss customization Best Practices in the areas of branding, accessibility, field controls, layout pages, workflow, document conversion, and deployment. Along the way we’ll also suggest some guidelines for when to use SharePoint Designer and when to use Visual Studio to complete those customizations.
- MOSS 2007 Web Content Management Overview
- Solutions provided by Web Content Management features of SharePoint
- Web authoring for Extranets and Internet Web Portals
- Content caching, Rich Content Editor Web Part, Content Approvals and Routing
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
If Server 2007 is a critical component in an organization’s infrastructure, it is imperative to properly plan, design, implement, and maintain a data protection, recovery, and availability plan. Simply backing up and restoring via Central Administration is insufficient to fully restore data in all but the simplest implementations. Because SharePoint Server 2007 usually consists of multiple, interconnected systems and dependencies, we will focus on the planning and designing processes first, and then focus on the individual components that make up a SharePoint Server 2007 server farm. The following topics will be presented: Planning for recovery and availability, Designing for high availability, Backup and restore strategies, and Recovering from disasters.
- Recycle Bin Capabilities for Administrators
- Recovering part or all of the system following server or other failure.
- Reducing the risk of a disaster occurring by introducing redundancy.
- Testing and Validating all aspects of the disaster recovery strategy and business continuity
- Automation Scripts for MOSS 2007 backup processes and best practices
InfoPath Forms Services, Excel Services and Business Intelligence
Microsoft InfoPath 2007 forms can be published to document libraries in SharePoint Server Technology Driven Business Solutions 2007. These forms are then hosted by Forms Services within SharePoint Server 2007. How IT professionals and business analysts can drive business value they can bring to their organization with Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services, Excel Services & Business Intelligence (KPIs) and now need to understand the technical details on how to actually get it done. These forms are then hosted by Forms Services within SharePoint Server 2007.
- InfoPath Forms Services Architecture, forms security, and deployment best practices.
- Excel Services Architecture, forms security, and deployment best practices.
- Business Intelligence Architecture, forms security, and deployment best practices using KPI web parts and SQL Server Reporting Services
- Quick overview of PerformancePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Site Templates
This section discusses the various site templates that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This module not only illustrates each template, but it also explains how each template is connected to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 features and offers best practices on when to use each template.
- Various types of 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 templates.
- How to control the use of templates by controlling their availability.
SharePoint Web Parts
In addition to discussing the Web Parts that ship with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this module goes over how to install and configure individual Web Parts and the best practices on using and deploying them including custom web parts and 3rd party 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
