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Mastering SharePoint Server 2007 Administration

Duration:
5 Days

Overview:
This intense 5-day instructor led course enables students to design, implement, and manage a SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure.

Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • SharePoint Architecture
  • Plan and Install SharePoint (Central Administration, SSP, MySites, and Portal).
  • Administer a SharePoint Implementation.
  • Create and Manage additional Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites, Pages
  • Implement Incoming and Outgoing E-mail
  • Search Configuration / Optimization
  • User Profile Configuration/ Management
  • Audience Creation, Audience Targeting configuration
  • Managing SharePoint Timer Jobs
  • Including Additional Functionality in SharePoint (Features/Solutions)
  • Backup and Restore (i.e. what does it take to have a full fidelity backup)
  • Managing Content Databases
  • Managing Workflow
  • Managing InfoPath Forms Services (Administrator Approved InfoPath Forms)
  • Configuring and Managing Security to best Effect (Configuring Dual Authentication Providers, CA/SSP/Portal Security, SSL, Anonymous Access, etc.)
  • (Bonus Chapter) Publishing Sites (Bonus Lab) Publishing Site walkthrough
  • Tips and Tricks to make your SharePoint implementation easier
  • Issues and problems to avoid (i.e. Gotchas with installation and management of your SharePoint architecture)
  • Best Practices for SharePoint

Audience:

Experienced system administrators, developers, and system engineers that need to design, deploy and administer SharePoint Server 2007.

Prerequisites:

Students must have at least one year experience with SharePoint 2003 or have taken the SharePoint Site Collection Owner/Team Site Administrator class.  Additionally students must have experience administrating a network environment running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory.  It is also very helpful for students to have a background in SQL Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), basic Web design and network security; and a basic understanding of XML and Office 2007 applications is highly recommended.

 

Outline:

1.0 Central Administration Screen Shots

 

1.1 Introduction to the Central Administration Interface

1.2 Operations Page

1.3 Application Management Page

1.4 Shared Services Administration Page

 

2.0 SharePoint Architectural Overview

 

2.1 SharePoint 2007 Terminology

2.2 Basic Logical Architecture of SharePoint

3.0 Preparing MOSS 2007 Installation

3.1 Determine Office SharePoint Server Hardware and Software Requirements

3.2 Server Farm Installation

3.3 Installation Overview

3.3.1 Suggested Topologies

4.0 MOSS 2007 Deployment Overview/Deploy & Configure Sever Infrastructure

4.1 Deployment Process Overview

4.2 MOSS Infrastructure Security Account Requirements

4.3 Prepare the Database Server

4.4 Install and Configure Internet Information Services 6.0

4.5 Run SharePoint Office Server 2007 Setup and Build the Farm

4.6 Run Setup on the First Server

4.7 Add the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to the list of trusted sites

4.8 Configure proxy server settings to bypass the proxy server for local addresses

4.9 Add Servers to the Farm

4.10 Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service (optional)

4.11 Stop the Central Administration service on all index servers

4.12 Stop the Central Administration service on an index server

4.13 Disable the WSS V3.0 Web Application service on all servers not serving content

5.0 Phase 2: Create and Configure a Shared Services Provider

5.1 Phase 2: Create and Configure a Shared Services

5.2 Start the Office SharePoint Server Search Service

5.3 Start the Office SharePoint Server Search service on query servers

5.4 Starting Excel Calculation Services

5.5 Create a Web Application to Host the SSP and Create the SSP (see also section 5.6)

5.6 Manage a Farm's Shared Services Providers

5.7 Perform Additional Configuration Tasks

6.0 Phase 3: Create The First Site Collection and SharePoint Site (Quick Start)

6.1 Phase 3: Create the First Site Collection and SharePoint Site (Quick Start Directions

6.2 Create a New Web Application

6.3 Create a Site Collection

6.4 Create a SharePoint Site

7.0 Immediate Post-Install Configuration Tasks

7.1 Additional Configuration tasks immediately after installation

7.2 Configure Diagnostic Logging

7.2.3Configure the trace log to save seven days of events

7.3 Configure a Master Site Directory to contain all Site Collections

7.4 Configure site directory links scan

7.4.1Use the command line to schedule the site directory links scan to run automatically

7.5 Antivirus Settings in SharePoint

7.6 Internet Explorer Configuration

7.6.3Group Policy for Internet Explorer

7.7 Setting a Default Quota Template for all Site Collections in a Web Application

7.8 Configure Web application general settings

7.9 Analyzing Site Usage

7.10 Manage unused Web sites

7.11 Manage blocked file types

7.12 Configure security settings for Web Part pages

7.13 Configuring the display of the !New icon in SharePoint

7.14 Configuring MySites Web Application for Use

8.0 Creating and Managing Web Applications and Sites

8.1 Create or extend a Web application

8.2 Extend a Web application

8.3 Change the application pool identity for a Web application

8.4 Unextend a Web application

8.5 Delete a Web application

8.6 Define managed paths

9.0 Sites/Workspaces vs. Site Collections vs. Pages

9.1 Introduction to Sites/Workspaces vs. Site Collections vs. Pages

9.2 What is a Workspace?

9.3 Other Collaboration Site Templates

9.4 What is a Page?.

9.5 Plan the Structure of Site Collections and Sites

9.6 Save site customizations as site templates

9.7 Create a Site General Information

9.7.1Create a Site Overview

9.8 Creating a new Site Collection and the Top-Level Site

9.9 Create a Sub Site Under the Portal

9.10 Delete a site collection

9.11 Configure Self-Service Site Creation (two layers)

9.12 Edit Site Navigation

10.0 Integrating E-mail into SharePoint

10.1 Integrating E-mail with Your Sites

10.2 Configure outgoing e-mail

10.3 Configure incoming e-mail

11.0 Search Configuration / Optimization

11.1 Manage Search Service

11.2 Search Terminology

11.3 Search Architecture

11.4 Important Caveats to the Search Process

11.5 Managing Farm-Level Search Settings (Central Administration)

11.6 Manage crawler impact rules

11.7 Configure Search and Indexing (SSP configured)

11.7.1Manage crawl rules

11.8 Configure default content access account

11.9 Additional Content Sources

11.10 Manage server name mappings

11.11 How to Include Additional Document Types in the Search Process (SSP)

11.12 Manage metadata property mappings

11.13 Configure search-based alerts

11.14 Reset crawled content

11.15 Removing URLs immediately from Search Results

11.16 Thesaurus Configuration

11.17 Site Collection Stemming

11.18 Noise Word Filtering

11.19 Keywords

11.20 View crawl logs

11.21 Configuring Search Scopes

11.22 Configuring SharePoint Site Collections to utilize new Search Scopes

11.23 Automating SSP Scope Deployment (SSPScopeDeploy)

11.24 Configure authoritative pages

11.25 Review Search Usage Data

12.0 User Profile: Directory Services / Business Data Catalog Connections

12.1 Manage connections to directory services/Business Data Catalogs

12.2 Configuring a Directory Services Connection

13.0 Manage Users, User Profiles, and Audiences

13.1 User Profile Utilization Breakdown (a.k.a. how to get to Audience Targeting in three simple steps)

13.2 Configure profile properties

13.3 View profile properties

13.4 Add a new profile property

13.5 Create a new section

13.6 Manage user profiles

13.7 Manage audience rules

13.8 Target Content to Specific Audiences

14.0 Manage SharePoint timer jobs

14.1 Timer Job basics

14.2 Check the status of a timer service job

14.3 Edit a timer job definition

14.4 Creating New Timer Jobs

15.0 Features and Solutions

15.1 Features in SharePoint

15.2 Solutions *.wsp

16.0 Backing Up and Restoring

16.1 General Information on Backup

16.2 Maintaining versions of files or items

16.3 Two-Stage Recycle Bin

16.4 Site Based Recycle Bin (Add On)

16.5 Backing Up and Restoring Sites and Servers from Central Administration

16.6 Restore from backups

16.7 Backing Up and Restoring Site Collections Using stsadm

16.8 Using the stsadm.exe -o backup Operation

16.9 Using the stsadm -o Restore Operation

16.10 Command Line Site Migration smigrate or stsadm -o

16.11 Interesting combinations of stsadm.exe disaster recovery tools

16.12 Server Level Backup or What did SharePoint Backup Tools Forget?

17.0 Managing Data

17.1 Configuring Data Settings

17.2 Adding content databases

17.3 Using stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb

18.0 Manage Workflow Settings

18.1 Workflow Basics Primer

18.2 Workflows that are included in Office SharePoint Server 2007

18.3 Support for custom workflows

18.4 Steps involved in using workflows

18.5 Workflow Example (workflow to manage content approval for a library)

18.6 Central Administration Configuration of Workflow Settings

19.0 Managing Forms

19.1 A Primer on InfoPath Forms Services

19.2 Manage Form Templates (Administrator Approved InfoPath Forms)

19.3 Upload or upgrade a form template

19.4 Activate Form Templates

19.5 Deactivate Form Templates

19.6 Quiesce a Form Template

20.0 Configuring and Managing Security

20.1 Managing Users and Permissions

20.2 Configure authentication providers (a.k.a. Zones)

20.3 Configure External Access using a Separate Authentication Mechanism

20.4 Understand permissions and permission levels (including SSP and CA)

20.5 Default Permission Structure in SharePoint (including SSP and CA)

20.6 Manage Central Administration site users

20.7 Manage SSP site security

20.8 Owners vs. Site Collection Administrators

20.9 Take and revert Administration of a site collection via Central Administration

20.10 Manage site collection administrators (including SSP and CA)

20.11 Manage permissions for a Web application

20.12 Manage Permission Levels in a Web Application through policy

20.13 Site Collection Permissions

21.0 Publishing Portal (CMS replacement)

21.1 Publishing Portal Basics (bonus Content)

22.0 Labs

*Content, days, and times vary depending on your location. Please view the outline prior to purchase or contact the local center for more information.