Course Length:

4 Days

Course Description:

This 4-day class combines ‘Site Member’ and ‘Site Owner’ courses, to provide comprehensive training that will present students with a ground-up understanding for how to use, operate and build sites in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment. Students first learn about site navigation, data storage and retrieval through instructor-led modules covering navigation, search and effective use of lists and libraries. Building on this information, students then take a deeper dive into site administration, learning how to create and manage sites, lists, libraries, views and workflows. Security and rights administration are also covered. Functional concepts and best practices are interwoven into the material, providing a framework for the topics discussed. This course is oriented to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, but is also applicable to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Purpose

Who Should Attend:

This course combines focus and understanding for those contributing to, building, or managing MOSS 2007 sites, MOSS 2007 users who want to develop a better understanding of how to efficiently find content, use and contribute to collaborative sites, MOSS 2007 users who are responsible for managing one or more sites or site components, such as lists and libraries, and Help Desk personnel who provide support to end users that use or manage MOSS 2007 sites.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the use, creation and management of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites.
• Effectively navigate and contribute content within the framework of a collaborative environment.
• Build and manage site components, structured around efficient maintenance and consumption.
• Understand core best practices provide students with context for employment of the functionality taught.

Prerequisites:

Students taking this course should have basic knowledge of Microsoft Office 2007 products and be familiar with Internet Explorer.

Course Outline:

• Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  1. Overview of SharePoint
  2. Get Started in SharePoint
  3. Search for Content
  4. Use Alerts
  5. Welcome User Links
  6. Personalize SharePoint Page
• Module 2: Work with Lists
  1. How to add and modify content
  2. Overview of Default Lists and List Templates
  3. Add, Modify and Delete Content in SharePoint Lists
  4. Sort and Filter Content
  5. Advanced List Features
  6. Use Default and Custom Views
  7. Connect a List to Microsoft Outlook
• Module 3: Work with Document Libraries
  1. Overview of Document Libraries
  2. Create and Upload Documents
  3. View and Edit Documents and Document Properties
  4. Document Management Features
  5. Use Workflows in a Document Library
• Module 4: Lists and Libraries
  1. Create Lists and Libraries
  2. Manage List and Library settings
  3. Create and manage individual list and library columns and Site Columns
  4. Create and manage of Views
• Module 5: Customize SharePoint Sites Using Web Parts
  1. Introduction to Web Parts
  2. Add, close, and delete Web Parts
  3. Customize Web Part properties
  4. Web Parts that allow content targeting
• Module 6: Create Sites and Web Pages
  1. Create new sites
  2. Create Basic and Web Part Pages
• Module 7: Secure SharePoint Sites
  1. Introduction to SharePoint Security
  2. Manage User Access to SharePoint Sites
  3. Manage SharePoint Groups and Users
  4. Best practices for assigning permissions in SharePoint
• Module 8: Manage the Look and Feel of Sites
  1. Customize the site title, description, and icon
  2. Configure navigation settings
  3. Left Navigation Panel Options
  4. Apply site themes
  5. Create site templates
• Module 9: Manage Workflows
  1. Overview of workflows
  2. Workflow administration
  3. Build custom workflows
• Module 10: Content Types
  1. Overview of Content Types
  2. Create New Content Types
  3. Add Columns to Content Types
  4. Associate Content Types with Workflows
• Module 11: Site Administration
  1. Introduction to site administration settings
  2. Manage regional settings
  3. View site usage data
  4. Manage user alerts
  5. Manage RSS Usage
  6. Manage sites and workspaces
  7. Site Features
• Module 12: Use Collaborative Sites
  1. Document Workspaces
  2. Meeting Workspaces
  3. Wiki Sites
  4. Blog Sites
• Module 13: Effective Use of My Sites
  1. Benefits and creation of a My Site
  2. Navigation and modification of a My Site
  3. Use a My Site to advertise information about yourself
  4. Collaborate with colleagues
  5. Keep track of content
  6. Use a My Site to store personal and public files
  7. Office 2007 integration with a My Site
  8. Using Outlook Web Access Web Parts
  9. Best practices for using a My Site