SharePoint for Administrators
 SHAREPOINT PORTAL SERVER 2003		 $ 2,400 4 days Advanced Level

SharePoint for Administrators is designed for IT professionals who need to manage SharePoint Portal Server within an organization. The course consists of both lecture and accompanying lab time. Broad areas covered include SharePoint Portal Server farm architecture, installations, server farm configuration, security and server administration.

Target Audience:

  

This course is designed for administrators, web designers or any IT professional.

Prerequisites:

  
SharePoint for Business Users or a similar course is required for this course. This is not an introductory course and students require basic competence with SharePoint.

At the end of this course the student will be able to ...

  

• Install, using industry best practices, SharePoint Portal Server
 • Deploy server farms
 • Administer Windows SharePoint Services sub-sites
 • Administer portal areas, portals and SharePoint servers
 • Contingency plan using backup, restore and disaster recovery functions
Course Outline:  
Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint Portal

This module provides and introduction to Windows SharePoint Services and discusses some basic terminology that will be used throughout the course.

• Licensing
• WSS Terminology

Module 2: SharePoint Farm Architecture

This module discusses the architecture of a SharePoint Portal server farm including what the various components are, the server farm roles are and dependencies between them.

• IIS Architecture
• Active directory
• SharePoint Architecture
     • Farm Roles

• SQL 2000
     • SQL 2000 vs. MSDE
     • Databases installed
Module 3: Installation

This module discusses how to install the Portal software including what base requirements are. Some best practices for the installation will also be discussed.

• Server farm requirements
     • SQL 2000
     • IIS

• Install option for SPS with WSS
• Best practices for install
Module 4: Server Farm Components

This module discusses the SharePoint Portal server farm in detail. All components of the server farm will be discussed including describing the relationships with each other, dependencies and common configuration options/strategies. Server farms configuration, for both WSS and SPS will be described along with all the relevant farm 'administration' screens.

• Small Farm
• IIS Virtual Server
     • DNS and host headers
     • Website path
     • Application pools
• Network Topologies
     • Extranet
     • Firewalls
• Central administration
     • SPS
          • Server configuration
               • Configure server topology
               • Configure configuration database server
               • Specify component settings database server
               • Specify content database server
               • Configure e-mail server settings
               • Configure Server Farm account settings
          • Portal site and virtual server configuration
               • Create a portal site
               • List and manage portal sites
               • Extend an existing virtual server from the virtual server list page
               • Configure virtual server settings from the virtual server list page
               • Configure site quotas and locks from the virtual server list page
               • Configure alternate portal site URL for intranet, extranet and custom
     • WSS
          • Virtual server configuration
               • Create new Portal
               • Extend a VS (stand alone WSS site collection)
               • Extend and map a VS (second URL to existing VS)
               • Managed Paths
               • Virtual Server properties
          • Server configuration
Module 5: Server Farm Scenarios

This module focuses on the various Server Farm deployment scenarios and describes how 'server farm scale out' can be achieved. This module will discuss strategies for the farm and the various server roles including Network Load balancing. Other server farm topics such as shared services will be discusses as well as farm capacity planning.

• Scale out
• Job server role
• Index server role
• Search server role
• Web server roles
• Network load balancing
• Medium Server farm scenarios

• Large server farm scenarios
• Shared Services
• Interfarm services
• Server hardware recommendations
• Server capacity planning
• Performance monitoring
Module 6: Security Administration

This module describes in detail all the security administration tasks.

• Permission sets
     • WSS permissions
     • SPS permissions
     • Central administration 'Manage user rights or virtual server'
• Site groups
     • Built-in site groups
     • Custom site groups
• Cross site groups
• WSS site security
     • WSS permissions
     • Manage users
     • Manage sites and workspaces
     • Configure site and workspace creation
     • Go to site administration
          • Manage site groups
          • Manage anonymous access
          • Manage cross site groups
          • Manage access requests
     • Sub-sites
          • Permission inheritance
          • Manage cross site groups
• List security permissions
     • Change permissions
     • Change anonymous access
          • Manage request access
          • Modify item-level security
     • Guest site permissions
• Site collection
     • Manage my information
     • View site collection user information

 • Portal security
     • SPS permissions
     • Manage users
     • Manage security and additional settings
          • Manage Users, site groups, anonymous access
          • Show user information
     • Relationship to WSS Site collections
• Portal Area security
     • Area permissions
     • Permission granularity
• IIS Virtual Server
     • Authentication
     • Anonymous
          • WSS site anonymous settings
          • List anonymous settings
          • Portal area anonymous settings
     • Certificates
• Farm security with Central administration
     • Purpose of Central administration
     • WSS
          • Set SharePoint administrators group
          • Manage site collection owners
          • Manage website users
          • Manage blocked file types
          • Configure antivirus settings
     • SPS Security configuration
Module 7: WSS Sub-Site Administration

This module describes in detail all the administration tasks for WSS sub-sites.

• Customization
     • Change site title and description
     • Apply theme to site
     • Modify site content
     • Customize home page
• Manage my information
     • Update my information
     • My alerts on this site
     • View information about site users

 • Management and statistics
     • Save site as template
     • View site usage data
     • Manage sites and workspaces
     • Manage web discussions
     • Manage user alerts
     • Change regional settings
     • Delete this site
Module 8: WSS Site Collection Administration

This module describes in detail all administration tasks for WSS site collections.

• Site collection Galleries
     • Manage web part gallery
     • Manage list template gallery
     • Manage site template gallery

 • Site collection administration
     • View site hierarchy
     • View site collection usage summary
     • View storage space allocation
     • View site collection user information
     • Configure connection to portal site
Module 9: Portal Area Administration

This module describes in details all the administration tasks for Portal Areas.

• Create Sub area
• Change Settings
     • General
     • Publishing
     • Page
     • Display
     • Search
• Manage Users / Security
     • Manage users
     • Area Security Scope
     • Lists Permissions

• Manage Content
     • Portal Listings
     • Add Listing
     • Grouping and Ordering
     • Manage Listing Groups
• Manage Portal Site
• Area Templates
• Area Specific Web-parts
     • Area Contents
     • Area Details
     • Grouped Listings
Module 10: Portal Administration

This module describes in details all the administration tasks for Portal Server. Some of the major topics include: Portal site content, searching and indexing, and user profiles and audiences.

 •Search
       •Architecture
       •Search settings and indexed content
       •Configure search and indexing
            •Advanced administration mode
            •Content sources
                  •Add content sources
                  •Source groups
                  •Include & exclude options
             •Site Directory
                  •Manage crawls of site directory
                   •Add link to site
              •Content indexes
                   •Add content index
                   •Manage content index
              •General content settings and indexing status
                   •Manage search schedules
                   •Manage search scopes
                   •Include field types
                   •Server name mappings
       •Manage search scopes
       •Use search scopes from another portal
       •Manage properties from crawled documents
       •Manage crawls of site directory
      •Manage keywords

 •Portal Site Content
        •Manage portal site structure
        •Manage top-level lists and documents
        •Use Topic Assistant
        •Manage targeted links on My Site
        •Import Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001 data
•User profile, audiences and personal sites
        •Manage profile database
               •Add user profile
               •Import user profiles from Active Directory
               •Add custom profile properties
               •Manage profile properties
        •Manage audiences
               •Audience creation
               •Audience rules
               •Audience compilation
        •Manage personal sites
Module 11: Server Administration

This module describes all the administration tasks for SharePoint Servers. Some of the major topics include: Component configuration settings, single sign-on, and server farm backup and restore.

• Central administration
        •WSS
        •Component configuration
            •Configure full-text search
            •Configure usage analysis processing
            •Manage quotas and locks
            •Configure data retrieval service settings
 • Farm backup & restore
         •Backup tools available
            •Smigrate.exe
            •Stsadm.exe
            •Spsbackup.exe
            •FrontPage 2003
            •SQL 2000 database backup
        •Components to be backed up
        •Disaster recovery Strategies

•SPS
       •Component Configuration
            •Manage the search service
            •Manage settings for single sign-on
            •Manage shared services for the server
            •Configure usage analysis processing
            •Configure HTML viewer
            •Configure diagnostic settings
       •Single Sign-on
            •Architecture
            •Application configuration
            •Manage settings
            •Linking to user accounts
            •Development requirements