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2 days |
Advanced Level |
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SharePoint for
Administrators is designed for IT professionals who
need to manage Windows SharePoint Services within an
organization. The course consists of both lecture
and accompanying lab time. Broad areas covered
include SharePoint farm architecture, installations,
server farm configuration, security and
administration of WSS. |
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This course is designed
for administrators, web designers or any IT
professional. |
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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.
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Install, using industry best practices,
Windows SharePoint Services
• Deploy
server farms
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Administer Windows SharePoint Services
sub-sites
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Administer and configure Windows SharePoint
Server
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Contingency plan using backup, restore and
disaster recovery functions |
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Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint
This module provides and introduction to Windows
SharePoint Services and discusses some basic
terminology that will be used throughout the course. |
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Licensing
• WSS
Terminology |
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Module 2: SharePoint Farm Architecture
This module discusses the architecture of a
SharePoint server farm including what the various
components are, the server farm roles are and
dependencies between them. |
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IIS Architecture
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Active directory
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SharePoint Architecture
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Farm Roles
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• SQL
2000
• SQL
2000 vs. MSDE
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Databases installed
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Module 3: Installation
This module discusses how to install the SharePoint
software including what base requirements are. Some
best practices for the installation will also be
discussed. |
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• Server
farm requirements
• SQL
2000
• IIS |
• Install
option for WSS
• Best
practices for install |
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Module 4: Server Farm Components
This module discusses the SharePoint 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. |
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Small Farm
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IIS Virtual Server
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DNS and host headers
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Website path
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Application pools
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• Central
administration
• WSS
• Virtual
server configuration
• Create
new top-level WSS site
• 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 |
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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. |
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Scale out
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Job server role
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Web server roles
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Network load balancing
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Medium Server farm scenarios
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Large server farm scenarios
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Server hardware recommendations
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Server capacity planning
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Performance monitoring
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Module 6: Security Administration
This module describes in detail all the security
administration tasks. |
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Permission sets
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WSS permissions
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Central administration 'Manage user rights
for virtual server'
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Site groups
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Built-in site groups
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Custom site groups
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Cross site groups
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List security permissions
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Change permissions
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Change anonymous access
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Manage request access
• Modify
item-level security
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Guest site permissions
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Site collection
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Manage my information
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View site collection user information
• IIS
Virtual Server
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Authentication
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Anonymous
• WSS
site anonymous settings
• List
anonymous settings
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Certificates |
• WSS
site security
• WSS
permissions
• Manage
users
• Manage
sites and workspaces
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Configure site and workspace creation
• Go to
site administration
• Manage
site groups
• Manage
anonymous access
• Manage
cross site groups
• Manage
access requests
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Sub-sites
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Permission inheritance
• Manage
cross site groups
• 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
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Configure antivirus settings |
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Module 7: WSS Sub-Site Administration
This module describes in detail all the
administration tasks for WSS sub-sites. |
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Customization
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Change site title and description
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Apply theme to site
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Modify site content
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Customize home page
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Manage my information
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Update my information
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My alerts on this site
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View information about site users
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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 |
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Module 8: WSS Site Collection Administration
This module describes in detail all administration
tasks for WSS site collections. |
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Site collection Galleries
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Manage web part gallery
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Manage list template gallery
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Manage site template gallery |
• Site
collection administration
• View
site hierarchy
• View
site collection usage summary
• View
storage space allocation
• View
site collection user information
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Configure connection to portal site |
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Module 9: Server Administration
This module describes all the administration tasks
for SharePoint Servers. Some of the major topics
include: Component configuration settings, and
server farm backup and restore |
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Central administration
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WSS
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Component configuration
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Configure full-text search
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Configure usage analysis processing
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Manage quotas and locks
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Configure data retrieval service settings
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• Farm
backup & restore
• Backup
tools available
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Smigrate.exe
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Stsadm.exe
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FrontPage 2003
• SQL
2000 database backup
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Components to be backed up
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Disaster recovery Strategies |
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