SharePoint Server 2007: Introduction for Beginners (4 day)

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Course Overview

With the increasing amount of information distributed across organisations, there is a need for remote team collaboration and real-time document management. Microsoft SharePoint technologies provide a Web-based framework for addressing these critical challenges.

In this course, you acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design, deploy and utilise a real-world SharePoint solution for your organisation.

Audience

This course is valuable for those managing, developing or working in a collaborative environment who want to benefit from Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Familiarity with Windows, Office and the Web is assumed.

Skills Gained

• Implement team collaboration, information sharing and online communication with SharePoint
• Create and manage SharePoint sites
• Tailor Web content using Web Parts
• Interface Word, Excel, Outlook and InfoPath with SharePoint
• Customise the appearance of your SharePoint site using SharePoint Designer
• Leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to provide enterprise-level features

Course Outline

Overview of SharePoint Technologies

Information handling issues

• Maintaining information integrity
• Overcoming ineffective team coordination

Benefits of SharePoint

• Accessing data from a common source
• Efficient enterprise team collaboration
• Extending Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) with SharePoint Server 2007

Creating SharePoint Sites

Defining your site

• Selecting site types using the site creation wizard
• Assigning site membership

Maintaining your site

• Protecting sites with back up and restore
• Customising and updating site settings
• Removing inactive sites

Centralising and Managing Content

Leveraging Windows SharePoint Services

• News
• Events
• Surveys
• Lists
• Wizards
• Attachments

Storing documents

• Libraries: document, form, image
• Supporting various document types

Filtering library and list output

• Offering alternative views
• Generating user-defined fields

Targeting Content with Web Parts

Customising a page

• Arranging Web Parts with zones
• Selecting components from the gallery
• Setting custom properties
• Connecting related Web Parts

Installing a Web Part

• Benefiting from third-party providers
• Choosing deployment strategies

Collaborating with SharePoint

Sharing documents effectively

• Controlling access with check in/check out
• Tracking changes using version control

Integrating with Microsoft Office

• Achieving online document collaboration with Word
• Synchronising Excel and Access with SharePoint lists
• Coordinating schedules with Outlook

Enhancing team communications

• Building a Discussion Board
• Engaging in Web discussions
• Establishing workspaces within Microsoft Project Server

Consolidating Business Processes

Employing Microsoft InfoPath

• Simplifying form-based data entry
• Exploiting built-in templates

Publishing InfoPath forms to SharePoint

• Activating the form library
• Editing business-critical information

Modifying SharePoint Sites

Extending capabilities with SharePoint Designer

• Developing visually rich site interfaces
• Improving "out-of-the-box" page structure

Displaying dynamic data

• Referencing the data source catalogue
• Linking to multiple data sources
• Populating a data view

Transforming site layout

• Standardising layout with themes
• Providing a custom look and feel using templates

Expanding Functionality with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Traversing sites and content

• Indexing geographically dispersed content
• Targeting content using Audiences

Personalising enterprise information with SharePoint Server 2007 tools

• My Site
• My Calendar
• My Links
• My Inbox
• My Alerts

Adapting SharePoint Technologies to Your Environment

• Generating enterprise reports
• Consuming a Web service in SharePoint
• Architecting a SharePoint implementation strategy

SharePoint Server 2007: Introduction for Beginners (4 day) / MSP07-IN