SharePoint Server 2007: Application Development

Course Overview

Our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) training course has been designed to give developers everything they need to know to begin using SharePoint 2007 to create commercial collaboration and portal projects.

The course is founded upon the extensive real-world implementation experience of our course authors, and also takes into account feedback from real developers about the topics they need to cover to meet deadlines with good solid architecture and code. This course has been developed for real-world, commercial scenarios by our expert instructors. See below for detailed syllabus.

Audience

Developers who wish to learn the essentials of Sharepoint 2007

Skills Gained

• Planning a SharePoint implementation
• Installing SharePoint Server and Services
• Administration essentials for developers
• Working with the Search Engine
• Customizing the Search Engine
• Audiences
• Excel Services
• Business Data Catalog
• Personalization with My Site
• Branding and Customization
• Developing Web Parts
• Workflows

Hands On Exercises

The course will contain a substantial amount of Hands-On work. Delegates will be introduced to topics during theory sessions and these will be followed by lab exercises relating to the topic. Delegates will work on practical exercises which will reflect commercial scenarios.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our ASP.NET 2.0 training course (which will also give you a thorough introduction to either C# or VB.NET programming) or have equivalent experience developing ASP.NETapplications in Visual Studio 2005. No previous SharePoint experience is assumed.

Course Outline

Introduction to WSS 3.0 and SPS 2007

• Overview of MOSS and the solutions it provides including a review of WSS and SPS

Planning a SharePoint implementation

• Reviewing the hardware configuration options
• Creating a development environment.
• Resources available to help design, plan, and document MOSS sites
• People, permissions, lists, web parts and workflows

Extending Shared Services

• Working with and customising Search Services
• How to crawl content sources
• Inclusion of non-Microsoft file types
• Creation and management of scopes
• Use of Best Bets and Keywords
• Analysis of Site Usage.
• Working with Audiences
• Importing AD users to Profile Database,
• Create Audiences
• Target web parts to Audiences.
• Analysis and creation of MySite
• Implementation of Personalization sites
• Excel Services
• Publishing of Workbooks
• Creating trusted file locations
• Connecting to Excel Services via Web Services
• Business Data Catalog
• Creating a custom solution using the MS BDC tool
• Implementation of Business Data Web Parts

Configuration of out-of-the box features

• Creating Custom Content Types
• Assigning multiple types to the same library
• Auditing and Archiving Solutions for Documents
• Business Intelligence Solutions
• Writing a Content Management Solution with Publishing

Customizing and Branding WSS/SPS sites and lists

• Structure of the physical SharePoint installation
• Files that make up a site
• Customisation of files
• Creation of new site and list templates
• Controlling site content
• Review of CAML
• How features work
• Replacing a built-in Feature with a custom Feature

Targeting content with Web Parts

• Creation of a simple web part
• Creation of complex web part using Security for web parts

Exploiting Workflow capabilities

• Implementation of SharePoint Workflows, using SharePoint Designer
• Implementation of Workflow in Visual Studio

SharePoint Server 2007: Application Development / MOSS010