• All the topics covered from the Fundamentals and Administration DVDs.
• How to develop ASP.NET applications that work with SharePoint object model
• Details of most widely used sections of the object model (site collections, sites, lists, lists items, fields, user profiles, web applications)
• How to make custom ASP.NET pages look and feel adhere to rest of the SharePoint pages by using master pages
• Impersonation in SharePoint
• How to use CAML in the classes such as SPSiteDataQuery
• How to develop applications that use event handlers
• How to develop and deploy web parts
• How to add web part properties, custom tool parts and web part connections
• How to develop and deploy features
• The project structure for the feature that is composed of multiple features with element manifests for fields, content types, lists, and custom forms and has activation logic
• How to build custom queries and result sets for Office search
• How to access business data catalog through the api
• How to develop and deploy workflow templates in Visual Studio

Part 1 - Fundamentals

Content Management / Site Collection Administration

• Navigation
• Site collection, sites, lists
• List columns and views
• Versioning
• Draft/publishing versioning model
• Email notifications and list emails
• Web parts
• Standard vs. published web part pages
• Content query web part
• Managing personal site and user profile
• Search syntax from end user perspective

• Authentication vs. authorization
• Site Level Security
  • Permissions
  • Permission levels
  • Active Directory users and groups
  • SharePoint groups
• List, folder list item security
• Security Principals
• Limitations

• Opening items in Outlook (offline)
  • Calendar
  • Tasks
  • Contacts
  • Document libraries
• InfoPath Form Publishing
• Importing lists from excel
• Excel Services and dashboard pages
• KPI (key performance indicator) lists

• Site columns
  • Creating/updating/propagating
  • Scopes
• Content types
  • Creating/updating/propagating
  • Content types settings
• Information management policies
  • Labeling
  • Auditing
  • Expiration
  • Using with content types
• Workflow
  • Out of box vs. SharePoint Designer vs. Visual Studio
  • Standard workflow templates
  • Association
  • Initiation and status
  • Relation to content types

• Manage content and structure tool
• Recycle bin
• List and site templates
  • Creating new
  • List and site collection galleries
  • Examining Microsoft templates
• Features from site administrator perspective
• Site directory and self-service site collection creation
• What SharePoint does not share between site collections
• Modifying site image and theme

• Editing look and feel
  • Customized/uncustomized pages
  • Master/content pages
  • Safe vs. application pages and problems that they cause
  • CSS Stylesheets customization
• working with external data sources
  • SQL databases
  • Lists on other sites
  • Data view configuration
• building workflows
  • Creating new
  • Examining workflows from Microsoft templates

• Publishing infrastructure and publishing features
• Publishing content types
• Page layouts and fields controls
• Page layout association with content type
• Custom content types
• Using SharePoint Designer to modify page layouts
• Publishing process
• Customizing content query web part look and feel
• Customizing master pages

• Set up of "ABC Company" site collection and navigation
• Secure "ABC Company" site collection
• Set up document management for "ABC Company"
  • Document libraries
  • Content types
  • Document center site publishing

Part 2 - Administration

System Administration / Architecture

• Topology
  • Servers in farm
  • Services on server
• Global configuration
• Application security
• Web application management
  • What is a web application, application pool in IIS, SharePoint, impersonation vs. process account
  • What is the basic database organization in SharePoint databases and why we need multiple content databases for the same web application
  • Content database tables
  • Create or extend or delete web application
  • Remove SharePoint from IIS web site
  • Assignment permissions to users for the entire web application
• SharePoint Site Management
  • Create and delete site collections
• Intranet/extranet deployment scenarios
• Shared services provider configuration

• Full URL rendering
• Zones, public URLs, internal URLs
• Authentication considerations
• Load balancing considerations

• User profiles
  • Import from Active Directory
  • Creating new properties
• Audiences
  • Creating audiences
  • Using audiences in pages, web parts, and list items

• Search architecture
• Content sources and schedules
• Crawl rules and security
• Properties and scopes
• Relevance inclusions / keywords / logging
• Customizing search center and web parts

• What has changed
• New feature architecture
• How to use features as administrators
• Simple feature
• Solutions

• Creating applications definitions
• Using single sign on credentials in SharePoint Designer

• Lob systems, entities, properties, and methods
• Authorization
• Delegation vs. RevertToSelf authentication

• What to backup
• Backup method descriptions and limitations
• MOSS backup and restore tool through user interface and stsadm command-line
• Individual site collection backup and restore through stsadm command-line
• Third party solutions

• Basics of upgrade processes
• Step by step process of manual content database migration

• Initial planning: define the team and the scope for the first stage of deployment
• Pilot deployment as an intranet: focus on collaboration, document management and portal features
• Test deployment on production hardware: plan capacity and figure out server farm structure
• Production deployment
• Beyond the initial stages

• Examining prerequisites
  • Application server role
  • Domain controller role
  • SQL server
  • Email
• Installing SharePoint files and central administration site
  • Initial parameters
  • Using the wizard
  • Browsing through central administration iste
• Configuring services
• Creating shared services provider
• Creating end-user web application and a site collection
• Configuring Shared Services provider
  • User profiles
  • Search
  • Business data catalog
  • Excel services

Part 3 - Development Outline

Developement / Architecture

• Site collection organization
• List data manipulation
• Security
• Global Administration

• ASP.NET impersonation basics
• Using SharePoint impersonation api

• Examining the default master page for SharePoint
• Creating new Master Pages
• Using SPGrid and other SharePoint controls
• Using SPSiteData

• Basic web part development in SharePoint 2007
• Web part class details
• Editors
• CreateChildControls
• User controls
• Web part manager
• Deployment
• Security

• Synchronous
• Asynchronous
• Deployment

• Visual Studio project structure for feature development
• Fields feature
• Content type features
• List feature
• List feature activation logic
• Custom forms for a content type
• Changing the item template for a custom form
• Solution deployment: building a solution package

• Building a custom search query in a web part
• Advantages over using scopes

• Business data catalog architecture
• LOB (Line of Business) System objects, entities, identifiers, methods
• Using business data catalog API and writing custom web parts

• Using Visual Studio 2005 to build workflows
• Building custom workflow with InfoPath forms
• Workflow api