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SharePoint 2003 Training DVD: Fundamentals (v2.0) is intended for Administrators, Designers, Planners, Web Masters, and Managers.

More than a thousand administrators, system architects, and designers from companies such as Microsoft, Lexis Nexis, Intel, and Nucor attended the "Microsoft SharePoint: Become an Expert" class on which we based the content of training DVD. Below are some of the items that you will learn as part of the course:

• Course Overview
• Course Outline

• SharePoint features and how they differ in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Office Portal Server
• New features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and InfoPath that make SharePoint really useful
• Best practices for organizing Portal and WSS sites
• How to administer WSS sites and Portal areas content
• How to administer WSS sites and Portal areas security
• How to administer user profiles, active directory imports, and how to setup useful audiences
• The architectural foundation of SharePoint platform
• Differences between site definitions and site templates and advantages, disadvantages of using one or the other
• How to use FrontPage 2003 to change look and feel of SharePoint sites and create web parts that display information from various data sources as well as when not to use
• How and when to use various backup and restore tools
• How to setup search indices, content sources, and search scopes
• How to use Portal search to its full potential
• How to use out of box usage
• How to plan deployment, set up multiple portals, content databases
• How to administer virtual servers and set up stand alone site collections
• How to customize style sheets
• Best practices on how  to go through the SharePoint project from start to finish

Fundamentals

System Administration / Content Management / Design

1.  Functional Overview

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Site

• Document libraries
• Off the shelf lists
• Custom lists
• Discussion options
• Web parts and web pages
• Alerts
• Approval
• Search
• Site settings
• Site collection administration
• Office integration

Portal

• Navigation
• Area settings
• Area templates
• Listings
• Managing WSS content in areas
• Portal web parts
• Portal area and WSS site differences
• Typical urls
• Portal/WSS site content organization

My Site

• Profile
• “My Site” area
• WSS functionality
• Web parts

2.  Security

Functional Security

• Roles, groups, rights for WSS sites and portal
• List permissions
• List item level permissions
• Permission inheritance
• Authenticated users access 
• Anonymous access
• Users vs. user information list

Application Security

• IIS authentication
• Admin access
• Database access
• Firewall

3.  Profiles, Active, Directory and Audiences

• Profile properties
• Active Directory imports
• Creating audiences
• Using audiences in web parts, listings, and my site

4.  Architecture

Web/Application Server

• What is stored in the IIS metabase
• ISAPI filter
• ASP.NET handler
  • Direct Access
  • Safe Access
• Managed object model
• Unmanaged code

SQL Server

• Configuration database
  
• Content database
  
  • Core content: sites, webs, docs, lists, userdata tables
  • Document management
  • Alerts
• Best Practices

5.  Site Definitions and Custom Templates

Site Definitions overview

• Onet.xml
• Schema.xml
• Webtemp.xml
• CAML
• Making global changes
• Making global changes

Site Templates

• Site and list galleries within each site collection
• Save as template functionality
• Deployment
• Portal considerations
• Stsadm.exe addtemplate option
• Advantages and disadvantages of using site definitions and templates
• Microsoft recommended approach vs. making direct changes to site definitions

6.  FrontPage 2003

• Opening web sites for editing
• Design, code, and split views
• Data source catalog
• Data views
• Formatting in data views
• Web part connections - connected data views
• Ghosted/Unghosted pages
• Editing portal site areas

7.  Deployment

Server and database components

• Component assignments
• Database settings
• Multiple content databases
• Planning database size

Deployment Scenarios

• Stand alone WSS site collection
• Virtual servers that point to existing SharePoint virtual servers
• Shared Services
• Multiple portals
• Using one portal as my site portal
• Microsoft OTG case study
• Object model access<
• Throughput and scale limits

8.  Search

• Portal and WSS search comparison
• Portal alerts
• Advanced search
• Content sources and indices
• Content rules
• Crawl scheduling and update types
• Search and indexer performance
• Storage requirements
• Security
• Properties, keywords, scopes
• Noise words and thesaurus
• Using Get parameters to access search
• Manipulating search results web part
• Office research pane

9.  Usage Analysis

• Types of usage analysis
• Enabling log usage analysis and accessing through web interface
• Accessing usage reports through FrontPage 2003
• SPReport tool

10.  Backup and Recovery

• SharePoint database backup and restore tool
  • Backup and restores using user interface
  • Command line - spsbackup.exe
• Stsadm.exe - backup option and restore options
• Moving site collections
• Restoring a document or a list
• FrontPage 2003 backup site option
• Smigrate.exe - migrating SharePoint sites

11.  Extra Admin Topics

• Virtual Server General Settings
• Managing Templates and setting locks on site collections
• Deleting Unused Sites
• Managed paths
• Editing WSS and Portal stylesheets
• Installing 3rd party web parts

12.  Quick Deployment Guide

Initial Planning

• Core team definition
• Initial training
• Scope of the deployment
• Creating "Hello World" application

Pilot Deployment (single server, out box deployment)

• Define taxonomy
• Define document management
• Plan functional security for the portal
• Define area managers
• Define and import user profiles
• Plan search
• Plan the personal site
• Plan desktop strategy
• Define education strategy:
• Test pilot

13.  Other Resources

• Other resources
• Notable 3rd party solutions
• Useful links