SharePoint 2003 Training DVD Development

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

More than a thousand system architects, developers, and administrators 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
Outline - Part 1
Outline - Part 2

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

Develpment Topics

How to develop ASP.NET applications that work with WSS and Portal object models
Details of most widely used sections of the object model (sites, websites, lists, lists items, fields, user profiles, virtual servers)
How to make custom ASP.NET pages look and feel adhere to rest of the SharePoint pages
How to develop and deploy web parts that access SharePoint object model, external databases and web services.
How to add web part properties, custom tool parts and web part connections
How to reuse custom user controls and place web parts in web forms
Code security and performance
How to extend out of box usage analysis
How to modify site definitions; change look and feel, add items to context menus, and add new columns and views to lists
How to use CAML in the object model
Design patterns in Portal and WSS site definitions
How to build custom queries and result sets for portal search
Impersonation issues and using application pool account to access SQL databases
How to develop applications that use document library events and how to extend workflow using document library events
How to administer single sign on and how to build web parts that use single sign on object model

Part 1 - 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

Part 2 - Development

Development / System Architecture

14. Developing ASP.NET Applications for SharePoint

Types of customizations
Creating "Hello World" application
Working with SharePoint object model
- Viewing and updating List data
- Setting Alerts
Displaying User Profile properties
- Working with areas and listings
Debugging applications
Using stylesheets in ASPX pages
Examining "Content Rating" application
Code security
Code performance
Object model references