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SharePoint 2007 Training DVD Fundamentals is intended for Content Managers, Site Collection Administrators, Designers, Architects, and Managers.

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

• Core SharePoint features - sites and site collections, lists, columns, views, site, version control, notification mechanisms, web parts, search, personal sites, and user profiles.
• How to administer security
• The importance of content types and their relationship to features such as site columns, workflows, information management policies, and content query web part
• Out of box workflow management
• How to create workflows in SharePoint Designer
• New integration features in Office 2007
• How to use InfoPath to design and publish forms to InfoPath Form Services
• How to use Excel to design and publish reports to Excel Services
• How to administer site collection content, site templates, features, themes, and recycle bin
• How to use sites directory template
• Web content management and publishing features management
• How to use SharePoint Designer to change look and feel of SharePoint sites and create web parts that display information from various data sources
• How to use business data catalog features
• How to use document center as publishing location
• How to create a site collection mapped to organizational structure from start to finish

Fundamentals

Content Management / Site Collection Administration

1.  Sites, Lists, and Web Part Basics

• 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

2.  Security: Authorization

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

3.  Office Integration

• 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

4.  Advanced Document Management

• 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

5.  Site collection administration

• 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

6.  SharePoint Designer

• 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

7.  Web Content Management

• 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

8.  Final Project

• 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