SharePoint 2010 Administration Class Details

The SharePoint Administration Class presents SharePoint architecture, administer tools, and best practices. We cover web application and site collection management, search and user profiles administrations, backup and many other topics. The course requires working knowledge of Windows Server and basic knowledge of SQL Server. (class dates)

Course Overview
Outline - Part 1
Outline - Part 2

All the topics covered in the Fundamentals course.
The architectural foundation of SharePoint platform
Details about the web server and the database server
How to manage web applications, content databases, and site collections
How to manage service applications
Farm scalability
Importance of alternative access mappings and its relationship to DNS and authentication
How to administer user profiles, active directory imports, and how to setup useful audiences
How to setup search content sources, scopes, best bets, and managed properties
How to customize search and search results pages
Solutions and features from system administrator perspective
How to use backup and restore tools
How to administer business data catalog
Upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
Deployment guide
Will prepare you for following certication exams: 70-667 and 70-668

Part 1 - Fundamentals

Content Management / Site Collection Administration

1. Definitions, History, and Expectations

Definitions
History
Editions
How to Make SharePoint Successful

2. Sites, Lists, Versioning

Site Collection
Site
Navigation
List
- Columns
- Views
- Form Editing with InfoPath
Versioning

3. Pages, Web Parts, Themes

Site Pages
Web Parts
Themes

4. InfoPath Forms

Form design

Fields / columns
Visual layout

Two column layout
Four column layout
SharePoint themes

Logic
Rules
Validation
Hide / show controls
External data

List forms vs. form library

Digital signatures
Complicated schema -not all fields stored in SharePoint list
Sand box code

InfoPath Form Web Part

5. Office, Offline, Notifications, Personal Sites

Outlook – calendars, contacts, and tasks
Access -- web databases (SharePoint sites)
SharePoint Workspace – offline content
Excel Services - Business Intelligence Dashboards using web parts and filters

6. Notifications and User Profiles

List Alerts and RSS
User Profiles
Personal Content
Search

7. Security Authorization

Permissions and Permission Levels
Site Collection Administrator
Authentication vs. Authorization
What provides authentication
Who can assign permissions
SharePoint groups

8. Site Administration Tools

Manage Content and Structure Tool
Features
Recycle Bin
List and Site Templates
Usage Statistics

9. Project: Libraries and Lists

Setup Research Papers library with folders and metadata
Setup Area for Industry Clinic project management
Media Management - Picture and Video sharing and categorization using metadata

10. Advanced Information Management

Site Columns
Content Types
Content Type Use Cases
Information Management Policies
Workflows - Out of box

11. Project: Document Center Functionality

Document IDs
Document Sets
Link to Document and Document Navigation

12. SharePoint Designer for Site Administrators

Editing Look and Feel

Master/Content Pages
Editing List Forms using SharePoint Designer (vs InfoPath)

Data Form/View Web Part
Business Data Services

External Lists
External Content Types
Editing Forms

Workflows

Steps, Conditions and Branches.
Actions
Storage and Lookup Variables

Part 2 - Administration

System Administration / Architecture

15. Introduction to Administration

What to expect
What we will learn
Where to go from here

16. Introduction to PowerShell

Stsadm?
Basic examples of using PowerShell

17. Site Collection as System Administrator

Why to make multiple Site Collections

Data separation
Backup consideration

How to create Site Collections

Central Administration
Self Service
PowerShell

18. Web Application Management

Web Application Settings

Application pool settings
Authentications settings

Claims
Integrated
Forms

Content Databases
Alternative Access Mappings

Creating and extending web application

19. IIS and SQL Server

What IIS does and when you should interact with it
What SQL does and when you should interact with it
Application and Safe Pages
SQL Database types

20. User Profile Service Application

User Profiles, Properties, and Audiences
Synchronization with AD
Organizational Profiles
My Site Settings

21. Search Service Application

Search architecture
Content sources and crawl rules
Properties
FAST

22. Backup and Restore

Importing and Exporting
Backing up through Central Administration
Backing up through PowerShell
Restoration
Unattached content database recovery

23. Features and Site Definitions

The 14 folder
Site Definition definition
Features
Also in the hive

24. SharePoint 2010 Development environment setup

Preparing for install on Windows 7
Install walkthrough