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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 certification 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