SharePoint 2010 Administration Class Details

• 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
• Soutions 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

Part 1 - Fundamentals

Content Management / Site Collection Administration

• Definitions
• History
• Editions
• How to Make SharePoint Successful

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

• Site Pages
• Web Parts
• Themes

• 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

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

• List Alerts and RSS
• User Profiles
• Personal Content
• Search

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

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

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

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

• Document IDs
• Document Sets
• Link to Document and Document Navigation
  

• 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

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

• Stsadm?
• Basic examples of using PowerShell

• Why to make multiple Site Collections
• Data seperation
• Backup consideration
• How to create Site Collections
• Central Administration
• Self Service
• PowerShell

• Web Application Settings
• Application pool settings
• Authentications settings
• Claims
• Integrated
• Forms
• Content Databases
• Alternative Access Mappings
• Creating and extending web application

• 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

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

• Search architecture
• Content sources and crawl rules
• Properties
• FAST

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

• The 14 folder
• Site Definition definition
• Features
• Also in the hive

• Preparing for install on Windows 7
• Install walkthrough