Mastering SharePoint Server 2007 Administration
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Course Overview
  This intense 5-day instructor led course enables students to design, implement, and manage a SharePoint Server 2007 infrastructure.
Objectives
  Content being covered in this course includes:
  • SharePoint Architecture
  • Plan and Install SharePoint (Central Administration, SSP, MySites, and Portal).
  • Administer a SharePoint Implementation.
  • Create and Manage additional Web Applications, Site Collections, Sites, Pages
  • Implement Incoming and Outgoing E-mail
  • Search Configuration / Optimization
  • User Profile Configuration/ Management
  • Audience Creation, Audience Targeting configuration
  • Managing SharePoint Timer Jobs
  • Including Additional Functionality in SharePoint (Features/Solutions)
  • Backup and Restore (i.e. what does it take to have a full fidelity backup)
  • Managing Content Databases
  • Managing Workflow
  • Managing InfoPath Forms Services (Administrator Approved InfoPath Forms)
  • Configuring and Managing Security to best Effect (Configuring Dual Authentication Providers, CA/SSP/Portal Security, SSL, Anonymous Access, etc.)
  • (Bonus Chapter) Publishing Sites (Bonus Lab) Publishing Site walkthrough
  • Tips and Tricks to make your SharePoint implementation easier
  • Issues and problems to avoid (i.e. Gotchas with installation and management of your SharePoint architecture)
  • Best Practices for SharePoint

Audience
  Experienced system administrators, developers and system engineers that need to design, deploy and administer SharePoint Server 2007.

Prerequisites
  Students must have at least 1 year experience with SharePoint 2003 or have taken the SharePoint Site Collection Owner/Team Site Administrator class. Additionally students must have experience administrating a network environment running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory. It is also very helpful for students to have a background in SQL Server, Internet Information Services (IIS), basic Web design and network security; and a basic understanding of XML and Office 2007 applications is highly recommended.
Course Number
  NHMstrSP07Admn
Course Length
  5 Days
Course Price
  $3,180.00
Category
  3
Topics
  1.0 Central Administration Screen Shots
  • 1.1 Introduction to the Central Administration Interface
  • 1.2 Operations Page
  • 1.3 Application Management Page
  • 1.4 Shared Services Administration Page
2.0 SharePoint Architectural Overview
  • 2.1 SharePoint 2007 Terminology
  • 2.2 Basic Logical Architecture of SharePoint
3.0 Preparing MOSS 2007 Installation: Central Administration &
  • 3.1 Determine Office SharePoint Server Hardware and Software Requirements
  • 3.2 Server Farm Installation
  • 3.3 Installation Overview
  • 3.3.1Suggested Topologies
4.0 MOSS 2007 Deployment Overview/Deploy & Configure Sever Infrastructure . . . 29
  • 4.1 Deployment Process Overview
  • 4.2 MOSS Infrastructure Security Account Requirements
  • 4.3 Prepare the Database Server
  • 4.4 Install and Configure Internet Information Services 6.0
  • 4.5 Run SharePoint Office Server 2007 Setup and Build the Farm
  • 4.6 Run Setup on the First Server
  • 4.7 Add the SharePoint Central Administration Web site to the list of trusted sites
  • 4.8 Configure proxy server settings to bypass the proxy server for local addresses
  • 4.9 Add Servers to the Farm
  • 4.10 Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service (optional)
  • 4.11 Stop the Central Administration service on all index servers
  • 4.12 Stop the Central Administration service on an index server
  • 4.13 Disable the WSS V3.0 Web Application service on all servers not serving content
5.0 Phase 2: Create and Configure a Shared Services Provider
  • 5.1 Phase 2: Create and Configure a Shared Services
  • 5.2 Start the Office SharePoint Server Search Service
  • 5.3 Start the Office SharePoint Server Search service on query servers
  • 5.4 Starting Excel Calculation Services
  • 5.5 Create a Web Application to Host the SSP and Create the SSP (see also section 5.6)
  • 5.6 Manage a Farm's Shared Services Providers
  • 5.7 Perform Additional Configuration Tasks
6.0 Phase 3: Create The First Site Collection and SharePoint Site (Quick Start)
  • 6.1 Phase 3: Create the First Site Collection and SharePoint Site (Quick Start Directions
  • 6.2 Create a New Web Application
  • 6.3 Create a Site Collection
  • 6.4 Create a SharePoint Site
7.0 Immediate Post-Install Configuration Tasks
  • 7.1 Additional Configuration tasks immediately after installation
  • 7.2 Configure Diagnostic Logging
  • 7.2.3Configure the trace log to save seven days of events
  • 7.3 Configure a Master Site Directory to contain all Site Collections
  • 7.4 Configure site directory links scan
  • 7.4.1Use the command line to schedule the site directory links scan to run automatically
  • 7.5 Antivirus Settings in SharePoint
  • 7.6 Internet Explorer Configuration
  • 7.6.3Group Policy for Internet Explorer
  • 7.7 Setting a Default Quota Template for all Site Collections in a Web Application
  • 7.8 Configure Web application general settings
  • 7.9 Analyzing Site Usage
  • 7.10 Manage unused Web sites
  • 7.11 Manage blocked file types
  • 7.12 Configure security settings for Web Part pages
  • 7.13 Configuring the display of the !New icon in SharePoint
  • 7.14 Configuring MySites Web Application for Use
8.0 Creating and Managing Web Applications and Sites
  • 8.1 Create or extend a Web application
  • 8.2 Extend a Web application
  • 8.3 Change the application pool identity for a Web application
  • 8.4 Unextend a Web application
  • 8.5 Delete a Web application
  • 8.6 Define managed paths
9.0 Sites/Workspaces vs. Site Collections vs. Pages
  • 9.1 Introduction to Sites/Workspaces vs. Site Collections vs. Pages
  • 9.2 What is a Workspace?
  • 9.3 Other Collaboration Site Templates
  • 9.4 What is a Page?.
  • 9.5 Plan the Structure of Site Collections and Sites
  • 9.6 Save site customizations as site templates
  • 9.7 Create a Site General Information
  • 9.7.1Create a Site Overview
  • 9.8 Creating a new Site Collection and the Top-Level Site
  • 9.9 Create a Sub Site Under the Portal
  • 9.10 Delete a site collection
  • 9.11 Configure Self-Service Site Creation (two layers)
  • 9.12 Edit Site Navigation
10.0 Integrating E-mail into SharePoint
  • 10.1 Integrating E-mail with Your Sites
  • 10.2 Configure outgoing e-mail
  • 10.3 Configure incoming e-mail
11.0 Search Configuration / Optimization
  • 11.1 Manage Search Service
  • 11.2 Search Terminology
  • 11.3 Search Architecture
  • 11.4 Important Caveats to the Search Process
  • 11.5 Managing Farm-Level Search Settings (Central Administration)
  • 11.6 Manage crawler impact rules
  • 11.7 Configure Search and Indexing (SSP configured)
  • 11.7.1Manage crawl rules
  • 11.8 Configure default content access account
  • 11.9 Additional Content Sources
  • 11.10 Manage server name mappings
  • 11.11 How to Include Additional Document Types in the Search Process (SSP)
  • 11.12 Manage metadata property mappings
  • 11.13 Configure search-based alerts
  • 11.14 Reset crawled content
  • 11.15 Removing URLs immediately from Search Results
  • 11.16 Thesaurus Configuration
  • 11.17 Site Collection Stemming
  • 11.18 Noise Word Filtering
  • 11.19 Keywords
  • 11.20 View crawl logs
  • 11.21 Configuring Search Scopes
  • 11.22 Configuring SharePoint Site Collections to utilize new Search Scopes
  • 11.23 Automating SSP Scope Deployment (SSPScopeDeploy)
  • 11.24 Configure authoritative pages
  • 11.25 Review Search Usage Data
12.0 User Profile: Directory Services / Business Data Catalog Connections
  • 12.1 Manage connections to directory services/Business Data Catalogs
  • 12.2 Configuring a Directory Services Connection
13.0 Manage Users, User Profiles, and Audiences
  • 13.1 User Profile Utilization Breakdown (a.k.a. how to get to Audience Targeting in three simple steps)
  • 13.2 Configure profile properties
  • 13.3 View profile properties
  • 13.4 Add a new profile property
  • 13.5 Create a new section
  • 13.6 Manage user profiles
  • 13.7 Manage audience rules
  • 13.8 Target Content to Specific Audiences
14.0 Manage SharePoint timer jobs
  • 14.1 Timer Job basics
  • 14.2 Check the status of a timer service job
  • 14.3 Edit a timer job definition
  • 14.4 Creating New Timer Jobs
15.0 Features and Solutions
  • 15.1 Features in SharePoint
  • 15.2 Solutions *.wsp
16.0 Backing Up and Restoring
  • 16.1 General Information on Backup
  • 16.2 Maintaining versions of files or items
  • 16.3 Two-Stage Recycle Bin
  • 16.4 Site Based Recycle Bin (Add On)
  • 16.5 Backing Up and Restoring Sites and Servers from Central Administration
  • 16.6 Restore from backups
  • 16.7 Backing Up and Restoring Site Collections Using stsadm
  • 16.8 Using the stsadm.exe -o backup Operation
  • 16.9 Using the stsadm -o Restore Operation
  • 16.10 Command Line Site Migration smigrate or stsadm -o
  • 16.11 Interesting combinations of stsadm.exe disaster recovery tools
  • 16.12 Server Level Backup or What did SharePoint Backup Tools Forget?
17.0 Managing Data
  • 17.1 Configuring Data Settings
  • 17.2 Adding content databases
  • 17.3 Using stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb
18.0 Manage Workflow Settings
  • 18.1 Workflow Basics Primer
  • 18.2 Workflows that are included in Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • 18.3 Support for custom workflows
  • 18.4 Steps involved in using workflows
  • 18.5 Workflow Example (workflow to manage content approval for a library)
  • 18.6 Central Administration Configuration of Workflow Settings
19.0 Managing Forms
  • 19.1 A Primer on InfoPath Forms Services
  • 19.2 Manage Form Templates (Administrator Approved InfoPath Forms)
  • 19.3 Upload or upgrade a form template
  • 19.4 Activate Form Templates
  • 19.5 Deactivate Form Templates
  • 19.6 Quiesce a Form Template
20.0 Configuring and Managing Security
  • 20.1 Managing Users and Permissions
  • 20.2 Configure authentication providers (a.k.a. Zones)
  • 20.3 Configure External Access using a Separate Authentication Mechanism
  • 20.4 Understand permissions and permission levels (including SSP and CA)
  • 20.5 Default Permission Structure in SharePoint (including SSP and CA)
  • 20.6 Manage Central Administration site users
  • 20.7 Manage SSP site security
  • 20.8 Owners vs. Site Collection Administrators
  • 20.9 Take and revert Administration of a site collection via Central Administration
  • 20.10 Manage site collection administrators (including SSP and CA)
  • 20.11 Manage permissions for a Web application
  • 20.12 Manage Permission Levels in a Web Application through policy
  • 20.13 Site Collection Permissions
21.0 Publishing Portal (CMS replacement)
  • 21.1 Publishing Portal Basics (bonus Content)
22.0 Labs