Frequently Asked Questions

What is this course about? This course provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the Microsoft SharePoint technologies; Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). You acquire the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design, deploy and utilize a SharePoint solution for your organization in order to support remote team collaboration and real-time document management. Who will benefit from this course? This course is valuable for those managing, developing or working in a collaborative environment who want to benefit from SharePoint technologies. What background do I need? A working familiarity with Microsoft Windows, Office and the Web, is assumed. This course utilizes Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook in both course content and hands-on exercises. It is not necessary to have a working knowledge of either FrontPage or InfoPath. What is Windows SharePoint Services? Windows SharePoint Services, a component of Windows Server 2003, provides team services to Office System and other applications. Windows SharePoint Services allows teams to build Web sites where they can share information and collaborate on documents in real time, whether team members are in the next office or in another country. SharePoint sites are custom built using Web Parts and ASP.NET components and act as centralized hubs where team members can work together on documents and other business-critical tasks in a seamless manner. The open access available via SharePoint has the potential to create greater and more productive team communication while producing vital documentation faster than traditional collaborative methods such as email. Which version of Windows SharePoint is used in this course? In this course, you will use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. What is MOSS 2007? Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, or MOSS 2007, extends the capabilities of WSS. It allows for enhanced user management capabilities, network-wide searching, personalized portals and includes a CMS (Content Management System). What is the difference between MOSS 2007 and WSS? Windows SharePoint Services is ideal for a small to mid-size organization and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is appropriate for large, complex organizations. However, WSS is built into MOSS 2007. WSS is the foundation for a series of Microsoft products such as Project Server, Team Foundation Server, Portfolio Server and MOSS 2007. What is SharePoint Designer? SharePoint Designer is a visual design tool that allows for customization of SharePoint sites and applications. Do I need to have experience working in Web development to be successful in this course? No. This course provides you with all the introductory detail you need to develop a SharePoint site and to visually transform the site layout using SharePoint Designer. A series of exercises reinforce the concepts taught in class and provide you with invaluable hands-on experience. If you want to learn more about Web development, Course 470, Developing a Web Site: Hands-On, provides a solid introduction to Web development techniques. After that, Learning Tree offers a complete Web Development curriculum to further enhance your skills. Please see the Learning Tree Web Development Curriculum Q&A for more detail. What is Microsoft InfoPath? Microsoft InfoPath is a new Office product that allows the visually rich development of an unlimited number of business forms, either designed and developed by you or incorporating one of twenty-five existing templates, that enables you to gather information and disperse it in a flexible and efficient way. These complex forms can include data validation and powerful editing elements, and can be published to a SharePoint site to be distributed among team members. This course provides a solid introduction to InfoPath and its integration within SharePoint Services. How much time is spent on each topic? Content Hours Overview of SharePoint technologies 1.5 Creating SharePoint sites 2.5 Centralizing and managing content 2.5 Targeting content with Web Parts 2.5 Collaborating with SharePoint 3.5 Consolidating business processes 1.5 Modifying SharePoint sites 3.0 Expanding functionality with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2.5 Adapting SharePoint technologies to your environment 1.0 Times, including the workshops, are estimates; exact times may vary according to the needs of each class. How much time is spent on hands-on exercises? A substantial amount of time on the course is devoted to hands-on exercises, allowing you to develop your skills on SharePoint technologies. Exercises include: Developing SharePoint sites Customizing a page with Web Parts Consolidating SharePoint group contacts with Outlook Importing Excel files Building an InfoPath form Leveraging Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to search multiple sites And much more! Will this course teach me how to implement and manage SharePoint 2007? Absolutely. This course provides the guidelines necessary for a successful SharePoint installation and configuration. You also acquire the knowledge and skills needed to create from the ground up and maintain a SharePoint site. You leave this course ready to deploy SharePoint at your organization. Will this course provide me the necessary training to deploy and administer Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007? No, please see Course 954, Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Hands-On, and Course 956, Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Hands-On, address these training needs. Why should I take this course instead of one offered by Microsoft? Learning Tree is dedicated to helping accelerate the careers of our clients by providing them with world-class technology and management training. Our independence from Microsoft (and every other vendor) allows us to give an unbiased view of what works and what does not. This course is objective in its approach, having been developed independently from Microsoft by industry experts who bring their real-world experience to the classroom. How does this course relate to other Learning Tree courses? Learning Tree offers a number of courses that will help you expand upon the knowledge gained in this course and further your skills in several key areas. Those courses include: 470, Developing a Web Site: Hands-On offers the fundamental skills you need to develop a well-designed Web site 955, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Designer 2007: Hands-On provides the skills to create SharePoint Web applications with SharePoint Designer 2007. 954, Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Hands-On provides the skills to install, configure and administer SharePoint Server 2007. 249, Hands-On Microsoft® Project: Managing Multiple and Complex Projects provides the skills to leverage Microsoft Project Professional tools and techniques to manage multiple or complex projects. 512, Developing ASP.NET Web Applications: Hands-On provides the knowledge and skills to build dynamic Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 299, Microsoft® Project: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction offers the knowledge to solve typical project and business problems using the planning, control and reporting features of Microsoft Project

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