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Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Hands-On

Course: 956   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Administer, secure and optimise Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
  • Establish a fault-tolerant and scalable environment
  • Control access to data with authentication methods, privileges and permission levels
  • Manage MOSS 2007 shared services
  • Implement a backup and recovery strategy
  • Effectively monitor and enhance system performance

Course Benefits
SharePoint Technologies enable the creation of business solutions that are critical to the operation of an organisation, including document management, collaboration, knowledge sharing, business data portals and content-managed Web sites. In this course, you gain the skills necessary to administer MOSS 2007, including the management of shared services, security, backup and recovery and server optimisation.

Who Should Attend
Those involved in managing an existing SharePoint environment, including system and Web administrators. Knowledge of SharePoint at the level of Course 538, "SharePoint Technologies Comprehensive Introduction", is assumed. Experience with a Windows Server environment is helpful.

Hands-on Training
Throughout this course, you gain extensive experience administering SharePoint Server. Practical exercises include:
  • Creating and extending a SharePoint Farm
  • Enabling ASP.NET forms authentication
  • Controlling the inheritance of users and groups
  • Integrating Exchange and SharePoint
  • Defining an effective search crawl strategy
  • Configuring the Business Data Catalog
  • Adding reports to Report Center
  • Backing up a server farm
  • Recovering SharePoint from data corruption

Course Content
Introduction to Administration Tools
  • Comparing editions and versions of SharePoint
  • Taking advantage of the 3 Tier Administration Model
  • Managing SharePoint from the command line with STSADM, PSCONFIG and PowerShell
Implementing a SharePoint Server Farm
Creating a distributed server environment
  • Exploiting the Shared Services architecture
  • Assigning databases to a remote SQL Server
  • Adding front-end Web servers
Building a resilient and scalable server farm
  • Introducing Network Load Balancing (NLB) for scalability
  • Ensuring fault tolerance using SQL mirroring and clustering
Securing the SharePoint Environment
Incorporating alternative authentication techniques
  • Enabling Kerberos and NTLM for Internet access
  • Logging in on the Internet with ASP.NET forms
  • Managing URLs using Access Paths
Encrypting network traffic with SSL
  • Creating a certificate with Certificate Authority
  • Applying a certificate to a SharePoint Web application
Controlling administration privileges
  • Assigning users to Web application policies
  • Defining the owner of a site collection
  • Enabling self-service site management
Managing permissions with People and Groups
  • Setting up Groups of users
  • Assigning rights to permission levels and permission levels to Groups
  • Inheriting People and Groups between sites
  • Controlling SharePoint Designer access
Protecting the host
  • Restricting access via the Firewall
  • Managing addresses using NAT
Customising SharePoint Sites
Adapting sites to user requirements
  • Web Parts
  • Site templates
  • Features
  • Themes
  • CSS
  • Integrating Exchange with Web Parts
  • Scanning document libraries and lists using antivirus software
Maintaining MOSS Services
Importing profile data
  • Executing LDAP queries on the Active Directory
  • Updating My Site settings
Managing indexing and search
  • Defining content sources and crawl schedules
  • Installing PDF IFilter
  • Improving search results with relevance rankings, keywords, Best Bets and Scopes
Accessing enterprise data with the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
  • Uploading application definition metadata
  • Displaying BDC data in a Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Computing data on the server with Excel Services
  • Designating trusted file locations
  • Displaying results using the Excel Web Access Web Part
Working with reports, forms and documents
  • Deploying HTML forms on the Internet
  • Distributing reports with Report Center
  • Storing audited data in Record Center
Backup and Recovery
Keeping safe backups
  • Creating a Central Administration full farm backup
  • Scheduling site collection backups with STSADM
  • Third-party and SQL Server backup tools
Recovering from disasters
  • Retrieving items from the Recycle Bin
  • Reinstating a server after total failure
  • Getting online after configuration corruption problems
Optimising and Troubleshooting
Monitoring and maintaining SharePoint
  • Baselining with performance logs
  • Enabling diagnostic logging
  • Viewing activity in audit reports and usage logs
  • Cleaning up unused sites
Maximising performance
  • Running the Best Practices Analyser
  • Managing application pool usage
  • Defining an effective caching strategy
  • Reducing data through quotas
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Administering MOSS 2007
Course Schedule
1 - 4 Jul, 2008
London
12 - 15 Aug, 2008
London
30 Sep - 3 Oct, 2008
London
18 - 21 Nov, 2008
London
20 - 23 Jan, 2009
London
3 - 6 Mar, 2009
London

Participants updating the owner of a site collection.

£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 1,080 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 1,215 - 10-Training Vouchers
£ 1,300 - 5-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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