Training description
Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Hands-On LT0956E 
Target audience
- Those involved in managing an existing SharePoint environment, including system and Web administrators.
Course objective
- SharePoint Technologies enable the creation of business solutions that are critical to the operation of an organization, 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 optimization.
- You Will Learn How To
- Administer, secure and optimize 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
Requirements
- Knowledge of SharePoint at the level of Course 538, "SharePoint 2007 Technologies Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed. Experience with a Windows Server environment is helpful.
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
- Configuring and starting Excel and search services
- 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 NTLM for intranet access
- Logging in on the Internet with ASP.NET forms
- Configuring Kerberos authentication
- 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 permissions between sites
- Controlling anonymous access
- Assigning permissions to permission levels
- Customizing SharePoint Sites
- Adapting sites to user requirements
- Web Parts
- Site templates
- Features
- Themes
- CSS
- Installing custom components with solutions
- Scanning document libraries and lists using antivirus software
- Maintaining MOSS Services
- Managing indexing and search
- Defining content sources and crawl schedules
- Installing PDF IFilter
- Improving search results with authoritative pages, keywords and scopes
- Accessing enterprise data with the Business Data Catalog (BDC)
- Uploading application definition metadata
- Displaying BDC data in connected Web parts
- Authenticating users with SSO
- Computing data on the server with Excel Services
- Designating trusted file locations
- Displaying results using the Excel Web Access Web Part
- Passing parameters to Excel Services
- Working with reports and forms
- Deploying HTML forms on the Internet
- Distributing reports with Report Center
- Displaying headline information using KPIs
- Optimizing 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
- Maximizing performance
- Running the Best Practices Analyzer
- Defining an effective page and object caching strategy
- Reducing data through quotas
- 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
- Backing up the transaction log using T-SQL
- Recovering from disasters
- Retrieving items from the Recycle Bin
- Reinstating a server after total failure of the configuration database
- Recreating a corrupt Web application
Notes
- 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 permissions
- Adding a new feature to a farm
- 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
Duration
4 Days
