Training description
Administering SharePoint® Server 2010: LT1510E 
Target audience
- Anyone responsible for administering a SharePoint 2010 environment.
Course objective
- SharePoint Server 2010 provides organisations with mission-critical enterprise content management
- capabilities and allows organisations to improve collaboration and knowledge sharing. In this course, you
- gain the skills needed to install, administer, secure and optimise SharePoint Server 2010. You learn to
- effectively monitor system performance using the Health Analyser and configure sandbox solutions with
- the Developer Dashboard.
- You Will Learn How To
- Plan, install, administer and secure a SharePoint Server 2010 farm
- Build effective Web application and site collection hierarchies
- Configure service applications for search indexing, profile import and metadata
- Establish claims-based authentication to control access
- Maintain server health through monitoring
- Protect data with an effective backup and recovery strategy
Requirements
- Knowledge at the level of Course 1501, "SharePoint® 2010 Technologies: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction", or experience with
- a previous version of SharePoint, is assumed. Experience with a Windows Server environment is helpful.
Course content
- SharePoint Architecture Overview
- Exploring SharePoint 2010 features
- Comparing SharePoint 2010 editions
- Working with graphical and command line tools
- Automating administration with PowerShell
- Reviewing SharePoint terminology
- Planning and Implementing a SharePoint Installation
- Designing a server farm
- Determining system requirements
- Mapping requirements to the SharePoint topology
- Selecting a suitable edition and installation option
- Contrasting on-premises and cloud deployments
- Installing SharePoint Server 2010
- Choosing a SQL Server edition
- Upgrading from SharePoint 2007
- Creating a new SharePoint 2010 farm installation
- Deploying custom software
- Taking advantage of the Developer Sandbox
- Debugging software deployment using the Developer Dashboard
- Managing Web Applications
- Creating IIS Web sites
- Selecting an authentication mode
- Handling multiple URLs with Alternate Access Mappings
- Extending a Web application to enable multiple authentication modes
- Adding site collections
- Choosing a suitable site template
- Controlling growth using quotas
- Changing site collection owners
- Configuring a content database
- Sizing SharePoint databases based on content
- Implementing the Remote BLOB Service to optimise storage
- Configuring Service Applications
- Designing an effective search strategy
- Improving performance with FAST Search
- Indexing PDF files using IFilter
- Custom Search Content Areas
- Importing Active Directory profiles
- Defining and mapping profile attributes
- Creating effective audience rules to display personalised content
- Implementing social networking using My Sites
- Managing metadata
- Establishing term stores for data tagging
- Contrasting terms and keywords
- Integrating external data using Business
- Connectivity Services (BCS)
- Defining external content types
- Managing credentials using Secure Store Service
- Reading and writing data from external systems
- Presenting BI information
- Creating KPIs with the Dashboard Designer
- Configuring a BI center to expose content
- Securing SharePoint 2010
- Authenticating with the server
- Contrasting Kerberos with NTLM
- Implementing claims-based authentication
- Allowing anonymous users to connect
- Streamlining security using managed accounts
- Controlling access with permissions and roles
- Managing farm-wide permissions with the Farm Passphrase
- Defining independent object permissions by breaking inheritance
- Simplifying permission assignment with roles and groups
- Monitoring and Optimising Performance
- Keeping SharePoint healthy
- Setting up Health Analyser jobs
- Diagnosing issues with the Unified Logging Service and the Usage Database
- Defining rules to manage server health
- Tracking SharePoint with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Disaster Recovery
- Developing an effective backup strategy
- Backing up farms and site collections
- Restoring content databases
- Implementing mirroring and clustering techniques
- Retrieving documents from an unattached content database
Notes
- Throughout an in-depth case study, you gain extensive hands-on experience administering SharePoint 2010. Exercises include:
- Installing a new SharePoint 2010 farm
- Synchronising Active Directory with profiles
- Indexing Web site and file share content
- Authenticating users with the claims-based model
- Creating a social Web site with My Sites
- Checking SharePoint with Health Analyser jobs
- Recovering a list from an unattached database
- Configuring a KPI scorecard
Duration
4 Days
