Intermediate

SPSI2101

SPSI2102

SPSI2103

SPSI5101

Advanced

SPSA4101

SPSA4102

SPSA4103

SPSA4702

SPSA4703

SPSA5102

SPSA5103

SPSA5104

SPSA5702

SPSA5703

Introduction

Building Extended Collaborative Solutions is focused on building Web-based information sharing and collaborative solutions with Windows SharePoint Services. In the intro course, you learned how to work with team Web sites and perform basic administration tasks. Now you need to expand your SharePoint solution to include a variety of teams with different needs and manage the sites and servers. In this course, you will learn how to create and use workspaces, as well as learn how to administer and support your entire Windows SharePoint and MOSS 2007 Services Web-based solution.

Description

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Architecting and Deploying medium and large-scale SharePoint server farms
• Architecting and deploying multi-location SharePoint implementations
• Create a Windows SharePoint Services installation
• Establish a workspace
• Modify the appearance of a Windows SharePoint Services Web site
• Use Microsoft Office FrontPage 2007 to modify Web components
• Manage site usage
• Administer a Windows SharePoint Services Web site
• Configure Windows SharePoint Services connections
• Remove a Windows SharePoint Services installation

Outline

Introduction to SharePoint Server Farms

We start the course off with explaining what constitutes the various types of server farms and how to do capacity planning for each. We also discuss the various components of a SharePoint Server environment such as web front ends, search servers, index servers, and job servers.

Migrating from a Single Server Farm to a Small Server Farm

In this module we cover how to scale from a single server to a small server farm. This module includes an extensive hands-on lab on this process. Even if you already have a multi-server farm, this module is important because we use the module to better understand disaster recovery for the portal and how it applies to all environments. This is the first module where you get your hands dirty and really get an idea of what SharePoint is doing under the hood with all of those databases.

• Expanding Your Farm
• Adding Servers
• Multiple SPSs
• Farming out MOSS7 services

Managing SharePoint Server

• Best practices for Disaster Recovery for MOSS07
• Identify guidelines for assessing the impact of the backup process on a server
• Identify guidelines when planning to restore SharePoint Server from a failure
• Sequence the steps in the SharePoint Server restore process
• Sequence the steps to prepare the recovery server for a restore operation
• Identify considerations for planning an enterprise-level implementation of SharePoint Server

SharePoint Server Farm Mechanics

In this module we cover a number of miscellaneous but important topics such as Search index administration, SQL Server configuration and tuning, the Configuration Analyzer, Service Pack and hot fix deployment, backups, and filters.

• SPS Content Sources
• Improving Search Results
• Crawl Limitations
• Optimizing search performance
• Relevance Ranking
• Searching Business Data Catalogs
• Use the Search Result Center
  

Migrating from SPS03 to MOSS07

MOSS07 does provide several routes available to administrators. 

• Migrating Gradually
• In-Place Upgrades
• Migrating the Database-Only
• Best practices for each type of migration path

Prerequisites:

Experience with an Internet browser product and power user experience with any application in the Microsoft Office Suite is required. Experience with basic server administration is strongly recommended also SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services basic skills are expected. Information management experience may be helpful. In addition, the following course or equivalent experience is recommended:

• Building Collaborative Solutions with Team Web Sites