Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Hands-On

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 2007 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 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

Course Content

Introduction to Administration Tools

Comparing editions and versions of SharePoint
Taking advantage of the Three-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

Customising 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

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
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

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Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint^® Server 2007: Hands-On