Windows SharePoint Services: Building Extended Collaborative Solutions

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Course length: 1 day

Course Description
Windows SharePoint Services: Building Extended Collaborative Solutions is the second course focused on building Web-based information sharing and collaborative solutions with Windows SharePoint Services. In the first 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 Services Web-based solution.

Course Objective: You will use Windows SharePoint Services to create virtual Web-based meeting and document workspaces, as well as administer, maintain, and extend the functionality of a team Web site.

Target Student: The ideal student for this course may include anyone in a finance, operations, sales, or human resources area with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services experience creating a team Web site using the default team Web site template, who is responsible for establishing virtual Web-based meeting and document workspaces to enable information sharing between project team or department members, or for administering, maintaining, and extending the Job functionality of a team Web site.

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. Information management experience may be helpful. In addition, the following ElementK course or equivalent experience is required:
• Windows SharePoint Services: Building Collaborative Solutions with Team Web Sites

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating a Windows SharePoint Services Installation
Topic 1A: Install Windows SharePoint Services
Topic 1B: Set the SharePoint Administration Group
Topic 1C: Configure Default Email Server Settings

Lesson 2: Establishing a Workspace
Topic 2A: Create a Workspace
Topic 2B: Manage the Built-in Web Parts of a Workspace
Topic 2C: Manage Pages in a Meeting Workspace
Topic 2D: Customize Content Using Web Parts

Lesson 3: Modifying Web Site Appearance
Topic 3A: Apply a Theme
Topic 3B: Change Regional Settings
Topic 3C: Manage Galleries

Lesson 4: Using FrontPage to Modify Web Components
Topic 4A: Apply a Theme to Individual Web Pages
Topic 4B: Apply Formatting to a Web Page
Topic 4C: Edit Views

Lesson 5: Managing Usage
Topic 5A: Configure Usage Analysis Processing
Topic 5B: View Site Usage Summary Data
Topic 5C: View Site Collection Usage Summary Data
Topic 5D: View Storage Space Allocation
Topic 5E: Set Site Collection Quotas and Locks
Topic 5F: Add a Content Database
Topic 5G: Configure User Alerts

Lesson 6: Administering a Windows SharePoint Services Web Site
Topic 6A: Manage Site Collection Owners
Topic 6B: Manage Blocked File Types
Topic 6C: Configure Antivirus Settings

Lesson 7: Configuring Windows SharePoint Services Connections
Topic 7A: Set the Default Content Database Server
Topic 7B: Set the Configuration Database Server
Topic 7C: Configure Data Retrieval Service Settings

Lesson 8: Removing Windows SharePoint Services Components
Topic 8A: Configure Site Collection Use Confirmation and Auto-deletion
Topic 8B: Delete a Site Collection
Topic 8C: Remove Windows SharePoint Services from a Virtual Server