About this class
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 will the lesson benefit?
Those involved in managing an existing SharePoint environment, including system and Web administrators. Knowledge of SharePoint at the level of Course 538, "SharePoint Technologies Comprehensive Introduction", is assumed. Experience with a Windows Server environment is helpful.
What delegates will learn
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
Contents of this class
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
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
