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Welcome!

       Welcome to the SharePoint 2007 Administration class. This class is designed to assist you in
       passing the Microsoft 70-630 exam for Microsoft Certified Professional for SharePoint. This class
       is constructed of 19 lecture sessions with 5 Saturday labs. Each lab will be between 1.5 – 2
       hours. Class schedule will be Mondays and Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. from October 12th –
       December 16th. (Note there will be no class on November 25th). The labs will be on the following
       Saturdays:

              Creating Site Collections <Date TBD>
              Managing Content Types <Date TBD>
              Office Integration <Date TBD>
              Excel Services <Date TBD>
              Search <Date TBD>
              InfoPath Forms Services <Date TBD>

So, the labs are on Saturdays. Give me a good reason why should I miss the football game?

       Learning consists of many different parts of the brain. Most commonly, we learn by a
       combination of listening, watching and doing. Without that combination, most of us cannot fully
       understand the complete concept.

       This class will be a combination of lecture and demonstrations and the optional labs that will
       allow you a chance to perform the tasks we talk about and see demoed in class.

About this exam…

       The exam is a comprehensive test that will grill you on your SharePoint administration ability,
       user interface familiarity and feature set knowledge. Be afraid. Do not use this class as your only
       means of studying for this test. I will be as comprehensive as possible, but you should also refer
       to other sources of knowledge such as the following:

                    SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices, Curry and English
                    Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration, Husman
                    SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide, Pyles, et al.
                    Multiple blogs, white papers, practice tests, etc – to be listed on our class
                     SharePoint Site.
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                            SYLLABUS (Subject to change without notice)

I.     Week 1 – Introduction
       a. What is SharePoint?
       b. Who Uses SharePoint?
       c. Why on earth would you want to use SharePoint?
                 i. Collaboration
                ii. Portal
               iii. Search
               iv. Content Management
                v. BI
               vi. Business Processes
II.    Week 2 – Installing SharePoint
       a. Best Practices
       b. Designing your farm
                 i. Single Server Farm vs. Multi-server farm
                ii. How many WFEs do I really need?
       c. Installation begins
       d. Web applications, App pools
III.   Week 3 – SharePoint Sites
       a. Site collections
       b. Enterprise Level Sites (Portal)
       c. Team Sites
       d. Workspaces
IV.    Week 4/5 – SharePoint Components
       a. Web Parts
       b. Pages
       c. Templates
       d. Libraries, Lists
       e. List Manipulation
                 i. Views
                ii. Metadata
               iii. Display
V.     Week 6 – Content Management
       a. Content Types
       b. Web Content Management
VI.    Week 7 – Advanced SharePoint Features
       a. Excel Services
       b. Forms Services
VII.   Week 8 – Search
       a. Configuring search
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        b. Setting up scopes
        c. Searching outside SharePoint
VIII.   Week 9 – Security
        a. The myth that SharePoint content is not secure
        b. Why does that myth exist?
        c. How do we keep SharePoint safe?
        d. Enabling best practices security measures
IX.     Week 10 – Workflow
        a. What can SharePoint OOB do?
        b. What do we need SharePoint Designer for?
        c. At what point do we need code?
X.      Week 11 – Catch up or filler content <TBD>
XI.     Week 12 – After the exam….
        a. What can you expect on my first SharePoint Job
        b. SharePoint 2010 – what I know and am allowed to share
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Instructor BIO

I graduated from Baldwin Wallace College with a degree in English and Psychology, but found my true
passion working with SharePoint and helping others become passionate about it too. My work with
SharePoint over the past 4 years has involved administration, implementation, help desk support,
governance and user adoption of SharePoint 2003 and 2007. I am Microsoft Certified Professional for
MOSS 2007, and I was an instructor and curriculum author for training classes involving SharePoint and
InfoPath technologies. I just relocated to Seattle from Cleveland, Ohio and I love the beautiful scenery,
friendly people and great coffee!

You can email me at janicethorne@yahoo.com.

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