This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to deploy and manage a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services infrastructure.
The student will learn skills that enable them to deploy and manage a Windows SharePoint Services infrastructure as well as guide end users in their use of the product. This course is not intended to provide detailed design skills, but will cover planning skills at a level sufficient to enable decision making for the implementation process.

• Module 1: Introduction to Windows SharePoint Services
  This module provides an introduction to the Windows SharePoint Services environment and architecture, and then describes the business requirements that can be addressed by deploying Windows SharePoint Services.
   
  
• Module 2: Working with Windows SharePoint Services
  This module describes how to use the common features of team sites and create and modify lists. As well, the module describes how to create and manage libraries and how to create discussions and surveys. The module also describes how Windows SharePoint Services integrates with Microsoft Office 2003.
   
  
• Module 3: Installing and Configuring Windows SharePoint Services
  The first step in deploying a Windows SharePoint Services infrastructure is to install the components. This module describes the available deployment options ranging from a single server deployment to a large server farm deployment. It also describes the requisite hardware and software for installation, the supporting services required, and how to extend the virtual server and configure the IIS application pool and SQL databases.
   
  
• Module 4: Administering and Managing Windows SharePoint Services Server
  This module describes how to administer Windows SharePoint Services including how to configure settings for virtual servers, and management techniques for backing up and restoring Windows SharePoint Services. It also describes the SharePoint Configuration Analyzer utility and how to connect to an existing portal server.
   
  
• Module 5: Administering Windows SharePoint Services Sites
  This module describes site hierarchies and procedures for creating sites. It also describes the built-in templates that new sites will be based on and how to view the site and user information for a site collection. This module also describes user, group, and permission management for sites, and how authentication works. This module also describes how to customize sites, view usage data, limit the amount of space a site can use, and delete a site.
   
  

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to deploy and manage a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure.
The student will learn skills that enable them to deploy and manage a Windows SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure as well as guide end users in their use of the product. This course is not intended to provide detailed design skills, but will cover planning skills at a level sufficient to enable decision making for the implementation process.

• Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  This module provides an overview of the features provided by SharePoint Portal Server. The module also describes the architecture and design goals of SharePoint Portal Server and provides an overview of the SharePoint Portal Server administration model.
   
  
• Module 2: Installing SharePoint Portal Server
  This module explains the prerequisites for installing SharePoint Portal Server. The module also describes how to install SharePoint Portal Server using both Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) and SQL Server.
   
  
• Module 3: Configuring SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  This module describes how to configure SharePoint Portal Server as well as create and configure the portal sites and virtual servers. This module describes how to define the server topology, configure the security options for SharePoint Portal Server, and enable optional services such as the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) viewer.
   
  
• Module 4: Managing the Portal Site
  This module defines concepts and practices for managing portal content, access, and personalization services. This module describes how to configure security, define portal navigation, organize information in an intuitive manner, and enable personalization features to allow users to customize their interaction with the portal.
   
  
• Module 5: Managing Indexing and Search
  This module describes key concepts and management practices for indexing, content sources, and search. This module describes how to make content from a variety of sources available from the portal site by implementing indexing and search features.
   
  
• Module 6: Extending SharePoint Portal Server Deployments
  This module examines guidelines and best practices for extending your SharePoint Server deployment. This module describes how to add additional servers to provide better performance and implement shared services to reduce the administrative burden.
   
  
• Module 7: Maintaining SharePoint Portal Server
  This module describes key concepts and management practices for maintaining the SharePoint Portal Server environment. This module describes how to back up portal data and how to restore the data, as well as how to monitor the SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure.