WSS 3.0

Sites, Lists, and Web Part Basics

• Site Collection, Site, Lists
• List: Columns
• Site Columns
• List: Views
• List: Versioning
• List: Notifications and List Emails
• Web parts and web part pages
• Search

Security: Authorization

• Authentication vs. authorization
• Site level security

• Permissions
• Permission levels
• Active Directory users and groups
• SharePoint groups

• List, folder list item security
• Security principals
• Limitations

Office Integration

• Opening items in outlook (offline)

• Calendar
• Tasks
• Contacts

• Synchronizing
• Word
• Excel

Sites, Lists More Advanced

• Site collection administration

• Moving sites
• Save site as template
• Save list as template

• Content Types

• Creating/updating
• Propagation

• Workflow

• Starting workflows

SharePoint Designer

• What’s new in SharePoint Designer (FrontPage)
• Editing look and feel
• Customized/uncustomized pages
• Master/content pages
• Working with external data sources

SPS2007

Office Server for site administrator

• Content management

• Built on existing lists
• Publishing process

• Information management policy

• Labeling
• Auditing
• Archiving
• Expiration
• Barcodes
• Application to records management

• Personal site
• User profiles
• Using audiences to target pages and web parts
• Searching as end user
• Advanced search
• Business data catalog data in lists, web parts, and search center

SharePoint Central Administration

• Topology

• Servers in farm
• Services on server

• Global configuration
• Application security
• SharePoint web application management

• What is a web application, application pool in IIS, SharePoint, impersonation vs. process account
• What is the basic database organization in SharePoint databases and why we need multiple content databases for the same web application
• Creating or extending or deleting Web application
• Removing SharePoint from IIS Web site

• SharePoint site management

• Creating and deleting site collection
• What is special about site collection owner

Shared Services: Administering User Profiles, Audiences and Personal Sites

• User profiles

• Importing from Active Directory
• Creating new properties

• Audiences

• Creating audiences
• Using audiences in pages, web parts, and lists

Shared Services: Administering and Configuring Search

• Search features: WSS and Office
• Search architecutre
• Content sources and schedules
• Crawl rules and security
• Properties and scopes
• Relevance inclusions / keywords / logging
• Customizing search as administrator
• Office reasearch pane

Shared Services: Administering and Configuring Search

Site Definitions and Features Architectural

• What has changed
• New feature architecture
• How to use features as administrators
• Simple feature

Backup and Restore/Recycle Bin

Installation Basics and Migration from 2003