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SharePoint 2007 End User (WSS/MOSS)

Course 50227 : 3 days; Instructor-Led

Introduction

This 3-day Instructor led course shows how to fully utilize 2007 Microsoft Office system applications in your SharePoint environment.  The course will be hands on walking you through all of the basic features of WSS and MOSS sites, so that after the course ends you can go back into your environment and implement a solution.

 

Audience
This course is designed for individuals who access information on WSS and MOSS sites. This includes managers, developers, designers, and every day knowledge workers, anyone that uses SharePoint sites and lists on an everyday basis.  Other ideal students 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.

 

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Learn to work with all the SharePoint out of the box sites. 
  • Use each of the built in list types.  
  • Learn to mange permissions on sites, lists and items. 
  • Explore Office 2007 integration points.
  • Learn basic site administration and customization.

Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:
  • Basic knowledge of Office 2007 applications.  Experience accessing information via a web browser.

Course Outline

 

Module 1: Overview

A simple introduction module.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Understand your course, classroom, classmates, facility and instructor.
Module 2: SharePoint Introduction
In this module, we are going to answer the all important questions of "What" and "Why" should we be using SharePoint. We are also going to look at the new and exciting features of SharePoint 2007.
Lessons
  • What’s New in SharePoint 2007
  • What is SharePoint?
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the six parts of SharePoint (Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Search, Portals (internet, intranet),Content Management, Business Process Automation)
  • Describe the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2007 as compared to 2003
  • Describe what business problems SharePoint can address
Module 3: Basic Team SiteIn this module we take a look at common features of the basic team site.  Throughout this course we will create and manage several different pieces of content and the team site will be our site of choice for doing this!  Understanding this site is the center piece of starting your journey of understanding SharePoint and applying it to you everyday life!Lessons
  • Site Structure
  • Basic Team Site
Lab : BasicTeamSite
  • Explore the Basic Team Site
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the new UI features of the basic team site
  • Log in and out of a site
  • What the Quick Launch bar is
  • Describe the Security Trimmed Interface of SharePoint
  • Know where to create items on a site
  • Find out who has access to a site
  • Understand how to undelete items on a site (recycle bin)
Module 4: Lists
Lists are a fundamental and pivotal feature of SharePoint.  They provide the means to the end of making SharePoint functional!  Lists store your files and content and provide a means of describing your content with meta data (columns).  And more importantly, allow you to be able to find the content you have uploaded!
 
In this module, we are going to take a look at lists from a end user standpoint, but also very quickly from a database standpoint as well.  We will talk about each list that is part of SharePoint and what it's intended use is.  Every SharePoint site can use the lists in this module, learning to use the lists, will be a requirement to understanding how to work with SharePoint 2007.
Lessons
  • List Views
  • Lists
Lab : DocumentLibrary
  • Create/Use a Document Library
Lab : FormLibrary
  • Form Libraries
Lab : WikiPages
  • Use Wiki Page Library
Lab : PictureLibrary
  • Create and Use Picture Libraries
Lab : ReportLibrary
  • Create/Use A Report Library
Lab : DataConnectionLibrary
  • Create/Use Data Connection Library
Lab : TranslationManagementLibrary
  • Create a Translation Management List
Lab : SlideLibrary
  • Create/Use A Slide Library
Lab : Surveys
  • Create A Survey
Lab : CustomLists
  • Create A Custom List
Lab : GeneralLists
  • Create Various SharePoint Lists
Lab : Views
  • Create Views
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe what a list is
  • Name each of the out of the box list of SharePoint 2007
  • Talk about what each list is designed to do
  • Create lists and list views on a SharePoint site
  • Add and modify items in lists
Module 5: List ManagementWe explored the types of lists that come out of the box in the last module.  In this module, we will explore how to manage those lists!Lessons
  • List Management
Lab : ListManagement
  • List Management
Lab : EmailEnabledLists
  • Create an Email Enabled List
Lab : Alerts
  • Create Alerts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Create List Columns
  • Managing Alerts
  • EnableRSS Feeds
  • Email Enabled a List
  • Enable Versioning on a List
  • Enforce Check-Out
  • Enable Content Approval
  • Enable multiple Content Types
  • Understand how to customize a Document Information Panel
Module 6: Permissions
In this module we take a look at SharePoint permissions.  We learn where SharePoint gets usernames from and how we can assign those usernames to SharePoint groups.  We then see how we can create our own SharePoint groups as well as our own custom permission levels.  After that, we take a look at how to apply custom security trimming to our sites.
Lessons
  • Security Trimmed Interface
  • ASP.NET Providers
  • SharePoint Permissions
Lab : SharePointPermissions
  • Understand the SharePoint Default Groups
  • Create a Custom Permission Set
  • List/Item Level Permissions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe where usernames and domain groups come from
  • What a permission level is
  • How to assign permissions to a user or group
  • What is means to say permissions are cumulative
  • Why SharePoint has no deny
  • How to use the SPSecurityTrimmed control
Module 7: WSS Site DefinitionsIn this module we are going to review the WSS site definitions.Lessons
  • Creating Sites
  • WSS Sites
Lab : WSSSiteDefinitions
  • Create Sub Sites (Team Site)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe the site lifecycle
  • Understand how to create a site
  • Be able to describe the out of the box WSS Site Definitions
  • Understand how to delete a site
Module 8: MOSS Site Definitions
In this module we will explore each of the site definitions that come with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).
Lessons
  • MOSS Site Definitions
Lab : MOSSSiteDefinitions
  • Use the Intranet Publishing Site
  • Use the Internet Publishing Site
  • Use the Records Center
  • Use the Document Center
  • Use the Search Center
  • Use the Site Directory
  • Use the Report Center
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe each of the MOSS site definitions
  • Be able to effectively use each of the MOSS site definitions
Module 9: Office IntegrationIn this module we are going to take a look at how SharePoint 2007 and Office2007 interact.Lessons
  • Office Integration
Lab : OfficeIntegration
  • Offline Document Libraries
  • Manipulating Calendars
  • Manipulating Tasks
  • Excel Data Reporting
  • Access Data Reporting
  • Microsoft OneNote
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe how SharePoint integrates with Office 2007 (from SharePoint and to SharePoint)
Module 10: Workflows
In this module we will take a look at the out of the box WSS and MOSS workflows.
Lessons
  • SharePoint Designer Workflows
  • WSS/MOSS Workflows
Lab : MOSSWorkflows
  • Utilize All The MOSS Workflows
Lab : BuiltInActivities
  • Create a new Workflow Using SharePoint Designer
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe each of the WSS and MOSS workflows
  • Know how to create and use each of the WSS and MOSS workflows
Module 11: My Site
In this module we will review the SharePoint MOSS feature called My Site!
Lessons
  • My Site
Lab : MySite
  • Create Your My Site
  • Your Profile
  • Explore Colleagues
  • Configure My Calendar Web Part
  • Configure Personal and Shared Documents
  • My Links
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Describe what a "My Site" is
  • How to create and modify a My Site
  • How to work with My Site social networking features
Module 12: Basic Site Administration
In this module we are going to take a quick look at some basic site administration tasks.  If you want to get more detailed about customizing and managing your sites, you should look into the other SharePoint courses that focus on SharePoint Site Administration and SharePoint Web Development.
Lessons
  • Basic Site Administration
Lab : BasicSiteAdministration
  • Learn Basic Site Administration Tasks
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Administer a basic team site
  • Have a basis to administer other SharePoint sites
Module 13: Site CustomizationIn this module we will take a very brief look at some of the way to customize your site via the browser and as an end user.  There are many more ways at a developer level to customize the site, but this course is focused at an end user level.  If you are interested, there are plenty of courses that offer Web Development and Core Development of SharePoint 2007!Lessons
  • Site Customization
Lab : WSSWebParts
  • WSS Web Parts
Lab : MOSSWebParts
  • Basic & Audience Targeting
  • Business Data Web Parts
  • Dashboard Web Parts
  • Search Web Parts
  • Site Directory
Lab : FilterWebParts
  • Use one of each Filter Web Part
Lab : InBrowserSharePointCustomization
  • In-browser Customizations
Lab : InBrowserSharePointCustomization
  • Page Layouts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Modify the shared and personal view of a site
  • Add and delete pages and web part pages
  • Add, remove, close and move web parts to a web part page
  • An understanding of some basic web part on a team site and portal sites

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