What You'll Learn

• Create and customize WSS sites
• Customize lists, document libraries, and content sites
• Learn how to use SPD
• Create and manage corporate portals
• Out-of-the-box SharePoint workflow capabilities
• How to manage web content
• Configure and use Enterprise Search in SharePoint 2007

Course Outline

1. Creating and Customizing WSS Sites

• WSS as a site provisioning engine
• Understanding web applications, site collections, sites, and site elements
• Activating a feature within a WSS site
• Site customization using WSS collaboration templates and Web Parts
• Managing security within a site collection with users and groups

2. Lists, Document Libraries, and Content Types

• Customizing a list by modifying its properties and adding columns
• Configuring a document library with a custom document template
• Creating custom site columns and content types
• Configuring a document library to multiple content types
• Making customizations reusable with list templates and site templates

3. Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2007

• Customizing a site's virtual file system
• Understanding site pages and the default master page
• Using WSS themes to modify the look and feel of a site
• Adding Web Part zones to a site page
• Customizing pages using the DataView Web Part

4. Creating Corporate Portal Sites

• Anatomy of a corporate portal site
• Adding child sites and pages to a corporate portal site
• The process for approving content
• Shared Services Provider (SSP) architecture

5. User Profiles, MySites, and Audience Targeting

• Importing and configuring user profiles
• Extending user profiles using custom properties
• Creating and customizing MySites
• Updating a user profile through a MySite
• Content personalization through audience targeting

6. Configuring and Extending Search

• Configuring content sources
• Working with search scopes, best bets, and relevance
• Customizing search center sites
• Leveraging the Search Web Parts
• Customizing search results using XSLT

7. InfoPath 2007 and Forms Services

• Working with the InfoPath 2007 forms designer
• Publishing an InfoPath form to a WSS forms library
• Creating and publishing browser-enabled forms
• Accessing databases from InfoPath forms using trusted connections
• Working with administrator-uploaded forms

8. Workflow and Process Management

• Workflow templates, workflow associations, and workflow Instances
• Managing the features that control workflow template activation
• Using the out-of-the-box workflows included with MOSS
• Leveraging the MOSS approval workflow to automate business processes
• Creating custom workflows with the SharePoint Designer 2007

9. Web Content Management using Publishing Portals

• Creating sites from the publishing portal site template
• Managing content and customizing the navigation menus
• Branding a publishing portal site with a custom master Page
• Creating custom page layouts with the SharePoint Designer
• Considerations for Internet-facing publishing portal sites

10. Leveraging the Business Data Catalog

• BDC architecture and application definitions files
• Extending a BDC entity by adding custom actions
• Leveraging the out-of-the-box BDC Web Parts
• Customizing the profile page for a BDC entity
• Integrating BDC data with WSS lists and search

11. Publishing Spreadsheets with Excel Services

• Understanding Excel Services architecture
• Configuring trusted file locations
• Publishing Excel workbooks that render through the browser
• Publishing server-side Excel workbooks which use data connections
• Creating a server-side workbook containing pivot tables

12. Creating Dashboards with Report Center

• Understanding the Business Intelligence (BI) features of MOSS
• Creating dashboard sites with Report Center site template
• Integration with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• Creating and displaying lists of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Drilling down on data using the MOSS Filtering Web Parts

Labs

Lab 1: Customizing a WSS Site

Lab 2: Site Columns and Content Types

Lab 3: Working with SharePoint Designer

Lab 4: Creating and Customizing a Corporate Portal Site

Lab 5: User Profiles and Search

Lab 6: Working with InfoPath Forms

Lab 7: Creating Workflow Associations

Lab 8: Web Content Management with MOSS 2007

Lab 9: Business Data Catalog

Lab 10: Excel Services

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