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Business User's Guide to SharePoint Server 2007 Training Classes

Our Business User's Guide to SharePoint Server 2007 training class is different from the others because we hire only full-time, IT consultants with years of experience in the field and a talent for teaching. Our IT training classes are taught by professionals in real-time so you can ask about your actual working scenarios and receive immediate answers that you can put to the test right away. Our course is taught over four intense days which allows for concentrated study of the subject and assures that you leave the course confident in your new IT abilities.

This course will teach you to use the Windows SharePoint Services model to customize SharePoint 2007. In our labs, you will start by investigating SharePoint from the ground up. You will learn about document management including how to create dynamic presentations. We will create sites and set customized security while you learn to create constant global navigation. You will learn how to return more relevant search results, use Enterprise Services and explore the features of a publishing portal. This course does not require prior Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server experience.

If your company has more than six employees that need this training, our onsite Business User's Guide to SharePoint Server 2007 training class is for you. By bringing the classroom to your facility, we can save your employees valuable commute time and the company 30% off the cost of a course taught at a traditional offsite facility.

If you are an IT professional who is ready to learn more, enroll in our Business User's Guide to SharePoint Server 2007 training class today. Just click the blue button to get started on the next phase of your career and stay one step ahead of the rest.

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Number of Class Days: 4

Business User's Guide to SharePoint Server 2007 schedule:
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Training Class Outline:

1. SharePoint 101

*What SharePoint is and how can you utilize it
*Commonly used terminology and phrases
*WSS vs. MOSS
*The version that best suits your organization
*Real-world implementations

2. Lists and Web Parts

*Using custom lists to collect data from users
*Metadata that should be collected about each item
*Using view to presenting data in different ways
*The Web Parts-Lists relationship
*Workflow
*Using Site Columns for Metadata and ease of maintenance

3. Document Management

*Office Client integration (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
*Setting up versioning
*Ability to require check out in document libraries
*Creating dynamic presentations with the Slide Library
*Using alert notifications to know when items are added/change
*Creating reusable content with Content Types

4. Sites and Security

*Creating sites for organization and containment
*Utilizing site templates for quick deployment
*Creating security using SharePoint Groups and Permission Levels
*Setting customized security on a single item
*Security trimming: Users only see what they can access

5. Information Architecture and Governance

*Using the right taxonomy for your environment
*Ensuring the portal remains organized through a governance committee
*Planning for the initial rollout of the portal

6. Navigation

*Creating consistent Global Navigation
*Utilizing the Quick Launch Bar for navigational links related to thecurrent site
*Creating a personalized experience for users through audience targeting
*Using the Table of Contents Web Part to show visitors the contentavailable on a site
*Creating a Site Directory with an organized listing

7. Web 2.0

*Empowering users to be heard
*Using blogs to send a message and collect feedback
*Creating a knowledge base with the built-in Wiki functionality
*Utilizing RSS to both promote and aggregate important content

8. Search

*Returning more relevant search results with Scopes
*Using Key Words and Best Bets to help users find the appropriate content
*Using the Search Center and Search Web Parts to provide a tailored searchexperience for your environment

9. Meeting Workspaces

*Purpose
*Different method of creating meeting workspace and the benefits of each
*Using a Meeting Workspace to organize reoccurring meetings
*Making reoccurring meetings easier to maintain through series items

10. Enterprise Features

*Creating enterprise access to excel spreadsheets through Excel Services
*Using Form Server to ease the paper trail
*Connecting and reusing data from other LOB applications through theBusiness Data Catalog

11. Building a Collaboration Portal Site

*Features of a collaboration portal
*Available templates
*Designing for future growth
*Planning for static and slow-to-change content
*Planning for dynamic "work" sites

12. Building a Publishing Portal Site

*Features of a publishing portal
*Using Pages to easily display information
*Using Page Layouts to create a consistent look for similar pieces ofcontent
*Creating a Branded Portal through Master Pages