SharePoint 2007 End User (WSS/MOSS)

About this Course

This 3-day Instructor led training course at Solartech 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 Profile

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 Site

In 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 : Basic Team Site

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 : Document Library

Create/Use a Document Library

Lab : Form Library

Form Libraries

Lab : Wiki Pages

Use Wiki Page Library

Lab : Picture Library

Create and Use Picture Libraries

Lab : Report Library

Create/Use A Report Library

Lab : Data Connection Library

Create/Use Data Connection Library

Lab : Translation Management Library

Create a Translation Management List

Lab : Slide Library

Create/Use A Slide Library

Lab : Surveys

Create A Survey

Lab : Custom Lists

Create A Custom List

Lab : General Lists

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 Management

We 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 : List Management

List Management

Lab : Email Enabled Lists

Create an Email Enabled List

Lab : Alerts

Create Alerts

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create List Columns
Managing Alerts
Enable RSS 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 : SharePoint Permissions

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 SPSecurity Trimmed control

Module 7: WSS Site Definitions

In this module we are going to review the WSS site definitions.

Lessons

Creating Sites
WSS Sites

Lab : WSS Site Definitions

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 : MOSS Site Definitions

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 Integration

In this module we are going to take a look at how SharePoint 2007 and Office2007 interact.

Lessons

Office Integration

Lab : Office Integration

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 : MOSS Workflows

Utilize All The MOSS Workflows

Lab : Built In Activities

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 : My Site

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 : Basic Site Administration

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 Customization

In 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 : WSS Web Parts

WSS Web Parts

Lab : MOSS Web Parts

Basic & Audience Targeting
Business Data Web Parts
Dashboard Web Parts
Search Web Parts
Site Directory

Lab : Filter Web Parts

Use one of each Filter Web Part

Lab : In Browser SharePoint Customization

In-browser Customizations

Lab : In Browser SharePoint Customization

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