50196 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for the Site Owner / Power User

Summary

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SharePoint Team Site in the role of site owner or power user.

Audience Profile

This class is designed for the owner of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server site who needs to know how to create sites and lists, manage user access and customize lists and web part pages.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Use and customize Lists and Libraries
• Create Forms Libraries
• Create Basic and Web Part Web Pages
• Customize Sites and Workspaces
• Manage Users and Groups
• Monitor Site Activity.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• a working knowledge of SharePoint 2007 and basic SharePoint site and navigation or have taken Course Introduction to SharePoint
• basic Word and Excel skills

Course Outline

Module 1: The Role of the Site Owner

This module provides an overview of the role of the site owner.

Lessons

• The Role of the Site Owner

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the role of the site owner and the primary screens and menus used to manage a SharePoint site

Module 2: SharePoint Review

This module provides a brief guided tour of SharePoint from the point of view of the end-user as a review of SharePoint 2007 features and to discover a few features the student may have not have used yet.

Lessons

• SharePoint Review of lists and libraries
  SharePoint Review of Search

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe SharePoint lists and libraries and common features such as versioning, content approval and search

Module 3: Using and Customizing Lists

This module covers list and library customizations including title and description, user access permissions, custom columns and custom views.

Lessons

• List Settings
• Customizing Columns
• Creating Lists by Importing Excel Files
• Creating and Modifying Views
• Content Types
• Communications Options
• Workflows

Lab : Customizing Lists and Libraries

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Customize lists and libraries
• Configure versioning, content approval and check-in / check-out
• Create and use Content Types
• Set Incoming E-mail and RSS options
• Describe workflow options

Module 4: Creating Forms Libraries

This module provides an introduction to InfoPath forms creation and publishing to SharePoint.

Lessons

• Creating Forms Libraries
• Filling out forms

Lab : Creating Forms Libraries

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create forms libraries from SharePoint or InfoPath
• Publish InfoPath forms to SharePoint libraries
• Open, edit and save InfoPath forms from SharePoint

Module 5: Creating Basic Web Pages

This module covers the creation and maintenance of Basic Web Pages and Web Part pages.

Lessons

• Creating Basic Pages
• Creating Web Part Pages

Lab : Creating a Basic Page

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create and edit basic pages
• Create and maintain web part pages

Module 6: Sites and Workspaces

This module covers SharePoint site customization.

Lessons

• Site Customization – Look and Feel
• Navigation
• Themes
• Save Site as Template
• Web Parts (with details and tips for 12 commonly used web parts)
• Search Visibility

Lab : Customize a site

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Customize site look and feel and navigation
• Add, remove and customize web parts

Module 7: Users and Groups

This module covers SharePoint security and user permissions

Lessons

• Users and Groups
• Manage Permissions
• Add Users
• List and Library Permissions
• List Item and Document Permissions
• Creating Custom Permission Levels

Lab : Working with user and group permissions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe SharePoint site, list and library security
• Add users and create groups
• Create custom permission levels
• Customize permissions for sites, lists, libraries, folders, items and documents

Module 8: Site Activity

This module covers the activity reporting tools available to site owners

Lessons

• Site Collection Usage Summary
• Site Usage Reports
• Dealing with Inactive Sites

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe and review SharePoint activity reports

Module 9: Using SharePoint Designer (Optional Module)

This module provides a demonstration of SharePoint Designer

Lessons

• Customize a Site Page
• Customize a Master Page
• Create a Simple Workflow

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the uses of SharePoint Designer for the customization of sites and pages and the creation of workflows.