SharePoint 2010 Introduction
Course:  37188     Duration:  3 Days

You will learn how to:

  • Leverage SharePoint 2010 to build business applications
  • Create a communication repository with controlled access in SharePoint 2010
  • Connect and empower people to better collaborate throughout your organization
  • Integrate Microsoft Office 2010 applications with SharePoint 2010
  • Customize your SharePoint site using templates and Web Parts to solve business problems
  • Employ Web-based applications for convenient browser-based access

Course benefits:

SharePoint 2010 technologies provide a unified business collaboration platform for organizations and the Web, allowing for streamlined document management, simplified organization-wide access to information, and the ability to deploy customized solutions quickly and securely. In this course, you gain the fundamental knowledge and critical skills to create, manage and customize SharePoint 2010 across your organization.

Who should attend:

Anyone new to SharePoint who wants to benefit from SharePoint 2010 technologies. Familiarity with Windows, Office and the Web is assumed.

Hands-on training:

Throughout this course, you gain extensive hands-on experience using SharePoint 2010 technologies. Exercises include:

  • Rapidly deploying SharePoint sites with templates
  • Creating lists and libraries
  • Automating change requests with workflows
  • Accessing data sources with external content types
  • Working with spreadsheets using Excel Services on the Web
  • Developing LOB applications with SharePoint 2010


Course content:

Overview of SharePoint 2010

  • Facilitating business collaboration for organizations and the Web
  • Connecting and empowering people
  • Unifying organizational systems
Organizing Information with SharePoint Sites

Getting started with site templates

  • Planning for site taxonomy
  • Matching business requirements to site types
Customizing your site
  • Updating the look and feel of your site
  • Streamlining navigation with Quick launch and Top link
  • Organizing sites with PowerPoint themes
Effectively Managing and Securing Data

Categorizing content

  • Centrally define taxonomies with managed metadata
  • Establishing document standards with document sets
  • Ranking content with ratings
  • Decentralizing folksonomies with metadata tagging
Storing information
  • Lists: standard, custom, external
  • Libraries: documents, pages, pictures, forms
  • Enhancing document management with version history, content approval and check in/check out
  • Encapsulating data requirements with content types
Retrieving relevant information
  • Assigning Unique Document IDs
  • Integrating alternate data sources with Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
  • Delivering a rich user experience with SharePoint search
Ensuring information integrity
  • Developing a site management plan
  • Assigning content permissions
  • Choosing an appropriate authentication provider
Facilitating Offline Collaboration

Fostering team communication

  • Discussion boards
  • Wikis
  • Announcements
  • Calendars
  • Tasks
  • Utilizing blogs to share ideas and knowledge
  • Establishing a business process with workflows
  • Selecting appropriate templates for communication
Connecting SharePoint communities
  • Interacting with social networks through My Sites
  • Refining data significance with audience targeting
Extending SharePoint with Office 2010

Increasing business productivity

  • Going offline with SharePoint Workspaces
  • Creating rich forms with Infopath
  • Synchronizing lists with Excel
Consolidating data reporting
  • Developing a dashboard with the Chart Web Part
  • Synchronizing Access tables with SharePoint lists
Tailoring Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010

Automating business processes with custom workflows

  • Taking advantage of the Workflow Designer Wizard
  • Defining workflow steps and establishing actions
  • Creating workflows with Visio
Displaying dynamic data
  • Linking to multiple data sources
  • Populating a data form
Adapting Features for Custom Business Solutions

Maximizing "out-of-the-box" tools

  • Exploiting workspaces and routing final documents
  • Delivering optimized content with SharePoint mobile
  • Leveraging cross-browser capabilities
Accessing Web-based components
  • Viewing spreadsheets on the Web with Excel Services
  • Connecting related Web Parts
  • Broadcasting presentations via the PowerPoint Slide Library
  • Updating documents on the Web with Office Web Applications
  • Rendering diagrams with Visio Services
Building Line of Business (LOB) applications
  • Architecting "no code" composite applications
  • Updating LOB databases with external content types

Course schedule:

For the complete course schedule, please refer to the GM IT Global Learning College Web page.

Enrollment:

To enroll, visit the Global LMS.


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