SharePoint for Power Users

About

SharePoint Power Users are those who can change and edit content, provide assistance and support to others. Reduce the time you spend building solutions and answering questions by empowering your SharePoint Power Users with the skills to effectively navigate and contribute content within the framework of a collaborative environment.

By attending this course, you will:
• Learn to customise SharePoint sites, templates, lists, and libraries
• Manage access to SharePoint content
• Manage document libraries and configure document versioning
• Synchronise document libraries with MS Office applications
• Configure SharePoint for targeting content to specific audiences

Outline

Day One

SharePoint Overview/Demo
• An overview of SharePoint covering different pieces of the pie and the functionality available within SharePoint

Creating Sites and Pages
• The SharePoint site templates and their uses
• Page templates and their uses (basic page, Web Part page, publishing page)
• WSS vs. MOSS

Managing Site Appearance
• Adding web parts
• Modifying a web part
• Removing web parts
• Moving web parts on the home page
• Modifying the site’s Navigation Pane and Top Link Bar
• Applying a theme
• Changing regional settings

Establishing a Workspace
• Creating a workspace
• Managing the built-in web parts of a workspace
• Managing pages in a meeting workspace
• Customising content using web parts

Creating and Managing Lists
• Creating a list from a template
• Adding columns to a list
• Saving a list as a template
• Setting up content approval
• Viewing items awaiting approval
• Approving or reject list items
• Creating custom lists
• Creating new views
• Duplicating an existing view
• View styles, such as preview pane
Configuring Alerts
• Creating new alerts for one or multiple users
• Viewing and deleting alerts

Day Two

Managing User Access Permissions
• Understanding SharePoint’s user groups and permission levels
• Creating site users
• Create custom site groups
• Modifying the site users in a site group
• Alter the rights of built-in groups
• Control site/list/library/item access permissions

Creating Surveys
• Create surveys
• Respond to surveys
• Modify surveys
• View survey responses
• Export survey results

Content Types, Metadata and Basic Workflow
• Creating content types
• Creating metadata columns
• Associating metadata with a list/library
• Setting up workflows on a content type
• Information management policies
• Enabling and managing versions
• Connecting document libraries to Outlook
• Editing documents while offline
• Synchronising changes with SharePoint
• Demonstration of custom workflow for document review process
(created through SharePoint Designer)

Wiki
• Creating new pages
• Formatting text and inserting images and hyperlinks
• Linking to another wiki page or to a place within a page

Integrating with Microsoft Products and Other 3rd Party Products
• Exporting data to Spreadsheet
• Synchronising with Outlook
• SharePoint Designer for Customisation and Workflows
• OnePlaceMail email upload tool
• SharePartXXL Taxonomy Extension
• Useful Features that are free (from CodePlex, etc)

Using Search (including demos)
• Finding content using Advanced Search
• Using managed properties in Advanced Search
• The Search Web Parts
• Setting up Best Bets
• Searching other locations, such as shared drives or Web sites
• Customising tabs shown on Search page for a content source
• (e.g. shared drive)

Planning Resources and Governance (who manages what and how in a SharePoint implementation)
• Roles and responsibilities
• Changing roles in the organisations – considering skill levels and training
• Empowering Users and Business Champions to ensure adoption
• The Governance Model

Facilitator

Debbie Ireland

Debbie Ireland has 15 years experience in managing IT projects across a number of industries. She has been working with MOSS and WSS since 2005 and is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Specialist. She is also a Project Management Professional (PMP) and has realised many of SharePoint’s benefits as a Project Management tool. Debbie has experience in Information Architecture and planning for SharePoint implementations, along with the related governance and training strategies and change management.

Debbie is the leader of the Bay Of Plenty SharePoint User Group and President of the New Zealand .NET User Society.
Debbie was awarded the Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) award in January 2009 for her contribution to the SharePoint community.

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Prices and Registration

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