Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management

Audience

IT staff needing content management capabilities.

Prerequisites

This course assumes that you are familiar with Windows 2003 or above.

Duration

2 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

In this course, you’ll learn about the web content management features of Microsoft SharePoint 2007. The course starts from the perspective of an end-user so that you will understand what the authors and consumers of your SharePoint sites will see, and then goes beneath the surface to teach you to customize and extend the out-of-the-box features. By the time you complete this course, you will understand how to implement sites that face the Internet with branded look and feel so that your visitors will never know they are looking at a SharePoint site; and you’ll understand how to configure the same site to support the creators and managers of content in your organization. You’ll also learn how to implement and customize things like security and navigation, how to deploy content to production environments, and how to target different audiences and different countries and languages.

Course Content

Introduction to MOSS Publishing
· Creating a Publishing Site
· Creating Pages
· Versioning and Approval

Branding
· The Publishing Infrastructure
· Working with Styles and Themes
· Using Master Pages
· Editor and Table Styles

Creating a Publishing Site Definition
· SharePoint Site Definition Basics
· Web Publishing Site Definition
· Branding in a Web Publishing Site Definition
· Adding Assets into Visual Studio Solutions

Page Layouts and Content Types
· Content Types in Web Content Management
· Creating and Deploying Page Layouts
· Creating and Deploying Pages Based on Page Layouts and Content Types

Site Structure
· Understanding Site Hierarchy
· Site Maps
· Vanity URLs and Host Headers
· Microsoft Hosting Recommendations

Enabling Content Management
· Users and Roles
· Understanding Versioning
· Review, Approval, and Publishing
· Content Deployment
· Audience Targeting
· Variations

Content Discovery - Navigation and Search
· Configuring Out-of-the-Box Navigation
· Creating Custom Navigation Elements and Providers
· Configuring and Customizing Search

Aggregating Information
· Using and Branding Content Query Web Parts
· Aggregating Data Across Site Collections
· Usage Analysis Reporting