Few products from Microsoft have stirred as much excitement as SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (SPS). This powerful platform for workgroup and enterprise portals changes the way people use Office and is tightly integrated with Microsoft’s new release of Office XP. This course explains what SharePoint Portal server is and how it works. It elaborates on the underlying technologies and explores the benefits to end-users.

Course includes 2+ hours of total training time...

• 2 CDs
• Over 2 hours of media run time
• Sample code

Exploring SharePoint Portal Server

Few products from Microsoft have stirred as much excitement as SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (SPS). This powerful platform for workgroup and enterprise portals changes the way people use Office and is tightly integrated with Microsoft’s new release of Office XP. This course explains what SharePoint Portal server is and how it works. It elaborates on the underlying technologies and explores the benefits to end-users. Ultimately students will be prepared to begin planning an SPS implementation with an understanding of many topics including:

In this course, you will...

• Benefits of collaboration solutions
• SharePoint Portal Servers overall purpose and position in the .NET Server family
• Integration with Office XP
• Document management
• Web Portal Framework
• Search
• Using SPS programmatically

Background knowledge in application development is significant advantage. However, students with little or no programming knowledge will still benefit greatly by gaining an understanding of how collaborative solutions are built on the SPS platform.

• Needs that SPS fulfills
• Document Management overview
• Office XP integration
• Collaboration and enabling knowledge workers
• Digital Dashboard Overview
• Search and Indexing Overview
• SharePoint collaboration

• The Web Storage System
• Categories
• Document Profiles

• Digital Dashboard Architecture
• Digital Dashboard Service Component
• Web Parts

• Microsoft’s Search technology
• Search capabilities
• Indexing capabilities
• Protocol handlers
• IFilters
• Meta data and search
• Search Folders
• Content Sources
• Index propagation

• Architecture and technology
• Access Methods: Using ADO
• Access Methods: PKMCDO

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Your Instructor

John Durant is a senior systems architect and developer specializing in collaborative and knowledge management solutions using Microsoft products. In addition to designing solutions for clients, John has also done extensive training and curriculum development nationally in both systems engineering and development with Microsoft products. John’s work has been published in Exchange & Outlook magazine and in Outlook Inside Out from Microsoft Press.

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