Administering SharePoint teaches you the principles and practices of how to deploy, manage, and maintain SharePoint. It takes you through each phase of a deployment as you plan, install, rollout, and support SharePoint in the real world.

In this course, you will learn to:

• Plan server topology.
• Install and configure WSS and MOSS servers.
• Upgrade from WSS 2.0 to 3.0.
• Monitor the server to detect problems early.
• Configure authentication.
• Secure external access with SSL.
• Set up SharePoint security and permissions.
• Control site settings through the Central Administration web site.
• Control site settings through the stsadm command line.
• Backup and restore SharePoint data.
• Customize the overall site appearance through branding.
• Set up network infrastructure (DNS/AD/IIS) to support SharePoint.
• Manage MOSS My Sites, import profiles, and other shared services.
• Create and apply site quotas.

Prerequisites:

IT professionals who know something about using SharePoint, Windows 2003, Microsoft Office, and related Microsoft Technologies. The Introduction to SharePoint course may be a prerequisite

Jeff Webb was an original member of the Microsoft Visual Basic team. He helped ship three versions of the product, worked with Excel to integrate VBA, and conceived the Office Development Kit – now VSTO. He left Microsoft in 1994 to found Wombat Technology, which he still runs today.

Jeff has published a dozen books with Que, Microsoft Press, and O’Reilly Media. He wrote the first books on Programming Excel and ASP.NET certification. O’Reilly Media’s “Essential SharePoint 2007” is his third book on SharePoint.