Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Designing and Deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Course Overview

This 5 day course teaches IT Professionals to design and deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2010

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Audience

This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010 (including pre-released versions of the product)

Skills Gained

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create a logical architecture design
• Create a logical Service Application architecture
• Create a capacity and performance plan for SharePoint 2010
• Map the logical architecture, service application architecture, and the capacity and performance plan against a physical architecture
• Design a security plan for SharePoint 2010 based on the principle of least-privilege
• Create an authentication plan for SharePoint 2010 that meets the business requirements
• Create a corporate taxonomy plan for a SharePoint 2010 environment and enable consumption of the terms within the term store
• Design a SharePoint 2010 environment that supports social computing features including user profiles and My Sites
• Design and implement search strategy in SharePoint 2010
• Translate business requirements for content management into an Enterprise Content Management solution
• Create a plan that reflects the role of SharePoint in an overarching corporate Business Intelligence strategy
• Develop the key SharePoint elements of a governance plan that is in agreement with the overarching corporate governance strategy
• Develop a plan for maintaining and monitoring a SharePoint 2010 deployment
• Develop a business continuity plan for SharePoint 2010
• Plan an upgrade from a previous SharePoint Product and Technologies version to SharePoint 2010

Examinations

• Microsoft® >>

• MCITP Microsoft Certified IT Professional >>

• Microsoft SharePoint Server >>

• Exam 70-668 0 >>

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• At least 2 years experience administering, deploying, managing, monitoring, upgrading, migrating, and designing SharePoint servers
• At least one year's experience of mapping business requirements to logical and physical technical design
• Working knowledge of network design, including network security
• Completed course 10174A: TS ITPro: Configuring and Managing Microsoft SharePoint 2010, or have equivalent knowledge and experience

Course Outline

Module 1: Designing a Logical Architecture

• This module explains how to create a logical architecture designLessons
• Identifying Business Requirements
• Overview of SharePoint 2010 Logical Architecture
• Documenting Your SharePoint 2010 Environment
• Documenting the Logical Architecture
• Lab : Designing a Logical Architecture
• Mapping Business Requirements to a Logical Architecture Design
• Creating a Logical Architecture Diagram

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify business requirements and describe how business requirements affect the logical architecture of a SharePoint 2010 deployment.
• Map business requirements to SharePoint 2010 architecture components.
• Explain the importance of documentation and describe the options for documenting logical architecture.
• Describe how to document a logical architecture design.

Module 2: Planning a Service Application ArchitectureThis module explains how to create a logical Service Application architectureLessons

• Introduction to the Service Application Architecture in SharePoint 2010
• Service Application Architecture and Components
• Topologies for Service Applications
• Mapping Service Applications to Your Logical Architecture
• Lab : Planning a Service Application Architecture
• Identifying and Designing Service Applications
• Creating Service Applications and Assigning Proxy Groups

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the service application architecture in SharePoint 2010 and list the available service applications.
• Describe the components and options that are available in the service application architecture in SharePoint 2010.
• Describe some of the topology options for service applications and their respective benefits.
• Describe how to map and document business requirements to service applications.

Module 3: Planning for Performance and CapacityThis module explains how to create a capacity and performance plan for SharePoint 2010Lessons

• Principles of Performance Planning
• Designing for Performance
• Principles of Capacity Planning
• Designing for Capacity
• Lab : Planning for Capacity and Performance
• Creating a Performance Plan
• Creating a Capacity Plan

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the principles of designing to maximize performance.
• Create a SharePoint 2010 performance design that mitigates performance problems.
• Describe how capacity planning affects the design of a SharePoint 2010 implementation.
• Create a SharePoint 2010 farm design that caters for current and future capacity demands.

Module 4: Designing a Physical ArchitectureThis module explains how to map the logical architecture, service application architecture, and the capacity and performance plan against a physical architecture

• Designing Physical Components for SharePoint Deployments
• Designing Supporting Components for SharePoint Deployments
• SharePoint Farm Topologies
• Mapping a Logical Architecture Design to a Physical Architecture Design
• Lab : Designing a Physical Architecture
• Planning the Physical Architecture
• Troubleshooting a Name Resolution Problem

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the physical design requirements for SharePoint 2010.
• Describe the supporting requirements for a successful SharePoint 2010 physical design.
• Identify SharePoint farm topologies.
• Map a logical architecture design to a physical architecture design.

Module 5: Designing a Security PlanThis module explains how to design a security plan for SharePoint 2010 based on the principle of least-privilege

• Designing to Secure SharePoint 2010
• Planning for Service Accounts
• Planning Security for Users and Groups
• Planning for SSL
• Lab : Designing a Security Plan
• Designing for Least-Privilege Security
• Identifying and Resolving Potential Security Issues
• Granting Read Access to the Production Auditors Group

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the security architecture in SharePoint 2010 and the importance of the principle of least privilege.
• Identify and plan security for core service accounts.
• Describe the considerations for implementing security for users and groups.
• Explain the options for implementing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in SharePoint 2010.

Module 6: Planning AuthenticationThis module explains how to create an authentication plan for SharePoint 2010 that meets business requirements

• Overview of Authentication
• Introduction to Claims-based Authentication
• Selecting Authentication Methods
• Lab : Planning Authentication
• Planning Authentication for Contoso, Ltd
• Enabling Claims-Based Authentication

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the different authentication and authorization methods that SharePoint 2010 uses.
• Describe claims-based authentication in SharePoint 2010.
• Select the most appropriate authentication method for a given SharePoint 2010 design.

Module 7: Planning Managed MetadataThis module explains how to create a corporate taxonomy plan for a SharePoint 2010 environment and enable consumption of the terms within the term store

• Metadata in SharePoint 2010
• Overview of Content Types
• Mapping Managed Metadata to Business Requirements
• Lab : Planning Managed Metadata
• Designing Content Types and a Term Set Framework
• Creating the Managed Metadata Service Application
• Importing Term Sets
• Publishing a Content Type

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the function of managed metadata in SharePoint 2010.
• Describe the function of content types and explain how to apply them to business requirements.
• Match the managed metadata architecture in SharePoint 2010 to business requirements.

Module 8: Planning Social ComputingThis module explains how to design a SharePoint 2010 environment that supports social computing features including user profiles and My Sites

• My SitesLessons
• Overview of Social Computing
• Planning for Social Computing Functionality in SharePoint 2010
• Planning for the User Profile Service
• Lab : Planning Social Computing
• Planning User Profiles
• Configuring User Profile Synchronization

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the social computing functionality that is available in Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
• Describe how the social computing functionality in SharePoint 2010 meets business needs.
• Plan user profiles for providing social computing functionality.

Module 9: Designing an Enterprise Search StrategyThis module explains how to design and implement search strategy in SharePoint 2010

• Overview of SharePoint 2010 Search Architecture
• Search Topologies in SharePoint 2010
• Capacity and Performance Planning for Search
• Mapping Business Requirements to Search Design
• Lab : Designing an Enterprise Search Strategy
• Planning for Search
• Planning Physical Topology
• Creating Search Service Applications
• Configuring Search

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the search architecture and process in SharePoint 2010.
• Describe the topologies that are available in SharePoint 2010 to service a range of search requirements across business models.
• Plan and document enterprise search for capacity and performance.
• Describe how to map business requirements to the SharePoint Enterprise and FAST search architectures.

Module 10: Planning Enterprise Content ManagementThis module explains how to translate business requirements for content management into an Enterprise Content Management solution.

• Overview of Enterprise Content Management
• Planning Tasks for Content Management
• Planning Features and Policies for Content Management
• Planning Web Content Management
• Lab : Planning Enterprise Content Management
• Developing a Content Management Plan
• Enabling and Configuring Document IDs and Content Organizer
• Configuring Retention Policies and Records Management

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the core functionality of ECM in SharePoint Server 2010 that influences your design.
• Describe the major steps that you should take when you plan a content management solution in SharePoint Server 2010.
• Describe the considerations for planning features and policies for content management for SharePoint Server 2010.
• Describe how to plan for Web content management in SharePoint Server 2010.

Module 11: Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of a Business Intelligence StrategyThis module explains how to create a plan that reflects the role of SharePoint in an overarching corporate Business Intelligence strategy

• Overview of Business Intelligence Principles
• Planning Data Access by Using BCS
• Planning SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Solutions
• Planning for Reporting and Presentation
• Lab : Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of a Business Intelligence Strategy
• Planning the SharePoint Business Intelligence Implementation
• Creating a BI Center and Enabling Excel Services

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the principles of BI.
• Describe how to plan for data access by using BCS.
• Describe data and security planning concerns for key BI tools.
• Describe the roles of SQL Server Reporting Services and the BI Center in reporting and presenting BI components.

Module 12: Developing a Plan for GovernanceThis module explains how to develop the key SharePoint elements of a governance plan that is in agreement with the overarching corporate governance strategy

• Overview of Governance
• Key Elements of a Governance Plan
• Planning for Governance in SharePoint Server 2010
• Governance Implementation Features and Policies in SharePoint Server 2010
• Lab : Developing a Plan for Governance
• Creating a Governance Plan
• Implementing the Governance Plan

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the concept of governance.
• Describe the key elements of a governance plan.
• Plan for governance in SharePoint Server 2010.
• Describe the governance implementation features and policies in SharePoint Server 2010.

Module 13: Designing a Maintenance and Monitoring PlanThis modules explains how to develop a plan for maintaining and monitoring a SharePoint 2010 deployment

• Principles of Maintenance and Monitoring
• Creating a Maintenance Plan for SharePoint 2010
• Creating a Monitoring Plan for SharePoint 2010
• Considerations for the Maintenance and Monitoring of Associated Technologies
• Lab : Designing a Maintenance and Monitoring Plan
• Resolving an Error in SharePoint 2010
• Splitting a Content Database

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the essential principles of a maintenance and monitoring plan.
• Create a maintenance plan for SharePoint 2010.
• Create a monitoring plan for SharePoint 2010.
• Describe the considerations for developing a maintenance and monitoring plan that incorporates technologies that support SharePoint 2010.

Module 14: Planning Business ContinuityThis module explains how to develop a business continuity plan for SharePoint 2010

• Overview of Business Continuity Management
• Developing a Business Continuity Plan for SharePoint Server 2010
• Creating a Backup and Restore Plan for SharePoint Server 2010
• Lab : Planning Business Continuity
• Creating a Backup and Restore Plan
• Testing the Recovery Process

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe business continuity management.
• Describe how to develop a business continuity plan for SharePoint Server 2010.
• Describe how to create a backup and restore plan for SharePoint Server 2010.

Module 15: Planning for Upgrading to SharePoint 2010This modules explains how to plan an upgrade from a previous SharePoint Products and Technologies version to SharePoint 2010

• Identifying Upgrade Scenarios
• Planning Your Upgrade
• Upgrade Considerations
• Lab : Planning for Upgrading to SharePoint 2010
• Creating an Upgrade and Migration Plan

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the range of upgrade requirement options and the available upgrade methods.
• Describe how to plan an upgrade to SharePoint 2010.
• Explain the key upgrade considerations