Course Description

This 5 day deep-dive will guide individuals through the process of architecting and developing Microsoft Office SharePoint applications and customizations with a focus on MOSS fundamentals and features and how to extend them. You will see how to customize the document policy feature and add your own actions. You will gain guidance on how to work programmatically with the Records Center, Content Management, Search Center, and Microsoft Office InfoPath Services. You’ll learn to extend the document converter functionality with your own converters, as well as how to integrate with the User Profile and Audience APIs. This course focuses on Microsoft Exam 70-542.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create a Shared Services provider.
• Create an Information policy and a custom expiration date.
• Use record routing and holds.
• Customize a site using enabled controls, variation, and content deployment.
• Create InfoPath forms.
• Use Excel Services.
• Work with data connection libraries.
• Understand and work with BDC.
• Create a document converter.
• Create and administer User Profiles.
• Use Search effectively.

Target group

This course is intended for anyone looking to develop SharePoint customizations at a MOSS core level.

Course Prerequisites

Participants should have some experience using:

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
• Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
• SharePoint Programming

Additionally, participants should have some experience using:

• Microsoft Office Word
• Microsoft Office Excel
• InfoPath.

Learning method

Classroom, Instructor-led.

Course content

Module 1: Overview This module introduces the student to the objectives of the course.

• Site Definitions
• Create One of Each WSS/MOSS Site Definitio
• Create a Share Services Provider

Module 2: Document Policiesbr/> This module explains how to create and use the object model to create basic information policies and how to create a custom policy resource for the Bar Code policy feature.

• Information Management Policy

Module 3: Records Management This module reviews configuring and sending documents to the document center, explores the Hold center, and shows how to create and query Record Routing entries.

• Document Center
• Records Center

Module 4: Content Management This module explains how to use the browser to implement a content deployment strategy, how to add an action, how to create a variation, how to create content and set up a Path and Job, and how to create Web applications and site collections.

• Variations
• Content Deployment
• Content Management

Module 5: InfoPath Forms Services This module demonstrates how to create an InfoPath Form from scratch, reviews default forms loaded by MOSS, and shows how to integrate a form view into your ASP.NET Web forms.

• InfoPath Forms Services
• Best Practices
• InfoPath 2007

Module 6: Excel Services This module explores how to create an Excel file and publish it to a document library, how to use the Excel Services Web service and create an Excel Snapshot, how to create a UDF, and how to install the EWA Companion.

• Excel Services

Module 7: Business Data Catalog This module shows how to define and modify an application definition for SharePoint, how to create a BDC file, how to use the BDC Web Service, and how to set up BDC Indexing.

• Business Data Catalog

Module 8: Business Intelligence This module explores the Report Center and explains how to use Filter Web parts.

• Business Intelligence

Module 9: Document Converters This module explains creating and using document converters.

• Document Converters

Module 10: User Profiles This module explores User profile settings, demonstrates how to find details about the User Profile Web Service API, and shows how to import BDC data into SharePoint Profile.

• User Profile API
• User Profile Overview

Module 11: Audiences

This module explores how to create audience via the Central Administration console, and how to create audience programmatically.

Module 12: Search

This module explores how to use the Search API, the Search Query API, and the Search Web Service API; how to use Search via the browser and through SPQuery; how to modify Relevance settings and to create Best Bets; how to update the Thesaurus; and how to get a typical search result .xml.

• Performing Searches
• Programming Search
• Search Overview
• Tuning Search
• Extending Search