Architecting Web Content Management Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007
(Microsoft Training Course: 50049) - 2 days - £1200 exc VAT

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and architect Web Content Management (WCM) solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It is intended for experienced technical and solution architects who have a minimum of four years experience with Office SharePoint products and technologies.

1. Web Content Management Overview
2. Architecting Content Management for Your Web Site
3. Server Infrastructure and Content Deployment
4. Securing a Web Content Management System
5. Optimizing Performance for Web Content Management
6. Extending Web Content Management

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Module 1: Web Content Management Overview

• This module gives an overview of the WCM features of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• What Is Web Content Management?
• First Steps in Your Web Content Management Architecture
• Lab: Beginning a Web Content Management Architecture

Skills

• Describe the use of WCM and implementation options.
  
• Describe the role of WCM architecture.
  

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Module 2: Architecting Content Management for Your Web Site

• This module describes how to plan and design the look and feel of your site and how to manage content and the approval process.
• Creating a Consistent Look and Feel
• Managing Content Pages
• Approving Content
• Lab: Architecting Content Management for Your Web Site

Skills

• Skills:
  
• Create a consistent look and feel across a WCM solution.
  
• Manage content pages in a WCM solution.
  
• Manage the content approval process in a WCM solution.
  

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Module 3: Server Infrastructure and Content Deployment

• This module describes how to plan and design server farms for WCM solutions and how to manage the deployment of content between multiple environments.
• Server Farms for Web Content Management Solutions
• Content Deployment
• Lab: Using the Content Deployment System

Skills

• Explain the main server farm design considerations for WCM solutions.
  
• Describe the principal content deployment issues for WCM solutions.
  

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Module 4: Securing a Web Content Management System

• This module describes the security considerations that apply to WCM solutions in Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• Securing Servers
• Network Security
• Lab: Creating a Secure Site

Skills

• Describe techniques to secure servers in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 WCM solution.
  
• Describe techniques to secure network communications in a WCM server farm.
  

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Module 5: Optimizing Performance for Web Content Management

• This module describes how to ensure that your portal architecture responds well to the expected load from users.
• Optimizing Content
• Optimizing Servers
• Lab: Optimizing a Web Content Management Site

Skills

• Ensure that authors, editors, and developers create optimized content for a WCM system.
  
• Use Internet Information Services (IIS) compression and caching to deliver content to users rapidly.
  

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Module 6: Extending Web Content Management

• This module describes the ways in which you can customize Office SharePoint WCM so that you can include customizations in solution architectures.
• Customizing Content Presentation
• Customizing Content Editing
• Customizing Content Deployment
• Lab: Extending Web Content Management

Skills

• Describe how developers can customize the way Office SharePoint products and technologies present content to site visitors.
  
• Describe how developers can change the way that users edit content in Office SharePoint sites.
  
• Include custom content presentation in WCM solution architecture.
  

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Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:

• At least two years working with Office SharePoint products and technologies.
• At least two years practical experience as a lead developer in projects for Office SharePoint products and technologies.
• Technical expertise in Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• At least six months combined experience as a technical and solution architect for Office SharePoint Server 2007 projects.
• Experience of gathering and analyzing customer requirements.
• Completed Course 5061, Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

After completing this course, students will be able to explain the key features of an Office SharePoint Server 2007 WCM solution; take advantage of the content management architecture of Office SharePoint Server 2007; optimize the server infrastructure for a WCM solution; secure a WCM solution; optimize the performance of a WCM solution; customize and extend the WCM features of Office SharePoint Server 2007.