CTS: SharePoint

How Can We Help?At Computer Training Source, we understand that each company has different needs when it comes to training your employees on the uses of SharePoint. Rarely do we teach the standard content in our manuals. Most of our SharePoint classes are customized to meet our client’s needs. Whether you require the regular classes or customized content, we are here to help.

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft SharePoint makes it easier for people to work together. Using SharePoint, your people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.

Why Use SharePoint? The capabilities of SharePoint work together to help your company quickly respond to changing business needs. Using SharePoint, your people can share ideas and expertise, create custom solutions for specific needs, and find the right business information to make better decisions. For IT, SharePoint helps you cut training and maintenance costs, save time and effort, and focus on higher business priorities.

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End User and Site Owner Courses.

SharePoint 2010 helps you and your team work better, faster, and smarter. Access the right people and information at the right time to make better decisions and get the job done. Plus, work comfortably and confidently in SharePoint 2010 with a familiar interface and direct connections to Microsoft Office.

Work Better Together
Connect with your colleagues in new and creative ways. Easily find and work with people who have the right skills, expertise, and shared interests.

Work Faster
Quickly become more productive. SharePoint 2010 works seamlessly with technologies you currently use, including Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Unified Communications.

Work Smarter
Make better business decisions. Easily find the right business information—regardless of who created it, what format it’s in, or where it lives.

SharePoint Ribbon
Quickly and easily find and use relevant features with the new contextual SharePoint Ribbon.

Microsoft® Windows SharePoint® Foundation 2010 Level 1

Course Objective: You will use, create, and edit content in a team website. You will also create and perform basic management of a team site using SharePoint Foundation 2010.

Target Student: This course is designed for individuals who will need to access information on a Microsoft SharePoint team site or for individuals who may need to create and manage a team website.

Microsoft® Windows SharePoint® Foundation 2010 Level 2

Course Objective: You will manage site collections and site components as a site collection administrator and as a site administrator.

Target Student: This course is designed for individual contributors or departmental staff in a variety of job roles, such as administrative assistants, functional or operations managers, with basic SharePoint skills, and who have the responsibility for managing SharePoint sites as an enabling technology within their workgroups, not necessarily IT tech professionals.

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2010: Introduction

Course Objective: You will collaborate with team members and share information with them using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Target Student: This course is intended for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 users who will need to collaborate with team members, organize documents, manage lists, and integrate SharePoint 2010 with Microsoft Office 2010.

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2010: Level 1

Course Objective: You will use Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Designer 2010 to create and modify a SharePoint site.

Target Student: This course is intended for web designers and developers, application developers, SharePoint site owners, and other knowledge workers with SharePoint end-user experience, who want to use SharePoint Designer to create and customize SharePoint sites, enhance the look and feel of a SharePoint site, and create dynamic pages using Web Parts and workflows.

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2010: Level 2

Course Objective: You will extend a SharePoint site by including server-side controls and administer a SharePoint site.

Target Student: This course is intended for entry-level SharePoint solution developers who are currently capable of creating basic SharePoint sites using the out-of-the-box functionality provided by the built-in SharePoint Designer templates, and who now want to extend or create SharePoint sites with functionality by incorporating server web controls, data controls, customized workflows, and administration.

Technical Courses.Configuring and Administering Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010

Course Objective: The course teaches students how to install, configure and administer SharePoint, and also manage and monitor sites and users by using SharePoint 2010.

Target Student: This course is intended for IT Professionals who are experienced Windows Server 2003 or 2008 administrators and are interested in learning how to administer SharePoint 2010. The course is also intended for part time Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are engaged in the administering line-of-business (LOB) applications in conjunction with internal business customers.

Using Microsoft® SharePoint® Technology with Microsoft® Dynamics GP 2010

Course Objective: This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to set up and work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies for Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.

Target Student: This course is intended for customers and partners wanting to learn the basic features and functionality of using Microsoft SharePoint technologies and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.

Training is recommended for anyone who plans to implement, use, maintain, consult, or support features associated with Microsoft SharePoint technologies and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010.

Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, Application Development

Course Objective: This course provides existing .NET developers with practical information and labs that enables them to build solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 platform.

Target Student: This course is intended for professional developers who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large development environment. Members of the audience are experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The audience understands how to use the new features of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

Designing a Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Infrastructure

Course Objective: This 5 day ILT course teaches IT Professionals to design and deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Target Student: 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).

Designing and Developing Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 Applications

Course Objective: This five-day instructor-led course is intended for Microsoft SharePoint Development professionals who are responsible for leading projects, designing solutions, and identifying problems. In this course, students learn the skills and best practices that are required to help organizations design and develop effective SharePoint applications.

Target Student: This course is intended for IT professionals who will be responsible for designing custom code for projects that are deployed to SharePoint 2010 servers. To be successful in this course, the student will have at least two years of SharePoint development experience and should have experience with ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for people to work together. Using SharePoint 2010, your people can set up Web sites to share information with others, manage documents from start to finish, and publish reports to help everyone make better decisions.

Want to find out more? The sections below give details about SharePoint 2010 capabilities.

Sites
SharePoint 2010 Sites provides a single infrastructure for all your business Web sites. Share documents with colleagues, manage projects with partners, and publish information to customers.

Communities
SharePoint 2010 Communities delivers great collaboration tools—and a single platform to manage them. Make it easy for people to share ideas and work together the way they want.
Composites
SharePoint 2010 Composites offers tools and components for creating do-it-yourself business solutions. Build no-code solutions to rapidly respond to business needs.

Content
SharePoint 2010 Content makes content management easy. Set up compliance measures ”behind the scenes”—with features like document types, retention polices, and automatic content sorting—and then let people work naturally in Microsoft Office.

Insights
SharePoint 2010 Insights gives everyone access to the information in databases, reports, and business applications. Help people locate the information they need to make good decisions.

Search
SharePoint 2010 Search cuts through the clutter. A unique combination of relevance, refinement, and social cues helps people find the information and contacts they need to get their jobs done.

SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals

SharePoint 2010 delivers a powerful, easy-to-deploy infrastructure that can help you make your company more productive. Flexible deployment options let you customize the system so that people can do their jobs effectively in a secure environment. Plus, with centralized administration and management features, you can be confident knowing that you maintain control over a system that is ready to respond to any business need.

Be More Productive
SharePoint 2010 gives you deeper insight into operations. Features include an easy-to-use Central Administration Web site, new capabilities to manage and monitor your SharePoint farm, and Microsoft Windows PowerShell support.

Manage a Unified, Scalable Infrastructure
SharePoint 2010 provides a single, scalable infrastructure that allows better control over server resources. For example, you can manage large lists more easily and improve data management and protection using high availability. A scalable services architecture also helps you centralize services like Search, My Sites, and Taxonomy. These services can be managed through Central Administration and scripted by Windows PowerShell. Plus, because the architecture is extensible, third-party companies can build and add services to the platform.

Maintain Control with Flexible Deployment Options
SharePoint 2010 provides a simple installation and configuration process, including a smooth upgrade from SharePoint 2007. What’s more, new features can help you manage how your people use SharePoint 2010. For example, you can allow site administrators to upload custom code with Sandbox Solutions. You also have more control over how the system is set up: If you want to maintain a centralized SharePoint system, you can block decentralized deployments through Group Policy or track them with Active Directory marker support.

SharePoint Health Analyzer
Quickly find and fix potential problems across all of the servers in your farm. The SharePoint Health Analyzer monitors farm health and can automatically fix many common configuration and performance problems automatically.

SharePoint 2010 Benefits for Developers

With SharePoint 2010, you and your development team can build custom applications and components to rapidly respond to business needs. With familiar tools, it’s easy to create Web Parts, external content types, and workflow activities for use in SharePoint solutions. A full set of extensibility APIs also lets you customize your SharePoint implementations. What’s more, you can count on community support and training opportunities to help you do your work in SharePoint quickly and effectively.

Be More Productive
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 gives you a complete set of project templates, designers, and packaging tools for SharePoint 2010 solutions. Plus, you can install SharePoint 2010 on Microsoft Windows 7, making it easier than ever to develop SharePoint applications.

Fully Use Platform Services
SharePoint 2010 helps you build powerful business solutions using new features such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to SharePoint, OData Services, and the Client Object Model. You also can use Business Connectivity Services to pull external data, complete with read/write capability, into SharePoint 2010.

Deploy and Monitor Flexible Solutions
SharePoint 2010 delivers on the promise of flexible deployment options: Use Sandbox Solutions to limit code CPU time, Microsoft SQL Server execution time, and exception handling. Take advantage of the Microsoft Silverlight Web Part and the Client Object Model to offload custom code from the server. Plus, use these same technologies to deploy custom code to SharePoint Online.

Web Parts
Use Web Parts to add new functionality to SharePoint sites. Add a Web Part to any page, and a the new functionality will appear when the page is displayed.

Business Connectivity Services
Work with external data, whether online or offline, in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 applications using Business Connectivity Services (BCS, formerly named the Business Data Catalog).

All SharePoint Courses.

Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Course Objective: This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 successfully in their organization.

Target Student: The audience for this course is Business Application Administrators (BAAs), Web Administrators and Server Administrators who are engaged in the planning, design, and selection of line-of-business (LOB) applications (including Office SharePoint Server) in conjunction with internal business customers. Their primary responsibility is the deployment, customization, management, and support of LOB applications. They routinely monitor application status and troubleshoot application problems.

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007: Introduction

Course Objective: You will create a team site to facilitate collaboration among the team members.

Target Student: This course is intended for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 users who need to create, manage, and publish their work, and communicate in a collaborative environment.

Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007: Level 1

Course Objective: You will use Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007 to create and modify a SharePoint site.

Target Student: This course is intended for SharePoint web designers and SharePoint solution developers, who want to learn to customize SharePoint sites by enhancing the look and feel of a SharePoint site and also to create dynamic pages using Web Parts and workflows.

Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007: Level 2

Course Objective: You will use Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007 to create and modify a SharePoint site.

Target Student: This course is intended for entry-level SharePoint solution developers who are currently capable of creating basic SharePoint sites using the out-of-the-box functionality provided by the built-in SharePoint Designer templates, and who now want to extend or create SharePoint sites with functionality by incorporating server web controls, data controls, customized workflows, and administration.

Integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Course Objective: This one-day instructor-led training course is intended to teach students the basic skills required to create integrated applications that utilize data and features from both Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Target Student:

Business analysts and solution designers.
Power-users and customizers.
.NET developers who need an introduction to Dynamics CRM and SharePoint integration techniques
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