Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
Installation and configuration
Topic-Level
Outline
Days: 1
Prerequisites: It’s
assumed that the student has some experience working with and supporting
Windows Server 2003 computers. Students can obtain these skills by taking the MCSE
70-290: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment course.
It’s
helpful, but not required, to have user-level skills in Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0. Students can obtain these skills by taking the Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0: Basic and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Intermediate courses.
Unit 1: Installation
Topic A: Supporting applications
A-1: Creating SharePoint install and database access accounts
A-2: Installing Web services
A-3: Installing .NET Framework 3.5
A-4: Assigning SQL Server 2005 roles (instructor demonstration)
A-5: Verifying SQL Server remote access configuration (instructor demonstration)
Topic B: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
B-1: Verifying system requirements
B-2: Completing a Server Farm installation
B-3: Running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard
B-4: Viewing the Central Administration site pages
B-5: Confirming WSS 3.0 SQL databases (instructor demonstration)
B-6: Validating IIS updates
B-7: Verifying WSS 3.0 services
B-8: Confirming WSS 3.0 security groups
B-9: Monitoring the WSS 3.0 index files folder
Unit 2: Server Farm configuration
Topic A: Search
A-1: Creating a WSS 3.0 Search account
A-2: Configuring and starting the WSS 3.0 Search service
Topic B: The first site collection
B-1: Creating WSS’s first Web application
B-2: Confirming successful creation of the Web application
B-3: Creating a site collection
B-4: Modifying the Site Administrators group
Topic C: Additional site collections
C-1: Creating an additional Web application
C-2: Creating an additional site collection
Unit 3: E-mail services
Topic A: Outgoing e-mail
A-1: Configuring outgoing e-mail
A-2: Testing outgoing e-mail settings
A-3: Verifying immediate job timer definition
Topic B: Incoming e-mail
B-1: Configuring IIS’s SMTP service
B-2: Configuring permissions on the IIS drop folder
B-3: Completing a basic incoming e-mail setup
B-4: Configuring an e-mail enabled list
B-5: Testing incoming e-mail
Unit 4: Site collection access
Topic A: Users and groups
A-1: Reviewing group permissions for a site collection
A-2: Creating a new WSS group
A-3: Adding an AD user to a WSS group
A-4: Removing a user from a WSS group
A-5: Enabling anonymous access on a Web application
A-6: Enabling anonymous access on a site collection
A-7: Enabling anonymous access on a list
A-8: Disabling and enabling anonymous access
Topic B: Public access
B-1: Creating a public URL by extending a Web application
B-2: Reviewing public site creation in IIS
B-3: Reviewing alternate access mapping
B-4: Configuring zone security
B-5: Removing a public URL
Unit 5: Backup and restore
Topic A: Server farm and Web application backup
A-1: Establishing permissions to the backup location for the Central Administration backup utility
A-2: Completing a full backup of the WSS server farm using Central Administration
A-3: Viewing backup history
A-4: Simulating a WSS database problem (instructor demonstration)
A-5: Restoring from a backup using Central Administration
A-6: Assigning permissions to run an STSADM backup (instructor demonstration)
A-7: Completing a full backup of the WSS server farm using STSADM
A-8: Simulating WSS site collection problems
A-9: Restoring a server farm using STSADM
Topic B: Site collection backups
B-1: Setting permissions for an STSADM site collection restore
B-2: Backing up a site collection using STSADM
B-3: Simulating WSS site problems
B-4: Restoring a site collection using STSADM
Unit 6: Windows SharePoint Services removal
Topic A: Uninstallation
A-1: Deleting a site collection
A-2: Deleting a Web application
A-3: Uninstalling Windows SharePoint Services 3.0