10231 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure 70-668

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Course duration: 5 days
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10231: Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure 70-668 (5 Days)

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About this Course

This 5 day ILT courseteaches IT Professionals to design and deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Audience Profile

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)

At Course Completion

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

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 haveequivalent knowledge and experience

Course Outline

Module 1: Designing a Logical Architecture

This module explainshow to create a logical architecture design

Lessons

  • 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 Architecture

This module explains how to create a logical Service Application architecture

Lessons

  • 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 Capacity

This module explains how to create a capacity and performance plan for SharePoint 2010

Lessons

  • 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 Architecture

This module explains how to map the logical architecture, service application architecture, and the capacity and performance plan against a physical architecture

Lessons

  • 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 Plan

This module explains how to design a security plan for SharePoint 2010 based on the principle of least-privilegeLessons

  • 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 Authentication

This module explains how to create an authentication plan for SharePoint 2010 that meets business requirements

Lessons

  • 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 Metadata

This module explains how to create a corporate taxonomy plan for a SharePoint 2010 environment and enable consumption of the terms within the term store

Lessons

  • 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 Computing

This module explains how to design a SharePoint 2010 environment that supports social computing features including user profiles and My Sites

Lessons

  • 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 Strategy

This module explains how to design and implement search strategy in SharePoint 2010

Lessons

  • 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 Management

This module explains how to translate business requirements for content management into an Enterprise Content Management solution

Lessons

  • 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 Strategy

This module explains how to create a plan that reflects the role of SharePoint in an overarching corporate Business Intelligence strategy

Lessons

  • 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 Governance

This module explains how to develop the key SharePoint elements of a governance plan that is in agreement with the overarching corporate governance strategy

Lessons

  • 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 Plan

This modules explains how to develop a plan for maintaining and monitoring a SharePoint 2010 deployment

Lessons

  • 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 Continuity

This module explains how to develop a business continuity plan for SharePoint 2010

Lessons

  • 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 2010

This modules explains how to plan an upgrade from a previous SharePoint Products and Technologies version to SharePoint 2010

Lessons

  • 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.

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