The SharePoint Power User /
IW Pro Experience

Make SharePoint 2010 bend to your will! Learn how to do everything you can possibly do with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 – without writing a single line of code. Developers, hackers and newbies alike are welcome and encouraged to take this course. Learn all about the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010 and how best to utilize them to solve your business problems.

This course is for: Content Owners, Department Managers, IW / Knowledge Workers, Power Users, SharePoint Newbies

SharePoint Version: 2010

Author and instructor: Dustin Miller

Topics covered

The 30,000 Foot View

Welcome to a whirlwind tour of the new SharePoint 2010 visual interface! Core topics include:

• Learning the key points to help you navigate a typical SharePoint 2010 site
• Getting up to speed on new functionality exposed to end users via the web interface

Site Types

There are several types of sites available in SharePoint 2010 – You’re going to be surprised with wikis! Core topics include:

• Reviewing the site templates you get out of the box
• Choosing the right site type to use for your needs
• Getting up to speed on new functionality exposed to end users via the web interface

Lists, Libraries, The New List View Web Part and Web Part Connections

Gone are the days of lamenting the differences between the List View Web Part and the Data View Web Part. No more page reloads just to refresh changing list data. This is a crash course, and you should expect to walk away stunned, with your mind swimming with the possibilities of what you can do now with lists and libraries. Core topics include:

• Diving into enhancements made to lists and libraries
• Checking out new methods of applying a standard taxonomy (metadata) to your site content
• Learning how to include lookup data from external data sources
• Getting up to speed on new functionality exposed to end users via the web interface
• Seeing how Web Part Connections make it easy to build drill-down applications with no code

SharePoint Designer – Holy cow!

Folks, SharePoint Designer 2010 (SPD) has changed a lot. It is no longer a tool to be feared! Core topics include:

• Learning how SPD prevents users from making unsupported changes to your web sites
• Seeing how easy it is to administer your sites from a central interface
• Discovering the major enhancements provided by SPD

Workflows, Wow!

Hold on to your seats – workflow in SharePoint 2010 has gotten a big ol’ injection of “WOW”. Core topics include:

• Seeing how you can use SharePoint Designer to create workflows and reusable workflow templates – that’s right, I said reusable
• Using SharePoint Designer and Visio together to visually model your SharePoint workflows

Office 2010

This massive day-and-a-half information marathon focuses on each of the Office 2010 applications, as well as an introduction to the new SharePoint Workspace tool. See how Office interacts with SharePoint. Products covered include:

• Visio
• Outlook
• Word
• Excel
• Access
• PowerPoint
• OneNote

What you need to attend this class

For you:

• Basic knowledge of Office 2010 applications is recommended
• Basic knowledge of relational databases (even Access) is helpful as well

For your computer*:

• SharePoint Designer 2010
• Office Professional Plus 2010 (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and InfoPath)
• Visio 2010 (optional, but recommended!)
• Latest .NET Framework

* If attending this course online, you don’t need any of this software – unless you’d like to do the optional labs or homework.

What you will receive from this class

• A full color student workbook with post-class revisions and updates
• The most advanced SharePoint implementation in your company – complete with custom user interface components, slick integration with multiple Office client applications, and interfaces to external line of business data stores
• Lots of great ideas on how to make SharePoint work for you
• A full understanding of how SharePoint works, what it’s good for, and when to use certain site templates
• A full understanding of what Office 2010 brings to the party
• Skills that can be put to immediate use