10231 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure - Classroom

10231 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure

This 5 day instructor led course teaches IT Professionals to design and plan the deployment of 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

Course Outline

Module 1: Designing a Logical Architecture

This module explains how to create a logical architecture design

Lessons

• Identifying Business Requirements

Lab : Designing a Logical Architecture

• Design a Logical Architecture
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the core methodologies for identifying business requirements and how these affect the logical architecture of a SharePoint 2010 deployment

Module 2: Planning a Service Application Architecture

This module explains how to create a logical Service Application architecture

Lessons

• Introduction to the SharePoint 2010 Service Application Architecture
• Mapping Logical Architecture to Service Applications
• Service Application Framework Components

Lab : Planning a Service Application Architecture

• Identify and Design Service Applications
• Create Service Applications and Assign Proxy Groups

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the Service Application architecture in SharePoint 2010
• Map Service Applications against business requirements and the logical architecture design
• Describe the components of Service Applications and why they influence design and management

Module 3: Planning for Performance and Capacity

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

Lessons

• Performance Planning Principles
• Designing for Performance
• Capacity Planning Principles
• Designing for Capacity Resilience

Lab : Planning for Capacity and Performance

• Create a Performance Plan
• Create a Capacity Plan

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Review and describe the principles of designing to maximize performance
• Create a SharePoint 2010 performance design and understand how to mitigate 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

• SharePoint 2010 Physical Design
• Non-SharePoint Physical Design
• Model Design Topologies
• Mapping a Logical Architecture Design to a Physical Architecture Design

Lab : Designing a Physical Architecture

• Design Physical Architecture
• Resolve a Name Resolution Problem

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the physical design requirements for SharePoint 2010
• Describe the non-SharePoint 2010 requirements for a successful physical design
• Explain how model design topologies are suitable for different environments
• 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-privilege

Lessons

• Designing to Secure SharePoint 2010
• Planning for Service Accounts
• Planning for User and Group Security
• Planning for SSL

Lab : Designing a Security Plan

• Design for Least-Privilege Security
• Identify and Resolve Potential Security Issues
• Grant the Production Auditors Group Read Access

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the security architecture of 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, groups and audiences

Module 6: Planning Authentication

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

Lessons

• Overview of Authentication
• Introduction to Claims-based Authentication
• Selecting Authentication Methods

Lab : Planning Authentication

• Plan Authentication
• Enable Claims-based Authentication

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the different authentication methods used in SharePoint 2010
• Describe claims-based authentication in SharePoint 2010
• Explain how to select authentication methods in a 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

• SharePoint 2010 Metadata Architecture
• Overview of Content Types
• Mapping Managed Metadata to Business Requirements

Lab : Planning Managed Metadata

• Design Content Types and a Term Set Framework
• Create and Configure the Managed Metadata Service Application
• Import a Term Set
• Publish a Content Type

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the function of managed metadata in SharePoint 2010
• Describe the function of content types and how they are applied to business requirements
• Match SharePoint 2010 managed metadata architecture to business requirements

Module 8: Planning for 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 SharePoint 2010 Social Computing Functionality
• Planning User Profile Services

Lab : Planning Social Computing

• Plan User Profiles
• Configure User Profile Synchronization

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe social computing functionality in SharePoint 2010
• Describe how the social computing functionality of SharePoint 2010 meets business needs
• Plan user profiles in 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
• Mapping Business Requirements to SharePoint Search
• Capacity and Performance Planning for Search

Lab : Designing an Enterprise Search Strategy

• Plan for Search
• Plan Physical Topology
• Create Search Service Applications
• Configure Search

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the search architectures  in SharePoint 2010
• Describe the topologies available to service a range of search requirements across business models
• Describe how to align business requirements against the SharePoint Enterprise and FAST Search architectures
• Plan and document enterprise search for capacity and performance

Module 10: Planning an Enterprise Content Management Strategy

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

Lessons

• Overview of Enterprise Content Management
• Planning Content Management Policies
• Planning Web Content Management

Lab : Planning Enterprise Content Management

• Plan Content Management
• Enable and Configure Document IDs and Content Organizer
• Configure Retention Policies and Records Management

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the core functionality of ECM in SharePoint that influences your design
• Describe the considerations when planning content management policies for SharePoint 2010
• Describe how to plan for Web content management in SharePoint 2010

Module 11: Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of an Existing 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
• Mapping Business Needs to SharePoint 2010 Data Visualization Options
• Mapping Business Needs to SharePoint 2010 Information Presentation
• Planning External Data Access

Lab : Planning a SharePoint 2010 Implementation of a Business

• Plan your SharePoint Business Intelligence Implementation
• Create a BI Center and Enable Excel Services
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe core business intelligence principles that will affect SharePoint planning
• Map data visualization in SharePoint 2010 against business requirements
• Map information presentation BI solutions based on SharePoint 2010 against business requirements
• Specify planning criteria for creating data access for business intelligence

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

• What Is Governance?
• Planning for Governance in SharePoint 2010
• Implementing the Governance Plan in SharePoint 2010

Lab : Developing a Plan for Governance

• Plan Governance
• Implement the governance plan
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Describe the concepts of governance
• Plan for data governance in SharePoint 2010
• Implement the governance plan in SharePoint 2010

Module 13: Designing an Operations and Maintenance Plan

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

Lessons

• Maintenance and Monitoring Principles
• Creating a SharePoint 2010 Maintenance Plan
• Creating a SharePoint 2010 Monitoring Plan
• Considerations for the Maintenance and Monitoring of Associated Technologies

Lab : Designing a Maintenance and Monitoring Plan

• Resolving a SharePoint Error
• Splitting a Content Database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the essential principles of a maintenance and monitoring plan
• Create a SharePoint 2010 maintenance plan
• Create a SharePoint 2010 Monitoring plan
• Describe the considerations for developing a maintenance and monitoring plan that incorporates technologies that support SharePoint 2010

Module 14: Planning for Disaster Recovery

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

Lessons

• Overview of Business Continuity
• Developing a SharePoint Business Continuity Plan
• Creating a Backup and Restore Plan

Lab : Planning Business Continuity

• Plan Business Continuity
• Define and Verify a Recovery Process

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the considerations when planning for business continuity
• Describe how to develop a business continuity plan for SharePoint 2010
• Create a backup and restore plan that map against the Business Continuity Plan

Module 15: Planning for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

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

Lessons

• Identifying Upgrade Scenarios
• Identifying Upgrade Requirements and Methodologies
• Upgrade Considerations

Lab : Planning for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

• Create an Upgrade and Migration Plan
• After completing this module, students will be able to:
• Identify the goals, paths, and tools for upgrading to SharePoint 2010
• Identify the requirements and methods for upgrading to SharePoint 2010
• Identify the considerations for upgrading to SharePoint 2010