Overview

This 2-day workshop is designed to give experienced SharePoint Search administrators advanced skills they need to deploy and troubleshoot SharePoint Server 2007 Search technologies.

An online option is held in conjunction with the instructor-led course, with other students in the classroom and online, via Live Meeting technology.

Prerequisites

The ideal students have knowledge of general networking concepts and an intermediate understanding of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. Attendees with a technical orientation will be expected to understand and perform the following administrative activities:

• DNS – Know how to create alias records and A records in the DNS Manager interface. Knowledge of how the Hosts file works is helpful.
• IIS – Know how to create new Web sites and host headers, and be able to work with site security. Also, have a basic understanding of application pools.
• Active Directory – Basic understanding of how to use Active Directory Users and Computers. Should also know how to create new user accounts, reset passwords, and general user and group account activities.
• SQL Server – Basic understanding of how to apply permissions to a database and how to add an account to the SQL installation.
• Windows 2003 Server – Have some experience working with this server platform.
• Networking – Basic understanding of general connectivity issues, and how to assign IP addresses and host names.
• SharePoint Server 2007 and/or Windows SharePoint Services - Possess intermediate understanding of how to administrate a SharePoint farm. Also, they will need a broad range of knowledge of SharePoint concepts.

Audience

The audience for this course is SharePoint administrators who are responsible for the planning, deployment, management and troubleshooting of search and indexing solutions using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007.

Students need to have attended our 5-day SharePoint Administrator Course and/or our 4-day Search Server course or possess equivalent knowledge. This is not an introductory course and should not be attended by students who have never worked with SharePoint Server 2007 Search technologies.

Because this is a workshop, no printed course materials are provided. Instead, students will learn, in an inductive manner, how to troubleshoot and deploy Search technologies at an Advanced level.

The first day of the course will focus on troubleshooting skills. The students will be asked to leave the room while the instructor "breaks" their images. Then the students will be called back into the room, given a common complaint and then asked to troubleshoot the problem. Each problem given to the students will illustrate part of a larger, methodical troubleshooting framework that can be used back at the office to troubleshoot search problems. At the end of the day, students will have a methodical "track" to use to diagnose and resolve search problems. While this track won't solve every conceivable problem, the track will resolve most search problems if used as intended.