The training material consists of 12 hours of recorded presentations and demonstrations as well as a 350 searchable slide course workbook (provided in electronic form) that can be printed for taking notes. Additionally, 6 hours of labs, which can be performed on the included Virtual PC image, will help the reader solidify the concepts and examples learned.

More than 200 system architects, developers, and administrators from companies such as Microsoft, Lexis Nexis, Intel, and Nucor attended the "Microsoft SharePoint: Become an Expert" class on which the content of this training course is based. Below are some of the items that that the reader will learn as part of the course:

SharePoint features and how they differ in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Office Portal Server.

New features in Word, Excel, Outlook, and InfoPath that make SharePoint really useful.

Best practices for organizing portal and WSS sites.

How to administer WSS sites and Portal areas content.

How to administer WSS sites and Portal areas security.

How to administer user profiles, active directory imports, and how to setup useful audiences.

How to plan deployment set up multiple portals and content databases.

The architectural foundation of SharePoint platform.

How to develop ASP.NET applications that work with SharePoint object model.

How to modify site definitions; change look and feel, add items to context menus, and add new columns to lists.

Differences between site definitions and site templates and advantages, disadvantages of using one or the other.

How to develop and deploy web parts that access SharePoint object model, external databases and web services.

How to use FrontPage 2003 to change look and feel of SharePoint sites and create web parts that display information from various data sources.

How to use out of box usage analysis and how to extend it.

How to setup search indices, content sources, and search scopes.

How and when to use various backup and restore tools.

How to develop applications that use document library events and how to extend workflow using document library events.

How to administer single sign on and how to build web parts that use single sign on object model.