Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Microsoft SharePoint Courses

There used to be just two (not very well designed) SharePoint MOC courses, one on WSS, one on MOSS. They can be great courses if the instructor does a lot of extra work. Now there is an explosion of SharePoint courses on the Microsoft courseware library. Some are excellent, some do not work at all.

MOC courses.
MOC 5060
WSS I have given this one. Needs quite a bit of work to make it into a great experience for the student.
MOC 5943 German version of 5060. No extra problems in the German version.MOC 5061 MOSS. Same problems as 5060.
MOSS 5945 German version of 5061. Need to check first if administrators really use the German version of SharePoint.
MOC 6438. This is the 5060 using Windows 2008 instead of 2003.

Courseware Library
Wherever there is no vpc for a course, this means quite a bit of work to set up the labs and make sure they work.
50003A Customizing and Extending Enterprise Content Management Solutions No vpc. 1 day course.Lab on reusable content should work fine, just need to make some other pictures available.Lab on creating a custom field control should be fine, there is one in the SDK, or can use the one from Andrew Connell's book.Labs on exporting content with sts admin and record management should work.Ditto with labs on user look and feel and navigation.Master pages lab will need litware.jpg, there is one in the CD for Inside MOSS.
50004A Implementing Advanced Portals and Collaboration Solutions No vpc. 1 day.500026 Hand on Labs. Note the vpc has expired
500046- Mindsharp Programming no vpc. Much typing, cannot cut and paste from pdf.
50047A Advanced IT Pro Course for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Vpc works, put needs powerful hardware.
50048A Enterprise Search Solution Architect Workshop. No vpc
50049A Architecting Web Content Management Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with vpc Same vpc as 50049A. Too many discussion labs, but useful labs on Content deployment, Compression caching and Customizing the page editor toobar.
50050A Architecting Documents and Records Management Solutions with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Same vpc as 50049A.
50051A Architecting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Portals and Collaboration Solutions same vpc as 50049A.
50064B Advanced SharePoint Development (with vpc)
50146A SharePoint 2007 Programming Part II (no vpc)
50149A SharePoint Operations (with vpc).
50196A Site Owner/Power User (no vpc)
50204A Search Customization (no vpc)
50205A Web Dev No vpc.
50207A, 50208A, 50209A Sharepoint Designer Like Penny's book. No vpc.50227A End User. No vpc.
50228A Sharepoint Governance. No vpc.