This intensive 5-day course demonstrates how to make the most out of Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (SPF2010 formerly known as Windows SharePoint Services or WSS 3.0) and SharePoint Server 2010 (SPS2010) without having to engage in any custom development. You will be shown how to create business solution using nothing more than the browser and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2010 (SPD). The course is designed to teach you and give you hands-on experience with the most valuable functionality of SharePoint Server 2010.
The course will first walk you through the new SharePoint 2010 user interface and feature enhancements and then move on to an overview of SharePoint Designer 2010. Students will then learn how to create and customize content using SharePoint Designer 2010.
Microsoft has dramatically improved SharePoint Designer 2010 so power users can create robust and interactive pages using things like the new XSLT List View Web Part, improved editing controls for the powerful Data View Web Part and improved workflow authoring capabilities. Students will learn how to create robust solutions using these new capabilities as well as using InfoPath 2010 to create interactive and advanced form solutions.
Students will also learn how to create content-centric solutions using SharePoint Server's Web Content  Management (WCM) capabilities as well as consume and interact with data that resides in external systems using the new Business Connectivity Services (BCS) capacities.
In addition, the course will also guide students how to create offline SharePoint Server 2010 solutions using SharePoint Workspace 2010.

Attendees should have experience with the Internet Explorer and Office Products such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Previous experience with SharePoint (any version) is ideal but not required.

Hands-On Lab Requirements

To do the labs students will need to create a virtual machine (VM) that has SharePoint Server 2010 & Visual Studio 2010 installed and configured. Critical Path Training has developed the Critical Path Training SharePoint Server 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Setup Guide, a step-by-step guide on our site to assist with this process. Simply login to www.CriticalPathTraining.com (or create a free account if you don’t have one) and navigate to the Members section. Within this section you’ll find the document that has all the steps to create your own VM.

The Critical Path Training SharePoint Server 2010 Virtual Machine Setup Guide walks you through creating a new SharePoint 2010 virtual machine. SharePoint 2010 has steep hardware requirements (64-bit hardware, at least 4GB of RAM on the hosting machine/virtual machine). The setup guide we use demonstrates / advocates using Microsoft’s virtualization technology (Hyper-V, which is only available in Windows Server 2008). However you can use any virtualization technology to create your own virtual machine. This includes products like VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box or other options. Each virtualization product has different hardware and software requirements so make sure you check the one that makes the most sense for you. The steps in our setup guide are the same for any of these technologies except step 1 which has you configure a server for Hyper-V.

Please note that you do not need to have the virtual machine created in order to attend the webcast.