New to SharePoint? Know how to use a Web browser like Internet Explorer or FireFox? Then this class is for you! It is designed for people with little or zero SharePoint experience who need to get up to speed with SharePoint sites.

Attendees will first start out learning the basics and getting an overview of the entire landscape of a SharePoint site. This begins with a tour of the Web-based interface and exploring the various types of lists and libraries available for collaboration such as Contacts, Tasks, Links, Calendar and document libraries.

Next users will dive into working with the Document Workspace and Meeting Workspace template as well as how to publish from each of these types of sites.
Microsoft significantly improved the social networking capabilities in SharePoint 2010 specifically around the areas of blogs and wikis. Attendees will see how they can leverage these types of sites and lists as well as how to take advantage of the new tagging infrastructure.

Finally, attendees will learn how to personalize SharePoint so they can work in an environment that enables them to be the most efficient and productive. To this point the course covers how to leverage alerts, RSS feeds customizing search, personalizing the search experience and taking SharePoint content offline using SharePoint 2010 Workspace.

This course is for anyone who has little to no experience with SharePoint from an end user perspective. This includes users, power users, Web masters, site administrators, site collection administrators, project managers, information workers and business analysts.

Attendees should have experience using a Web browser and interacting with Web-based systems. Some experience with Microsoft Office (any version) as well as experience with a previous version of SharePoint is a plus, but not required.  Microsoft Office is necessary to complete several of the labs in the class.