The SharePoint 2010 family of tools has expanded to include a wider variety of functionality that offers organizations a streamlined process and central location for document management, collaboration and information management. Module 1 provides an overview of the versions and functionalities. It also explains the site collection and site administrator roles.

This module will cover basic information for Site Collection and Site Administrators. Having a basic set of terminology and getting the “lay of the land” will help to understand the rest of the course.

For organizations that are implementing or continuing to improve SharePoint 2010, the majority of the work is not found in the day-to-day activities of creating and managing SharePoint 2010 objects. It falls within the realm of governance and establishing best practices for how SharePoint 2010 is used within the organization. Without establishing these principals within the organization, SharePoint 2010 will fail.

The first major milestone after Governance is the creation of sites within a site collection. Understanding the types of sites available within SharePoint 2010, as well as the process of creating and understanding navigation, is the foundation for site collection and site managers.

Most of the administrating within SharePoint 2010 is done at the list or library level. This module will dig deeper into both lists and libraries and will help organizations determine what works best for a given situation.

This module will explain how permissions work within a site collection and the tools within SharePoint 2010 that are used to manage and maintain them. Being able to create and manage permissions within SharePoint 2010 is one of the more crucial elements that SharePoint 2010 Site Collection and Site Administrators need to know.

When a new site is created, the site administrators will need to decide how content is managed within the site. They will also need to consider how sites flow between each other, how information is portrayed, especially at the Welcome Page level, and how content is managed within the site.

The heavy integration of Microsoft Office 2010 is one of the main benefits of using SharePoint 2010. There are a myriad of ways to connect SharePoint 2010 to Microsoft Office 2010, whether it is connecting a SharePoint 2010 document library to Microsoft Outlook, linking an Access database or an Excel spreadsheet to a list in SharePoint 2010, using Microsoft InfoPath to build SharePoint 2010 lists, publishing a Visio diagram to be displayed in the web, or managing Microsoft PowerPoint slides in a SharePoint 2010 slide library. Since a majority of SharePoint 2010 users work out of Outlook most of the day, this integration with SharePoint 2010 helps to focus activities in one or two locations instead of four or five locations. All of these options provide significant improvements over using the products on their own. This module will cover the different ways in which SharePoint 2010 and the Office 2010 Suite work together to expose the full functionality of the products.

When developing SharePoint 2010, it is necessary to create a consistent feel across sites within the site collection. This objective fits in to the Governance aspects of Module 3: Organization and Development of SharePoint 2010 Sites.

One common complaint within organizations is the difficulty finding documents in a timely manner. Many hours are wasted searching for a specific document. This module will show methods for searching and configuring views in order to assist SharePoint 2010 users in finding what they need in much less time.

Displaying Data with Web Parts in SharePoint 2010 one important feature within SharePoint 2010 is the many different Web Parts. Most of the SharePoint 2010 Web Parts can be customized. This module will cover the different types of Web Parts that are available and the process of embedding and configuring them.

An integral part of SharePoint 2010 for document and information management is the ability to configure Workflows. By default, SharePoint 2010 comes with built-in Workflows to help organizations in a variety of different ways, including; approving a new item or document, collecting feedback from multiple users, or disposing of documents based on compliance policies.

An important advancement within SharePoint 2010 is the inclusion of Social Computing concepts. Many organizations have similar challenges when working with internal talent management, also known as knowledge management. One common challenge is finding an individual with the specific skills and knowledge needed to complete a task or project. SharePoint 2010 offers a viable platform to help organizations with talent or knowledge management.

This module covers SharePoint 2010 topics that Site Collection or Site administrators will work with as part of their day to day activities.