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Another one of the tasks required in our Sharepoint migration was to create a customized template or branding for our organization’s site. At this point in the game, although I had an intro Sharepoint Training Course under my belt, I still had no clue on how to create master pages for our new Sharepoint site. I also needed Sharepoint Designer Course and this was scheduled later on in my Sharepoint development program so we also outsourced this to a Sharepoint consultant. So from our graphic designer, I made static XHTML code for the Sharepoint designer to incorporate. The expectations were that the side menu would give the illusion of expanding and collapsing (pretty standard if you ask me) and it would be color coded according to each section.
This is where the wheels started to come off in our project. Our requirements were not met as the code was still buggy regarding the side navigation. Also, the breadcrumbs, another requirement was not incorporated. But the consultant filled her hours and was gone. So, the organization was left to pick up the pieces as no one had been properly trained to fix the issue. I had not been trained nor had I received any Sharepoint Designer classes and neither had the production software support guys - as this was still in the development environment.
All I can say is, once again, get your Sharepoint Training Courses so you are ahead of the game. It is vital to hold Sharepoint consultants accountable and be the advocate for your organization’s needs.
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I cannot stress enough the importance of Sharepoint training classes in a successful migration project for your organization. Even though you might not be leading the team and hire outside help, it is vital to be knowledgeable about the capabilities of Sharepoint and more importantly, know when the Sharepoint consultant is BSing you.
I cannot tell you the amount of times when I knew in my gut that something was wrong and I needed to refute what the consultant was suggesting based on common sense. The consultant may not know how your organization works and what’s the best implementation of Sharepoint to meet your organization’s needs. That’s why you need to stand your ground and make sure you get your facts straight about Sharepoint to have some credibility.
One of the first tasks that you will go through with your Sharepoint consultant is an exercise where you determine the information architecture of your site. This pretty much means your sitemap. It is important to know how your top level site, and sub sites are going to be laid out. You will not only have to think about the navigational structure, but also how to implement the permission levels as well. What might make sense on a navigational level, might not be easy to manage on a permission level. Ideally, you want to isolate content contributors to specific sub sites but it’s not always so cut and dry. That’s when you need to find a happy medium between site administration and navigation.
Getting Sharepoint training courses will help in this manner and help you make the informed decision of what is best for your organization.
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So my place of work is migrating to a Sharepoint site and I was lucky enough to attend some Sharepoint training courses for it. It got me up to speed on what Sharepoint is, how Sharepoint sites work, its functionalities and its workflow. The Sharepoint training got comfortable enough with the terminology to work with the Sharepoint consultant that we brought in so I could articulate my company’s business requirements.
Talking to other friends in the business who had fiddled with Sharepoint, they didn’t have that much good things to say about it. However, I wonder if they had the same opportunity to go on some Sharepoint courses to learn to use Sharepoint properly and use it to its full potential. It’s easy to click the next, next, next and to create some sites but you need to do it right.
If you’re trying to automate the process of decentralizing posting procedures and give the tasks to the content contributors, you need to make sure that the targeted business process is sound. If not, the workflow will make things even worse and less efficient. The time it takes to work around this breadbox manually will take even more time and will defeat the purpose of putting Sharepoint as a web content management system.
My advice in migrating an existing site to the Sharepoint platform is to first write up your business requirements and to make sure that Sharepoint fits your needs. If it does, write down the current business process of how you get things posted, added, deleted, edited, scheduled, expired, archived on the website. Then write how you’d like to see these same processes optimized in the Sharepoint environment. These are your targeted processes.
Laying the foundation of what you need from Sharepoint is absolutely vital in having a successful migration. That’s why it’s important to take Sharepoint training courses to fully understand how the platform works. It has greatly helped with our site migration to Sharepoint.
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Hello, and welcome to my Sharepoint Training Course site. Professionally, I’m a webmaster but I’m new to learning Sharepoint myself. I thought it would be a good idea to document my journey to learning Sharepoint. My place of work is implementing MOSS as the web content management system to the external website and then implementing the Sharepoint platform for the corporate intranet as well. So, there’s job security available and as I browse the web, there are very good Sharepoint jobs available as well. I see this as a great opportunity that I have to learn Sharepoint.
In this blog, I’ll document the challenges and the triumphs I’ve had with using Sharepoint in the hopes that it becomes a good reference for Sharepoint Training Course site. Until next time, thanks for dropping by!