Courses
Information Worker - 1 Day
This 1-day class takes users who have never used SharePoint through introductory lessons on how to create and edit information in SharePoint. The course explains the purpose of SharePoint sites, how to navigate between sites and how to create and edit list items such as contacts and calendar events. The course also covers uploading and editing documents and the basic document management features of SharePoint. This course covers features that are accessible to users who are granted permissions through the standard site Members group.​
Site Administrator - 2 Days
This course provides users who will be SharePoint Site Administrators with the skills and knowledge to manage a SharePoint site and sub-sites. We provide a seasoned SharePoint trainer to show students how to create new sites and create new pages within sites as well as configuring navigation between pages within the site. The course explains how to customize the look and feel of a site using the administrative settings as well as how to manage security and information management policies for the site. This course covers features that are accessible to users who are granted permissions through the standard site Owners group.​​
Content Manager - 1 Day
The purpose of this day long course is to provide the basic skill set for the management and display of information using the Web Content Management features in SharePoint. SharePoint provides a robust set of capabilities for controlling creating, formatting and publishing content. This control allows for the separation of content management and site management. A content manager can focus on ensuring accurate and timely display of information without the added responsibilities of managing sites. The Content Manager course puts in the hands of content managers the tools and capabilities to leverage the Web Content Management features of SharePoint and to align the flow and display of content with organizational requirements and business needs.​​
Business Integration - 2 Days
The Business Integration course is a 2 day course that provides staff with the skills necessary to implement and manage Business Intelligence within the SharePoint Server Enterprise. Professionals will learn how to leverage the powerful reporting features within SharePoint to give managers and employees key information about their business, allowing them to make faster, better decisions based on real-time business intelligence.
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Business Integration Overview
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Excel Services
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Business Data Catalog
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InfoPath Forms Services
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Workflows
Development Introduction - 2 or 5 Days
This course provides staff with an introduction to essential development topics for customizing and extending SharePoint.
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The purpose of this course is to give students an introductory understanding of development technologies and approaches in SharePoint. This course is oriented towards experienced .NET developers who have experience with C#, XML, and web development. The course walks student through best practices for building SharePoint enhancements and introduces them to the tools and templates available from Microsoft and third party sources to help build solutions. Please contact us for details on course structure.​​
Disaster Recovery - 1 Day
This 1-day course provides staff with an overview and detailed procedures for using the SharePoint tools to back up and restore data in the farm. The focus is on both content recovery, where only a subset of data or documents has been lost and needs to be recovered, and on disaster recover where the entire farm must be restored.
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Overview
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Content Recovery
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Disaster Recovery – Backing up and Restoring Site Collections
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Disaster Recovery – Backing up and Restoring the SharePoint Farm
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Disaster Recovery - Backing Up and Restoring SharePoint using SQL Server
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Disaster Recovery - Other items to back up
Nintex Workflow
Site Admin - 1 Day | Admin/Developer - 2 Days
SYNERGY’s Nintex Workflow class is a comprehensive course giving the Site Administrator or workflow designer an in-depth look at workflows in SharePoint. The one day course starts with a view to understanding workflow capabilities and limitations with out-of-the-box and traditional workflow design tools and the underlying engine that drives workflow in SharePoint, but focuses on the workflow designer capabilities provided by the Nintex Workflow in creating custom workflows for your enterprise.
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In addition to an overall understanding of workflows and Nintex Workflow capabilities, this course also provides skills in troubleshooting workflows, business process analysis using the built-in Nintex Workflow Web Parts, and a detailed look at the process of gathering requirements and creating custom workflows and the steps a workflow designer must take to successfully deploy workflows in their organization. It also covers governance options, installation and configuration of Nintex Workflow and associated features, and advanced capabilities targeted towards developers or more experienced workflow designers. Students will also learn how to troubleshoot and debug published workflows.​
Nintex Forms
SYNERGY’s Nintex Forms class is a comprehensive course giving the Site Administrator, SharePoint Administrator, or Developer an in-depth class in building simple, mobile, and advanced forms using Nintex Forms. Starting with a chapter to help attendees learn about the different platforms in SharePoint for forms delivery including SharePoint List forms, InfoPath Forms and InfoPath Forms Services, and Nintex Forms, this ensures that students understand the capabilities, limitations and considerations for each of these form design options and when to use each. We cover the installation, configuration, and deployment of Nintex Forms, including Nintex Live settings in Central Administration, followed by the deployment of the Nintex Form features on web applications and site collections.
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The course moves into delivering design basics and best practices for developing successful form solutions in the enterprise, including branding, look-and-feel, and considerations for optimizing user experience. This includes requirements gathering, documentation, change control, and governance considerations. Students are introduced to the design canvas and settings provided by Nintex Forms, an in-depth review of Nintex Form Controls, deployment scenarios and configuration of Forms web parts, and finally students are provided skills and information for advanced design and functionality including CSS, inline and runtime functions, rules, connecting controls, building and integrating Nintex Workflow Start and Task forms, mobile forms, and additional advanced options using JavaScript.