Today we headed to Amman to attend a SharePoint training being held at Microsoft Innovation Center there. I am went with two of my colleagues and PalDev members Rushdi and Anas. A bunch of Palestinian developers and IT Pros will be there … thanks for PITA for arranging this training.
We go down to Jericho about 9 o'clock and we nearly missed the last bus heading to Jordan it was just a few minutes and we will be left there for tomorrow.
Anyway regarding the training … our coach will be Mohammed Saleh a C# MVP –ya that's right C#- he has a deep experience and works at DEVOSIS a SharePoint specialized solutions company … this training will last for 5 days and an intermediate and advanced topics will be discussed. I am sorry to tell that SharePoint is a non-common Microsoft technology in Palestine. You will not find many people have a real experience in this great solution. I myself have a very poor experience no more than deploying the MOSS2007, making a dummy site and installing some web parts.
Anyway this training will have a big impact at the Palestinian IT community and again I am sorry for this. This means that the Palestinian IT market is still immature and very poor with such enterprise technologies and solutions. For example I could not figure out how many organizations ever used SharePoint server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Virtual Server … etc or one of those enterprise level solutions but 
I am sure its less than one hand fingers.
Anyway, back to our training .. here is glance about the outline … Here we go:
Course 5061A: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (3 Days)
Objectives:
- To be able to install and configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP2
- Gear them up in Microsoft SharePoint Administration and Configuration
- Manage SharePoint Services Roles
- Enterprise Search
- Shared Services
- Excel Services
- Web Front Ends
- Being able to do the capacity planning for Implementing Microsoft SharePoint Portals
- Being able to create and activate Site Collection Templates and features
Course 50026A: Hands on Labs (Two Days)
- HOL 214: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Features Administration
- HOL 211: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 People and Permissions
- HOL 212: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Personalization
- HOL 201: Introducing Content Types for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- HOL 262: Building Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 Forms that Run as Both Rich Client and Browser Applications
- HOL 314: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - CSS and the Data Form Web Part
- HOL 411: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Advanced Administration
- HOL 203: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Backup and Restore
- HOL 217: Getting Started with Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
I will make further posts about this in the next days