Office 365/Sharepoint Training?

satanicguardian · 20 Sep 2012 at 10:01

Hey guys, I am looking learn more about office 365/sharepoint with the intention to go into consultancy etc, does anyone happen to know where I am best to start with regards to training/courses etc? :O

Cheers

Jamie

Goksly · 20 Sep 2012 at 11:21

I've done a few courses with QA.com, not cheap, but course was good.

satanicguardian · 20 Sep 2012 at 13:15

Goksly said:
I've done a few courses with QA.com, not cheap, but course was good.

How long do the courses take and what do they normally cover, I'm trying to ascertain what qualifications I'll need to be successful in this field

ringo747 · 27 Sep 2012 at 20:24

Hi, just saw this thread. What you should try and do is find out when MS are running their ignite course for SharePoint 2013 which will be out early next year I believe. It is geared towards IT Pros and usually has separate admin and developer themes.

As far as qualifications go you should look at the MCTS in SharePoint Administration and/or SharePoint Development.

SharePoint is an absolutely huge product and there is so much to learn. You could do a 2 week course and at the end of it you would be no more than a power user. It will take years to learn it properly.

Any reason why you are looking specifically at SharePoint?! Lots of people don't particularly like it.

satanicguardian · 28 Sep 2012 at 11:51

It interests me, I find the idea of companies totally removing their reliance on servers and massive server racks on site intriguing; it's definitely the future of business computing in my opinion and its where the money is going to be

ringo747 · 28 Sep 2012 at 14:19

Yeah SharePoint is massive alright and is MS fastest growing product I believe. I haven't done anything with the online version. It is handy but not as feature rich as the full version as far as I know.

satanicguardian · 29 Sep 2012 at 12:38

Mate it's insanely complicated from what I've seen so far, just the access control for documents is mind blowing, you can be so finicky and specific about who can do what xD

HungryHippos · 29 Sep 2012 at 16:00

The real money in Sharepoint will probably be more from a development point of view, understanding how to customise the sites, create your own webparts, scripts etc. I would suspect that knowing a bit about Powershell for Sharepoint will certainly help as well.

ringo747 · 29 Sep 2012 at 18:11

Yeah setting permissions, adding users, creating sites is really just a power user activity.

Powershell and .NET development as Eulogy says is the best things to learn. I use PS for scripted builds, configuring services, creating site hierarchies, content database management and such things. I could do with learning more about it but it is a really important thing to learn and very useful.

Visual Studio solutions are things like masterpage development, webparts, list definitions which you package as solution files. Doing all those sorts of tasks are worth learning as it that is more technical than just using the SP GUI to manage the system.

satanicguardian · 2 Oct 2012 at 13:53

ringo747 said:
Yeah setting permissions, adding users, creating sites is really just a power user activity.

Powershell and .NET development as Eulogy says is the best things to learn. I use PS for scripted builds, configuring services, creating site hierarchies, content database management and such things. I could do with learning more about it but it is a really important thing to learn and very useful.

Visual Studio solutions are things like masterpage development, webparts, list definitions which you package as solution files. Doing all those sorts of tasks are worth learning as it that is more technical than just using the SP GUI to manage the system.

Indeed, and also I agree with Eulogy, I just literally don't know where to start, there is far too much stuff to do XD