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MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 & 2013

Course Overview:

TechNow’s Course provides existing .NET developers with practical information and labs that enables them to build solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 platform.

Attendees to MS-10175: Developing & Customizing Applications for Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013 will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

Date/Locations:

No Events

Duration: 5 days

Course Objectives:

  • Introduction to SharePoint 2010/2013 Development Platform
  • Using SharePoint 2010/2013 Developer Tools
  • Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Web Parts
  • Working with SharePoint Objects on the Server
  • Creating Event Receivers and Application Settings
  • Developing Solutions by Using Business Connectivity Services
  • Developing SharePoint 2010/2013 Workflows
  • Working with Client-based APIs for SharePoint 2010/2013
  • Developing Interactive User Interfaces
  • Developing Silverlight Applications for SharePoint
  • Developing Sandboxed Solutions
  • Working with SharePoint Server Profiles and Taxonomy APIs
  • Developing Content Management Solutions

    Prerequisites:

    • An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development
    • Approximately 12 months experience with ASP .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 (or later)
    • Approximately 1 month development experience with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and VS2010/2013 (includes beta releases) creating code that interacts with the SharePoint Sever-side APIs
    • Experience performing end user tasks with SharePoint 2007 or SharePoint 2010/2013 and an understanding of the purpose and use of the following:
      • Lists
      • Documents and Libraries
      • Personalizing an SP Page/Site
      • Using MySites
      • Using SharePoint Designer

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    User: kelleyd10

    Instructor comments: Clay was / is an outstanding instructor. He was very flexible in what the class needed. He was very accommodating and resourceful in answering the class questions. Clay's teaching style is greatly appreciated.

    Facilities comments: Were good

    User: dennij

    Instructor comments: Very professional and knowledgeable. Available before and after class.

    Facilities comments: Location was nice but too far from Lackland.

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    Observations of Instructor Led Training with Real Hardware

    TechNow has heard many students talk about virtualized/remote training that TechNow Does Not Do.  While training our most recent offering of PA-215: Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials FastTrack a student told his story of how he endend up in our course.  His story we have heard for other technologies like Cisco, VMware, BlueCoat and other products.

    A large percentage of training is moving to the virtualized/remote lab environments.  Students are asked to use some variant of remote access software and remote into the training company's lab environment. Our student in our Palo Alto Networks Firewall course informed us that he went to a very costly offering of that course from the vendor and was not able to perform any labs.  There were either network connectivity issues, or issues with the remote access software, or other problems.  The whole training experience was very frustrating and not productive.

    We keep our labs open to students if they would like after hours, or before hours access.  Repeatedly going through a lab engrains that knowledge for later recall.  Touching hardware is so critical in understanding the problems that arise when a cable comes loose, or a cable gets plugged in the wrong port.  There are other scenarios such as just pulling the power cable, or turning off a power strip, or accidently overwriting a configuration.  These disaster scenarious requires hands-on physical access to hardware.  Preventing and recovering from disasters is what it's all about, and that requires hands-on, instructor led, real hardware.

    TN-963: Windows Security Automation with PowerShell

    Course Overview:

    PowerShell is made for Security Operations (SecOps) automation on Windows. SecOps requires automation in order to scale out security changes and monitoring beyond a handful of hosts. For example, when a vulnerability must be remediated but there is no patch for it yet, automation is needed to quickly and consistently enact the changes necessary. PowerShell “remoting” is encrypted remote command execution of PowerShell scripts in a way that can scale to thousands of endpoints and servers.

    Imagine being able to hunt for indicators of compromise across thousands of machines with just a few lines of PowerShell code. Or imagine having the local Administrator account password reset every night on thousands of endpoints in a secure way, and being able to retrieve that password securely too.

    We will show you to do these tasks and more. Transcription logging for forensics, strong encryption code signing, application whitelisting of scripts, IPSec port control, and Just Enough Admin (JEA).

    As more and more of our systems are moved up to the cloud, PowerShell will become even more important. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Hyper-V and VMware already support PowerShell administration for many tasks.

    Attendees to TN-963: Windows Security Automation with PowerShell will receive TechNow approved course materials and expert instruction.

    Date/Locations:

    No Events

    Duration: 3 days

    Course Objectives:

    Day One
    PowerShell Overview and Tips

      • Getting started running commands
      • Using and updating the built-in help
      • Execution policies
      • Fun tricks with the ISE graphical editor
      • Piping .NET and COM objects, not text
      • Using properties and methods of objects
      • Helping Linux admins feel more at home
      • Aliases, cmdlets, functions, modules, etc.
      • Customizing your profile script

    What Can We Do With PowerShell

      • PowerShell remote command execution
      • Fan-out remoting and security
      • File copy via PowerShell remoting
      • Capturing the output of commands
      • Parsing text files and logs with regex patterns
      • Searching remote event logs faster with XPath
      • Mounting the registry as a drive
      • Exporting data to CSV, HTML and JSON files
      • Parsing and mining nmap port scanner XML output
      • Running scripts as scheduled jobs
      • Pushing out scripts through Group Policy
      • Importing modules and dot-sourcing functions
      • http://www.PowerShellGallery.com

    Write your own scripts

      • Writing your own functions
      • Passing arguments into your scripts
      • Function parameters and returning output
      • Flow control: if-then, do-while, foreach, switch
      • The .NET Framework class library: a playground
      • How to pipe data in/out of your scripts

    Day Two
    Continuous Secure Configuration Enforcement

      • How to use Group Policy and PowerShell together
      • Automate with INF security templates
      • How to customize INF templates
      • Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM)
      • SECEDIT.EXE scripting
      • Building an in-house security repository for SecOps/DevOps
      • NSA’s Secure Host Baseline GPOs

    Group Policy Precision Targeting

      • Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) with PowerShell
      • LSDOU, Block Inheritance, Enforced GPOs
      • Group Policy permissions for targeting changes
      • ADMX templates for mass registry editing
      • Deploying PowerShell startup and logon scripts
      • WMI item-level targeting of GPO preferences
      • GPO scheduled tasks to run PowerShell scripts
      • Remote command execution via GPO (not remoting)
      • Empowering the Hunt Team to fight back!

    Server Hardening for SecOps/DevOps

      • Server Manager scripting with PowerShell
      • Adding and removing roles and feature
      • Remotely inventory roles, features, and apps
      • Why Server Nano or Server Core
      • Running PowerShell automatically after service failure
      • Service account identities, passwords, and risks
      • Tools to reset service account passwords securely

    Day Three
    PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)

      • DSC is Configuration Management built in for free
      • Using DSC for continuous reinforcement of settings
      • Writing your own DSC configuration scripts
      • Free DSC resource modules: www.PowerShellGallery.com
      • How to push DSC configurations to many targets
      • DSC background job processing in push mode
      • Examples: sync files, install roles, manage groups
      • Auditing a remote target against a DSC MOF template
      • “ApplyAndAutoCorrect” mode for continuous enforcement

    PowerShell Just Enough Admin (JEA)

      • JEA is Windows sudo, like on Linux
      • JEA is Windows setuid root, like on Linux
      • Restricting commands and arguments
      • Verbose transcription logging
      • How to set up and configure JEA
      • Privilege Access Workstations (PAWs)

    PowerShell and WMI

      • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service
      • What is WMI and why do hackers abuse it so much?
      • Using PowerShell to query WMI CIM classes
      • WMI authentication and traffic encryption
      • Inventory operating system versions and installed software
      • WMI remote command execution versus PowerShell remoting
      • PowerShell security best practices
      • PowerShell transcription logging to catch hackers

    Prerequisites:

    • GSEC or equivalent experience
    • UNIX, Windows, Networking, and Security Experience
    • This is a hands-on skill course requiring comfort with command line interaction and network communications

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