Preparation Guide for Exam 74-138
Planning and Building a Messaging and Collaboration Environment Using Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Windows Server 2003
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| Audience Profile |
| Preparation Tools and Resources |
| Skills Being Measured |
Exam News
Exam 74-138 is a Technology Specialist exam.
Exam 74-138 became available September 30, 2005.
Audience Profile
A candidate for this exam should have a minimum of one year's experience designing, planning, managing, and building team collaboration solutions that use Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Live Communications Server. A typical environment is the medium-sized organization that has 250 to 500 client computers, multiple locations, with Active Directory.
Preparation Tools and Resources
We make a wealth of preparation tools and resources available to you, including courses, books, practice tests, and Microsoft Web sites. When you are ready to prepare for this exam, here's where you should start.
Instructor-led Courses for This Exam
| • | Course 2014: Customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 |
| • | Course 2081: Deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server |
| • | Course 2286: Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services |
Microsoft Online Resources
| • | Partner Site: Designed for our partners, this site includes training, sales and marketing advice, events, and competency resources. |
| • | Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with Service Pack 1 Planning Guide: This guide describes the planning process for deploying the real-time communications features offered in Live Communications Server 2005. |
| • | Live Communications Server 2005 Deployment Resources: Resources include technical documentation, white papers, tools, training, and other content to help you deploy and operate Live Communications Server 2005. |
| • | Administrator's Guide for Windows SharePoint Services: Learn about installing and managing Windows SharePoint Services. |
| • | TechNet: Designed for IT professionals, this site includes How-tos, best practices, downloads, technical chats, and much more. |
| • | MSDN: The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a reference for developers, featuring code samples, technical articles, newsgroups, chats, and more. |
| • | Training & Certification Newsgroups: A newsgroup exists for every Microsoft certification. By participating in the ongoing dialogue, you take advantage of a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with and ask questions of others, including more than 750 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) worldwide. |
Skills Being Measured
This exam measures your ability to design, plan, manage, and build team collaboration solutions that use Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Live Communications Server. Before taking the exam, you should be proficient in the job skills listed in the following matrix. The matrix shows which Official Microsoft Learning Products may help you reach competency in the skills being tested in the exam.
| KEY: |  = The course provides a general introductory overview of this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work  = The course includes some material to prepare you for this task. You will need to supplement the course with additional work  = The course includes material to prepare you for this task |
| Skills measured by exam 74-138 | Collection 2014 | Collection 2286 | Course Live Communications Server Planning Guide | ||||||||||||
| Design a Messaging and Collaboration Environment | |||||||||||||||
Create an inventory of existing assets |  | ||||||||||||||
Analyze current network systems
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Identify Windows SharePoint Services and Live Communication Server dependencies | | | |||||||||||||
| Create a Messaging and Collaboration Deployment Plan | |||||||||||||||
Choose the deployment technique | | | |||||||||||||
Choose a method for creating and extending custom Web Parts | | ||||||||||||||
Create the project plan | |||||||||||||||
Identify requirements for the development environment | | ||||||||||||||
Use the security features of Windows SharePoint Services |  | ||||||||||||||
| Plan a Server Configuration | |||||||||||||||
Identify the operating system components | | | |||||||||||||
Identify the applications and their components | | | |||||||||||||
Create the server configuration
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Create a network map of the servers | | | |||||||||||||
Configure Windows SharePoint Services
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Test the server configuration. Considerations include ASP.NET, Web server role, Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions, Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), and Microsoft SQL Server availability and functionality. | | | |||||||||||||
| Plan Network Configuration | |||||||||||||||
Decide if deployment will be intranet, extranet, or both | | | |||||||||||||
Identify the security requirements
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Identify the scalability requirements | | | |||||||||||||
| Test the Live Communications Server Client Deployment | |||||||||||||||
Identify the test environment constraints | | ||||||||||||||
Identify the deployment risks | | ||||||||||||||
Plan and create a test environment | | ||||||||||||||
Identify deployment issues | | ||||||||||||||
| Create a Management and Operations Plan | |||||||||||||||
Plan for growth and expansion
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Create a server operations plan. Considerations include service packs, updates, and site retirement policies. | | |
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