The goal of this four-day, instructor-led course is to provide system administrators and systems engineers with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively plan, deploy, and manage a Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 solution.

Audience Candidates for this course are IT professionals who operate in medium to very large computing environments that use the Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 operating system. Typical environments in which they work have these characteristics:

Supported users ranging from 200 to 5,000 or more

Multiple physical locations

Typical products and technologies include Windows Server 2003, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services, Microsoft SQL Server™, Project Server 2003, Microsoft Project Professional 2003, SQL Analysis Services, Office Web components and messaging and collaboration platforms, and network security products and technologies.

At Course Completion After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a Project Server infrastructure.
• Plan the deployment of Project Server.
• Install and configure Project system servers.
• Install Project Server 2003.
• Plan client software distribution.
• Deploy client software.
• Plan Project Server 2003 operations.
• Configure and manage resource and project data.
• Configure and manage views and security.
• Administer Project Server 2003.
• Migrate project data.
• Plan the testing of a Project Server 2003 deployment.
• Troubleshoot Project Server 2003.

Prerequisites Before attending this course, students must have:

• A working knowledge of Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.
• A working knowledge of basic project management concepts.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

Exam 70-281: Planning, Deploying, and Managing an Enterprise Management Solution

Course Materials The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook, Exercise files, PowerPoint presentation and sample data files.

The complete outline can be found here