All our AEM Forms Training Classes are on Thursdays at 2PM EST. The first 30 minutes is a lecture, presentation and demo of the topic by J.P. Terry. If you can stay beyond the 30 minutes, you are welcome to participate in the group exercise(s) until 4PM. If you can't stay, you can do the exercise on your own time with the Student Manual PDF. Each lecture is also available in online eLearning format on the subsequent Monday.

9-7-2023: AEM Server Setup
The September Administration classes require that you have your own AEM training server. You cannot do the Administration exercises on the SmartDoc Sandbox.

9-14-2023: AEM Server Installation
We will install an Author and a Publish instance of AEM Forms in this session. We will also begin the server configuration in this session. We will configure SMTP, the Apache Sling Authentication Service, the Mobile Forms Configuration Service, the Serialization Agent, the Default Prefill Service, and the Database Drivers.

9-21-2023: AEM Server Configuration
We will continue the server configuration in this session. We will review AEM principals, users, groups, and permissions and use these AEM concepts to configure authentication and access to our servers.

9-28-2023: AEM Server Administration
We will work with the AEM Operations dashboard in this session. The Operations dashboard enables us to monitor AEM system health with built-in visual tools. We will work with Health Reports and Maintenance in this session, and we might explore some other tools.

*** 10-4-2023 ***: Special Adobe AEM Forms Certification Webinar
We will show you what we studied to achieve our AEM Forms Expert credential. We will host a Q&A session about the topics on the Adobe AEM Forms Expert Certification Exam.

10-5-2023: AEM Server Administration
We will work with AEM Log files in this session. AEM log files provide detailed information about the current system state. The system log files are available by default. We can also create custom log files to track messages produced by AEM services. The benefit of custom log files is that they contain messages about a specific service and limit the non-relevant information contained in the default log entries.

10-19-2023: AEM Adaptive Forms (1 of 3)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms adaptive form templates.

10-26-2023: AEM Adaptive Forms (2 of 3)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms and JavaScript.

11-2-2023: AEM Adaptive Forms (3 of 3)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms and Client Libraries.

11-9-2023: AEM Adaptive Form Themes (1 of 2)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms and themes.

11-16-2023: AEM Adaptive Form Themes (2 of 2)
We will work with AEM adaptive form themes and Client Libraries.

11-30-2023: AEM Adaptive Forms and Data (1 of 2)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms and data.

12-7-2023: AEM Adaptive Forms and Data (2 of 2)
We will work with AEM adaptive forms and data.

12-14-2023: AEM Forms as a Cloud Service (1 of 2)
We will create forms and form workflows in AEM Forms as a Cloud Service.

12-21-2023: AEM Forms as a Cloud Service (2 of 2)
We will create forms and form workflows in AEM Forms as a Cloud Service.

Software Downloads:
The Administration classes require you to have your own AEM Server instance. If you don't, you need to download these student versions and setup your own training instance. If you do not have Administrator access to your own machine, download the SmartDoc VMWare Image. You also need to download and install a copy of VMWare Workstation Player.

AEM OSGi Server Software:

OSGi JAR File:
https://smartdoctech-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/p/jp/Ebvpfthi5l5Dm8cnCq80PZYBpui4YBu5kD1IaYY2U_QJ0w?e=m9OufU

Service Pack:
https://smartdoctech-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/p/jp/EZBhcnhmN41OhuC3umi2-HgBUFju8QGhhgZ3TDNX43n2-g?e=SO6V2m

Forms Package:
https://smartdoctech-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/p/jp/EY9BmF63LdNIkMk5312jP3wB8CeqbrcayEiJmR3EE6pUnQ?e=ZG563m

Compatibility Package for AEM Correspondence Management
https://smartdoctech-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/p/jp/EVUczKKvE0BMituj4r0arcwBY89R9sYXJfdm6DeaVgcJPg?e=mJUp8G

The SmartDoc VMWare Image, SmartDoc-AEM-JEE:
https://smartdoctech-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/p/jp/ES5RW8InhjVLj83cy6Kj5QUBbRmEW7qCbK5GhYksadxe7Q?e=QVSJmt