Administering & Managing Microsoft SharePoint Online
Microsoft SharePoint has been called one of the most powerful tools that exist today for business collaboration. Steve Ballmer once said that SharePoint “unleashes a suite of capabilities that dramatically improves the way people work.” Since its early conception, SharePoint has been one of the world's favorite collaboration platforms. Now completely online, it brings a whole new level of cloud based services with improved speed, storage growth, manageability and security.
If you are new to Microsoft SharePoint Online or simply want to take your skills further then over 4 days, you’ll learn exactly what SharePoint Online is and more importantly what it can do for your business. For a unique technical experience designed by and for IT professionals who don’t have time to waste. This 4 day hands on class not only prepares you with real world skills but provides an opportunity to interact and learn from an industry expert, as well as gaining real world hands on experience.
Audience
The class is designed for IT Professionals who already have a grounding in Operations, and Cloud Computing who want to transition their skills further
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the architecture of SharePoint Online
- Gain knowledge of all the components in SharePoint Online
- Gain on hands on experience configuring the components of SharePoint Online
- Gain valuable hands on experience configuring the options Work with Site Collections and storage options
- Manage user profiles and social profiling
- Understand and configure data connections in SharePoint Online
- Build a taxonomy structure
- Understand and configure Search in SharePoint Online
- Configure and deploy apps in SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 & Microsoft Teams
- Understand and define Enterprise content management and Security and Compliancy
- Protect Data with Microsoft Purview Compliance Solutions
About the instructor Andy Malone
Andy Malone, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft MVP
With a prestigious international career spanning 30 years, Andy Malone is not only a world class technology instructor and consultant. But is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and veteran conference speaker at such prestigious events as Microsoft Ignite, NIC, LIVE 360 & many more. In both his training’s and events at which he speaks, his passionate style of delivery, combined with a sense of fun has become his trademark and has won him great acclaim.
Andy is responsible for creating and delivering ground breaking content to both Microsoft and its network of prestigious Gold Microsoft Partners worldwide. Partnering with a select few, Andy is able to offer you and your team a learning experience beyond the ordinary.
Course Outline
Module 1 Preparing your M365 Tenant Environment for SharePoint Online
- Understanding SharePoint & M365 SKU’s & Plans
- Introducing Microsoft SharePoint Online Premium Licensing
- Preparing & configuring your Microsoft 365 Tenant for SharePoint Online
- Lab - Exercise 1 - Initialize your Microsoft 365 Tenant
- Creating & Managing Users in Entra ID
- Managing Groups in Entra ID
- Exploring Admin Roles in M365 & SharePoint
- Adding & Managing domains in Microsoft 365
- Lab: Managing Users & Groups
Module 2 Working with SharePoint Online
- Introduction to the Microsoft 365 Administration Centre
- Configure Reporting
- Accessing SharePoint management tools
- Managing Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online with PowerShell
- Comparing On Premises SharePoint with SharePoint Online
- Building Hybrid scenarios
- OneDrive and Sites redirection
- Viva Engage redirection
- Understand hybrid search
- Hybrid business data connectivity
- Managing a Hybrid taxonomy
- Lab: Managing Users & Groups
MODULE 3: Working With Site Collections
- Introduction to classic and modern admin centres
- Creating Site Collections
- Defining ownership and security for site collections
- Configuring Storage
- Configure External Access to site collections
- Recovering site collections
- Configure external sharing
- Managing site collections with PowerShell
- Lab: Managing Site Collections
MODULE 4: Managing User Profiles
- Overview of the profile service
- Map profile properties to a term store
- Creating custom profile properties
- Managing audiences
- Defining read access permission levels
- Configuring Viva Engage options
- Setup email notifications
- Configure my site cleanup
- Lab: Managing the User Profile service
MODULE 5: Working with Data Connections
- Introduction to Data Connections
- Overview of Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI
- Overview of the legacy business connectivity service
- Introduction to the secure store service
- Configuring the secure store service
- Creating secure store target application settings
- Configure connections to cloud services
- Configure connections to on-premises services
- Lab: Managing the business data connectivity services with Power Automate & PowerApps
MODULE 6: Managing the Terms Store
- Overview of the term store
- Understanding terms and life cycle management
- Creating term groups
- Creating the term store
- Creating Term Sets in the UI
- Creating Term Sets via importing via a CSV
- Creating terms in the UI
- Creating terms via PowerShell and CSOM
- Manage terms with synonyms and pinning
- Configure delegated administration
- Lab: Creating and Managing the Term Store
MODULE 7: Configuring Search
- An Introduction to the search service
- Classic versus Modern search experience
- Understanding Managed Properties
- Create and configure result sources
- Understand Query rules
- Promoting results through query rules
- Exporting search configurations
- Importing search configurations
- Lab: Managing and configuring the Search Service
MODULE 8: Configuring Apps
- An Introduction to Apps
- Understanding the App Catalog
- Building the App catalog
- Adding Apps to the catalog
- Add Apps to your SharePoint sites
MODULE 8: Configuring Apps (Continued)
- Adding Apps via the marketplace store
- Administering Entra ID Enterprise Apps
- Teams & Microsoft 365 Apps
- Configure store access settings
- Monitoring app usage
- Lab: Configuring Apps
MODULE 9: Managing Options for SharePoint Online
- Configure OneDrive features
- Configure use of Viva Engage or Newsfeeds
- Understand Information Rights Management
- Configure Information Rights Management
- Define site classification options
- Understand early release options for Microsoft 365
- Configure Early release options for your Microsoft 365 tenant
- Manage Access Controls
- Lab: Configure options for SharePoint Online
MODULE 11: Introducing & Working with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Benefits of Copilot
- Security challenges
- Secure and govern with Microsoft Security
- Getting started with baseline security controls
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 – User experience
- Licensing Microsoft 365 Copilot
MODULE 12: Managing Data Protection Solutions in SharePoint Online & Microsoft 365
- Explore compliance Features in Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Online
- Implement data classification of sensitive information
- Explore sensitivity labels
- Implement sensitivity labels
- Explore Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
- Implement Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
- Lab: Managing & Testing DLP Policies (MS102)
MODULE 13: Managing compliance Solutions in Microsoft 365 & SharePoint Online
- Implement Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
- Administering Microsoft Purview Communications Compliance
- Implement Microsoft Purview Information Barriers
- Managing eDiscovery Solutions in Purview
- SharePoint Reporting
- Lab Implement Sensitivity labels
Course Conclusions & Q&A
