MS 55238: SharePoint Online for Administrators

This course will introduce the audience to SharePoint Online Administration in Office 365 and explain and demonstrate the configuration options for SharePoint Online. The course is appropriate for existing SharePoint on-premises administrators and new administrators to Office 365 who need to understand how to correctly setup SharePoint Online for their company. The course will also help SharePoint on-premise administrators understand the differences between SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online.

Course Objectives

  • Understand the architecture of SharePoint Online
  • Have knowledge of all the components in SharePoint Online
  • Have on hands on experience configuring the components of SharePoint Online
  • Have hands on experience configuring the options
  • Work with Site Collections and storage options
  • Manage user profiles and social profiling
  • Understand and configure data connectivity in SharePoint Online
  • Build a taxonomy structure
  • Understand and configure Search in SharePoint Online
  • Configure and deploy apps
  • Understand and define Enterprise content management and data loss prevention.
  • Configure additional options and features in SharePoint Online such as Information Rights Management

Who should attend?

  • SharePoint Administrator

Course Outline

Introduction to Office 365 and SharePoint Online
  • Introduction to the Office 365 Administration Center
  • Configure Reporting
  • Accessing SharePoint management tools
  • Accessing security and compliancy
  • Managing Office 365 and SharePoint Online with PowerShell
  • Comparing On-Premises SharePoint with SharePoint Online
  • User identity in Office 365 and SharePoint Online
  • Managing user domains
  • Building Hybrid scenarios
  • OneDrive and Sites redirection
  • Yammer redirection
  • Understand hybrid search
  • Hybrid business data connectivity
  • Hybrid taxonomy 
  • Lab: Configuring the Office 365 environment
Working with Site Collections
  • Introduction to classic and modern admin centers
  • 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
Managing User Profiles
  • Overview of the profile service
  • Defining profile properties
  • Map profile properties to a term store
  • Creating custom profile properties
  • Managing audiences
  • Creating audiences
  • Managing user profile policies
  • Configure trusted my site host locations
  • Configure preferred search center locations
  • Defining read access permission levels
  • Configuring newsfeed options
  • Setup email notifications
  • Configure my site cleanup
  • Lab: Managing the User Profile service
Working with Data Connections
  • Introduction to Data Connections
  • Overview of PowerApps, Flow and Power BI
  • Overview of the business connectivity service
  • Introduction to BDC definition files
  • Creating BDC definition files
  • 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
  • Tools to build data connections
  • Creating external content types
  • Building external lists using external data
  • Lab: Managing the business data connectivity service
Managing the Term 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