Professional Training

Prerequisites

The course is targeted at experienced IT professionals who are interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations either in a data center or in the cloud.

Students typically have more than one year of hands-on experience* with planning and maintaining SharePoint and two years’ experience with other core technologies on which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

Is an IT professional who plans, implements, and maintains a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2016.
Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with SharePoint Online.
Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
Has experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
Has experience with authentication and security technologies.
Has experience with Windows PowerShell.
* The hands-on experience or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint space that includes document management, content management, and search.

Introducing SharePoint 2016

Key components of a SharePoint deployment
New features in SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2016 deployment options

Designing an information architecture

Identifying business requirements
Understanding business requirements
Organizing information in SharePoint 2016
Planning for discoverability

Designing a logical architecture

Overview of the SharePoint 2016 logical architecture
Documenting your logical architecture

Designing a physical architecture

Designing physical components for SharePoint deployments
Designing supporting components for SharePoint deployments
SharePoint farm topologies
Mapping a logical architecture design to a physical architecture design

Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016

Installing SharePoint 2016
Scripting installation and configuration of SharePoint
Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings

Creating web applications and site collections

Creating web applications
Configuring web applications
Creating and configuring site collections

Planning and configuring service applications

Introduction to the service application architecture
Creating and configuring service applications

Managing users and permissions, and securing content

Configuring authorization in SharePoint 2016
Managing access to content

Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2016

Overview of authentication
Configuring federated authentication
Configuring server-to-server authentication

Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Securing the platform
Configuring farm-level security

Managing taxonomy

Managing content types
Understanding managed metadata
Configuring the managed metadata serv

Configuring user profiles

Configuring the User Profile Service Application
Managing user profiles and audiences

Configuring Enterprise Search

Understanding the Search Service Application architecture
Configuring Enterprise Search
Managing Enterprise Search

Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environment

Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 environment
Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint 2016 environment
Planning and configuring caching
Troubleshooting a SharePoint 2016 environment

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the key features of SharePoint 2016.
Design an information architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Design a logical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Design the physical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Install and configure SharePoint 2016.
Create and configure web applications and site collections.
Plan and configure service applications for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Manage users and permissions, and secure content in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Configure authentication in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Configure platform and farm-level security in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Manage information taxonomy in SharePoint web applications and site collections.
Configure and manage user profiles and audiences.
Configure and manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016.
Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot a SharePoint 2016 deployment.