Module 1: Introducing SharePoint 2016This module describes the structure and capabilities of a SharePoint environment, and the major changes for IT professionals in SharePoint . This module also describes the options available for deploying SharePoint .
Lessons
- Key components of a SharePoint deployment
- New features in SharePoint
- SharePoint 2016 deployment options
Module 2: Designing an information architecture. This module describes how to gather business requirements, and the key elements of a successful information architecture project. This module also explains how to structure information within a SharePoint deployment and make it easy to find and retrieve.
Lessons
- Identifying business requirements
- Understanding business requirements
- Organizing information in SharePoint
- Planning for discoverability
Lab :
- Designing an information architecture – Part one
- Identifying site columns and content type
Lab :
- Creating an information architecture – Part two
- Designing a business taxonomy
Module 3: Designing a logical architecture. This module explains how to approach a logical architecture design and how to document it.
Lessons
- Overview of the SharePoint logical architecture
- Documenting your logical architecture
Lab :
Designing a logical architecture
Planning a logical architecture
Producing a logical architecture diagram
Module 4: Designing a physical architecture. This module describes the physical design requirements for SharePoint , and the physical components necessary to fulfill the physical architecture design. It also explains the SharePoint farm topologies, and describes how to map a logical architecture design to a physical architecture design.
Lessons
- 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
Lab :
- Designing a physical architecture
- Designing a physical architecture
- Developing a physical architecture design diagram
Module 5: Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016This module explains how to install SharePoint in different topologies, script the installation, and configure a SharePoint 2016 environment. This module also explains how to configure the core farm-level settings in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Lessons
Installing SharePoint 2016
Scripting installation and configuration of SharePoint
Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings
Lab :
- Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016 – Part one
- Provisioning a SharePoint 2016 farm
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- Deploying and configuring SharePoint – Part two
- Configuring incoming email
- Configuring outgoing email
- Configuring integration with Office Online Server
Module 6: Creating web applications and site collections. This module explains how to create web applications in SharePoint and how to configure these applications. It also explains how to create and configure site collections in SharePoint and SharePoint Online.
Lessons
- Creating web applications
- Configuring web applications
- Creating and configuring site collections
Lab :
- Creating and configuring web applications
- Creating a web application
- Configuring a web application
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- Creating and configuring site collections
- Creating and configuring site collections
- Creating a site collection in a new content database
- Using Fast Site Collection Creation
Module 7: Planning and configuring service applications. This module describes the service application architecture in SharePoint, and how to provision and manage service applications.
Lessons
- Introduction to the service application architecture
- Creating and configuring service applications
Lab :
- Planning and configuring service applications
- Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application with Central Administration
- Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application with Windows PowerShell
- Configuring the Word Automation Services service application for document conversion
- Configuring service application proxy groups
- Module 8: Managing users and permissions, and securing content. This module explains how to configure authorization in SharePoint 2016. It also explains how to configure site collection security in SharePoint .
Lessons
- Configuring authorization in SharePoint
- Managing access to content
Lab :
- Managing users and groups
- Creating a web-application policy
- Creating and managing SharePoint groups
- Creating custom permission levels
Lab :
- Securing content in SharePoint sites
- Managing permissions and inheritance
- Managing site-collection security
- Enabling anonymous access to a site
- Module 9: Configuring authentication for SharePoint This module explains about the SharePoint 2016 authentication infrastructure, and how to configure claims, providers, and identity federation for SharePoint 2016. It also explains how to configure server-to-server authentication for SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
- Overview of authentication
- Configuring federated authentication
- Configuring server-to-server authentication
Lab :
- Extend your SharePoint to support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Configuring Microsoft SharePoint to use federated identities
- Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to enable a web application a relying party
- Configuring SharePoint to trust AD FS as an identity provider
- Configuring a web application to use the AD FS identity provider
Module 10: Securing a SharePoint deploymentThis module explains how to secure a SharePoint 2016 deployment at the platform level, and how to configure farm-level security settings for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Lessons
- Securing the platform
- Configuring farm-level security
Lab :
- Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
- Configuring SharePoint Server communication security
- Hardening a SharePoint server farm
- Configuring blocked file types
- Configuring Web Part security
- Implementing security auditing
Module 11: Managing taxonomy. This module explains how to create and manage content types and content-type propagation. Additionally, it explains how to implement managed metadata in SharePoint web applications and site collections. It also explains how to configure the managed metadata service application in SharePoint .
Lessons
- Managing content types
- Understanding managed metadata
- Configuring the managed metadata service
Lab :
- Configuring content-type propagation
- Creating content types for propagation
- Publishing content types across site collections
Lab :
- Configuring and using the managed metadata service
- Configuring the managed metadata service
- Creating term sets and terms
- Consuming term sets
Module 12: Configuring user profilesThis module explains how to configure the User Profile service application, and how to manage user profiles and audiences.
Lessons
- Configuring the User Profile Service Application
- Managing user profiles and audiences
Lab :
- Configuring user profiles
- Configuring the User Profile Service Application
- Configuring directory import and synchronization
Lab :
- Configuring My Sites and audiences
- Configuring My Sites
- Configuring audiences
Module 13: Configuring Enterprise SearchThis module describes the Search Service Application and explains how to configure the Search service in SharePoint. It also explains how to manage the search experience in SharePoint
Lessons
- Understanding the Search Service Application architecture
- Configuring Enterprise Search
- Managing Enterprise Search
Lab :
- Configuring Enterprise Search
- Configuring the Search Service Application
- Configuring a file share content source
- Configuring a local SharePoint content source
- Creating a search center
Lab :
- Optimizing the search experience
- Configuring a result source and a query rule
- Customizing the search experience
- Creating and deploying a thesaurus
- Configuring entity extractors and refiners
- Managing query spelling correction
Module 14: Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environmentThis module explains how to implement a monitoring plan for SharePoint 2016, and how to optimize the performance of a SharePoint 2016 deployment. It also explains how to plan for and configure SharePoint caching. Further, it explains how to identify and resolve problems in a SharePoint 2016 environment.
Lessons
- Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 environment
- Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint 2016 environment
- Planning and configuring caching
- Troubleshooting a SharePoint 2016 environment
Lab :
- Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 deployment
- Configuring usage and health data collection
- Configuring Sharepoint diagnostic logging
- Configuring Health Analyzer rules
- Reviewing usage and health data
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- Investigating page load times
- Analyzing network traffic
- Analyzing SharePoint page performance
