Module 1: Introduction to Office 365 and SharePoint Online
This first module will take you on a tour of Office 365 and SharePoint Online
and ensure you are familiar with all the components that will be covered in
later modules. You will understand the way identity management works in Office
365 and also the tools required to manage the environment. You will also learn
about the options for migrating to SharePoint Online and building hybrid
scenarios.
Lessons:
- 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
- Manging user domains
- Building Hybrid scenarios
- OneDrive and Sites redirection
- Yammer redirection
- Understand hybrid search
- Hybrid business data connectivity
- Hybrid taxonomy
Module 2: Working with Site Collections
This module with help you to understand the topology of site collections and
how to create and manage them. You will learn how to define delegated control
and administration plus configure storage options and quotas for different site
collections. You will learn how to configure external access to your content and
sharing with external identities and finally how to delete and recover site site
collections including PowerShell management.
Lessons:
- 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
Module 3: Managing User Profiles
User Profiles are a key part of any social and collaboration platform and in
this module you will learn how to manage the user profile options in SharePoint
Online including the building of custom profile properties. You will also learn
how to create and configure audiences for targeted content and then use the
audiences for personal site redirection. Finally you will learn how to configure
the search options and cleanup jobs for the profile service.
Lessons:
- 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
Module 4: Working with Data Connections
This module focuses on building and configuring data connections and the
challenge of SharePoint of displaying data that resides in other data sources
and then displaying that data in SharePoint sites. You will learn how to
leverage PowerApps for forms development and flow to build business process
along with Power Bi to display data. The business connectivity service is
designed to allow data connections to be defined in order to display data from
other locations such as Azure SQL and then allow users to add data web parts
without the need to understand data connection configuration. You will also
learn the importance of using the secure store service along side business data
connections to define data access to remote data storage using single sign on.
Lessons:
- Introduction to Data Connections
- Ovewview of PowerApps, Flow and PowerBi
- 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
Module 5: Managing the Term store
The term store is a key component of Enterprise Content Management and
findability and this module will cover the creation of a term store through to
building term sets and applying them to content. Terms can also be part of a
social profile structure as well and you will learn how to inject terms through
the UI and via PowerShell.
Lessons:
- 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
Module 6: Configuring Search
Search is one of the most important tools available to a user in SharePoint
as it enables data to be found and targeted in various ways. This module will
show what options are available to extend the search service with powerful
search optimization tools such as result sources and managed properties to
enable search web parts to be used as part of a targeted content deployment. You
will also learn about exporting the search configuration and importing it to
other site collections or even other tenants.
Lessons:
- An Introduction to the search service
- Classic versus Modern search experience
- Understanding Managed Properties
- Create Managed Properties
- Manage Authoritative pages
- Understand Result sources
- Create and configure result sources
- Understand Query rules
- Promoting results through query rules
- Remove search results from the index
- Exporting search configurations
- Importing search configurations
Module 7: Configuring Apps
This module will focus on the configuration and deployment of the application
management service in SharePoint Online. Apps are a great way to add features
and functionality to SharePoint and Apps can be deployed in several ways into
SharePoint Online including via the store and via the Application catalog. You
will learn how to configure apps from both environments as well as deploying a
full commercial app from a 3rd party.
Lessons:
- An Introduction to Apps
- Understanding the App Catalog
- Building the App catalog
- Adding Apps to the catalog
- Add Apps to your SharePoint sites
- Adding Apps via the marketplace store
- Manage App licensing
- Configure store access settings
- Monitoring app usage
Module 8: Enterprise Content Management in SharePoint Online
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) deals with the control and management of
data as it is created and stored in SharePoint Online. In this module you will
learn about lifecycle management, document management and data loss prevention
capabilities, eDiscovery and classification and data governance in SharePoint
Online. You will learn how to build various components to help manage ECM such
as records centers, policy centers and configure policies in the security and
compliancy center to configure eDiscovery, labels and data loss prevention.
Lessons:
- An Introduction to ECM in SharePoint Online
- Components of ECM
- Office 365 versus classic compliancy
- Understanding In-Place records management
- Configure In-Place records management
- Understanding the records center
- Build and configure a records center
- Understanding the compliancy policy center
- Build a compliancy policy center and configure policies
- Discover the security and compliancy center
- Configure an eDiscovery center
- Build an eDiscovery case
- Understand data loss prevention
- Build a data loss prevention policy and query
- Working with classification and data governance
Module 9: Manage options for SharePoint Online
There are several additional options available for SharePoint Online that are
not configured in a specific category. This module will cover the configuration
and options available in SharePoint and Office 365 for these components.
Specific components can include options like OneDrive management and site
classification options through to the enabling and configuration of Information
Rights Management that allows additional security options on items in
SharePoint.Finally you will understand the difference and reasons for using
early release feature options for Office 365 which can affect SharePoint
features to your users.
Lessons:
- Configure OneDrive features
- Configure use of Yammer or Newsfeeds
- Understand Information Rights Management
- Configure Information Rights Management
- Define site classification options
- Understand early release options for Office 365
- Configure Early release options for your Office 365 tenant
- Manage Access Control
