Planning and Administering SharePoint 2016 (Planning and Administering)

This five-day course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan and administer a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. The course teaches you how to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot your SharePoint environment. This course also provides guidelines, best practices, and considerations that help you optimize your SharePoint deployment. This is the first in a sequence of two courses for IT professionals and is aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification.


What Will I Learn ?

  • Introducing SharePoint 2016
  • Designing an information architecture
  • Designing a logical architecture
  • Designing a physical architecture
  • Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016
  • Creating web applications and site collections
  • Planning and configuring service applications
  • Managing users and permissions, and securing content
  • Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2016
  • Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
  • Managing taxonomy
  • Configuring user profiles
  • Configuring Enterprise Search
  • Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environment

Prerequisite Knowledge

Before attending this course, students must have knowledge of:

  • Software management in a Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 enterprise server environment.
  • Deploying and managing applications natively, virtually, and in the cloud.
  • Administering IIS.
  • Configuring AD DS for use in authentication, authorization, and as a user store.
  • Managing an application remotely by using Windows PowerShell 4.0.
  • Managing databases and server roles in SQL Server.
  • Connecting applications to SQL Server.
  • Implementing claims-based security.
  • Using Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine

Who can benefits ?

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Describe the key features of SharePoint 2016.
  • Design 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.

Opportunity Scope

Mentor shall discuss on classroom.

Modules / Chapter

Introducing SharePoint 2016

This module describes the structure and capabilities of a SharePoint environment, and the major changes for IT professionals in SharePoint 2016. This module also describes the options available for deploying SharePoint 2016.

  • Lessons:
    • Key components of a SharePoint deployment
    • New features in SharePoint 2016
    • SharePoint 2016 deployment options

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 2016 deployment and make it easy to find and retrieve. 

  • Lessons:
    • Identifying business requirements
    • Understanding business requirements
    • Organizing information in SharePoint 2016
    • Planning for discoverability
  • Lab: Designing an information architecture - Part one
    • Identifying site columns and content types
  • Lab: Creating an information architecture - Part two
    • Designing a business taxonomy

Designing a logical architecture

This module explains how to approach a logical architecture design and how to document it.

  • Lessons:
    • Overview of the SharePoint 2016 logical architecture
    • Documenting your logical architecture.
  • Lab: Designing a logical architecture
    • Planning a logical architecture
    • Producing a logical architecture diagram

Designing a physical architecture

This module describes the physical design requirements for SharePoint 2016, 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

Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016

This module explains how to install SharePoint 2016 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
  • Lab: Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016 – Part two
    • Configuring incoming email
    • Configuring outgoing email
    • Configuring integration with Office Online Server

Creating web applications and site collections

This module explains how to create web applications in SharePoint 2016 and how to configure these applications. It also explains how to create and configure site collections in SharePoint 2016 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
  • Lab: Creating and configuring site collections
    • Creating and configuring site collections
    • Creating a site collection in a new content database
    • Using Fast Site Collection Creation

Planning and configuring service applications

This module describes the service application architecture in SharePoint 2016, 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

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 2016.

  • Lessons:
    • Configuring authorization in SharePoint 2016
    • 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

Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2016

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 2016 to support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
    • Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2016 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

Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment

This 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

Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment

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 2016.

  • 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

Configuring user profiles

This 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

Configuring Enterprise Search

This module describes the Search Service Application and explains how to configure the Search service in SharePoint 2016. It also explains how to manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016.

  • 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

Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environment

This 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
  • Lab: Investigating page load times
    • Analyzing network traffic
    • Analyzing SharePoint page performance

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