This five-day course will teach you how to plan, configure, and manage the advanced features in a SharePoint 2016 environment. The special areas of focus for this course include implementing high availability, disaster recovery, service application architecture, and Microsoft Business Connectivity Services. This course also focuses on social computing features, productivity, and collaboration platforms and features. Students also will learn about business intelligence solutions, Enterprise Content Management, web content management infrastructure, solutions, and apps. This course also covers how to develop and implement a governance plan, and how to perform an upgrade or a migration to SharePoint 2016.
This is the second in a sequence of two courses for IT Professionals and is aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification.
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 should have more than four years of hands-on experience* planning and maintaining SharePoint Server and other core technologies upon which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 R2 or later, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.
Students should have completed Course 20339-1A: Planning and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2016, or have gained equivalent knowledge and experience before taking this course. The minimally qualified candidate typically:
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 Server space that includes document management, content management, and search.
An ideal candidate for this course must have at least one year of experience with deploying and administering multiple SharePoint Server 2013 farms across a large enterprise. The candidate should have completed Course 20339-1A: Planning and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2016, or should demonstrate equivalent skills.
Before attending this course, students must demonstrate the following skills:
Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2016
This module describes the core architectural components of a SharePoint Server environment and also helps to identify the new depreciated and removed features in SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Reviewing the core Microsoft SharePoint 2016 concepts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Introduction to hybrid scenarios for SharePoint 2016
This module describes the key hybrid features in SharePoint 2016 and helps you to prepare for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring an Office 365 tenant
Lab: Creating hybrid team sites
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Designing business continuity management strategies
This module explains how to select an appropriate database server configuration to meet availability requirements. It also describes how to design a physical architecture and infrastructure to meet high-availability requirements. Finally, this module explains how to develop and implement a backup and restore strategy.
Lessons
Lab: Planning and performing backup and restore
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Planning and implementing Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Service
This module explains how to configure Business Connectivity Services (BCS), and describes how to configure and manage the Secure Store Service application. It also explains how you can configure and manage BCS models.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring BCS and the Secure Store Service
Lab: Managing BDC models
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Configuring productivity services for a SharePoint 2016 deployment
This module describes SharePoint Add-in architecture. This module also explains how to provision and manage SharePoint apps and App Catalogs. Additionally, this module describes how to provision Microsoft Access Services, Visio Services, Word Automation Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, and SharePoint Translation Services.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring and managing SharePoint Add-ins
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 6: Managing solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016
This module describes the purpose and structure of SharePoint 2016 features and solutions. In addition, it explains how to manage sandbox solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Managing solutions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 7: Connecting people
This module explains how to manage user profiles and how to plan and configure My Site and social features. This module also describes how to configure community sites.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring profile synchronization and My Sites
Lab: Configuring community sites
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 8: Planning and configuring web content management
This module explains how to plan and configure a web content management infrastructure to meet business requirements. This module also describes how to configure managed navigation and product catalog sites, and how to configure support for multilingual sites. Additionally, it explains and how to plan and manage design and customization for publishing sites, and how to plan and configure support for mobile users.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites
Lab: Configuring device channels
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 9: Planning and configuring Enterprise Content Management
This module explains how to plan for the management of content and documents, and how to plan for and configure eDiscovery. Additionally, it describes how to plan for records management and compliance.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring eDiscovery in SharePoint 2016
Lab: Configuring records management in SharePoint Server 2016
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 10: Planning and configuring business intelligence solutions
This module explains how to plan business intelligence (BI) architecture for SharePoint 2016, and how to deploy and manage BI services. Additionally, this module explains how to plan and configure advanced analysis tools.
Lessons
Lab: Installing Office Online Server
Lab: Configuring PowerPivot and Power View for SharePoint 2016
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 11: Planning and configuring productivity and collaboration
This module explains how to plan and configure productivity and collaboration features. This module also explains how to plan and configure composite solutions in SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Configuring and working with project sites
Lab: Configuring a workflow
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 12: Upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016
This module explains how to prepare for upgrade or migration to SharePoint 2016. In addition, it explains how to manage site collections are how to upgrade them to SharePoint 2016. Finally, the module describes how to upgrade advanced content from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Performing a content database migration and upgrade from Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Lab: Managing site-collection upgrades
After completing this module, students will be able to: