Sharepoint 2016 - Microsoft Sharepoint

The Knowledge Academy Planning and Administering SharePoint 2016 (M203391) 5 day course covers the following topics:

Introduction

This course will give delegates an understanding of how to plan and administer a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. The course will look guidelines, considerations and best practices.

Pre-requisites

To take part in this course delegates must have:

An understanding of software management in a Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 enterprise server environment

Knowledge of how to manage applications remotely using Windows PowerShell 4.0

An understanding in Configuring AD DS for use in authentication, authorisation and as a user store

Aimed at

This course is aimed at those looking in the IT profession looking to learn to install, configure and manage SharePoint 2016 installations.

Duration

This course has a duration of 5 days

Course outline

Module 1: 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

• The key components of a SharePoint deployment
• New features in SharePoint 2016
• 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 2016 deployment and make it easy to find and retrieve.

Lessons

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

Lab : Designing an information architecture - Part one

• Identifying site columns, content types, and term sets

Lab : Creating an information architecture - Part two

• Designing keywords, synonyms, promoted results, thesaurus, and managed properties
• Designing a 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 a SharePoint 2016 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 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 the physical requirements of a SharePoint deployment
• Designing supporting software for the physical components of a SharePoint deployment
• 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 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 the installation and configuring a SharePoint 2016 environment
• Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings

Lab : Provisioning SharePoint 2016

• Provisioning a SharePoint 2016 server farm

Lab : Configuring SharePoint 2016

• Configuring incoming email
• Configuring outgoing email
• Configuring integration with Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2016

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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 : Configuring services and service applications

• Provisioning a managed metadata service application with Central Administration
• Provisioning a managed metadata service application with Windows PowerShell
• Configuring service applications for document conversions
• Configuring service application proxy groups

Module 8: Managing users, 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 2016

• Managing permissions and inheritance
• Managing site collection security
• Enabling anonymous access to a site

Module 9: 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 : Configuring SharePoint 2016 to use federated identities

• Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to make 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 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 : Configuring SharePoint 2016 communication security

• Configuring SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server to communicate over nonstandard ports
• Hardening a SharePoint server farm

Lab : Configuring farm-level security

• 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 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

Module 12: 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 and managing user profiles

• Provisioning My Sites
• Configuring audiences

Module 13: Configuring Enterprise Search
This module describes the Search service architecture, 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 architecture
• Configuring the Search service
• 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 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 environment
• Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint environment
• Planning and configuring caching
• Troubleshooting a SharePoint environment

Lab : Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 deployment

• Configuring usage and health data
• Configuring diagnostic logging
• Configuring health analyzer rules
• Reviewing usage and health data

Lab : Investigating page load times

• Analyzing network traffic
• Analyzing SharePoint page performance