Introduzione

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:

Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with Microsoft SharePoint Online.

Has broad familiarity with SharePoint Server workloads.

Has experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.

Has experience with authentication and security technologies.

Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

* 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.

Obiettivi del corso

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe the core SharePoint 2016 architecture and its new and improved features

Describe the key hybrid features in SharePoint 2016

Plan and design a SharePoint 2016 environment to meet requirements for high availability and disaster recovery

Plan and implement Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Service

Configure and manage productivity services for a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Manage solutions in a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Plan and configure social computing features

Plan and configure web content management for an Internet-facing environment

Plan and configure Enterprise Content Management in a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Plan and configure business intelligence solutions

Plan and configure work management, productivity, and collaboration platforms and features

Perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint 2016

Prerequisiti

An ideal candidate for this course must have at least one year 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:

At least a one-year experience of mapping business requirements to both logical and physical technical designs

Working knowledge of network design, including network security

Software management experience in a Windows Server 2012 R2 enterprise server or Windows Server 2016 environment

Deploying and managing applications natively, virtually, and in the cloud

Administering IIS

Configuring AD DS for use in authentication and authorization, and as a user store

Managing an application remotely by using Windows PowerShell 2.0 or later

Connecting applications to SQL Server

Implementing claims-based security

Struttura del Corso

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the architectural features of a Microsoft-SharePoint 2016

Identify the new, deprecated, and removed features in SharePoint 2016

Describe the editions for SharePoint 2016 on-premises and Microsoft SharePoint Online

Configure SharePoint 2016 farms

Create and configure site collections and sites

Provisione service applications by using the SharePoint 2016 Management Shell

Lab : Reviewing the core Microsoft SharePoint 2016 concepts

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the key hybrid features in SharePoint Server 2016

Prepare for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment

Creating an Office 365 tenant

Preparing the SharePoint environment

Running the SharePoint Hybrid picker

Lab : Configuring an Office 365 tenant

Lab : Creating hybrid team sites

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Select an appropriate database server configuration to meet availability requirements.

Design a physical architecture and infrastructure to meet High-Availability requirements.

Develop and implement a backup and restore strategy plan

Test the backup and restore process

Lab : Planning and performing backup and restore

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and Configure Business Connectivity Service (BCS) application

Plan and configure  the Secure Store Service application

Manage the Business Data Connectivity (BCS) models

Configure the BDC Service Application

Configure the Secure Store Service

Importing and configuring BDC models

Lab : Configuring BCS and the Secure Store Service

Lab : Managing BDC models

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe Microsoft SharePoint Add-ins and the supporting SharePoint infrastructure

Provision and configure SharePoint Add-ins and App Catalogs

Manage how apps are used within a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Configure a SharePoint farm to support apps

Create and configuring a corporate App Catalog

Deploy and monitoring apps

Lab : Configuring and managing SharePoint Add-ins

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage features and solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016

Manage sandboxed solutions in a SharePoint 2016 deployment

Configuring a SharePoint farm to support sandboxed solutions

Configuring a SharePoint site to support sandboxed solutions

Deploying farm solutions

Lab : Managing solutions

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Manage user profiles in Microsoft SharePoint 2016 and configure user profile synchronization by using Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016

Enable social interaction in SharePoint 2016

Build communities and community sites in SharePoint 2016

Configure profile synchronization

Configureg My Sites

Create a community site infrastructure

Configure Community Site participation

Lab : Configuring profile synchronization and My Sites

Lab : Configuring community sites

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and configure a web content management infrastructure

Configure managed navigation and product catalog sites

Plan and Configure support for multilingual sites and locales

Manage design and customization for publishing sites

Plan and configure support for mobile users

Configuring a product catalog site

Configuring Cross-Site Publishing

Configuring publishing sites

Configuring device channels

Lab : Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites

Lab : Configuring device channels

MODULE 9: Planning and configuring Enterprise Content Management

This module explains how to plan for 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan how to manage content and documents

Plan and configure eDiscovery

Plan records management and compliance

Create and configure an eDiscovery Center

Discove and preserve content

Query and exporte content

Configure in-place records management

Lab : Configuring eDiscovery in SharePoint 2016

Lab : Configuring records management in SharePoint Server 2016

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the Microsoft SharePoint business intelligence (BI) architecture, its components, and plan for business intelligence.

Plan, deploy, and manage the core Microsoft SharePoint 2016 BI services.

Configure the advanced BI options available in SharePoint 2016 and Microsoft SQL Server 2014.

Deploy Office Online Server

Configure PowerPivot for SharePoint 2016

Configure Power View for SharePoint

Lab : Installing Office Online Server

Lab : Configuring PowerPivot and Power View for SharePoint 2016

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe how to plan and configure SharePoint collaborative and coauthoring options.

Configure project sites and engage teams

Plan and configure composites

Configure workflows in SharePoint 2016

Creating an Office Online Server farm and configuring integration in SharePoint 2016

Creating project sites

Configuring project sites

Engaging project teams

Configuring Project Server integration

Workflow and Microsoft SharePoint Workflow Services

Creating and testing a workflow

Configuring Microsoft Azure

Lab : Configuring and working with project sites

Lab : Configuring a workflow

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and prepare for an upgrade or migration

Perform upgrades to data and service applications.

Prepare and Upgrade site collections.

Prepare and Upgrade advanced content from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016.

Lab : Managing site-collection upgrades

Lab : Performing a content database migration and upgrade from Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013