This official Microsoft five-day Planning & Administering SharePoint 2016 (20339-1) training 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.
Plus, this is one of two courses needed to prep you for Microsoft exam 70-339, an elective option for MCSE: Productivity.
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Planning and Administering SharePoint Course Information
Requirements
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 machines
An ideal candidate for this course must have at least one year of experience with deploying and administering multiple SharePoint 2013 farms across a large enterprise. Because many customers have not upgraded from SharePoint 2010, a candidate can also have at least two years of experience with SharePoint 2010. However, they also must understand the differences between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013, particularly in terms of hybridization
Planning and Administering SharePoint 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
Key components of a SharePoint deployment
New features in SharePoint 2016
SharePoint 2016 deployment options
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Identify the architecture and capabilities of SharePoint 2016
Identify new and deprecated features in SharePoint 2016
Identify deployment options for SharePoint 2016
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
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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain how understanding business requirements drives the design of an organizational information architecture
Describe the key components available in SharePoint 2016 to deploy an information architecture
Plan for discoverability as part of an information architecture deployment
Module 3: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Map business requirements to SharePoint 2016 architecture components
Explain the importance of documentation and describe the options for documenting the logical architecture
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 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the requirements for the physical components that are needed for a SharePoint 2016 deployment
Describe the requirements for the supporting components that are needed for a successful SharePoint 2016 deployment
Identify SharePoint farm topologies
Map a logical architecture design to a physical architecture design
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 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Install SharePoint 2016
Deploy and configure SharePoint 2016
Script the installation and configuration of SharePoint 2016
Configure SharePoint 2016 farm settings
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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create web applications
Configure web applications
Create and configure site collections
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: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain the key components and topologies for a SharePoint 2016 service application architecture
Plan for service accounts and service application dependencies
Understand the purpose of mapping service applications to business requirements
Describe how to provision and manage SharePoint 2016 service applications
Module 8: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Manage users and permissions in SharePoint 2016
Manage access to content in SharePoint 2016
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: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain the authentication infrastructure of SharePoint 2016
Configure claims providers and identity federation for SharePoint 2016
Configure server-to-server authentication for SharePoint 2016
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: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Secure a SharePoint 2016 deployment at the platform level
Configure farm-level security settings for a SharePoint 2016 deployment
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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Create and manage content types and content-type propagation
Explain how to implement managed metadata in SharePoint web applications and site collections
Configure the managed metadata service application in SharePoint 2016
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 My Sites and audiences
Configuring My Sites
Configuring audiences
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure the User Profile service application
Manage user profiles and audiences
Module 13: 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the Search service architecture in SharePoint 2016
Configure the Search service in SharePoint 2016
Manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016
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 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
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Develop and implement a monitoring plan for a SharePoint 2016 environment
Tune and optimize a SharePoint 2016 server farm on an ongoing basis
Plan and configure caching to improve the performance of a SharePoint 2016 deployment
Troubleshoot errors and other issues in a SharePoint 2016 deployment
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Planning and Administering SharePoint Training FAQs
Can I use SATVs to take this Planning and Administering SharePoint 2016 course?
Yes! This course is eligible for Microsoft Software Assistance Training Voucher (SATV) redemption.
Which Microsoft exam does this Planning and Administering SharePoint course prepare me for?
This course helps prepare you for the Microsoft 70-339 certification exam, Managing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016.
Is this SharePoint planning and administering course part of a Microsoft certification path?
Yes! This course fulfills an elective option for MCSE: Productivity.
Can I learn to plan & administer my SharePoint 2016 environment online?
Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want. This course is available in class and live online.