Course Description
This is a 5-day Instructor Led Training
(ILT) course that targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in
evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Office 365 services, including
its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This
course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including
federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an
Office 365 tenant and users. This course maps to the following two
certification exams: 70-346 and 70-347.
Windows Azure and Office 365 are required
or used as part of the lab for this course, which may not be available in all
countries. Please check with your Microsoft training provider that these
cloud services are available in your area. Training Providers please
reference the course setup guide for more details.
Note: Students need an Azure account to
complete the course. You can either use an existing account or trial account
(as long as it expires after the course end date), or you can sign up for an
Azure trial account during the day 1 lab. If you plan to sign up for an Azure
trial account during the lab, you must have a credit card and cell phone to
complete your account registration. Credits provided to Azure trial accounts
are sufficient to cover course usage. As for Office 365, do not provision an
Office 365 tenant in advance. The Office 365 tenant will be provisioned as part
of the labs.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will
be able to:
·
Provision Office 365
·
Plan and Implement Networking and Security
in Office 365
·
Manage Cloud Identities
·
Implement and Manage Identities by Using
DirSync
·
Implement and Manage Federated Identities
for Single Sign-On (SSO)
·
Monitor and Troubleshoot Office 365
Availability and Usage
·
Manage Clients and End-User Devices
·
Provision SharePoint Online Site
Collections
·
Configure Exchange Online and Lync Online
for End Users
·
Plan for Exchange Online and Lync Online
Prerequisites
In addition to their professional
experience, students who attend this training should already have the following
technical knowledge:
·
Knowledge:
o
Completion of Clinic 40041 or equivalent
technical knowledge.
o
Cloud-based service concepts
o
Overview of Office 365 and its component
services
o
Active Directory Directory Service
o
TCP/IP network routing
o
Domain Name Services (DNS)
o
X.509 Certificates
o
Firewall ports
·
Experience:
o
Using Windows PowerShell
o
Administering Office 365 with Office 365
Admin Center
o
Working with virtual machines
o
Using Remote Desktop
Course Outline
Module 1: Preparing for Office 365
This module reviews the features of Office
365 and identifies recent improvements to the service. It then identifies the
challenges in deploying Office 365 the benefits of the FastTrack approach
compared to the traditional plan/prepare/migrate deployment process. After
this, you examine how to plan the pilot, provision tenant accounts and finally,
verify that clients can connect to the Office 365 service.
Lessons
·
Planning a Pilot
·
Introduction to Office 365
·
Provisioning Tenants
·
Enabling Client Connectivity
Lab: Setting up the Lucerne Publishing
Datacenter Environment
·
Set Up and Configure the Lucerne Publishing
Data Center Environment
·
Build Environment Recovery Steps
Lab: Preparing for Office 365
·
Planning a FastTrack Pilot
·
Provisioning the Tenant Account
·
Preparing to Manage Office 365
After completing this module, students
will be able to:
·
Describe the features and benefits of
Office 365.
·
Plan a pilot deployment of Office 365.
·
Provision new tenant accounts.
·
Check that clients can connect to the
Office 365 service.
Module 2: Managing Users, Groups, and
Licenses
In this module, students learn about
managing users, groups, and licenses by using the Office 365 console and
Microsoft PowerShell.
Lessons
·
Manage Users and Licenses by Using the
Administration Center
·
Manage Security and Distribution Groups
·
Manage Cloud Identities with Windows
PowerShell
Lab: Managing Users, Groups, and Licenses
·
Manage Users and Licenses by Using the
Administration Center
·
Manage Security and Distribution Groups
·
Manage Cloud Identities with Microsoft
PowerShell
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Manage users and licenses by using the
Office 365 admin center.
·
Manage security and distribution groups by
using the Office 365 admin center.
·
Manage users, licenses, and groups by using
Windows PowerShell.
Module 3: Administering Office 365
In this module, students learn about more
complex administration functions, such as the management of administrators
themselves, how to configure and set password policies in Office 365, and how
to enable and administer rights management to protect confidential documents.
Lessons
·
Manage Administrator Roles in Office 365
·
Configure Password Management
·
Administer Rights Management
Lab: Administering Office 365
·
Manage Administrator Roles in Office 365
·
Configure Password Management
·
Administer Rights Management
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Manage users and licenses by using the
Office 365 admin center.
·
Manage security and distribution groups by
using the Office 365 admin center.
·
Manage users, licenses, and groups by using
Windows PowerShell.
Module 4: Planning and Managing Clients
In this module, students learn how to plan for
client deployment and ensure that users get the tools they need to interact
with Office 365 effectively. This module covers the planning process, how to
make Office 365 ProPlus available to end-users directly, and how to deploy it
as a managed package. Finally, this module covers how to set up Office
telemetry so that administrators can keep track of how users are interacting
with Microsoft Office.
Lessons
·
Plan for Office Clients
·
Manage User-driven Client Deployments
·
Manage IT Deployments of Office 365 ProPlus
·
Office Telemetry and Reporting
Lab: Managing Clients
·
Manage user-driven client deployments
·
Manage IT deployments of Office 365 ProPlus
·
Set up telemetry and reporting (Optional)
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Plan for deploying Office 365 clients.
·
Prepare for user-driven client deployments.
·
Prepare for managed IT deployments of
Office 365 clients.
·
Implement and use Office Telemetry with
Office 365 clients.
Module 5: Planning DNS and Exchange
Migration
In this module, you move on learn about the
factors that cover DNS domain configuration for Office 365, where you need to
add the customer’s existing domain or domains to Office 365. This module also
covers the individual settings that you need to configure so that each Office
365 service works correctly and fully supports client access. These activities
typically happen in the Deploy phase of the FastTrack process.
So far, you have been looking at Office 365
on its own. In this module, you move on to considering what you have to cover
when migrating services from your on-premise environment, starting with your
email system. This module addresses the key issues of migrating email accounts
to Exchange Online and the planning involved in that process. In the lab, you
will practice that planning and then carry out a cutover migration from your
on-premises environment to Exchange Online.
Lessons
·
Add and Configure Custom Domains
·
Recommend a Mailbox Migration Strategy
·
Configure external user sharing
Lab: Preparing for Exchange Migration
·
Configure Exchange Server for Cutover
Migration
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Explain how to add custom domains to Office
365 and customize this domains to the organization’s requirements.
·
Recommend a mailbox migration strategy for
moving to Exchange Online
·
Plan for implementing Exchange Online
within your organization
·
Configure DNS records for Office 365
services.
Module 6: Planning Exchange Online and
Configuring DNS Records
In this module, you learn about the factors
that cover DNS domain configuration for Office 365, where you need to add the
customer’s existing domain or domains to Office 365. This module also covers
the individual settings that you need to configure so that each Office 365
service works correctly and fully supports client access. These activities
typically happen in the Deploy phase of the FastTrack process.
So far, you have been looking at Office 365
on its own. In this module, you examine the scenario in which you migrate
services from your on-premise environment, starting with your email system.
This module addresses the key issues of migrating email accounts to Exchange
Online and the planning involved in that process. In the lab, you will practice
that planning and then carry out a cutover migration from your on-premises
environment to Exchange Online.
Lessons
·
Plan for Exchange Online
·
Configure DNS Records for Services
Lab: Configuring DNS Records and Migrating
to Exchange Online
·
Perform a cutover migration to Exchange
Online
·
Configure DNS Records for Services
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Explain how to add custom domains to Office
365 and customize these domains to the organization’s requirements.
·
Recommend a mailbox migration strategy for
moving to Exchange Online.
·
Plan for implementing Exchange Online
within your organization.
·
Configure DNS records for Office 365 services.
Module 7: Administering Exchange Online
In this module, you learn how to configure
Exchange Online settings that you planned in the previous module, including
archive polices, anti-malware and anti-spam settings, additional email
addresses and external contacts and resources. These are actions that you would
typically carry out during the Deploy phase of the Office 365 FastTrack
deployment or as part of the normal management operations of Exchange Online.
You typically carry out these actions through
the Office 365 portal, although you can also use the Windows Azure Active
Directory PowerShell console to access additional features.
Lessons
·
Configure Personal Archive Policies
·
Manage Anti-malware and Anti-spam Policies
·
Configure Additional Email Addresses for
Users
·
Create and Manage External Contacts,
Resources, and Groups
Lab: Administering Exchange Online
·
Configure Personal Archive Policies
·
Manage Anti-malware and Anti-spam Policies
·
Configure Additional Email Addresses for
Users
·
Create and Manage External Contacts,
Resources, and Groups
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Configure Messaging Records Management
(MRM) for Exchange Online
·
Manage Anti-malware and Anti-spam Policies
·
Configure additional email addresses for users
·
Create and manage external contacts,
resources, and groups in Exchange Online
Module 8: Configuring SharePoint Online
In this module, students learn how to plan
a SharePoint Online implementation that reflects the customer’s needs and then
create site collections that reflect those requirements. This module then
covers the process of external user sharing with SharePoint Online and
describes how this arrangement helps organizations share information more
effectively.
Lessons
·
Manage SharePoint Site Collections
·
Configure External User Sharing
·
Plan a Collaboration Solution
Lab: Configuring SharePoint Online
·
Create SharePoint Site Collections
·
Configure External User Sharing
·
Configure Social and Collaboration Features
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Manage SharePoint site collections by using
the SharePoint Online admin center and Windows PowerShell.
·
Configure external user sharing by using
the Office 365 admin center.
·
Plan a collaboration solution.
Module 9: Configuring Lync Online
In this module, students learn how to
identify factors in the customer’s environment that need to be reflected in the
Lync Online deployment plan, then configure Lync Online to reflect the
customer’s business requirements, both at the end-user level and at the
organization level.
Lessons
·
Plan for Lync Online
·
Configure Lync Online Settings
Lab: Configuring Lync Online
·
Configure Lync End-User Communication
Settings
·
Configure Lync Organizational Settings
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Plan for Lync Online.
·
Configure Lync Online settings.
Module 10: Implementing Directory
Synchronization
In this module, students learn how to plan,
prepare and implement DirSync as a methodology for user and group management in
an Office 365 deployment. The module covers the preparation of an on-premises
environment, the installation and configuration of DirSync, and how to manage
Active Directory users after DirSync has been enabled.
Lessons
·
Prepare On-premises Active Directory for
DirSync
·
Set up DirSync
·
Manage Active Directory Users and Groups
with DirSync In Place
Lab: Implementing Directory Synchronization
·
Prepare on-premises Active Directory for
DirSync
·
Set up DirSync
·
Manage Active Directory Users and Groups
with DirSync in place
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Prepare an on-premises environment ready
for directory synchronization.
·
Install and configure DirSync.
·
Manage Active Directory users in a DirSync
enabled scenario.
Module 11: Implementing Active Directory
Federation Services
In this module, students learn to plan for
single sign-on (SSO) by using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and
then cover the process for setting up an AD FS server farm and an AD FS proxy.
This module also cover the management process for certificates and the AD FS
servers.
Lessons
·
Planning for AD FS
·
Install and Manage AD FS Servers
·
Install and Manage AD FS Proxy Servers
Lab: Implementing Directory Synchronization
·
Install AD FS Servers and Proxy Servers
·
Manage AD FS Servers and Proxy Servers
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Plan for an AD FS deployment.
·
Install and manage AD FS servers.
·
Install and manage AD FS proxies.
Module 12: Monitoring Office 365
In this module, students learn about
monitoring user connections to Office 365 and how to cope with service outages.
They look at a range of tools that diagnose service health and review the
reports that Office 365 provides.
Lessons
·
Isolate Service Interruption
·
Monitor Service Health
·
Analyze Reports
Lab: Monitoring Office 365
·
Isolate Service Interruption
·
Track Message Delivery
·
Monitor Service Health and Analyze Reports
After completing this module, students will
be able to:
·
Isolate and identify causes of Office 365
service interruption.
·
Monitor Office 365 service health.
·
Analyze and use Office 365 reports.
