Course Description
Course Summary
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.
Target Audience
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.
Objectives
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.
Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2016
This module describes the core architectural SharePoint Server environment, and also helps to identify the new depreciated and removed features in SharePoint 2016.
- Core components of the SharePoint 2016 architecture
- New, deprecated, and removed features in SharePoint 2016
- SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online editions
- Lab : Reviewing the core Microsoft SharePoint 2016 concepts
Module 2: Introduction to hybrid scenarios for SharePoint 2016
This module describes the key hybrid features and helps you to prepare for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment.
- Exploring the hybrid features in SharePoint 2016
- Preparing for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment
- Lab : Configuring an Office 365 tenant
Module 3: Designing business continuity management strategies
This module explains how to select an server configuration to meet availability requirements. It also describes how to design a physical architecture meet high-availability requirements. Finally, this module explains how to develop and implement a backup strategy.
- Designing database topologies for high availability and disaster recovery
- Designing a SharePoint infrastructure for high availability *Panning for disaster recovery
- Lab : Planning and performing backup and restore
Module 4: Planning and implementing Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Service
This module configure Business Connectivity Services (BCS), and describes how to configure and manage the Secure also explains how you can configure and manage BCS models.
- Planning and configuring BCS
- Configuring the Secure Store Service
- Managing BCS 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 architecture. This module also explains how to provision and manage SharePoint apps and App Catalogs. It also describes how to provision Microsoft Access Services, Visio Services, Word Automation Services, PowerPoint and SharePoint Translation Services.
- Understanding the SharePoint Add-in architecture
- Provisioning and managing apps and App Catalogs
- Provisioning productivity services
- Lab : Configuring and managing SharePoint Add-ins
Module 6: Managing solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016
This module describes the purpose and structure features and solutions. In addition, it explains how to manage sandbox solutions in Microsoft SharePoint.
- Understanding the SharePoint 2016 solution architecture
- Managing sandboxed solutions
- Lab : Managing solutions
Module 7: Connecting people
This module explains how to manage user profiles and how to plan and configure features. This module also describes how to configure community sites.
- Managing user profiles
- Enabling social interaction
- Building communities
- Lab : Configuring profile synchronization and My Sites
- Lab : Configuring community sites ? Creating a community site infrastructure
Module 8: Planning and configuring web content management
This module explains how to plan and configure management infrastructure to meet business requirements. This module also describes how to configure product catalog sites, and how to configure support for multilingual sites. Additionally, it explains and how design and customization for publishing sites, and how to plan and configure support for mobile users.
- Planning and implementing a web content management infrastructure
- Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites
- Supporting multiple languages and locales
- Enabling design and customization
- Supporting mobile users
- 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 content and documents, and how to plan for and configure eDiscovery. Additionally, it describes how to management and compliance.
- Planning Enterprise Content Management
- Planning and configuring eDiscovery
- Planning 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 architecture for SharePoint 2016, and how to deploy and manage BI services. Additionally, this module explains configure advanced analysis tools.
- Planning BI architecture
- Planning, deploying, and managing BI services
- Planning and configuring advanced analysis tools
- 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 and collaboration features. This module also explains how to plan and configure composite solutions in:
- Planning and configuring collaboration features
- Planning and configuring composites
- 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 SharePoint 2016. In addition, it explains how to manage site collections are how to upgrade them to SharePoint module describes how to upgrade advanced content from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016.
- Preparing for an upgrade or migration
- Upgrade to SharePoint 2016
- Planning and managing a site-collection upgrade
- Lab : Performing a content database migration and upgrade from Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
- Lab : Managing site-collection upgrades