The following modules will be taught during this course:
Module 1: Introducing SharePoint 2016
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Key components of a SharePoint deployment
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New features in SharePoint 2016
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SharePoint 2016 deployment options
Module 2: Designing an information architecture
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Identifying business requirements
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Understanding business requirements
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Organizing information in SharePoint 2016
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Planning for discoverability
Lab: Designing an information architecture - Part one
Lab: Creating an information architecture - Part two
Module 3: Designing a logical architecture
Lab: Designing a logical architecture
Module 4: Designing a physical architecture
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Designing physical components for SharePoint deployments
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Designing supporting components for SharePoint deployments
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SharePoint farm topologies
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Mapping a logical architecture design to a physical architecture design
Lab: Designing a physical architecture
Module 5: Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016
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Installing SharePoint 2016
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Scripting installation and configuration of SharePoint
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Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings
Lab: Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016 – Part one
Lab: Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016 – Part two
Module 6: Creating web applications and site collections
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Creating web applications
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Configuring web applications
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Creating and configuring site collections
Lab: Creating and configuring web applications
Lab: Creating and configuring site collections
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Creating and configuring site collections
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Creating a site collection in a new content database
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Using Fast Site Collection Creation
Module 7: Planning and configuring service applications
Lab: Planning and configuring service applications
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Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application with Central Administration
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Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application with Windows PowerShell
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Configuring the Word Automation Services service application for document conversion
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Configuring service application proxy groups
Module 8: Managing users and permissions, and securing content
Lab: Managing users and groups
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Creating a web-application policy
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Creating and managing SharePoint groups
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Creating custom permission levels
Lab: Securing content in SharePoint sites
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Managing permissions and inheritance
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Managing site-collection security
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Enabling anonymous access to a site
Module 9: Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2016
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Overview of authentication
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Configuring federated authentication
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Configuring server-to-server authentication
Lab: Extend your SharePoint 2016 to support Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
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Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2016 to use federated identities
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Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to enable a web application a relying party
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Configuring SharePoint to trust AD FS as an identity provider
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Configuring a web application to use the AD FS identity provider
Module 10: Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
Lab: Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
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Configuring SharePoint Server communication security
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Hardening a SharePoint server farm
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Configuring blocked file types
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Configuring Web Part security
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Implementing security auditing
Module 11: Managing taxonomy
Lab: Configuring content-type propagation
Lab: Configuring and using the managed metadata service
Module 12: Configuring user profiles
Lab: Configuring user profiles
Lab: Configuring My Sites and audiences
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Configuring My Sites
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Configuring audiences
Module 13: Configuring Enterprise Search
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Understanding the Search Service Application architecture
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Configuring Enterprise Search
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Managing Enterprise Search
Lab: Configuring Enterprise Search
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Configuring the Search Service Application
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Configuring a file share content source
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Configuring a local SharePoint content source
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Creating a search centre
Lab: Optimizing the search experience
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Configuring a result source and a query rule
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Customizing the search experience
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Creating and deploying a thesaurus
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Configuring entity extractors and refiners
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Managing query spelling correction
Module 14: Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environment
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Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 environment
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Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint 2016 environment
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Planning and configuring caching
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Troubleshooting a SharePoint 2016 environment
Lab: Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 deployment
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Configuring usage and health data collection
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Configuring SharePoint diagnostic logging
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Configuring Health Analyser rules
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Reviewing usage and health data
Lab: Investigating page load times