Planning and Administering SharePoint 2016 (20339-1)

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
· The key components of a SharePoint deployment
· New features in SharePoint 2016
· SharePoint 2016 deployment options

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 for information architecture
· Organizing information in SharePoint 2016
· Planning for discoverability
· Lab : Designing an information architecture - Part one
· Identifying site columns, content types, and term sets
· Lab : Creating an information architecture - Part two
· Designing keywords, synonyms, promoted results, thesaurus, and managed properties
· Designing a taxonomy

Module 3: Designing a logical architecture
This module explains how to approach a logical architecture design and how to document it.
· Lessons
· Overview of a SharePoint 2016 logical architecture
· Documenting your logical architecture
· Lab : Designing a logical architecture
· Planning a logical architecture
· Producing a logical architecture diagram

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 the physical requirements of a SharePoint deployment
· Designing supporting software for the physical components of a SharePoint deployment
· 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

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 the installation and configuring a SharePoint 2016 environment
· Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings
· Lab : Provisioning SharePoint 2016
· Provisioning a SharePoint 2016 server farm
· Lab : Configuring SharePoint 2016
· Configuring incoming email
· Configuring outgoing email
· Configuring integration with Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2016

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

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 : Configuring services and service applications
· Provisioning a managed metadata service application with Central Administration
· Provisioning a managed metadata service application with Windows PowerShell
· Configuring service applications for document conversions
· Configuring service application proxy groups

Module 8: Managing users, 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 2016
· Managing permissions and inheritance
· Managing site collection security
· Enabling anonymous access to a site

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 : Configuring SharePoint 2016 to use federated identities
· Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) to make 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

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 : Configuring SharePoint 2016 communication security
· Configuring SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server to communicate over nonstandard ports
· Hardening a SharePoint server farm
· Lab : Configuring farm-level security
· Configuring blocked file types
· Configuring web part security
· Implementing security auditing

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

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 and managing user profiles
· Provisioning My Sites
· Configuring audiences

Module 13: Configuring Enterprise Search
· This module describes the Search service architecture, 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 architecture
· Configuring the Search service
· 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













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 environment
· Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint environment
· Planning and configuring caching
· Troubleshooting a SharePoint environment
· Lab : Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 deployment
· Configuring usage and health data
· Configuring diagnostic logging
· Configuring health analyzer rules
· Reviewing usage and health data
· Lab : Investigating page load times
· Analyzing network traffic
· Analyzing SharePoint page performance

To ensure successful completion of this course, we recommend the following:
· 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.