SharePoint Online for Administrators Training Course

About This Course

Over the course of five days, this program equips you with the essential knowledge and skills required to plan and manage a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. You will learn how to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot your SharePoint setup. Additionally, the course provides guidelines, best practices, and strategic considerations to help you optimize your SharePoint deployment.

This course is the first in a two-part sequence designed for IT professionals and aligns with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification.

Audience Profile

The training is designed for experienced IT professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations, whether in a data center or in the cloud.

Typical participants possess over one year of hands-on experience* in planning and maintaining SharePoint, along with two years of experience with core underlying technologies, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

• Is an IT professional responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2016.
• Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience with, SharePoint Online.
• Demonstrates broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
• Has experience in business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
• Is experienced with authentication and security technologies.
• Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

* The hands-on or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint space, including document management, content management, and search.

At Course Completion

• Describe the key features of SharePoint 2016.
• Design an information architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design a logical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design the physical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Install and configure SharePoint 2016.
• Create and configure web applications and site collections.
• Plan and configure service applications for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage users and permissions, and secure content in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure authentication in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure platform and farm-level security in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage information taxonomy in SharePoint web applications and site collections.
• Configure and manage user profiles and audiences.
• Configure and manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot a SharePoint 2016 deployment.

About This Course

Designed as an intensive five-day programme, this course equips participants with the skills to plan, configure, and manage advanced functionalities within a SharePoint 2016 environment. Key areas of emphasis include establishing high availability and disaster recovery protocols, designing service application architectures, and implementing Microsoft Business Connectivity Services. The curriculum also delves into social computing capabilities, productivity tools, and collaboration platforms. Participants will gain insights into business intelligence solutions, Enterprise Content Management, web content management infrastructure, associated solutions, and applications. Additionally, the course covers the development and execution of governance plans, as well strategies for upgrading or migrating to SharePoint 2016.

This course constitutes the second module in a two-part sequence tailored for IT Professionals, aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification pathway.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for seasoned IT Professionals seeking to master the installation, configuration, deployment, and management of SharePoint 2016 across data center or cloud-based infrastructures.

Participants are expected to possess over four years of practical experience in planning and maintaining SharePoint Server and its underlying core technologies, such as 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.

Attendees should have previously completed Course 20339-1A: Planning and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2016, or hold equivalent knowledge and experience.

The ideal candidate typically demonstrates the following qualifications:

• Proficiency in, and preferably hands-on experience with, Microsoft SharePoint Online.

• Comprehensive familiarity with SharePoint Server workloads.

• Experience in business continuity management, encompassing data backup, restoration, and high availability.

• Knowledge of authentication and security technologies.

• Competency in Windows PowerShell.

* Practical or job-related experience should stem from solutions-oriented roles involving multiple SharePoint Server solutions, including document management, content management, and search.

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the core architecture of SharePoint 2016 and its enhanced features.
• Identify key hybrid capabilities in SharePoint 2016.
• Design and plan a SharePoint 2016 environment tailored for high availability and disaster recovery requirements.
• Plan and implement Business Connectivity Services and the Secure Store Service.
• Configure and oversee productivity services for SharePoint 2016 deployments.
• Manage solutions within a SharePoint 2016 environment.
• Plan and configure social computing functionalities.
• Plan and configure web content management for internet-facing environments.
• Plan and configure Enterprise Content Management for SharePoint 2016.
• Plan and configure business intelligence solutions.
• Plan and configure work management, productivity, and collaboration platforms and features.
• Execute upgrades or migrations to SharePoint 2016.

The business landscape has shifted. Users demand seamless communication free from collaborative obstacles, while organizations seek solutions that are both cost-efficient and adaptable. Consequently, many organizations are adopting hybrid environments and migrating content to the cloud as their primary strategy.

In this course, you will master the deployment and configuration of SharePoint Server 2019, tailored to support contemporary workstyles. You will also gain skills in configuring and managing various SharePoint service applications to prepare for a hybrid deployment. You will then learn to plan and implement SharePoint hybrid scenarios that ensure a seamless user experience. Finally, you will discover how to design the content migration process, including the resources and tools available for migrating content to SharePoint and OneDrive within Microsoft 365.

About this course
This course provides a comprehensive guide to the complete site owner lifecycle, presented in an engaging and practical manner. It ensures you have the confidence to plan and create new sites or effectively manage existing ones within SharePoint Online. Your objective is to learn how to make SharePoint Online relevant to your team by leveraging site functionality to facilitate information sharing and collaboration with colleagues. Throughout the class, you will absorb best practices and common pitfalls, applying theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios through hands-on exercises in SharePoint Online.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for both novice and experienced SharePoint users who aim to fully utilize the capabilities of SharePoint Online.

At Course Completion

• Understand the benefits of using SharePoint in real world scenarios
• Create new SharePoint sites to store business information
• Create pages to share news and content
• Customise the structure of a site to meet specific business requirements
• Create and mange views, columns and apps
• Manage the security of a site
• Use the power platform to customise forms and automate processes
• Use search to find business information from people to documents

Designed for experienced users acting as SharePoint site owners or site collection administrators, this one-day training session empowers you to leverage SharePoint effectively.

Course objectives include:

• Configuring site navigation
• Accessing and interpreting site activity reports
• Customizing lists and libraries to meet specific needs
• Managing Site Columns and Site Content Types
• Setting up check-out/in controls, content approval workflows, and versioning
• Creating and editing pages and web part pages

This one-day training session is tailored for individuals who utilize SharePoint as end-users and wish to gain insight into some of its advanced functionalities. This course is recommended for delegates who need to master functions such as team collaboration, document management, and the social capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint 2013.

This course is designed for

• SharePoint Site Owners and users

Course objectives:

• Manage Sites and Site Collections
• Add users and groups and manage site, list, folder and item security
• Add and configure web parts
• Configure site options including theme, title, description and icon

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for system administrators looking to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint Server 2019.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure SharePoint components and options.
• Plan the hardware and software architecture for a SharePoint deployment.
• Build a taxonomy structure.
• Troubleshoot a SharePoint environment.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• This training is based on the on-premise version of SharePoint 2019 (a.k.a SharePoint Server 2019).
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training session in the UAE (offered online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level supervisors and programming officers aiming to expand their expertise in SharePoint administration and the strategic use of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Grasp the core principles of SharePoint architecture and administration.
• Set up and oversee SharePoint sites and user access permissions.
• Deploy security and compliance protocols within SharePoint.
• Integrate and administer Microsoft 365 Copilot functionalities to drive organizational productivity.
• Apply industry best practices for data governance and content management.

This instructor-led, live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is aimed at SharePoint users who wish to use SharePoint to share and organize information.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Empower team collaboration with SharePoint.
• Create SharePoint sites to streamline information management and sharing.
• Automate workflows for improving business processes.

This instructor-led live training in the UAE (online or onsite) is targeted at system administrators and IT professionals who wish to design, build, deploy, and manage a SharePoint site.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design, structure, and build a SharePoint site.
• Perform Site Collection Administration tasks, such as managing Metadata Term Stores and Retention policies.

- This advanced course is tailored for IT specialists and SharePoint administrators tasked with the management, configuration, and security of SharePoint Online environments within Microsoft 365. Learners will explore SharePoint Online architecture in depth, covering modern site provisioning, permissions governance, content lifecycle management, and seamless integration with Microsoft 365 applications such as Teams, Power Automate, and Viva. By blending strategic principles with practical configuration exercises in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, SharePoint Admin Center, and PowerShell, the course emphasizes real-world administrative scenarios, automation, compliance, enhancing user adoption, and upholding strict governance standards.

This practical, hands-on course offers a thorough introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Online, highlighting how contemporary organizations can utilize it for collaboration, document management, process automation, and integration within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Participants will delve into SharePoint’s core features—such as document libraries, lists, permissions, and site structures—while also acquiring introductory experience with automation tools like Power Automate and Power Apps.