20339-1: Planning and Administering

SharePoint 2016
Duration: 5.00 days (40 hours)

This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan and administer a Microsoft
SharePoint 2016 environment. The course teaches you how to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot
your SharePoint environment. This course also provides guidelines, best practices, and
considerations that help you optimize your SharePoint deployment.

This is the first in a sequence of two courses for IT professionals and is aligned with the SharePoint
2016 IT Pro certification.

Intended Audience

IT professional
Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with SharePoint Online
Familiarity with SharePoint workloads
Have experience with Windows PowerShell

Course Objectives

● 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

Course Outline

1. Introducing SharePoint 2016

a. Key components of a SharePoint deployment
b. New features in SharePoint 2016
c. SharePoint 2016 deployment options
2. Designing an information architecture
a. Identifying business requirements
b. Understanding business requirements
c. Organizing information in SharePoint 2016
d. Planning for discoverability
e. Lab : Designing an information architecture - Part
one
f. Identifying site columns and content types
g. Lab : Creating an information architecture - Part two
h. Designing a business taxonomy
3. Designing a logical architecture
a. Overview of the SharePoint 2016 logical architecture
b. Documenting your logical architecture
c. Lab : Designing a logical architecture
d. Planning a logical architecture
e. Producing a logical architecture diagram
4. Designing a physical architecture
a. Designing physical components for SharePoint
deployments
b. Designing supporting components for SharePoint
deployments
c. SharePoint farm topologies
d. Mapping a logical architecture design to a physical
architecture design
e. Lab : Designing a physical architecture
f. Designing a physical architecture
g. Developing a physical architecture design diagram
5. Installing and configuring SharePoint 2016
a. Installing SharePoint 2016
b. Scripting installation and configuration of SharePoint
 c. Configuring SharePoint 2016 farm settings
d. Lab : Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016
Part one
e. Provisioning a SharePoint 2016 farm
f. Lab : Deploying and configuring SharePoint 2016
Part two
g. Configuring incoming email
h. Configuring outgoing email
i. Configuring integration with Office Online Server
6. Creating web applications and site collections
a. Creating web applications
b. Configuring web applications
c. Creating and configuring site collections
d. Lab : Creating and configuring web applications
e. Creating a web application
f. Configuring a web application
g. Lab : Creating and configuring site collections
h. Creating and configuring site collections
i. Creating a site collection in a new content database
j. Using Fast Site Collection Creation
7. Planning and configuring service applications
a. Introduction to the service application architecture
b. Creating and configuring service applications
c. Lab : Planning and configuring service applications
d. Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application
with Central Administration
e. Provisioning a Managed Metadata Service application
with Windows PowerShell
f. Configuring the Word Automation Services service
application for document conversion
g. Configuring service application proxy groups
8. Managing users and permissions, and securing content
a. Configuring authorization in SharePoint 2016
b. Managing access to content
c. Lab : Managing users and groups
d. Creating a web-application policy
e. Creating and managing SharePoint groups
f. Creating custom permission levels
g. Lab : Securing content in SharePoint sites
 h. Managing permissions and inheritance
i. Managing site-collection security
j. Enabling anonymous access to a site
9. Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2016
a. Overview of authentication
b. Configuring federated authentication
c. Configuring server-to-server authentication
d. Lab : Extend your SharePoint 2016 to support Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL)
e. Configuring Microsoft SharePoint 2016 to use
federated identities
f. Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD
FS) to enable a web application a relying party
g. Configuring SharePoint to trust AD FS as an identity
provider
h. Configuring a web application to use the AD FS
identity provider
10. Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
a. Securing the platform
b. Configuring farm-level security
c. Lab : Securing a SharePoint 2016 deployment
d. Configuring SharePoint Server communication
security
e. Hardening a SharePoint server farm
f. Configuring blocked file types
g. Configuring Web Part security
h. Implementing security auditing
11. Managing taxonomy
a. Managing content types
b. Understanding managed metadata
c. Configuring the managed metadata service
d. Lab : Configuring content-type propagation
e. Creating content types for propagation
f. Publishing content types across site collections
g. Lab : Configuring and using the managed metadata
service
h. Configuring the managed metadata service
i. Creating term sets and terms
j. Consuming term sets
12. Configuring user profiles
a. Configuring the User Profile Service Application
b. Managing user profiles and audiences
c. Lab : Configuring user profiles
d. Configuring the User Profile Service Application
e. Configuring directory import and synchronization
f. Lab : Configuring My Sites and audiences
g. Configuring My Sites
h. Configuring audiences
13. Configuring Enterprise Search
a. Understanding the Search Service Application
architecture
b. Configuring Enterprise Search
c. Managing Enterprise Search
d. Lab : Configuring Enterprise Search
e. Configuring the Search Service Application
f. Configuring a file share content source
g. Configuring a local SharePoint content source
h. Creating a search center
i. Lab : Optimizing the search experience
j. Configuring a result source and a query rule
k. Customizing the search experience
l. Creating and deploying a thesaurus
m. Configuring entity extractors and refiners
n. Managing query spelling correction
14. Monitoring and maintaining a SharePoint 2016 environment
a. Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 environment
b. Tuning and optimizing a SharePoint 2016
environment
c. Planning and configuring caching
d. Troubleshooting a SharePoint 2016 environment
e. Lab : Monitoring a SharePoint 2016 deployment
f. Configuring usage and health data collection
g. Configuring Sharepoint diagnostic logging
h. Configuring Health Analyzer rules
i. Reviewing usage and health data
j. Lab : Investigating page load times
k. Analyzing network traffic
l. Analyzing SharePoint page performance