‘Microsoft 365 Administrator’ Course Overview
What is included in the Microsoft 365 Administrator Course? The student will take away the following objectives:
- Understand the architecture of SharePoint Online
- Have knowledge of all the components in SharePoint Online
- Have on hands on experience configuring the components of SharePoint Online
- Have hands on experience configuring the options
- Work with Site Collections and storage options
- Manage user profiles and social profiling
- Understand and configure data connectivity in SharePoint Online
- Build a taxonomy structure
- Understand and configure Search in SharePoint Online
- Configure and deploy apps
- Understand and define Enterprise content management and data loss prevention
- Configure additional options and features in SharePoint Online such as Information Rights Management
Course Code: M365ADM
Duration: 3 days
Audience: Administrator/IT Pro
‘Microsoft 365 Administrator’ Prerequisites
This course is designed for Administrators who need to setup, configure and manage SharePoint Online as part of their Microsoft 365 Administration. As a minimum requirement for this course, delegates need to have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and its associated apps. Delegates also need a basic understanding of PowerShell.
‘Microsoft 365 Administrator’ Lessons
- Introduction to the Microsoft 365 Administration Center
- Configure Reporting
- Accessing SharePoint management tools
- Accessing security and compliancy
- Managing Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online with PowerShell
- Comparing On Premises SharePoint with SharePoint Online
- User identity in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online
- Managing user domains
- Building Hybrid scenarios
- OneDrive and Sites redirection
- Viva Engage redirection
- Understand hybrid search
- Hybrid business data connectivity
- Hybrid taxonomy
‘Microsoft 365 Administrator’ Course Modules
Module 1: Introduction to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online
- The Microsoft 365 Administrator Center
- Compare SharePoint on Premises with SharePoint Online
- User identity in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online
- Hybrid SharePoint capabilities
- Migration options to SharePoint Online
Module 2: Working with Site Collections
- Understanding the topology of Site Collections
- Creating Site Collections
- Defining ownership and security for Site Collections
- Configuring Storage
- Configure External Access to Site Collections
- Recovering Site Collections
- Configuring External Sharing
- Managing Site Collections with PowerShell
Module 3: Managing User Profiles
- Define custom user properties
- Create Audiences
- Manage Policies
- Configuring Trusted My Site host locations
- Managing My Site Settings
Module 4: Manage Business Connectivity Services
- Overview of the Business Connectivity Services
- Importing and Configuring BDC definition files
- Configure Connections to OData services online
- Configure Connections to OData services to On-Premises
- Defining Secure Store target Application Settings
Module 5: Managing the Term Store
- Configuring Term Store Administration
- Building and Importing Term Sets
- Working with terms
Module 6: Configuring Search
- Configure Managed Properties in the search schema
- Manage Authoritative Pages
- Configure Result sources
- Promote results through Query Rules
- Removing Search results from the Index
- Export and Import Search Configurations
Module 7: Configuring Apps (Add-Ins)
- Create and configure an App Catalog
- Adding Apps via the store
- Manage licenses
- Configure Store access settings
- Monitoring Apps
Module 8: ECM in SharePoint Online
- Components of ECM
- In-Place Records Management
- The Records Center
- The Compliancy Policy Center
- The eDiscovery Center
- Data Loss Prevention
Module 9: Manage Options for SharePoint Online
- Configure OneDrive features
- Define List and library experience
- Configure use of Viva Engage
- Configure Information rights management
- Define new Site classification options
- Enable early release of Microsoft 365 features
Paul Kohn
Gary was engaging and promoted a good learning environment. Well done.
Fernando Bustillo
Gary was very professional and his knowledge of SharePoint and other applications is amazing. This was the best training I’ve ever had. The instructor was amazing, and I will certainly recommend this course and other courses to friends and colleagues
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Certified Trainers
All our trainers are Microsoft 365 experts in their own right, and must first be qualified to teach in our own World Education Alliance (WEA) Training Certification Program before delivering any of our courses.
We feel that it is important that all of the trainers and instructors can take their real-world experiences into the classroom, in order to ensure that they are well equipped to respond to any queries and questions which may be put their way, as well as give accurate and relevant guidance in the most appropriate methods to leverage the technology which SharePoint and its related tools provide.
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Although we allow a maximum of only 10 attendees on our public courses, the average is around 5 students, therefore each participant will leave the course feeling like they received the personal attention they deserve.


