Online Authorized Microsoft Office Training in South Africa

About This Course

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

This is the first of two courses designed for IT professionals, aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification path.

Audience Profile

This course is targeted at experienced IT professionals keen on learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations in either a data centre or cloud environment.

Typically, students have over one year of hands-on experience* in planning and maintaining SharePoint, alongside two years’ experience with other core technologies that SharePoint relies on. These include 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.

A 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.
• Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
• Has experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
• Has experience with authentication and security technologies.
• Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

* The hands-on or job experience should stem from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions within 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.

Gain insight into Office 365 Management, covering the essential components of Office 365, strategies for transitioning an organisation to Office 365, configuration techniques, and methods for overseeing Office 365 ProPlus deployments.

Audience profile

This course is tailored for individuals aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Admin role who have completed one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification pathways.

Skills gained

• Office 365 overview
• Transitioning an organisation to Office 365
• Configuring Office 365
• Managing Office 365 ProPlus deployments