Advanced SharePoint Online for Admins Training Course

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.

This one-day training session is tailored for individuals who utilise SharePoint as power users, acting as SharePoint site owners and/or Site Collection administrators.

Course objectives include:

• Configuring site navigation
• Viewing site activity reports
• Customising lists and libraries
• Working with Site Columns and Site Content Types
• Configuring check-out/check-in, Content Approval, and versioning
• Creating and modifying pages and web part pages

This one-day training session is tailored for individuals who utilise SharePoint as end-users and wish to gain insight into its advanced capabilities. Attendees who require a comprehensive understanding of functions such as team collaboration, document management, and the social aspects of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 should enrol in this course.

This course is ideal for:

• SharePoint Site Owners and users

Course objectives include:

• Managing Sites and Site Collections
• Adding users and groups, and managing security for sites, lists, folders, and items
• Adding and configuring web parts
• Configuring site options, including theme, title, description, and icon

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for system administrators who wish 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.
• Extensive 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 in South Africa (online or on-site) is designed for intermediate-level supervisors and programming officers who wish to expand their knowledge in administering SharePoint and effectively utilizing Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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

• Understand the fundamentals of SharePoint architecture and administration.
• Configure and manage SharePoint sites and user permissions.
• Implement security and compliance measures within SharePoint.
• Integrate and manage Microsoft 365 Copilot features to enhance organisational productivity.
• Apply best practices for data governance and content management.

This practical, hands-on course offers a thorough introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Online, emphasising how contemporary organisations can utilise it for collaboration, document management, process automation, and integration within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Participants will examine SharePoint’s core features—including document libraries, lists, permissions, and site structures—while also gaining foundational experience with automation tools such as Power Automate and Power Apps.