20339-2 : Advanced Technologies of SharePoint 2016/2019

The course is targeted at experienced IT Professionals who are interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations either in a data center or in the cloud.

Students typically should have more than four years of hands-on experience* planning and maintaining SharePoint Server and other core technologies upon which SharePoint depends, including 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.

Students should have completed Course 20339-1A: Planning and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2016, or have gained equivalent knowledge and experience before taking this course.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

·      Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with Microsoft SharePoint Online.

·      Has broad familiarity with SharePoint Server 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 experience or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint Server space that includes document management, content management, and search.

Module 1: Introduction to SharePoint 2016

This module describes the core architectural components of a SharePoint Server environment, and also helps to identify the new depreciated and removed features in SharePoint 2016.

Lessons

·      Core components of the SharePoint 2016 architecture

·      New, deprecated, and removed features in SharePoint 2016

·      SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online editions

Module 2: Introduction to hybrid scenarios for SharePoint 2016

This module describes the key hybrid features in SharePoint 2016, and helps you to prepare for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment.

Lessons

·      Exploring the hybrid features in SharePoint 2016

·      Preparing for a hybrid SharePoint 2016 deployment

Module 3: Designing business continuity management strategies

This module explains how to select an appropriate database server configuration to meet availability requirements. It also describes how to design a physical architecture and infrastructure to meet high-availability requirements. Finally, this module explains how to develop and implement a backup and restore strategy.

Lessons

·      Designing database topologies for high availability and disaster recovery

·      Designing a SharePoint infrastructure for high availability

·      Planning for disaster recovery

Module 4: Planning and implementing Business Connectivity Services and Secure Store Service

This module explains how to configure Business Connectivity Services (BCS), and describes how to configure and manage the Secure Store Service application. It also explains how you can configure and manage BCS models.

Lessons

·      Planning and configuring BCS

·      Configuring the Secure Store Service

·      Managing BCS models

Module 5: Configuring productivity services for a SharePoint 2016 deployment

This module describes SharePoint Add-in architecture. This module also explains how to provision and manage SharePoint apps and App Catalogs. Additionally, this module describes how to provision Microsoft Access Services, Visio Services, Word Automation Services, PowerPoint Automation Services, and SharePoint Translation Services.

Lessons

·      Understanding the SharePoint Add-in architecture

·      Provisioning and managing apps and App Catalogs

·      Provisioning productivity services

Module 6: Managing solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016

This module describes the purpose and structure of SharePoint 2016 features and solutions. In addition, it explains how to manage sandbox solutions in Microsoft SharePoint 2016.

Lessons

·      Understanding the SharePoint 2016 solution architecture

·      Managing sandboxed solutions

Module 7: Connecting people

This module explains how to manage user profiles and how to plan and configure My Site and social features. This module also describes how to configure community sites.

Lessons

·      Managing user profiles

·      Enabling social interaction

·      Building communities

Module 8: Planning and configuring web content management

This module explains how to plan and configure a web content management infrastructure to meet business requirements. This module also describes how to configure managed navigation and product catalog sites, and how to configure support for multilingual sites. Additionally, it explains and how to plan and manage design and customization for publishing sites, and how to plan and configure support for mobile users.

Lessons

·      Planning and implementing a web content management infrastructure

·      Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites

·      Supporting multiple languages and locales

·      Enabling design and customization

·      Supporting mobile users

Module 9: Planning and configuring Enterprise Content Management

This module explains how to plan for management of content and documents, and how to plan for and configure eDiscovery. Additionally, it describes how to plan for records management and compliance.

Lessons

·      Planning Enterprise Content Management

·      Planning and configuring eDiscovery

·      Planning records management

Module 10: Planning and configuring business intelligence solutions

This module explains how to plan business intelligence (BI) architecture for SharePoint 2016, and how to deploy and manage BI services. Additionally, this module explains how to plan and configure advanced analysis tools.

Lessons

·      Planning BI architecture

·      Planning, deploying, and managing BI services

·      Planning and configuring advanced analysis tools

Module 11: Planning and configuring productivity and collaboration

This module explains how to plan and configure productivity and collaboration features. This module also explains how to plan and configure composite solutions in SharePoint 2016.

Lessons

·      Planning and configuring collaboration features

·      Planning and configuring composites

Module 12: Upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2016

This module explains how to prepare for upgrade or migration to SharePoint 2016. In addition, it explains how to manage site collections are how to upgrade them to SharePoint 2016. Finally, the module describes how to upgrade advanced content from SharePoint Server 2013 to SharePoint 2016.

Lessons

·      Preparing for an upgrade or migration

·      Upgrade to SharePoint 2016

Planning and managing a site-collection upgrade

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An ideal candidate for this course must have at least one year experience with deploying and administering multiple SharePoint Server 2013 farms across a large enterprise. The candidate should have completed Course 20339-1A: Planning and Administering Microsoft SharePoint 2016, or should demonstrate equivalent skills

Before attending this course, students must demonstrate the following skills:

·      At least a one-year experience of mapping business requirements to both logical and physical technical designs.

·      Working knowledge of network design, including network security.

·      Software management experience in a Windows Server 2012 R2 enterprise server or Windows Server 2016 environment.

·      Deploying and managing applications natively, virtually, and in the cloud.

·      Administering IIS.

·      Configuring AD DS for use in authentication and authorization, and as a user store.

·      Managing an application remotely by using Windows PowerShell 2.0 or later.

·      Connecting applications to SQL Server.

·      Implementing claims-based security.