Overview

This Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 training examines how to plan, configure, and manage a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 environment. Special areas of focus include implementing high availability, disaster recovery, service application architecture, Business Connectivity Services, social computing features, productivity and collaboration platforms and features, business intelligence solutions, enterprise content management, web content management infrastructure, solutions, and apps. The course also examines how to optimize the Search experience, how to develop and implement a governance plan. and how to perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013.

The course track is targeted at experienced IT Professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installations in either the data center or cloud. In addition, Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are engaged in the administering line-of-business (LOB) projects in conjunction with internal business customers would benefit from understanding of managing SharePoint Server 2013.

Goals

Describe the core features of SharePoint 2013.
Learn to plan and design a SharePoint 2013 environment to meet requirements for high availability and disaster recovery.
Learn to plan and implement a service application architecture for a SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Learn to configure and manage Business Connectivity Services features in a SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Learn to plan and configure social computing features.
Learn to plan and configure productivity and collaboration platforms and features.
Learn to plan and configure Business Intelligence solutions.
Learn to optimize the search experience for an enterprise environment.
Learn to plan and configure enterprise content management in a SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Learn to plan and configure a web content management infrastructure to meet business requirements.
Learn to manage solutions in a SharePoint 2013 deployment.
Learn to configure and manage apps in a SharePoint Server 2013 environment.
Learn to develop and implement a governance plan for SharePoint Server 2013.
Learn to perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013.

Outline

Understanding Architecture in SharePoint Server 2013
1. Core Components of the SharePoint 2013 Architecture
2. New Features in SharePoint Server 2013
3. SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online Editions
4. Lab: Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts
  1. Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts
  2. Reviewing Core SharePoint Concepts
Designing for Business Continuity Management
1. Designing Database Topologies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery
2. Designing SharePoint Infrastructure for High Availability
3. Planning for Disaster Recovery
4. Lab: Planning and Performing Backups and Restores
  1. Create a Backup and Restore Plan
  2. Test the Backup and Restore Process
Test the Backup and Restore Process
1. Planning Service Applications
2. Designing and Configuring a Service Application Topology
3. Configuring Service Application Federation
4. Lab: Planning a Service Application Architecture
  1. Planning a Service Application Topology
5. Lab: Federating Service Applications between SharePoint Server Farms
  1. Creating a Service Application Instance
  2. Establishing Trust Relationships between SharePoint Farms
  3. Publishing and Consuming Service Applications
Configuring and Managing Business Connectivity Services
1. Planning and Configuring Business Connectivity Services
2. Configuring the Secure Store Service
3. Managing Business Data Connectivity Models
4. Lab: Configuring BCS and the Secure Store Service
  1. Configuring the Business Data Connectivity Service Application
  2. Configuring the Secure Store Service
5. Lab: Managing Business Data Connectivity Models
  1. Configuring a Secure Store Service target application
  2. Importing and Configuring BDC Models
Connecting People
1. Managing User Profiles
2. Enabling Social Interaction
3. Building Communities
4. Lab: Configuring Profile Synchronization and My Sites
  1. Configuring Profile Synchronization
  2. Configuring My Sites
5. Lab: Configuring Community Sites
  1. Creating a Community Site Infrastructure
  2. Configuring Community Site Participation
Enabling Productivity and Collaboration
1. Aggregating Tasks
2. Planning and Configuring Collaboration Features
3. Planning and Configuring Composites
4. Lab: Configuring Project Sites
  1. Creating Project Sites
  2. Configuring Project Sites
  3. Engaging Project Teams
5. Lab: Configuring Workflow
  1. Configure Windows Azure Workflow and SharePoint Workflow Services
  2. Creating and Testing a Workflow
Planning and Configuring Business intelligence
1. Planning for Business Intelligence
2. Planning, Deploying and Managing Business Intelligence Services
3. Planning and Configuring Advanced Analysis Tools
4. Lab: Configuring Excel Services
  1. Provisioning Excel Services
  2. Configuring External Data Access
  3. Configuring Data Connections
5. Lab: Configuring PowerPivot and Power View for SharePoint
  1. Configuring PowerPivot for SharePoint
  2. Configuring Power View for SharePoint
Planning and Configuring Enterprise Search
1. Configuring Search for an Enterprise Environment
2. Configuring the Search Experience
3. Optimizing Search
4. Lab: Planning an Enterprise Search Deployment
  1. Planning a Search Solution
5. Lab: Managing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2013
  1. Configuring a Thesaurus
  2. Configuring Entity Extractors and Refiners
  3. Configuring Query Spelling Correction
  4. Configuring Company Name Extraction
Planning and Configuring Enterprise Content Management
1. Planning Content Management
2. Planning and Configuring eDiscovery
3. Planning Records Management
4. Lab: Configuring eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2013
  1. Creating and Configuring an eDiscovery Center
  2. Discovering and Preserving Content
  3. Querying and Exporting Content
5. Lab: Configuring Records Management in SharePoint Server 2013
  1. Configuring In-Place Records Management
Planning and Configuring Web Content Management
1. Planning and Implementing a Web Content Management Infrastructure
2. Configuring Managed Navigation and Catalog Sites
3. Supporting Multiple Languages and Locales
4. Enabling Design and Customization
5. Supporting Mobile Users
6. Lab: Configuring Managed Navigation and Catalog Sites
  1. Configuring Product Catalog Sites
  2. Configuring Cross-Site Publishing
  3. Configuring Publishing Sites
7. Lab: Configuring Device Channels
  1. Configuring Device Channels
Managing Solutions in SharePoint Server 2013
1. Understanding the SharePoint Solution Architecture
2. Managing Sandbox Solutions
3. Lab: Managing Solutions
  1. Configuring Sandboxed Solution Management at the Farm Level
  2. Configuring Sandboxed Solution Management at the Site Collection Level
  3. Deploying Farm Solutions
Managing Apps for SharePoint Server 2013
1. Understanding the SharePoint App Architecture
2. Provisioning and Managing Apps and App Catalogs
3. Lab: Configuring and Managing SharePoint Apps
  1. Configuring a SharePoint Farm to Support Apps
  2. Creating and Configuring a Corporate App Catalog
  3. Deploying and Monitoring Apps
Developing a Governance Plan
1. Introduction to Governance Planning
2. Key Elements of a Governance Plan
3. Planning for Governance in SharePoint Server 2013
4. Implementing Governance in SharePoint 2013
5. Lab: Developing a Plan for Governance
  1. Creating a Governance Plan
6. Lab: Managing Site Creation and Deletion
  1. Creating and Publishing Site Policies
  2. Enabling and Managing Self-Service Site Creation
Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint Server 2013
1. Preparing Upgrade or Migration Environment
2. Performing the Upgrade Process
3. Managing Site Collection Upgrade
4. Lab: Performing a Database-Attach Upgrade
  1. Import the SharePoint 2010 Databases
  2. Migrating and Upgrading a Service Application
  3. Migrating and Upgrading a Content Database
5. Lab: Managing Site Collection Upgrades
  1. Preparing Site Collections for Upgrade
  2. Upgrading Site Collections

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this SharePoint class:

At least one year's experience of mapping business requirements to logical and physical technical design.
Working knowledge of network design, including network security.
Experience managing software in a Windows 2008 R2 enterprise server or Windows Server 2012 environment.
Deployed and managed applications natively, virtually, and in the cloud.
Administered Internet Information Services (IIS).
Configured Active Directory for use in authentication, authorization and as a user store.
Managed an application remotely using Windows PowerShell 2.0.
Connected applications to Microsoft SQL Server.
Implemented Claims-based security.

Prerequisite Courses

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

MOC 20331 - Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

Preparing for Class

Onsite: Course Setup
Live Online: Course Setup | WebEx Setup

Certifications

MOC 20332 - Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

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