Microsoft 365

This is a five-day instructor-led training (ILT) course that targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Microsoft Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and its users.

Module 1: Planning and provisioning Office 365

• Overview of Office 365 
• Provisioning an Office 365 tenant 
• Planning a pilot deployment

Module 2: Managing Office 365 users and groups

• Managing user accounts and licenses 
• Managing passwords and authentication 
• Managing security groups in Office 365 
• Managing Office 365 users and groups with Windows PowerShell 
• Configuring administrative access

Module 3: Configuring client connectivity to Microsoft Office 365

• Planning for Office 365 clients 
• Planning connectivity for Office 365 clients 
• Configuring connectivity for Office 365 clients

Module 4: Planning and configuring directory synchronization

• Planning and preparing for directory synchronization 
• Implementing directory synchronization by using Azure AD 
• Connect Managing Office 365 identities with directory synchronization

Module 5: Planning and deploying Office 365 ProPlus

• Overview of Office 365 ProPlus 
• Planning and managing user-driven Office 365 ProPlus deployments 
• Planning and managing centralized deployments of Office 365 ProPlus 
• Office Telemetry and reporting

Module 6: Planning and managing Exchange Online recipients and permissions

• Overview of Exchange Online 
• Managing Exchange Online recipients 
• Planning and configuring Exchange Online permissions

Module 7: Planning and configuring Exchange Online services

• Planning and configuring email flow in Office 365 
• Planning and configuring email protection in Office 365 
• Planning and configuring client access policies 
• Migrating to Exchange Online

Module 8: Planning and deploying Microsoft Teams

• Teams Explained 
• Deploying Teams 
• Authentication and Access 
• Transitioning Skype For Buisness to Microsoft Teams 
• Management and Reporting

Module 9: Planning and configuring SharePoint Online

• Configuring SharePoint Online services 
• Planning and configuring SharePoint Online site collections 
• Planning and configuring external user sharing

Module 10: Planning and configuring an Office 365 collaboration solution

• Planning and managing Yammer 
• Enterprise Planning and configuring OneDrive for Business 
• Configuring Office 365 groups

Module 11: Planning and configuring security and compliance in Office 365

• Overview of the compliance features in Office 365 
• Planning and configuring Azure Information Protection in Office 365 
• Managing the compliance features in Office 365

Module 12: Monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft Office 365

• Troubleshooting Office 365 
• Monitoring Office 365 service health

Prerequisites: There is no prerequisites for this training.

This course covers three central elements of Microsoft 365 enterprise administration – Microsoft 365 security management, Microsoft 365 compliance management, and Microsoft 365 device management. 

M365 SECURITY MANAGEMENT (2 days) 

• Security metrics
• Azure AD Identity Protection
• Secure Score
• Exchange Online Protection
• Advanced Threat Protection
• Safe Attachments and Safe Links
• M365 Threat Intelligence
• M365 Security Dashboard
• Configure Advanced Threat Analytics
• Implement Cloud Application Security    

M365 COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT (2 days)  

• Data Governance (Archiving, Retention, IRM, S/MIME, 
• Office 365 Message Encryption, DLP)
• In-Place Records Management in SharePoint
• Archiving and Retention in Exchange
• Retention Policies in Security and Compliance Center
• Build Ethical walls in Exchange Online
• Create DLP Policy from built-in template
• Create Custom DLP Policy
• Create a DLP Policy to protect documents
• Implement Policy tips
• Manage retention in email
• Troubleshooting data governance
• Implement Information Protection
• Advanced Information Protection
• Understand Windows Information Protection
• Search for content in the Security and Compliance Center
• Auidt Logs
• Manage Advanced eDiscovery   

M365 DEVICE MANAGEMENT (1 day)   

• Plan your Organization for Co-Management   
• Prepare your Windows 10 devices for co-management   
• Transition from Configuration Manager to Intune   
• Configure Microsoft Store for Business   
• Plan for Mobile Application Management   
• Plan your Windows 10 Deployment Strategy   
• Plan your Windows 10 Subscription activation strategy   
• Resolve Windows 10 Analytics   
• Deploy Mobile Device Management   
• Manage Devices with MDM   
• Enroll Devices to Mobile Device Management   
• Manage Device Compliance   

Audience: This course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Admin role and have completed one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.