SharePoint Site Owner & Administration («SPSO»)

• Introduction to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online, overview of the concept
• Important settings of SharePoint Online and OneDrive
• Getting to know and technical background of site collections and their optimal management
• Websites and their components, management and use of apps, list libraries and web parts
• Overview of user profiles and synchronization of properties from Active Directory and Entra AD (formerly Azure AD)
• Overview, planning and use of managed metadata and content types
• Integration between SharePoint team sites and Microsoft Teams
• Overview of Microsoft Search
• Security & Compliance
• Troubleshooting Office 365

In this course, you will learn about all the components of SharePoint Online and how to best organize site collections and sites or document repositories in a company and provide them with metadata. You will also be introduced to the topics of security and compliance.

1 Introduction to Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online

• Overview of Microsoft 365 and its components
• Overview of SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams
• Management of Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams
• Use of PowerShell for automated administration

2 Policies for SharePoint and OneDrive 

• External access in Microsoft 365
• SharePoint & OneDrive policies

3 Various Admin Centers

• The SharePoint Admin Center
• The Teams Admin Center
• Further Admin Centers

4 Technical background and structure of site collections

• Modern and classic templates for site collections
• Hub sites
• Structure, inheritance and configuration of hub websites and logically subordinate websites
• Sharing settings for internal and external users
• Use of PowerShell for the administration of website collections

5 Websites and their components

• Overview of apps, lists, libraries, pages and web parts
• Site columns, versioning, views
• The SharePoint authorization concept
• Organization of navigation

6 User profiles

• The user profile application
• Delve

7 Managed metadata and content types

• The terminology store
• Creation of content types

8 Brief overview of Microsoft Search

• What is Microsoft Search?
• Search administration
• The Search Editor

9 Security & Compliance

• Overview of security and compliance
• Using the Defender Portal
• Designations and designation guidelines
• Information barriers
• Data set management

10 Troubleshooting SharePoint Online

This course is aimed at users with a technical background who want to configure and administer SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Search.

No prior knowledge of administering the Microsoft 365 environment is required, but students should have a technical understanding of the concept of user and group administration and rights assignment.

We recommend attending the following course or equivalent knowledge:

PLEASE NOTE

Microsoft requires multi-factor authentication (MFA) via the authenticator app for Microsoft 365 tenants used in the labs. You will need a mobile phone for this.

Instructions for setting up such a free app and further details can be found here: Set up your Microsoft 365 sign-in for multi-factor authentication - Microsoft Support