SharePoint 2013 Administrators Boot Camp and Skills Upgrade Training

Module

Topics

Lab Exercises

Module 1

SharePoint 2013 Core Concepts

1. SharePoint 2013 Architecture
2. SharePoint Foundation Standard and Enterprise edition; Features and services available in different version
3. Improvements and changes from SharePoint 2010
4. Windows PowerShell primer

1. Working with the Windows PowerShell Console Window
2. Writing and Debugging Windows PowerShell Scripts
3. SharePoint cmdlets
4. Using the Active Directory Module to Manage User Accounts and Groups
5. SharePoint scripts for commonly used activities

Module 2

Installing SharePoint 2013

1. Hardware requirements for installing SharePoint 2013
2. Prerequisites for installing SharePoint 2013
3. Introduction to Service Accounts
4. Creating Service Accounts in AD
5. Installing SharePoint server 2013
6. Creating Farm and Configuration Database

1. Install SharePoint 2013
2. Getting Around in Central Administration
3. Working with Timer Jobs
4. Registering Managed Accounts

Module 3

SharePoint 2013 Farm configuration and Server Topologies

1. Overview of Logical Architecture
2. Farm Topologies
3. Capacity Planning and adding new Web servers
4. Service Account overview

1. Creating and Configuring Service Application Instance
2. Create a new Web Application for Intranet
3. Farm management using SharePoint 2013 PowerShell

Module 4

SharePoint 2013 Security and Authentication Model

1. Claims based authentication model
2. Drawbacks of Classic authentication model
3. User Authentication in SharePoint 2013
4. Configuring Authentication Providers
5. Windows authentication using Kerberos, NTLM and Basic Authentication
6. Form Based Authentication (FBA)
7. Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS)

1. Configuring DNS Settings in DNS Manager
2. Add Active Directory Users as Farm Administrator
3. Configuring Application Pools and Service Accounts
4. Configuring SSL
5. Configuring an ASP.NET Membership Database
6. Configuring Forms-Based Authentication
7. Configuring Anonymous Access
8. Configuring Kerberos Authentication

Module 5

Creating and Configuring Web Applications

1. Overview of Logical Architecture
2. Creating New Web Applications
3. Extending Web Applications
4. Managing Features
5. Managed Paths
6. Security Settings
7. Policy Settings
8. Path based site collections vs. host header
9. Information Architecture and Governance basics

1. Create a new Web Application for Intranet
2. Create a new Web Application for Public Web Site
3. Configure Web Application with Host headers and alternate access mapping
4. Creating Host Header Site Collections using a Wildcard SSL Certificate

Module 6

Managing Site Collections and Webs

1. Planning and Creating Site Collections
2. SharePoint 2013 templates
3. Site Collection planning
4. SharePoint Tenancies
5. Site Subscription
6. Creating Quota Templates, Quotas and Locks
7. Site collection settings, and Site Administrators
8. Content Databases

1. Creating a Site Collection with SharePoint Central Administration
2. Creating new Sites using PowerShell
3. Creating a Site Collection in a new Content Database
4. Try Permissions, Navigation and Branding
5. Install and Begin to use Microsoft Office 2013 SharePoint Designer

Module 7

SharePoint 2013 Service Applications

1. Introduction to Service Applications
2. Business Connectivity Service (BCS)
3. Managed Metadata Service (MMS)
4. User Profile Service (UPS)
5. Web Analytics
6. Service Connections
7. Configuration of Publishing and Consuming Farms

1. Creating Service Applications by Hand and PowerShell
2. Creating a Secure Store Service Application
3. Creating the User Profile Service Application
4. Configuring the User Profile Syndication Service
5. MySites rollout

Module 8

Business Data Connectivity Service

1. BCS architecture and enhancements in SharePoint 2013
2. BCS Architecture External Data Sources
3. External Content Types
4. Using Secure Store Service to configure Advanced Authentication Techniques
5. BCS Enhancements involving OData Support

1. Create an External Content Type using SharePoint Designer 2013
2. Creating External Content Types
3. Configuring Profile Pages and External Lists
4. Creating and Configuring External Contents Types
5. Connect and write to SQL Server Line of Business Applications

Module 9

User Profile Service

1. Overview of Social Networking features in SharePoint 2013
2. User profile import from Active Directory
3. Task Management Service

1. Create User Profile Service Application (UPA)
2. Create User Profile Synchronization Service (UPS)
3. Create Audience Targeted contents
4. MySites best practices

Module 10

Document Management - SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Metadata Management and Content Types

1. Document ID and Document Sets
2. Document Center
3. Virtual folders
4. Managed Metadata architecture
5. Content Type hub
6. Content Type Syndication
7. Cross Site Publishing feature
8. Taxonomy and Taxonomy best practices

1. Manage Large Lists and List Throttling
2. Tag Contents
3. Add Metadata Navigation to the Document Library

Module 11

eDiscovery and Records Management in SharePoint 2013

1. Information Lifecycle Management
2. In-place records declaration
3. Records Center

1. Content Organizer
2. Document ‘Send To’
3. Configure Records Center

Module 12

SharePoint 2013 Search Administration

1. SharePoint 2013 Search Architecture
2. Configuring Search
3. Executing Search Queries
4. Search Verticals
5. Custom Entity Extraction
6. Search scope, crawl schedules and keywords
7. Managing and monitoring search services

1. Configuring the Search Application Service
2. Configuring the Search Service Application
3. Introduction to Result Sources, Result Types and Query Rules
4. Executing Search Queries
5. Setting up a Crawl Schedule
6. Build a Search Center
7. Create a Local Search Scope
8. Create a Crawl Rule

Module 13

Configuring Workflow in SharePoint 2013

1. SharePoint 2013 Workflow architecture
2. Introduction to Workflow server
3. Configure Workflow Manager

1. Install Workflow Server
2. Install & Configure Workflow Manager 1.0
3. Creating SharePoint 2013 Workflows with SharePoint Designer
4. Configuration of Workflow Manager

Module 14

Deploying SharePoint Apps and Custom Solutions

1. Introduction to farm solution and sandboxed solutions
2. New SharePoint App Model Architecture
3. SharePoint Solutions
4. Publish Apps into your SharePoint farm.
5. Configuring SharePoint App Authentication using OAuth
6. Configuring SharePoint App Authentication using Server-to-server (S2S) Trusts

1. Configure on premises apps store
2. Manage apps purchased from Internet marketplace

Module 15

Backup, Restore and Disaster Recovery

1. Versioning and Recycle bin
2. Backup and restore of Site collections, Content databases and Farm
3. Business Continuity Planning
4. Disaster Recovery Tools
5. SharePoint content backup and Recovery
6. High Availability Options

1. Backup of contents using PowerShell and Central Administration
2. Recover deleted contents using Central Administration
3. Configuring SQL Databases for SharePoint for HA / Fault tolerance
4. Configuring SQL Failover Servers
5. Configuring SQL Log Shipping

Module 16

SharePoint 2013 upgrade from SharePoint 2010 environment

1. Upgrade concepts and techniques for migrating from SharePoint 2010 farm to SharePoint 2013
2. Migrating contents with database attach method
3. Migrating service applications contents
4. Understanding SharePoint 2010 UI mode

1. Preparing SharePoint 2010 Content Databases for Upgrade
2. Restoring the SharePoint 2010 Content Database in a SharePoint 2013 Farm
3. Mounting the Restored Content Database