Configuring & Administering Microsoft 365

Understanding Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based service that is designed to help meet your organization's needs for robust security, reliability, and user productivity.

• Introduction to Microsoft 365
• Key Office 365 Features
• Office 365 Security & Privacy
• LAB: Understanding Office 365

Microsoft Cloud Offerings

Microsoft offers a whole bunch of cloud services that are made available through various different subscriptions. This module gives you an overview of the subscription plans that you can choose from.

• Microsoft Entra ID
• Office 365
• Intune
• Security
• Enterprise Mobility and Security
• Microsoft 365

Managing Office 365

Get the familiar Office experience across all devices, empowering your employees to get work done wherever they are.

• Managing Clients
• Deploying Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft 365 Admin Center
• Connecting to Office 365 with PowerShell and/or Office365 CLI
• LAB: Managing Office 365

Microsoft Entra ID

Entra ID offers identity and access control for your cloud environment. You can now use only one identity service for Azure, Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Intune. Microsoft Entra ID is an identity provider in the cloud that can easily be integrated with your local Active Directory environment.

• Microsoft Entra ID Overview
• Microsoft Entra ID Editions
• Add your domain to Entra ID
• User and Group Management
• Managing Entra ID with PowerShell
• Entra ID Security Roles
• Microsoft Entra External ID
• LAB: Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID Sign-In Options

Connect your on-prem Active Directory organization to the cloud by synchronizing your users and groups to Entra ID. Choose the best sign-in strategy for your users to provide them with a single sign-on experience across on-prem and the cloud.

• Azure AD Connect
• Directory Synchronization
• Password Synchronization
• Pass-Through Authentication
• Federation
• LAB: Microsoft Entra ID Sign-In Options

Exchange Online

Work smarter, anywhere, with hosted email for business.

• Exchange Online Feature Overview
• Management Tools
• Role-based Access Control
• Creating and Managing Recipients
• Exchange Online Archiving
• Exchange Online Transport Rules
• LAB: Exchange Online

Microsoft 365 Groups

Microsoft 365 Groups is a service that works with the Office 365 tools you already know and use so you can collaborate with your teammates when writing documents, creating spreadsheets, working on project plans, scheduling meetings, or sending email.

• Microsoft 365 Groups Overview
• Creating Microsoft 365 Groups
• Microsoft 365 Group Connectors
• Microsoft 365 Groups Administration
• LAB: Microsoft 365 Groups

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams allows organizations to setup a team based hub for chat, for collaboration and for the integration of all kinds of applications in one central location. This module will make you familiar with the core functionalities and management options of Microsoft Teams.

• Microsoft Teams Feature Overview
• Teams Clients
• Teams Admin Tools
• Teams Policies
• Communication Services: Presence, Chat, Audio/Video
• Meetings, Webinars and Live Events
• Cloud Voice: Phone System, Call Queues, Dial Plans
• Collaboration Services: Teams, Channels, Tabs, Apps and Connectors
• External Access and Guest Users
• LAB: Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Online Architecture

SharePoint Online uses a flat, but flexible architecture. Multiple modern sites can be created based on different templates. These sites can then be connected using hub sites to form a modifiable hierarchy.

• Modern SharePoint Team Sites and Communication Sites
• Connecting Environments with Hub Sites
• Self Service Site Creation Governance
• Building Modern Collaboration & Intranet Environments
• SharePoint Lists and Libraries
• LAB: SharePoint Online Architecture

SharePoint Online Administration

As an admin, you manage several aspects of SharePoint Online: control access for external users, migrate your data to the cloud, configure managed metadata, ... Configuration of SharePoint Online is done using the Admin Portal or PowerShell.

• External Access
• SharePoint Migration Tool
• Content Services: Term Store, Content Type Gallery
• SharePoint Modern Search
• LAB: SharePoint Online Administration

Microsoft 365 Security

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 safeguards your organization against malicious threats posed by email messages, links (URLs), and collaboration tools.

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Anti-malware Protection
• Anti-spam Protection
• Anti-phishing and Anti-spoofing
• Email Authentication: SPF, DKIM and DMARC
• Attack Simulator
• Safe Attachments and Safe Links
• Threat Protection for Collaboration
• Threat Protection Reports and Secure Score
• LAB: Microsoft 365 Security

Microsoft 365 Compliance

Microsoft 365 is designed to help meet your organization's needs for content security and data usage compliance with legal, regulatory, and technical standards. Setting up policies and enabling services that optimize these conditions is an important part of administering Office 365.

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal Overview
• Information Protection: Sensitivity Labels and Data Loss Prevention
• Data Lifecycle Management: Retention Labels and Policies
• eDiscovery
• Auditing and Alert Policies
• Compliance Score
• LAB: Microsoft 365 Compliance