Advanced Solutions of Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2013

Course Code: 5007

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Overview

This five day course focusses on 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. It equips participants with the skills and knowledge essential for planning, configuring and managing a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. The course discusses how to optimize the search experience, how to develop and implement a governance plan, as well as how to perform an upgrade or migration to SharePoint Server 2013.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 5 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 5 days

What You'll learn

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

Outline

Module 1: Understanding the SharePoint Server 2013 archtiecture

Core components of the SharePoint 2013 architecture
New features in SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint online editions
Lab: Reviewing core SharePoint concepts

Module 2: Designing business continuity management strategies

Designing database topologies for high availability and disaster recovery
Designing SharePoint infrastructure for high availability
Planning for disaster recovery
Lab: Planning and performing backups and restores

Module 3: Planning and implementing a service application architecture

Planning service applications
Designing and configuring a service application topology
Configuring service application federation
Lab: Planning a service application architecture
Lab: Federating service applications between SharePoint Server farms

Module 4: Configuring and managing business connectivity services

Planning and configuring business connectivity services
Configuring the secure store service
Managing business data connectivity models
Lab: Configuring BCS and the Secure Store Service
Lab: Managing business data connectivity models

Module 5: Connecting people

Managing user profiles
Enabling social interactions
Building communities
Lab: Configuring profile synchronization and MySites
Lab: Configuring community sites

Module 6: Enabling productivity and collaboration

Aggregating tasks
Planning and configuring collaboration features
Planning and configuring composites
Lab: Configuring project sites
Lab: Configuring workflows

Module 7: Planning and configuring business intelligence

Planning for business intelligence
Planning, deploying and managing business intelligence services
Planning and configuring advanced analysis tools
Lab: Configuring Excel services
Lab: Configuring PowerPivot and Power View for SharePoint

Module 8: Planning and configuring Enterprise Search

Configuring search for an enterprise environment
Configuring the search experience
Optimizing search
Lab: Planning an enterprise search deployment
Lab: Managing search relevance in SharePoint Server 2013

Module 9: Planning and configuring Enterprise Content Management

Planning content management
Planning and configuring eDiscovery
Planning records management
Lab: Configuring eDiscovery in SharePoint Server 2013
Lab: Configuring records management in SharePoint Server 2013

Module 10: Planning and configuring web content management

Planning and implementing web content management infrastructure
Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites
Supporting multiple languages and locales
Enabling design and customization
Supporting mobile users
Lab: Configuring managed navigation and catalog sites
Lab: Configuring device channels

Module 11: Managing solutions in SharePoint Server 2013

Understanding the SharePoint solution architecture
Managing SandBox solutions
Lab: Managing solutions

Module 12: Managing apps for SharePoint Server 2013

Understanding the SharePoint App architecture
Provisioning and managing apps and app catalogs
Lab: Configuring and managing SharePoint apps

Module 13: Developing a governance plan

Introduction to governance planning
Key elements of a governance plan
Planning for governance in SharePoint 2013
Implementing governance in SharePoint 2013
Lab: Developing a plan for governance
Managing site creation and deletion

Module 14: Upgrading and migrating to SharePoint Server 2013

Preparing the upgrade or migration environment
Performing the upgrade process
Managing a site collection upgrade
Lab: Performing a database-approach upgrade
Lab: Managing site collection upgrades

Prerequisites

Participants of this course need to have –

Completed the course Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 and clearing its examination; or equivalent skills
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

Who Should Attend

The course is targeted towards experienced IT professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installations in either the data center or cloud. The course is highly recommended for –