Who should attend
This course is generally intended for power users or IT professionals whose job involves working within the SharePoint 2016 environment either on-premise or in Office 365. This course is also designed to complement the knowledge gained from other Microsoft courses, including:
Course 55234 is designed to give students focused, in-depth training on the most critical skills needed to do site collection and administration with SharePoint 2016 deployed:
This is a 5-day course, intended for power users and IT professionals that work within the SharePoint 2016 environment.
Module 1: Getting Started with SharePoint 2016
This module explains to site collection and site administrators how to discuss basic terminology and how to navigate around SharePoint 2016. Once administrators can explain basic terminology and how to navigate around SharePoint, they have a solid foundation for the rest of the course.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Building a Site Collection with Apps
This module explains to site collection administrators how to create sites, document libraries and lists, as well as manage navigation. The first major milestone, after planning the company portal, is executing and building the site structure. The site structure includes the components for storing and presenting information namely sites, lists and libraries and apps, which are new to SharePoint 2016. Site structure provides the framework for the entire portal.
Lessons
Lab: Creating a Structured Company Portal
Lab: Creating a List Using SharePoint Designer (Optional)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Creating Consistency across Sites
This module explains to site collection administrators how to more efficiently manage their site collections, as well as maintain consistency throughout the site. When setting up a SharePoint site collection, it will often involve repeating a certain number of tasks. Site collection administrators can reduce the effort of duplication by creating reusable objects in a central location by using the tools provided.
Lessons
Lab: Creating Site Columns and Content Types
Lab: Implementing a Taxonomy
Lab: Configuring the Content Organizer
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: SharePoint Permissions
This module explains how permissions work within a site collection, and how the tools within SharePoint 2016 are used to manage and maintain them. It is crucial that SharePoint 2016 site collection administrators and site administrators are able to create and manage permissions within SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Managing Permissions in SharePoint
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Working with Pages and Web Parts
This module explains how to design a company portal using out-of-the-box web parts and themes in SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Adding and Configuring Web Parts
Lab: Connecting Web Parts
Lab: Applying Themes to Your Company Portal
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 6: Document and Records Management
This module explains how to leverage document management tools included in SharePoint 2016. Whether a small company or a large enterprise, this module explores how any company can leverage SharePoint for versioning, compliance, routing and eDiscovery.
Lessons
Lab: Working with Advanced Document Management Features
Lab: Leveraging Records Management to Preserve Data
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 7: Workflow
This module explains how to automate business processes within an organization. The ability to initiate, track and resolve activity in SharePoint 2016 is possible through the use of a workflow. Whether using the pre-configured out-of the-box workflow features or creating a custom workflow through SharePoint Designer, an organization can benefit from moving existing email, paper or informal processes into SharePoint.
Lessons
Lab: Creating an Approval Workflow from SharePoint
Lab: Creating a Custom Workflow in SharePoint Designer (Optional)
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 8: Office Integration
This module explains how to connect SharePoint 2016 to Microsoft Office 2016. There are many ways such as connecting a SharePoint 2016 document library to Microsoft Outlook, linking an Access database or an Excel spreadsheet to a list in SharePoint 2016, or using Microsoft InfoPath to build SharePoint 2016 lists. The heavy integration of Microsoft Office 2016 is one of the main benefits of using SharePoint 2016.
Lessons
Lab: Importing and Exporting Excel Data with SharePoint
Lab: Linking Outlook and SharePoint
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 9: Creating Publishing Sites
This module explains how to use the publishing features of SharePoint 2016 to create rich content pages, as well as the features that limit the types of layouts, images and templates available to users. While some organizations need the document storage and dashboard capabilities SharePoint can offer, others may need a centralized way to distribute informational content to users, who will not otherwise interact with SharePoint in a more robust way.
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