In this course, you will learn to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. You will learn the guidelines, best practices, and considerations to install, configure, manage, and optimize SharePoint 2016.

This course is the first in a sequence of two courses for IT Professionals and is aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro Certification.

This course uses Microsoft SharePoint 2016 and incorporates material from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 20339-1: Planning and Administering SharePoint 2016.

• Software management in a Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 enterprise server environment
• Deploying and managing applications natively, virtually, and in the cloud
• Administering IIS
• Configuring AD DS for use in authentication, and as a user store
• Managing an application remotely by using Windows PowerShell 4.0
• Managing databases and server roles in SQL Server
• Connecting applications to SQL Server
• Implementing claims-based security
• Using Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines
• Minimum one year experience with deploying and administering multiple SharePoint 2013 farms across a large enterprise
• Two years experience with SharePoint 2010 along with knowledge of the differences between SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013, specifically in terms of hybridization

Experienced IT professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint 2016 installations either in a data center or in the cloud

At least one year of hands-on experience with planning and maintaining SharePoint and two years experience with other core technologies on which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.

Hands-on experience or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint space that includes document management, content management, and search.

• IT Professional who plans, implements, and maintains a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2016
• Working knowledge of and preferably hands-on experience with SharePoint Online
• Broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads
• Experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability, authentication, and security technologies
• Experience with Windows PowerShell