This course is designed for employees who will manage multiple SharePoint sites across teams, including:

• Information Architects and SharePoint power users who are fully adopting SharePoint in Microsoft® 365 to support their organization’s information management strategy, and to empower site owners to make the most of their content.
• SharePoint Administrators who are managing a multi-site SharePoint architecture across their organization in Microsoft® 365.

As a cloud-based platform, Microsoft® 365 delivers robust information management capabilities in SharePoint that are accessible to almost any size of organization or IT budget, providing secure access to documents and information when and where it is needed, and managing the lifecycle of these valuable electronic information assets in support of the organization’s data governance goals and policies.

This two-day instructor-led course introduces several advanced topics around planning and designing and administering an organization-wide SharePoint site architecture. You will have an opportunity to explore choices for site topologies, and learn how to design robust navigation, content management and search experiences that will enable site owners and teams to effectively leverage SharePoint across the entire organization.

SharePoint Overview

• What is SharePoint (vs. OneDrive)?
• Ways to Create a SharePoint Site
• Understand Team Sites vs. Communication Sites
• Understand the Modern vs. Classic Experience
• Understand Microsoft® 365 and SharePoint Identity and Access Management
• Understand SharePoint Site Permissions

Exploring and Implementing SharePoint Flat and Hierarchical Topologies

• Plan the Topology and Naming Conventions
• Understand Hybrid Topologies
• Create Subsites in a Site Collection
• Brand and Register a Hub Site
• Associate a Site with a Hub Site
• Create a Home Site

Planning and Configuring Site Navigation

• Review the Site Navigation Panes
• Customize Site Navigation
• Organize Navigation Links
• Customize Global Navigation in the SharePoint App Bar
• Configure and Implement Audience Targeting for Links
• Understand Accessibility Features

Managing Structured Content

• Understand Modern Content Types
• Understand Content Type Inheritance
• Manage Content Types in the Content Type Gallery
• Create and Publish a Content Type
• Understand Records Management and Information Management Policies
• Track Documents using Document IDs
• Understand How to Work with External Data
• Manage External RSS Feeds

Managing Enterprise Meta Data

• Explore the Term Store
• Create a Term Set
• Create and Manage Terms
• Merge and Deprecate Terms
• Pin Terms
• Manage Custom Properties
• Manage Translations and Synonyms
• Use Managed Metadata Columns

Creating and Managing Targeted Content

• Manage User Profiles
• Create and Manage Audiences
• Configure and Implement Audience Targeting for Site Content
• Display Highlighted Content

Configuring and Customizing Search Experiences

• Understand the Modern vs. Classic Search Experience
• Explore Microsoft® Search in SharePoint
• Work with Managed Properties
• Manage Search Verticals at the Organization and Site Level
• Promote SharePoint Results in Microsoft® Search

Managing SharePoint Administration Settings

• Manage SharePoint Administration with PowerShell
• Manage Sharing Settings
• Manage Site Storage Limits
• Manage Site Creation Settings
• Manage Microsoft® 365 Group Creation Settings
• Enable and Configure Information Rights Management

Monitoring Usage Across Sites

• Understand SharePoint Online Limits
• Manage Site Storage Limits
• Create Site Policies
• Monitor and Manage App Usage
• View SharePoint Site Usage Activity in Microsoft® 365

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• brand a hub site
• create and manage site topologies
• manage site and intranet navigation
• create and manage content targeted to specific audiences
• manage content types across sites
• interact with organizational data external to SharePoint
• implement records management and information management policies
• use managed metadata term sets across sites
• manage search experiences across sites
• manage administrative settings across sites and users
• monitor usage across sites