Core Solutions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2013

Microsoft SharePoint is a browser-based collaborative platform launched in 2001 and offers many benefits to organizations. The five-day course is designed to provide essential knowledge and tools to plan, deploy, configure, manage and troubleshoot Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 environment. The course teaches the delegates to use the best practices and guidelines assist in optimizing the SharePoint server deployment. The SharePoint Server provides the flexibility to make adjustments in the deployments based on business specifications and makes document and file storage more people-centric.

The SharePoint training enables the delegates to improve the efficiency and performance of the organization by streamlining the management of and access to data. The SharePoint services are extensively used by IT professionals and administrators to manage and maintain the secure SharePoint server environment and provide personalized access to documents and other information. The course introduces the core features of SharePoint 2013, different deployment options and basic structural elements of a farm deployment.

Microsoft SharePoint comprises powerful features for storing, manipulating and retrieving documents and one can utilize all of this power within their organization. It also considered as a web-based information portal that can be created and deployed to run internet, intranet and extranet sites.  The course provides a description of designing an information, logical and physical architecture of SharePoint 2013 based on business requirements and also ensures an effective information management solution.

During the course, the delegate will learn how to deploy and configure farm settings, create and configure web applications and site collections, manage users and permissions, manage taxonomy, configure authentication between SharePoint and other server platforms and lastly, monitoring, managing and troubleshooting a SharePoint 2013 environment.  

Key Exam Information

The course helps the delegates for preparation of Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 exam. The exam is designed to test the capability to accomplish the following tasks:

• Create a topology of SharePoint
• Design security
• Create SharePoint farms
• Install and configure web applications and site collections
• Maintain a core SharePoint environment

An Introduction to SharePoint Server 2013

• Understand architecture and topology of SharePoint 2013
• Explain key components of a SharePoint Deployment
• Recognize deployment options
• Identify new Features in SharePoint 2013

Creating an Information Architecture

• Understand Business Requirements
• Describe Business Requirements
• Plan for discoverability as part of an IA deployment
• Organize Information in SharePoint 2013

Designing a Logical Architecture

• Understand logical architecture of SharePoint 2013
• Explain the options for documenting logical architecture
• Recognize the importance of documentation

Designing a Physical Architecture

• Explain the physical design requirements for SharePoint Deployments
• Design supporting components for SharePoint Deployments
• Understand SharePoint Farm Topologies
• Implement logical architecture design to a physical architecture design

Creating and Configuring SharePoint Server 2013

• Installing SharePoint Server 2013
• Establishing and configuring Scripting
• Setting up Farm Settings

Creating Web Applications and Site Collections

• Design Web Applications
• Configure web applications
• Create and establish Site Collections

Planning and Configuring Service Applications

• Describe the architecture of Service Application
• Understand the key components
• Explain the management of Service Applications

Managing Users and Permissions

• Describe the permissions and authorization in SharePoint 2013
• Manage access to content in SharePoint 2013

Configuring Authentication for SharePoint 2013

• Understand the authentication infrastructure
• Establish Server-to-Server Authentication
• Setting up Federated Authentication

Securing a SharePoint 2013 Deployment

• Secure the SharePoint 2013 platform
• Install farm-level security in SharePoint 2013

Managing Taxonomy

• Explain the function of content types
• Describe Term Sets and Term Stores
• Apply content types to business requirements
• Explain the function of managed metadata
• Managing Term Sets and Term Stores
• Configure the managed metadata service

Configuring User Profiles

• Install the User Profile Service Application
• Configuring My Sites and Audiences
• Manage and maintain user profiles and Audiences with Active Directory Domain Services

Configuring Enterprise Search

• Explain the core architecture of the Search Service
• Establishing Enterprise Search
• Manage and maintain a well-performing Search environment

Monitoring and Maintaining a SharePoint 2013 Environment

• Create, deploy and implement a monitoring plan for a SharePoint 2013 environment
• Tuning and Optimizing a SharePoint Environment
• Create and install caching
• Troubleshoot errors in a SharePoint 2013 deployment