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    Understand core concepts of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

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    Install and manage SharePoint Server 2013

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    Effectively deploy SharePoint Server into an organization

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    Course is delivered by Microsoft Certified Trainers

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    Our instructors assist delegates throughout the course to help you gain the certification

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    Pentagon Training offers this course at an affordable price

SharePoint is a popular content management tool which allows users to store and share data in a web-based environment. SharePoint was developed by Microsoft in early 2001 and since then it has gone through various versions. The latest version is SharePoint 2013 and has better collaboration and integration tools. Today SharePoint is used by 90% of organisations across Canada and US. Banking institutions prefer using SharePoint for fulfilling their collaboration and intranet needs. SharePoint is made of web applications, website pages, web parts, site collections and various other core features.

Who should take this course

Targeted audience for this course is IT professionals who are interested in learning methods to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installation on a cloud or in the datacenter.

Delegates having more than four years of experience in planning and maintaining SharePoint and its core technologies.

SharePoint depends on Windows Server 2008 R2, Internet Information Services (IIS), Active Directory, SQL Server 2008 R2 and networking infrastructure services.

Delegates must possess:

  • Working knowledge of SharePoint online.
  • Had familiarity with SharePoint workloads
  • Have experience of business continuity management including data backup, high availability and restoration.
  • Has experience with security technologies and authentication
  • Has experience of working with Windows PowerShell

Other audiences for Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 course are Business Application Administrators (BAAs) who are indulged in administering Line of Business (LOB) projects along with internal business customers that will get benefit from understanding the management of SharePoint Server 2013.

Administrators who are new to SharePoint can take this course to familiarise themselves with basic concepts of SharePoint Server 2013.

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Prerequisites

Delegates must have at least one year of experience with implementing and administering various SharePoint 2010 farms across a large enterprise. At least 2 years of experience using SharePoint 2007 and knowledge about the difference between 2007 and 2010 especially Service Application Model. A delegate can also possess the following skills:

  • Software management in Windows Server 2012 environment and Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server
  • Implement and manage applications in place, virtually and in the cloud
  • Administer internet information services
  • For use in the authorization, authentication and as user store configure active directory.
  • Using Windows PowerShell 2.0
  • Connect applications to Microsoft SQL Server
  • Implement claims based security
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What Will You Learn

  • Understand major features of SharePoint 2013.
  • Design information, logical and physical architecture.
  • Learn to install and configure SharePoint Server 2013.
  • Develop web applications and site collections.
  • Learn to plan and configure service applications.
  • Manage users and permissions granted to them.
  • Configure SharePoint 2013 authentication.
  • Secure deployment of SharePoint 2013.
  • Manage taxonomy and effectively manage user profiles.
  • Configure enterprise search.
  • Effectively monitor and maintain SharePoint 2013 environment.
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What's included

  Course Overview

Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint, Server 2013 course provide delegates in-depth knowledge of core concepts of SharePoint Server. Learn to configure and maintain SharePoint Server 2013. Topics covered in this course include high availability, social computing, service application architecture, business intelligence, content management, disaster recovery etc. Also get knowledge about best practices and considerations that will help in optimising the performance of SharePoint Server deployment.

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  Course Content

Introducing SharePoint Server 2013

SharePoint allows document storage and enable us to collaborate effectively within an organisation. Understand core features of SharePoint 2013 and new features. Also understand about various deployment options available.

  • Major components of SharePoint deployment
  • New features
  • Deployment options in SharePoint 2013

Design an information architecture

Information Architecture defines structure by which organisation catalogue information. For designing an IA proper understanding of information usage, context, volatility and governance is required. Learn core elements of IA design, facilities and devices available in SharePoint 2013 to deploy effective information management solution.

  • Find and understand business requirements
  • Organise information in SharePoint 2013
  • Plan for discoverability

Design a Logical Architecture

Understand logical constructs of SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint online. Define logical architecture and components of Microsoft SharePoint Server that are required to map business specifications

  • Overview of Logical Architecture of SharePoint 2013
  • Document Logical Architecture

Design a physical architecture

This module describes features that you should consider while designing the physical architecture of SharePoint 2013. It includes server design, network infrastructure, farm topology and other supporting elements. Make sure that the physical design meet operational requirements.

  • Design physical and supporting components for deployment of SharePoint 2013.
  • Design Physical and supporting components for SharePoint deployment
  • SharePoint terminologies
  • Map a logical architecture to physical architecture design

Install and configure SharePoint Server 2013

Learn how to install SharePoint 2013 in different topologies. Also, learn how to configure farm settings and script the installation as well as configuration.

  • Install SharePoint Server 2013
  • Script installation and configuration
  • Configure farm settings

Creating site collections and web applications
In this module, learn major concepts of logical infrastructure of SharePoint including sites, site collections, web applications and content databases. Also, learn methods to create and configure site’s applications

  • Create and configure web applications
  • Create and configure site collections

Plan and configure service applications

In this module understand basic service application architecture and other essentials of planning service application deployment and its configuration.

  • Introduction to Service application architecture
  • Develop and configure service applications
  • Authorization in SharePoint 2013
  • Manage access to client

Configuring authentication for SharePoint 2013

In this module, learn about authentication infrastructure in SharePoint 2013. Learn to configure SharePoint to work effectively with various authentication providers. Also, learn how to create authenticated connection between SharePoint and other Server Platforms.

  • Authentication Overview
  • Configure federated authentication
  • Configure server to server authentication

Secure a SharePoint 2013 deployment

In this module, learn to secure SharePoint 2013 farm deployment and configure various security settings at a farm level.

  • Secure platform
  • Configure farm level security

Manage taxonomy

To help organisation easily organise information, you can label it. Most effective way to implement metadata is with the help of taxonomy.

  • Manage content types
  • Understand as well as manage term sets and term stores

Configure user profiles

The social platform of SharePoint is based upon capabilities provided by user profile service application that is supported by other services. User profile service provides configuration and control over importing profile data, managing audiences and creating sites.

  • Configure user profile service application
  • Manage user profile and audience

Configure enterprise search

Learn new architecture of search service and how to configure major components of search. Also, manage functionality in an organisation.

  • Understand search service architecture
  • Configure and manage enterprise search

Monitor and maintain a SharePoint environment

Learn to plan and configure SharePoint monitoring and ways to tune as well as optimise the performance of farm on ongoing basis. Learn how to use various tools and techniques to troubleshoot unexpected problems in SharePoint 2013 deployment.

  • Monitor SharePoint 2013 environment
  • Tune and optimise SharePoint environment
  • Troubleshoot SharePoint environment
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Advantages of SharePoint

Integrated Searching

Previous versions of SharePoint had an excellent web engine that enables us to find documents. With SharePoint 2013, web engine has become fast thus reducing the cost overhead and making search easier for users.

Better workflow

SharePoint 2010 engine can be maintained easily by upgrading to SharePoint 2013. You can add Workflow Manager which run on its server.

Improved Business Intelligence

SharePoint 2010 was used as a platform to show big data and business intelligence reports. Now SharePoint 2013 take business intelligence to the next level. Get deeper business insights as well as analytics. Also, enhance integration between Excel and SharePoint.

Easy storage management

SharePoint 2013 store files in an increment manner through an approach called “Shredding”. In Shredding, data files are stored as XML. When any changes are done, the changes are stored in parent computer file. It reduces storage space required and enhances storage management.

Mobile Compatibility

Previous versions to failed to show content on mobile devices but the new version of SharePoint support mobile web browsing and display content by screen size and resolution.

Social media friendly

Social media play a significant role in SharePoint. It helps us to create sites without paying extra money. It provides various benefits like building a reputation, creating forum threads and much more.

Better support for large data

Using integrated Power Pivot technology, SharePoint brings various features to support large data. Vertipaq engine makes it easier to filter and compress large data. It speeds up the operations.

Improved publishing abilities

Use SharePoint 2013 to take benefit from cross-site publishing which provides a powerful web content management system. It also helps in storage and maintenance of various sites.

Powerful web design

SharePoint 2013 has simple design process. Easily customise present and global navigation menus using drag and drop functionality. Make use of tools like Dreamweaver for developing the site. It supports various devices.

Neat and clean HTML Markup

SharePoint 2013 introduces cleaner and simple HTML markup. For web parts, no tables are required. CSS is written again in a much-simplified way.



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