SharePoint On-Premises Training

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide IT professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, deploy, configure, and manage SharePoint on-premises environments effectively. Participants will learn about SharePoint architecture, installation, configuration, security, content management, collaboration, and customization.

Session 1: Overview of SharePoint on-premises

• Introduction to SharePoint: history, versions, and editions
• Comparison between SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises
• Understanding key SharePoint features: sites, lists, libraries, and web parts

Session 2: SharePoint Architecture and Deployment Planning

• Overview of SharePoint architecture: server roles, databases, and components
• Hardware and software requirements for SharePoint Server
• Planning for SharePoint deployment: capacity planning, scalability, and high availability
• Installation prerequisites and best practices
• Step-by-step installation of SharePoint Server

Session 3: Configuring SharePoint Service Applications

• Introduction to service applications: Managed Metadata, Search, User Profile, etc.
• Configuring service applications using Central Administration and PowerShell
• Service application architecture and dependencies

Session 4: Managing SharePoint Sites and Content

• Creating and configuring site collections and sites
• Managing site security: permissions, groups, and inheritance
• Introduction to SharePoint content types and columns
• Document management in SharePoint: libraries, versioning, and checkout/check-in

Session 5: Governance, Compliance, and Search

• Implementing governance policies: information management policies, retention policies
• Configuring compliance features: eDiscovery, data loss prevention (DLP)
• Introduction to SharePoint Search: configuring search service application, crawl schedules, and search scopes

Session 6: Monitoring and Maintaining SharePoint

• Monitoring SharePoint health and performance
• Configuring diagnostic logging and usage logging
• Performing regular maintenance tasks: backup and restore, patching and updates
• Troubleshooting common SharePoint issues

Session 7: Implementing Business Connectivity Services

• Introduction to Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
• Configuring External Content Types (ECTs) and External Lists
• Integrating external data with SharePoint

Session 8: Customization with SharePoint Designer and PowerShell

• Customizing SharePoint sites with SharePoint Designer
• Introduction to SharePoint Designer workflows
• Introduction to PowerShell for SharePoint administration: basic cmdlets, scripting best practices

Session 9: Implementing Workflows in SharePoint

• Overview of SharePoint workflows: out-of-the-box workflows vs. custom workflows
• Creating and customizing workflows using SharePoint Designer and Visio
• Introduction to Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) for workflow automation

Session 10: Introduction to SharePoint Development (optional)

• Overview of SharePoint development options: SharePoint Framework (SPFx), server-side object model (SSOM), client-side object model (CSOM), and REST API
• Introduction to SharePoint add-ins (formerly apps)
• Development best practices and resources for learning SharePoint development