Plan a three-tier SharePoint 2013 topology with web, application, and data tiers. Use load balancing, request management, and redundancy to optimize performance and resilience.

Explore request management in SharePoint 2013, building on throttling to block or route requests by administrator criteria, with integrated or dedicated modes and host named site collections.

Explore web load balancing for SharePoint farms, including round robin DNS, hardware load balancers, and Windows network load balancing, and learn why sticky sessions maintain user state.

Navigate the SharePoint 2013 configuration wizard, set up a managed service account, keep default services, create main site collection with the 2013 team site template, then access central administration.

Install language packs across a SharePoint 2013 farm to enable multilingual menus and help text. Download, install, and configure language packs on every server, then complete central administration tasks.

Install the Microsoft Office web apps server, provision a new web apps farm with PowerShell, and verify the deployment via the discovery page after configuring the SSL certificate.

Install and configure workflow services for a SharePoint 2013 environment. Explore setting up the workflow manager, configuring the farm with a SQL Server instance, and using PowerShell commands for setup.

Test the workflow services end-to-end by starting the app management service, publishing a simple 2013 workflow in SharePoint designer, and verifying the hello world log in the history list.

Define managed metadata in SharePoint to create consistent tagging, boost search accuracy, and improve data usability. Explore metadata concepts with library card catalog and net flow data.

Explore the SharePoint enterprise search architecture, detailing the Krol, linked, analytics reporting, and search administration databases, and the content and query processing flow from data sources to indexed results.

Manage the SharePoint 2013 search topology with PowerShell, move the query processing component to a web server, and clone or swap topologies when crawled data exists.

Set up the user profile application as its own web application with a dedicated site collection. Use central administration to create the web app and site collection.

Configure two-way profile synchronization between SharePoint and Active Directory by delegating replication rights to the SharePoint farm account using ADSI Edit and Active Directory Users and Computers.

Learn to configure web applications in SharePoint 2013, compare TLM and Kerberos authentication with Active Directory concepts, and enable options like anonymous, forms-based, and trusted identity providers.

Explore how to manage alternate access mappings to redirect internal and public urls, enforce https, and preserve bookmarks while mapping profiles to the desired site.