Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (70-331)

Explore what SharePoint is, from a free Windows server add-on to a versatile web collaboration and document sharing tool with sites, communities, content, search, and workflows.

Learn about the three SharePoint 2013 versions—Foundation (free), Standard, and Enterprise—licensing, features, and how they enable collaboration, content management, and business intelligence.

Explore SharePoint Online, Microsoft's cloud version of SharePoint 2013 included with Office 365, covering hosted architecture, site collections, authentication, and cost-saving administration.

Identify and compare direct attached storage, network attached storage, and storage area networks for SharePoint 2013, linking storage choice to latency, disk IO, and performance.

Explore network attached storage options for SharePoint 2013, including SMB, NFS, and HFS shares, and the 20 milliseconds remote blob storage limit. Compare SANs for scalable access and dynamic expansion.

Learn the networking requirements for SharePoint 2013, including user and inter-server communications, the need for separate networks, one-gigabit links, and sub-millisecond latency within a single data center.

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 how request management routes client requests through routing targets and machine pools using static and health-based weights, routing and throttling rules, and three execution groups (0–2) in SharePoint 2013.

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.

Identify hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013 installations, including single and multi-server setups, with CPU, RAM, and disk needs. Note operating system and database prerequisites; installer automates them.

Learn to create slipstreamed SharePoint 2013 install media by extracting updates into the media and applying patches during the initial install, ordered by KB numbers.

Install SharePoint 2013 prerequisites via either online installer or offline manual download, then install net framework, Windows Management Framework, and enable the IIS and application server roles with reboots.

We present a manual method to install SharePoint prerequisites when offline, configuring the application server and web server roles, required features, and automatic restarts using server manager.

Execute manual prerequisite installation for SharePoint 2013 by running the prerequisite installer from the command line, using the local file cache and an Excel prereq list.

Install SharePoint 2013 standard after prerequisites, configure SQL Server max degree of parallelism to one, then run the configuration wizard to complete the farm setup.

Configure the SharePoint 2013 product configuration wizard to create a new farm, specify the local database server and database name, set the access account, and finalize with central administration setup.

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.

Configure an Active Directory service connection point for SharePoint by creating the Microsoft SharePoint products container, granting authenticated users' write access, and registering with AD via wizard or PowerShell.

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.

Explore the SharePoint farm as a group of servers sharing resources, bound by a central configuration database, with web applications, site collections, and service applications activated at the farm level.

Discover the limits, thresholds, and boundaries in SharePoint 2013 infrastructure. Learn how web applications per farm, zones per web app, and content databases shape performance and storage decisions.

Explore the limits, thresholds, and boundaries in SharePoint 2013, covering site collections, web sites, device channels, and security and content database constraints.

Explore configuring managed accounts in central administration to secure service credentials, simplify password changes across SharePoint 2013, and understand plain-text risks and database encryption.

Discover how SharePoint service applications power sites, from search and translation to user profiles and word automation, managed in application pools for security, isolation, and resource utilization.

Create and manage service application proxy groups in SharePoint 2013 using PowerShell, isolating the Word Automation Service and Machine Translation Service from internet exposure within a new internal proxy group.

Manage proxy groups in SharePoint Server 2013 by moving service application proxies between internal and default groups using PowerShell, and verify the proxy assignments with group membership commands.

Configure SharePoint mail settings by installing and setting up the SMTP service, enabling anonymous access in IIS, and creating mail aliases in Active Directory for inbound and outbound email.

Configure inbound email in SharePoint by choosing automatic or advanced modes, linking directory management to Active Directory, and setting security, distribution group controls, and mail server options.

Learn how to configure outbound email settings in SharePoint via Central Administration, set the outbound SMTP server, from address, optional reply-to address, and the character set.

Configure SharePoint Designer settings at the web application level via central administration, enabling or restricting design access, detaching pages, and customizing master pages, with PowerShell commands to apply updates.

Discover external SharePoint services, including Office Web Apps and the Azure workflow server, modularized for independent upgrades and connected via a simple PowerShell command.

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.

Connect SharePoint 2013 to the Office Web Apps server using PowerShell and the open platform interface binding, configuring the external WPI zone for browser-based editing and preview.

Explore externalizing workflow services in SharePoint 2013 to offload workloads to a dedicated server and enable integration, while covering installation, certificate setup, and required app management and user profile services.

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.

Configure the workflow server with the domain certificate, update IIS SSL bindings, and register the workflow service from the SharePoint admin shell to link both servers.

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.

Discover how SharePoint's managed metadata service handles taxonomy and folksonomy tagging with term stores, enabling consistent terminology, easy updates, and delegated administration.

Configure the managed metadata service in central administration by creating the service application and selecting database settings and an application pool. Then manage the taxonomy term store and default language.

Navigate the managed metadata service's term store to create term groups, term sets, and terms. Configure permissions, stakeholders, and submission policies, and tag locations such as Birmingham, Chicago, and Raleigh.

Learn to manage term store hierarchies by copying and reusing terms, linking terms for unified search, and understanding how properties propagate while noting sort and deletion behaviors.

Provide an overview of SharePoint enterprise search, detailing how six components—crawl, content processing, analytics processing, index, query processing, and search administration—work together to index data and retrieve results.

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.

Configure the SharePoint search service as a service application in central administration, assign accounts and pools, and review crawl, content access, proxy server, alerts, and logging settings.

Configure a content source and crawl rules to let SharePoint search crawl and index data from local sites and file shares, choosing full or incremental crawls and testing rules.

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.

Clone the active search topology, assign the enterprise search service application ID to a variable, and prepare to add and verify the query processing component on the new host.

Clone the search topology and move the query processing component to the web server, validate with PowerShell commands, and remove the inactive topology to finalize the SharePoint 2013 search topology.

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.

Create and configure the user profile service application in central administration, set up databases, enable profile synchronization with Active Directory, and configure my site host and naming formats.

Configure the user profile service, start the user profile synchronization service on the server, and create a synchronization connection to pull Active Directory data into SharePoint.

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.

Configure the user profile synchronization by connecting to Active Directory with the proper account, setting up filters, enabling the incremental synchronization timer job, and validating synchronized user profiles in SharePoint.

SharePoint 2013 web applications are containers that serve web data and host site collections, with unique IP or host header based identification and customizable content databases and authentication.

Learn how to create a new web application on a SharePoint 2013 server using central administration, including configuring host header, ports, anonymous access, and SSL.

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.

Configure a web application's database connection with Windows authentication, manage service application proxy groups, and preview the SharePoint intranet site created with an empty shell awaiting a site collection.

Learn how managed paths organize site collections within a web application, using explicit paths for a single site collection and wildcard paths for multiple sub-sites like departments or search.

Explore alternate access mappings in SharePoint 2013, defining multiple URLs and port redirection across zones. Learn how to configure host header bindings and DNS to enable access paths.

Explore configuring alternate access mappings in central administration, linking web applications to public and internal URLs across zones, with DNS and bindings considerations.

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.