Microsoft 70-331: Core Solutions of SharePoint Server 2013

Discover what's new in SharePoint 2013 and identify deprecated features, while reviewing the different SharePoint deployments and the components that make up SharePoint.

Explore what's new in SharePoint 2013 Part1 and identify what's deprecated in SharePoint 2013 Part1.

Discover new SharePoint 2013 features, including request management automation, machine translation, claims authentication improvements, mobile views, integrated search, continuous crawl, and no-code Office apps deployment.

Identify deprecated and discontinued features in SharePoint 2013, including the removal of the visual upgrade for site collections. Note non-supported templates and shift from Groove workspace to Sky Drive Pro.

Explore the editions of SharePoint, including SharePoint Online, and learn how to design hybrid deployments that combine on-site and online SharePoint 2013.

Select from three SharePoint editions—foundation, standard, and enterprise—based on features, scalability, and licensing costs. Foundation remains a free core download, while standard and enterprise add features and service applications.

Choose sharepoint online to cut on-site hardware and admin costs with a subscription-based service backed by a service level agreement, while noting limited customisations and admin granularity.

Explore hybrid deployment, mixing on-premises and online roles, with single sign-on and business connectivity services publishing on-prem data to online services, reducing administration while preserving on-prem capabilities.

examine the key sharepoint components, define the sharepoint farm, and explore web applications, service applications, site collections, and sites.

Define a SharePoint farm as a collection of physical or virtual servers and components, including service applications, search, business connectivity, performance point, web front ends, load balancing, and database server.

Explore how SharePoint web applications run on IIS as the execution boundary for site collections and service applications, hosting content databases and configuration in the web application database.

Explore how a site collection sits in a web application's content database, defines a security boundary, and contains sites, with permissions differing for site collection administrators and site administrators.

Explore the core SharePoint components, from Windows server foundations and .NET hosting to SQL Server storage, identity services, browser access, and Office and Project integration.

Deliver exam prep insights on SharePoint architecture, clarifying content database limits for site collections and web applications, the top-level SharePoint farm, and SharePoint Online limitations.

Review the latest SharePoint options, deprecations, and editions, compare on premise, online, and hybrid deployments, and define core building blocks like farms, web applications, site collections, sites, and service applications.

Explore information architecture, examine the logical architecture, and analyze the physical architecture of SharePoint across its components.

Define the information architecture within SharePoint to identify business knowledge and document it for your organization.

Identify the information source and map business knowledge into an architecture that handles digital and document formats, not intermediaries, explores contribution and consumption, and addresses governance PCI, HIPAA, and SOX.

Define the logical architecture and perform requirement gathering. Map the gathered information to the logical architecture.

Define non-physical structure to meet defined business needs through logical architecture, using non-technical terms. Map logical architecture to information architecture to guide physical implementation for SharePoint deployment.

Gather requirements from the entire organization to ensure full buy-in and roi for SharePoint. Document information architecture, governance, and processes with input from stakeholders including developers, administrators, and architects.

Map information architecture to logical architecture in SharePoint by aligning site columns, content types, term sets, and taxonomy with information management policies, then apply information rights management during physical implementation.

Analyze the logical architecture components: server farms, service and web applications, zones, application pools, content databases, and site collections to define redundancy and service level agreements that drive physical architecture.

Plan the logical architecture by gathering input from all stakeholders via focus groups and surveys. Include hands-on users and data stewards to identify manual processes and automation opportunities.

Explore the physical architecture of SharePoint and outline hardware and software requirements. Examine database fundamentals, physical design, and design considerations for your SharePoint farm.

Identify hardware and software requirements for SharePoint 2013, detailing processor, memory, and storage, scaling options, and prerequisites including Windows Server, .NET Framework 4.5, and SQL Server.

Map the logical to the physical design, evaluate functional needs like dashboards and Excel services with non-functional item-level secure storage, and plan Active Directory, DNS, SSL, and SQL Server redundancy.

Explore exam prep questions on information architecture and how logical policies define virtual and physical server counts. Learn that SharePoint requires SQL Server.

Map information architecture to the logical architecture, define policies and processes, and plan functional and non-functional requirements to design scalable physical architecture with redundancy via load balancing and clustering.

Explore installing SharePoint 2013 and outline the configuration steps to set up SharePoint server successfully.

Identify the installation accounts needed for SharePoint deployment, review prerequisites, explore language packs, and examine scripted installation approaches for SharePoint.

Select and configure installation accounts with domain permissions and minimal rights, address double-hop and kerberos considerations, and assign sql server roles (security admin, db creator, db owner) for SharePoint installation.

Explain how SharePoint 2013 depends on SQL, .NET, and other prerequisites, and how to download and install them with the prerequisite installer or SharePoint products preparation tool.

Install the Windows language pack first, then the SharePoint language pack, and use the SharePoint Configuration Manager to install or uninstall language packs and language-specific site templates.

Script and automate SharePoint installations with the setup executable and canned configuration files, using answer files for silent, farm, or standalone deployments, and ADSI for tracking.

Explore the different topologies available for a SharePoint implementation, review SharePoint updates, and examine SharePoint configuration.

Explore how to size and scale SharePoint deployments from single server farms to two-tier and three-tier topologies, detailing resource needs and the roles of SQL Server, IIS, and service applications.

Understand SharePoint updates, including database updates that alter the schema and binary updates such as patches or service packs. Learn to slipstream updates by copying, extracting, and installing them locally.

Configure the SharePoint farm using the configuration wizard or PowerShell, setting up service applications, central administration, incoming e-mail, alerts, and farm workflows.

install SharePoint 2013 on server operating systems (not client), plan memory and resources for a single‑server setup with data tier, SQL Server, web front end, and service applications.

Install SharePoint 2013 Part2 uses the SharePoint products preparation tool to download prerequisites online and install binaries, with a domain-based setup and ongoing SQL Server and Windows updates.

Automate SharePoint 2013 installation with answer files and a setup command line, then configure and manage with PowerShell, ensuring 64-bit SQL Server and database backups.

Install SharePoint 2013 part5 outlines creating central administration database and configuring setup account with local admin and sql server permissions, then use configuration wizard to enroll servers and define roles.

Run the SharePoint products configuration wizard to set up a new farm on a single-server installation. Create the central administration and configuration database during setup.

Complete the SharePoint configuration wizard on a single server and open central administration to configure service applications, the farm, and config database using the SharePoint management shell and PowerShell applets.

Learn to configure SharePoint 2013 with the configuration wizard, enable farm level and list level incoming email, and verify mail delivery via Central Administration and Exchange integration.

Review exam questions on SharePoint 2013 installation on Windows Server, automation with PowerShell, and setup options, including farm-level incoming e-mails configuration.

Review installation prerequisites, language packs, and configuration options for SharePoint 2013, including installation accounts and scripted setups. Explore topologies, updates, slipstreaming, and configuration methods via wizard, central admin, or PowerShell.

Explore site collections and web applications, master web application configuration, and examine cycle actions inside collection app configuration.

Explore web applications, identify web application zones, and review the various configuration options needed to manage SharePoint web applications.

Explore how web applications in SharePoint 2013 serve as security boundaries and hosting containers for site collections and service applications, with centralized administration, authentication options, and content databases.

Explore the five web application zones—default, internet, intranet, extranet, and custom—and how classic mode authentication required extending a web app for separate URLs, while claims-based authentication now supports multiple authenticators.

Configure web applications with predefined user policies, anonymous access options, and permissions controls, then set quotas, alerts, throttling, and upload limits, plus managed paths and PowerShell configuration.

Explore an introduction to site collections, and learn how to create and configure a site collection.

Define a site collection as the top level SharePoint site tied to a single web application and content database, created from a template and enforcing a security boundary.

Create a site collection by linking a web application to a content database; central administration uses the default database, while PowerShell specifies the content database, and two owners are supported.

Configure quotas and templates to limit site collection and web application storage, enforce sandbox index scores, and manage policies, locks, and lifecycle actions via PowerShell or central administration.

Learn how site mailboxes in SharePoint 2013 enable shared team email and configure prerequisites such as exchange 2013, user profile service, application management service, and ssl for web apps.

Configure a SharePoint 2013 site collection by creating a new web application on port 88, selecting authentication (windows, forms, claims), and planning extranet access.

Create site collections within a web application and optimize resources with separate application pools when needed. Configure content databases with Windows authentication and enable database mirroring for redundancy.

Create a site collection on a web application and automate administration with PowerShell, noting its granularity advantages over central administration and the deprecation of stsadm in SharePoint 2013.

Configure a site collection by selecting templates like team site and publishing options, assign primary and secondary admins, quotas, and compare central administration with PowerShell for content databases.

Enable claims-based authentication in the web application to support forms-based and Windows authentication in the same zone, and configure time zone, user presence, quotas, alerts, and recycle bin settings.

Configure a web application to support large uploads up to 250 megabytes, enabling media library blob storage and file stream attributes on NTFS.

Configure SharePoint performance with resource throttling and a daily work window to manage large lists, and enforce a default 50,000 unique permissions per list while monitoring HTTP request throttling.

Configure web application policies to control text message service settings, SharePoint designer access, blocked file types, and maximum upload size, delegating authority across farm, site collection, and sites.

Enable self-service site creation for web applications by configuring creation location, prompts, and quota templates. Manage permissions, zones, and anonymous access at web application and site collection levels.

Define and customize permission policy levels, granting full control or denying read and write access, and apply user policies. Alternate access mapping is deprecated in 2013.

Create a new content database for your web application, set it as default for site collections, and use PowerShell to assign a site collection to that database.

Create and manage site collections in a SharePoint 2013 environment using web applications, managed paths, and content databases, then customize team sites with templates and SharePoint Designer.

Learn how SharePoint 2013 site collections manage configurations, permissions, and security boundaries, including content types, libraries, and the recycle bin for self-service site creation.

Create a finance subsite under a team site within a site collection, manage permissions, and display on quick launch, while reviewing web applications, content databases, and site collection administration.

Master exam prep for SharePoint Server 2013 by understanding anonymous authentication and the two-step process to enable internet access: first at the web application, then at the site collection.

Learn how web applications underpin site collections, explore five zones, configure security, authentication, and throttling, and review creating and configuring site collections via PowerShell and central administration.

Explore service applications in SharePoint Server 2013, starting with an introduction and then configuring service applications for SharePoint.

Explore the basics of service applications in SharePoint, covering key terms, pre-service applications, service application workflow, and how to install or configure separate service application instances.

Examine how service applications replace the shared service provider in SharePoint, enabling scalable, delegated management with components such as application pools, admin interfaces, and service databases.

Define service application terms such as service instance, service machine instance, and farm, and explain how the service application endpoint uses WCF for communication with proxy, central administration, and PowerShell.

Explore how a browser request flows through a service application, via web front end, multiple instances, and software load balancers, to process and return a response through the proxy.

Discover how a service application instance can run on multiple servers to improve performance and capacity, and how its management can be delegated to stakeholders and farm administrators.

Explore the different service application topologies that can be applied and learn how to create a service application.

Compare single versus multi server service application proxy topologies in SharePoint Server 2013, highlighting easy deployment and centralized management of a single proxy vs. scalable, multi-pool configurations with delegated administration.

Configure SharePoint service applications in central administration or PowerShell using least-privilege security, with access to service databases and external data, and note new or deprecated apps in 2013.

Learn how service applications in SharePoint 2010 enable scalable, delegated management across proxies, pools, and multiple servers, with central administration and targeted configurations for Excel Services.

Explore trusted Excel services workbooks and use Power Pivot and Power View for interactive reports, and configure business connectivity services to access external data with external lists.

Learn how service applications are managed via central administration and PowerShell, and that the search service application now includes functionality from the web analytics service in SharePoint 2010.

Explore the architecture and role of service applications in SharePoint, replacing the shared service provider and enabling functionality through Windows Communication Foundation web services and a service application proxy.

Explore SharePoint security, authentication, and user permissions to understand how access is managed in SharePoint Server 2013.

Explore authentication fundamentals in SharePoint, including the security token service introduced in SharePoint 2010. Examine federated authentication and SharePoint 2013, and review claims-based authentication.

SharePoint 2013 uses claims-based authentication, supporting Windows integrated and forms-based modes in a single web application, with a security token service issuing digitally signed claims to relying parties.

Describe how the security token service validates credentials against an identity store like Active Directory, converts Windows identities to claims-based identities, and enables federated trust with relying parties using saml.

Compare Kerberos and NTLM authentication in SharePoint 2013, highlighting Kerberos security, efficiency, and delegation support, against NTLM limitations, and explain federated authentication for single sign-on with third party identity providers.

Describe how claims-based authentication redirects users to a claims provider, issues a security token, and enables forms-based authentication with Windows, via admin and web.config changes for the security token service.

Learn about users and permissions in SharePoint and how to manage permissions, review web application security, and examine site collection security.

Define authentication and authorization by explaining how authentication verifies identity and authorization applies permissions to users or groups in Active Directory and SharePoint, from site collection to item level.

Apply default SharePoint permission levels—full control, design, edit, contribute, read, limited access, and view only—at site collections and above, using Active Directory groups and the owners, members, and visitors groups.

Configure web application security to apply a single policy across all site collections via user, anonymous, and permission policies, with base and custom permission levels and anonymous access control.

Maintain inheritance by default and break it only at the lowest level required, then configure anonymous access and manage access requests via email.

Configure HTML field security in SharePoint 2013 to control domains supplying dynamic content, and set email security in site collection administration with options for any domain or a configurable domain list.

Explore SharePoint web application security, configuring block file types, max upload size, and zone-based user policies; enable anonymous access at the web application and site collection using PowerShell.

Examine the tiered SharePoint security model from web application to site collection, focusing on inheritance and the implications of breaking it, including anonymous access within a single internet-facing site collection.

Configure anonymous access at the web application and site collection, and examine how granular and overlapping permissions and permission levels govern access.

Explains configuring site collection permissions in SharePoint, adding a student user with read access, and breaking inheritance to assign folder-level permissions and create documents.

Stop inheriting permissions on a SharePoint document library, assign read access to specific users, and verify that non-permitted users cannot see restricted folders.

Learn how site collection security governs permissions through inheritance, break and re-inherit unique permissions, and manage authentication methods using Active Directory groups and site permissions.

Explore exam prep on claims based authentication that supports both Windows and forms based in the same zone, and note site collection administrators have inherent permissions to prevent item-level blocking.

Explore claims-based authentication and the security token service in SharePoint, including federated authentication with domain trust. Review user permissions from web applications to site collections and sites with best practices.

Explore SharePoint user profiles and how they interact with my sites and audiences in the SharePoint Server 2013 environment.

Explore user profiles in SharePoint Server 2013, covering the user profile import process, configuring the user profile service application, and defining user profile properties, including SharePoint Online.

SharePoint user profiles store information from sources like Active Directory, profile data sources, and SQL Server, enabling targeted content, search indexing, and the foundation for my sites.

Define profile requirements and standard and custom attributes, identify import sources from Active Directory, SQL Server, or other data sources, and set an incremental synchronization schedule for SharePoint profiles.

Explore predefined profile properties in user profile service, with data types such as numeric, yes/no, date and time, string, policy and privacy settings managed at farm and service application levels.

Explore different service application technologies that can be applied in SharePoint and learn how to create a service application for user profiles with SP Online.

Configure my sites, manage social feature permissions, and define audiences, then apply these settings to my sites and audiences with SharePoint Online.

Explore how My Sites provide a personalized user space in SharePoint 2013 as a separate site collection, with private or shared content, tagging, feeds, and personalized search.

Configure audiences in the SharePoint Server 2013 user profile service to target content, navigation, and lists using rules based on Active Directory membership or department, enabling targeted delivery and ROI.

SharePoint Online supports my sites features and search center, scope, and security trimming. Audiences map Active Directory memberships and manager attributes to profile properties, with updates via Office 365 administration.

Learn to create and delete user profile service applications and configure my sites, application pools, and synchronization and social tagging databases in SharePoint 2013.

Configure and start the user profile service and synchronization, connect to Active Directory, directory services, or SQL Server, and define custom properties like project names for synchronized user profiles.

Explore configuring SharePoint 2013 user profiles, including privacy settings, delegation, and user-driven overrides, with synchronization, alias mappings, and import/export data connections for up-to-date address data.

Manage SharePoint user profiles by editing and deleting custom properties and configuring synchronization with Active Directory and SQL Server. If imports are restricted, manually create profiles.

Set up a dedicated web app with a content database, create the my sites collection from the my site host template, enable self-service creation, and configure the user profile service.

Configure the user service profile application, add a new property, set up the web application and site collection with a managed path, and link to the my sites template.

Analyze how my sites rely on the user profile service and audiences to target content, and distinguish the role of Active Directory in importing profiles for SharePoint 2013.

Review the configuration of the user profile service application and import properties from external sources, and examine how my sites, social permissions, and audiences work with SharePoint Online, including limitations.

Explore how to configure the SharePoint search service and manage the search service, as covered in SharePoint 2013.

Explore the SharePoint search service components, including the crawler, content processing, analytics processing, index component, and query processing, and learn about search administration.

Explore the SharePoint search components, including the crawler, content processing, analytics processing, and indexing, and learn how configuration, protocol handlers, and metadata enable efficient indexing and search administration.

Content processing bridges crawl and indexing, parses documents, applies metadata, writes to the link database, and supports include and exclude content types and custom extractors.

Configure the search topology and crawl rules to build the index, then apply security trimming, define query rules and result types, and plan partitions for scalable query processing.

Explore content sources and crawl rules used in SharePoint search configuration. Review the search center, best practices for implementing search, and roles of query rules, result types, and display templates.

Define content sources for the crawl service, including file shares and document libraries, and enable Krol formats, protocol handlers, and continuous, incremental, or full crawls with Krol rules.

Configure the search center as the primary hub, define scopes, and apply metadata, crawl management, and analytics to migrate documents from file shares to document libraries and optimize search.

Explain how SharePoint 2013 query rules interpret user queries to yield the best results, covering the components: query condition, query action, publishing options, and start, stop dates, and permanency.

Explore how result types in SharePoint 2013 control search results by applying rules, managed properties, and rendering templates at the site collection level.

Display templates in SharePoint 2013 enhance search by replacing XSLT rendering with HTML, making templates easier to work with in editors like SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio.

Configure and manage the search service as a SharePoint service application, creating the application, app pools, content sources, and crawl-related databases.

Configure content sources in SharePoint search with continuous and incremental crawls, schedule full crawls weekly, and ensure crawl service access for the Excel share.

Configure the SharePoint search service by defining crawl rules with a regular expression, managing content sources and file types, and reviewing crawl logs, permissions, and query health reports.

Refine and tune the search service by reviewing usage reports, analyzing top daily and monthly queries, abandoned queries, and low click-through terms.

Examine how the crawl component passes data to the content processor, which parses documents and maps properties for indexing; the query component uses the built index and analytics tracks searching.

Explore SharePoint search components, configure crawlers and content processing, optimize content sources and Krol rules, and use the search center with 2013 features like query rules and result types.

Explore content types and the managed metadata service in SharePoint, and see how site columns enable taxonomy across your organization.

Explore the difference between custom columns and site columns, then introduce content types, create content types within your site collection, and explain inheritance in content types.

Learn the two column types in SharePoint: custom columns and site columns. Understand reusability across a site collection versus a single list or library, and when to create each.

Understand content types as reusable metadata and columns that define item creation and inheritance across site collections, and use the managed metadata service to distribute them and apply taxonomy.

Create a general employee evaluation content type as the parent, and derive unit-specific content types that inherit default and custom columns, hire date, promotion date, and a template.

Explore the managed metadata service application, manage term groups and term sets, publish metadata across a SharePoint farm, and use refinement in 2013.

Leverage the managed metadata service to store enterprise keywords, terms, and content types; publish content types across site collections and honor 1000 term sets and 30000 terms per set limits.

Explore terms and term sets within the managed metadata service, and learn how term groups organize terms in a hierarchy, with managers who administer and contributors who cannot change permissions.

Publish metadata across farms by configuring the managed data service in central administration, publish the service application, then subscribe from other farms to replicate data and metadata.

Create and manage term groups and term sets in the managed metadata service, assign managers and contributors, and configure tagging, labels, and properties via central administration or PowerShell.

Explore refinement in SharePoint 2013 data services, using refinement web parts and faceted navigation to narrow lists by attributes like color, and configure refiner terms in search.

Create a reusable SharePoint employee evaluation content type by adding site columns like promotion date and hire date, inheriting from a document template, and enabling library content-type management.

Configure content types in a SharePoint library by defining parent and child types, enforce the employee evaluation type, and use inheritance to propagate metadata changes.

Configure managed metadata service to centralize taxonomy across site collections and farms, create a departments term set in the taxonomy store, and apply terms to document libraries for consistent metadata.

Centralize taxonomy and term sets across the organization with the managed metadata service, publish content types from the hub to subsites, and propagate service applications across farms to ensure consistency.

Explore SharePoint 2013 exam prep by detailing site collection level custom columns and data service capabilities, including publishing content types across site collections, storing metadata, maintaining terms, not web analytics.

Review SharePoint concepts, including custom and side columns, content types as reusable templates for lists and libraries. Explore inheritance and the managed metadata service with term groups and term sets.