Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Training - Admin (70-331)

Explore the key components of SharePoint 2013, from farms and servers to web applications, site collections, and sites, including databases, services, and the documents library.

Explore how SharePoint 2013 organizes services and service applications, including provisioning, the service application proxy, and web application associations through default and custom proxy groups.

Outline the 64-bit requirements for SharePoint 2013, including Windows Server 2008 with service pack 1 or Windows Server 2012, and SQL Server 2008 or 2012, plus Active Directory prerequisites.

Install and configure prerequisites for SharePoint 2013, use the prerequisites installer to set Windows roles and required software, then complete the installation as the setup user and prepare for configuration.

Install and configure SharePoint 2013 using the farm configuration wizard to create a new farm, configure its databases and service applications, and central administration, then provision a site collection.

Watch how to script the full SharePoint 2013 installation, including preinstalled prerequisites, offline media setup, and unattended configuration across a three-server farm to ensure fast, repeatable provisioning.

Script the silent installation of SharePoint 2013 using an unattended config.xml, paste the product key, and run setup via PowerShell as an admin; verify with the SharePoint management shell.

Script a SharePoint 2013 farm install from prerequisites to a central administration site. Create configuration, administration, and content databases, load the PowerShell snap-in, and secure the farm with a passphrase.

Configure a SharePoint 2013 web application via Central Administration, set up DNS and a dedicated service account, enable Windows authentication, and create a 2013 team site collection for internet.

Learn to create and configure a SharePoint 2013 web application with PowerShell, run the management shell as admin, set ports, app pool, authentication, and provision a team site collection.

Explore managed paths in SharePoint 2013, creating explicit and wildcard paths to host site collections, demonstrated in central admin and via PowerShell with New-SPManagedPath and site creation.

Explore configuring http request throttling and list throttling to improve SharePoint farm performance during load, including per web app settings, default http throttling on, and a 5000 item list threshold.

Configure http and list throttling in SharePoint Server 2013 using the management shell and central admin. Explore thresholds, item limits, and how large lists trigger throttling in practice.

Configure alternate access mappings and host-named site collections in SharePoint 2013, extending web applications with zones, SSL termination, and authentication options.

Learn to configure SharePoint Designer settings at web application and site collection levels using Central Admin and PowerShell, enabling or disabling designer features, detaching pages, and managing master pages.

Configure outgoing email in central admin with an smtp server and from address, then enable incoming email using a drop folder or Exchange integration for library emails.

Explore proxy groups in SharePoint 2013, linking web applications to service applications via default and custom groups. Learn to manage groups in Central Administration and with PowerShell.

Configure a corporate app catalog in SharePoint 2013 by setting up DNS domain name settings, creating a canonical name, and provisioning the app management and subscription services for multi-tenant deployment.

This lecture explains installing and integrating Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013 on a separate server, using PowerShell, SSL settings, and validating Word Web App previews.

Learn how to integrate Windows Azure Workflow with SharePoint 2013 using Workflow Manager, enabling faster, scalable workflows and configuring service applications for SharePoint Designer 2013 to create workflows.

Explore configuring windows authentication in sharepoint 2013, compare ntlm and kerberos with negotiate, enable claims-based security, manage authentication providers and service principal names, and set delegation for seamless sign-in.

Configure federated authentication in SharePoint 2013 with Windows Azure access control services and external providers for single sign-on; generate an x509 token signing certificate and configure realms and claims.

Configure claims providers in SharePoint 2013 to enable federated authentication with Google, Live ID, and Yahoo identities, mapping UPN and email through a trusted identity token issuer.

Learn to configure site-to-site authentication between SharePoint farms by establishing trust with external server farms via a metadata endpoint, certificates, and root authorities, enabling secure cross-farm service access.

Configure SharePoint users and groups authentication across web applications, mapping to site collection groups (members, owners, visitors). Understand permission levels and customizations, including full control, limited access, and alert management.

Learn to configure the SharePoint 2013 people picker for cross-domain access and site collection searches using stsadm and PowerShell, with filters for disabled accounts, OUs, and group rules.

Learn how SharePoint 2013 handles permissions from the site collection down, using inheritance or breaking permissions at libraries, folders, and files, with best practices to reduce complexity by using folders.

Explore web application policies in SharePoint 2013 via central admin to grant or deny permissions, override site collection permissions, and apply permission policies across web application, including anonymous access control.

Learn to back up and restore SharePoint content and configuration via central admin, covering farm and service granularity, full and differential backups, and required permissions on the backup location.

Back up and restore a SharePoint farm with PowerShell, using full or differential backups, set threads and permissions, and review the backup logs.

Explore importing and exporting content with Central Admin, including site collection backups, granular backups, and PowerShell-based restores. Note exporting site or list may omit workflow associations; unattached databases support recovery.

Explore exporting and importing SharePoint content with PowerShell, using Export-SPWeb and Import-SPWeb to handle sites, subsites, lists, and libraries, with backups and restoration practices.

Back up SharePoint configuration using Central Administration or PowerShell, then restore the entire farm or configuration-only backups to recover from changes.

Enable information rights management in SharePoint to embargo sensitive documents in a library and enforce restrictions across Office and PDF clients. Configure Central Admin settings.

Learn to delegate farm and service application administration in SharePoint 2013 central admin, using separate admin accounts and granular permissions.

Learn how SharePoint blocks file types by default, and how to configure per web application which uploads are blocked, with examples like web services scripts, assemblies, executables, and mp3s.

Configure web part security in SharePoint 2013 admin center, enabling or restricting connections between web parts, mapping department filters to announcements, and reviewing default scriptable and gallery settings.

Configure antivirus settings in SharePoint 2013 to scan on upload and download with ESX antivirus, quarantine infected documents, and exclude logs, sync service folders, and program files for performance.

Learn to create and configure the managed metadata service application via central admin or PowerShell, start the service on the server, and provision a proxy for load-balanced access across servers.

Configure the term store in the SharePoint 2013 managed metadata service using Central Admin, manage administrators and languages, and import terms from a CSV file.

Explore term groups, term sets, and terms in SharePoint 2013, including the term store management tool, permissions, imports, translations, and using taxonomy for consistent tagging and navigation.

Publish content types across site collections and web applications via the SharePoint 2013 managed metadata service content type hub, including hub setup and subscriber job configuration.

configure managed navigation and friendly urls in sharepoint 2013 by selecting a default term store, creating a term set, and mapping global and current navigation to friendly links.

Configure the SharePoint search service by creating the search service application, choosing an account, and setting up application pools; learn how the search service enables load balancing across servers.

Configure content sources in the search service to crawl SharePoint sites and file shares, set continuous, incremental, or full crawl schedules, and use a search center to query results.

Configure crawl settings for the SharePoint search service to control content access, credentials, file types, and crawl scope. Manage crawl rules, seven named mappings, index reset, alerts, and query logging.

Learn to configure the search service application's query and results settings, create result sources for authoritative and non-authoritative sources, and define query rules and managed properties to tailor search results.

Modify the SharePoint 2013 search topology using PowerShell to provision a new server, clone the active topology, and switch the clone to active for the enterprise search service application.