Microsoft 365 Security Admin Course with practice SIMs

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course!

• Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• A foundation for Remote Access, DMZs, and Virtualization

• A foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• DO NOT SKIP: Azure AD is being renamed

• Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

• DO NOT SKIP: Using assignments in the course

• Questions for John Christopher

User Identity administration as well as understanding PowerShell concepts

• The First Concept of Microsoft's Cloud

• Introduction to Creating and Managing User Identities

• Creating and Managing User Identities

• Working with guest users

• Understanding the foundational concepts of Microsoft PowerShell Administration

• Concepts of Microsoft Graph vs Traditional PowerShell

• Installing and connecting to MS Graph to support cloud services with PowerShell

• Using PowerShell with MS Graph to manage Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

Working with Groups in Microsoft 365

• Concepts of Groups in Microsoft 365 and Azure Entra ID

• Group management in Microsoft 365

Authentication and Password Management in Microsoft 365

• Understanding authentication in Microsoft Entra

• Configure and manage authentication

• Managing Password Settings

• Configure self-service password reset (SSPR)

Administrative units, Role Based Access Control and Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

• Concepts of administrative units

• Implementing administrative units

• Introduction to Assigning Roles

• Role management in Microsoft Azure Entra ID

• Role management in Microsoft 365

• Understanding Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

• Configuring and implementing Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

Multi-Factor Authentication In Microsoft 365

• Introduction to Multi-Factor Authentication

• Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication

Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Identity Protection

• Intro to Entra Identity Protection

• Implementing Entra Identity Protection

Managing Conditional Access

• Introduction to Conditional Access Policies

• Controlling access using Conditional Access Policies

• How to test Conditional Access policies

• How to create a Conditional Access policy from a template

Introduction to Microsoft 365 Defender and Purview

• Concepts of the Zero Trust Model

• What is Microsoft 365 Defender?

• Introduction to the Microsoft Defender portal

• Protecting sensitive information with Purview

• Compliance blade renamed to Microsoft Purview

• Introduction to Microsoft Purview for compliance management

Sensitive information protection and retention with Microsoft Purview

• Understanding Sensitivity Labels

• Implementing sensitive info types

• Working with permissions involving sensitivity labels

• Configuring sensitivity labels

• Managing sensitivity label protection settings and content marking

• How to publish sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview

• Applying sensitivity labels manually from the user side

• Concepts of information retention and disposition

• Retention Policies vs Retention Labels vs Retention Label Policies

• Creating adaptive scopes

• Retention label creation

• Retention label publishing with a label policy

• Policy precedence when it comes to conflicts

• Retention policy creation

Managing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in Microsoft Purview

• Introduction to Data Loss Prevention

• Data loss prevention policy creation

• Reviewing DLP alerts, events, and reports

Secure endpoints by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Plan a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint solution

• Defender for Endpoint configuration

Implement and manage Microsoft Defender for Office 365

• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Office365 formally ATP

• Implementing Defender for Office 365 policies

• Reviewing threats identified in Defender for Office 365

• Using attack simulations

Monitor Microsoft 365 Security with Microsoft Sentinel

• Understanding Microsoft Sentinel

• Setting up a log analytics workspace for using Microsoft Sentinel

• Sentinel log types, log retention and data storage

• How to connect to data sources with Microsoft Sentinel

Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Plan Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps implementation

• Working with Defender for Cloud app alerts, policies, and Cloud App Discovery

Microsoft Purview audit logs and content searches

• License concepts for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)

• Microsoft Purview Audit activities

• Using audit retention policies

• Utilizing Purview activity explorer

• Performing content searches in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance and Insider Risk Management

• Concepts of Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance & Insider Risk Management

• Using communication compliance in Microsoft Purview

• Using Insider Risk Management connectors

• Creating an insider risk policy