
Explore how rras vpns and dmz perimeter networks secure remote access from home users, and how virtualization with Hyper-V enables elastic, cloud-like on-premises resources.
John Christopher invites your questions about Microsoft 365, encourages patience with a high-volume audience, and points you to official docs and examlabpractice.com for fast, up-to-date answers and course resources.
Explore SharePoint Online administration in Microsoft 365, from creating team and communication sites to managing sharing, permissions, retention, sensitivity labels, and integration with Teams, OneDrive, and Search.
Manage and monitor Microsoft 365 licensing via admin.microsoft.com, assign licenses to individuals or groups using group-based licensing, explore marketplace for more licenses, and use usage reports to track active users.
Monitor Microsoft 365 service health from the admin center, view active issues and history, assess user impact and root causes, and manage notifications or report issues to stay informed.
Demonstrate creating and managing user identities across the Azure portal, Microsoft 365 admin center, and the intra.microsoft.com portal, covering user principal name, display name, passwords, licenses, roles, and groups.
Learn how to invite external or guest users to your environment using portal.azure.com, send invitations, and grant access to Azure resources and Microsoft 365 groups.
Create a Microsoft 365 Group in the admin center, assign an owner, add members, set privacy to private, and optionally add Microsoft Teams for collaboration.
Explore how to view, search, and assign roles across Microsoft 365 admin center, Azure AD, Defender, and Purview. Learn how role permissions and role groups streamline access management.
Learn to create and manage administrative units in Microsoft Intra ID, configure restricted management, assign unit-scoped roles, and verify access across portal.azure.com, admin.microsoft.com, and intra.microsoft.com.
Discover the shared responsibility model across on-premises, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, highlighting what Microsoft manages and what you control, including Azure Active Directory.
Defense in depth layers security around Azure resources, from virtual machines to web apps, using updates, Azure firewall, NSGs, ACLs, RBAC, and a protected virtual network, plus DDoS protection.
Learn how the zero trust model verifies explicitly and authenticates to grant least privilege, using just-in-time administration and just enough access, with PIM and policy controls like conditional access.
Explain the rename of the compliance blade to Microsoft Purview in the admin portal, and how videos may show the old compliance label before the switch.
Explore Defender for Endpoint settings in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, including advanced options, Office 365 Threat Intelligence Connection, SIEM integration, Intune enrollment, alert rules, and device-group indicators.
Discover how Microsoft Entra ID protection (formerly Azure AD identity protection) detects, investigates, and remediates identity-based risks through risky sign-ins and risky users, with conditional access and MFA.
Demonstrates configuring intra identity protection with conditional access policies, focusing on medium and high user and sign-in risk, and enforcing multi-factor authentication.
Learn to create a seven-year retention label in microsoft purview, set the retention period, and choose post-retention actions, including automatic deletion and disposition reviews.
Create a custom data loss prevention policy in Microsoft Purview for a Microsoft 365 tenant, selecting financial data types and applying to Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams with policy tips.
Inspect data loss prevention alerts within Microsoft Purview by navigating the admin portal, recognizing that alerts arise only from policy incidents, and filtering by user, status, or severity.
Discover how to access more certification courses, coupon codes, and free vouchers for Microsoft exams through the creator's YouTube channel and email list, with giveaways and future one-on-one help.
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TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:
Introduction
Welcome to the course
Understanding the Microsoft Environment
Foundations of Active Directory Domains
Foundations of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization
Foundations of the Microsoft Cloud Services
IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course
DO NOT SKIP: The first to know about Microsoft cloud services
Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account
Fundamental capabilities of Microsoft 365
Concepts of IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS
Managing licenses for users and groups in Microsoft 365
Public, private, and hybrid cloud model concepts
Microsoft 365 organization configuration
Exploring the Teams admin center configurations
Exploring SharePoint online configuration
Roles and permissions for sites in SharePoint
Exploring basic configuration of Exchange Online
Microsoft 365 licensing, connectivity, update and adoption monitoring
Microsoft 365 license management and monitoring
Managing Network connectivity insights
Monitoring and managing software updates by using the Microsoft 365 admin center
Adoption and usage monitoring in Microsoft 365
Concepts of Microsoft 365 Backup
Managing the Microsoft 365 tenant
Tenant creation
Working with domain names in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 service health monitoring
Working with identities and privileges in Microsoft 365
User creation and management
External/Guest user management
Creating groups in Microsoft 365
Creating groups in Microsoft Azure
Working with bulk user management
Role based access control concepts
Working with roles in Microsoft 365
Understanding the concepts of administrative units
Administrative unit creation and management
Privileged identity management (PIM) concepts
Administering privileged identity management (PIM)
Fundamentals of security concepts in Microsoft 365 administration
Microsoft's shared responsibility model
Concepts of defense in depth
Visualizing the Zero-Trust model
Encryption and hashing in Microsoft 365 / Azure
Understanding Sensitive Information Requirements
Compliance blade renamed to Microsoft Purview
Introduction to compliance in Microsoft 365
Understanding the Microsoft 365 Defender services
Introduction to Microsoft 365 Defender portal
Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Exploring settings for managing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Concepts of Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Configuring Entra Identity Protection
Managing Defender for Office 365
Concepts of Defender for Office 365
Defender for Office 365 policies and rules
Taking a look at threats identified in Defender for Office 365
Attack simulation campaigns
How to unblock users
Microsoft Purview information protection, retention & data data loss prevention (DLP)
Sensitivity labels concepts
Working with sensitive info types by using keywords and regex
Concepts of retention and disposition in Microsoft 365
Retention labels, retention label policies, and retention policies
Creating retention labels
How to configure a retention label policy to publish labels
Retention policy creation
Concepts of Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Creating data loss prevention policies (DLP)
Alerts involving Data Loss Prevention (DLP)