Microsoft 365 Administration course with hands on sims

Understand the differences between iaas, paas, and saas in Microsoft cloud services, highlighting Azure infrastructure, redundancy, Kubernetes, and Microsoft 365 and Office 365.

Explore how Microsoft 365 licenses work, including subscriptions, SKU differences (E5, E3, F3), and group-based licensing that assigns access to Teams, Exchange Online, and OneDrive.

Compare public, private, and hybrid cloud models, from shared public resources to dedicated private infrastructure, highlighting cost, scalability, and migration options to cloud services.

Explore organization configurations in the Microsoft 365 admin center, covering services settings, security and privacy, organization profile, and domain management with custom domains and verification steps.

Explore how to navigate the Teams admin center, create and manage teams, set privacy and channels, and configure global team settings like notifications, tagging, email integration, and shared channels.

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.

Explore roles and permissions for SharePoint sites within the Microsoft 365 group framework. Learn how owners, site owners, members, site members, visitors, and site admins control access and site configuration.

Learn how Exchange Online creates user mailboxes automatically when licenses are assigned, and how to manage mailboxes, permissions, shared mailboxes, and groups in the Exchange admin center.

Learn to redo simulations after completing an assignment by opening the assignment instructions from the summary and following simple steps to access the simulation link.

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 network connectivity from the admin center, tracking latency, VPNs, proxies, DNS, and routing insights. Create location profiles to capture branch office data and traffic.

Monitor Microsoft 365 apps updates in the admin center and configure Windows Update for Business with a Log Analytics workspace, or manage updates via Intune.

Explore the adoption score in the Microsoft 365 admin center to gauge your organization's cloud adoption and its people experiences, technology experiences, and support.

Explore the Microsoft 365 backup solution as a fast platform. Learn retention, recovery points, and policies for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange, with pricing at 15 cents per GB per month.

Learn how a Microsoft Intra ID tenant serves as a boundary for managing users, groups, and devices in Azure and Microsoft 365, and how to create, switch, and delete tenants.

Learn how to register and verify a custom domain for Microsoft 365 and Azure, linking it to Intra ID and using it for Exchange Online and user UPNs.

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.

Create and manage Microsoft 365 and security groups in the Azure portal, using dynamic queries to automatically include users and devices based on attributes.

Create users in bulk using portal.azure.com by downloading a csv template, filling details, and uploading to bulk create; also compare with the microsoft 365 portal's csv upload.

Explore role based access control (rbac) in Azure and Microsoft 365, compare discretionary and mandatory access control, and learn least privilege and just-in-time administration with privileged identity management (pim).

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.

Understand administrative units in Microsoft Intra ID as departmental silos that group users and devices for scoped administration, not as groups, enabling delegated control and region- or department-based 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.

Explore privileged identity management (PIM) concepts, including just-in-time access, least privilege, approval workflows, MFA, access reviews, and audit history across Microsoft 365 and Azure.

Implement privileged identity management with Microsoft Entra to grant temporary, just-in-time access via roles, MFA verification, approval of requests, and activation for controlled admin tasks.

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.

Explore how Azure and Microsoft 365 enforce encryption at every layer, using TLS and hashing with salting, key vaults, hardware security modules, and multi-person access controls.

Identify sensitive information types, including PII, financial data, health information, IP, and confidential business data, and apply data classification, encryption, data loss prevention, access control, governance, and risk assessment.

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 the shift from the classic to the new Purview portal in Microsoft 365, focusing on information protection, data lifecycle management, and data loss prevention.

Explore the Microsoft 365 Defender suite, linking endpoints, identity, cloud apps, vulnerability management, and data loss prevention with AI insights, alerts, and automated responses.

Explore Microsoft Defender XDR, the unified security operations platform that combines SIEM and XDR with threat intelligence, AI insights, and automated investigations and responses.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise-grade security platform that provides threat and vulnerability management, attack surface reduction, next-gen protection, and endpoint detection and response with automated investigation and remediation.

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.

Defender for Office 365 protects your Microsoft 365 environment from malware and phishing. Uses safe attachments and links; detonation chamber tests across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.

Explore Defender for Office 365 policies and rules, including threat policies, anti phishing, anti spam, anti malware, safe attachments, and safe links, with configuration tips and real-world deployment notes.

Identify and investigate threats in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 using Threat Explorer to review emails, phishing indicators, malware, and remediation actions.

Learn to use the Attack Simulator in Microsoft 365 Defender to run credential harvesting campaigns and deliver training, with Defender for Office 365 plan two license required.

Learn to unblock users in Microsoft 365 Defender by navigating to the restricted entities in the security portal, selecting a blocked user, and clicking unblock.

Explore sensitivity labels for data governance: manually or automatically classify documents and emails, enforce encryption and watermarks, and integrate with data loss prevention and rights management.

Learn to create and manage custom sensitive information types in Microsoft Purview using regex, keywords, and a dictionary of keywords, then test them with uploaded files.

Explore Defender for cloud apps, a cloud access security broker that monitors user activities, prevents shadow IT, discovers apps, enforces compliance, and enables policy-driven remediation across cloud and on-premises environments.

Create a file policy in Defender for Cloud Apps to apply a sensitivity label, top secret data, to SharePoint files shared externally.

Explore retention and disposition concepts in Microsoft 365, including retention policies, labels, and preservation holds. Apply them to SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, and Teams through label policies and disposition reviews.

Clarify the differences between retention policies, retention labels, and retention label policies, and show how policies publish labels to locations like mailboxes, SharePoint, and Teams.

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.

Publish the seven year retention label in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, choosing adaptive scope for Exchange mailboxes and OneDrive, with an expected 24-hour activation window.

Create and configure a five-year retention policy in Microsoft Purview, selecting exchange mailboxes, SharePoint and OneDrive, with static retention and automatic deletion after the retention period.

Implement data loss prevention (DLP) to identify and monitor sensitive data across emails, shares, chats, and devices, enforcing policies to block or alert on PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, and regulatory risks.

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.

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