SharePoint 2016 Administration Bootcamp

Explore the logical architecture of SharePoint 2016, including site collections, web applications, application pools, and service applications, and understand information architecture, navigation, metadata, taxonomy, and content databases.

Explore how a SharePoint site collection groups related sites under a root site and sub sites, backed by a content database, with templates, permissions, and navigation.

Understand how a SharePoint web application acts as a logical container, hosting site collections, content databases, and defining data boundaries, with authentication via IIS, application pools, and zones.

Discover how SharePoint service applications provide modular functionality across web applications and site collections, with components like service application objects, proxies, pools, and databases.

Understand how content databases store site collections, documents, metadata, versions, and permissions in SQL Server. Discover backup, restore, performance monitoring, and maintenance essentials for optimizing storage and security.

Explore deployment options for SharePoint 2016, comparing SharePoint standard and enterprise editions, with emphasis on business intelligence, sla, and on-premises versus online hybrid scenarios.

Design the SharePoint 2016 physical architecture by selecting hardware and software requirements, storage options, and appropriate database recovery models.

Learn to install Windows Server 2012 via Hyper-V on Windows 10, enable the Hyper-V feature, set up virtual switches, and create a virtual machine with ISO installation.

Configure the virtual machine by adjusting processors and enabling LAN. Install Windows Server 2012 R2 with GUI on a 50 GB disk and set a password.

Master three Windows server components for SharePoint 2016: active directory provisioning via a domain controller, DNS for alternate access mapping, and IIS web app configuration with SSL and web.config backups.

Install Windows feature prerequisites for SharePoint 2016 using server manager or a script, enabling dot net framework 3.5 and other required features.

Learn step-by-step installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for SharePoint 2016 administration, selecting features and configuring the instance and administrator to complete a secure server setup in about 20–30 minutes.

Examine the SharePoint 2016 minimum role options—front end, application server, distributed cache, and search server—and choose among dedicated, shared, single server, or custom configurations.

Install SharePoint 2016 on a single server by running prerequisites, entering the product key, and completing the configuration wizard to create a new farm with the config database named SharePoint_Config.

Identify business requirements to design a solid information architecture, and act as a business analyst gathering needs from stakeholders. Document functional and nonfunctional requirements for customer sign-off, avoiding technology bias.

Explore diverse approaches to gathering requirements for a sharepoint 2016 project, including executive interviews, focus groups, structured user interviews, and questionnaires, aligning functional and non functional needs.

Explore how SharePoint 2016 translates business requirements into web and enterprise content management using metadata, taxonomy, term sets, and information management policy.

Discover how to design SharePoint 2016 information architecture, from web applications and databases to site collections, sites, lists, and libraries, and manage metadata with term sets and content hubs.

Learn how the managed metadata service stores enterprise keywords in SharePoint and distributes taxonomy. Reuse content types and site columns across site collections with retention and auditing governance.

Explore SharePoint central administration in SharePoint 2016. Learn to manage applications, site collections, service applications, backups, security, and upgrades.

Configure SharePoint 2016 and 2019 for incoming and outgoing email, set up SMTP and DNS records, enable central administration, and manage mobile accounts with SMS verification for portal users.

Deploy and configure a SharePoint web application in central administration, defining a new web application, host header, port, authentication, application pool, and content database to store sites, lists, and documents.

Create a site collection within a web application using SharePoint 2016 Central Administration, selecting language and template, and assign a primary administrator. Understand site collections as security boundaries between departments.

Configure the site collection quota template, name it for a one gigabyte limit, and apply a 1024 MB cap with a 900 MB warning email to the test site collection.

Define managed paths in a site collection using explicit or wildcard inclusions, distinguishing root sites from subsites and organizing departments under a web application.

Extend web application zones to support internet, intranet, and extranet endpoints for the same SharePoint content. Create new IIS sites with distinct ports and URLs, and manage authentication.

Create a French site collection in central administration by naming it French training. Configure the description, and translate the ribbon and content to French on the same SharePoint farm.

Create a French training site collection in central administration, configure the web application, and translate the SharePoint team site content to French for a fully French user experience.

Create a SharePoint web application with a host header by configuring DNS on a domain controller, setting up a managed service account, and adjusting IIS bindings and registry settings.

Create a SharePoint site collection using PowerShell, specifying the web application URL, owner, language, and template. Troubleshoot script syntax and quotes in the SharePoint management shell.

Plan and configure service applications in SharePoint 2016, including user profile and Project Server service applications. Use Central Administration to manage servers, databases, and application pools, installing only needed services.

Learn to create and configure the managed metadata service application in SharePoint 2016, including service applications, proxies, application pools, term stores, and term sets for organized navigation and search.

Learn how SharePoint site permissions and authorization control access to sites, lists, and items, and how to create groups, assign roles, and enforce minimum privileges.

Learn to manage SharePoint permission levels, from the seven defaults to custom levels, including contribute without delete and view item permissions, with guidance on creating unique permissions.

Explore taxonomy as a data classification mechanism in SharePoint, enabling content type management and metadata service configuration; learn about custom columns and their scope from list, library, to site collection.

Explore the SharePoint 2016 metadata service and term store, organize terms into term sets and groups, assign managers and contributors, and publish content types from the content type hub.

Learn how to create site columns from the managed metadata service, configure term sets, set default values, and apply the new columns within a site collection via central administration.

Learn to create and publish a site content type in SharePoint by defining predefined templates, adding site columns, and publishing it across the site collection.

Configure the user profile service application in SharePoint 2016, covering central administration setup, active directory synchronization, and the profile, synchronization, and social tagging databases.

Configure and test a SharePoint 2016 my site by setting up a dedicated web application, DNS, managed paths, site collection, self-service site creation, and user profile service application.