SharePoint 2013 Administration Course Details

Intended for: Administrators / Enterprise Content Managers / Project Managers

The SharePoint Administration class is about enterprise content management and making information consistent across the entire SharePoint deployment. SharePoint provides many advanced document management and information architecture tools that are not obvious out of box, and the goal of this class is understand how these features work and integrate.

Learn the following topics:

  • All the topics covered in the Fundamentals course.
  • Learn site collection management and understand when to create separate site collections
  • Use site columns, managed metadata service, and content types to keep metadata consistent across site collections
  • Utilize document sets to apply workflows, metadata, and versions to a collection of documents
  • Manage user profiles, audiences, and promoted sites
  • Administer search content sources, managed properties, search centers, and search refinement web parts
  • Understand query rules and entity extraction in search
  • Create external content types and lists using SharePoint Designer
  • Create publishing pages, layouts, and master pages using SharePoint Designer and Design Manager
  • Learn how eDiscovery can help with compliance.
  • Test all of your enterprise content management skills by completing the final project



SECTION 1 - Core Features

Power User / Site Administrator
    Definitions, History, and Expectations
  • Definitions
  • History
  • Editions
  • How to Make SharePoint Successful
    Sites Organization
  • Content Creation and Organization
    • Site collection
    • Site
    • Top link bar
    • App launcher
  • Site navigation
    • Quick launch bar
    • Site contents
  • Site Templates and Features
    • Features
    • Site template comparison
    List
  • Columns
  • Filters and metadata navigation
  • Views
  • Form configuration
  • Versions
  • Alerts
  • Large lists and indexed columns
    Documents
  • Columns, views, managed metadata
  • Editing documents
    • Co-authoring and track changes
    • Using Office Online
  • Versions
    • When are versions created
    • Check out - check in
    • Major, minor, and approval
  • Syncing using OneDrive Pro
  • Folders vs. metadata
    Tasks and Calendars
  • Tasks
    • Organize for project management
      • Indents
      • Timeline
    • Stay informed
      • Email notifications
      • Tasks app and Outlook integration
  • Calendars
    • Views
    • Connect to Outlook
    • Overlays in SharePoint
    Search and Delve
  • List search
  • Site search and search center
  • Delve – a new search and find-ability experience
    Basic Workflows
  • Definitions
  • Review and Approval workflows
  • Create workflow association
  • Start a workflow on a item
  • Participate in a workflow
    Web Parts, Apps, Pages
  • Web Parts
    • Adding to the page
    • Properties
  • Apps
    • App store
  • Types of Pages
    Newsfeed, User Profile, Personal Site
  • My site
  • Newsfeed
  • User profile
  • Personal site
    Security
  • Authentication vs. authorization
  • Permission levels
  • Site collection administrator
  • Azure Active Directory role - auditing user activity
  • SharePoint groups
  • External users
    List and Site Templates
  • List and site templates
  • List thresholds
  • Site content and structure tool from Publishing Infrastructure Feature
    Project: Libraries and Lists
  • Research documents
    • Large document library (not collaborative)
    • Permissions by folder
    • Views without folders
    • Metadata creation and navigation
  • Project site management
    • Project directory
    • Project site template

    SECTION 2 - Custom Forms & Workflows

    Forms and Workflows Designer
    InfoPath in SharePoint
  • Form Design
    • Fields / columns
    • Visual layout
    • Logic and rules
    • Validation
    • External data
  • InfoPath Form Web Part
  • List forms vs. form library
    Workflows with SharePoint Designer 2013
  • Introduction
  • Two platforms
  • Terminology
  • Workflow types and association
  • Security – app step
  • Information management polices
    Workflows web services
  • JSON and dictionary actions
  • SharePoint REST APIs
  • Read and write data from SharePoint
    Workflow deployment
  • Move
  • List template
  • Update

    SECTION 3 - Business Intelligence

    Business Intelligence Analyst
    Business Intelligence Introduction
  • Definition
  • Information collection, analysis, and delivery
  • Microsoft product descriptions
    Excel and Data Modeling
  • Excel Data Model
    • Create tables
    • Identify relationships
    • PowerPivot – advanced data model manipulation
  • Presentation
    • Pivot tables and charts
    • Slicers and conditional formatting
    • PowerView
  • Publishing to SharePoint
    • Publishing options and permissions
    • Pages and web parts
    External Connections and Data Refresh
  • External Connections
    • SharePoint Lists – OData Feed
    • Azure SQL Server
  • PowerBI App
    • Enable Data Refresh
  • Data connection details
    • Location
    • Authentication
    • Secure Store
    Excel with PowerPivot
  • Import data and create relationships
  • Calculated columns and DAX
  • Measures, hierarchies, and KPIs
  • PowerBI Admin Center
    Excel PowerQuery
  • Getting data using PowerQuery
    Excel PowerMap
  • Use PowerMap
    PowerBI Admin Center
  • Gateways and datasources

    SECTION 4 - Administration

    Enterprise Content Manager / Administrator / Project Manager
    Site Collection Management
  • Definition
  • Why separate site collections
  • Management
    Site Columns
  • Definition
  • Scopes and updates
    Managed Metadata - Taxonomy Term Store
  • Terms sets and term groups
  • Choice Column vs. Managed Metadata Column
  • Enterprise keywords
  • General Recommendations for Taxonomy Development
    Content Types
  • Content type information architecture
    • Hierarchies and inheritance
    • Document templates
    • Workflows
    • Information management policies
  • Use cases
  • Content Type Syndication Hub
    Document sets
  • Metadata and page layouts
  • Versioning and workflows
    User Profiles
  • User Profiles
    • Properties
    • Settings
    • Permissions
    • Audiences
  • My Sites
    • Configuration
    • Promoted sites
    Search Administration
  • Search administration
  • Search Schema – properties and refiners
  • Content search web parts
  • Query suggestions
  • Query rules
  • Analytics
    Final Project
  • Metadata and Search
    EDiscovery
  • eDiscovery cases
    • eDiscovery sets
    • Sources
    • Custodians
    • Queries
    Using PowerShell in SharePoint Online