Microsoft 365 Administration and Security Training Course

About This Course

This three-day, instructor-led program is designed for individuals aiming to transition into a database professional role or those whose current responsibilities are expanding to include database management. The course covers essential database concepts, including various database types, languages, and design principles.

Target Audience

The primary audience consists of professionals moving into database-related roles or those whose job scope now includes working with database technologies.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing this course, participants will be able to:
• Explain core database concepts within the context of SQL Server 2016
• Describe the database languages utilized in SQL Server 2016
• Outline data modeling techniques
• Explain normalization and denormalization strategies
• Describe relationship types and their impact on database design
• Understand how database design affects performance
• Identify commonly used database objects

About This Course

This three-day Instructor-Led Training (ILT) course is designed to meet the needs of information technology (IT) professionals responsible for administering, configuring, troubleshooting, and operating Office 365 services. It covers essential aspects such as identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. The curriculum focuses on the skills necessary to manage and troubleshoot the Office 365 tenant and its core services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. Additionally, it addresses security and compliance features within the Office 365 environment.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for IT professionals and system administrators seeking to master administration and troubleshooting techniques in Office 365. Participants should possess a minimum of three years of experience in their respective fields, ideally with a background in system administration, network administration, or messaging.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe Office 365 services.
• Administer Office 365 using the Microsoft 365 admin center, Office 365 services admin centers, and an
• Administer and troubleshoot directory synchronization and directory objects.
• Administer and troubleshoot Exchange Online.
• Administer and troubleshoot Teams.
• Administer and troubleshoot SharePoint Online.
• Plan and deploy Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.
• Administer and troubleshoot compliance and security in Office 365.

About This Course

This five-day course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to plan and administer a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. Participants will learn how to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot their SharePoint infrastructure. Additionally, the course offers guidelines, best practices, and key considerations to help optimize your SharePoint deployment.

This is the first course in a two-part sequence designed for IT professionals, aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification.

Audience Profile

The course is intended for experienced IT professionals interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations in data center or cloud environments.

Typical students possess at least one year of hands-on experience* in planning and maintaining SharePoint, along with two years of experience with core technologies that SharePoint depends on, such as Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

• Is an IT professional responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2016.
• Has working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience with, SharePoint Online.
• Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
• Has experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
• Has experience with authentication and security technologies.
• Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

* The hands-on experience or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint space that includes document management, content management, and search.

At Course Completion

• Describe the key features of SharePoint 2016.
• Design an information architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design a logical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design the physical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Install and configure SharePoint 2016.
• Create and configure web applications and site collections.
• Plan and configure service applications for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage users and permissions, and secure content in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure authentication in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure platform and farm-level security in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage information taxonomy in SharePoint web applications and site collections.
• Configure and manage user profiles and audiences.
• Configure and manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot a SharePoint 2016 deployment.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to efficiently carry out a wide range of calculations and present the results clearly. They will learn to utilize various tools to streamline and accelerate spreadsheet creation, as well as protect their data and formulas from unauthorized access.

Participants will learn how to optimize their Excel skills to efficiently create, consolidate, and manage data. By leveraging specialized tools, you can significantly reduce the time spent on routine tasks and design applications capable of performing new, complex functions.

Elevate your VBA proficiency to the intermediate tier by mastering custom interfaces, complex data types, conditional logic, looping structures, and professional debugging methods. This practical Excel VBA training covers robust error handling, performance optimization, VBA UserForms, and workflow automation via real-world exercises—bridging the gap from basic macros to advanced automation solutions for data analysts, reporting professionals, and business users aiming to leverage enterprise spreadsheet capabilities.

Take your Microsoft Excel skills to the next level with this professional training course, designed to significantly enhance your spreadsheet efficiency and productivity. You will master essential techniques such as editing worksheets, managing workbooks, constructing complex formulas using powerful functions, applying cell formatting, creating professional charts and graphs, working with PivotTables and data lists, and handling graphic objects. This course is ideal for business analysts, accountants, data handlers, and office professionals who wish to advance their Excel proficiency from an intermediate to an expert level. Boost your data analysis capabilities, streamline reporting workflows, and unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel to drive better decision-making and improve workplace productivity.

This course equips IT Professionals with the skills to manage Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure with on-premises environments, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, deploy web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor overall solutions.

Designed for Azure Administrators, this training covers the implementation, management, and monitoring of identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks within cloud environments. Azure Administrators will learn to provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as needed.

This instructor-led, live training in Slovakia (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level IT professionals who wish to learn about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand basic cloud concepts.
• Identify core Azure services.
• Describe core solutions and management tools in Azure.
• Understand general security and network security features.
• Understand identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.
• Understand Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

About This Course

This course explores the essential methods and best practices aligned with business and technical requirements for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data using Power BI. It demonstrates how to access and process data from diverse sources, covering both relational and non-relational systems. Additionally, it covers implementing robust security standards and policies across the Power BI ecosystem, including datasets and groups, as well as managing and deploying reports and dashboards for effective sharing and content distribution.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for data professionals and business intelligence specialists seeking to master data analysis with Power BI. It also targets developers who create reports that visualize data from cloud-based and on-premises data platform technologies.

Skills gained

• Ingest, clean, and transform data
• Model data for performance and scalability
• Design and create reports for data analysis
• Apply and perform advanced report analytics
• Manage and share report assets

About This Course

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps encompass, but are not limited to, Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing. Dynamics 365 Finance enables you to: Automate and modernize global financial operations. Monitor performance in real time, predict future outcomes, and make data-driven decisions to drive business growth. Drive strategic financial decisions with artificial intelligence (AI), unify and automate financial processes, reduce operational expenses, and decrease global financial complexity and risk. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enables you to: Transform manufacturing and supply chain operations. Use predictive insights and intelligence from AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) across planning, production, inventory, warehouse, and transportation management. Maximize operational efficiency, product quality, and profitability. Innovate with intelligent manufacturing operations, modernize warehouse management, optimize production performance, maximize the life of your assets, and automate and streamline your supply chain. Note: For more information, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/get-started-finance-operations/ In this module, we will focus on the core features and functionality for Dynamics 365 Finance apps that are most used by end users and consultants.

Audience Profile

A Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring the solution and applications. The Functional Consultant implements a solution using out of the box capabilities, codeless extensibility, application and service integrations.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Navigate and efficiently use search, filtering and queries
• Use operational workspaces
• Work with Business Document Management
• Work with record templates
• Integrate Power BI with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps
• Personalize workspaces
• Identify when to use Power Platform in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations app.
• Apply security roles to users
• Run and analyze security reports
• Create and use workflow for approval
• Work with Organization Hierarchy and its purposes.
• Use personalization feature
• Use Data Management workspace
• Create and use entity templates
• Copy configuration data between legal entities
• Import and Export data and manage data by using Office Integration
• Use Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT)
• Create User acceptance Tests (UAT) and test plans
• Create and work with Business Process Modeler (BPM)
• Understand how to use Issue search

About This Course

Designed for developers, this course prepares Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developers to implement and extend applications in alignment with business needs. Participants will learn to deliver comprehensive solutions by leveraging standardized coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.

Audience Profile

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developers

This five-day instructor-led training (ILT) course is designed to meet the needs of IT professionals involved in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Microsoft Office 365 services, including their identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. The course emphasizes the skills necessary to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and the skills required to maintain an Office 365 tenant and its users.

This course is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for planning, configuring, and managing an Office 365 environment. Students attending this course are expected to have a fairly broad understanding of several on-premises technologies such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). In addition, they should have a general understanding of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server or Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan an Office 365 deployment, configure the Office 365 tenant, and plan a pilot deployment.
• Manage Office 365 users, groups, and licenses, and configure delegated administration.
• Plan and configure client connectivity to Office 365.
• Plan and configure directory synchronization between Microsoft Azure AD and on-premises AD DS.
• Plan and implement the Office 365 ProPlus deployment.
• Plan and manage Microsoft Exchange Online recipients and permissions.
• Plan and configure Exchange Online services.
• Plan and configure Microsoft Teams
• Plan and configure Microsoft SharePoint Online.
• Plan and configure an Office 365 collaboration solutions.
• Plan and configure the integration between Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Information Protection.
• Monitor and review Office 365 services, and troubleshoot Office 365 issues.
• Plan and implement identity federation between on-premises AD DS and Azure AD.

About This Course

This course delivers foundational insights into the key considerations and advantages of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, with a dedicated emphasis on Microsoft 365 offerings. You will start by exploring cloud fundamentals, gaining an overview of cloud computing and Microsoft's specific cloud services. The curriculum introduces Microsoft Azure and clarifies the distinctions between Microsoft 365 and Office 365. You will then conduct a detailed examination of Microsoft 365, comparing Microsoft's on-premises solutions with its cloud services, reviewing enterprise mobility within the platform, and analyzing how Microsoft 365 facilitates collaboration. Additionally, the course explores how Microsoft 365 addresses security, compliance, privacy, and trust, concluding with a review of subscription plans, licensing, billing processes, and support options.

Audience Profile

This course is tailored for Business Decision Makers and IT Professionals aiming to deploy cloud services within their organizations or those seeking foundational knowledge of cloud computing. It covers the essential considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services generally, as well as the SaaS model specifically, with a primary focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings.

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between various cloud service models.
• Identify the key distinctions between Microsoft 365 subscription plans.
• Plan for migration to Microsoft 365 services.
• Distinguish between Microsoft on-premises services and Microsoft 365 cloud services.
• Explain how Microsoft 365 services support teamwork.
• Describe identities, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid identity models.
• Explain cloud device management and protection, including the use of Intune.
• Describe data protection strategies, including the use of Azure Information Protection.
• Outline general compliance principles and Microsoft 365 compliance features.
• Describe Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licensing, billing, and support structures.

This five-day, instructor-led course is tailored for IT professionals with prior experience in Windows Server. It targets individuals tasked with managing identity, networking, storage, and compute resources using Windows Server 2019, requiring a solid grasp of the scenarios, requirements, and options applicable to this platform. The curriculum equips IT professionals with the essential administration skills needed to deploy and support Windows Server 2019 within most organizational environments.