Microsoft 365 Essential Training for Administrators (2021)

Course details

Microsoft 365 is a bundled suite of SaaS applications and services that businesses can subscribe to. It offers Windows 10, Office 365, and Enterprise Mobility + Security, all packaged together. Once configured properly, this portfolio of products can enhance your enterprise's security and productivity and help you meet your compliance requirements. In this course, Ed Liberman provides a thorough guide to all of the features, capabilities, and opportunities within Microsoft 365. He unpacks major topics like managing users and identities, security, compliance, and reporting, and he gives you clear demonstrations of each chapter’s main points. Ed shows you how to administrate Microsoft 365, as well as how the applications and services within the suite fit together.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to this course
02 - What you should know

1. Microsoft 365 Overview

03 - What is Microsoft 365
04 - Versioning and pricing options
05 - Benefits of cloud vs. on-premises
06 - Adopting Microsoft 365
07 - Understanding the modern workplace
08 - Microsoft 365 productivity apps

2. Configuring Microsoft 365

09 - Configuring a trial M365 subscription
10 - Completing initial setup
11 - Configuring a custom domain
12 - Using FastTrack and Partner Services

3. Managing Users and Identities

13 - Adding users
14 - Configuring user roles
15 - Using groups
16 - Managing user licenses
17 - Configuring multi-factor authentication
18 - Managing identities in Azure AD
19 - Creating a hybrid identity scenario

4. Microsoft 365 Device Management

20 - Setting up Intune
21 - Assigning Intune licenses
22 - Adding apps to Intune
23 - Creating app protection policies

5. Managing Microsoft 365

24 - Using the Microsoft 365 admin center
25 - Using the Office 365 user portal
26 - Using the Azure AD admin center

6. Microsoft 365 Security and Data Protection

27 - Microsoft Information Protection
28 - Creating sensitivity labels
29 - Publishing sensitivity labels
30 - Preventing data loss using DLP templates
31 - Creating data subject requests

7. Microsoft 365 Threat Protection

32 - Configuring preset security policies
33 - Configuring anti-phishing threat policies
34 - Configuring anti-spam threat policies
35 - Configuring anti-malware threat policies
36 - Configuring Office 365 Safe Attachments
37 - Configuring Office 365 Safe Links
38 - Office 365 Attack Simulator

8. Microsoft 365 Compliance and Reporting

39 - Accessing Service assurance resources
40 - Service Trust Portal from Microsoft
41 - Using Compliance Manager

9. Supporting Microsoft 365

42 - Managing add-on services and licenses
43 - Microsoft 365 roadmap

Conclusion

44 - Next steps