SharePoint Server is the premier on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. As a content management and web services platform, it enables users to create, publish, and discover content and applications, integrate with business systems, and create products.
Deploying SharePoint Server Hybrid: Exam MS-301 Guide,as the title implies, is designed to help you in understanding the platform, its tools, and its configuration capabilities in a way that will help you pass the MS-301 exam. Microsoft has designed the MS-301 exam to concentrate on specific parts of the SharePoint Server platform:
- Designing a SharePoint Server environment
- Identity and authentication
- Understanding service and web applications
- Connecting to external data systems
- Migrating to SharePoint Online
This book will help you understand the basics of the SharePoint platform and its architecture and terminology, along with the identity and authentication mechanisms to provide access to resources. It will also guide you step by step through basic and advanced configurations for SharePoint Server, OneDrive, SharePoint hybrid connectivity, and Business Connectivity Services.
By the end of this book, you'll not only be equipped to pass the exam but also to confidently and successfully deploy and administer the collaboration platform components.
Who this book is for
Deploying SharePoint Server Hybrid: Exam MS-301 Guideis targeted at experienced SharePoint Server administrators who want to prove their knowledge by passing the MS-301 certification exam. A qualified exam candidate should have experience administering SharePoint Server solutions, the User Profile and Search services, Managed Metadata, the SharePoint Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and the PowerShell interface to SharePoint Server. The MS-301 exam is one of the two required exams for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate certification. You can learn more about the Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork Administrator Associate certification at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/m365-teamwork-administrator.
As with most certifications, should an exam be retired after you achieve certification, the certification will still be listed as "Active" in your Microsoft transcript for at least two years after attainment.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Overview of SharePoint Server 2019,starts by explaining the basics of SharePoint Server and how it forms the foundation for all of the workloads that will be discussed later.
Chapter 2, Planning a SharePoint Farm, helps you understand the basic SharePoint MinRole server configurations and the architecture components necessary to build a successful solution.
Chapter 3, Manage and Maintain a SharePoint Farm, shows you how to configure the core service applications for SharePoint Server farms.
Chapter 4, Implement Authentication, explains the different identity and authentication methods available for securing web applications.
Chapter 5, Manage Site Collections, gives you a thorough understanding of the classic and modern SharePoint Server site collection architectures and provides recommendations on Microsoft's best practices.
Chapter 6, Plan and Configure Business Connectivity Services, will show you how to interact with external data systems with Business Connectivity Services.
Chapter 7, Planning and Configuring Managed Metadata, shows you how the Managed Metadata Service application works and how to use it to build a structured taxonomy.
Chapter 8, Manage Search, dives into how to configure the Search service application.
Chapter 9, Overview of SharePoint Hybrid, introduces the concepts around integrating an on-premises SharePoint farm with SharePoint Online.
Chapter 10, Plan a Hybrid Configuration and Topology, helps you relate business requirements to SharePoint Hybrid features and plan for integration.
Chapter 11, Implement Hybrid Teamwork Artifacts, walks you step by step through the configuration of several SharePoint Hybrid configurations, including hybrid sites, OneDrive, and taxonomy.
Chapter 12, Implement a Hybrid Search Service Application, covers the different types of hybrid search options and the configuration of cloud hybrid search.
Chapter 13, Implement a Data Gateway, shows you how to connect SharePoint Server to the Microsoft 365 platform to allow cloud-based tools, including Power BI and Power Automate, to interact with SharePoint Server data.
Chapter 14, Overview of the Migration Process, provides an overview of migrating to SharePoint Online using different tools.
Chapter 15, Migrate Data and Content, walks you through preparing data and migrating content to SharePoint Online.
Chapter 16, Assessment Answers, is where you'll find the answers to the assessment questions at the end of every chapter.
To get the most out of this book
The SharePoint Server platform is best experienced (from an end user perspective) with either a laptop or desktop computer running a modern operating system, such as Windows 10 or macOS X 10.12 or later. Additionally, modern browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, or a current version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox are necessary for the interfaces to operate correctly. If you are configuring services with integrated Windows authentication, you'll want your client computer to be a member of the domain where you have configured SharePoint services.
From a server perspective, to follow the configuration examples, you'll need several servers on which to install Active Directory and SharePoint Server components, as well as an Office 365 tenant for hybrid and data gateway configurations.
You can sign up for a Microsoft 365 trial tenant (no credit card required) at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compare-more-office-365-for-business-plans. You can also sign up for an Azure trial from the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), which will allow you to provision virtual infrastructure on which to install and configure the required Windows Server components.
Some examples require various PowerShell modules, such as the SharePoint Online Management Shell (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588) or the Microsoft Teams module (https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/1.0.3).
Conventions used
There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.
CodeInText:Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles.Here is an example:"Modern site group membership is managed through the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet."
A block of code is set as follows:
Set-SPSite -Site https://server.domain.com
When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:
Set-SPUser -Site https://server.domain.com/sites/site1 -LoginName <[email protected]> -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
PS C:>Connect-SPOService -Credential (Get-Credential) -Url https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com
Connected to SharePoint Online.
Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "In the navigation pane, select Classic features."
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