Hello, and welcome to this final module of
the Configuring and Managing SharePoint
Online course. In this module we will
review what we have learned and look at
additional resources that you could learn
to master more of Office 365. We have
first learned what are the
responsibilities of the SharePoint Online
administrator? At a high level, the
SharePoint Online administrator is
responsible for all of the aspects of
managing the SharePoint Online service,
including maintenance and configuration,
user adoption and change management,
governance, as well as taking care of the
security and things like external sharing.
SharePoint Online is the file storage
solution for other Office 365 services
such as Teams, and Yammer, so chances are
that you will work closely with the
administrators of those services as well.
The SharePoint Online administrator is
also usually responsible of OneDrive for
Business, not always but since SharePoint
and OneDrive for Business have the same
back end, a lot of the time the SharePoint
admin also takes care of OneDrive for
Business. In order to do our job as a
SharePoint Online admin, we're going to
use two main tools, which are the
SharePoint Online admin center, and
PowerShell, and we have looked at the
requirements, as well as how to install
the SharePoint Online and PnP PowerShell
module and how to connect to SharePoint
Online using PowerShell. We have also
looked at the modern information
architecture in which remember, sub sites
are bad; everything is a site collection
or as we should call it now, site that is
linked to a hub site. This makes it a lot
less probable that you will hit the
SharePoint limit, as well as making
everything more flexible since you can
move a sight from a hub to another without
a complicated data migration procedure. We
have also talked about external sharing.
SharePoint Online allows you to share
multiple types of artifacts outside of
your organization from a complete site to
a list or a library, or only a specific
document. And there are also multiple ways
to share stuff, depending on what you want
to share. We have covered both
authenticated users, as well as sharing
anonymously that we have even looked at
the type of links which are anyone, people
in my organization, and specific people.
In regards to external sharing, remember
that we can configure settings at the
tenant level, as well as at the site
collection level so we can really play
around with the settings to get somewhere
where we're both comfortable from a
security and admin point of view, but
still allow our users to be productive.
Afterwards we have looked at what managed
metadata is, why it's useful in
SharePoint, and how you can manage it as
an administrator. We have then looked at
another really big part of why SharePoint
is so famous today, which is Search. We
have reviewed both the Classic and Modern
experience options, and Microsoft Search,
which is the new option that allows you to
search all Office 365 services from Office
365, Windows, and even Bing. Then we have
looked at the user profile, which are all
of the properties of the user, mandatory
or optional, and we have looked at the
three locations where properties are
stored in Azure Active Directory, Exchange
Online, and SharePoint Online. And
remember, not all of the properties are
synced automatically from Azure Active
Directory to SharePoint Online, so you
might have to do some scripts yourself in
order to sync it up if your organization
needs it. We have then looked at
customization options, in particular
add-ins and the SharePoint Framework, and
we have looked at where they are deployed,
which is the SharePoint App Catalog, which
can be either at the tenant level or at
the site level, and remember that because
we don't have farm solutions with timer
jobs and all of the other things that we
had on-prem before, a lot of the back end
stuff is now in Azure, in Azure Functions,
as well as Azure Web Apps. We have then
looked at how to manage storage and we
have looked at how to calculate it, which
is 1TB plus 10GB per license purchased,
and in documentation you will see this
referred as pooled storage. We have also
looked at how to switch it between
automatic and manual, depending on how you
want to manage your sites. We have then
looked at the different options for access
control. So how do we manage unmanaged
devices? Do we configure an idle session
timeout? Do we want to restrict access to
only a specific IP address, and do we want
to block or allow apps that don't use
modern authentication? And lastly, we have
looked at where to go to stay up to date
with the latest Microsoft 365 features.
Remember, there are four main places; the
Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the Office 365
Message Center, the Microsoft Tech
Community, and social media and
conferences. So this summarizes everything
of course at a high level that we have
learned in the course. Now what can you do
to learn more? Now you can go on and learn
other parts of Office 365 such as OneDrive
for Business, Microsoft Teams, Yammer,
Stream, Flow, PowerApps, Exchange Online.
There's really a lot in only the teamwork
aspect that you can master and there's a
lot of Pluralsight content on all of
those. You could also go completely
outside in the way Office 365 and more in
the Microsoft 365 or Azure with the
Enterprise Mobility and Security suite,
which can be super important if you want
to apply retention labels and things like
that to SharePoint, or if you want to
focus more on the security side, learning
the EMS part of Microsoft 365 can also be
really interesting. You might also be
interested in getting certified in
Microsoft 365 Administration with the
Microsoft 365 Certified: Teamwork
Administrator Associate exam, which really
covers SharePoint, OneDrive for Business,
Teams, Stream, Yammer, and a few other
tools that are really considered teamwork
inside Office 365. You can learn more on
this on the Microsoft Learning site. I
would also like to introduce you to a
really nice feature in Pluralsight. You
can now follow authors so if you have
enjoyed this course and want to get
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