Microsoft 365 for Leaders: Advanced Productivity and Copilot Integration Training Course

About This Course

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

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this training consists of professionals who are either moving into a database-focused role or whose job scope is broadening to encompass database technologies.

At Course Completion

Upon finishing this course, students will be able to:
• Explain core database concepts within the context of SQL Server 2016
• Discuss the database languages utilized in SQL Server 2016
• Explain data modelling techniques
• Describe normalization and denormalization strategies
• Detail relationship types and their impact on database design
• Explain how database design influences performance
• Identify commonly used database objects

About This Course

This is a three-day Instructor-Led Training (ILT) program designed to meet the requirements of IT professionals involved in administering, configuring, troubleshooting, and operating Office 365 services. The course covers essential identities, dependencies, prerequisites, and supporting technologies. It emphasizes the skills necessary to manage and troubleshoot the Office 365 tenant and key services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. Additionally, the curriculum addresses security and compliance features within Office 365.

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 domains, particularly in system administration, network administration, and 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 and Office 365 services admin centers.
• 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 program equips you with the necessary knowledge and skills 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 you optimize your SharePoint deployment.

This course serves as the first in a sequence of two designed for IT professionals and aligns with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification path.

Audience Profile

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

Participants typically have more than one year of hands-on experience* with planning and maintaining SharePoint, along with two years’ experience with core supporting technologies, including 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 a 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.

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

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

This instructor-led, live training in Serbia (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:

• Grasp fundamental cloud concepts.
• Pinpoint core Azure services.
• Explain core solutions and management tools within Azure.
• Understand general security and network security functionalities.
• Comprehend identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.
• Navigate Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

About This Course

This course covers the essential methods and best practices aligned with business and technical needs for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing data using Power BI. It demonstrates how to access and process data from diverse sources, including both relational and non-relational databases. Participants will also learn to implement robust security standards and policies across the Power BI ecosystem, covering datasets and groups, as well as how to manage, deploy, and distribute reports and dashboards.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for data professionals and business intelligence practitioners seeking to master data analysis with Power BI. It is also ideal for report developers who 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 applications encompass, among others, Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Manufacturing. Dynamics 365 Finance empowers you to: Automate and modernize global financial operations. Monitor performance in real-time, predict future outcomes, and make data-driven decisions to foster business growth. Facilitate strategic financial decisions through artificial intelligence (AI), unify and automate financial processes, reduce operational costs, and mitigate global financial complexity and risk. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management enables you to: Transform your manufacturing and supply chain operations. Leverage 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, extend asset lifespan, and automate and streamline your supply chain. Note: For additional information, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/get-started-finance-operations/. In this module, we will concentrate on the core features and functionality of Dynamics 365 Finance apps that are most utilized by end users and consultants.

Audience Profile

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

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Navigate and efficiently utilize search, filtering, and queries.
• Utilize operational workspaces.
• Work with Business Document Management.
• Work with record templates.
• Integrate Power BI with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps.
• Personalize workspaces.
• Identify appropriate scenarios for using Power Platform within Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps.
• Apply security roles to users.
• Run and analyze security reports.
• Create and use workflows for approval.
• Work with Organization Hierarchy and understand its purposes.
• Utilize the personalization feature.
• Use the Data Management workspace.
• Create and use entity templates.
• Copy configuration data between legal entities.
• Import and export data and manage data using Office Integration.
• Use the 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

This training is designed for developers. Professionals working as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developers are responsible for implementing and extending applications to satisfy business needs. They deliver complete 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 managing Microsoft Office 365 services, including their identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. The curriculum focuses on the skills needed to establish an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, as well as the abilities required to maintain the tenant and support its users.

This course is tailored for IT professionals tasked with planning, configuring, and managing an Office 365 environment. Attendees are expected to possess a comprehensive understanding of various on-premises technologies, such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Additionally, they should have a general grasp of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server or Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan an Office 365 deployment, configure the Office 365 tenant, and develop a pilot deployment plan.
• Manage Office 365 users, groups, and licenses, and set up 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 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.

This course is intended for professionals aiming for the Microsoft 365 Administrator role who have completed at least one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.

About This Course

This course delivers foundational knowledge regarding the considerations and advantages of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, with a particular emphasis on Microsoft 365 cloud offerings. You will start by exploring cloud fundamentals, including an overview of cloud computing and Microsoft cloud services specifically. The course introduces Microsoft Azure and examines the distinctions between Microsoft 365 and Office 365. You will then conduct a detailed review of Microsoft 365, comparing Microsoft on-premises services with Microsoft 365 cloud services, reviewing enterprise mobility within Microsoft 365, and analyzing how Microsoft 365 facilitates collaboration. The course further analyzes security, compliance, privacy, and trust mechanisms in Microsoft 365, and concludes with an overview of Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licensing, billing, and support.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for Business Decision Makers and IT Professionals aiming to deploy cloud services within their organization, or those seeking foundational knowledge on cloud principles. This includes understanding the considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services generally and the Software as a Service (SaaS) model specifically, with a general focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between various cloud service models.
• Identify the key differences between Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
• Plan for migration to Microsoft 365 services.
• Identify key differences between Microsoft on-premises services and Microsoft 365 cloud services.
• Identify how Microsoft 365 services support teamwork.
• Describe identities, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid identity.
• Describe cloud device management and protection, including the use of Intune.
• Describe data protection, including the use of Azure Information Protection.
• Describe compliance in general and the compliance features in Microsoft 365.
• Describe Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licenses, billing, and support.

This live, instructor-led training in Serbia (online or onsite) is designed to assist participants in preparing for the Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) certification exam.

The course covers the skills required to manage Azure resources, including Azure virtual machines, storage solutions, and Azure network management.

This instructor-led, live training in Serbia (online or onsite) is designed to assist participants in preparing for the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certification exam. 

The curriculum explores the fundamentals of developing Azure solutions, encompassing Azure compute, storage, and security features. It offers a thorough introduction to Azure development, highlighting the tools and services necessary for building, testing, and deploying applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Serbia (online or onsite) is structured to assist participants in preparing for the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) certification exam.

The curriculum addresses advanced cloud computing concepts and Azure services, offering a thorough introduction to Azure solutions architecture, its principles, components, and services. Attendees will also gain skills in designing and deploying Azure solutions according to best practices and industry standards.

This five-day, instructor-led course is tailored for IT professionals who already possess some familiarity with Windows Server. It targets individuals tasked with managing identity, networking, storage, and computing resources using Windows Server 2019, helping them grasp the relevant scenarios, requirements, and available options. The curriculum equips IT staff with the core administrative competencies necessary to deploy and support Windows Server 2019 in most organizational environments.