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SharePoint Online Management and Administration - 55370 Course

 

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In Brief

SharePoint Online Management and Administration teaches you to run SharePoint Online and OneDrive across a Microsoft 365 tenant: set tenant policy, govern sites at scale, connect people and Teams, administer Copilot and agents, and prove the whole estate is secure and defensible.

What You Will Learn

Provision and administer a Microsoft 365 tenant with the admin centers and PowerShell
Set tenant-wide policy for external sharing, access control and storage
Create, template, govern and retire sites at scale with hub sites and lifecycle policies
Decode SharePoint permissions and inheritance so you always know who can see what
Administer Teams-connected sites without breaking them
Launch a modern intranet with Viva Connections, user profiles and audience targeting
Design findability with managed metadata, content types and Microsoft Search
Administer Copilot in SharePoint, SharePoint agents, Loop and SharePoint Embedded
Govern content with Microsoft Purview retention, DLP, sensitivity labels and SharePoint Advanced Management
Monitor, troubleshoot and restore with service health, the audit log and a repeatable method

Overview

SharePoint is where your organization's files, sites, teams and intranet come together, and someone has to run it. Inherit a tenant full of sites nobody owns, sharing nobody chose and storage nobody watches, and every question lands on your desk: who can see this, why is it so big, why can't anyone find anything, and is it safe to turn on Copilot?

This course turns that pile of questions into a plan. You learn to set the rules once at the tenant level, then govern sites, permissions, Teams, profiles and search with policy instead of memory. You script the work you would otherwise click through a hundred times, even if you have never written a PowerShell command. And you see what has changed in 2026, including why Copilot and SharePoint agents only surface what a user can already open, which makes tidy permissions the fastest route to a safe AI rollout.

You leave with the judgment to keep a tenant governed, a PowerShell toolkit you can lift straight into production, and the confidence to explain every setting to an auditor. Think of yourself as the city manager: the person trusted to keep the buildings safe, the directory accurate and the doors locked to the right people.

Who Should Take This Course

The intended audience is IT professionals who administer, or are about to administer, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and the surrounding Microsoft 365 services: new SharePoint administrators, Microsoft 365 administrators adding SharePoint to their portfolio, and experienced on-premises SharePoint professionals moving to the cloud.

Prerequisites

Comfort with general IT concepts, user accounts and a web browser. No PowerShell experience is required; every cmdlet is taught from the first connection onward.

Skills Covered

SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 administration, SharePoint admin center, PowerShell, external sharing, hub sites, site lifecycle, permissions, Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, managed metadata, content types, Microsoft Search, Copilot in SharePoint, SharePoint agents, Microsoft Purview, retention, DLP, sensitivity labels, SharePoint Advanced Management, audit log.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Foundations

  • The Microsoft 365 Platform: What You Are Actually Administering
  • SharePoint Online Architecture: The Flat City
  • Admin Roles: Least Privilege in Practice
  • The Four Portals: A Guided Tour of City Hall
  • The Three-Shell Story: Your PowerShell Toolkit
  • When to Use Which: The Decision Framework
  • Lab: Provision Your Admin Environment

Module 2: Tenant Policies: Sharing, Access, Storage and OneDrive

  • The Four-Layer External Sharing Stack
  • Sharing Links: Defaults, Expiration and the Anyone Question
  • Access Controls: Devices, Sessions, and Locations
  • OneDrive Administration: Provisioning, Storage and Sync
  • When Someone Leaves: Retention and the OneDrive Handoff
  • Storage: Quotas, Archive, Backup, and the Meter
  • Reading the Policy Like an Admin
  • Lab: Lock Down the Tenant

Module 3: Site Administration at Scale

  • Creating and Templating Sites
  • Ownership and Administration: Every Building Needs a Name on File
  • Site-Level Sharing and Controls: Exceptions to the Zoning Code
  • Hub Sites: Districts, not Hierarchies
  • Site Lifecycle Management: The Cleanup Crew
  • PowerShell at Scale: The Master Plan in a Loop
  • Habits of a Site-Estate Administrator
  • Lab: Build the Site Estate

Module 4: Working with Sites: Apps, Pages and Permissions

  • Lists, Libraries, and Versioning: The Atomic Units
  • Pages and News: The Publishing Layer
  • The Permission Model, Decoded
  • Inheritance, Manage Access, and Auditing Who Sees What
  • Navigation, Audience Targeting, and Multilingual Sites
  • Habits of an Admin Who Supports Site Owners
  • Lab: Move the Work In

Module 5: SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

  • Teams Architecture: Groups Are the Membership Fabric
  • The Files Experience: Channel Equals Folder
  • Permissions Interplay: Same Words, Different Systems
  • Private and Shared Channels: Annex Buildings
  • Administering Team-Connected Sites Without Breaking Teams
  • Admin Habits for a Teams-Heavy Tenant
  • Lab: Follow the Files

Module 6: The Intranet and Its People

  • The Home Site: Official Status for the Front Door
  • The Brand Center and Organizational Assets
  • Global Navigation and the App Bar: Signposting the City
  • The Dashboard and Its Cards
  • The SharePoint App in Teams: Opening the Front Door
  • The Profile Sync Pipeline: HR to Entra ID to SharePoint
  • Custom Properties and Audiences: Compiled Versus Entra-Based Targeting
  • Lab: Launch the Intranet

Module 7: Findability: Information Architecture and Search

  • IA Planning in the AI Era
  • Site Columns and the Term Store
  • Content Types: Site Scope and Tenant Scope
  • How Microsoft Search Works
  • Answers: Bookmarks and Acronyms
  • Verticals, Result Types, and Graph Connectors
  • One Index, Two Customers: Insights and Habits
  • Lab: Build the Taxonomy, Tune the Search

Module 8: Copilot, Agents, Loop and SharePoint Embedded

  • Grounding in Plain Language: Copilot Reads What the User Can Read
  • Copilot in SharePoint: The Renamed Knowledge Agent
  • SharePoint Agents: Create, Approve, Audit
  • Copilot Readiness: The Triad, RCD, and the Sequenced Rollout
  • The New Surfaces: Loop and SharePoint Embedded
  • Habits of an AI-layer Administrator
  • Lab: Administer the AI Layer

Module 9: Governance and Operations: Audit Season

  • The Compliance Landscape and the Perimeter
  • Retention: Keep What You Must, Delete What You Should Not
  • Data Loss Prevention: The Checkpoint at the Door
  • Sensitivity Labels: Classification That Travels
  • SharePoint Advanced Management: Governance at Estate Scale
  • The Operations Desk: Health, Usage, Footage and Restore
  • Habits of a Defensible Tenant
  • Lab: Govern the Content Estate

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Do I need PowerShell experience to take this course?
  • No. Every cmdlet is taught from the first connection onward, and the scripts grow from single commands to multi-line scripts you can reuse.
  • Does the course cover Copilot and AI?
  • Yes. You learn how Copilot grounds on the content a user can already read, how to administer Copilot in SharePoint and SharePoint agents, how to prepare content for a sequenced rollout, and how Loop and SharePoint Embedded fit in.
  • Does the course cover security and compliance?
  • Yes. You configure Microsoft Purview retention, data loss prevention and sensitivity labels, apply SharePoint Advanced Management for governance at scale, and use the audit log to trace what happened.
  • How is this different from the SharePoint for Power Users course?
  • Power users build and manage individual sites. Administrators run the tenant behind them: policy, permissions at scale, governance and troubleshooting. If you mainly build sites, SharePoint for Power Users (55215/55286) is the better fit.

 

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