Design your Microsoft 365 tenant

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Free Online Course: Design your Microsoft 365 tenant provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4-5 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
    • Module 1: Plan your tenant in Microsoft 365
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Determine which Microsoft 365 subscription offerings best suit your organization’s requirements
      • Identify which Microsoft 365 component services satisfy your organizational needs
      • Identify the steps to successfully create a tenant for Microsoft 365
    • Module 2: Plan your on-premises infrastructure for Microsoft 365
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Prepare your organization to transition its on-premises deployment to Microsoft 365
      • Estimate your network's bandwidth
      • Test your existing network using the tools provided by Microsoft
      • Describe best practices to employ when integrating your network to Microsoft 365
      • Identify the deployment strategies your company can use when implementing Microsoft 365 services
      • Explain why password hash synchronization should be used regardless of your authentication method
    • Module 3: Plan your identity and authentication solution for Microsoft 365
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Describe authentication behavior for Office client apps when they connect with or without modern authentication to Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Skype for Business Online
      • Explain how multifactor authentication is supported in a Microsoft 365 deployment
      • Create a plan for directory synchronization and Azure AD Connect Pass-through authentication
      • Describe the issues, benefits, and best practices when implementing federated authentication using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)
      • Contrast the options available for restricting traffic in an AD FS deployment
      • Plan for Azure AD Seamless Single Sign-On
    • Module 4: Plan your supporting infrastructure for Microsoft 365
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Determine the best email migration or coexistence strategy for your organization
      • Create a file storage and collaboration strategy that is resilient and reliable
      • Prepare your organization to achieve the best experience using Microsoft Teams
      • Describe how Azure AD Connect can integrate your company's Active Directory and import local users to the cloud
    • Module 5: Plan your hybrid requirements for your Microsoft 365 deployment
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify key considerations when planning a hybrid Exchange environment and understand how your choices will affect your hybrid deployment
      • Describe the key planning options when designing a hybrid SharePoint environment, along with the primary features of a hybrid deployment
      • Identify the infrastructure, topology, port, and protocol requirements that are necessary to set up a hybrid Skype for Business environment
    • Module 6: Plan your migration to Microsoft 365
    • By the end of this module, you will be able to:

      • Plan your organization's migration to Microsoft 365 by using the Deployment Planning Checklist
      • Analyze your organization's Active Directory and plan any necessary clean-up using the ID Fix tool
      • Determine which migration strategy to use to move your organization's mail, calendar, and contact information to the cloud
      • Describe the performance and network issues to consider when planning your organization's migration strategy

Syllabus
    • Module 1: Plan your tenant in Microsoft 365
      • Introduction
      • Review the subscription options in Microsoft 365
      • Examine the components in Microsoft 365 Enterprise Mobility and Security
      • Determine the best subscription for your organization in Microsoft 365
      • Plan a migration to Microsoft 365
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 2: Plan your on-premises infrastructure for Microsoft 365
      • Introduction
      • Prepare your organization's infrastructure for Microsoft 365 Enterprise
      • Manage your transition to Microsoft 365 by using the Deployment Planning Checklist
      • Estimate your organization's bandwidth requirements to support Microsoft 365
      • Validate your network readiness by using Microsoft network tools
      • Integrate your network to Microsoft 365
      • Identify the endpoints required for Microsoft 365 to function properly
      • Create a deployment strategy to implement Microsoft 365 services
      • Enable password hash synchronization with your authentication method
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 3: Plan your identity and authentication solution for Microsoft 365
      • Introduction
      • Examine modern authentication for Office apps
      • Evaluate multifactor authentication for your Microsoft 365 deployment
      • Prepare for directory synchronization to manage identities
      • Implement Azure AD Connect pass-through authentication
      • Implement federated authentication using ADFS
      • Examine ADFS in Microsoft Azure
      • Restrict traffic in an ADFS deployment
      • Implement Azure AD Single Sign-On to simplify user access
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 4: Plan your supporting infrastructure for Microsoft 365
      • Introduction
      • Plan your email strategy for migration or coexistence
      • Determine your collaboration requirements for file storage
      • Prepare your organization's network for Microsoft Teams
      • Integrate your on-premises directories by using Azure AD Connect
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 5: Plan your hybrid requirements for your Microsoft 365 deployment
      • Introduction
      • Plan a hybrid Exchange environment
      • Plan a hybrid SharePoint environment
      • Plan a hybrid Teams and Skype for Business environment
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 6: Plan your migration to Microsoft 365
      • Introduction
      • Create a deployment planning checklist for migrating to Microsoft 365
      • Clean up your Active Directory before synchronizing it to Microsoft 365
      • Select the mail migration strategy for moving your mail data to the cloud
      • Analyze performance considerations for your mail migration
      • Analyze network considerations for your mail migration
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary