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Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Physical Topology and Services

SharePoint Server 2016 brings a lot of changes to the Infrastructure Architecture, with new features such as MinRole and Microsoft Identity Manager. You'll learn how to plan your SharePoint 2016 Infrastructure to answer your business needs.

Vlad Catrinescu - Pluralsight course - Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Physical Topology and Services
by Vlad Catrinescu

What you'll learn

SharePoint Server 2016 is the latest release of SharePoint Server and includes awesome features for business users, but quite a few changes for SharePoint IT Professionals. New features such as MinRole, combined with new requirements such as mandatory Office Online Server configuration for Business Intelligence, will change the way that SharePoint Administrators will design their SharePoint farm. In this course, Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Physical Topology and Services, you'll learn foundational knowledge in order to properly plan for a SharePoint 2016 topology according to your business needs. First, you'll learn how to architecture a topology in Traditional, Streamlined, and MinRole strategies. Next, you'll learn how to plan for your Service Applications such as Search, User Profile, and the Productivity Service applications, as well as how they can affect your Physical Topology. Finally, you'll learn how to plan for SharePoint Hybrid, Business Intelligence, SharePoint 2013 Workflows, SharePoint add-ins and more. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of SharePoint 2016 needed to properly plan a SharePoint 2016 Physical Topology according to your business needs. This course also covers part of the "Planning" Objectives of the SharePoint 2016 MCSE Exam 70-339.

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Vlad Catrinescu - Pluralsight course - Planning for SharePoint Server 2016: Physical Topology and Services
Vlad Catrinescu

Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams. As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to get the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering Microsoft 365, Azure, and the Power Platform.

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