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Microsoft 365 Administration course with hands on sims

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  • Updated 11/2025
4.6
(3,042 Ratings)
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Course Information

Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
10 Hour(s) 19 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
John Christopher
Rating
4.6
(3,042 Ratings)

Course Overview

Microsoft 365 Administration course with hands on sims

Learn how to expertly administer Microsoft 365 with lecture and hands on simulations available 24/7

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

  • Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

  • Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

  • Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

  • Welcome to the course

  • Understanding the Microsoft Environment

  • Foundations of Active Directory Domains

  • Foundations of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

  • Foundations of the Microsoft Cloud Services

  • IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

  • DO NOT SKIP: The first to know about Microsoft cloud services

  • DO NOT SKIP: Azure AD is being renamed

  • Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

Fundamental capabilities of Microsoft 365

  • Concepts of IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS

  • Understanding Office 365 vs Microsoft 365 concepts

  • Public, private, and hybrid cloud model concepts

  • Cloud, hybrid, and on-premises cost differences

  • Hybrid work environments with Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Outlook, Exchange, and OneDrive usage in Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote usage in Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Project, Planner, Bookings, Forms, Lists, and To Do usage in Microsoft 365

  • Usage concepts of Exchange, Outlook, Engage, SharePoint, OneDrive, & Stream

  • Microsoft Teams usage in Microsoft 365

  • Concepts of Viva apps

Administering the Microsoft 365 pricing and support services

  • Microsoft cloud service pricing models

  • Billing management Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft 365 services license management

  • Licensing and add-on licensing in Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft 365 service health status

  • Service level agreements (SLAs) in Microsoft 365

  • Working with service health notifications

Managing the Microsoft 365 tenant

  • Tenants in Microsoft 365

  • Working with domain names in Microsoft 365

  • Security, privacy, and profile management in Organization Settings

  • Service health support in Microsoft 365

  • Notification configuration in service health

  • Usage and adoption monitoring in Microsoft 365

Working with identities and privileges in Microsoft 365

  • User creation and management

  • Guest user management

  • Contacts management

  • Group creation and management in Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft 365 license allocation monitoring

  • Working with bulk user management

  • Role based access control concepts

  • Working with roles in Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, &  Microsoft 365 role management

  • Administrative unit creation and management

  • Privileged identity management (PIM) concepts

  • Administering privileged identity management (PIM)

Fundamentals of security concepts in Microsoft 365 administration

  • Microsoft's shared responsibility model

  • Concepts of defense in depth

  • Visualizing the Zero-Trust model

  • Encryption and hashing in Microsoft 365 / Azure

  • Introduction to compliance in Microsoft 365

  • Introduction to Microsoft 365 Defender services

  • Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

  • Policies in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

  • Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Identity

  • Initial setup of Microsoft Defender for Identity

Managing Defender for Office 365

  • Concepts of Defender for Office 365

  • Defender for Office 365 policies and rules

  • Taking a look at threats identified in Defender for Office 365

  • Attack simulation campaigns

  • How to unblock users

Microsoft Purview information protection, retention & data data loss prevention (DLP)

  • Sensitivity labels concepts

  • Working with sensitive info types by using keywords and regex

  • Concepts of retention and disposition in Microsoft 365

  • Retention labels, retention label policies, and retention policies

  • Creating retention labels

  • How to configure a retention label policy to publish labels

  • Retention policy creation

  • Concepts of Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

  • Creating data loss prevention policies (DLP)

  • Alerts involving Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Course Content

  • 10 section(s)
  • 76 lecture(s)
  • Section 1 Introduction
  • Section 2 Fundamental capabilities of Microsoft 365
  • Section 3 Administering the Microsoft 365 pricing and support services
  • Section 4 Managing the Microsoft 365 tenant
  • Section 5 Working with identities and privileges in Microsoft 365
  • Section 6 Fundamentals of security concepts in Microsoft 365 administration
  • Section 7 Managing Defender for Office 365
  • Section 8 MS Purview information protection, retention & data loss prevention (DLP)
  • Section 9 Role Plays (Optional - Not needed to complete course and get certificate)
  • Section 10 FINAL - Where do I go from here?

What You’ll Learn

  • Learn the concepts and perform hands on activities needed to master Microsoft 365 administration
  • Gain a tremendous amount of knowledge involving Microsoft 365 and Azure Services
  • Get loads of hands on experience with Microsoft 365 and Azure
  • Utilize hands on simulations that can be access anytime, anywhere!


Reviews

  • V
    Venkata Shivappa M V
    5.0

    The explanation is very clear to understand the concepts of M365, it is very useful to upskill the knowledge

  • B
    Bizimana Christian
    4.5

    yes very good lessons. very easy to understand... i had in the past learned on microsoft platform and things seemed so abstract at the time..

  • M
    Michael Wilson
    4.5

    Really great course to get your first experience of Microsoft 365 Admin. I'm going for a job as an administrator and I believe that this course will help me land my first administration job.

  • C
    Can Gulsel
    5.0

    Gute Idee mit dem Rollenspiel am Ende

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