January 2025
Intermediate
4h 23m
English
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
This course is designed to help prepare you for the Microsoft MS-102 exam. It covers the fundamental tenant design and administration concepts that appear on the Microsoft 365 MS-102 Administrator exam as well as the identity and secure access mechanisms used. Each of the topics maps directly to the Microsoft 365 study guide and blueprint, ensuring that you understand the core focus areas of the exam.
What you’ll learn and how to apply it
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Provision a Microsoft 365 tenant, add domains, and configure core tenant organizational features.
- Administer users, groups, contacts, and licenses.
- Administer role-based security controls and privileged identity management.
- Implement identity synchronization technologies such as Microsoft Entra Connect and Microsoft Entra Connect cloud sync. Configure passwordless authentication options, enable self-service password reset, and troubleshoot authentication issues.
- Implement Entra Identity Protection and Conditional Access policies.
- Manage security incidents in the Microsoft Defender portal.
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
- Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
- Protect data with retention and sensitivity labels.
- Implement Microsoft Purview data loss prevention.
This course is for you because
- You are an IT professional responsible for configuring and administering the identity and security aspects of a Microsoft 365 environment.
- You have an understanding of computer networking concepts (such as the Domain Name System, or DNS) as well as basic Microsoft 365 administration skills like provisioning users and groups.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of administration concepts (DNS, PowerShell)
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