Office 365 Essentials

Understanding Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is a Microsoft cloud service that includes access to Microsoft 365 applications, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Power Platform and many other services. In this module, we will explain the importance of each product and what the place is within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

• Introduction to Microsoft 365
• Key Microsoft 365 Features
• Microsoft 365 Subscription plans
• Available Apps and functionality in Microsoft 365
• LAB - Understanding Office 365

Managing Office 365

Get to know the different admin experiences available for managing Microsoft 365 and see how to provision the Microsoft 365 applications to windows devices within your environment.

• Microsoft 365 Management Portals
• Health of your Microsoft 365 Tenant
• Installing Microsoft 365 Client Applications
• LAB - Managing Office 365

User Management

Users are the center of each Microsoft Tenant. It is important to know and learn to use all the tools available to manage existing users and add new users to the environment. Here, you will learn how to add new users to the organization.

• Overview of Microsoft Entra ID
• Managing Cloud and on premise users from Microsoft Entra ID
• Creating new users in your Tenant
• Managing Groups
• Assigning Licenses
• Configuring security via Multi Factor Authentication
• LAB - User Management

Microsoft 365 Groups

Microsoft 365 Groups is a powerful and productive platform that brings together conversations and calendar from Outlook, files from SharePoint, tasks from Planner, and a shared OneNote notebook into a single collaboration space for your team.

• Microsoft 365 Groups Overview
• Creating Microsoft 365 Groups
• Administering Microsoft 365 Groups
• LAB - Managing Microsoft 365 Groups

Exchange Online

Learn how to manage Exchange email inboxes in the cloud. Learn everything about the recipients and how to create new shared mailboxes, how to add aliases to emails and how to configure delegation for user mailboxes, all managed within the cloud.

• Exchange Online Features
• Tools to manage your Exchange Online Environment
• Create and Manage Mailboxes
• Using Outlook and OWA
• Working with Shared and Resource Mailboxes
• Distribution Groups
• LAB - Exchange Online

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams allows organizations to setup a team based hub for chat and collaboration with integration of all sorts of content and applications in one central location. This module will make you familiar with the core functionalities of Microsoft Teams and the way it can be extended. You will learn how to combine Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online in your organizations and how both products strengthen each other.

• Microsoft Teams Feature Overview: Chat, Teams, Meetings, Phone System...
• Connecting Microsoft Teams to an Office 365 Groups
• Desktop, Mobile and Web Teams Client
• Teams, Channels, Tabs, Apps and Connectors
• Microsoft Teams configuration options
• How to integrate SharePoint Online in Microsoft Teams?
• Microsoft Teams Governance and Lifecycle Management
• LAB - Managing Teams

Managing Tasks with Planner and Todo

Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you're working on, and get updates on progress.

• Organize Your Teamwork with Microsoft 365 Planner
• Get a Personal Tasks Overview with Todo
• LAB - Managing Tasks with Planner

Modern SharePoint Online sites

SharePoint offers several tools for content management and communication. Team sites are ideal for collaboration and working on content together. Communication sites are perfect for sharing information and news. We bring all of our SharePoint sites together in a SharePoint hub site!

• Getting to know the Key Features of SharePoint Online
• SharePoint Online Administrative Tools
• Modern Team Sites
• Communication Sites
• Modern Site Templates
• Setting up a Hub Site
• LAB - Modern SharePoint Sites

SharePoint Content Management

SharePoint offers rich content management features. Lists and Libraries are the core content management components allowing you to store data and documents with the possibility to enrich them with custom metadata. Furthermore, we'll look at the editing and filtering experience you get as well as customizing your lists and libraries into different views in order to satisfy the needs of your colleagues.

• Fundamentals of Apps, Lists and Libraries
• Working with the Filter and Details Pane
• Working with metadata and different column types
• Managing what you see with views
• Finding your content with search
• LAB - Content Management in SharePoint Online

OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business provides a private place in the cloud where you can store, share, and sync your personal work files. You can update and share your files from any device with OneDrive (for Business).

• Store Work Files in OneDrive for Business
• OneDrive Mobile Apps
• Synchronize your documents with different devices
• Different Sync Clients

External Sharing

Collaboration with external users is very often an important part of the modern work place. This chapter will explain what options we have for working with external or guest users and how we can share content with them.

• Adding a Guest User to a Team or Group
• Guest Invitations
• Sharing SharePoint Sites
• Sharing Documents from SharePoint or OneDrive

Microsoft Forms

With Microsoft Forms, you can create surveys, quizzes, and polls, and easily see results as they come in. As results are submitted, you can use built-in analytics to evaluate responses.

• Get Started with Microsoft Forms
• Setup for Microsoft Forms
• Share form and collaborate with others
• Embed your Form
• Use Built-in Analytics to Evaluate Responses

Microsoft Power Apps

In the world of the business user you will handle information that is probably stored across different software suites, like SharePoint, Salesforce, Excel file, Access database, ... Microsoft Power Apps allows people, without any development skills, to build mobile friendly applications on top of their data. Allowing other people to use the built application to browse the data and maybe even modify it. Besides building custom applications with Power Apps, it can be used to customize SharePoint list views and forms.

• What is Microsoft Power Apps?
• Power Apps Flavours
• Power Apps pricing
• Creating a Power App from a template, from a data source or from blank
• Adding Screens and controls to your app
• Building custom SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
• Adding a PowerApp as a web part to a SharePoint page
• LAB - Building Power Apps

Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate allows you to create automatic processes, called flows, that react to an event in one app or application (like SharePoint, Twitter, ...), do something with the event data, and then use this data in another service (like SharePoint, Salesforce, ...). All this can be done without having to write a line of code. Microsoft Power Automate comes integrated into SharePoint in order to set up automatic behavior on your content.

• What is Microsoft Power Automate?
• Power Automate pricing
• Using out-of-the-box flows in SharePoint Online
• Building flows from a template
• Working with approvals
• Building flows from scratch: Adding triggers and actions
• Running and managing flows
• LAB - Automating Processes with Power Automate