MS-100 Exam Study Guide (Microsoft 365 Identity And Services)
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Preparing for the MS-100 Microsoft 365 Identity and Services exam to achieve the Microsoft 365 Certification for Enterprise Administrator Expert? Don’t know where to start? This post is the MS-100 Certificate Study Guide (with links to each exam objective).
I have curated a list of articles from Microsoft documentation for each objective of the MS-100 exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Design and Implement Microsoft 365 Services (25-30%)
- Manage User Identity and Roles (25-30%)
- Manage Access and Authentication (15-20%)
- Plan Office 365 Workloads and Applications (25-30%)
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For each test objective, I’ve compiled a thorough collection of articles from Microsoft documentation. Please feel free to forward this page to your friends and coworkers in order to assist them in preparing for the test .
Design and Implement Microsoft 365 Services (25-30%)
Plan Architecture
- Plan integration of Microsoft 365 and on-premises environments
- Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises environments
- Identify deployment workloads team
- Configure Microsoft 365 Enterprise services and applications
- Exchange Online
- Introduction to SharePoint in Microsoft 365
- Skype for Business Online Admin
- Microsoft Teams
- Plan identity and authentication solution
- Identity roadmap for Microsoft 365
- Plan Microsoft 365 identity models
- Plan enterprise application modernization
- Modernize your workplace with Microsoft 365
Deploy Microsoft 365 Tenant
- Manage domains
- Manage domains in Microsoft 365
- Configure organizational settings
- Plan and manage organizational settings
- Complete organizational profile
- Customize the Microsoft 365 theme for your organization
- Add a Microsoft partner or work with Microsoft FastTrack
- FastTrack for Microsoft 365
- FastTrack FAQs
- Complete subscription setup wizard
- Set up Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- Set up Microsoft 365 Business in the setup wizard
- Plan and create a tenant
- Tenant roadmap for Microsoft 365
- Set up your Microsoft 365 tenant
- Edit organizational profile
- Change your organization’s address, technical contact, & more
- Plan and create the subscription(s)
- Understand subscriptions & licenses in Microsoft 365
- Buy a subscription
- Configure tenant-wide workload settings
- Configure your Microsoft 365 tenant for increased security
Configure Microsoft 365 Tenancy and Subscription
- Configure subscription and tenant roles and workload settings
- Get started with the roles page
- About admin roles in Microsoft 365
- Assign admin roles to users
- Evaluate Microsoft 365 for your organization
- Microsoft 365 for enterprise Test Lab Guides
- The lightweight base configuration
- The simulated enterprise base configuration
- Plan and create tenant
- Create your Microsoft 365 tenant account
- Upgrade existing subscriptions to Microsoft 365
- Upgrade to Microsoft 365 Business Premium from Business Standard
- Switch to a different Microsoft 365 for business plan
- Monitor license allocations
- View licensed and unlicensed Microsoft 365 users
- View Microsoft 365 account license and service details
Manage Microsoft 365 Subscription and Tenant Health
- Manage service health alerts
- Service health and continuity
- View service health notifications by using the Azure portal
- Create and manage service requests
- Ways to contact support for business products
- How to create service requests to contact Office 365 support?
- Create internal service health response plan
- Service health and continuity
- Monitor service health
- How to check Microsoft 365 service health?
- Configure and review reports, including BI, Operations Management Suite (OMS), and Microsoft 365 reporting
- Customize the reports in Microsoft 365 usage analytics
- Monitoring and Reporting of Office 365 with OMS
- Schedule and review security and compliance reports
- Reports in the Security & Compliance Center
- Types of reports in the Security & Compliance Center
- View reports for Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection
- View email security reports in the Security & Compliance Center
- Schedule and review usage metrics
- Enable Microsoft 365 usage analytics
- Review usage reports
- Monitor user activity by using reports
Plan Migration of Users and Data
- Identify data to be migrated and migration method
- Data Migration in Microsoft 365
- Microsoft 365 data migration methods
- Identify users and mailboxes to be migrated and migration method
- Move mailboxes between on-premises & Exchange Online
- Ways to migrate multiple email accounts to Microsoft 365
- Plan migration of on-premises users and groups
- Migrate traditional Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups
- Migrate on premise user account on Office 365
- Import PST Files
- Overview of importing your organization’s PST files
- Import your organization’s PST files to Microsoft 365
Manage User Identity and Roles (25-30%)
Design Identity Strategy
- Evaluate requirements and solution for synchronization
- Determine directory synchronization requirements
- Directory synchronization for Microsoft 365
- Set up directory synchronization for Microsoft 365
- Evaluate requirements and solution for identity management
- Identity roadmap for Microsoft 365
- Determine identity requirements for a hybrid identity solution
- Evaluate requirements and solution for authentication
- Choose the right authentication method
Plan Identity Synchronization by Using Azure AD Connect
- Design directory synchronization
- Hybrid identity & directory synchronization for Microsoft 365
- Implement directory synchronization with directory services, federation services, and Azure endpoints
- Set up directory synchronization for Microsoft 365
- Deploy Microsoft 365 Directory Synchronization
- Azure AD Connect sync V2 endpoint API
Manage Identity Synchronization by Using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Configure directory synchronization
- Set up directory synchronization for Microsoft 365
- Monitor Azure AD Connect Health
- What is Azure AD Connect Health?
- Monitor AD FS using Azure AD Connect Health
- Azure Active Directory Connect Health: Monitoring the sync engine
- Manage Azure AD Connect synchronization
- Azure AD Connect sync: Understand synchronization
- Change the default configuration in Azure AD Connect sync
- Configure object filters
- Control which objects appear in Azure Active Directory
- Configure password synchronization
- Implement password hash synchronization with Azure AD Connect sync
- Implement multi-forest AD Connect scenarios
- Topologies for Azure AD Connect
- Microsoft Azure AD Connect – multiple forests, single Azure AD tenant
- Update AAD Connect to include more than one forest
Manage Azure AD Identities
- Plan Azure AD identities
- Azure AD Identity lifecycle
- What is a hybrid identity with Azure Active Directory?
- Azure AD UserPrincipalName (UPN) population
- Implement and manage self-service password reset (SSPR)
- Plan an Azure AD self-service password reset deployment
- Enable Azure AD self-service password reset
- How Azure AD self-service password reset works?
- Manage access reviews
- What are Azure AD access reviews?
- Perform access review using My Access
- Manage groups
- Manage app and resource access using Azure AD groups
- Manage passwords
- Set the password expiration policy for your organization
- Azure AD Password Protection
- Manage product licenses
- Assign or remove licenses in Azure Active Directory
- Change license assignments for a user or group in Azure AD
- Scenarios using groups to manage licensing in Azure AD
- Manage users
- Create and manage users in Azure Active Directory
- Perform bulk user management
- Add several users at the same time to Microsoft 365
- Bulk create users in Azure Active Directory
Manage Roles
- Plan user roles
- Roles available in Microsoft 365
- Manage admin roles
- View & assign administrator roles in Azure Active Directory
- Allocate roles for workloads
- Workload-specific roles in Microsoft 365
- Assign admin roles to users in Microsoft 365
- Manage role allocations by using Azure AD
- Manage Azure role assignments
Manage Access and Authentication (15-20%)
Manage Authentication
- Design authentication method
- Authentication methods available in Azure Active Directory
- Choose the right authentication method for your solution
- Configure authentication
- Configure your app to use Azure AD login
- Implement authentication method
- Enable passwordless sign-in with the Authenticator app
- SMS-based authentication using Azure Active Directory
- Enable passwordless security key sign-in
- Sign-in to Azure AD using email as an alternate login ID
- Manage authentication
- Eliminate bad passwords in Azure Active Directory
- Monitor authentication
- What is Azure Active Directory monitoring?
- What are Azure Active Directory reports?
Plan and Implement Secure Access
- Design a conditional access solution
- Plan a Conditional Access deployment
- Plan conditional access policies
- Implement entitlement packages
- What is Azure AD entitlement management?
- Manage access to resources in Azure AD entitlement management
- Implement Azure AD Identity Protection
- What is Identity Protection?
- Identity Protection for Microsoft 365 environment
- Manage identity protection
- Manage Azure AD Identity Protection
- Implement conditional access
- Implement conditional access policy controls & assignments
- Conditional Access: Require MFA for all users
- Manage conditional access
- Building a Conditional Access policy
Configure Application Access
- Configure application registration in Azure AD
- Register an application with the Microsoft identity platform
- Create an Azure AD application & service principal to access resources
- Configure Azure AD application proxy
- Remote access to on-premises apps with Azure AD Application Proxy
- Using Azure AD Application Proxy to publish on-premises apps
- Azure AD Application Proxy frequently asked questions
- Publish enterprise apps in Azure AD
- Add an application to your Azure Active Directory tenant
Plan Office 365 Workloads and Applications (25-30%)
Plan Microsoft 365 Apps Deployment
- Manage Office software downloads
- Manage software download settings in Office 365
- Configuring Office 365 download settings for end-user
- Manage Microsoft 365 apps
- Manage Microsoft 365 Apps with Configuration Manager
- Plan for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
- Plan your enterprise deployment of Microsoft 365 Apps
- Plan for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise updates
- Choose how to manage updates
- Plan for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise connectivity
- Microsoft 365 network connectivity overview
- Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles
- Plan for Office for the web
- Office for the web service description
- Plan Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise deployment
- Deployment guide for Microsoft 365 Apps
- Plan your enterprise deployment of Microsoft 365 apps
Plan for Messaging Deployments
- Plan migration strategy
- Evaluate migration methods
- Migrate from other messaging systems
- Plan messaging deployment
- Planning and deployment
- Identify hybrid requirements
- Hybrid deployment prerequisites
- Exchange hybrid deployment considerations
- Plan for connectivity
- Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles
- Network planning for Microsoft 365
- Plan for mail routing
- Set up connectors to route mail from Microsoft 365
- Transport routing in Exchange
- Plan email domains
- Manage accepted domains in Exchange Online
- Email authentication in EOP
Plan for Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
- Plan migration strategy
- Migrate your files to Microsoft 365 with Migration Manager
- Create a SharePoint migration project plan
- Migrate your content to Microsoft 365
- Migrate content to an OneDrive
- Plan external share settings
- External sharing overview – SharePoint
- Manage sharing settings in SharePoint
- Manage sharing in OneDrive
- Change the external sharing setting for a user’s OneDrive
- Identify hybrid requirements
- Hardware & software requirements for SharePoint hybrid
- Configure hybrid Microsoft OneDrive
- Manage access configurations
- Set up and manage access requests in SharePoint
- Manage Microsoft groups
- Create a group in the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Add or remove members from Microsoft 365 groups
- Manage SharePoint tenant and site settings
- Change a site’s information settings
- SharePoint Online tenant properties
Plan for Microsoft Teams Infrastructure
- Plan for quality and capacity
- Use CQD to manage call quality in Teams
- Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams
- Plan for telephony
- Which calling plan is right for you?
- Calling plans for Microsoft 365
- Plan Microsoft Teams deployment
- Microsoft Teams deployment overview
- Plan your Teams meeting deployment
- Plan Microsoft Teams organizational settings
- Manage Microsoft Teams settings for your organization
Plan Microsoft Power Platform Integration
- Implement Microsoft Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) starter kit
- Set up the CoE Starter Kit
- Gain insights into your Power Platform adoption with the CoE dashboard
- Plan for Power Platform workload deployments
- Plan for deployment and administration
- Plan resource deployment
- Plan your deployment
- Plan for connectivity (and data flow)
- Power Platform dataflows
- Create & use dataflows in Microsoft Power Platform
- Managing environments
- Manage environments in the Power Platform admin center
- Manage resources
- Resource overview
This brings us to the end of the MS-100 Microsoft 365 Identity and Services Study Guide.
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