Prepare for Exam 70-331—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 core solutions. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Design a SharePoint Topology Plan Security Install and Configure SharePoint Farms Create and Configure Web Applications and Site Collections Maintain a Core SharePoint Environment This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives. Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you.

Provides exam objectives, what-if scenarios, and tips needed for experienced IT professionals to pass the Microsoft SharePoint Server 70-331 exam for Microsoft certification.

Prepare for Exam 70-332—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. Designed for experienced IT Professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Plan Business Continuity Management Plan a SharePoint Environment Upgrade and Migrate a SharePoint Environment Create and Configure Service Applications Manage SharePoint Solutions, BI, and Systems Integration

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-339–and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of planning, configuring, and managing Microsoft SharePoint 2016 core technologies in datacenters, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the skills measured on the exam: • Design SharePoint infrastructure • Plan authentication and security • Plan workload optimization • Plan productivity solutions • Manage search capabilities • Plan and configure cloud services • Monitor and optimize a SharePoint environment This Microsoft Exam Ref: • Organizes its coverage by the “Skills measured” posted on the exam webpage • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you • Provides exam preparation tips • Points to in-depth material by topic for exam candidates needing additional review • Assumes experience planning and maintaining SharePoint and related core technologies, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory, and networking infrastructure services

This book is a step-by-step guide to building your own SharePoint farm in a home lab setting. Learn how to build a windows domain and then join servers into the domain in order to create your own testing and learning environment. After you get the domain stood up, where you go from there is up to you. This book will help you learn how to spin up SharePoint in a least privileged fashion. This isn’t strictly a SharePoint book, though. For example, if you’re not a SharePoint professional and are just looking to create a working windows domain for other purposes; the home-lab domain that you’ll create will work great for Exam preparation for non-SharePoint purposes. You could even use it for learning how to install Exchange Server. After all, it’s your Home Lab domain. In this book you will build your home-lab domain and you’ll have a great place for learning how to administer SharePoint and develop SharePoint Apps. Here are just some of the tasks you’ll complete in easy to follow exercises: Create a windows domain and a certificate authority, so that you can run SharePoint on SSL Join servers to the domain and configure other technology on the member servers as needed Install SQL Server, and correctly partition the server in accordance with best practices Install and configure a SharePoint farm Spin up Host Named Site Collections (HNSC’s) Install and configure Visual Studio Who This Book Is For: This book is suitable for both developers and administrators. No technical knowledge is assumed beyond a general familiarity with computers and computing terminology. The resulting domain will be suitable for both IT and developer testing needs.

"SharePoint 2013 Core Solutions teaches students what they need to consider when preparing to install and configure a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 infrastructure. It also introduces all of the topics on the 70-331 Microsoft certification exam. "--Resource description page.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-778–and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Power BI data analysis and visualization. Designed for experienced BI professionals and data analysts ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Consume and transform data by using Power BI Desktop Model and visualize data Configure dashboards, reports, and apps in the Power BI Service This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have experience consuming and transforming data, modeling and visualizing data, and configuring dashboards using Excel and Power BI

The new SharePoint Server 2013 Core Solutions Exam 70-331 course provides the knowledge and skills to configure and manage a SharePoint Server 2013 environment. This course will provide the necessary knowledge and skill sets to configure SharePoint Server 2013. In addition, you will gain guideline, consideration and best practices understanding concerning SharePoint Server 2013. This new course will assist IT Professionals who are interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy and manage SharePoint Server 2013 installations in the cloud and/or the data center. For those admininstering line-of-business projects working side-by-side internal business customers would see benefit from learning how to manage SharePoint Server 2013 as well. For those of you who are new to SharePoint Server 2013, this exciting course will provide you some benefit as well. This course brings together all the features of using the Core Solutions in SharePoint Server 2013.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-342--and demonstrate your real-world mastery of advanced Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 solution design, configuration, implementation, management, and support. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance, Exam Ref focuses on critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Configure, manage, and migrate Unified Messaging Design, configure, and manage site resiliency Design, configure, and manage advanced security Configure and manage compliance, archiving, and discovery solutions Implement and manage coexistence, hybrid scenarios, migration, and federation This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Provides exam preparation tips written by two Exchange Server MVPs Assumes you have at least three years of experience managing Exchange Servers and have responsibilities for an enterprise Exchange messaging environment About the Exam Exam 70-342 is one of two exams focused on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 skills and knowledge for moving to the cloud, increasing user productivity and flexibility, reducing data loss, and improving data security. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam earns you credit toward a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) certification that proves your ability to build innovative solutions across multiple technologies, both on-premises and in the cloud. Exam 70-341 and Exam 70-342 are required for MCSE: Messaging Solutions Expert certification. See full details at: microsoft.com/learning