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To note there are already a few good guides out there for MS-300 like this one by Rene Modery which are also recommended to look through. The resources below are the ones I personally used to pass the exam
I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people will do this exam because of Microsoft Teams. Teams is, after all, the fastest growing app in Microsoft history. At the time of writing there are over 500,000 organisations using it. 91% of the Fortune 500. At the time of writing (May 2019) there has been lots of functionality introduced this year or coming in the next few months. It’s hard to keep up – even for those administering it every day. Private Teams, Information Barriers, Busy on Busy, Round Robin, App Deployment Policies, Supervision.
It’s a really exciting application – and an exciting time in its maturation.
Yet it’s important to understand that this exam is not all about Teams, which constitutes only 20 – 25% of it. There is SharePoint, and OneDrive, and Yammer, and Stream and Delve. It’s about all of those collaboration apps and how people communicate and collaborate in different ways so it’s really important in order for a strong performance to have a well rounded grasp of all of them – their admin centres, shell commands and scenarios where the apps work together. If you haven’t used SharePoint beyond a basic document store for your files, or are still using YouTube for corporate videos then its probably fair to say it’s going to be a tough gig. Yet you can easily improve your chances by spinning up a test tenant through Microsoft Demos if your organisation has access to this – or through a trial of Microsoft 365.
Regarding the exam itself there is very little to say apart from the fact that its quite broad. Not as broad as the Security Administrator exam per se and not as deep and narrow as the Messaging Administrator exams. It was also, in my personal view a very fair exam and true to the revision areas – maybe the best I’ve seen in terms of the new role exams.
If MS-300 – the ‘official’ Teams exam – still hasn’t satiated the Teams completionist in you, then I would recommend going to EDX and doing the two courses there (Enabling Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist) which means that with MS-300 you’ve passed everything there is to pass. That is, until MS-400 Voice Associate comes out in the months to come.
Best of luck!
Link to Exam: Here
Released: 14th January 2019
Practice Test: Available later in 2019
MOC Course: MS-300TO1A/TO2A/TO3A/TO4A
Important Note: this exam prep guide should be used to supplement your own resources and should not be used for the whole of your learning. Some of the resources may be not completely cover the requirements especially if the requirement is vague. If you find better articles than the ones below, please feel free to reach out and I’ll amend.
Status: I passed this exam in May shortly after it came out of Beta. I had the mid type exam (55 questions) and from what I can remember it was a pretty even spread across all four areas.
Configure and manage SharePoint Online (35-40%)
Plan and configure site collections and hub sites
- Identify procedures for creating, deleting, and restoring site collections
- Assign users or groups as site collection administrators
- Plan and configure navigation
- Design site collection and subsites structure
- Configure site collection settings and features
Plan and configure customizations and apps
- Plan and configure App Catalogue
- Plan and deploy apps with proper permissions and licenses
Plan and configure managed metadata
- Plan and create the term store structure
- Plan and configure term store security
- Maintain the term store
Plan and configure guest access
- Assign guest licenses
- Configure restricted domains
- Plan and configure guest sharing and site access
Manage SharePoint Online
- Configure user profile properties
- Archive or delete unused artefacts
- Plan for Information Rights Management
- Modify storage limits for SharePoint Online
Manage search
- Create and update search dictionaries
- Manage query suggestions
- Create result sources
- Manage the search schema
- Manage search centre settings
- Monitor search usage reports and crawl logs
Monitor and maintain the SharePoint Online service
- Research, troubleshoot, and resolve reported issues
- Monitor service health issues
- Monitor SharePoint usage and usage patterns
Configure and manage OneDrive for Business (25-30%)
Configure and manage OneDrive for Business
- Configure settings in the OneDrive for Business admin centre
- Configure external sharing, sync, and storage settings
- Manage Sharing
- Set External Sharing Individually
- Turn on External Sharing Notifications
- Sync (several articles including Deployment & FOD)
- B2B Sync
- How Sync Works
- Set Default Storage
- Change User Storage
- Configure device access, notification, and compliance settings
- Prevent users from installing OneDrive Sync Client
- Exclude or uninstall previous Sync Client
- Control Access from Unmanaged Devices
- Control Access based on Network Location or App
- Control Access to Features
- Enable Conditional Access
- Set Retention
- Retention and Deletion
- Restore a deleted OneDrive
- Data Loss Prevention Policies
- Plan OneDrive for Business silent account configuration
Manage users and groups
- Add and remove admins for a OneDrive account
- Assign a default storage quota
- Configure a retention policy for deleted OneDrive for Business users
Manage sharing and security
- Configure data encryption in OneDrive for Business
- Control access to OneDrive for Business from unmanaged devices
- Audit sharing activities and view files shared with people outside an organization
Manage sync security
- Recommend group policy settings to control OneDrive sync client settings
- Limit syncing to devices joined to specific domains
- Limit syncing to domain-joined or compliant devices
- Block syncing of specific file types
Monitor and maintain the OneDrive service
- Research, troubleshoot, and resolve reported issues
- Monitor service health issues
- Monitor OneDrive usage and usage patterns
Configure and manage Teams (20-25%)
Plan and configure Teams settings
- Configure settings in the Teams admin centre
- Configure email integration options
- Configure and manage Apps settings
- Configure custom cloud storage
- Configure a Teams meeting policy
- Configure Content Search
- Plan and configure the provisioning process
- Plan and configure Teams templates
Plan identity and authentication for Teams
- Implement identity models and authentication
- Configure guest access
Manage the Teams environment
- Deploy Teams client apps
- Manage visible Apps
- Monitor the audit log for events
Monitor and maintain the Teams service
- Research, troubleshoot, and resolve reported issues
- Monitor service health issues
- Monitor Teams usage and usage patterns
Configure and manage workload integrations (15-20%)
Integrate M365 workloads
- Manage Office 365 connectors for Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint
- Manage integration with Office apps
- Manage user licenses for Flow and PowerApps
- Manage quotas for Flow and PowerApps
- Utilize Delve for collaboration
- Plan for and manage Office 365 groups
- Manage data and environment policies for M365 workloads
- Manage workload Apps with proper permissions and licenses
Manage Yammer capabilities
- Enable document support for Yammer
- Integrate Yammer with SharePoint
- Enable the Yammer webpart for SharePoint sites
- Enable and manage Yammer and Office 365 connected groups
- Migrate users to Azure AD to enable authentication with Yammer
- Enable Yammer integration with on-premises SharePoint deployments
Manage Stream capabilities
- Configure Stream channels to allow integration with Teams
- Enable viewing, sharing, and embedding of Microsoft Stream video content in Teams, SharePoint Online, and Yammer
- Deploy, configure and manage Live Events to publish with Yammer, Stream, and Teams
- Configure company-wide channel creation
Integrate M365 workloads with external data and systems
- Manage tenant settings for Power BI
- Monitor workload usage and usage patterns
- Monitor license usage for workloads
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