Learning path · Intermediate
Microsoft 365 Administrator
Understand the tenant as one interconnected system rather than a set of separate products.
What you will be able to do
- Trace where Teams, SharePoint and Exchange data actually lives
- Apply a Conditional Access and device compliance baseline
- Configure email authentication and audit retention correctly
The path
Work through these in order.
- 01Microsoft 365
Tenant architecture and service dependencies.
An integrated productivity, collaboration, identity, security and management suite delivered as a single tenant scoped cloud service.
- 02Microsoft Entra ID
The identity foundation for everything else.
Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, the identity control plane for Microsoft 365, Azure and thousands of federated applications.
- 03Exchange Online
Mail flow, hybrid and mailbox auditing.
Microsoft's cloud email service, including transport rules, connectors, mailbox permissions and hybrid coexistence with on premises Exchange.
- 04SharePoint Online & OneDrive
The storage layer behind collaboration.
Microsoft 365's document and collaboration storage layer, underpinning Teams files, OneDrive and intranet sites.
- 05Microsoft Teams
Groups, channels and retention behaviour.
Microsoft 365's collaboration and communication hub, layered on Entra ID groups, SharePoint, Exchange and its own chat service.
- 06Microsoft Intune
Device management and compliance signals.
Microsoft's cloud endpoint management service, delivering configuration, applications, updates and compliance policy across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux.
- 07Email Security
SPF, DKIM, DMARC and phishing defence.
Protecting the most used attack channel with authentication, filtering, link and attachment analysis, and user reporting.
- 08Microsoft Purview
Labels, DLP, retention and eDiscovery.
Microsoft's data governance and compliance platform: classification, labelling, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, audit and insider risk.