SharePoint Online Administrator Playbook

SharePoint Online is Microsoft's powerful cloud platform for collaboration, document management, and communication, driving digital workplaces worldwide. Understanding its administration is critical for any organization leveraging Microsoft 365, making this SharePoint Online Administrator Playbook your essential guide to expert-level management.

This playbook systematically covers every facet of SharePoint Online administration, starting with an in-depth tour of the SharePoint admin center and understanding the administrator scope. You will learn core site administration, including creation, deletion, permissions, sharing, hub site association, and reporting. The book explores access control policies, alongside managing default settings for pages, notifications, site creation, and storage limits. It guides you through content services like term store and content type gallery management, effective migration strategies using Migration Manager, and user profile administration. Finally, you will explore Business Connectivity Services for BDC models and external content types across online and on-premises connections, Secure Store ID management, records management, and configuring SharePoint hybrid using the hybrid picker.

Upon completing this playbook, you will possess the practical knowledge and confidence to competently administer and optimize SharePoint Online environments, enhancing collaboration and security within your organization.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
● Understand SharePoint admin center navigation and core site collection management.
● Configure site permissions, sharing, and access control policies.
● Implement global SharePoint Online default settings for pages and storage.
● Strategize and execute SharePoint Online content migration using Migration Manager.
● Administer user profiles and optimize SharePoint search schema and query rules.
● Configure advanced search components including result sources and query suggestions.
● Administer records management and configure SharePoint hybrid using hybrid picker.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR
This book is ideal for SharePoint Online administrators and IT professionals managing Microsoft 365 environments. Readers should possess foundational knowledge of SharePoint concepts and basic Microsoft 365 administration.