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Deploying Microsoft 365 Teamwork: Exam MS-300 Guide

By : Aaron Guilmette
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Deploying Microsoft 365 Teamwork: Exam MS-300 Guide

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

The Microsoft MS-300 exam is designed to test the knowledge and skills of administrators in deploying, configuring, and managing SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server, SharePoint Hybrid, OneDrive for Business, and Teams. This book offers up-to-date coverage of the important topics based on the MS-300 exam and features question answers and insider tips to help you prepare for certification. Written in a clear, succinct way, the book starts by helping you configure and manage SharePoint Online. You’ll then delve into OneDrive for Business, right from managing users and groups, through to monitoring sharing and security. Further chapters will guide you through working with Teams, with an emphasis on managing identity authentication, resolving issues with the service, and even observing usage patterns. Later, you’ll get up to speed with workload integrations, covering the Yammer business communications platform, before moving on to understand how to integrate Microsoft Stream with SharePoint, Teams, and Yammer. Finally, you’ll learn to develop data governance and user adoption strategies. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with SharePoint Online and have learned the essential techniques and concepts you need to know in order to pass the MS-300 certification exam.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Assessment Answers

Implementing identity models and authentication

As part of the Microsoft Office 365 suite of applications and services, Microsoft Teams supports all of the identity models and authentication types supported by the service. The identity models are as follows:

  • Cloud Identity
  • Synchronized Identity
  • Federated Identity

Let's examine the foundations of all three main types of identity.

Cloud Identity

Cloud Identity is the simplest form of identity. With this authentication model, the identity is stored and completely managed inside of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Office 365. You can manage this identity through the Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com), through the Azure Portal (https://portal...