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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

Planning and Configuring Guest Access

One of the benefits of SharePoint is the ability to share content easily whether that is with internal or external entities. However, many organizations don't want to have wide-open sharing controls because they need to manage access to competitive information or trade secrets, have privacy information subject to laws (such as HIPAA), or have other information that they need to protect.

External sharing allows users in the organization to share content with users outside the organization. Whether you are sharing with users in your organization that belong to another Office 365 tenant subscription, customers, vendors, or partners, you'll want to include planning for guest and external access as part of your overall strategy.

In this chapter, we'll review the way external access works, as well as some of the sharing controls...