Microsoft Authorized Training in Lebanon

This course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.

In this 5-day course, students will learn the basics of computer programming through the use of Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 and either the Visual C# or Visual Basic programming languages. The course assumes no prior programming experience and introduces the concepts needed to progress to the intermediate courses on programming, such as 20483B: Programming in C#.

The focus will be on core programming concepts such as computer storage, data types, decision structures, and repetition by using loops. The course also covers an introduction to object-oriented programming covering classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Coverage is also included around exception handling, application security, performance, and memory management.

At Course Completion

• Explain core programming fundamentals such as computer storage and processing.
• Explain computer number systems such as binary.
• Create and use variables and constants in programs.
• Explain how to create and use functions in a program.
• Create and use decisions structures in a computer program.
• Create and use repetition (loops) in a computer program.
• Explain pseudocode and its role in programming.
• Explain the basic computer data structures such as arrays, lists, stacks, and queues.
• Implement object-oriented programming concepts.
• Create and use classes in a computer program.
• Implement encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
• Describe the base class library (BCL) in the .NET Framework.
• Explain the application security concepts.
• Implement simple I/O in a computer program.
• Identify application errors and explain how to debug an application and handle errors.
• Identify the performance considerations for applications.

About This Course

This three-day instructor-led course is aimed at people looking to move into a database professional role or whose job role is expanding to encompass database elements. The course describes fundamental database concepts including database types, database languages, and database designs.

Audience Profile

The primary audience for this course is people who are moving into a database role, or whose role has expanded to include database technologies.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe key database concepts in the context of SQL Server 2016
• Describe database languages used in SQL Server 2016
• Describe data modelling techniques
• Describe normalization and denormalization techniques
• Describe relationship types and effects in database design
• Describe the effects of database design on performance
• Describe commonly used database objects

About This Course

This is a three-day Instructor Led Training (ILT) course that targets the needs of information technology (IT) professionals who take part in administering, configuring, troubleshooting, and operating Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to administer and troubleshoot Office 365 tenant and key services of Office 365, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Teams. It also covers security and compliance features of Office 365.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for IT professionals and system administrators who want to learn about administration and troubleshooting techniques in Office 365. These professionals should have at least three years of experience working in their respective fields: ideally in the areas of system administration, network administration, and messaging.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe Office 365 services.
• Administer Office 365 by using the Microsoft 365 admin center, Office 365 services admin centers, an
• Administer and troubleshoot directory synchronization and directory objects.
• Administer and troubleshoot Exchange Online.
• Administer and troubleshoot Teams.
• Administer and troubleshoot SharePoint Online.
• Plan and deploy Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.
• Administer and troubleshoot compliance and security in Office 365.

About This Course

This five-day course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to plan and administer a Microsoft SharePoint 2016 environment. The course teaches you how to deploy, administer, and troubleshoot your SharePoint environment. This course also provides guidelines, best practices, and considerations that help you optimize your SharePoint deployment.

This is the first in a sequence of two courses for IT professionals and is aligned with the SharePoint 2016 IT Pro certification.

Audience Profile

The course is targeted at experienced IT professionals who are interested in learning how to install, configure, deploy, and manage SharePoint 2016 installations either in a data center or in the cloud.

Students typically have more than one year of hands-on experience* with planning and maintaining SharePoint and two years’ experience with other core technologies on which SharePoint depends, including Windows Server 2012 R2 or later, Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or later, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), and networking infrastructure services.

The minimally qualified candidate typically:

• Is an IT professional who plans, implements, and maintains a multi-server deployment of SharePoint 2016.
• Has a working knowledge of, and preferably hands-on experience, with SharePoint Online.
• Has broad familiarity with SharePoint workloads.
• Has experience with business continuity management, including data backup, restoration, and high availability.
• Has experience with authentication and security technologies.
• Has experience with Windows PowerShell.

* The hands-on experience or job experience should be from a solutions-based role where the candidate has worked on multiple solutions in the SharePoint space that includes document management, content management, and search.

At Course Completion

• Describe the key features of SharePoint 2016.
• Design an information architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design a logical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Design the physical architecture for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Install and configure SharePoint 2016.
• Create and configure web applications and site collections.
• Plan and configure service applications for a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage users and permissions, and secure content in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure authentication in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Configure platform and farm-level security in a SharePoint 2016 deployment.
• Manage information taxonomy in SharePoint web applications and site collections.
• Configure and manage user profiles and audiences.
• Configure and manage the search experience in SharePoint 2016.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot a SharePoint 2016 deployment.

About This Course

This course provides an introduction to HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. This course helps students gain basic HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript programming skills. This course is an entry point into both the Web application and Windows Store apps training paths. The course focuses on using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript to implement programming logic, define and use variables, perform looping and branching, develop user interfaces, capture and validate user input, store data, and create well-structured application.The lab scenarios in this course are selected to support and demonstrate the structure of various application scenarios. They are intended to focus on the principles and coding components/structures that are used to establish an HTML5 software application.This course uses Visual Studio 2017, running on Windows 10.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for professional developers who have 6-12 months of programming experience and who are interested in developing applications using HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 (either Windows Store apps for Windows 10 or web applications).

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain how to use Visual Studio 2017 to create and run a Web application.
• Describe the new features of HTML5, and create and style HTML5 pages.
• Add interactivity to an HTML5 page by using JavaScript.
• Create HTML5 forms by using different input types, and validate user input by using HTML5 attributes and JavaScript code.
• Send and receive data to and from a remote data source by using XMLHTTPRequest objects and Fetch API.
• Style HTML5 pages by using CSS3.
• Create well-structured and easily-maintainable JavaScript code.
• Write modern JavaScript code and use babel to make it compatible to all browsers.
• Use common HTML5 APIs in interactive Web applications.
• Create Web applications that support offline operations.
• Create HTML5 Web pages that can adapt to different devices and form factors.
• Add advanced graphics to an HTML5 page by using Canvas elements, and by using and Scalable Vector Graphics.
• Enhance the user experience by adding animations to an HTML5 page.
• Use Web Sockets to send and receive data between a Web application and a server.
• Improve the responsiveness of a Web application that performs long-running operations by using Web Worker processes.
• Use WebPack to package web applications for production.

About This Course

This training course teaches developers the programming skills that are required for developers to create Windows applications using the Visual C# language. During their five days in the classroom students review the basics of Visual C# program structure, language syntax, and implementation details, and then consolidate their knowledge throughout the week as they build an application that incorporates several features of the .NET Framework 4.7.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for experienced developers who already have programming experience in C, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C, Microsoft Visual Basic, or Java and understand the concepts of object-oriented programming.

This course is not designed for students who are new to programming; it is targeted at professional developers with at least one month of experience programming in an object-oriented environment.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the core syntax and features of Visual C#.
• Create methods, handle exceptions, and describe the monitoring requirements of large-scale applications.
• Implement the basic structure and essential elements of a typical desktop application.
• Create classes, define and implement interfaces, and create and use generic collections.
• Use inheritance to create a class hierarchy and to extend a .NET Framework class.
• Read and write data by using file input/output and streams, and serialize and deserialize data in different formats.
• Create and use an entity data model for accessing a database and use LINQ to query data.
• Access and query remote data by using the types in the System.Net namespace and WCF Data Services.
• Build a graphical user interface by using XAML.
• Improve the throughput and response time of applications by using tasks and asynchronous operations.
• Integrate unmanaged libraries and dynamic components into a Visual C# application.
• Examine the metadata of types by using reflection, create and use custom attributes, generate code at runtime, and manage assembly versions.
• Encrypt and decrypt data by using symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

About This Course

This three-day MTA Training course helps you prepare for Microsoft Technology Associate Exam 98-373, and build an understanding of these topics: Work with Physical Devices, Use Data with Mobile Services, Use a Mobile Application Development Environment, Develop Mobile Applications. This course leverages the same content as found in the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) for this exam.

Audience Profile

The Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) is Microsoft’s newest suite of technology certification exams that validate fundamental knowledge needed to begin building a career using Microsoft technologies. This program provides an appropriate entry point to a future career in technology and assumes some hands-on experience or training but does not assume on-the-job experience.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Work with Physical Devices
• Use Data with Mobile Services
• Use a Mobile Application Development Environment
• Develop Mobile Applications

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.

This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements manages and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

This instructor-led, live training in Lebanon (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level IT professionals who wish to learn about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand basic cloud concepts.
• Identify core Azure services.
• Describe core solutions and management tools in Azure.
• Understand general security and network security features.
• Understand identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.
• Understand Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

About This Course

Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps include, but are not limited to, Dynamics 365 Finance, Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing. Dynamics 365 Finance helps you to: Automate and modernize your global financial operations. Monitor performance in real time, predict future outcomes, and make data-driven decisions to drive business growth. Drive strategic financial decisions with artificial intelligence (AI), unify and automate your financial processes, reduce operational expenses, and decrease global financial complexity and risk. Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management helps you to: Transform your manufacturing and supply chain operations. Use predictive insights and intelligence from AI and the Internet of Things (IoT) across planning, production, inventory, warehouse, and transportation management. Maximize operational efficiency, product quality, and profitability. Innovate with intelligent manufacturing operations, modernize warehouse management, optimize production performance, maximize the life of your assets, and automate and streamline your supply chain. Note: For more information, please refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/get-started-finance-operations/ In this module, we will focus on the core features and functionality for Dynamics 365 Dynamics 365 Finance apps that are most used by end users and consultants.

Audience Profile

A Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Functional Consultant is responsible for performing discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, and configuring the solution and applications. The Functional Consultant implements a solution using out of the box capabilities, codeless extensibility, application and service integrations.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• How to navigate and efficiently use search, filtering and queries
• How to use operational workspaces
• Work with Business Document Management
• Work with record templates
• Integrate Power BI with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations apps
• How to personalize workspaces
• Identify when to use Power Platform in Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations app.
• How to apply security roles to users
• Run and analyze security reports
• Create and use workflow for approval
• Work with Organization Hierarchy and its purposes.
• How to use personalization feature
• Use Data Management workspace
• Create and use and entity templates
• Copy configuration data between legal entities
• Import and Export data and manage data by using Office Integration
• Use Regression Suite Automation Tool (RSAT)
• Create User acceptance Tests (UAT) and test plans
• Create and work with Business Process Modeler (BPM)
• Understand how to use Issue search

About This Course

Developer training. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developers implement and extend applications to meet the requirements of the business. Candidates provide fully realized solutions by using standardized application coding patterns, extensible features, and external integrations.

Audience Profile

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Apps Developers

This is a 5-day instructor-led training (ILT) course that targets the needs of IT professionals who take part in evaluating, planning, deploying, and operating Microsoft Office 365 services, including its identities, dependencies, requirements, and supporting technologies. This course focuses on skills required to set up an Office 365 tenant, including federation with existing user identities, and skills required to sustain an Office 365 tenant and its users

This course is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for planning, configuring, and managing an Office 365 environment. Students who attend this course are expected to have a fairly broad understanding of several on-premises technologies such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). In addition, they should have a general understanding of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync Server or Skype for Business Server, and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan an Office 365 deployment, configure the Office 365 tenant, and plan a pilot deployment.
• Manage Office 365 users, groups, and licenses, and configure delegated administration.
• Plan and configure client connectivity to Office 365.
• Plan and configure directory synchronization between Microsoft Azure AD and on-premises AD DS.
• Plan and implement the Office 365 ProPlus deployment.
• Plan and manage Microsoft Exchange Online recipients and permissions.
• Plan and configure Exchange Online services.
• Plan and configure Microsoft Teams
• Plan and configure Microsoft SharePoint Online.
• Plan and configure an Office 365 collaboration solutions.
• Plan and configure the integration between Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Information Protection.
• Monitor and review Office 365 services, and troubleshoot Office 365 issues.
• Plan and implement identity federation between on-premises AD DS and Azure AD.

This course is designed for persons aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Administrator role and have completed at least one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.

About This Course

This course provides foundational knowledge on the considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services and the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model, with a specific focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings. You will begin by learning about cloud fundamentals, including an overview of cloud computing and specifically Microsoft cloud services. You will be introduced to Microsoft Azure, and you will examine the differences between Microsoft 365 and Office 365. You will then perform an in-depth review of Microsoft 365, including a comparison of Microsoft on-premises services versus Microsoft 365 cloud services, a review of enterprise mobility in Microsoft 365, and an analysis of how Microsoft 365 services provide collaboration. The course then analyzes how security, compliance, privacy, and trust are handled in Microsoft 365, and it concludes with a review of Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licenses, billing, and support.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for Business Decision Makers and IT Professionals who aspire to deploy cloud services in their organization, or who are simply looking to acquire foundational knowledge on cloud fundamentals. This includes the considerations and benefits of adopting cloud services in general and the Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud model specifically, with a general focus on Microsoft 365 cloud service offerings.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between the various cloud service models.
• Identify the key differences between Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
• Plan for migration to Microsoft 365 services.
• Identify key differences between Microsoft on-premises services and Microsoft 365 cloud services.
• Identify how Microsoft 365 services support teamwork.
• Describe identities, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid identity.
• Describe cloud device management and protection, including the use of Intune.
• Describe data protection, including the use of Azure Information Protection.
• Describe compliance in general and the compliance features in Microsoft 365.
• Describe Microsoft 365 subscriptions, licenses, billing, and support

The Solution Architect is responsible for the successful design, implementation, deployment and adoption of an overall solution. The Solution Architect ensures that the solution meets the customer’s needs now and in the future. In this course, students will learn about decisions a Solution Architect makes during an implementation, covering security, integrations, Power Apps architecture, Power Automate architecture, and more. This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Solution Architect role.

This five-day instructor-led course is designed primarily for IT professionals who have some experience with Windows Server. It is designed for professionals who will be responsible for managing identity, networking, storage and compute by using Windows Server 2019, and who need to understand the scenarios, requirements, and options that are available and applicable to Windows Server 2019. The course teaches IT professionals the fundamental administration skills required to deploy and support Windows Server 2019 in most organizations.