Microsoft 365 Tenant Deployment, Configuration, and Monitoring — Lesson 2: Identity, Services and Baseline Configuration

Learning Objectives

• Configure authentication, MFA, conditional access, synchronization, service settings, and collaboration defaults
• Establish Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, device, sharing, and application baselines
• Validate identity, services and baseline configuration decisions with documented requirements, test evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Detailed Topics

• Configure authentication: Configure authentication, MFA, conditional access, synchronization, service settings, and collaboration defaults
• Establish Exchange: Establish Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, device, sharing, and application baselines
• Validate identity: Validate identity, services and baseline configuration decisions with documented requirements, test evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, creation, development, administration, analysis, or support workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Implement a Microsoft 365 configuration baseline.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Identity, Services and Baseline Configuration in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.