Course MS-500T01 Managing Microsoft 365 Identity and Access

Help protect against credential compromise with identity and access management. In this course you will learn how to secure user access to your organization’s resources. Specifically, this course covers user password protection, multi-factor authentication, how to enable Azure Identity Protection, how to configure Active Directory federation services, how to setup and use Azure AD Connect, and introduces you to Conditional Access.

You will also learn about solutions for managing external access to your Microsoft 365 system.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Administer user and group security in Microsoft 365
• Manage passwords in Microsoft 365
• Describe Azure Identity Protection features
• Plan and implement Azure AD Connect
• Manage synchronized identities
• Plan implement federated identities
• Describe and use conditional access

Audience Profile

This course is for the Microsoft 365 security administrator role. This role collaborates with the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator, business stakeholders and other workload administrators to plan and implement security strategies and ensures that the solutions comply with the policies and regulations of the organization.

This role proactively secures Microsoft 365 enterprise environments. Responsibilities include responding to threats, implementing, managing and monitoring security and compliance solutions for the Microsoft 365 environment. They respond to incidents, investigations and enforcement of data governance.

The Microsoft 365 Security administrator is familiar with Microsoft 365 workloads and has strong skills and experience with identity protection, information protection, threat protection, security management and data governance. This role focuses on the Microsoft 365 environment and includes hybrid environments.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic conceptual understanding of Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Windows 10 devices
• Experience with Office 365
• Basic understanding of authorization and authentication
• Basic understanding of computer networks
• Working knowledge of managing mobile devices