You are responsible for Search in Office 365, and providing an optimized search is essential for daily business operations in your organization. However, out-of-the-box Microsoft Search does not deliver the relevant results that your users expect.
Level up your knowledge by learning best practices, tips and tricks, and real use cases from a recognized expert.
Taking the Mastering Microsoft Search course, you will learn:
- How to configure search in Office 365 out-of-the-box;
- Navigation of the Microsoft Search backend for understanding “classic” as well as “modern” settings and configurations;
- Optimizing content and taxonomy for better findability in Search;
- How PnP Modern Search library works and operates.
The Format of the Course
This is an online and interactive course. Every group will have a maximum of 20 attendees.
You will be added to a dedicated team in Microsoft Teams where you can ask questions, talk to
other attendees, and access all course materials. Daily lessons will be added to the Teams
library each morning Central European Time (CET). All course resources will be available to you
for up to 3 months after concluding the course.
Each lesson contains:
- Live discussion with course instructor in Microsoft Teams;
- Access to more than 100 pages of written information and instructional materials;
- 12 hours support and Q&A on Microsoft Teams;
- 45-60 min videos to watch on-demand;
- Templates, checklists, and more.
Every attendee will receive a digital certificate after completing the course.
Your Instructor: Agnes Molnar, MVP and Managing Consultant of Search Explained
If you’re a search manager, search administrator, or the Office 365 guru who is responsible for search, and you want to know how to become the “search champion” in your organization, I am here to help.
With over a decade of search consulting experience, I have seen all kinds of organizations: large and small, local and global, profit-oriented and NGO, conservative and very agile – all facing the challenges of content findability. I’ve founded Search Explained in 2014, and since then, I have been helping organizations around the globe…
- improve and enhance search in all the different versions of SharePoint on-prem an in the cloud;
- have customized “classic” and “modern” search in SharePoint Online;
- have up-to-date knowledge about Search in Office 365, including Microsoft Search;
- understand how Content Services in Office 365 can help to optimize and enhance search;
- create an overall search strategy and governance plan in Office 365, preparing IT, Communications, HR and all the users to the constant changes;
- know the best resources to learn from.
My passion has been always sharing my knowledge – this is why I am super excited about this online course.
“Good information, great to hear from how you use it, as well as how other attendees do things. Good examples”
Mastering Microsoft Search workshop attendee
2020“The format was great! I appreciated the opportunity to chat and talk about issues facing my own organization, and hear about what others are doing as well.”
Mastering Microsoft Search workshop attendee
2020“Good inspiration on how to ensure better search.”
IntraTeam Event workshop attendee
2020“Well put together, strong teaching approach, live Q&A was cool.”
Mastering Microsoft Search workshop attendee
2020“I liked most the use of videos regarding to “how to do sth” and the possibility to ask questions and communicate with chat.”
Mastering Microsoft Search workshop attendee
2020“Brilliant workshop explaining lots of pitfalls of modern Search”
IntraTeam Event workshop attendee
2020“Search training do not get better than this.”
Martin White
Intranet Focus“The “learn as you have the time” aspect of this training was unique, in a very good way.”
Mastering Microsoft Search workshop attendee
2020“Great session! Worth every minute.”
2019
“Top dollar value. The method Agnes uses to give the participants deep search knowledge is brilliant.”
Per Birk
National Danish Police“Wow! Finally a meaningful explanation about Office 365 Search! Thanks Agnes!”
IntraTeam Event workshop attendee
2018Need further help outside the course curriculum? Please contact us, and we’ll be happy to help you in more mentoring or completing any project for your organization.
Frequently Asked Questions – Answers:
While the search principles discussed during the workshop can be applied to any search engine (including SharePoint on-prem versions, of course), the technical topics, discussions, and hands-on exercises will be specific to SharePoint Online only.
No. What you need is an account that can be added to Microsoft Teams which is the official platform of the training.
If you have a developer/playground tenant with your own test or dummy content, then you can use that during the course. Otherwise, we can provide a separate site for you which you can use to do all the hands-on exercises.
The short answer is no. We do two live sessions every day because of the significant time difference. So if you prefer option 1 you join that call, or if you prefer option 2 (I suppose everyone in the US and Canada) you join option 2. Or you can join both if you like 😊
Also, we record every call so you can watch them later.
I haven’t had a lot of experience with SharePoint Search h just yet.
We limit the number of attendees in order to be able to help everyone, regardless of their level of previous experience. You consume the pre-recorded videos and written materials in your own pace. During the live calls Agnes responds all questions – being it deep technical or high-level strategic or conceptual. Also, Agnes is online for 12 hours every day during the workshop, and helps everyone 1:1 on Teams as needed (chat as well as 1:1 calls).
In the previous workshops, we had attendees with various job roles and backgrounds: 
Yes. We’re discussing all the application landscape in Microsoft 365, their search features. However, the primary focus will be on SharePoint Online, especially when discussing custom search applications.
This course is for you. We’ll discuss what and how you can achieve with the out-of-the-box toolset, and also where the boundaries and limitations are. Also, we’ll discuss what to do if you need custom search pages or complex search applications in SharePoint Online.
