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Patching SharePoint Server 2016

by Greg Dickinson

Every SharePoint installation needs to be kept up to date with the latest patches. This course will review the different types of SharePoint servers, cover backing up the environment, and the proper way to patch a distributed environment.

What you'll learn

Keeping a SharePoint environment up to date while ensuring little downtime can present unique challenges. In this course, Patching SharePoint Server 2016, you will learn the proper method to patch a highly available SharePoint environment. First, you will review the different types of servers in a SharePoint environment. Next, you will discover how to prepare the environment for patching, including making a backup of the systems to be patched. Finally, you will understand the patching process from start to finish, across all the servers in the environment. When you're finished with this course, you will have the knowledge of SharePoint 2016 needed to keep your environment up to date with the latest security patches.

About the author

Greg has been a longtime "technology enthusiast" (aka "computer nerd") that managed to take his hobby and make a very good living out of it. He's dealt with networking software as far back as NetWare 3.11 and GroupWise and carried that curiosity forward to become skilled in Windows, Exchange, Cisco, and VMware technologies.

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