<p>Microsoft 365 / Dynamics 365 Ottawa Event is a free community‐focused technology event dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical community.</p><p><br></p><p>With the expansion of the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics platforms, the event now draws upon the expertise of IT professionals, developers and solutions architects who come together to share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like‐minded individuals.</p><p>These individuals bring invaluable experience and lessons across the broad suite of services Microsoft offers like: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Security and Compliance, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure, and other M365 applications.</p><p><br></p><p>M365 Friday Ottawa will be held at the Microsoft Ottawa office.</p><p><br></p><h2>Construction Note</h2><p>Constructions are underway in the World Exchange Plaza; please follow the signs to the event</p><p><br></p><h2>Transportation</h2><ol><li>Option 1 (Preferred): LRT to Queen street station</li><li>Option 2: Parking at the World Exchange Plaza</li></ol>

<h2>Platinum</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tygraph_logo-edited-300x118.png" id="fhuhh0uc20bd" data-image="fhuhh0uc20bd"></figure><p>tyGraph organizes your data and helps you see the connections, actions, and productivity of your people—giving you access to critical information that informs decisions and drives innovation.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ORANGUTECH_250X250_NP-BG.png" id="1f6uj3whr5w6" data-image="1f6uj3whr5w6"></figure><p>Orangutech works closely alongside Microsoft driving enterprise-level cloud adoption through expertise in EDRMS in M365, Teams, SharePoint, PowerApps and SharePoint to GCDocs. Orangutech has established itself as Ottawa’s recognized leader in Digital Workplace, User Adoption, and Information Management.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/helixlogo.png" id="ixz1a9yl861k" data-image="ixz1a9yl861k"></figure><p>HELUX is a Microsoft Gold Partner and a Microsoft Preferred Partner in Content Services. As a Preferred Partner in Microsoft 365 Content Services, we are excited to help you plan for and implement knowledge and content services solutions, including SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva.</p><h2>Gold</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/icefirelogo-300x106.png" id="wq0jzol2l4xb" data-image="wq0jzol2l4xb"></figure><p>IceFire is revolutionizing the way companies use SharePoint to collaborate in multilingual environments.<br>Based on exclusive innovations, the company’s flagship product PointFire™ for SharePoint on premise and PointFire 365 for SharePoint Online, addresses all issues related to multilingual SharePoint – including pages, documents, lists, and user interfaces. Its groundbreaking PointFire Translator carries out translations of all of those content and UI elements in seconds, either on demand or triggered by rules when content is created or modified.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/protiviti.png" id="rk74gh4lzkab" data-image="rk74gh4lzkab"></figure><p>Protiviti is a global business consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration. We help you confidently address challenges.</p><h2>Silver</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ShareGate-by-GSoft-300x72.png" id="pk55p2vozt5p" data-image="pk55p2vozt5p"></figure><p>We’re GSoft, home to a family of software products that lay the groundwork for a better employee experience. Our goal is to make work simpler, kinder, and faster.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Specifically, we help companies get the most out of Microsoft 365 with ShareGate. We also help managers and HR leaders grow their teams with our Officevibe platform. And we ensure every onboarding is a professional and personal success with Softstart.</p>

M365 and D365 Friday Ottawa

5016-Grasslands/Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Loop is a new collaborative app that was added to Microsoft Teams and Outlook.  In this session I will explain what Microsoft Loop is and how to use it.  I will also present a roadmap and discuss the future of communication and information sharing using Microsoft Loop in the Microsoft 365 environment.

What is Microsoft Loop and how to use it?

Microsoft technology is moving at a rapid pace, join my session for building step-by-step, common Microsoft Teams collaboration advantages and perform live Teams usage scenarios. By using channels, tabs, bots, the command bar, extensibility options with PowerApps and Team's modern collaboration features, watch how your collaboration goes from meh to magnificent. With this session learn how to utilize Team's features to quickly, comprehensively and effectively to create the HUB for collaboration among your users and solve important real-world issues that require an immediate, rich featured collaboration platform.

Become a Microsoft Teams rockstar

Governance is a hot topic before turning on any new piece of software. With the rapid adoption of Microsoft Teams, this a roadblock that many organizations are trying to navigate today. In this session, you will learn how to put a proper governance plan in place before launching Microsoft Teams in your organization and how to keep governance in place as the usage of Teams expands.
Without governance, Microsoft Teams can quickly spin an unmanageable web for your IT teams. Governance is the first step to success with Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft provides a wide range of features that you can use to help ensure the hygiene of your Teams so that Office 365 doesn’t become an nest egg of chaos.

In this session we will cover the out-of-the-box governance features of Microsoft Teams, such as: 
	• Naming Conventions
	• Guest Access
	• User Permissions
	• Creation Permissions
	• Expiration Policies
	• Monitoring
Join us to learn about the best way to ensure that your Teams implementation doesn’t spiral into an out of control mess by using all the tools that Microsoft provides out-of-the-box. 

Pragmatic Governance for Microsoft Teams

Learn how Microsoft is using Microsoft Teams Rooms to hold meetings that are inclusive for both remote and in-person participants. Before these transformed experiences are rolled out to customers, they are designed, built, and tested at The Hive, a collaborative laboratory hidden away on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash. Join the session to learn more about how Microsoft uses this space to bring physical and digital solutions together to form a new, modern meeting experience.

Future Workplace

Many organizations have already established a powerful Office 365 Intranet, but they haven't answered the question What's next . In this session we will respond to the ever-increasing demand for powerful and integrated solutions that support users' needs across their digital workplace and beyond. Leveraging Office 365 means that you have access to entirely new ways of building solutions faster than ever before. The best part? It's not just IT that can build these great solutions!

Join Kanwal Khipple as he shares real world examples, and best practices for how organizations can deliver more value with integrated solutions built by the business, by IT, or a combination of both. In this session, we will talk about Bots, Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, Microsoft Forms, Integrations, Office 365 development, industry innovation and more!