Join us at 365 EduCon DC 2023Microsoft 365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform training conference,&nbsp;brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, 365 EduCon has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft engineers.
At&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;365 EduCon, subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate or advanced. Tracks are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams, Power Apps, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow/ Power Automate, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, Microsoft Viva and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

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151 Concourse

SharePoint Online has many  services that you need to be familiar with to successfully manage your collaboration content. In this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different services and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.

We will begin by creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, explore how we can customize the M365 administrator dashboard to provide us only information related to the Microsoft 365 services we are working with like SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

We will create and assign users to access SharePoint Online both as an end user or and administrator. 

We will then roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell including; creating and configuring site collections, configuring user profile settings, creating and implementing a structured taxonomy using the term store, configuring the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, and explore several other SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business settings. During these configurations you will learn how these settings differ from those in SharePoint Server.

When you leave, you’ll have all the skills necessary to configure and manage the different SharePoint Online components using both the SharePoint Online Admin Center, and PowerShell. 

In addition to these skills, you will have a live Microsoft 365 trial tenant that you can use when you get back to the office and you can use while attending other conference sessions.  

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/rroc2fVFSgU

Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies during the global pandemic.  For many organizations Teams has become the app that connects all their employees together.  Power Platform apps, like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, provides a low-code platform for extending that functionality. In September, 2020 Microsoft announced Dataverse for Teams. Dataverse for Teams is included in the Teams license so you can build apps, flows, and bots that make use of relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance without additional expense.

In this workshop we'll look at how to use Dataverse in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application.  By the time you leave you'll have an integrated Teams application and bot that can help your employees manage their presence as people move back into the office after the Pandemic. 

We'll cover the following with slides and hands-on exercises:
  -  What does the Teams License cover
  -  Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
  -  Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
  -  Securing Dataverse for Teams Tables
  -  Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
  -  Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
  -  Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot
  -  Managing Dataverse for Teams Environments
  -  Deploying Custom Apps, Bots, and Flows to additional Teams

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/iaNLIczVFNg

Dataverse for Teams: Extending Teams with Apps, Flows, and Bots

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:
- How should I approach my BI need?
- What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
- What are the best practices?
- How much is this going to cost me to license?
- What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course:
If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:
- Manager
- Business Analyst
- Power User
- SharePoint Administrator
- Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:
- Marketing
- Information Technology
- Finance
- Sales
- Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class:
Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required)
We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:
- Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
- How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
- Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
- Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
- Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
- Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
- Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

Learn how to get started quickly with Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) in SharePoint Online. Discover how to use built-in connections to connect Power Apps to services such as SharePoint Online, Office 365 apps, and even SharePoint on-premise. Learn how to customize the look and feel of forms and apps to meet the needs of users and apply company branding. 

Also, learn how to share Power Apps with colleagues without going over budget: 
- Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
- Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
- Connect to data sources
- Themes, branding, and layouts
- Conditional formatting
- Rules and data validation
- Formula bar

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to take advantage of pre-built templates for creating workflows. Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser. 

Finally, we'll discuss how to manage your Flows during and after runtime:
- Connectors, data sources, and gateways
- Events vs triggers
- SharePoint Designer actions vs Flow actions
- Conditions for Flow
- Workflow history
- Flow connections and ownership
- Licensing

The future of SharePoint is exciting, and the addition of Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.


Business Process Automation with Power Apps and Power Automate

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI. 

We will cover:
 - Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
 - How does Power Platform use Azure?
 - How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
 - Authentication and Authorization in Azure
 - Azure + Power Automate
 - Azure + Power Automate
 - Azure + Power Apps
 - Azure + Power Virtual Agents
 - Azure + Power BI
 - Azure + Dataverse
 - What are Azure Functions?
 - What are Logic Apps?
 - What is Azure Bot Service?
 - How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development. 
 
Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn :

1.  Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
2.  How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
3.  How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform


Hands-On: Azure For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Have you only heard of Power BI in passing or have always been the end-user but now are ready to learn and invest in this tool to bridge the gap between data and decision making? Then this is a must attend workshop for you.

Join Daniel Christian and Scott Shearer who are both Microsoft MVPs and MCTs as they take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This full day workshop will first introduce you into the past and present of Power BI and then dive into demos. Daniel and Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources such as Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

They also focus on the deep integration across the Power Platform family i.e. from the report kick-off a Power Automate flow or add a Power Apps canvas app to edit data. 

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to:
 • Power BI Licensing
 • Using the Power BI Desktop App
 • Using the Power BI Service
 • How to create reports and dashboards
 • DAX fundamentals
 • Integration with Power Apps and Power Automate
 • Learning resources
 • And more (time permitting...)

Please note that this is not a hands-on workshop but attendees are welcome to follow along.



Power BI For The Absolute Beginner

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration. This full-day workshop explores how Viva Connections, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity. 

You’ll learn how to: 
- Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
- Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
- Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy
- Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
- Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage
- Introduce Viva Engage storylines and stories so employees can share knowledge & experiences
- Drive employee engagement with Yammer communities

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Join Microsoft MVP and certified trainer Nate Chamberlain in this full day workshop for newer Microsoft 365 users or evaluators looking to better understand all the possibilities Microsoft 365 brings to your organization.  

Attendees will learn about all the apps and latest features in Microsoft 365 that enable both individual and group productivity including SharePoint, Office 365 apps, Outlook, OneDrive, To Do, Teams, Lists, Planner, Viva, and more. 

We’ll go beyond definitions to explore specific business use cases, tips, and FAQs such as: 
  -  Microsoft 365 overview: What’s in my toolbox? 
  -  Understand the relationships between apps, and how permissions and Microsoft 365 groups power your modern work 
  -  Co-authoring documents, version history 
  -  Requesting files from others, sharing files, and managing access in OneDrive and SharePoint 
  -  Teams vs SharePoint vs OneDrive 
  -  Teams conversations vs chats vs emails 
  -  How do the newer Viva apps fit in? 

& more! 

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/kFgepQcAyT8


Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

Every organization that uses Teams needs an effective long-term strategy. Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing Microsoft application in history! Most organizations hear this news and immediately go into risk management mode. Who’s already using Teams? Should we stop people from using Teams? Do we need to put provisioning processes in place? What do we do with all this STUFF that gets created whenever someone spins up a new Team? What about SharePoint? It’s possible that more questions arise from a successful Teams deployment than an unsuccessful one! But how should you address your deployment and long-term strategy of Microsoft Teams? How does Teams fit into your overall Modern Workplace vision?

Attend this full-day workshop with Microsoft MVP’s Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley from Avanade and:
- Understand how Teams fits into your overall Microsoft 365 strategy
- Learn to effectively manage your Teams environment including:
   + Scale
   + Governance
   + Retention
- Dig into options for customizing Teams to get even more out of your Teams deployment including:
   + bots
   + web parts
   + provisioning
- Tackle how to train users on best practices and prevent secure information from being accidentally shared
- Learn what Viva is and why your company should be planning to embrace it to get the most out of your investments in Teams

Microsoft Teams is here, it’s being adopted like crazy, and proper strategy and education is key to making the most of your Microsoft 365 investment.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/p4ikBeuodmk

We’ve Deployed Microsoft Teams… Now What?

In this workshop, you will learn tips and best practices to improve “findability” and information organization and the basic concepts of information architecture. You will learn how about Microsoft Viva and how it should influence your IA planning. We will cover the critical aspects of IA: navigation/site architecture, page design, metadata architecture, and planning search experiences. 

You will learn approaches for planning navigation across the entire intranet and on individual sites, along with tips and best practices for audiences, hubs, and home sites; page architectures that support accessibility and great user experiences; and using metadata on pages and documents. 

Take away lessons about the best place to focus your IA energy and how to leverage the latest IA capabilities in Microsoft 365 – so that you can build an intranet that is an essential part of your digital workplace today and in the future.

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/3s3o6-Bgq_4

Information Architecture for SharePoint Intranets and Viva Connections in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Planner, Lists, OneDrive, the Power Platform, Viva (and its 72 modules). Microsoft 365 has stepped away from "deploying SharePoint" and into a full suite of technical capabilities designed to solve any problem. But how do we know what business problems we’re truly being asked to solve? 

Now that "ship it and forget it" is off the table (or should be), how do we define successful deployment of M365 capabilities? With a definition of success, how do we ensure that what the business is asking for will actually solve their problems? How do we build mutual respect so the business will listen to our recommendations on how technology can best meet their needs? Do our recommendation work? 

We know you are attending a technology conference but if you want the technology to work for you and your organization you must take a Human First approach to deploying Microsoft 365.

Join us for the first day of your conference to explore how to ensure you are solving for the right problems, and then spend the next four days learning how the technology can solve them for you.

During this session Joy and Jay will help you understand why M365 has changed how we deploy technology:
  -  Consequences of Shadow IT
  - How IT as a service provides a framework for success
  -  How to engage with the business
  -  A holistic approach to requirements gathering 
  -  Defining success
  -  Embracing "it's never done" as a good thing

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/abXmtkuazHY


Deploying M365 to Solve Business Problems

You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp 

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see very similar questions asked over and over again. In this workshop, we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:

Part One: Power Apps
  - Managing Delegation Warnings
  - Working with Dates and Times
  - Conditional Formatting of data
  - Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow

Part Two: Power Automate
  - Using Loops and Parallel Branches
  - Working with Large Data Sources
  - Using Conditions and Switches effectively
  - Implementing Error Checking/Correction

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/S1Wjjwv0P50

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Microsoft Teams has been designed for teamwork and flexibility, powered by the Microsoft cloud to bring together the best of Office 365 into a single workspace for working with people, managing conversations, maintaining files, and integrating Office 365 applications, so everyone has instant access to everything they need for a prosperous collaboration.

With great features come great questions and this workshop will cover how to plan, implement, and master Microsoft Teams. Be ready for an overview of Microsoft Teams, examples of how to get started with Microsoft Teams, best practices for managing different scenarios, and how Viva, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Dataverse, and the Power Platform interacts with Microsoft Teams. 

We’ll cover how to plan, deliver, and operational excellence for Microsoft Teams: Data, Files, Reporting’s, Groups, Whiteboards, Meetings, Governance, Application Extensions, Chat, Adaptative cards, … all are available in this workshop!

If your organization is currently considering deploying or just starting your journey to Microsoft Teams, this workshop is for you as we'll assess everything from A to Z.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/haTr1xvgC-E

Mastering Microsoft Teams

An intranet can support your organization’s ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, make information easy to find, automate business processes, and help cut administrative costs... but where do you start? In this workshop, we will focus on the mechanics of building the basic structure of an intranet in modern SharePoint Online and surfacing it in Teams through Viva Connections.

At the end of the workshop, you will have a simple intranet in your own developer tenant with common solutions like a Policy Center, global navigation, and personalized content experiences.

In the developer tenant, we will:
* Create a branded experience
* Build an enterprise information architecture
* Surface the right information, at the right time
* Centralize information and create search-based experiences
* Create learning and onboarding content 
* Implement better practices for writing for the web
* Create a seamless connection between your SharePoint-based Intranet and Microsoft Teams
* And demo some advanced topics

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the out of the box technical capabilities so you can focus on identifying your desired business outcomes, defining your overall content strategy and governance, and driving the adoption of your intranet at your organization. 

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/w20ottxujLs

Jumpstart your intranet

Though it may have been challenging in the past, the latest innovations in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 have a great deal to offer for comms professionals planning a comprehensive and compelling corporate communications story. 

In this full day workshop, Susan Hanley and Mark Rackley will guide you through the process of architecting and implementing an effective Corporate Communications strategy using Microsoft 365 including:
-	Envisioning a Corp Comms strategy that effectively meets your needs
-	Determining the best site architecture to take advantage of user interests 
-	Creating / Publishing / Boosting News Posts
-	Learning about notification options
-	Understanding how Viva Connections can take your Corp Comms to the next level of employee experience and engagement
-	Understanding how Yammer creates an effective mechanism for both informing and engaging your employees


Best Practices for using M365 to conquer your Corporate Communications challenges

Microsoft 365 gives enterprises and government organizations the tools they need in the modern workplace to identify their risky information and to govern their data effectively to meet regulatory compliance needs. These tools help protect sensitive data from accidental and malicious data loss, and they protect the organization from risk by ensuring we retain our data appropriately following regulatory controls such as GDPR, NIST, and CIS. Implementing these compliance solutions requires a clear understanding of the capabilities available in the Microsoft cloud and industry best practices for establishing a data governance framework.

In this all-day workshop, David Drever and Joanne Klein will help you learn how to develop a framework for information governance for enterprises and government organizations, including planning a record retention schedule and implementing retention labels/policies. They’ll teach you how to leverage disposition reviews, implement event-based retention, and automatically apply retention labels to your data. They’ll discuss how utilizing Compliance Manager, and Insider Risk Management can further govern your environment. 

Finally, you will learn how to use eDiscovery to facilitate legal holds and “Freedom of Information and Privacy” (FOIP) requests. Join David and Joanne to discover how to implement data governance and compliance in Microsoft 365!

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/0uFJnqQYP60

Microsoft 365 Compliance: Implementing information governance, risk, and compliance management

With the Power Platform having been available for over 6 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows and chatbots. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for your company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it. 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP, certified trainer and an early adopter of the Power Platform, as he walks you through how this Power Platform journey began and gives you a technical overview of Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. 

This workshop will comprise of several walk-through demos, stories with examples and even an interview with a surprise guest. 

Here is an overview of the workshop:
	- Power Apps
		+ Canvas
		+ Model-Driven
		+ Portal
	- Power Automate
		+ Flows
		+ Robotic Process Automation
	- Power BI
	- Power Virtual Agents
	- Dataverse
	- Integration with Microsoft Teams
	- Cross platform integration
	- Soon to arrive features!

So if you are someone who has heard about Power Platform and would like to get a better technical understanding on what the services have to offer, then you do not want to miss this workshop!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/DhArVJvKZVc


Microsoft Power Platform in a Day

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus. 

During this workshop, you will:
- Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
- Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success
- Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm
- Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

Intranets built in SharePoint Online are running on the galaxy's best platform for enterprise communication and collaboration.

In this half-day, beginner-friendly workshop, we'll learn about SharePoint but with an intranet focus. We'll cover tips and ideas for content strategy, planning and structuring an intranet, best practices for facilitating internal communication and collaboration, how Teams and Viva Connections play into things, digitizing forms, and using the Power Platform to create, automate, and visualize throughout SharePoint.

Note: This is not a hands-on build-an-entire-intranet-in-three-hours workshop. This is entirely focused on best practices and ideas for improving your intranet's content, structure, and processes.

Let's fix that intranet!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/z4oXO90wdIE

Fix that intranet! Improve your intranet content, structure, and processes

Power BI is the gold standard for cloud based report delivery. It’s very approachable – you can get up and running with it in minutes, at the same time, it’s very robust, secure and extensible. As you might expect, it has many pieces and nuances, and it’s important to understand what is possible, even if you may not take immediate advantage of some features, in order to understand what to use when.

Join John White (MVP) and Jason Himmelstein (Principal Program Manager @ Microsoft) for this all-day tutorial which will help to guide you through building a complete analytical solution, using all the features of Power BI. We will start from nothing, and create queries that import and integrate data from many different sources. You will also learn how to refresh data using the on-premises data gateway and the personal gateway to connect to existing on-premises data from a variety of sources. In addition, you will see an overview of the many other additional features available in Power BI.

At the end of this workshop you will be ready to not only start using Power BI for your projects, but you will also understand which approach is best for different situations. Bring your questions, and we’ll do our best to answer them.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/YrgXIwSii6Q

Everything you wanted to know about Power BI (but were afraid to ask!)

In this half-day workshop, we will cover the key principles of Power Platform Governance. Effective governance policies play a big role in the successful roll-out of the Power Platform across the organization and running it on a scale. The governance policies will include Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Power BI.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover,
1.  Power Platform Governance Overview
2.  Center of Excellence ( CoE ) Starter Kit
3.  Automation Kit
4.  Data Loss Prevention policies
5.  User Management
6.  Permission manager
7.  License and capacity management
8.  Security and Control
9.  Managed Environments
10.  Best Practices


Power Platform Governance 101

The best way you can customize and extend your SharePoint site is by using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This model is the way you customize and extend the SharePoint modern experience for SharePoint Online, but that’s not all because now you can use it to create apps for Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, and Office apps.

In this full-day session, you’ll see how to get up your dev environment up and running in just a few minutes & then we’ll start building! By the end of the day, you’ll know how to build web parts, single-page apps (SPAs), extensions, integrate data from SharePoint and external sources, and so much more! Walk away with a ZIP filled with sample projects & tons of resources!

NOTE: Hey 👋, Andrew here… this workshop is not intended for attendees to follow along & build the same projects during the session. Instead, focus on learning, taking notes, & getting answers to your questions - you’ll walk away with everything at the end of the day!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/Y2Bhdh6OfGA

Developers! Learn the SharePoint Framework to Customize and Extend Microsoft 365 apps

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate.  You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops.  We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint.  Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts.  You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.
 
We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program
 
If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp 

You missed a meeting and now you are in charge of your group’s SharePoint site or maybe you volunteered to get your hands dirty. Now that you are the site owner, you might not know where to start. We will work together to develop a game plan. 

In this workshop we will learn the following:
  1.	Figure out what type of SharePoint site you have.
  2.	Sifting through and managing permissions.
  3.	Navigation and custom pages.
  4.	Building a solution using out-of-the-box features.
  5.	Implement governance or create governance as needed.

By the end of the workshop, you will have the skills needed to get started running your inherited site.

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/wFOyTQ9VkCo


I’m a SharePoint Site Owner…Now What?

To fully utilize the new features in Microsoft 365, you need an intranet that employs the new modern tools. Most organizations do not have the budget for another intranet implementation that may take months or years, and ultimately not be up to date. So how do you implement the new modern features faster, while also having little downtime and gaining the best of what Microsoft has to offer? 

During this workshop, we will walk through how to take your current intranet to the modern version your users need. 

Using live demos and plans, you will learn:
- Plan for and implement Viva Connections & Viva Engage
- How to modernize your current classic sites
- Hub site planning and management
- How to make use of Microsoft 365 Groups for your existing sites
- The tricks to using 'site swap' and how to get your new modern intranet at the root of your tenant
- How to make the SharePoint Home site a seamless part of your intranet

Come ready with your laptop to follow along!


Modernize Your Intranet in Less than 4 hours!

Learn how to inspire, motivate, and drive sustainable Microsoft Teams user adoption across your organization while proactively enforcing operational governance.

With built-in integration with the full Office 365 stack, it is easier than ever for end-users to create a team and start collaborating.

But if that’s the case, why is your organization’s user adoption rate for Microsoft Teams so much lower than it is for Outlook?

The truth is email is ingrained and changing user habits is difficult. Studies show that only about 34% of users are willing to use new technology rollouts within the enterprise. To make the most of your Office 365 investment, it is critical that your users take advantage of Microsoft Teams' full capabilities to address their day-to-day business needs. The key to drive excitement, organizational buy-in and adoption is being able to provide relevant, business-contextual applications that drive consistent, sustainable usage.

Join this interactive workshop to learn how to roll out a sustainable adoption program in 90 days and positively impact organizational culture.

This interactive workshop will cover:
- What is Microsoft Teams and its role in today’s digital workplace?
- How Microsoft Teams can excite and inspire users by supporting their daily business activities.
- How to make it easy for everyone to maximize Microsoft Teams while ensuring organizational governance and policies are enforced.
- Strategies for preventing information overload, data sprawl, shadow IT and more.
- How to establish a holistic learning, knowledge sharing and support structure.
- How to create and deliver a 90-day sustainable adoption program that facilitates change, empowers users and enables knowledge sharing within the organization.

Beyond Microsoft Teams Deployment: How to Roll Out A Sustainable Adoption Program in 90 Days

Join our keynote to understand the new era of work from Copilot features to core collaboration and business application innovations.  This includes Power Platform connectors, Microsoft Viva models and Microsoft 365 Copilot experiences across Microsoft Office and Microsoft Teams.

A New Era of Work

The Microsoft Productivity cloud is used by more than 250 million users daily - and is the productivity platform of choice for most enterprises in the world. Microsoft Power Automate, part of the Microsoft Power Platform is a business process automation tool that allows you to streamline and automate business processes. 

In this session, Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate, you will learn foundational knowledge of Microsoft Power Automate. 

First, you will learn the basic terms and concepts of Microsoft Power Automate. 

Next, you will discover how to create your own cloud flows. 

Finally, you will learn how to create workflows that integrate with Microsoft Teams. 

Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate

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

Email, file shares, documents, legacy systems, metadata…..it can be overwhelming. Whether you are planning a brand new Office 365 implementation, migrating from another system, or supporting the Teams and SharePoint sites you already have, this presentation will help you get (and stay) organized.

I will take you through some tips and tricks for organizing even the most challenging users in Office 365:
  -  Learn about locations that users typically hoard and save their data
  -  Learn methods to help difficult users adopt Teams and SharePoint
  -  Sort through all the different tools to help everyone know "when to use what"
  -  Review easy ways to plan your architecture (and free tools to help!)
  -  Discuss training methods that will increase user engagement

Bringing Calm to the Chaos: Modern Content Management that works for everyone

The way we work has fundamentally changed, and organizations are clamoring to connect disparate digital tools into an intuitive and holistic digital workspace. Microsoft Viva—Microsoft's employee engagement platform—is becoming the central hub of a successful digital workplace. With nine+ modules spanning four key pillars (Connection, Insight, Purpose, & Growth), understanding the Viva ecosystem can feel daunting. 

In this session, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Eric Overfield breaks down the many modules of Microsoft Viva and shows you how they can bring transparency, efficiency, and productivity to your workforce. Walk away with practical applications to configure and architect your Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva-empowered digital workspace.

In this session: 
- Understand each of the current Microsoft Viva modules
- See how the modules integrate and a day in the life of an employee using Viva
- Learn successful patterns & practices when rolling out Viva components in your organization 

Microsoft Viva + Teams: Remedy Productivity Paranoia

Looking to demystify and make sense of Microsoft 365's many components and facets? Did you just buy Microsoft Office 365 or Windows? Or a Virtual Desktop on Azure? Looking for a sandbox to kick the tires on services? Come on over to this session as Dan and Jay help you wrap your head around the basics, from the ground up, and understand the capabilities you now have at your fingertips.

Demystifying Microsoft 365 for End Users and Business Decision Makers

This introductory session will get you started with learning how to use the Microsoft Graph in your applications. It will focus on the various applications you can build, the permission model, the various endpoints you can interact with and the many OAuth Flows you can choose from based on the type of application you are building. Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that you can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. This session will use both browser-based methods, Postman, and some easy to understand code to illustrate the concepts through various demos.

Getting comfortable with the Microsoft Graph

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:
  - Power BI licensing
  - Power BI Components
  - Using the Power BI Desktop app
  - Using the Power BI Service
  - How to create reports and dashboards
  - Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license?  You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

Beginners Guide to Power BI

Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy. 

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:
 1) Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
 2) Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
 3) Add conditional formatting to a calendar

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

Many organizations rely heavily on email to send out newsletters, and also run into adoption issues with SharePoint. What if you could solve both of those problems at the same time? You can do exactly that with SharePoint News!

In this session, we will discuss SharePoint Online's News functionality, and how your organization can use it to communicate effectively while driving users to your intranet. 

We will go over topics such as:
1. What is the current state of the news functionality?
2. How can you curate which news is displayed on which sites?
3. Is it possible to still mail out a newsletter?
4. How can organizations share news to multiple sites?
5. Which features are rolling out next?

If you are looking for a newsletter, and/or you want to learn a new adoption trick or two, don't miss this session!


Communicating intelligently with SharePoint News

This session introduces Microsoft Syntex and its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities. You’ll learn how to build document processing models that classify documents, apply retention labels, and extract key pieces of metadata. We will also explore how a strong information architecture optimizes your AI and machine learning results.

Getting started with Microsoft Syntex

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. 

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. 

We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly easier to create powerful bots with little to no code. Now almost anyone can quickly create a deploy a chat bot with ease. Power Virtual Agents is a premium add-on to the Power Platform that allows you to create and deploy such bots. 

As part of Dataverse (previously called Project Oakdale) many Microsoft 365 subscribers have access to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams. These chat bots are covered under their Microsoft 365 licensing and require no premium licensing to develop, deploy, or use. 

In this session attendees will learn:

1) How to create / deploy chat bots in Teams
2) How to create Topics, use branching logic, and prompt users for input
3) Add even more power to their chat bots using Power Automate flows.

All without any additional licensing! 

An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams

Join us to get the deep dive of all the new features delivered and coming for Microsoft Teams.

What's New in Microsoft Teams

Teams meetings are core to collaboration in the hybrid workplace. 

In this session, we'll take a deep dive into how you can make the most of your meeting experience with video, screen sharing, and meeting recordings. 

Topics include:
  - How to manage meeting recordings
  - Setting meeting options for presenters, attendees, and guests
  - Spotlight, pin, and focus on presenters
  - Together mode
  - Presenter modes for standout, side-by-side, and reporter views
  - PowerPoint live for a better PowerPoint experience
  - Customizing your background
  - Share your screen, window, or whiteboard
  - Use your phones camera as a web cam or secondary camera 

and more!

Lights, camera, action with Microsoft Teams

As Microsoft Search continues to grow, in both search opportunities and customization options, organizations need to be thinking more about how they can best leverage this technology to provide their people with a best-in-class search experience.

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Search is creating a unified experience across the multitude of 365 apps (and beyond), learn about how you can leverage it best (both out of the box and through customization/extending the experience) and how recommendations on how you can roll it out successfully in your organization.

Microsoft Search: The glue that binds 365

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development model for building solutions across Microsoft 365 suite. It allows building applications for SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections.

But the additional beauty of SPFx is the community support!

This session will cover resources that Microsoft 365 PnP Community provides for SPFx developers.

Microsoft 365 PnP for SharePoint Framework Developer

Creating compelling reports is an important skill in our data-centric world. Have you seen a nice-looking report or dashboard and wondered how you can get started creating one? Are you interested in learning how to create a Power BI dashboard, from simple data to actionable intelligence? Then this session is for you! 

In this session, we will talk about the building blocks of Power BI, look at different types of data you can use, and define what makes a good dashboard. 

You will learn when to use Power BI Desktop and when you need the Power BI service. We will also discuss how you can safely share Power BI insights inside and outside of your organization. 

You will leave this session with the resources you need to get started in your journey with Power BI.

Build your first Power BI dashboard

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists 
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset. 

We will cover:
 - Simple extensions of the SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
 - How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
 - Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

This session will help you get started with planning and organizing your intranet in SharePoint and Viva Connections. You will learn considerations for navigation and site architecture, designing and organizing pages, connecting content with metadata, and planning great search experiences. 

You will also learn things to consider when bringing your intranet into Microsoft Teams with Viva Connections, including best practices for your home site, overall governance, and how to think about leveraging audiences to create personalized experiences. 

You will take away practical ideas to help you get started and tips and best practices to optimize your existing experiences.

Getting Started with Information Architecture for Microsoft 365 Intranets

Microsoft Lists is a real solution for any person or organization wishing to structure and improve their organization. 

You can use Microsoft Lists for simple tasks such as tracking tasks, projects, inventory, but also for more advanced use such as managing your business trips, your content calendar or your events coming. 

In this session we will show you how to customize lists to meet your needs and how we can elevate your lists to the next level.

Get the most out of Microsoft Lists

Let's demystify Robotic Process Automation (RPA)!  

This session will focus on how to automate legacy web and client applications using Power Automate.

We'll demonstrate how to leverage Desktop flow with Power Automate Desktop, and how/when/why you would combine desktop automation with Power Platform connectors and AI to provide end-to-end workflow solutions for your organization.

Automate Your Way with RPA

There is little doubt that the capabilities of Microsoft Syntex can revolutionize the way organizations leverage SharePoint as a modern, intelligent content platform. But with so much value in moving content-related automation into your Microsoft 365 strategy, how will you deal with the already-difficult task of managing, securing, and ensuring compliance of all of that new content you are now piping in as a result of your adoption of Microsoft Syntex? 

In this session, we’ll explore some of the less “exciting” but JUST AS IMPORTANT features of Syntex that can help you make sure you are optimizing your overall content management strategy for security, cost, and sustainability.

Content Management in Microsoft Syntex: The Content is Here, Now What?

In today's fast-paced world, building a culture of continuous learning is key for organizations to thrive. How can you provide employees with an engaging learning experience and enable them to learn in the flow of work? 

During this session, Productivity Experts from Storyals will guide you through an eye-opening journey of what is possible by leveraging Microsoft Teams for learning. See examples of how you can build learning forums for your employees and leverage Microsoft Viva Learning to modernize learning.  

Learn about tools in Microsoft 365 such as Stream and Clipchamp for creating engaging learning. During the session we will look at how learning is done within different organizations today and share best practices. 

Modernize Learning using Microsoft Teams

In this session we will go through the Teams Shared Channel functionality from start to finish. 

We will discuss the configuration of it, how it works, how it differs from the previous guest experience, and why it is a better experience for the employee experience!

Intro to Teams Shared Channels

M-19-21 in a nutshell: manage your permanent records electronically by 2019; create, manage, and maintain permanent federal records and related metadata by 2022; shut down your records storage facilities by 2022; maintain a program that complies with the Federal Records Act.

But, in Microsoft 365, what IS a record? And where do I store them? How do I categorize them? Can I move them to another system? Do I still need my legacy records database? Can I export my records to NARA?

During this session we'll review the latest guidance from NARA and discuss these important topics for modernizing your paper records processes using office 365 to support full information lifecycle management:

- How can I automate tagging of records in M365?
- Can I manage temporary and permanent records in M365?
- How do I build a RIM workfow in M365 that supports my file plan AND decreases storage costs?

Electronic Records and Me: Meeting M-19-21 in M365

The current version of the Yeoman generator for the SPFx still uses the older-style React class components. Because that’s what you get by default, that’s what most developers end up using. 

But functional components enabled by React hooks have become widely popular. So… until Microsoft updates the Yeoman generator, learn how to quickly change your new projects to functional components enabling React Hooks in just a few minutes. 

Then we’ll explore how you can use popular React hooks in your projects, like useState(), useEffect(), and more!

Leverage React Hooks in SharePoint Framework Solutions

In today's world getting true data driven insights can take a lot of time and energy. Data is spread across a wide variety of storage systems, all of which can have different operating models, security models and integration requirements. The next generation of Microsoft's data platform, which includes Power BI aims to solve this problem. 
Come to this session to explore some exciting new announcements from Microsoft, understand exactly what they mean, and how they can help position your organization for the new age of AI.


Exploring the Future of Microsoft Analytics

Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies as a result of the global pandemic. For many organizations Teams has become the app that connects all their employees together. Power Platform apps, like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, provides a low-code platform for extending that functionality. 

But extending Teams with new apps, flows, and bots requires a place to store content.  SharePoint is a possibility, but from a data point of view SharePoint has a lot of limitations since it isn't an actual relational database.  Dataverse, formerly known as CDS, provides relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance. But Dataverse has always been a premium feature requiring extra licensing.  

This is where Microsoft Dataverse for Teams comes in. Using the Power Apps application inside Teams we can build and deploy apps using a custom version of Dataverse that is included in the Microsoft Teams license.  This provides access to a real relational database and one-click solution deployment to the Teams app. 

In this talk we'll take a look at what Dataverse for Teams and how it can be used in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application.  

We'll cover the following points with slides and demos. 
  - What does the Teams License cover?
  - Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
  - Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
  -  Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
  - Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
  - Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot

Intro to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams: Extending Microsoft Teams with Apps and Flows

A lot has changed since Microsoft began recommending flat information architecture for modern SharePoint intranets.

In this session we’ll discuss:
  - The advantages of flat information architecture
  - How hub sites provide consistent navigation and content rollups
  - How Teams connected team sites play a role in the intranet
  - Using Yammer to engage employees 
  - Creating a single-pane-of-glass experience for employees  with Microsoft Viva


Creating Intelligent Intranets Using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Yammer!

OneNote is consolidating from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version (i.e. OneNote 2016). 

In this session we'll reintroduce ourselves to OneNote, learn some exciting tips and tricks along with business use ideas, and discuss what's new and what's coming for OneNote.

Goodbye, TwoNote: A OneNote refresher

When it comes to technology, sometimes the deployment and implementation is the easy part.  The hard part is the change to the organization and how to adopt it.  

In this session, you will learn some of the best practices developed with customers in using Microsoft Viva Connections.  Learn what can be done with front line workers, how to connect and stay connected with remote employees and ensuring your intranet has something for everyone.  

At the end of the session you will have some great tips and tricks for not only the tech side, but getting the change into the business



Adopting Microsoft Viva Connections, a tale of Best Practices

Guest access, external access, and shared channels all offer new ways to extend the boundaries of communication and collaboration. According to Microsoft research, IT executives report that 55 percent of all collaboration is with external business partners, and more than 300 midsize to large enterprises identified the two most common elements of collaboration that have risen in importance over the past two years:

- Fostering collaboration with a wide range of people inside and outside the organization (68%)
- Effective team communication (72%)
 
The obvious question: How can we take advantage of the fundamentally deeper relationships these tools allow us to enjoy with our fellows in partner organizations while ensuring that our most sensitive data and interactions remain secure?

Considering this question, it is high time for a re-imagining of how we approach and structure inter- and intra-organizational relationships from a technical perspective, with a renewed focus on distinguishing what makes day-to-day work most meaningful and how to empower users across different environments to work together most meaningfully.

In this session, we will explore the ways in which the Teams platform can help us realize the goal of bringing external and internal users closer together while maintaining the integrity of the team, and refresh both our perspectives and priorities for organizing and supporting users and their flow of work.

Breaking collaboration boundaries with external partners through Teams

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within.  Data breaches happen too often and are increasing.  As a result, protecting its data has become a priority for many organizations worldwide.  Microsoft provides several tools for identifying sensitive information within the organization and protecting it from being provided to sources that should not have it.

In this session, we'll cover features and processes such as Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and more to help protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into those hands that should not have it.

You Have Sensitive Information.  Now Let's Protect It.

Microsoft Teams is a very powerful and popular service that provides both communication and file management functionality. There are several configuration options available to ensure your users are able to access the features and functionality you want them to, but still control just how much they can do. 

In this session, we are going to explore how to deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams functionality. After the session you will have a better understanding of how to administer Microsoft Teams policies, external access, Teams-related roles, as well as monitoring and auditing Microsoft Teams which all can be done by using the Teams Admin Center, and PowerShell.  

Administration and Management of Microsoft Teams

Search in Microsoft 365 is currently limited to content that is stored natively in its tools, how can you add in your own business content to the search index? 

In this discussion we will discuss the options for getting your content into the search system in Microsoft 365. We will cover hybrid scenarios and how to best leverage them in addition to some other strategies that will help get your content ready for Microsoft Search.

Searching non-Microsoft 365 content in Microsoft 365

When programming with ReactJS, which is a common choice when developing using the SharePoint Framework, how you architect your components can often be confusing. 

This introductory session will walk through designing your components to mirror a common design principle called "Atomic Design" which was invented by web designer Brad Frost. This design pattern breaks web design into small chunks that when combined build beautiful solutions with reusability at its core. 

We'll go into how to translate that design principle into component development which can help reduce code size, improve reliability and quality, and just make your life easier. As part of our examples, we'll be leveraging the HTWOO community built Fluent UI framework.

An Introduction to Atomic React Component Design in SPFx and Beyond

Would you like to build a Power BI dataset that could inventory your workspaces, reports, datasets, and refresh schedule? Would you'd like to query another dataset to import into your dataset? 

In this session I'll show you how to leverage an open-source custom connector that connects to Power BI's REST APIs to do just that.   

Querying Power BI REST APIs within a Power BI Dataset

Microsoft has a variety of no-code, low-code for forms and apps services available, so which one do I use? 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer, as he walks you through these form options available and provides guidance on when you should use which one. 

This is a demo heavy session with real-world examples.

Forms, Forms Everywhere but Which One Should I Pick?

With all the machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) available in Microsoft 365 these days, do we still need to think about information architecture? Can automation fulfil the promise of reducing the load on information architects and developers?

In this session, we’re review some of the better practices for constructing a powerful information architecture and why it still matters. We’ll look at real-world examples and talk about what automation can and can’t do for you. 

Technology is evolving quickly, so expect to see a few tidbits you don't expect, as well as healthy doses of reality.

Does Information Architecture Matter Anymore?

Are you new to the Microsoft ecosystem? Join us in the session to learn all that Microsoft has to offer for career development and satisfaction. It's a vibrant, large community with many tools and programs that are free. Let us help you get the most from the resources that exist.

Getting started in Microsoft: Training, Tools and Networking

Join Microsoft's experts for an interactive Q&A about Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Teams, Microsoft Graph and more! Bring your best questions! Refreshments and pizza will be provided.

AMA - Ask Microsoft Anything and SharePint

Many organizations are taking their digital transformation one step further by providing their Frontline workers - the ones who are driving, delivering, working on the floor, or standing by the register, with Microsoft 365.  

In this session you will hear how organizations in retail and manufacturing are leveraging modern apps in Microsoft Teams to improve their day-to-day tasks. 

Empower your frontline workers with Microsoft 365

Microsoft Syntex is a big step forward in providing the ability to intelligently identify content across your Microsoft 365 environment. Unstructured content is being produced at an exponential rate in our modern workplaces today and we need a way to manage it at scale by providing structure (content types and metadata) and governance (security and compliance controls) to it. Microsoft Syntex is that and so much more!

To demonstrate this new capability, Joanne Klein will walk through a live demo of using a Microsoft Syntex AI document understanding model to intelligently identify Statements of Work across SharePoint libraries. 

The walkthrough will cover setup, training, deployment, and all the "extras" you get with a Syntex license.  

Microsoft Syntex. It’s almost magic.

An end-to-end look at Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Viva - dedicated to employee engagement - delivers critical company information, education, and insights right in the flow of work. Viva Goals offers an intuitive platform to help teams achieve their objectives more efficiently in a single place⁠— - where we spend most of our time⁠ - Microsoft Teams. 

Viva Goals' foundation embraces the OKR framework helping companies align their objectives, measure success, and champion their goals in public. In this session, Eric breaks down Viva Goals, OKRs, and how you can leverage them to elevate success within your organization.
 
In this session, you'll learn:  
- What Viva Goals is and how it can help your OKR program thrive
- OKR fundamentals, including how to write an effective OKR 
- How to champion an OKR program at your organization 
- How to install and get Viva Goals running in your workspace today!

Viva Goals | Objectively your Path to aligning Key Results with OKRs

As the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history, more and more data is being generated in and through use of Microsoft Teams. As a result of its extensibility, there are a lot of places this data can be created and stored, from chats and posts to files saved in a Teams channel.

Without governance in place Teams sprawl can negatively impact the business’ experience with Teams. 

What does governance look like for Microsoft Teams? Should sprawl be a concern and if so, how do we limit it without limiting Teams adoption functionality?

How can you ensure you’re adequately capturing the information your organization needs to be compliant with internal and external policies?

Join information management experts Joy Apple and Jay Leask as they show you:
  - How Teams fits into the modern architecture model of Microsoft 365
  - How to leverage proper architecture in Teams to facilitate collaboration
  - The importance of an overall Office/Microsoft 365 information management strategy and how it will improve search and audit capabilities.
  - Base-line Teams governance best practices
  - How to provision Microsoft Teams to automatically tag documents with appropriate metadata needed to meet records mandates.
  - Integration between Teams and SharePoint Online to give you full management over documents within Teams.


Governance, Information Management, and Teams - What you need to know!

Creating a scheduled, automated process that will poll network drives and upload images with metadata to SharePoint online:
- Power Automate polls the Azure drive on scheduled intervals
- When detected, images are moved to the assigned SharePoint library
- The CSV is parsed and metadata is loaded to the related library and columns
- The completed documents and metadata are moved to an Archive location to keep the source directory clean

Other Off the Shelf tools were considered but Power Automate offered the most flexibility for future development while utilizing an existing M365 subscription.

Power Automate – Uploading content to SharePoint from Azure drives

Our users are spending more and more time using Teams. It makes sense to try and reduce the friction of context switching by bringing our custom applications directly into Teams where they are working. We are able to harness the collaborative nature of Teams and SharePoint in one application and render it in many different contexts. 

In this introductory developer session we will look at how to create and deploy a SharePoint Framework WebPart and have it be usable in Teams. We will use one code base to make the web part Teams aware in both a Teams Tab and a Personal App. We will look at how to use that app to read and write data into SharePoint using PnPjs.

Users will leave with an understanding of how to leverage SPFx to create applications they can use in Teams and resources on how to explore this further. 


Creating Custom Applications in Teams Using the SharePoint Framework

Metrics and scorecards are a new Power BI feature that enables us to capture and focus on what we are working toward rather than what we are working on.

If you are new to Power BI, Metrics are an excellent place to start well.

In this presentation, you'll learn
  - What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
  - See some examples of real-world scorecards
  - See how to set up a scorecard demo

Introduction to Power BI Metrics

Using Power Pages we'll learn to quickly create powerful external-facing websites and customize them with pages, layout, and content. We'll also learn how to configure and  allow users outside the organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously. 

We'll dive into portals ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) using Microsoft Power Platform CLI tool to deploy/publish changes from Dev > QA > Production. 

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

While we do live in a cloud-first, desktop-first technology era, there are still several home-grown or legacy applications that are still being used. They do not have an API for cloud-based services to leverage and hence we need a robotic process automation (RPA) system that can fill in the gap. 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he introduces you to Power Automate for desktop. 

Why Should I Consider Using Power Automate for Desktop?

We'll review the Microsoft 365 Adoption Guide and the tools available to you to build a Champions program, engage executive sponsors, provide user support and training, and communicate to ensure the successful adoption of Microsoft Teams.

What’s new in training & adoption for Microsoft 365

If you are shopping for or planning a new intranet, what capabilities do you need to have? What do you need to think about to ensure that you deliver success? How does Microsoft Teams factor into your intranet? What do Microsoft Viva, Viva Connections, and Viva Engage mean for your intranet? 

If you are wondering about the answers to these questions and more, this session is for you! We’ll review key concepts, ideas, capabilities, and planning tips to help ensure that your intranet drives value for everyone in the organization – in every place where it is delivered. 

Your Intranet Shopping List - Must Have Capabilities for Your Modern, Intelligent Intranet

Microsoft Teams applications are hot. They streamline work for users and add collaboration to everyday business processes. These days, some of them work in Microsoft Outlook as well.

While there are many approaches to building these apps, you don't have to start from scratch! In this demo-filled presentation, you will learn how to take a web application or web service and grow it into a full featured Teams application while preserving your existing code base. 

Most importantly, your apps will streamline work by allowing users to share your app as they collaborate in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to reuse, rather than rebuild, your apps in Microsoft Teams.

From Enterprise Application to Teams Application: Bring your apps into Microsoft Teams

There are new federal regulations and executive orders all the time and it can be hard for an agency to keep their IT infrastructure in compliance. 

In our session we will discuss how the Microsoft Power Platform can better position agencies to be nimble and respond quickly to the ever-changing landscape.  

We'll show responding to a rapidly changing regulation landscape using multiple personas, both IT and Business decision makers, and speak to the key points of interest that drive both.  We'll show how these personas can leverage the Power Platform to both meet the changing regulations and show measured progress along the way. 

We'll include demos of various Power Platform products to highlight the progress of the agency and demonstrate increased velocity by leveraging low-code tools. 

Leveraging Low Code to Respond to Federal Regulations with Agility

Everyone talks about them, but what the heck are they and how can I use them? We will start with some demos of how to use custom content types, then on to what the heck are content types anyway and we will end with another demo to build content types in the browser.

Key Takeaways:  
1) What are content types?
2) Planning content types 
3) Creating site columns 
4) Creating content types 
5) Using content types 

Content Types: Easier Than the Theory of Relativity

Microsoft Viva may still be one of Microsoft's newer technology stacks, but even at its young age it provides vast amount of opportunities to organizations to better tackle their knowledge management goals.  Where there are many Viva tools currently available, Viva Topics provides the greatest opportunity to up your knowledge management game.

In this session, join Virgil Carroll as he walks you through the the capabilities of Microsoft Viva, how it ties into comprehensive knowledge management and strategies to leverage it inside any kind of organization.

Microsoft Viva Topics: Upping your Knowledge Management Strategy

Power Virtual Agents empowers users to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers, and you can even deploy them in Microsoft Teams! 

In this session, Creating Power Virtual Agent chatbots for Microsoft Teams, you’ll learn to create Power Virtual Agent chatbots for Microsoft Teams. 

First, you’ll explore the basics of Microsoft Power Virtual Agents. Next, you’ll discover how to create a chatbot using the Power Virtual Agents Teams app. 

Finally, you’ll learn how to publish your bot in Microsoft Teams. 

Creating Power Virtual Agent Chatbots for Microsoft Teams

Search in Microsoft 365 has been evolving for the past 2 years, transitioning from the classic SharePoint Search to a modern advanced Microsoft Search.
While we were able to customize classic search, we want to have the same experience in Modern Search and Modern SharePoint. 

Join me to learn how you can transition from the classic SharePoint Search and display templated to a modern customizable experience that fits your need.

In this session, we will cover how  you can use PnP as the solution to customize your search, create your own modern search center and how to build search driven sites.


Transition from SharePoint Search to Microsoft Search

Join me for a complete look at the PnPjs library, a collection of fluent libraries for consuming SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, and Office 365. This free, open source initiative, part of the PnP community, can be used within the SharePoint Framework, Nodejs, or any JavaScript project.

This session will demo specifically on using the library within the SharePoint Framework. 

We'll cover:
  - How to get started establishing context
  - An overview of all the packages available and outline the ease of use
  - More advanced scenarios like batching, cross site execution, and extending with behaviors

With the recent release of version 3 this session will help get you up to speed fast with what's new and what's changed. 


PnPjs and the SharePoint Framework: Version 3 - What's New

Did you know that there are at least 25 Power BI actions and triggers available in Power Automate?

In this session you'll see:
  - How to launch a Flow from a button in Power BI
  - How to export a report from Power BI using a Flow
  - How to refresh a dataset using a Flow
  - Power Automate integration with Power BI Metrics
  - And more...

All of the above will be presented via live demonstrations.

If you are a Power BI user and are not yet leveraging Power Automate, this session is for you.

Using Power Automate with Power BI

Combine Power Apps with Lists, Teams, and more to connect business solutions to your team wherever they are in today's hybrid and fluid work environments. 

We'll talk through the approach of building and using role-targeted apps vs. single "do everything" apps.  

Build Role-Targeted Solutions with Power Apps

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. 

In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
* Azure Open AI Key Concepts
* ChatGPT key concepts
* Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
* How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
* How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

Microsoft continues to add more features and offerings to its M365 platform, but existing legacy systems, software, and processes stand in the way. Many IT organizations are just trying to catch up on the project list before anything new can be implemented from the M365 suite. 

This session will focus on real-world examples of this technical debt and how to get your M365 initiatives “unstuck” for rolling out or expanding the use of Teams, OneDrive, Viva, SharePoint, Power Apps, and others. 

Getting to the Good Stuff: How to Remove Roadblocks to Your M365 Adoption

Intranet teams are responsible for creating intuitive experiences for employees to find the right content at the right time, enabling them to do their jobs better. Many organizations forget to include employees in the development process, introducing the risk of creating a solution that does not meet the real need. 

In this session, we will discuss how to develop a user research plan, conduct virtual usability testing, and communicate the results across your organization. Learn how user research can help you achieve your business goals and identify 85% of the usability problems early in your development process. 

Create a human-centered process in your organization to yield the best results.

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