Microsoft 365 EduCon &amp; PWR EduCon&nbsp;(a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform conference)&nbsp;brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365,&nbsp;SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to Microsoft 365, SharePoint or Power Platform, 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 Microsoft&nbsp;365 EduCon &amp; PWR 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;SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams, OneDrive, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, and more.
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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! 


Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

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This full-day tutorial will provide a comprehensive introduction to the features of Power BI, with a focus on specific areas such as SharePoint and Teams integration, real-time analytics, data latency, and licensing. Attendees will learn about the architecture of Power BI and how it can be used to turn raw data into actionable insights. The session will cover a wide range of topics, including data connection and preparation, creating visualizations, and sharing and publishing reports.
	
Throughout the tutorial, attendees will have the opportunity to see the features of Power BI in action through a series of demos. These demos will include real-world scenarios such as connecting to a variety of data sources, creating interactive visualizations, and using Power BI's built-in data modeling capabilities. Attendees will also learn about advanced features such as using Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power BI's DAX language. Additionally, attendees will learn about the integration of Power BI with SharePoint and Teams, creating real-time analytics, managing data latency, and navigating the different licensing options available for Power BI.
	
By the end of the tutorial, attendees will have a solid understanding of Power BI's capabilities. The session will be interactive and attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and clarify their doubts regarding the topics covered. This tutorial is designed for anyone who wants to learn about the features of Power BI, including data analysts, business intelligence professionals, and data scientists.

Expose Yourself to Power BI

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Every week, our customers add billions of documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential to your organization - carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. 

To maximize the value of your Microsoft 365 content, Microsoft Syntex brings management, advanced AI, and automation together to simplify the way you work. 

Join us to learn more about this new category and hear how Syntex can help you discover, manage, and secure your organization's content in the Microsoft Cloud and beyond.

Introducing Microsoft Syntex – Content AI for the Microsoft Cloud

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are  options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm. 

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server  administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

According to Forrester, today’s organizations have 72% of their critical information locked away in their Content Estate, scattered amongst PDFs and other unstructured, hard to analyze file formats. Until now, the process to curate this information into analyzable data has been manual, time-consuming, and expensive. 

Today, industry leaders are using AI to combine their content information with structured data from the Data Estate to synthesize new business insights and drive innovation faster. Learn how you can use Microsoft’s new applied AI technology to enable this competitive advantage for your company.

Using Microsoft Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI, you see how to build a competitor product comparison with your own product. 

You’ll see how to:
 - Create an extraction model using AI Builder
 - Attach that model to a SharePoint library
 - Have Microsoft Syntex extract the data from the documents automatically
 - Use the new Power BI integration with SharePoint, using your competitor data with structured data for a holistic analysis. 

Converting Content into Data with Microsoft Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI

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?

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

Files are at the core of Microsoft 365. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, of course. In addition, all kinds of files, PDFs, pictures, and video are created, shared, viewed, edited, and deleted all day, every day in organizations around the world through the tools and services included as part of their Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Tom Resing is a member of the Microsoft Syntex product engineering team at Microsoft. Every day, Tom thinks about how the user experience around files and their properties does or doesn't empower people to achieve more with files.

Come to this session to get an overview of what file properties are captured and can be captured. And, how to use those properties to help yourself and others at your org improve your digital workplace experience.

Metadata matters: Make file properties work for you

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag! 

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

OneDrive is a key workload in Microsoft 365 and is an integral part of your collaboration strategy. OneDrive provides a cloud location to store, share, and sync your work files and then work with them from any device.  Whether you are looking to roll-out OneDrive or are already are utilizing it, there are a lot of important things that you should know about management. 

This session will go through things such as:
 - Intro to OneDrive
 - Sync capabilities and restrictions
 - Overall limits, guidance, and best practices
 - Security capabilities from the user to the tenant
 - Reporting
 - What’s new for administration

This session will be a technical focused session which will provide you the information and tools you need to ensure your OneDrive deployment is solid and secured. 


Deploying and Managing OneDrive

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Syntex

Do you know or are you interested in what Microsoft Purview is? 

The name Microsoft Purview is newer for the solution suite of Microsoft 365 and brings a collection of risk and compliance technologies. 

In this session we will review all of the solutions available within this suite of products, what are their use cases, how they work together, and how they could work for you within your organization. 

Breakdown of Microsoft Purview Solutions

Say your company rushes in the coming months to implement a private version of ChatGPT over their Intranet. An employee asks, "Hey ChatGPT, is my company going to have a layoff?" How will it answer?

This scenario becomes plausible as ChatGPT / GPT-4 can be connected to data sources for Q&A activities. If the data related to layoffs is accessible by the AI, it's possible that an employee could get an answer to their question. You should take great care before connecting it to your own internal data.

Unfortunately hearing ChatGPT, AI and Machine Learning terms thrown about like doubloons at a Mardi Gras parade in the news is giving many organizations FOMO. We'll discuss what you should know before you jump in. 

In this session, we'll address:
- What are these technologies and how they will impact you 
- How can these technologies be used in your organization 
- Data and security considerations
- Preparing for unintended consequences

Join us to learn about this brave new world and how you could apply it in your own work.

How to Avoid AI Disasters: ChatGPT, Data Security, and Unintended Consequences

We all miss our old, trusty global navigation; modern site architecture calls for a change in how we think about organizing and connecting to our sites and information. But there’s good news: Hub sites can help us get back consistency in our intranet navigation as we flatten out our architecture.

In this session we'll discover what Hub sites are, what they aren’t, and best practices for leveraging them in modern architecture. 

We'll also walk through utilizing the new Global Navigation feature and see how Viva Connections surfaces intranet navigation in Teams!

Rethinking Intranet Navigation. Hub Sites for the Modern World

Let’s face it- “permissions management” has always been one of the top challenges for SharePoint admins due to the highly flexible and “de-centralized” nature of how SharePoint access lists are structured. 

But in this modern world of work, you now have up to THREE additional, independent access and permission models which can also provide access to your data (group/team membership, “sharing links” and special “channel” memberships for Teams). 

In this session we’ll explore all of these permission constructs in depth, see how they do (or do not) work together, and detail out some proven management strategies to ensure you have the visibility and control you need to ensure that your data is protected and secure.