365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference, 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 Microsoft 365, Power Platform and 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;365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference,&nbsp;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, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, OneDrive, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!&nbsp; Find out more: https://365educon.com/Chicago&nbsp;

365 EduCon Chicago - A Microsoft 365 Conference

Room S103a

SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365 has many components and in this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different components and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.  

We will create a new M365 tenant, customize the admin center, add some users, groups, and manage roles, as well as discuss, explore, and roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online configuration settings, create and configure site collections, configure user profile settings, create a structured taxonomy using the term store, and configure the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need.

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.


Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we work, and it's more accessible than ever before. 

This full-day workshop led by Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley will explore how AI is transforming organizations and what it means for you. Attendees will learn about the AI features available in M365 and how to use them to build applications and workflows. 

The workshop will also cover real-world examples of how companies are using AI today and what the future holds for this technology. Get ready to ride the AI tidal wave and discover how it can enhance your productivity and work efficiency.

Navigating the AI Revolution in M365

he SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is now the established future for modern, client-side development in the Microsoft ecosystem. SPFx is used for SharePoint webparts and extensions, Teams apps, Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) and Microsoft Viva. 

The first step in SPFx development is understanding the model and building the appropriate development environment. We will cover these topics, configure a flexible developer environment and then build, debug, and deploy our first SPFx webpart.

Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

In this introductory developer session, we will talk about the functionality released in SPFx that supports list form customizers. This functionality allows developers to create a customized user interface for forms in SharePoint lists or libraries enhancing the user experience and providing the ability to include custom logic into the form. In this session we will create our first list form customizer and attach it to a SharePoint list. We will also look at how to enhance the user experience through the use of a Fluent UI design system. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to create their first list form customizers and have resources to support further exploration. All are welcome and while development experience isn’t necessary for this session, we will be looking at code and talking about SPFx and React.

Introduction To Custom List Forms Using SPFx

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development toolkit for building apps and web parts for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com. 

In this session, attendees will learn how to use the SPFx to create custom solutions for these platforms. We will cover the basics of setting up an SPFx development environment, including how to create a new project and configure it to work with Teams, Outlook, and Office.com. 

We will also discuss how to use Adaptive Cards to create interactive and dynamic user interfaces for these platforms. Finally, we will demonstrate how to deploy and test SPFx apps in a real-world scenario. 

Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge and skills needed to start building custom solutions for Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com using the SharePoint Framework.

Building solutions for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office.com with SharePoint Framework

GitHub Actions enable developers to automate repetitive and complex manual tasks. 

In this session, you'll learn how you can use GitHub Actions to create automation workflows including robust CI & CD processes to build, test & deploy solutions. But we won’t stop there. 

Learn how to instrument all sorts of things, optimize your workflows, deploy Azure resources with zero credentials, create custom actions, and more! Regardless if you’re building SharePoint Framework projects, Azure solutions, or something else. 

GitHub Actions: Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices for your Microsoft 365 and Azure Projects

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. 

Code Once Use Everywhere - Using SPFx to create applications that work in Teams and SharePoint

SPFx can be used to build beautiful, modern solutions for Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Viva, but the usefulness of these solutions is limited if not connected to live data.

We will cover how to connect to SharePoint and Microsoft Graph directly using the REST APIs for each data source. We will then explore how to use PnPJs and the Microsoft Graph toolkit (MGT) to simplify and accelerate both the development and performance of our SPFx solutions.

Connecting SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects to your data

Digital Transformation has taken businesses on a journey of technical advances resulting in a new way of working.  SharePoint Intranets are no longer static file repositories. They’re dynamic venues for knowledge sharing, productivity, and collaboration. A well-managed modern SharePoint Intranet streamlines communication, improves employee experience and facilitates connection.  How can you tell if the investments you have made in modernizing are successful resulting in a well-managed intranet?   

From Insights to Impact: Measuring Your Intranet ROI

The demand for cutting edge SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions is more than ever.  Why not let a tool help you get more done in less time?  With GitHub Copilot, you will see how it can provide legitimate code snippet suggestions to get common tasks done in your web part and Microsoft Teams development.  

You'll be amazed at the quality of the suggestions and how it understands your code and adapts to your naming conventions and recognizes patterns in how you personally write code.  I've been using GitHub Copilot for months now and it's a must-have in my development toolbox now.  

If you're looking to save time in your development cycle, you need to attend this session and see firsthand how GitHub Copilot is worth every penny.

Winning SPFx development with GitHub Copilot

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

OneNote is moving from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version simply called OneNote (previously known as 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

The Microsoft 365 development space is continuing change at a rapid pace, including SharePoint web parts & extensions, Teams apps, MS Graph, PowerShell and so much more. One of the challenges of this rapid pace is that API and Framework versions are constantly being updated, so working on projects written against previous versions means a scramble to keep multiple environments available.

Containers allow developers to include the environment configuration in the project files, ensuring the environment is correct for the project. These containers can be used as part of GitHub Codespaces, Docker Desktop, and more.

This session will introduce container configurations for SharePoint development and how to make containers work with just a few files.

Developing with containers for SPFx and beyond

In this introductory developer session, we will explore the extensibility model for Viva Connections and how to create new Adaptive Card Extensions using SPFx. We will talk about some real world use cases and how to get started.

We will explore the technical components of creating your first Adaptive Card Extensions. We will look at more advanced concepts such as data binding and data manipulation as well as layout out your cards using the Adaptive Card Framework. You will walk away with a better understanding of how to get started extending Viva Connections and how to avoid some common pitfalls.

Developing Adaptive Card Extensions using the SharePoint Framework

The SharePoint framework introduced 'libraries' as a project type, and although useful for very small development projects not ideal for bigger enterprise solutions and ALM strategies. 

This session is going to cover end to end building a library with standard web-based building blocks, using Azure Dev Ops to create a private code artifact, and then consuming that library and others together within a SharePoint framework solution while hosting the artifacts in an Azure CDN (or bundling it in if that's more appropriate). 

This is powerful reusability that allow you to manage the lifecycle of different components in a way that mimics all the other packages you might consume when building your solution.
