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 S106a

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.

Scott Shearer, a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and MCT, will take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This demo-rich half day workshop will introduce you to Power BI - no experience necessary. Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

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
•	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

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you! 

Here's what you'll learn:
 - What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care
 - Types of Cloud Flows
 - How to create Flows from a template and from scratch
 - How to debug your Flows
 - Power Automate and SharePoint, Excel and other data sources
 - Power Automate Expressions
 - Power Automate approvals
And more…

All concepts will be presented using live demos.
While this is not a hands-on session, attendees are welcome to follow along.

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today!


Power Automate Cloud Flows for the Absolute Beginner

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

Collaboration lives at the core of a modern workplace and collaboration is built around the ability to access and share information. Not all information is the same and the ability to get content securely to the right people, both internal and external, at the right time keeps work moving. But how do you easily and securely your data in Microsoft 365? What are your options to ensure you retain control of your data?

The ability to safeguard your data is possible! In this workshop, we will show you:
  • The elements of the Microsoft data security landscape
  • How to secure you data with sensitivity labels
  • Control & manage sharing in your tenant
  • Prevent exfiltration with data loss prevention
  • How to detect, investigate, and view details on incidents and alerts
  • How to bring your audit logs into Azure

By the end of this workshop you will know what you can do to secure your data and allow your company to collaborate better while knowing you are secure!


Share, Protect, & Govern Your Data in Teams, SharePoint, & OneDrive

Power BI Premium is a way to get past many limitations of the shared Power BI service. However, with great power comes great responsibility. 

This session will outline exactly what Power BI Premium is, what features it unlocks and what limitations it changes. We will also call out situations where Premium may not be appropriate, and the steps that you need to take to ensure that you get the maximum value from it. 

If you’re considering a move to Power BI Premium, you’ll want to attend this session. 

Power BI Premium – When Do I Need It?

Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information.  As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders.  

Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy.  Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information.  

Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information.

Establishing a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview

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

Log Analytics and Application Insights are increasingly becoming the storage mechanism of choice for telemetry data. At its core is Azure Data Explorer (ADX) or "Kusto", and the KQL language for analysis, which can also be used independently. Power BI is of course the standard for data analysis and reporting in the Microsoft ecosystem. 

It's easy enough for Power BI to report on Log Analytics and ADX data, but the devil is in the details. When should you use native KQL Queries? When should you use Direct Query? What about Hybrid tables and aggregations? 

This session will dive deeply into the nuances of reporting on both Log Analytics and ADX data with Power BI. 

Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Power BI, Oh My!

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail.
•	What is Power Fx?
•	What are Data Types?
•	What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support? 
•	How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application?
•	Power Fx Best Practices

Power Fx for Absolute Beginners

With many people spending their workday in Microsoft Teams, receiving notifications right within Teams can be much more effective than email notifications. These might be notifications of new sales, documents needing to be approved, employees joining the team, or any number of things. This session will show you how to use Power Automate to automatically create and update actionable messages within Microsoft Teams, as well as how to trigger Power Automate flows from within Teams. We'll look at the Teams-related actions and triggers available in Power Automate, and also see how to create interactive Adaptive Cards for use within Teams.

Automated Notifications in Microsoft Teams

In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:

1) Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
2) Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
3) Automate Operational Processes
4) Manage Access and Permissions
5) Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning

Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.





How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant

Power Virtual Agents has brought the power of AI driven bot creation to the masses. You can now create, test, and publish feature-rich, natural language enabled bots across Microsoft Teams, websites, mobile apps, and more, all managed within a collaborative administrative interface that does not require developers, nor infrastructure engineers.  

Join us and learn how to quickly and easily create bots using Power Virtual Agents. See how you can securely build, validate, and deploy bots using a centralized administrative interface that further help you maintain governance and compliancy. Further, learn how to use embedded tools within Power Virtual Agents to monitor KPI's and uncover additional wins for your bots. 

The future of bot development - no code/low code/AI powered custom bots with Power Virtual Agents

SharePoint site templates allow you to standardize and streamline your site creation process, saving time and ensuring consistency across your organization's sites. 

In this presentation, we will discuss how to create, customize, and apply templates, as well as considerations for governance and maintenance. Attendees will come away with a solid understanding of how SharePoint site templates can improve productivity and collaboration within their organization.


Streamlining Your SharePoint Success: The Power of Site Templates

SharePoint Online (SPO) has been with us for over a decade, and in that time it has received numerous changes and adjustments intended to optimize performance. Despite the work that has gone into the platform, some organization still find users reporting a poor experience and "bad performance." 

In this session, we will look at development and design approaches that will enable SPO to deliver optimal performance when your organization begins using it. We'll review the current state of tooling available for our use (like the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool) and how it can be used to guide analysis of performance issues. We will also look at elements in any environment that can negatively impact SPO performance to make it look like the "bad guy" when SPO is actually innocent. 

At the conclusion of this session, participants will have the confidence needed to troubleshoot, classify, and possibly resolve performance-based issues in their SPO tenant.

Nailing Down Performance Issues in SharePoint Online Sites (2023 Edition)

In this session, we’ll cover ten practical tips to help you streamline your workflows and boost productivity with SharePoint and Power Automate. 

These tips are based on real-world use cases and common problems, so you can apply them immediately. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, these insights will help you work smarter, not harder.

From Beginner to Pro: 10 Essential Tips Using Power Automate and SharePoint

Classroom training, Viva Learning, LMS, DAP… There are so many types of learning platforms and methodologies available these days that organizations are finding themselves confused as to what they should use and what they should ignore. 

This session will provide the guidance you need to bridge the gap between all of these learning solutions and methodologies so you know exactly how you can implement a seamless blended learning experience for your team.

Viva Learning, Learning Pathways, DAP, LMS: How to Setup Your Organizational Learning Strategy

Microsoft Search and SharePoint Search are powerful search tools with a growing set of customization options. In this session, we will investigate search scenarios where out-of-the-box Microsoft and SharePoint Search may and may not meet your requirements. We will look at where Search shines, as well as when a custom solution may be right for you. 

Our look at custom search solutions will include an overview of the PnP Modern Search solution and webparts, an open source project managed by the PnP Team, with continued contributions by the community. Learn how to set up, use, and customize PnP Modern Search as well as learn the skillsets required to get the most out of search solutions. 

In this session, you'll learn:   
- The when and why for custom search experiences 
- Overview of PnP Modern Search webparts 
- Skillsets for building custom search solutions 

PnP Modern Search – Microsoft Search and the Art of the Possible

A vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint. 

In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made in SQL Server at both the instance and database level to improve the performance of SharePoint. 

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint.