Join power users, decision makers, developers, and administrators at&nbsp;M365 Twin Cities.&nbsp;M365 Twin Cities is the evolution of SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities, an educational event with sessions delivered by Microsoft platform professionals and MVPs. The event will include a variety of sessions on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Viva, Azure, and OneDrive.
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M365 Twin Cities

H191 (M365/Teams)

H195 (Copilot & AI)

H231 (Power BI)

H170 (Microsoft Viva)

H251 (General)

H253 (Power Platform)

H255 (Developer)

H257 (General)

J110 (General)

J130 (General)

Auditorium

Cafeteria

Join us in the Auditorium as we kick off M365 Twin Cities

Rules of Engagement & Welcome

Microsoft Teams consist of three main channel categories: Standard, Private, and Shared. In this session, we will review the functionality and differences of each channel and explain the use case scenario of each one. 
We will explain the architecture of each channel, the differences between the previous Guest experience and the current B2B architecture, and how to best collaborate with others within your tenant or external users. We will finish the session by discussing how you can govern access to your data in each channel scenario. 


Deep dive into Microsoft Teams Channels

Join this session to learn more about the future of work with Microsoft 365 Copilot that can help you work better by unleashing your creativity, unlocking productivity, and upleveling your skills. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a new feature that combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more—and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into a powerful productivity tool. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more—to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. Copilot provides real-time intelligent assistance and enables users to enhance their creativity, productivity, and skills. 

M365 Copilot is also a new Teams app experience called business chat or cross-app chat. It works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts—to do things you’ve never been able to do before. 


Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot

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

Viva Amplify is one of the newest experiences within the Viva family.  Learn how you can orchestrate all of your communications from one central location. Understand what features are available to make your campaigns engaging to end users with this new tool. Find out what scenarios you can use to get started and other adoption resources to make it successful.  You will walk away from this session with a good understanding of Viva Amplify to take back to your organization.  

What is Viva Amplify

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within.  In 2021, nearly 80% of large organizations experienced data breaches that had compromised information. 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 you protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into the hands of those that should not have it.

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

Microsoft Power Platform's offering Power Automate has revolutionized the way we work. In a matter of minutes and with no code required, a user can create an all-encompassing workflow to accommodate virtually any business process.  As organizations adopt their new automations, users will start to see the need for enhanced flow concepts to satisfy more complex requests.  

This session will cover 6 enhanced flow concepts:
	- Assign an approval task to a group and/or multiple users
	- Change throttling limits to avoid timeouts
	- Configure run after behavior
	- If versus Switch
	- Send HTTP action
	- Working with empty values

We will apply each of these enhanced concepts to a business scenario and sample flows for each will be provided after the session.  

Six Power Automate Essentials to keep your Business Flowing

In this session we will walk through build a modern timer job and/or web service with azure functions that use SharePoint data as the backed.  We will simplify deployment with a PowerShell Script that you will be able to take with you.

Automating M365 with Azure Functions

Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you.

We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases
• Before the migration
• Completing the migration
• Managing the cloud-based content after migration

As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including out of the box tools like the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT), the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Migration Manager, as well as several other tools to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

Exploring Microsoft 365 migration considerations and tools

Governance plays a pivotal role in organizational success. It prevents clutter in digital spaces and ensures compliance, which is vital for data security and efficiency. However, even with all of these benefits, its value is often underestimated. During this session we will cover:
•	Clutter and its Impact – Learn how the absence of a strong governance policy creates confusion and inefficiency, by allowing team, channel, and SharePoint site sprawl.
•	The Compliance Connection - Learn how effective governance is intricately linked to organizational compliance.
•	Governance Policy Essentials - Understand the core components of a governance policy that designates a governance team, outlines meeting frequency, and provides a checklist for reviews.
•	Governance Reporting – Use built-in Microsoft 365 reports to identify Teams and SharePoint clutter in your environment. Leverage the data for remediation activities like clean-up, consolidation, and training.
•	Practical Implementation - Access a sample governance planning sheet for practical guidance on establishing governance within your organization.
•	Empowering Your Team - Discover the "train-the-trainer" strategy, identifying champions and power users within your organization to support and evangelize your journey with Microsoft 365.
Join us and gain the knowledge and insights you need to establish effective governance within your organization.


The Vital Role of Microsoft 365 Governance in Your Organization

Looking at deploying Teams and not sure what to expect long term? Already administering Teams and looking for tips and tricks? Either way, this is the session you don't want to miss!
Come learn the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks every good Teams admin should be doing. Learn how to keep up with the near-constant changes in Teams, and how manage governance and reporting. We'll even share some solutions you can use to automate regular tasks and save yourself precious time. Lastly, we'll cover how Teams is interconnected with other Microsoft 365 services, and what administration you need to keep in mind for those services.

A Year in the Life of a Teams Admin

As organizations layout the plan for their staff return to the office in a more hybrid approach, the need for different meeting spaces to provide a great experience for in office and remote workers is even more important. 

As an administrator with many endpoints to manage, join me in this this deep dive session as we walk through the onboarding/security of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android/ Windows using Teams Admin Center, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune).

Hybrid work - Deploying & managing Microsoft Teams rooms

In this session, we will demystify M365 Copilot, the inner workings of it, what you can do to prepare for it, and what are the best ways to make the most of it!

Microsoft 365 Copilot - What is it and how to prepare for it!

Worked with an organization to better understand their reporting and data needs by role, by function and by development type within the organization. Company had been very siloed and needed data to come together enable actionable information to make effective data driven decisions.

Curating a Power BI Portfolio Dashboard for Driving Decisions

Viva Engage is the place in Microsoft 365 to connect with coworkers across your company. End-user, corporate communicator, or administrator, learn about Viva Engage and how you could unlock greater collaboration and connections between employees. You’ll leave with an understanding of Viva Engage, why you might want to use it, and how to manage it within your organization.  


Viva Engage: Unlock the power of your people

Document Management is not a topic that most people find fun, exciting, or entertaining. However, anyone charged with the organization, maintenance, and management of corporate information knows this is one of the biggest challenges we face--dealing with an ever-growing mountain of recorded knowledge and intellectual property.

Ultimately, all we really need to do is provide an intuitive, user-focused set of tools to facilitate the creation, storage, publication, security, retrieval, retention, and disposition of our company's most critical digital assets. No problem, right?

This session will focus on providing practical guidance, both non-technical and technical, to assist in developing a multigenerational battle plan to implement Document Management in your organization.

A Crawl-Walk-Run Approach to Document Management

This session is tailored for beginners who are eager to explore the world of AI models and their transformative impact on business workflows. The goal is to demystify AI concepts and demonstrate how non-developers and beginners can easily leverage these powerful tools. 

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face increasing pressure to innovate, streamline operations, and make data-driven decisions. Microsoft Power Platform offers a robust tool suite that empowers users to achieve these goals through low-code or no-code solutions. AI models are at the heart of this platform, bringing unparalleled automation, intelligence, and efficiency to various business processes.

During this beginner-level session, we will embark on an exciting journey to understand the fundamental concepts of AI models, different types, and some use cases within Power Platform. 

Power Platform AI Models: Revolutionizing Business Processes (Level - Beginner)

This session will explore how to utilize designs, styles, and controls that have already been created by Microsoft (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui)and the PNP community (https://pnp.github.io/pnpjs/) to create custom web parts that look and feel like it was “Out of the Box”. User experience will benefit from having a seamless transition from Out of the Box web parts to your custom web part and taking advantage of all the R&D that Microsoft has already done to make SharePoint look, feel, and behave the way it does. 

SPFx – Embrace the SharePoint-yness

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content services and AI together to automate processes, classification, and more, transforming information into working knowledge for your organization in a way we've never seen before.  In this session, you'll learn how Microsoft Syntex has come to the forefront of Content AI and automated knowledge management, the services and solutions it can provide, how they work together, and some proven ways to implement Syntex in your organization.  We'll start by looking at the AI models that Microsoft Syntex provides for unstructured, structured, and freeform document processing, covering the bread and butter of the solution's features.  Then you'll learn about Microsoft's Syntex's capabilities for content assembly and content processing.  Finally, we'll look at what Syntex is bringing in upcoming releases, including eSignature, advanced search, data archiving and managing SharePoint data at scale.  We'll share real-world conversations about Syntex implementation, deployment, and adoption scenarios to spark the conversation at your organization.  Join us to discover how to improve content management and business efficiency with Content AI and Microsoft Syntex.

Discover, Assemble, and Gain Insights into your Content with Microsoft Syntex

In this fun and informative session, Tom will share his favorite Microsoft Teams productivity tips. Attendees should walk away with at least 4 or 5 gems that could have an immediate impact on your productivity.

Microsoft Teams productivity tips that you should be using

Have you ever felt like "You can't always get what you want..." with Power Automate? Then come to this fast paced session centered on avoiding some common Pitfalls in Power Automate Development, and you might just find, "you get what you need" to be more successful in the world of process automation. 
This session assumes basic working knowledge of Power Automate development and will cover a number of "learned lessons" from the field that will enable you to become a better faster power platform developer.

Better Living through Power Automate: Pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Lunch

Do you want to learn how Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, is transforming its IT infrastructure with cloud and M365 solutions? Join us for this session where we will share our journey of moving from on-premise to cloud environments, and how we are managing our infrastructure with a lean team. You will also discover how we are governing and providing training for our employees, and what we have learned along the way. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from our experts about our successes, challenges and future goals at an enterprise level. 
 
Note: we will not be sharing details regarding our security at Medtronic.


Microsoft 365 Governance and Support at Medtronic

ChatGPT is a powerful language model that can generate natural and engaging conversations. In this session, you will learn how to chat with ChatGPT in Teams using Azure OpenAI, a service that lets you access the ChatGPT API. You will see how to deploy a Teams chat bot that leverages the Azure OpenAI service to enable users to chat with ChatGPT directly in their Teams client. 

Teams Chat Bot: How to use Azure OpenAI in Teams

Join this session to learn about what Viva Goals and Viva insights is and how you can leverage them to better understand your employees.

As part of the session, learn how you can
- build alignment among your leadership team
- learn about real world use cases how Viva Insights and Viva Goals can help
- Demo of Viva Insights and Viva Goals features
- explore scenarios and examples on how to measure and improve your employee experience

Aligning Employee Experience to Business Goals by Leveraging Viva Goals and Viva Insights

In this session you will get some insights into the Power BI gotchas that I have seen over the years. I will highlight a dozen of what I would call "what not to do" or shall we say "dirty" items. I have had an opportunity over the years to work with and some of the largest customers of Power BI in the world and you might be surprised what comes up sometimes;)

We will cover items around data model development, DAX, and report design of the things to be aware of and go over how to avoid and fix these things when developing Power BI models and reports that I feel should be avoided. 

The dozen items that will be covered are just a glimpse into the report development "what not to do" items at least in my opinion, I am sure you have seen your fair share as well and would love to hear what others have come across or potentially done too:)

Power BI Gotchas - Dan's Dirty Dozen

When most people think about Power Apps, they imagine canvas apps. While those can offer a lot of design flexibility, sometimes it's necessary to build an interface quickly and focus on functionality. 

In this session, join Nick Brattoli as he demonstrates how to quickly build and deploy Power Apps to suit your data. We'll go over topics such as:

	• Differences between canvas apps and model-driven apps
	• Building your data model with DataVerse
	• Creating a basic model-driven app
	• Interacting with your data using Power Automate flows

If you're already familiar with canvas apps and you want to see what else Power Apps can do, don't miss this one!


Building your first Model-driven app with Power Apps as an IT Pro

If you work with more than one application from the Power Platform or have more than one environment then you've probably heard about Solutions. But Solutions can be a confusing concept for citizen developers. In this workshop we'll discuss the following concepts:
- Implementing a Dev > Test > Production system
- Exporting and Importing Apps, Flows, and Bots between environments
- When to use Managed vs. Unmanged Solutions
- Creating, Updating, Upgrading, and Patching Solutions
- Using Connection References
- Leveraging Environment Variables
- What is a Solution Publisher
- Understanding Solution layers and dependencies

Deploying Power Platform Components: Using Solutions

This session is great for any level programmer, from beginner to expert!

We'll take a look at how to access ChatGPT and send it questions about SharePoint development.

I asked ChatGPT, on a scale of one to a million, how good it's SharePoint development skills were and this is what it said:

"I'd say my SharePoint development skills are around 750,000 on a scale of one to a million. I've got extensive experience with SharePoint's architecture, customization using web parts, REST API integration, workflow automation, and even some advanced tasks like building custom solutions using SharePoint Framework. However, there's always more to learn and explore in the ever-evolving world of SharePoint development!"

Sounds confident!  We'll test that confidence with some questions about JavaScript, C#, PowerShell, TypeScript and more...

Next, we will kick it up a notch and ask ChatGPT to write us an entire web part for deployment to SharePoint Online.  Will it actually work?

Finally, we'll integrate the ChatGPT API into a custom SharePoint solution and use it to perform operations on site content.  For this demonstration we will be using various chat "models," including GPT-4.

The possibilities with ChatGPT and OpenAI are seemingly endless and this is an exciting time for software development!

Using ChatGPT with SharePoint

A deep knowledge of expressions is critical to maximizing the power of Power Automate.  In this demo rich session we'll take a deep dive into the types of expressions available and how to apply them.  

You'll see how to combine expressions, use expressions to format email text, how to use and apply date and string expressions, how to use expressions with collections and arrays and more...  
If you have a casual knowledge of Power Automate and want to "step up your game" with the use of expressions, attend this session!

Expressions in Power Automate

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.

Building your own 365 knowledge network

Welcome to the new and very powerful Microsoft Lists!  In this session we will do a deep dive into all the features and functionality along with how to create, share & track lists with anyone.  In the demonstration we will show you how to customize lists to meet the requirements of any project using basic form elements and highlight important details with conditional formatting such as color coding, and how to create a list and import data from an excel spreadsheet automatically.  Talk about taking it to the next level…WOW.  However, we will be taking it up an extra level  by demonstrating how to incorporate automation utilizing Power Platform along with creating and utilizing templates.  

Microsoft Lists - Taking It to the Next Level

Are you deploying M365 to your organization?  
Are you migrating from on-prem to M365?
Are you rescuing a failed or stalled M365 deployment?  
Are your users just not adopting M365 like they should?

Deploying M365 to your organization can be a daunting task.  It’s not as simple as “turn it on and they will use it…”  
 
In our experience, the most important part of an M365 rollout is engaging the business and stakeholders in the planning phase to ensure proper architecture, governance, usage, and ultimately adoption.  Learn how to utilize our proven Analysis and Design process to your M365 rollout to engage the appropriate people in your organization.  We will discuss in detail how to properly plan your M365 rollout, including:

-              Implement a Strategy Team to guide the process
-              Utilize key employee Focus Groups to educate, engage, and empower the business stakeholders
-              Identify “Killer Features” to accelerate adoption
-              Shift M365 from an IT Project to a Business Initiative  
 
This session will focus primarily on the rollout of the M365 Collaboration tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive but many of the techniques that we discuss can be used on other M365 tools as well.


M365 or Bust!  How to Strategically and Successfully Deploy M365 to your Organization

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process. Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity. Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Join Microsoft experts for an interactive Q&A about Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Teams, Microsoft Graph and more! Bring your best questions! 

AMA - Ask Microsoft & MVP's Anything

Are you just starting with Viva Engage, or do you need more engagement and value from your network? Are you rolling out Viva Connections and considering the input and impact from Viva Engage?

Join an 8-year Microsoft MVP with 7 years of corporate network launch and leadership experience who will focus on your chosen challenges, such as:
- Which Tool When, Use Cases
- Community Management & Engagement
- Governance, Compliance, Safety
- Analytics
- All Company value
- Official communities
- Leader & communicator engagement
- Integrations and add-on licenses
- Roadmap

Leave with a keyword monitoring guide and summary operations guide to taking over the All Company channel for corporate communications!

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