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Knoxville Microsoft 365 Community Day

Welcome to our transformative workshop, designed to introduce you to the expansive world of Microsoft's Power Platform. This interactive session is tailored for beginners and intermediate users eager to explore the robust capabilities of Power Apps, Power Automate, Virtual Agents, and SharePoint integration.

We'll begin with a deep dive into Power Apps, covering both Canvas and Model-Driven app development, to empower you with the skills to create custom business applications. As we progress, you'll learn how to automate workflows seamlessly using Power Automate, a critical tool for enhancing efficiency in any organization.

Our journey will also take us through the intricacies of creating engaging chatbots with Power Virtual Agents, offering hands-on experience in building intelligent, conversational agents.

A key component of our workshop is the exploration of Microsoft Dataverse. You'll gain insights into setting up security rules and ensuring your data is protected and compliant. Additionally, we'll tackle the practical aspects of data migration using Dataflows, ensuring you're equipped to handle data transitions smoothly.

Integrating Power Platform with SharePoint will be another highlight, providing you with the knowledge to extend the power of SharePoint through customized solutions.

By the end of this workshop, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of the Power Platform ecosystem. You'll have theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and insights to implement end-to-end solutions in your business environment.

Beginner's Journey Through Microsoft Power Platform: From Basic Applications to Integrated Solutions

In this session we will discuss the importance of understanding your audience when developing reports within Power BI.  This will lead, not only to more useful reports, but will inform you on a variety of report components needed for a successful roll-out and adoption. In this session, we will analyze various types of audiences and what components to consider when building a report for that specific audience. 

Power BI Report Development- Knowing Your Customer

A case study of embedding a Power App inside of a Power BI Report

Joining the Platform together

Learn how to create visually appealing reports and dashboards in Power BI that are also functional for your audience.  In this session, we'll dive into telling a story with data by using the right visualizations to show the most important data.  We'll also learn tips and tricks for designing clean and uncluttered reports.

Power BI Visualization Best Practices

In this session, we will review tips and tricks for advanced DAX calculations as well as review the top-recommended  DAX functions to help Power BI Data Practitioners be even more successful in data analysis.



DAX Mastery: Advanced Techniques for Power BI Data Practitioners

In this session, you'll learn how Cellular Sales implemented Viva Connections to embed their employee intranet (i.e., SharePoint) in the Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile apps. After attending this session, you will know and be able to do the following: 

- Describe what the Viva Connections app is 
- Provide examples of how Viva Connections could bring value to a given organization 
- Identify the resources needed to implement Viva Connections 
- Identify the steps needed to implement Viva Connections 

In addition, you'll leave with a list of helpful resources, lessons learned from the implementation at Cellular Sales, and some good-to-know before getting started Viva Connections. 

Implementing Viva Connections at Cellular Sales

Tips from a UX designer on how Figma’s SharePoint Toolkit can help developers, designers, and clients collaborate. With Figma’s SharePoint toolkit you can try ideas with minimal effort, make sure you’re on the same page with clients, and make sure what you (and they) think they want really is what they want. By the time you start working in SharePoint you’ll already have made smart decisions about the interface in relationship to requirements.
 


Figma for SharePoint Developers

Elevate your collaboration! Explore Microsoft Teams from basic chatting, creating Teams, and coordinating projects. Unleash the full potential of Teams for seamless communication and efficient collaboration. UTK trainers will give you tips to help support your colleagues in using Teams to reduce email, streamline conversations, and organize files and projects.

Unleashing the Potential of Microsoft Teams – From Chats to Channels and Project Management

Your organization has decided they want to eliminate your network drives and move you into the cloud with Microsoft 365. Now what? Do any of these sound familiar?

What do you mean we can't have folders? 
I put everything in my OneDrive but I can't find anything!
I need to share my documents with my peers.  How do I do that
My co-worker left the company and now we lost their contributions?

In this session, we are going to take the "What Goes Where" discussion and talk about how to create a Document Management strategy and the roles that OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams play in that strategy.