<p>Join us for an immersive experience where professionals passionate about Microsoft Collaboration and Cloud Technologies gather to explore the latest insights, innovations, and best practices. Whether you’re a Microsoft 365 specialist, Cloud IT administrator, Power Platform enthusiast, developer, or architect, this event is designed to empower you with practical knowledge and networking opportunities.</p>
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<div data-id="796ca6f" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="text-editor.default"><div><p>We pride ourselves on being community-led, ensuring that our events are tailored to the needs and interests of local technical experts like you. Our lineup features esteemed IT Professionals, Microsoft MVPs, Developers, and Solution Architects who generously share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, and expert insights.</p><h3>Highlights Of Our 2024 Summer Hybrid Event Include:</h3><ul><li>Deep dives into Microsoft Teams, unlocking its full potential for collaboration and productivity.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Exploring the Power Platform, from building custom applications to automating workflows and driving business innovation.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Enhancing Employee Experience through effective tools and strategies within the Microsoft ecosystem.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Strategies for boosting User Adoption &amp; Productivity, ensuring maximum ROI on your Microsoft investments.</li></ul>
<p>Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow professionals, expand your skill set, and stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving world of Microsoft 365 and Power Platform.</p>
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<p>This event will be&nbsp;an in-person event on Saturday July 20th. The event will run from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Central Daylight Time.&nbsp; Speakers and times are subject to change.</p>

<p>Thank you to our sponsors! Join us next time. To be informed of the next event detail, please email&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@m365chicago.com" target="_blank">info@m365chicago.com</a> for more information.</p>

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Discover SharePoint Embedded—an API-only alternative for content apps. Seamlessly integrate Microsoft 365’s robust file storage. Explore use cases and make informed decisions.

Custom Content Management Applications with SharePoint Embedded: a Headless API-driven solution

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Microsoft 365 Copilot is an innovative tool that integrates seamlessly with your Microsoft 365 applications, enhancing productivity and efficiency. It leverages the power of AI to assist users in creating content, summarizing documents, and managing communications. With Copilot, you can effortlessly draft emails, documents, and presentations, search for information across your enterprise data, and even generate creative content like poems or stories. It's designed to be a versatile assistant, adapting to your workflow and helping you stay on top of your tasks. Whether you're catching up on emails, preparing for meetings, or looking for insights, Copilot is your go-to tool within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Copilot For Microsoft 365 - New Era in Modern Workplace

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In this session, we will walk through how to plan and start to build a basic intranet. Over the years, I have seen that most organizations need a similar set of sites. I will demo the high-level steps to build out these sites based on common topics and content. This will involve making Communication sites, changing home pages for sites, creating a new page, using common webparts, adding a document library, showing a document library view on a page, making a site a Hub, and changing Hub navigation to connect your sites.

Using SharePoint Online to Build a Core Intranet

Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more and to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills.

Transform the Way You Work with Microsoft 365 Copilot

In this session we will do a deepdive in how to make sucess in Teams voice.
What are your options?
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Cost difference and how to make the best business case for this.
How to build integrations with MDCC- platform.
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Deepdive in Teams Voice

If Teams was rolled out to your organization without proper planning, you may have ended up with duplicate teams and workspaces that lack a clear purpose. In such a case, it is time for an intervention. I will walk you through a methodology to work with Team owners to consolidate teams, eliminate redundancy, and adhere to governance best practices with minimal impact on team members and owners.