<p>Microsoft 365 / Dynamics 365 Ottawa Event is a free community‐focused technology event dedicated to educating and engaging members of the local technical community.</p><p><br></p><p>With the expansion of the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics platforms, the event now draws upon the expertise of IT professionals, developers and solutions architects who come together to share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like‐minded individuals.</p><p>These individuals bring invaluable experience and lessons across the broad suite of services Microsoft offers like: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Security and Compliance, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Azure, and other M365 applications.</p><p><br></p><p>M365 Friday Ottawa will be held at the Microsoft Ottawa office.</p><p><br></p><h2>Construction Note</h2><p>Constructions are underway in the World Exchange Plaza; please follow the signs to the event</p><p><br></p><h2>Transportation</h2><ol><li>Option 1 (Preferred): LRT to Queen street station</li><li>Option 2: Parking at the World Exchange Plaza</li></ol>

<h2>Platinum</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tygraph_logo-edited-300x118.png" id="fhuhh0uc20bd" data-image="fhuhh0uc20bd"></figure><p>tyGraph organizes your data and helps you see the connections, actions, and productivity of your people—giving you access to critical information that informs decisions and drives innovation.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ORANGUTECH_250X250_NP-BG.png" id="1f6uj3whr5w6" data-image="1f6uj3whr5w6"></figure><p>Orangutech works closely alongside Microsoft driving enterprise-level cloud adoption through expertise in EDRMS in M365, Teams, SharePoint, PowerApps and SharePoint to GCDocs. Orangutech has established itself as Ottawa’s recognized leader in Digital Workplace, User Adoption, and Information Management.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/helixlogo.png" id="ixz1a9yl861k" data-image="ixz1a9yl861k"></figure><p>HELUX is a Microsoft Gold Partner and a Microsoft Preferred Partner in Content Services. As a Preferred Partner in Microsoft 365 Content Services, we are excited to help you plan for and implement knowledge and content services solutions, including SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva.</p><h2>Gold</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/icefirelogo-300x106.png" id="wq0jzol2l4xb" data-image="wq0jzol2l4xb"></figure><p>IceFire is revolutionizing the way companies use SharePoint to collaborate in multilingual environments.<br>Based on exclusive innovations, the company’s flagship product PointFire™ for SharePoint on premise and PointFire 365 for SharePoint Online, addresses all issues related to multilingual SharePoint – including pages, documents, lists, and user interfaces. Its groundbreaking PointFire Translator carries out translations of all of those content and UI elements in seconds, either on demand or triggered by rules when content is created or modified.</p><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/protiviti.png" id="rk74gh4lzkab" data-image="rk74gh4lzkab"></figure><p>Protiviti is a global business consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration. We help you confidently address challenges.</p><h2>Silver</h2><figure><img src="https://m365ottawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ShareGate-by-GSoft-300x72.png" id="pk55p2vozt5p" data-image="pk55p2vozt5p"></figure><p>We’re GSoft, home to a family of software products that lay the groundwork for a better employee experience. Our goal is to make work simpler, kinder, and faster.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Specifically, we help companies get the most out of Microsoft 365 with ShareGate. We also help managers and HR leaders grow their teams with our Officevibe platform. And we ensure every onboarding is a professional and personal success with Softstart.</p>

M365 and D365 Friday Ottawa

5006-Banff/Security and Compliance

We'll dive into, discuss, and look at, some key upcoming and/or preview releases of products and features announced at the Microsoft Ignite conference 2022 that occurred in October while also discussing many more things to come on the Microsoft roadmap.

A glimpse into the future of Microsoft

Microsoft365DSC is a free solution that allows organizations to automate their Microsoft 365 Tenants’ configuration change management processes, monitor them for configuration drifts, take snapshots of existing tenants’ config, clone tenants’ config, generate reports and compare the configuration of two or more tenants. In this demo packed session, you will learn how to leverage this tool in the context of DevOPS and will be able to directly apply your learnings when you get back to the office (or your living room) the next Monday.

Microsoft365DSC Master Class

Based on my experience in the field with customers, I've come up with the key things you should have an authoritative understanding of before getting too far down the implementation path. Session will show real-world examples across the Microsoft Information Governance and Records Management tech with demos to support. Come to this session to find out what you need to know!

This session targets not only Records Managers and Information Governance specialists, but also the IT Administrators who may be tasked with implementing some of these compliance features.

Information Governance & Records Management in Microsoft 365: What to know before you start!

In this session you'll learn about the different solutions available within the Microsoft Defender product family and how they can be used to protect your organization. We'll start by talking about Microsoft Defender for Office 365, then Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps and finally Defender or Identify. We'll even touch on Defender for Cloud and Defender for IOT for Azure and OT environments. You'll learn about the most common configurations for these solutions, best practices for rolling them out and how they can be utilized to protect against threats to your data , your devices, your cloud applications, and your identities. Join us to discover how Microsoft Defender protects your organization!

What is Microsoft Defender and How does it Protect Your Organization

M365 has enjoyed an explosive popularity in recent years, fueled by many factors, including cloud migration, proliferation of remote work, and COVID-19 lockdowns. More and more of companies' important communications and resources now reside in this ecosystem, and naturally the attackers are training their sights on it with growing frequency.

In this presentation we will review the most popular attacks that hackers employ when exploiting M365 environments, discuss facilities available to enterprises to help identify and investigate them, and talk about strategies for preventing and responding to them.

Office Under Siege: Understanding, Discovering, and Preventing Attacks Against M365

Every organization has data that is considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even to the industry they exist within.  In 2020 there were over 4000 publically announced data breaches amounting to over 37 million records compromised. As a result, protecting its data has become a priority of 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.