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In this session, I'll show you how to increase drastically the employee experience using Viva Connections in Microsoft 365.
We'll go through Viva Connections, how to install it, how to bring together relevant news, conversations, and resources, and finally how to extend it.

How to Get the Most out of Your Intranet with Viva Connections

Viva Connection integration with SharePoint enables a dynamic, engaging, and personalized employee experience for your organization. 
These innovations power the intelligent workplace, where teams can collaborate and streamline workflows, organizations can engage employees and communicate effectively, and individuals can be more creative and productive with experiences and insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
In this session I will explain setting up Viva connections using SharePoint and integrating with Microsoft Teams.
Also explore how the Developers can extend Microsoft Viva Connections for building engaging experiences with the widely adopted SharePoint Framework (SPFx). 

Extend Microsoft Viva Connections with SPFx

Join MVP and international speaker Knut Relbe-Moe om this session to learn how to setup Webinars in Teams.

We will go trough customize the webinar page, put everything into the social platforms and also the details about where the webinar is located.

So come and learn on how to utilize this for your organization

All You Need to Know About Webinars in Teams

There are so many options to choose from if you want to meet with people in Teams. Do you use a meeting, live event or webinar? What about the lobby? What about policies and options?
In this session we will look at different scenario's that you can implement in your organisation: from a 1 on 1 performance meeting to an all hands townhall meeting. 

How to organize the right Teams meetings: Practical scenario's and implementations

Is it enough just not to assign a license to the user? Unfortunately not, because the many options with self-service purchase, free licenses and trials give the user many options to access the Power Platform that do not correspond to their own company roadmap. In this session, we want to take a closer look at the conditions under which people can use the Power Platform, how various settings affect access to the Power Platform, and what other options there are for complying with governance and control instances.

Power Platform Governance - Control access to the Power Platform

The session will focus on what's changed in the negotiation process with Microsoft and provide the tools needed to adapt your negotiation strategy to accommodate Azure and Volume Licensing into a coherent long-term contract, that meets both the organization's cloud roadmap and budget requirements.

Negotiating the Next Generation of Commercial Contracts with Microsoft

The theoretical part explains the most important OneDrive group policies that are applicable for small(est) companies. The practical demo part will then explain why OneDrive group policies are special, where and how to install multilingual group policies on any device with a few clicks without deep knowledge. Only minimal system knowledge is required for this.  

OneDrive - Group Policies, Also for Small(est) Companies

Yammer is your company facebook to build communities, share knowledge, and engage with everyone. 
In this session, we will cover the importance of Yammer and how it contributes to Viva Connections and Viva Engage modules to build engaging experience for digital workplaces of the organization.

Yammer and Its Role in Microsoft Viva

Meeting recording is an extremely popular feature in Teams. We record important meetings, workshops, training, analytic meetings, test presentations, etc. Only one click and a recording is in progress, but there are many additional features and functions behind the meeting interface. Let's go and check how to work with them like a pro. 

I will talk about:
- Basic settings and where are recordings saved
- How to share a recording
- Auto recording - how it works and what to avoid
- Auto-Expiration of recordings
- Recording Transcripts

A Guide to Meeting Recordings

In most organizations, new teams are mushrooming and we end up looking for ways to recapture those teams. A first approach and common questions for the Microsoft Teams Administrator/ Service Owner: 
How do we find teams with no activity?
Which teams currently have no owner?

In this session I would like to address both questions and show you a way to use a GraphAPI call to find exactly these teams and then use a combination of the Microsoft 365 and Azure tools to resolve various actions such as archiving the inactive teams.

Teams Lifecycle - How to Find Inactive or Ownerless Teams

Regardless of where your stance is with regards to Teams Governance, we all dream of being able to create a consistent Team, but how easy is it to do this with Power Automate? 

Can we create the Team? 
Can we create the channels?
Can we install and add apps and tabs?

In this session we will look at some of the provisioning techniques and how the Power Platform can help overcome some of the governance challenges.

Advanced Teams Provisioning with Power Automate

You will learn how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organizations personas.  You will see how 4 different types of employees experience Teams: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives.

Create a Curated Experience in Teams!

The new Apps admin center for the M365 apps for enterprise makes managing your environment much easier. With near real-time inventory and update status, as well as, easy to configure update management with rollout waves, pause and rollback, you can manage your M365 apps much easier... we'll show you!

Managing M365 Apps for Enterprise the Easy Way!

In this session will discuss
1. What is PIM - Privileged Identity Management
2. How to configure PIM for Azure AD Roles
3. How to configure PIM for Azure Resources
4. Analyzing PIM audit history and reports
5. Demo

Microsoft Security and Compliance – Explaining Privileged Identity Management

A "Notes from the field" session packed with best practices and learning. What works really well in Conditional Access, what are the possible problems and what do you really need to pay attention to when configuring? A foray into practical tips for planning, implementing and rolling out conditional access

Conditional Access - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (EN)

Viva Connection integration with SharePoint enables a dynamic, engaging, and personalized employee experience for your organization. These innovations power the intelligent workplace, where teams can collaborate and streamline workflows, organizations can engage employees and communicate effectively, and individuals can be more creative and productive with experiences and insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI). 
In this session we will dive into setting up Viva connections using SharePoint and integrating with Microsoft Teams.
We will explore how the Developers can extend Microsoft Viva Connections for building engaging experiences with the widely adopted SharePoint Framework (SPFx). 

Microsoft Viva Connections - Set Up and Extend with SPFx

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The speaker is ill and will not be presenting this session live. The speaker intends to provide a recorded session that will be published to M365 Chicago's YouTube channel. Like and Subscribe to the Channel (https://bit.ly/m365cyt) to get alerted to when the recording is added. 

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Objectives and key results (OKRs) is a goal-setting framework originally introduced by Andrew Growe in the 1970s. The framework has been used to support success of many large enterprises, like Google, Intel, and the Gates Foundation. Viva Goals is a tool to manage, follow and update an organization's OKRs.

In this session, we will take a look at the basics of the OKR framework, what implementing OKRs means to an organization, and how Viva Goals is used for managing OKRs. We will explore the features of Viva Goals, how to set it up for your organization, and what integrations are currently available.

After this session, you will understand what OKRs are and how you can start using Viva Goals to implement OKRs in your organization.

[POSTPONED] Manage and Follow Your OKR's with Viva Goals

In this session I will be talking about how to leverage Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium) to preserve, collect, review, and export content from Microsoft Teams. The goal of this session is to show how an organization can optimize their eDiscovery workflow for Teams content.

How to Use Advanced eDiscovery with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams empowers users to collaborate. However without governance it is easy for organizations to create thousands of Teams sites with no clear ownership and no lifecycle.  This uncontrolled growth can quickly turn into sprawl resulting in an IT admin headache to manage and lead to user confusion and dissatisfaction as they struggle to identify which is the correct team to use. 
This session will discuss best practices on how to implement Teams lifecycle management to manage your teams through the following stages:
1.	Teams creation
2.	Ongoing management
3.	End of life


Implementing Microsoft Teams lifecycle governance to stop Team sprawl

Microsoft Planner is a fantastic tool to help track and manage projects, unfortunately it is a reporting black hole; this frustrates enterprises and organisations worldwide.  To solve this problem we can use Power Automate, SharePoint and Power BI to create a unique solution that not only provides a rich reporting solution that enables organisations to see the status of the tasks in all of their plans, but it also does this automatically!!  Join me in this session to learn how to build this solution, where to download it, and hands on demos to show you how to set it all up.  Delegates will be able to download the files necessary to configure their own solution.

Synchronise Planner Plans into Power BI using Power Automate

In this session, we will look at a common budget allocation problem that involves seasonality. Seasonality has a major influence on many businesses. The ability to factor in seasonality in budgets and forecasts could help to create clear and meaningful comparisons with actuals. 

Allocating a high level budget to lower levels of granularity, on the other hand, can be difficult. I'll demonstrate how to split seasonal budgets utilizing Power Query. This will allow us to compare the budget on a quarterly, monthly, and even daily basis. At the end, I'll demonstrate how to use dynamic DAX calculations for effective budget-to-actual comparisons.

Allocation and Visualization of Budgets with Seasonality using Power Query and DAX

We are used to remote work scenarios due to the pandemic. But what will be after? Probably, not everybody will return to the office. This is the time of hybrid work and we need solutions to work together as a virtual team while having sub teams in the same location.
Collaborative apps can be part of the solution as they help us to feel as we all are together. Think about the effect of the Together Mode in Teams meetings and the fun while using the whiteboard app. There is so much more to come and so many options to build custom collaborative apps.

In this session we will focus on the following aspects:
- Challenges of hybrid work (in comparison to on-site and remote)
- Introduction: What are collaborative apps about and why should you think about using them?
- Live demo of different apps based on common use cases
- A brief look at the possibilites to build custom collaborative apps

How to Enjoy Hybrid work with Collaborative Apps in Microsoft Teams!

With SPFx 1.15.1 we got the ability for users to customize new, edit, and display forms of lists and libraries. This has been long asked-for and awaited feature which we now have a way to achieve using SPFx.

In this session we will see overview of SPFx form Customiser and how to associate it with SharePoint list.

We will also see demo and code walkthrough on how to customise list forms(view, edit and new) using SPFx

Customise SharePoint List forms with SPFx Form Customizer Extension

With Microsoft Search you can find informations in your M365 environment. It will give you an unified search experience to find relevant docments. So it will show you results from SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams. In the M365 admin center you can customize your Microsoft Search. With data sources you can include more ressources like websites in your internal M365 search. 

In this session i will show you, how you can customize your Microsoft Search, what's available and what's on the roadmap. You can see, how external Data Sources like a website helps users to find more informations.

Microsoft Search - Customize Your Finding Path

With Viva Insights, business leaders can gain insight into how work impacts their people and business with insight into organisational resiliency and work culture. 

This session is a deep dive into the organisational insights available with Viva Insights to help improve collaboration behaviours in the workplace. We will explore the available analytics through a live demo, customise them, use templates to define recommendation plans, and explore why this is crucial for organisations in a hybrid workplace.

Viva Insights: Analytics to Improve Collaboration Behaviours in the Workplace

Use the power of AI and machine learning with Microsoft Syntex to help innovate and automate business processes. Syntex when initially released focussed on classifying and extracting metadata but now there is much more such a Content Assembly, Image Tagging, Advanced Metadata search etc...

In this session we will take a deep dive into Contract management and show you how you can use Microsoft Syntex to manage the Contract lifecycle in your organisation. Manage contracts with automatic tagging, approval workflows, automatic document generation and lifecycle management.

I will also discuss the Content Lifecycle and how Microsoft Syntex with it's automation can help at every stage of the content lifecycle in your organisation. Initially classifying and extracting metadata to now generating documents in response to the metadata extracted.

At the end of this session you have a good grasp of Microsoft Syntex and it's capabilities for contract management and I will show you a great integrated use case. This scenario could then be rebuilt and adapted to meet many common business scenarios by using AI and machine learning to make work better!


Contracts Management with Microsoft Syntex

The metaverse is all the talk at present with both Facebook and Microsoft going all into to expand and build into it. But the biggest achievement of the metaverse is an industry wide scramble to figure out just what the metaverse is.

Microsoft Mesh is described by Microsoft as a way of letting people connect with a holographic presence, share across space, and collaborate from anywhere in the world. Mesh for Microsoft Teams combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences, with the productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents and more.

After attending this session, you will understand at a high-level:

What Mesh for Microsoft Teams is, what new opportunities it introduces and what business benefits it can bring?
A live demo of what stepping into Mesh for Microsoft Teams will feel like
How you can better prepare your organization for the metaverse and Mesh for Microsoft Teams

Technologies in this session will be
 
Microsoft Teams
AltspaceVR

Prepare to Step into the Metaverse with Mesh for Teams

Learn how tyGraph modernized their business processes using the Power Platform. tyGraph is an ISV focused on building analytics solutions for Microsoft 365 usage and adoption. As the company grew the need to formalize processes, consolidate data and find opportunities to add value through automate also grew.

Dataverse, Power Apps Model-driven apps, Power Automate and Power BI will be showcased to show how the Power Platform can transform your organization's business process.

A Case Study in Digital Transformation Using the Power Platform

Citizen Developers can be some of the best product and change champions your organization will ever have - if motivated and managed correctly. In this session, we'll show how many of the tools and techniques we have used in Champion programs in the past should be tailored to motivate and educate citizen developers. We'll also discuss how to help Citizen Devs accept and stay within your governance guardrails. You'll leave with an step-by-step 8 week program, including meeting agendas and a Citizen Developer Guide to make your own.

An 8-week Plan for Engaging, Supporting, and Governing Citizen Developers

Going through available tools to monitor M365 services

M365 Monitoring Tools

Join us for an interactive discussion about Women in Technology

Women in Technology Discussion Panel

Microsoft provides powerful services within Microsoft 365, but a comprehensive backup of your Microsoft 365 data is not one of them. Of over 1,000 IT Pros surveyed, 80% experienced data loss in the cloud. In this presentation from Veeam, you will learn the differences between Microsoft 365 native capabilities versus third-party backup, understand the reasons for protecting this critical data, and how to get started with your backup strategy.

7 Reasons to Backup Microsoft 365 Data

Case studies of removing roadblocks from M365 adoption caused by Outlook PST files 

PST Migrator - Case Studies

Does this sound familiar? You open Outlook in the morning and notice a "Your daily briefing" email sent from Microsoft Viva. You skim through, find a few suggestions to help you prepare for your day, and think "Hey, this is really helpful!". But did you know there is also an app in Microsoft Teams which offers even MORE useful recommendations to help you have a great workday?
 
Viva Insights, part of the Microsoft Viva Employee Experience Platform (EXP), can help you do your best work by providing insights about how you work along with recommendations to boost productivity and prioritize wellbeing. 
 
In this session, I'll show how Viva Insights helps you understand your work patterns so you can build better work habits such as:
 
	· Reserving time in your day for uninterrupted, focused work
	· Following through on commitments you’ve made to colleagues
	· Taking regular breaks
	· Maintaining boundaries between work and personal time by intentionally closing out your workday
	· And more!
 
I'll show how you can easily add the Viva Insights app in Teams so bring your laptop and phone to follow along!

Build Better Work Habits with Viva Insights

There has never been a time where improving the employee experience has been more critical. Organizations need new and innovative approaches and solutions as work and the workforce change. Today, every organization shares a need to enhance how we communicate and engage, collaborate and connect, and manage and develop employees. The question that is often hard to answer is, what is the best way to meet that growing need?

Join industry expert and Microsoft MVP Richard Harbridge and award-winning Digital Workplace strategist Brandon Pittman as they share insight into the future of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management, and perhaps more importantly, what organizations are doing today to prepare for it.

Getting The Most Out Of Microsoft 365 Employee Experience: Today & Tomorrow

How to Leverage Auto Attendants and Call Queue features for Contact Center Experience in Microsoft Teams

1.	Overview of the Configuration of Microsoft Teams Auto Attendant and Call Queue. 
2.	How a Teams Channel can be enabled with Call Queue 
3.	How an owner of Teams Channel can view the Agents availability in the Call Queue. 
4.	Reporting of Microsoft Teams Auto Attendant and Call Queue in PowerBI.


How to Leverage Auto Attendants and Call Queue Features for Contact Center Experience

in this session we will explain you how to update and manage your company teams rooms.

How to Manage your Microsoft Teams Rooms

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) is built on the top of Azure Logic Apps and offers a comprehensive offering to build low code/no-code automation.

Often the developers and architects have to decide which product to use while building automation.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover in-depth the key differences between Logic Apps and Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and their suitable use cases. We will also cover the pricing and the extensibility model.

You will learn:
Key differences between Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )
How to extend Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) using Azure Logic Apps
Best Practices of Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate  (Microsoft Flow)


Battle Royale : Azure Logic Apps Vs Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )

In this session, we will review the process of submitting a Power Platform custom connector to the Independent Publisher Connector program for certification. You'll learn the steps required for this community program as well as tips and tricks to build connectors faster and with fewer errors to fix. And by the end of the session, we'll submit a pull request for our connector to the Microsoft repo and start the certification process.

Build and Submit an Independent Publisher Connector in Under 50 Minutes

OME vs. Labels. An overview of Exchange Online Mail Encryption options with a Q&A session at the end. The session will demonstrate that by using labels over OME you can create flexibility and security when sending encrypted emails.    

Exchange Online Email Encryption – OME Versus Labels – Which One to Choose?

Whenever someone refers to O365 95% of the time they are focused on Exchange or SharePoint.  However, O365 has SO much more to offer and can make a huge impact to how you collaborate and manage yourself day to day.  In this workshop we will go through all the Apps that O365 has to offer and how you can integrate them into your day to day work processes.  
 
Does your company have 3rd party tools to that handle your company surveys, polling and task management’?  Own Microsoft Project but you don’t utilize all the functionality and wish you had something simpler?  If you said yes to any of these questions then you really need to attend this workshop.  I have a lot more questions like this and the answer is all going to be the same so let’s so through O365 from A to Z and learn about some new applications that can replace 3rd party tools and streamline how you work.

Getting To Know O365 From A to Z

To be resilient in the face of accidental, negligent or malicious data loss requires 1 thing...data protection. 

Maybe you don't believe in protecting your data in Microsoft's cloud. Maybe you have no objection, but just don't understand where the gaps are. 

Our discussion will focus on the data loss gaps in Microsoft 365. We will also review a checklist of features / functionality you should look for when finding a data resiliency vendor to support requirements for security, compliance, risk management and information technology policies.

You have limited to no options with data recovery if your system of record is deleted or corrupted / encrypted. 

How Resilient Can you Be if Your Data has Only 1 Point in Time...Now?

Effective change management requires awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement.  The Microsoft Viva suite is uniquely designed to fulfill each of those aspects of successful change.  Connections can build awareness through your intranet.  Engage can build desire through communities.  Learning can help deliver knowledge.  Topics can build ability through effective knowledge management.  Insights can help to reinforce good habits to support long term change.  Come listen to the beautiful music these tools make when they join together.

Microsoft Viva as a Change Management Toolbox

In this session you will learn about Viva Goals, which recently made its debut as part of the Viva platform. You will learn about how you can set up OKR's (objectives and key results) for your organization and your team. This enables measurable tracking by users toward larger, organization-wide goals.

Intro to Viva Goals

Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) system bridges the gap between people working remotely and those in the office with a meeting room solution that allows everyone to be seen, heard, and fully participate from anywhere. In this session, you will learn how to use MTR with real-world scenarios.

Introduction to Microsoft Teams Rooms

The New Teams Features for the Teams champions session will provide new features and upcoming features for Microsoft Teams. 

What is Teams?

Teams Features

New Features

What's coming

Q&A

New Teams Features for the Teams champions

For some admins and developers, the demand for cloud capabilities using data accessible only on-prem has increased as many organizations continue to employ Hybrid architectures.  To meet that need (and the security constraints that accompany on-prem data), the Microsoft Data Management Gateway gives us better integration to this data and in more secure ways, all while leaving it at the source.  Coupled with the Azure Data Factory, your on-prem content can architecturally reach a number of connections/computations never possible before by leveraging the unprecedented scale and compute power throughout the breadth of Azure services.  This session will illustrate how to leverage on-prem SharePoint content to interface with and drive cloud services through the secure Data Management Gateway and Azure Data Factory integrations.  We’ll cover the setup and configuration of the Gateway, the Factory, and our data connections, as well as some gotcha’s and pitfalls along the path to becoming a full Gateway/Hybrid addict.

Gateway Drugs: PowerApps/BI & Flow for On-Prem, Just the Beginning, now Azure Data Factory, Look Out

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams delivers a no code / low code  out of the box data platform for Microsoft Teams. You get relational data storage, rich data types, enterprise-grade governance, and one-click solution deployment. Dataverse for Teams enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps. Come see what Dataverse for Teams is all about and how to get started building databased apps within Teams. 

Getting Data from Dataverse inside of Teams

Technology is the easy part – it’s working with people that’s hard! Holding effective meetings, securing peoples’ time and attention, making decisions, and working on a team are all harder than they should be. Is it because everyone (else) just does things wrong? Or could it be that if we understood more about how the brain works and the different ways that people think, we could communicate more effectively? That’s the focus of this session: improving communication and building more effective teams through better understanding of the human brain. We will talk about the Whole Brain Model and learn more about the “toward” and “away” responses that guide nearly everything we do. In short, we will leverage neuroscience principles so we can all learn to communicate more effectively.

If I Only Had a (Whole) Brain: Understanding How Thinking Styles Affect All of Us

I spent over 12 years constantly being asked to make SharePoint not look like SharePoint. Finally, with SharePoint Online, sites are the prettiest they have been. Yet, they can be easily messed up if users do not follow some basic guidance to make them look amazing. In this session, I teach users of all levels how to make their site pages look amazing with all that is available using standard out of the box web parts. I will also provide some neat tips and tricks to rollout a professional looking intranet that will not look like SharePoint in its old days.

Make your SharePoint Online Pages Unsuck!

In this session we will see how to reduce number of tickets or calls to your support team and so reduce costs.
We will see how to automatically remediate issues with Intune when possible.
We will see also an application allowing your users to solve their issues themselves without calling your support.

Reduce/Avoid Tickets/Call to Support with Intune

Microsoft Viva is a new kind of employee experience platform designed for the digital era! In this session we will have an introduction Microsoft Viva, its different types (including Viva Goals and Engage) and how it helps organizations keep their employees more effective and more productive.



Modern Employee Experience with MS Viva

Viva Goals is not another project-tracking tool. We'll see it used to do things other project-tracking tools can't do. We'll learn the best practices from a large software company (Contoso?).

Viva Goals Practical Uses

There are far too many ways to manage and create tasks in Microsoft 365 including Planner, Microsoft Lists, SharePoint, Outlook, Loop (Fluid), Office App Comments, Microsoft Project and more. Which option works best for individual tasks? What about for Teams? What about for Projects? How can individual options be integrated with one another? With far too many options, most organizations are left confused and overwhelmed with no clear path to tackling this disorder.

In this webinar we will discuss:
-Why is the current Task Management landscape so challenging to navigate?
-Task Management Options: What are the pros and cons of each option, and how far can each be tailored to your needs?
-Use Cases and Strategies: Review some of the most common scenarios faced by organizations and what Task Management Tools should be used, as well as share some recommended best practices.
-Integration: With some organizations choosing a multi-faceted approach, how can different tools be integrated with one another to create a more holistic task overview for end-users?
-Microsoft Roadmap: How does Microsoft communications, its roadmap and its recent areas of innovation play into your decision for setting up a long-term strategy for Task Management?

While this is a confusing space that can be difficult to navigate, David will help simplify your options and guide you in the right direction. This webinar won't be limited to static slides but also live demos of different options and their configurability.

Task Management Overload: Navigating the Multitude of Options for Task Management in M365

Microsoft Teams is truly a cloud-based application--there are parts of it all through Microsoft 365! From an administration perspective, this can be confusing. This session covers the basic Teams architecture in the cloud, from a layman's perspective (not a cloud architect)--what you need to know as a Teams Owner or an Admin to find & protect your data.

Teams Architecture for Teams Owners

At Projectum we have developed the Power HUB, an Azure application that is designed to make reporting easier for everyone. It also creates the ability to make trend analyses on the data. During the session, we will look at the Power HUB and its configuration and we will create a trend analysis report based on projects that are stored in the Microsoft Dataverse.

Introduction to Power HUB and Trend Analysis Reporting

Taking advantage of the tools such as the CoE Starter Kit's Innovation Backlog application to create practical and useful measures along with some design thinking techniques for creating that master innovation list of solutions that are candidates for Low Code Development in the Power Platform.

Measuring Success in Power Platform with Power Platform Tools

As a speaker and a trainer, the most common question I get is "What goes in OneDrive, what goes in SharePoint and what goes in Teams?" .  Join me for this session as we demystify the file sharing options in Office 365 and find the most effective option for how YOU need to collaborate with your peers in your virtual workspace!

Spoiler Alert!  Nothing Actually Lives in Teams!  Managing Your Files in Office 365

Every team in Microsoft Teams has a Microsoft 365 Group behind it whether you know it or not. In this session we will demystify the group creation, explain why groups may behave differently and other popular places these groups are used. You’ll also get some tips on creating the groups.

Microsoft 365 Groups Demystified

The rapid shifts to virtual, and now to hybrid work, have taken their toll on employees everywhere. Microsoft has evolved the platform to help us keep up with the evolution of work.

From Viva Insights' to rich capabilities to Teams' features allowing us to sync asynchronously with teammates, hybrid work doesn’t have to feel “remote.” And everything doesn’t have to be a meeting.

Let’s dive into some of the tools and methods available in Microsoft 365 that help us stay focused, sane, and live in this virtual world.


Staying Live in a Virtual World

Learn to take your PDF or Word version of an employee handbook or even some of the employee resources to the next level.
In this session we will walk through the steps in SharePoint to turn documents into searchable, engaging, and informational web pages.
Finish this off with a great landing page and table of contents that will keep your employees coming back for more.

Revolutionize your Employee Handbook

There is no doubt that Microsoft Teams meetings  is one of the features most widely used not only because the simplicity to start/schedule a Meeting, but also because the great user experience it provides. But what about governing, controlling and even defining a “meetings etiquette” for Microsoft Teams meetings? In this session we will review the difference governance controls we have for Microsoft Teams both at a global level via meetings policy and at the granular level via individual Teams meetings controls

Governing Microsoft Teams Meetings: What are My Options?

In this session, I will show how to create and use power automate flows to take your Power BI reporting solutions to the next level
During this session, I will show:
1- How to create a live dashboard in Power BI with an MS forms data
2- Adding a button to your Power BI reports that allows users to send data from a Table/Matrix to their email and Teams 
3- How to schedule automatic emails or Teams messages to receive data from Power BI Datasets at a specific time or days
4- How to manage the flow’s output (Email, MS Teams, SharePoint, CSV,…) 


The Advantages of Integrating Power BI with Power Automate

Do you know Robotic Process Automation is the most popular technology in the business world today? Automated invoice processing using RPA helps in decreasing processing time substantially from months to hours, lets your data entry staff focus on higher value-added tasks, manages invoices better, and improves supplier relationships.

In this session, Sameer Mohammed will demonstrate a real-world example of vendor invoice processing using RPA with Power Automate. These invoices can be quite complex and as lengthy as 8 to 10 pages with some repetitive sections like invoice details with several line items. Also, in this session, you will see complex validations, process approvals over Microsoft Teams, and emails for notification. Sameer will demonstrate the whole process which might take days to write but Sameer will not be writing real code.

Attend this session to learn how to truly automate processes at your organization.

RPA to Automate Real World Invoice Processing Using Power Automate

The problem: we expect everyone to adapt and be able to analyze and explore our visualizations. The reality: you’re forcing end-users to adapt to the viz rather than adapting it to their needs.

Key Meeting Insights:
You need to know your audience when building a dashboard. Think about:
-- What does your audience do? What is their role?
-- Why are they coming to you? What do they need?
-- What drives the decisions they make?
Your visuals should behave like text does: context is key.
-- Is the visual help driving the decision? If it’s just nice to look at- then take it out.
-- Everything in a dashboard should help drive a decision.
-- Where can things go wrong in a dashboard?
-- Too much focus on visuals and not on context.
-- Don’t go too broad with your dashboard, have an audience in mind.
-- Understand that not everyone is analytically minded.
How can you win over dashboard users?
-- Do a discovery phase and interview stakeholders in advance.
--Understand their current state and get an idea of their ideal outcome
-- Know what you need to show in advance- what are the requirements
-- How are they going to use the data?
-- Sandbox and version- test out your dashboards in advance. Show all stakeholders how to use and interact with the dashboard. Get feedback and make edits.

Why Your Reports Aren't Being Used - And How to Fix It

Modern life is a mess of meetings!  Consider your calendar and the mix of meetings, personal appointments and reserving time to get work done or travel between events.  With time being at a premium for everyone this session will explore tools and techniques to help you manage the mayhem and calm your calendar.

Included in this session are meeting polls, open booking links and Microsoft 365 calendar features.

Managing Meeting Mayhem

I will cover the following Accessibility tools from Microsoft. 
1. Accessibility Checker
2. Accessibility Reminder Addin
3. Windows Magnifier
4. Windows Mouse options
5. Dictate and Read Aloud in Microsoft 365 Apps
6. Read Aloud and Immersive Reader in Microsoft Edge

Tips from a VIP (Visually Impaired Person) IT Guy!

Security is top of mind for any business moving to the cloud and even more so for those who had to move out of necessity without a clear action plan. Knowing where to start and what is available can be half the battle. This session will cover some of the top concepts when it comes to securing and monitoring your Microsoft 365 environment, the best tools to start with, and which admin center you can find them in. The best part is that some of these are available in your subscription now at no extra charge!


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