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.
M365 Twin Cities is a FREE community-run in-person event being held January 21, 2023.

We are currently seeking sponsors for our January 21, 2023 event.&nbsp;A variety of sponsorship levels are available. We offer multiple methods of engaging with attendees at our event, as well as sponsor sessions to promote your products and services. Contact us via email at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:sponsors@m365tc.com">sponsors@m365tc.com</a> for more information.

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Are you in the middle of implementing a strategy for managing the Power Platform and feel like you are playing whack-a-mole?  Learn about a top 10 list that will set the groundwork for a successful Power Platform governance strategy.  During this session you will understand the importance of a Center of Excellence and what tools you should be utilizing to gain control over the Power Platform and operationalize your strategy through pillars of Secure, Monitor, Alert & Action and Deploy.  If you have struggled with Power Platform administration and are looking for a strong foundation to build upon, come join us for this session to secure your path forward.

Top 10 table stakes for Power Platform Governance

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Now that the workforce is trending towards remote/hybrid, paper pushing approval processes are out. How do we accommodate for our users outside of the office walls? How do we keep record of something that isn’t best served in an email or Teams chat? (Think PTO request, new hire setup, annual policy review, etc.) Approvals are a versatile M365 component that streamline the signoff process but there are many things to consider before making your approval process electronic. First, before thinking about the technology (i.e. Power Apps and/or Power Automate), a discovery conversation is necessary to construct an efficient, repeatable process and we will touch on the main points for this. Next, we will examine the four pillars of the Approval lifecycle: 
1.	Creation of the task – will OOTB Approvals suffice or do we need to design our own custom process with Power Automate? 
2.	Format the notification – how will we let our approvers know they have a deliverable? The most popular options include email and/or adaptive cards and we will cover the major differences in formatting.
3.	Monitor items in progress – how do we see active Approvals? Do we need to build in reminders for our task?
4.	Document the results - how do we share the results of our Approval and more importantly, record the outcome? 
Lastly, we’ll look at an alternative to Approvals using Power Apps and discuss which business processes would fit best with this model. 

Transform your Request Processes with Approvals, Power Apps & Power Automate

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In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. 

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

Power Automate flows can do a lot to automate repetitive tasks.  But up until now they only worked if there was a pre-built connector with actions that can accomplish the task or at least an existing Application Programming Interface API that you could use to build a custom connector.  

In this talk we'll look at Power Automate's entry into the world of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) called UI flows. Using UI flows You can automate repetitive tasks on your desktop in Windows or a Web application. UI flows record and play back user interface actions, like keyboard entries, mouse clicks, etc. 

UI flows open up possibilities to automate applications that don't have a pre-built connector or an API.