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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Shared Channels is a new and powerful collaboration feature for Microsoft Teams. It has the ability to unlock many existing barriers to collaboration inside and outside your organization. But with great power comes great responsibility.

We'll discuss three key areas that could pose challenges to your administration of Shared Channels:  
1) Confusion over when to use a Standard Channel vs Private Channel vs Shared Channel 
2) Recognition and concern that data in Shared Channels can be exposed to outside people and entities. 
3) Confusion about how to govern Shared Channels 

Come learn what Shared Channels can do for end-users, when they should be used, and options for governing access to the data so that you can reap the collaboration benefits without incurring undo risk.

Microsoft Teams Shared Channels: Know your Options

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Microsoft 365; it's a vast platform that every organization uses a little differently.  The options available to meet the needs of the business are endless.  You have so many ways to communicate, collaborate, and store your data.  To be honest, many find it daunting.  With more and more organizations moving into the cloud and adopting a hybrid working model, understanding which tool best meets your organization's needs is paramount for an efficient transition to this new way of working.  

Join David as he breaks down the key collaboration tools within Microsoft 365 and helps you understand which tool best fits the different situations.  He will break down an organization's options for communications, collaboration, and maintenance of their information.  He'll leave you with the understanding you need to support your organization as it tries to determine which application best meets its needs.

OneDrive, and SharePoint, and Teams...Oh my!  Understanding Microsoft 365's Collaboration Features

OneDrive is a fundamental backbone of Microsoft 365 but how can you be sure your users are getting the most out of it? The OneDrive Sync Client allows your users to work with their files from Windows File Explorer (and Finder in macOS) but it can also offer so much more. During this session, you will learn how the sync client works, how it is used, how to control its behavior, and how to educate your end users to get the most out of OneDrive. 

Sync up your company with OneDrive

SharePoint Intranets have radically evolved in the past 5 years. This session's focus is on the advancements in building an Intranet with SharePoint combined with Viva to help you make your company's intranet more useful and ready for prime time. My presentation style will mix rich content combined with how-to, best practices, and demonstrations.
 
Topics include: All about hub sites, how to use them and what they deliver, connecting subscriber sites, what templates to use when, leveraging distributed content and pulling it all together using search and web parts, how to use news posts for news and for other creative use cases, configuring Viva Connections to expand the reach of the Intranet into Teams, and using Viva Engage to bring in Yammer posts within Teams and SharePoint.
