Join us at 365 EduCon DC 2023Microsoft 365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform training conference,&nbsp;brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Teams and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to SharePoint or an experienced power user, admin or developer, 365 EduCon has content designed to fit your experience level and area of interest. Our workshops and sessions are taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Regional Directors and Microsoft engineers.
At&nbsp;Microsoft&nbsp;365 EduCon, subject matter is divided into tracks and each session is designated for beginner, intermediate or advanced. Tracks are offered for the following subjects:&nbsp;Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams, Power Apps, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow/ Power Automate, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, Microsoft Viva and more. Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!

365 EduCon DC - A Microsoft 365 Conference

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SharePoint Online has many  services that you need to be familiar with to successfully manage your collaboration content. In this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different services and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.

We will begin by creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, explore how we can customize the M365 administrator dashboard to provide us only information related to the Microsoft 365 services we are working with like SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

We will create and assign users to access SharePoint Online both as an end user or and administrator. 

We will then roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell including; creating and configuring site collections, configuring user profile settings, creating and implementing a structured taxonomy using the term store, configuring the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, and explore several other SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business settings. During these configurations you will learn how these settings differ from those in SharePoint Server.

When you leave, you’ll have all the skills necessary to configure and manage the different SharePoint Online components using both the SharePoint Online Admin Center, and PowerShell. 

In addition to these skills, you will have a live Microsoft 365 trial tenant that you can use when you get back to the office and you can use while attending other conference sessions.  

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/rroc2fVFSgU

Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

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You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp 

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate.  You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops.  We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint.  Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts.  You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.
 
We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program
 
If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp 

The Microsoft Productivity cloud is used by more than 250 million users daily - and is the productivity platform of choice for most enterprises in the world. Microsoft Power Automate, part of the Microsoft Power Platform is a business process automation tool that allows you to streamline and automate business processes. 

In this session, Getting Started with Microsoft Power Automate, you will learn foundational knowledge of Microsoft Power Automate. 

First, you will learn the basic terms and concepts of Microsoft Power Automate. 

Next, you will discover how to create your own cloud flows. 

Finally, you will learn how to create workflows that integrate with Microsoft Teams. 

Getting Started with Microsoft 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

Let's demystify Robotic Process Automation (RPA)!  

This session will focus on how to automate legacy web and client applications using Power Automate.

We'll demonstrate how to leverage Desktop flow with Power Automate Desktop, and how/when/why you would combine desktop automation with Power Platform connectors and AI to provide end-to-end workflow solutions for your organization.

Automate Your Way with RPA

When it comes to technology, sometimes the deployment and implementation is the easy part.  The hard part is the change to the organization and how to adopt it.  

In this session, you will learn some of the best practices developed with customers in using Microsoft Viva Connections.  Learn what can be done with front line workers, how to connect and stay connected with remote employees and ensuring your intranet has something for everyone.  

At the end of the session you will have some great tips and tricks for not only the tech side, but getting the change into the business



Adopting Microsoft Viva Connections, a tale of Best Practices

Many organizations are taking their digital transformation one step further by providing their Frontline workers - the ones who are driving, delivering, working on the floor, or standing by the register, with Microsoft 365.  

In this session you will hear how organizations in retail and manufacturing are leveraging modern apps in Microsoft Teams to improve their day-to-day tasks. 

Empower your frontline workers with Microsoft 365

There are new federal regulations and executive orders all the time and it can be hard for an agency to keep their IT infrastructure in compliance. 

In our session we will discuss how the Microsoft Power Platform can better position agencies to be nimble and respond quickly to the ever-changing landscape.  

We'll show responding to a rapidly changing regulation landscape using multiple personas, both IT and Business decision makers, and speak to the key points of interest that drive both.  We'll show how these personas can leverage the Power Platform to both meet the changing regulations and show measured progress along the way. 

We'll include demos of various Power Platform products to highlight the progress of the agency and demonstrate increased velocity by leveraging low-code tools. 

Leveraging Low Code to Respond to Federal Regulations with Agility

As more and more enterprises embrace hybrid and remote working environments in a post-pandemic world, many organizations are looking to improve the way they deliver Learning and Development activities to their staff in engaging, interactive, and collaborative ways. 

Explore key scenarios such as:
- Enabling collaborative learning communities with Microsoft Teams for Change Management initiatives, building Communities of Practice, peer-based Management Training, and more;
- Foster a sense of inclusion and welcoming for new-hires with group-based interactive onboarding cohorts;
- Provide “in the moment” training for real-world project-based learning in Teams;

Don’t miss this interactive session and learn how AvePoint helps customers make the most of their M365 capabilities by leveraging, enhancing, and automating Microsoft Teams for L&D scenarios.

Modernize Corporate Learning with Microsoft Teams

Far more than data management apps, workflow solutions need to factor in the need for frequent change. You should expect even the best-designed models and applications to be regularly modified -- and that's a good thing. 

This has an impact on how to design processes, how to create forms and reports, how to connect to external data, and how to maintain internal data.

This session will talk about reasons why workflow solutions need to be modified so often, why you should embrace this, and strategies and tactics for addressing it. 

Its advice can be applied to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), SharePoint Designer, WEBCON BPS, FireStart, Nintex, K2, or most anything else.

Building Business Processes that Can & Will Evolve: Product-Neutral Principles

Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaborative platform with a web of interconnecting components for everyday work life. To some, the interconnections might be obvious and a part of our daily practice to get the most out of the application suite. But to some of us, the "intuitive" nature of the platform is more allusive. 

This session we will take a look at how to efficiently navigate Microsoft Teams to get the most out of meetings and daily communication.

How to Efficiently Navigate Microsoft Teams Meetings and Applications

GitHub Actions enable developers to automate repetitive and complex manual tasks. 

In this session, you'll learn how you can use GitHub Actions to create automation workflows including robust CI & CD processes to build, test & deploy solutions. But we won’t stop there. 

Learn how to instrument all sorts of things, optimize your workflows, deploy Azure resources with zero credentials, create custom actions, and more! Regardless if you’re building SharePoint Framework projects, Azure solutions, or something else. 

GitHub Actions: Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices for your Microsoft 365 and Azure Projects

Don't clutter up your calendar with everyone's vacation. Create a dedicated calendar where only approved vacations show up. 

In this session, we will build a vacation request list, turn it into a calendar and then automate the approval process using Power Automate.

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Creating flows in Power Automate is one of the most powerful features available to the citizen developer. 

However, in order to truly master creating flows citizen developers need to understand how to parse the often confusing arrays and JSON objects that are returned from various processes. 

In this session, Mark Rackley will break down how to effectively:
  - Access data in an array
  - Parse a JSON object
  - Generate a sample schema 

Don’t miss your chance to unlock a world of powerful features in Power Automate by learning to master data in Power Automate. 


Working with JSON and Arrays in Power Automate

A deep knowledge of expressions is a critical skill for a Power Automate developer. 

In this demo rich session, we'll take a deep dive into the types of expressions available and how to apply them. You'll see how to combine expressions, use expressions to format email text, how to use and apply date and string expressions, how to use expressions with collections and arrays and more... 

If you have a casual knowledge of Flow and want to "step up your game" with the use of expressions, attend this session!

Power Automate Expressions

If you've heard of Power Automate Business Process Flows; they're an implementation of stage/state machine logic available to companies with Premium licensing. 

SharePoint Designer 2013 supported stages, and third-party options range from emulation (Nintex) to engine-level support (WEBCON). 

This session will start by explaining how stage-based designs and processes work, move on to why they're often far better than classic sequential flowcharts, and conclude with examples of how to build and run such solutions. 

It's the most useful workflow "secret" you can possibly learn.