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!

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Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies during the global pandemic.  For many organizations Teams has become the app that connects all their employees together.  Power Platform apps, like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, provides a low-code platform for extending that functionality. In September, 2020 Microsoft announced Dataverse for Teams. Dataverse for Teams is included in the Teams license so you can build apps, flows, and bots that make use of relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance without additional expense.

In this workshop we'll look at how to use Dataverse in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application.  By the time you leave you'll have an integrated Teams application and bot that can help your employees manage their presence as people move back into the office after the Pandemic. 

We'll cover the following with slides and hands-on exercises:
  -  What does the Teams License cover
  -  Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
  -  Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
  -  Securing Dataverse for Teams Tables
  -  Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
  -  Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
  -  Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot
  -  Managing Dataverse for Teams Environments
  -  Deploying Custom Apps, Bots, and Flows to additional Teams

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/iaNLIczVFNg

Dataverse for Teams: Extending Teams with Apps, Flows, and Bots

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Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see very similar questions asked over and over again. In this workshop, we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:

Part One: Power Apps
  - Managing Delegation Warnings
  - Working with Dates and Times
  - Conditional Formatting of data
  - Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow

Part Two: Power Automate
  - Using Loops and Parallel Branches
  - Working with Large Data Sources
  - Using Conditions and Switches effectively
  - Implementing Error Checking/Correction

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/S1Wjjwv0P50

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Email, file shares, documents, legacy systems, metadata…..it can be overwhelming. Whether you are planning a brand new Office 365 implementation, migrating from another system, or supporting the Teams and SharePoint sites you already have, this presentation will help you get (and stay) organized.

I will take you through some tips and tricks for organizing even the most challenging users in Office 365:
  -  Learn about locations that users typically hoard and save their data
  -  Learn methods to help difficult users adopt Teams and SharePoint
  -  Sort through all the different tools to help everyone know "when to use what"
  -  Review easy ways to plan your architecture (and free tools to help!)
  -  Discuss training methods that will increase user engagement

Bringing Calm to the Chaos: Modern Content Management that works for everyone

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Over the past few years, it has become increasingly easier to create powerful bots with little to no code. Now almost anyone can quickly create a deploy a chat bot with ease. Power Virtual Agents is a premium add-on to the Power Platform that allows you to create and deploy such bots. 

As part of Dataverse (previously called Project Oakdale) many Microsoft 365 subscribers have access to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams. These chat bots are covered under their Microsoft 365 licensing and require no premium licensing to develop, deploy, or use. 

In this session attendees will learn:

1) How to create / deploy chat bots in Teams
2) How to create Topics, use branching logic, and prompt users for input
3) Add even more power to their chat bots using Power Automate flows.

All without any additional licensing! 

An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents for Microsoft Teams

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There is little doubt that the capabilities of Microsoft Syntex can revolutionize the way organizations leverage SharePoint as a modern, intelligent content platform. But with so much value in moving content-related automation into your Microsoft 365 strategy, how will you deal with the already-difficult task of managing, securing, and ensuring compliance of all of that new content you are now piping in as a result of your adoption of Microsoft Syntex? 

In this session, we’ll explore some of the less “exciting” but JUST AS IMPORTANT features of Syntex that can help you make sure you are optimizing your overall content management strategy for security, cost, and sustainability.

Content Management in Microsoft Syntex: The Content is Here, Now What?

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within.  Data breaches happen too often and are increasing.  As a result, protecting its data has become a priority for 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 protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into those hands that should not have it.

You Have Sensitive Information.  Now Let's Protect It.

Microsoft Syntex is a big step forward in providing the ability to intelligently identify content across your Microsoft 365 environment. Unstructured content is being produced at an exponential rate in our modern workplaces today and we need a way to manage it at scale by providing structure (content types and metadata) and governance (security and compliance controls) to it. Microsoft Syntex is that and so much more!

To demonstrate this new capability, Joanne Klein will walk through a live demo of using a Microsoft Syntex AI document understanding model to intelligently identify Statements of Work across SharePoint libraries. 

The walkthrough will cover setup, training, deployment, and all the "extras" you get with a Syntex license.  

Microsoft Syntex. It’s almost magic.

An end-to-end look at Microsoft Syntex

Everyone talks about them, but what the heck are they and how can I use them? We will start with some demos of how to use custom content types, then on to what the heck are content types anyway and we will end with another demo to build content types in the browser.

Key Takeaways:  
1) What are content types?
2) Planning content types 
3) Creating site columns 
4) Creating content types 
5) Using content types 

Content Types: Easier Than the Theory of Relativity

Microsoft’s policies on M365 data backup are focused on the infrastructure of M365 and the ability to access their interface. When it comes to backing up your critical data and protecting it from potential threats such as disasters, ransomware, and human error; that clearly lies on the shoulders of the owner of the data. Synology has built a robust array of hardware options and software innovations that will protect all of your organization’s sensitive data to keep downtime to a minimum. Join our session to learn more about Synology’s data protection solutions as well as take a deep dive into our backend to see how setting up a data retention policy could save you from potential disasters and downtime.

Synology Data Backup for Microsoft 365: How to Protect Yourself From Data Loss & Disasters

Businesses are ramping up the adoption of information and records management (IRM) within their organization. However, the problem many are facing is that IRM can require a lot of user interaction to be fully effective.  

These increased requirements on the user greatly affect the adoption of IRM processes. Microsoft 365 provides several powerful and robust features that can increase records management within the organization while decreasing the load on the end-user.

This session will cover many topics such as auto-classification, retention inheritance, and trainable classifiers to assist organizations with their information and records management adoption.

Increasing Adoption in Microsoft 365 Information and Records Management

OneDrive for Business is the Microsoft cloud storage service that comes with Office 365 or SharePoint Server. With OneDrive, you can securely store all your files in one place, share them with others, and get to them from anywhere.

But did you know that OneDrive can sync SharePoint document libraries using the new and improved OneDrive sync client on both Windows and Mac OS X? 

Or you can move and copy files quickly and easily with metadata between OneDrive and SharePoint? 

Or that you can securely share content with users both internally and externally to your organization? 
How would you like to be able to work with a colleague on the same file, at the same time, in real time? 

Or perhaps you'd like to use a workflow for content in your OneDrive? 

Join me in this interactive, hands-on session where I demonstrate the new features that you should be aware of when working with OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online.

I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!

You’ve probably attended a few sessions about compliance and retention policies in SharePoint over the years, but how do you make real use of it in your organization? How do you ensure that you have architected your environment to ensure data is securely stored for as long as required but not too long?! How do you ensure that your users understand and know where to store content so that it gets the correct policies applied? 

Go beyond the how to and learn from real world scenarios that enable organizations to not only set up the correct policies but help ensure users do their part to put data where it needs to go. 

Real world compliance and retention in SharePoint and Teams

Take your Microsoft 365 Administrator skills further by learning to automate repetitive tasks using the magic of PowerShell. 

In this session, you will learn how to use PowerShell for Microsoft 365. A basic understanding of PowerShell is recommended to get the most out of this session!

Getting Started with PowerShell for Microsoft 365

Microsoft Syntex is Content AI integrated into the flow of work, but what does that really mean?

 Join Microsoft MVPs Joanne and Daniel in this session where they'll unravel this statement and demonstrate how Syntex can bring structure to content and feed into Viva Topics to automatically organize it for you! Ultimately, this makes it easy for people to find the information and knowledge they're looking for right when they need it in the context of their work.

Joanne and Daniel will demonstrate an end-to-end example of how a simple-to-build Syntex AI model, SharePoint taxonomy, curated Viva topics and AI-generated topic pages can come together in a secure and compliant manner to turn content into knowledge across the Microsoft 365 apps users use every day.

Microsoft Syntex and Viva Topics - A better together story

What does it mean to "democratize AI"? Join this session to see it in action!

This session will provide illustrations on how business users and citizen developers could leverage AI and Machine Learning when building apps, without needing deep technical background.

We will walk through how to leverage AI Builder capabilities of the Power Platform, train AI models, and utilize those intelligence in your applications and workflows.