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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Learn how to get started quickly with Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) in SharePoint Online. Discover how to use built-in connections to connect Power Apps to services such as SharePoint Online, Office 365 apps, and even SharePoint on-premise. Learn how to customize the look and feel of forms and apps to meet the needs of users and apply company branding. 

Also, learn how to share Power Apps with colleagues without going over budget: 
- Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
- Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
- Connect to data sources
- Themes, branding, and layouts
- Conditional formatting
- Rules and data validation
- Formula bar

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to take advantage of pre-built templates for creating workflows. Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser. 

Finally, we'll discuss how to manage your Flows during and after runtime:
- Connectors, data sources, and gateways
- Events vs triggers
- SharePoint Designer actions vs Flow actions
- Conditions for Flow
- Workflow history
- Flow connections and ownership
- Licensing

The future of SharePoint is exciting, and the addition of Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.


Business Process Automation with Power Apps and Power Automate

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An intranet can support your organization’s ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, make information easy to find, automate business processes, and help cut administrative costs... but where do you start? In this workshop, we will focus on the mechanics of building the basic structure of an intranet in modern SharePoint Online and surfacing it in Teams through Viva Connections.

At the end of the workshop, you will have a simple intranet in your own developer tenant with common solutions like a Policy Center, global navigation, and personalized content experiences.

In the developer tenant, we will:
* Create a branded experience
* Build an enterprise information architecture
* Surface the right information, at the right time
* Centralize information and create search-based experiences
* Create learning and onboarding content 
* Implement better practices for writing for the web
* Create a seamless connection between your SharePoint-based Intranet and Microsoft Teams
* And demo some advanced topics

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the out of the box technical capabilities so you can focus on identifying your desired business outcomes, defining your overall content strategy and governance, and driving the adoption of your intranet at your organization. 

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/w20ottxujLs

Jumpstart your intranet

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The way we work has fundamentally changed, and organizations are clamoring to connect disparate digital tools into an intuitive and holistic digital workspace. Microsoft Viva—Microsoft's employee engagement platform—is becoming the central hub of a successful digital workplace. With nine+ modules spanning four key pillars (Connection, Insight, Purpose, & Growth), understanding the Viva ecosystem can feel daunting. 

In this session, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Eric Overfield breaks down the many modules of Microsoft Viva and shows you how they can bring transparency, efficiency, and productivity to your workforce. Walk away with practical applications to configure and architect your Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva-empowered digital workspace.

In this session: 
- Understand each of the current Microsoft Viva modules
- See how the modules integrate and a day in the life of an employee using Viva
- Learn successful patterns & practices when rolling out Viva components in your organization 

Microsoft Viva + Teams: Remedy Productivity Paranoia

Teams meetings are core to collaboration in the hybrid workplace. 

In this session, we'll take a deep dive into how you can make the most of your meeting experience with video, screen sharing, and meeting recordings. 

Topics include:
  - How to manage meeting recordings
  - Setting meeting options for presenters, attendees, and guests
  - Spotlight, pin, and focus on presenters
  - Together mode
  - Presenter modes for standout, side-by-side, and reporter views
  - PowerPoint live for a better PowerPoint experience
  - Customizing your background
  - Share your screen, window, or whiteboard
  - Use your phones camera as a web cam or secondary camera 

and more!

Lights, camera, action with Microsoft Teams

In this session we will go through the Teams Shared Channel functionality from start to finish. 

We will discuss the configuration of it, how it works, how it differs from the previous guest experience, and why it is a better experience for the employee experience!

Intro to Teams Shared Channels

Microsoft Teams is a very powerful and popular service that provides both communication and file management functionality. There are several configuration options available to ensure your users are able to access the features and functionality you want them to, but still control just how much they can do. 

In this session, we are going to explore how to deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams functionality. After the session you will have a better understanding of how to administer Microsoft Teams policies, external access, Teams-related roles, as well as monitoring and auditing Microsoft Teams which all can be done by using the Teams Admin Center, and PowerShell.  

Administration and Management of Microsoft Teams

As the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history, more and more data is being generated in and through use of Microsoft Teams. As a result of its extensibility, there are a lot of places this data can be created and stored, from chats and posts to files saved in a Teams channel.

Without governance in place Teams sprawl can negatively impact the business’ experience with Teams. 

What does governance look like for Microsoft Teams? Should sprawl be a concern and if so, how do we limit it without limiting Teams adoption functionality?

How can you ensure you’re adequately capturing the information your organization needs to be compliant with internal and external policies?

Join information management experts Joy Apple and Jay Leask as they show you:
  - How Teams fits into the modern architecture model of Microsoft 365
  - How to leverage proper architecture in Teams to facilitate collaboration
  - The importance of an overall Office/Microsoft 365 information management strategy and how it will improve search and audit capabilities.
  - Base-line Teams governance best practices
  - How to provision Microsoft Teams to automatically tag documents with appropriate metadata needed to meet records mandates.
  - Integration between Teams and SharePoint Online to give you full management over documents within Teams.


Governance, Information Management, and Teams - What you need to know!

Power Virtual Agents empowers users to easily create powerful bots using a guided, no-code graphical interface without the need for data scientists or developers, and you can even deploy them in Microsoft Teams! 

In this session, Creating Power Virtual Agent chatbots for Microsoft Teams, you’ll learn to create Power Virtual Agent chatbots for Microsoft Teams. 

First, you’ll explore the basics of Microsoft Power Virtual Agents. Next, you’ll discover how to create a chatbot using the Power Virtual Agents Teams app. 

Finally, you’ll learn how to publish your bot in Microsoft Teams. 

Creating Power Virtual Agent Chatbots for Microsoft Teams

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An example of managing business processes from a Teams interface.

As we strive to streamline business processes and create access from any device, the simplicity of accessing priority content, forms, and workflows from a single interface is always a simplified path.

In this session, we will review interface examples where users can access vital business processes from their Teams app.

Teams for Every Day

Teams live events (live events, webinars, Teams meetings) are extremely powerful and can power conferences large and small. After helping put on the largest community conference run on Microsoft Teams some key things were learned that could help anyone planning on putting on a conference. 

This could be for a community event or for your organization. We will review scenarios where each type of event in Teams can be of best use and what to use when. 

In this session we will talk about the 
 - lessons learned from the conference
 - features of teams live events
 - options for putting on a conference

Running Teams Live Events at Scale

Microsoft Teams continues to be the work zone for employees. Integration with SharePoint, Viva, Yammer, Lists, Planner, OneNote, etc. make it possible to live and work inside of Teams all day. Managing the prime-time real estate of pinned apps in Teams can be challenging, especially as your employees' list of critical apps grows. How do you prioritize which apps get pinned for all users? And should you leave open navigation space so users can select their own favorite apps to pin?

In this session, we'll examine sizing and use of the Teams navigation bar. We'll discuss organizing principles, talk about types of models (pre-selected app pinning vs. employee self-service pinning) that may work for your organization, and give you tips on how to prioritize Teams navigation icons.

Manage the mess: Building an organizational strategy for pinned apps in Microsoft Teams

Every industry comes with specific regulations which include changes in security and compliance policies. Microsoft Purview Information Barriers help secure your environment in various use cases like insider trade, but also with Remote assist workflows. 

Join Martina who will talk about real-world scenarios to implement Microsoft Information Protection and Information Barriers. 

The session provides problem solving steps of a compliance project, where to start, how to process it, common issues and how to solve it. 

The session covers topics like: How to use Microsoft Information protection in Microsoft Teams, What Information Barriers can do to solve certain compliance and security use cases as well as practical use cases and scenarios.


Use MS365 Purview Information Barriers to stay secure & compliant in your Microsoft Teams workplace

Microsoft Teams is a powerful tool and collaborative platform for interconnecting applications. These connections span beyond just Microsoft data connection points to 100s of other applications that your ecosystem might leverage. Making these applications easy to access, making data exchange efficient for your uses, and encouraging adoption. 

In this session, you will learn some of the helpful frontend platforms your users can leverage and how to modify the default configurations in Teams so that each department has its tools upfront.

Customize Microsoft Teams to our Environment

Microsoft Teams is revolutionizing how we collaborate in business. However, many organizations struggle with their Teams implementation due to complexities and misunderstandings of how Teams impacts their Architecture. 

This session will cover how we can architect our intranet with Teams in mind, not only to reduce duplication of sites, but to use existing team sites with Microsoft Teams. 

We'll also discuss:
  - Security best practices for Teams (and SharePoint)
  - Implications of private and shared channels
  - How tabs and connectors help us turn channels into true hubs for teamwork


Teams in the Architecture

Are your employees utilizing Microsoft 365 to the fullest? Do they have the training and support needed to be successful in their job? 
 
Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways is a Microsoft-built solution you can deploy to your tenant, today, for free. It creates an adoption and training center that showcases dynamic, always up-to-date content from Microsoft to support training and adoption for your end users. You can also customize it to fit the exact needs of your organization by incorporating your own training content and highlighting your events. 
 
Come to the session and I will show you how you can deploy and get the best use out of the content from Microsoft 365 learning pathways.

All that you ever wanted to know about Microsoft 365 learning pathways

Why do so many people resist changing their ways? It's not because Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint are bad platforms - quite the contrary actually - it's because of their past experiences with change in technology. Change Management is hard. No doubt about it! 

In this session, we will talk about the 5 proven things You can do to make your users fall in Love with Microsoft 365 and drive end user adoption of the platform. 