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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In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform, Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI. 

We will cover:
 - Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
 - How does Power Platform use Azure?
 - How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
 - Authentication and Authorization in Azure
 - Azure + Power Automate
 - Azure + Power Automate
 - Azure + Power Apps
 - Azure + Power Virtual Agents
 - Azure + Power BI
 - Azure + Dataverse
 - What are Azure Functions?
 - What are Logic Apps?
 - What is Azure Bot Service?
 - How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development. 
 
Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn :

1.  Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
2.  How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
3.  How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform


Hands-On: Azure For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

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Though it may have been challenging in the past, the latest innovations in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 have a great deal to offer for comms professionals planning a comprehensive and compelling corporate communications story. 

In this full day workshop, Susan Hanley and Mark Rackley will guide you through the process of architecting and implementing an effective Corporate Communications strategy using Microsoft 365 including:
-	Envisioning a Corp Comms strategy that effectively meets your needs
-	Determining the best site architecture to take advantage of user interests 
-	Creating / Publishing / Boosting News Posts
-	Learning about notification options
-	Understanding how Viva Connections can take your Corp Comms to the next level of employee experience and engagement
-	Understanding how Yammer creates an effective mechanism for both informing and engaging your employees


Best Practices for using M365 to conquer your Corporate Communications challenges

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Looking to demystify and make sense of Microsoft 365's many components and facets? Did you just buy Microsoft Office 365 or Windows? Or a Virtual Desktop on Azure? Looking for a sandbox to kick the tires on services? Come on over to this session as Dan and Jay help you wrap your head around the basics, from the ground up, and understand the capabilities you now have at your fingertips.

Demystifying Microsoft 365 for End Users and Business Decision Makers

As Microsoft Search continues to grow, in both search opportunities and customization options, organizations need to be thinking more about how they can best leverage this technology to provide their people with a best-in-class search experience.

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Search is creating a unified experience across the multitude of 365 apps (and beyond), learn about how you can leverage it best (both out of the box and through customization/extending the experience) and how recommendations on how you can roll it out successfully in your organization.

Microsoft Search: The glue that binds 365

M-19-21 in a nutshell: manage your permanent records electronically by 2019; create, manage, and maintain permanent federal records and related metadata by 2022; shut down your records storage facilities by 2022; maintain a program that complies with the Federal Records Act.

But, in Microsoft 365, what IS a record? And where do I store them? How do I categorize them? Can I move them to another system? Do I still need my legacy records database? Can I export my records to NARA?

During this session we'll review the latest guidance from NARA and discuss these important topics for modernizing your paper records processes using office 365 to support full information lifecycle management:

- How can I automate tagging of records in M365?
- Can I manage temporary and permanent records in M365?
- How do I build a RIM workfow in M365 that supports my file plan AND decreases storage costs?

Electronic Records and Me: Meeting M-19-21 in M365

Search in Microsoft 365 is currently limited to content that is stored natively in its tools, how can you add in your own business content to the search index? 

In this discussion we will discuss the options for getting your content into the search system in Microsoft 365. We will cover hybrid scenarios and how to best leverage them in addition to some other strategies that will help get your content ready for Microsoft Search.

Searching non-Microsoft 365 content in Microsoft 365

Creating a scheduled, automated process that will poll network drives and upload images with metadata to SharePoint online:
- Power Automate polls the Azure drive on scheduled intervals
- When detected, images are moved to the assigned SharePoint library
- The CSV is parsed and metadata is loaded to the related library and columns
- The completed documents and metadata are moved to an Archive location to keep the source directory clean

Other Off the Shelf tools were considered but Power Automate offered the most flexibility for future development while utilizing an existing M365 subscription.

Power Automate – Uploading content to SharePoint from Azure drives

Search in Microsoft 365 has been evolving for the past 2 years, transitioning from the classic SharePoint Search to a modern advanced Microsoft Search.
While we were able to customize classic search, we want to have the same experience in Modern Search and Modern SharePoint. 

Join me to learn how you can transition from the classic SharePoint Search and display templated to a modern customizable experience that fits your need.

In this session, we will cover how  you can use PnP as the solution to customize your search, create your own modern search center and how to build search driven sites.


Transition from SharePoint Search to Microsoft Search

Uber, Medibank, Rockstar and many more were targeted in 2022. We’ll peel the covers back on some of last year’s most popular data breaches and social engineering hacks to learn from and prevent them from occurring in the first place. Its also not a matter of if but when and we’ll take a look at how to recover data in minutes with Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365.

Anatomy of an Attack and How to Recover with Spanning Backup for M365

Microsoft 365 quickly brings together collaborators across your agency and your partners. That built-in collaboration, however, creates new concerns around tracking who has access across your environment. In the past years we've talked about Governance, but by not talking about security we are leaving a large hole in the security of our data. Organizations must monitor how users interact with data within a Zero Trust Architecture.

When viewed individually, the core pillars of Zero Trust, such as network, data, and user, are easily manageable within M365: How is our service secured? How do we protect sensitive data? Which users do we authenticate in our system? However, this approach misses the intersection across Zero Trusts pillars in the collaboration spaces themselves.

In this presentation, we will discuss the importance of including your Collaboration Workspaces (Teams, SharePoint Site Collections, and Groups) in your security plans and how to leverage native and 3rd party tools to best accomplish this.

Secure Collaboration in M365 within a Zero Trust Lens

Are you the one unintentionally holding yourself back from the career you want? 

Join Roxy Ndebumadu and Rima Reyes as they share about their career progressions and offer tangible ways you can grow your career while being your most authentic self. 

We will cover everything from building a personal brand to refining your stakeholder strategy to getting a promotion.

How to get what you deserve at work through self-advocacy

Classroom training by itself is not enough. It wasn't enough before COVID and it's definitely not enough or even possible many times post COVID. Employees are in hybrid environments spending time at home and office as required. There isn't a single learning delivery solution that by itself can provide the appropriately needed learning and support for our Microsoft 365 users wherever they are. 

This session will dig into the learning technology models combining macrolearning and contextual microlearning that works! We will see real life examples of solutions deployed by many major corporations around the world on how to structure blended learning for your organization in the new normal.

Design blended learning solutions for your organization

It may have taken a while to get here, but Microsoft has been transforming how US Federal Agencies and State and local Governments collaborate EXTERNALLY as well as internally. 

Recent innovations can allow you to take inter-agency and partner collaboration to the next level, but understanding the building blocks is the key to developing a sustainable and secure external collaboration strategy. 

In this session, we’ll review the basics of external collab in M365, but also highlight new and game-changing features like “cross-cloud collaboration” that offer significant new options—and considerations--  for collaborating between GCC, GCC High and Commercial M365 clouds. 

Modernizing Inter-Agency Collaboration - A Primer for US GCC and GCC High Customers

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.

Building your own 365 knowledge network

If you work in a government or government-adjacent role, it's likely you will come into contact with GCC, GCC High, or even DOD tenants.

When planning your SharePoint intranets, Teams rollouts, and Power Platform solutions, it will be important to know which capabilities you'll have in which types of tenants.

In this session, join Nick Brattoli as he compares portions of Microsoft 365 across tenant types while sharing his experience working on different government projects.

He'll talk about things such as:

Reasons you should be in one tenant type vs another

Basic feature comparisons between commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DOD regarding SharePoint, Teams, the Power Platform, Viva, and Syntex

Challenges that can arise during migrations and fresh implementations, and how to deal with them

If you are new to government tenants, or have experience with government tenants but not commercial, this session will provide a nice jumping off point to start building your solutions!

Government Tenants vs Consumer: How do they compare?

The Viva Dashboard is one of Viva Connections' most powerful yet misunderstood components. The Dashboard pulls the tools your employees need in a quick and easily consumable dashboard that they can access in the office or on the go. Dynamic interactive dashboard cards allow employees to complete simple tasks or review critical data right in the flow of their work. 

But what's possible? And how do you set up our Dashboard for success? Join Microsoft MVP & Regional Director Eric Overfield as he walks you through the Viva Dashboard, why your team should be using it today, and how you can tailor it to your team's specific needs. The Dashboard can be built with no code, or a developer can create custom cards to meet the specific needs of an organization - he'll show you both! 

In this session: 
	• Viva Connection's Dashboard 101 
	• Dashboard dynamic cards 101 
	• Learn how to create cards without any code 
	• Discover what's possible when creating custom Adaptive Card Extensions 
	• See community card samples that you can leverage for your team 
	• Live demos of Viva Connections Dashboard in action