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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Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration. This full-day workshop explores how Viva Connections, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity. 

You’ll learn how to: 
- Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
- Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
- Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy
- Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
- Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage
- Introduce Viva Engage storylines and stories so employees can share knowledge & experiences
- Drive employee engagement with Yammer communities

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

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With the Power Platform having been available for over 6 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows and chatbots. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for your company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it. 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP, certified trainer and an early adopter of the Power Platform, as he walks you through how this Power Platform journey began and gives you a technical overview of Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. 

This workshop will comprise of several walk-through demos, stories with examples and even an interview with a surprise guest. 

Here is an overview of the workshop:
	- Power Apps
		+ Canvas
		+ Model-Driven
		+ Portal
	- Power Automate
		+ Flows
		+ Robotic Process Automation
	- Power BI
	- Power Virtual Agents
	- Dataverse
	- Integration with Microsoft Teams
	- Cross platform integration
	- Soon to arrive features!

So if you are someone who has heard about Power Platform and would like to get a better technical understanding on what the services have to offer, then you do not want to miss this workshop!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/DhArVJvKZVc


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Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy. 

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:
 1) Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
 2) Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
 3) Add conditional formatting to a calendar

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

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If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists 
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset. 

We will cover:
 - Simple extensions of the SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
 - How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
 - Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies as a result of 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. 

But extending Teams with new apps, flows, and bots requires a place to store content.  SharePoint is a possibility, but from a data point of view SharePoint has a lot of limitations since it isn't an actual relational database.  Dataverse, formerly known as CDS, provides relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance. But Dataverse has always been a premium feature requiring extra licensing.  

This is where Microsoft Dataverse for Teams comes in. Using the Power Apps application inside Teams we can build and deploy apps using a custom version of Dataverse that is included in the Microsoft Teams license.  This provides access to a real relational database and one-click solution deployment to the Teams app. 

In this talk we'll take a look at what Dataverse for Teams and how it can be used in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application.  

We'll cover the following points with slides and demos. 
  - What does the Teams License cover?
  - Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
  - Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
  -  Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
  - Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
  - Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot

Intro to Microsoft Dataverse for Teams: Extending Microsoft Teams with Apps and Flows

Microsoft has a variety of no-code, low-code for forms and apps services available, so which one do I use? 

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer, as he walks you through these form options available and provides guidance on when you should use which one. 

This is a demo heavy session with real-world examples.

Forms, Forms Everywhere but Which One Should I Pick?

Using Power Pages we'll learn to quickly create powerful external-facing websites and customize them with pages, layout, and content. We'll also learn how to configure and  allow users outside the organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously. 

We'll dive into portals ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) using Microsoft Power Platform CLI tool to deploy/publish changes from Dev > QA > Production. 

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

Combine Power Apps with Lists, Teams, and more to connect business solutions to your team wherever they are in today's hybrid and fluid work environments. 

We'll talk through the approach of building and using role-targeted apps vs. single "do everything" apps.  

Build Role-Targeted Solutions with Power Apps


In the last 12 months, 53% of surveyed organizations stated that they had experienced data loss or corruption in SaaS applications. Luckily, more organizations are adopting third-party backup solutions for Microsoft 365, but many are still vulnerable to data loss. 

Join this session from Veeam to learn everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 backup. We will not only show you how easy it is to start protecting your Microsoft 365 data for FREE, but you will also get a close look at how to make Microsoft 365 backup data immutable, leverage advanced monitoring capabilities, and provide self-service restore options to your users. 






Protect Microsoft 365 data with immutability and monitoring

Choosing between Canvas and Model-Driven Power Apps can be challenging for those unfamiliar with the Power Platform. After all, to some extent, they’re almost identical. Both Canvas and Model-Driven apps are low-code frameworks for creating business applications. They share similar components, and the results are pretty much the same. 
 
Above all, why should you integrate Power Pages into your toolbox after Microsoft's announcement about Power Pages? How does it differentiate from the Portals? Especially since it's built on the foundation of Power Apps Portals, providing the same robust capabilities and pro developer experiences along with a new low-code maker experience and out-of-the-box templates to design modern business sites.
 
If you want to learn about Power Apps App creation strategies, what to use, and when, this session is for you! 

Comparing Power Pages (Portals), Canvas Apps, and Model-Driven Apps

Power Apps and Power Automate are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer, but using them together can take your application to a whole new level. 

In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a flow from a Power App, how to pass information to the flow, and how to return values back to Power Apps when the flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss best practices that can make Power Apps and Power Automate work more efficiently together. 

Even if you know both Power Apps and Power Automate, this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Using Power Apps and Power Automate Together: Made for each other

Creating PDFs and other documents does not have to be a chore. 

In this session, we will learn:
  - How to generate documents from a Canvas-based Power App using Adobe PDF Services
  - Add conditional logic, tables, lists, and images dynamically within a Power App using Adobe PDF Services with Power Automate
  - Capture legally compliant e-signatures within a Power App using Adobe Acrobat Sign

This session is ideal for beginner to intermediate Power Apps users interested in bringing document experiences into their apps.

Add documents and e-signatures to your Power Apps

Tips, tricks, and checklists for adding Power Apps to your organization's tool set. How to plan for a successful integration for makers, developers, trainers, and more.

Getting Started with Power Apps Governance

Built on the fundamentals of Dynamics 365, Model-Driven Apps allow you to create complex and sophisticated business apps without writing code. Model-Driven apps are based on data from the underlying data source held in Dataverse. The level of integration with Dataverse is so intense that Model-Driven Apps can be described as 'data-first' apps.
 
But how do you start? With this session, you'll learn to develop an end-to-end model-driven app using Power Apps. First, we'll see how to set up a development environment. Next, explore the data model in Dataverse while working with tables, views, and forms. Finally, we'll learn how to share the app with colleagues and embed our app in Microsoft Teams. 

When we're finished with this session, you'll have the skills and knowledge of model-driven Power Apps needed to develop business applications on top of your data rapidly.
 

Build your Model-Driven App from start to end

Have you moved to Microsoft 365 for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Yammer to reap the benefits of modern collaboration, but left wondering how to incorporate some of the compliance features you now have access to? Join Microsoft MVPs Joanne and Daniel in this session where they'll bring together two equally important yet seemingly incompatible aspects of the modern workplace: collaboration and compliance.

Although serving both masters is challenging, this workshop will look at practical ways to "dress up" collaboration with compliance. With a he-said-she-said approach, Daniel will talk about the modern collaboration tools available in Microsoft 365 and Joanne will share what kinds of Microsoft Purview compliance controls could be applied to help them be more compliant.

Collaboration and Compliance in the Modern Workplace

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened a Pandora box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
• How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )
• How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )
• How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )
• How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )
• How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps