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 workshop, you will learn tips and best practices to improve “findability” and information organization and the basic concepts of information architecture. You will learn how about Microsoft Viva and how it should influence your IA planning. We will cover the critical aspects of IA: navigation/site architecture, page design, metadata architecture, and planning search experiences. 

You will learn approaches for planning navigation across the entire intranet and on individual sites, along with tips and best practices for audiences, hubs, and home sites; page architectures that support accessibility and great user experiences; and using metadata on pages and documents. 

Take away lessons about the best place to focus your IA energy and how to leverage the latest IA capabilities in Microsoft 365 – so that you can build an intranet that is an essential part of your digital workplace today and in the future.

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/3s3o6-Bgq_4

Information Architecture for SharePoint Intranets and Viva Connections in Microsoft 365

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In this half-day workshop, we will cover the key principles of Power Platform Governance. Effective governance policies play a big role in the successful roll-out of the Power Platform across the organization and running it on a scale. The governance policies will include Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Power BI.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover,
1.  Power Platform Governance Overview
2.  Center of Excellence ( CoE ) Starter Kit
3.  Automation Kit
4.  Data Loss Prevention policies
5.  User Management
6.  Permission manager
7.  License and capacity management
8.  Security and Control
9.  Managed Environments
10.  Best Practices


Power Platform Governance 101

Learn how to inspire, motivate, and drive sustainable Microsoft Teams user adoption across your organization while proactively enforcing operational governance.

With built-in integration with the full Office 365 stack, it is easier than ever for end-users to create a team and start collaborating.

But if that’s the case, why is your organization’s user adoption rate for Microsoft Teams so much lower than it is for Outlook?

The truth is email is ingrained and changing user habits is difficult. Studies show that only about 34% of users are willing to use new technology rollouts within the enterprise. To make the most of your Office 365 investment, it is critical that your users take advantage of Microsoft Teams' full capabilities to address their day-to-day business needs. The key to drive excitement, organizational buy-in and adoption is being able to provide relevant, business-contextual applications that drive consistent, sustainable usage.

Join this interactive workshop to learn how to roll out a sustainable adoption program in 90 days and positively impact organizational culture.

This interactive workshop will cover:
- What is Microsoft Teams and its role in today’s digital workplace?
- How Microsoft Teams can excite and inspire users by supporting their daily business activities.
- How to make it easy for everyone to maximize Microsoft Teams while ensuring organizational governance and policies are enforced.
- Strategies for preventing information overload, data sprawl, shadow IT and more.
- How to establish a holistic learning, knowledge sharing and support structure.
- How to create and deliver a 90-day sustainable adoption program that facilitates change, empowers users and enables knowledge sharing within the organization.

Beyond Microsoft Teams Deployment: How to Roll Out A Sustainable Adoption Program in 90 Days

This session introduces Microsoft Syntex and its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities. You’ll learn how to build document processing models that classify documents, apply retention labels, and extract key pieces of metadata. We will also explore how a strong information architecture optimizes your AI and machine learning results.

Getting started with Microsoft Syntex

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Microsoft Lists is a real solution for any person or organization wishing to structure and improve their organization. 

You can use Microsoft Lists for simple tasks such as tracking tasks, projects, inventory, but also for more advanced use such as managing your business trips, your content calendar or your events coming. 

In this session we will show you how to customize lists to meet your needs and how we can elevate your lists to the next level.

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OneNote is consolidating from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version (i.e. OneNote 2016). 

In this session we'll reintroduce ourselves to OneNote, learn some exciting tips and tricks along with business use ideas, and discuss what's new and what's coming for OneNote.

Goodbye, TwoNote: A OneNote refresher

Are you new to the Microsoft ecosystem? Join us in the session to learn all that Microsoft has to offer for career development and satisfaction. It's a vibrant, large community with many tools and programs that are free. Let us help you get the most from the resources that exist.

Getting started in Microsoft: Training, Tools and Networking

Microsoft Teams applications are hot. They streamline work for users and add collaboration to everyday business processes. These days, some of them work in Microsoft Outlook as well.

While there are many approaches to building these apps, you don't have to start from scratch! In this demo-filled presentation, you will learn how to take a web application or web service and grow it into a full featured Teams application while preserving your existing code base. 

Most importantly, your apps will streamline work by allowing users to share your app as they collaborate in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to reuse, rather than rebuild, your apps in Microsoft Teams.

From Enterprise Application to Teams Application: Bring your apps into Microsoft Teams

This session will cover 3 examples of migrating content to an M365 tenant (also applicable to SharePoint OnPrem). 

1) Network drive to SharePoint OnPrem or SharePoint OnLine - Maybe your server infrastructure has aged and there are requirements to move that data to a searchable platform. Let's walk through an example of tackling this challenge with multiple options as simple as moving just documents or more elaborate paths incorporating directory structure as metadata in the destination.

2) SharePoint OnPrem to OnPrem – Not all entities are committed to moving all content into a cloud-based platform such as M365. Governance may come into play which leads to a more basic move to an updated platform and often no re-architecture. In this case we can consider moving some tasks such as forms and automation to a cloud-based solution which can alleviate efforts with a future migration to M365. 

3) SharePoint On-Prem to SharePoint OnLine -  The migration path many are executing every day is to the M365 platform. In this path, considerations for re-architecture will be reviewed as best practices point towards a flat architecture as opposed to vertical. 3rd party apps ? make sure there is a compatible path when moving to the cloud platforms.


We will share the challenges we have experienced with each of these examples that can help you plan an efficient move to your next platform.


Migrating your content to SharePoint Online

Sharing outside your organization is a necessity within the modern workplace. Being able to understand how external sharing is brought together across Microsoft 365 will help you plan, manage, support, and effectively drive adoption along with proper governance of SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. 

In this session, you learn learn what you can do with external sharing from files to sites to Teams, how it works under the covers, and what management options are available to you. Getting content securely to the right people at the right time keeps a company moving.  

Everything you need to know about external sharing in OneDrive, SharePoint & Teams

There’s no shortage of collaborative task management apps out there, but Planner has some good things going for it right off the bat. It’s part of the fabric of Office 365 and that family heritage can present some real benefits, but in the world of task management software, it’s a relative newcomer—so where are the sharp edges and “gotchas” that could ruin your day? 

In this session, we’ll explore the good, bad and ugly of Planner and its relationship with Office 365. For example, why is Planner’s integration with M365 Groups both a blessing and a curse? We’ll review several real-world examples and give you the best practices and suggested approaches learned from real teams in the field.

Taking Planner to Task! Getting Planner to Work for YOUR Team

Power BI Premium is a way to get past many limitations of the shared Power BI service. However, with great power comes great responsibility. 

This session will outline exactly what Power BI Premium is, what features it unlocks and what limitations it changes. We will also call out situations where Premium may not be appropriate, and the steps that you need to take to ensure that you get the maximum value from it. 

If you’re considering a move to Power BI Premium, you’ll want to attend this session. 

Power BI Premium – When Do I Need It?

There's more to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote than what immediately meets the eye. 

In this session, we're not learning the basics - we're learning the lesser-known gems and useful tools tucked away inside these common apps. We'll cover topics including image background removal, small app settings that make a big difference, cross-app integrations, illustrations vs images, Rehearse with Coach, and much, much more. 

Note: This will be based on the Microsoft 365 version (not 2019 or earlier) of the Office desktop apps. While there will be some cross-over, there are features that will be covered that are exclusive to the most up-to-date version.

How well do you know the Microsoft 365 desktop apps? 70 min of tips & ideas to wow your co-workers

Join the Microsoft Education Product Team to learn all about what's new for Schools, Colleges and Universities. 

We'll cover:
- Teams Classwork: Organizing all your course content in one place
- New Assignments Grading improvements
- Learning Accelerators: Using AI to help students improve in Reading, Speaking, Searching, & Math
- And more to be announced!

What's New in Teams for Education

Microsoft 365 is a powerful platform that can empower business users to create their own solutions to more effectively handle daily business processes. This session is designed to showcase the capabilities of Microsoft 365 to inspire you to start building your own custom business solutions. 

In this session, we'll explore  real world solutions to demonstrate the capabilities of Microsoft 365 and inspire you to build your own. 

A few solutions we'll discuss: 
Using SharePoint and Teams to build collaboration spaces for getting work done and publishing portals for sharing and distributing information.

SharePoint hub sites and homes sites for organizing and future proofing your workspaces and portals complete with navigation, access controls, branding, and more. 

SharePoint News for news, announcements, and updates to keep your teammates up-to-date.

Microsoft Lists and Power Automate for simple and powerful approval, tracking, and publishing processes. 

Planner for central task management with your team. 

Yammer communities for enterprise information sharing such as frequently asked questions, weekly tips & tricks, town halls, and executive communications. 

Stream for creating, editing, and sharing video across Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Yammer. 

And Microsoft Teams to bring everything together and provide a central gateway for it all. 


