Microsoft 365 EduCon &amp; PWR EduCon&nbsp;(a Microsoft 365 and Power Platform conference)&nbsp;brings to you the world’s leading experts in&nbsp;Microsoft 365,&nbsp;SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and Azure. Whether you are&nbsp;new to Microsoft 365, SharePoint or Power Platform, 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 Microsoft&nbsp;365 EduCon &amp; PWR 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;SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Azure, Teams, OneDrive, Search, Content Management, Power Users, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Workflow, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Development, and more.
Choose one complete learning track or mix and match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs! <a href="https://www.365educon.com/Seattle">Find out more</a>

365 EduCon and PWR EduCon Seattle

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we work, and it's more accessible than ever before. 

This full-day workshop led by Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley will explore how AI is transforming organizations and what it means for you. Attendees will learn about the AI features available in M365 and how to use them to build applications and workflows. 

The workshop will also cover real-world examples of how companies are using AI today and what the future holds for this technology. Get ready to ride the AI tidal wave and discover how it can enhance your productivity and work efficiency.

Navigating the AI Revolution in M365

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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

Learn about the different ways in which you can be more productive at your organization with Power Automate and M365. 

Discover in product experiences across, SharePoint, Teams and Excel among others that let you Automate your tasks giving you the time to focus on whats important. 

Automate M365 using Teams and Power Automate

Learn to synchronize your dev, test, and prod configurations (O365, Azure AD, Intune) and promote changes between environments using Configuration as Code to improve security and prevent production downtime. 

Plus, learn how to leverage Policy as Code to programmatically configure CIS or other compliance baselines on M365 and back up and remediate drift, ensuring ongoing compliance with best practices.

Governance Controls (Dev, Test, and Prod) For M365 Configurations

Before you start improving findability in your organization, it’s essential to do a reality check: what content you have, how everything is stored, how everything is being used, who the key users are, etc.

Based on real-world examples, this session demonstrates how to do a search/content assessment and plan your short/middle/long term action plan to improve findability (based on real-life case studies). 

How to do a systematic review of your Microsoft 365 content and Information Architecture, and how it contributes to your organization’s key activities, and where are the gaps. 

What the “Report on Findings” should contain, including:
- Landscape and gap analysis;
- Suggestions and recommendations;
- How to enhance the out-of-the-box search in Microsoft 365;
- Where and why you might need custom search application(s);
- Recommend roadmap and action plan;
- Governance and maintenance

**Benefits of Attending this Session:**

- Understand the lay of the land – where your organization is at the moment
- Evaluate potential improvements and enhancements
- Create an actionable plan – start implementing right when you’re back from this conference

How to do Search and Content Assessment in Microsoft 365

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 session highlights 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.

Power employee engagement with Viva Connections, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint & Viva Engage

Documentation is not optional for high-functioning IT teams. The key, whether you’re running a service desk, managing projects, or any other critical IT function, you need to have documentation to organize your information, and standardize your processes. 

The best documentation is easy to create, simple to find, and effortless to use. Learn how to track, find and know everything.

In this session we’ll show you:
 - What great documentation looks like
 - How to create great process documentation
 - How to design a naming convention that lets you find what you need easily
 - How to get your team to love creating, using and updating documentation

You’ll walk away from this session with best practices and a well thought out written process that you can start implementing right away.

IT Documentation Masterclass

Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises now makes it better, and easier, than ever to integrate with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business providing a rich, robust, and powerful collaboration hybrid solution for your organization.

In this session we will learn what SharePoint/OneDrive hybrid is about, as well as why it may be beneficial to your organization. We’ll explore the several hybrid components including Active Directory configurations, search, managed metadata, connectivity services, as well as other hybrid components and their requirements.

In addition, we'll introduce an overview of the configuration steps necessary in both Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Server on-premises for a successful hybrid configuration. 

What's all the hype about SharePoint/OneDrive hybrid

In this Solution Showcase, we’ll give you a taste of IT Glue’s power. Our Solutions Engineer will take you from zero to hero. 

Learn how easy it is to:
•	Set up integrations to automate documentation
•	How to integrate your existing Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Azure AD documentation into IT Glue
•	Effortlessly build documentation from scratch using IT Glue’s documentation templates
•	Create relationships between your documentation so that no matter what information you need, it’s always at your fingertips.
•	Plug IT Glue directly into your brain to create documentation with your thoughts

Just kidding about that last one, but until we get there, you'll want to take this deep dive into IT Glue’s vision for structured, centralized documentation.  


How IT Teams Around the World are Transforming Themselves with IT Glue

Learn how a comprehensive monitoring capabilities enable businesses to track the uptime, health, and performance of your cloud resources in real-time.

Empower IT teams with automation capabilities, by harnessing the power of AI-driven analytics, automate routine tasks and make cloud management more efficient and less labor-intensive.


Hybrid Cloud Workload Monitoring: A Comprehensive Guide to Optimization

The SharePoint platform is over 20 years old and has more than its fair share of oddities, strange anomalies, unexpected limitations, and just plain-old weird behavior. To understand these SharePoint “intricacies” and why they exist in the first place, it helps to understand SharePoint’s Byzantine history, version compromises, and platform evolution since initial release. 

In this session, we will investigate a selection of SPO behaviors and strangeness that everyone should be aware of. 

We will build an understanding of the hazards they pose, highlight the potential factors that precipitate their appearance, and identify potential mitigations that can be applied to avoid (or at least lessen) the pain they bring when they do manifest in your SPO environment. 

At the conclusion of this session, you’ll understand why SPO sometimes goes bump in the night – and how you can effectively deal with it.

"Wait ... What?!" SharePoint Online (SPO) Edition

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you! 

Here's what you'll learn: 
 * What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care 
 * Types of Cloud Flows 
 * How to create Flows from a template or from scratch 
 * How to debug your Flows 
 * And more… 

All concepts will be presented using live demos. 

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today! 

Getting Started with Power Automate Cloud Flows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. 

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely. 

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

Power Automate is the evolution of workflow for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This session is designed to showcase building flows for no code/low code solutions for personal productivity, team productivity, and enterprise business processes. 

Topics include:
 * Data connectors, connections, and user accounts
 * Types of cloud flows - automatic, instant, scheduled, AI built, desktop, and process advisor
 * Flow elements - triggers, actions, and conditions
 * Building flows using templates versus starting from blank
 * Flow settings, run history, & debugging Advanced approval scenarios - escalation, delegation, and parallel approval
* Expressions, formulas, and functions for managing data 
* Using OData to better work with larger data sets in SharePoint
* Power Automate and SharePoint limits and boundaries 
 * Real-world application, tips & tricks
* Licensing

Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how to design flow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s business professionals. 

Advanced workflow solutions with Power Automate

Many updates were announced this year on Copilot and Generative AI capabilities for Power Platform. 

In this session, you will learn how customers across the globe has been using the capabilities, impacted the career, and provide insights to how you can leverage copilot and generative AI with Power Platform today in your business and processes.