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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NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:
* How should I approach my BI need?
* What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
* What are the best practices?
* How much is this going to cost me to license?
* What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course:
If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:
* Manager
* Business Analyst
* Power User
* SharePoint Administrator
* Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:
* Marketing
* Information Technology
* Finance
* Sales
* Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class:
Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required)
We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:
* Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
* How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
* Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
* Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
* Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
* Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
* Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

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You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: 
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here:  https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp

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We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate. You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops. We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint. Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts. You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements:
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp

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 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

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it. Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions. Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

Microsoft 365 Groups are at the heart of modern collaboration and security models. Much like the Force binds the universe together, M365 Groups binds our apps. They provide permissions management and a security service that can simplify managing access to users throughout SharePoint, Teams, Planner, and more.

Let's take a closer look at the power of Microsoft 365 Groups and how they can bring together security, collaboration, and communication.  We'll learn how to use the Force... Groups to streamline modern work in the context of Microsoft 365 applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook, as well as how guest management works within a Group.

Microsoft 365 Groups - The Force That Binds the Universe (of Apps) Together

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Microsoft Syntex is a big step forward for Content Services in Microsoft 365 by providing the ability to integrate AI into the flow of work. Unstructured content is being produced at an alarming rate in modern workplaces today and organizations need a way to improve the effectiveness of business processes surrounding it. Microsoft Syntex helps by automatically classifying content, extracting metadata, improving search, enhancing knowledge sharing, and applying appropriate governance controls. Microsoft Syntex is this and so much more!

To demonstrate, Joanne Klein will walk through a live demo of building and training an Unstructured Document Processing Syntex model in SharePoint. 

The walkthrough will cover setup, training, deployment, and the "extras" you get with a Microsoft Syntex license. 

An end-to-end look at Microsoft Syntex

In this session, Ms. Passalacqua will share how small medium businesses can get the most out of Microsoft Teams.  Attendees will learn how Teams works with whatever technologies they already use today including a demonstration with some of the most popular integrations enabling users to do more with less.

Grow Your Business with Microsoft Teams

OneNote is moving 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

How much time would you save by automating all your company’s email signatures? This session will discuss a simple, secure solution to deploy Outlook email signatures to all employees and devices – all from one platform. You’ll learn about:  
• IT & business benefits of an email signature management platform
• Architecture & security of our Outlook Add-In, co-developed with Microsoft 
• Real-life examples of how Letsignit helps IT teams save resources AND drive business results 
• Easy end-user experience during a brief platform demo

Manage & Streamline Employee Email Signatures

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.

Are your users breaking a sweat sifting through outdated and vague content in search of simple answers and results in Microsoft 365? Learn how to involve users in improving search for everyone in your organization by collaborating to incorporate acronyms, bookmarks, and Q&A result types in your search results across all of Microsoft 365.

We'll also cover some content lifecycle tips to help you keep unwanted and outdated results out of the picture (looking at you, Site Assets library full of icons and images).

While this session is targeted towards Search administrators (or global administrators), power users are welcome to (and should) attend to learn what's possible and to be empowered to start conversations with admins to make positive change org-wide.

How to succeed in search: Acronyms, bookmarks, and Q&A results

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

Microsoft Search is a powerful search tool with a growing set of customization options. In this session, we will investigate search scenarios where out-of-the-box Microsoft Search may and may not meet your requirements. We will look at where Microsoft Search shines, as well as when a custom solution may be right for you.

Our look at custom search solutions will include an overview of the PnP Modern Search solution and webparts, an open source project managed by the PnP Team, with continued contributions by the community. Learn how to set up, use, and customize PnP Modern Search as well as learn the skillsets required to get the most out of search solutions.

In this session, you'll learn:  
- The when and why for custom search experiences
- Overview of PnP Modern Search webparts
- Skillsets for building custom search solutions

PnP Modern Search – Microsoft Search and the Art of the Possible

Despite having been around for the better part of two decades, most developers building compiled .NET and SharePoint solutions (including full-trust SharePoint customization and provider-hosted add-ins, or PHAs) aren’t familiar with Aspect-Oriented Programming, or AOP. 

The goal of this session is to introduce developers to AOP, what it is, how it works, and the tools that enable the use of AOP in .NET and other solution development. We’ll work through a number of code samples that illustrate how AOP greatly simplifies the process of architecting and addressing cross-cutting development concerns like logging, security, exception handling, and more. If you’re looking for ways to streamline development and reduce boilerplate code in your solutions, this is the session to attend.