<p>The event formerly known as SharePoint Saturday Belgium</p>
<p>Join us for a day of learning, networking and fun at this free community-driven event. Our focus is Microsoft 365 with some Power Platform and Azure sprinkled on top. Check our sessions and speakers and register your ticket now!</p>
<p>More information can be found at:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.collabdays.org/2023-belgium/">https://www.collabdays.org/202...</a></p>
<p>For the schedule please visit:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.collabdays.org/2023-belgium/schedule/">https://www.collabdays.org/202...</a></p>

<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Adis  Jugo" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/b14b0514-08fa-47cc-b860-e01e6bb84b6e"></figure><h4>Adis Jugo</h4><p>run.events mastermind</p>Germany</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>RD</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Agnes  Molnar" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/24729da6-1cea-47bb-b63f-17e1ba7f79fb"></figure><h4>Agnes Molnar</h4><p>Your Microsoft Search Mentor.</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>RD</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Ahmad  Najjar" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/94d9fb06-117f-4e43-8f39-eaf18ecfb308"></figure><h4>Ahmad Najjar</h4><p>Success is psychological</p>Norway</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Albert  Hoitingh" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/6dfc68ed-e0ca-4bdb-87c2-c439cc91022c"></figure><h4>Albert Hoitingh</h4><p>Microsoft 365, information security and governance buff. Microsoft MVP. Speaker,...</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Albert-Jan  Schot" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/e402b179-2e31-48d5-aa6b-50baabc179f2"></figure><h4>Albert-Jan Schot</h4><p></p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Anouck  Fierens" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/f884af05-64b7-4b7e-9d79-e7d3f8dd92d0"></figure><h4>Anouck Fierens</h4><p></p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Antje  Lamartine" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/6628694b-1f34-4dc1-8e1d-10a9cbcd36f4"></figure><h4>Antje Lamartine</h4><p>M365 Adoption &amp; Change Management @ IF-Blueprint &amp; Microsoft MVP</p>Germany</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Chirag  Patel" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/b6d6ae95-bb1d-4baf-96c5-72c90e4d9acf"></figure><h4>Chirag Patel</h4><p>Microsoft 365 Consultant | M365UK Organiser | Microsoft MVP, MCT</p>United Kingdom</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Daniel  Laskewitz" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/0e14b9d7-c0e1-44a1-aa12-c67ad9504a34"></figure><h4>Daniel Laskewitz</h4><p>Senior Cloud Advocate (Power Platform) at Microsoft</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MSFT</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Danny  Davis" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/337bae7a-f272-46b2-8e43-46aedfd0fc13"></figure><h4>Danny Davis</h4><p></p>Germany</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Edyta  Gorzon" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/ffafb1ac-99bd-4c7d-9257-26033571e283"></figure><h4>Edyta Gorzon</h4><p>Microsoft MVP M365 Apps &amp; Services</p>Poland</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Elianne  Burgers " src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/ed54e4ad-673b-4fc0-a577-93a32c6e021d"></figure><h4>Elianne Burgers</h4><p>Power Platform Consultant</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Feline  Parein" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/bf380c97-d2af-465e-9797-d9e31fcb60a6"></figure><h4>Feline Parein</h4><p></p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Femke  de Vroome" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/bc916a50-0867-4ac8-b3a7-45541a305e73"></figure><h4>Femke de Vroome</h4><p>Microsoft Teams | Governance | Star Wars fan</p>Netherlands</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Iona  Varga" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/9a51942b-bd12-4ab8-9a0a-122a7b5f65d6"></figure><h4>Iona Varga</h4><p>Sometimes, I actually finish a project!?</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Isabelle  Van Campenhoudt" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/3379218c-f0d8-4442-9aaf-0d8824c57465"></figure><h4>Isabelle Van Campenhoudt</h4><p></p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Jasper  Oosterveld" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/0534d615-7a8e-493a-8559-cdb1e27ea7ab"></figure><h4>Jasper Oosterveld</h4><p>Be yourself</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Jussi  Roine" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/ad13d5ce-a353-431c-b505-474754b344be"></figure><h4>Jussi Roine</h4><p>Consistently lifting heavy objects to ensure successful Azure deployments</p>Finland</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Laura  Kokkarinen" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/b09986d5-f089-4529-affd-c4c2f37f49f1"></figure><h4>Laura Kokkarinen</h4><p>Lead Architect, Software Development</p>Finland</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Maarten  Eekels" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/7a1370d3-20ad-418e-b31e-a2b176dbbbef"></figure><h4>Maarten Eekels</h4><p>In case of victory you deserve champagne, in case of defeat you need it!</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>RD</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Marco  Rocca" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/a3ef15ae-725c-4dd0-862f-d1fbe779ac57"></figure><h4>Marco Rocca</h4><p>Technology Enthusiast</p>Italy</div><div><hr><div><div>MSFT</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Marijn  Somers" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/02baecf0-63cb-41f9-87a2-1024ebb87ba0"></figure><h4>Marijn Somers</h4><p>Microsoft MVP, Podcast Hero, User Adoption Specialist</p>Belgium</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Mustafa  Toroman" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/e878c5bb-02ab-4ad0-ada1-c900271616b6"></figure><h4>Mustafa Toroman</h4><p>Ja, i?</p>Bosnia and Herzegovina</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Nicki  Borell" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/826b63b3-50ad-439d-acb8-ab8d5dcada06"></figure><h4>Nicki Borell</h4><p>Remove-AllBusinessProblems -Identity "Nicki Borell" -Team “Experts Inside” –forc...</p>Germany</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div><div>RD</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Nico  De Cleyre" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/175b5f76-5ef5-42cd-8886-352129c61cbb"></figure><h4>Nico De Cleyre</h4><p>M365 Developer</p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Paolo  Pialorsi" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/91032dea-0642-4863-8671-ffae8ca8001e"></figure><h4>Paolo Pialorsi</h4><p>Solution Architect</p>Italy</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Paul  Hunt" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/c7b4caec-ce8d-4c3c-bf0a-9052bc5dff99"></figure><h4>Paul Hunt</h4><p>Sharing is caring!</p>United Kingdom</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Paulien  Buskens" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/baf9e885-16ab-4b1b-bc35-aa82ebb63814"></figure><h4>Paulien Buskens</h4><p></p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Peter  Baddeley" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/4b674d6a-1b03-414a-bd81-207092966d08"></figure><h4>Peter Baddeley</h4><p></p>United Kingdom</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Pieter  Op De Beéck" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/3457b275-1cb9-4140-8888-685d2e69132b"></figure><h4>Pieter Op De Beéck</h4><p>Productivity roadmap warrior</p>Belgium</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Ralph  Eckhard" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/b5391b26-73ab-43df-a01b-0a54b34a9d3d"></figure><h4>Ralph Eckhard</h4><p>Freelance Cloud Consultant, MCT</p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MCT</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Rebekka   Aalbers" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/68e5b90a-9f67-4698-a02a-4efcca01d457"></figure><h4>Rebekka Aalbers</h4><p></p>Netherlands</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Sasha  Kranjac" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/d5f5b1d2-e789-4ff0-b912-cafe63f308d5"></figure><h4>Sasha Kranjac</h4><p>I make clouds more secure.</p>Croatia</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Serge  Luca" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/409959f0-929f-4a9c-b157-d1eb7f313c94"></figure><h4>Serge Luca</h4><p>Doctor Flow</p>Belgium</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Spencer  Harbar" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/9b722a43-a89f-484e-95d5-b54ea9e7c9b1"></figure><h4>Spencer Harbar</h4><p>Enterprise Architect, Edinburgh, UK.</p>United Kingdom</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Stephan  Bisser" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/8f0ca475-23dc-4adb-a219-0bb22a768969"></figure><h4>Stephan Bisser</h4><p></p>Austria</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Steve  Dalby" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/d2a3903f-ae2a-40d2-b1e2-1add7a1bb036"></figure><h4>Steve Dalby</h4><p>Pure Knowledge | Nothing More | Nothing Less</p>Belgium</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Sven  Sieverding" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/038cff9c-1c96-4b78-987a-087a4b80d7e0"></figure><h4>Sven Sieverding</h4><p></p>Germany</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Tatjana  Davis" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/7642b22e-41aa-41e5-84f7-d2b08b7e14c9"></figure><h4>Tatjana Davis</h4><p></p>Germany</div><div><div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Thomas  Goelles" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/dd0d8318-f250-465d-8792-ce2745d2b297"></figure><h4>Thomas Goelles</h4><p></p>Austria</div><div><hr><div><div>MVP</div></div></div></div>
<div><div><figure><img alt="Photo of Yannick  Reekmans" src="https://cdn.run.events/speaker-profile-images/9950eaee-08e2-4840-ada4-9a391aa38234"></figure><h4>Yannick Reekmans</h4><p></p>Belgium</div></div>

CollabDays Belgium

Lobby

Einstein A

Expo

Darwin

Einstein C

Edison

Marconi

Archimedes

When we built run.events, we had a question about how to build and optimize all approval and back-office processes, in a simple yet efficient way, which would be easy for our back-office and support staff to use, and which wouldn’t hamper their productivity. These processes included approving new organizers and events, as well as automating back-office processes such as triggering support processes or newsletter subscriptions. We quickly decided to use Azure Logic Apps for that.

This session will introduce you to the capabilities of Azure Logic Apps and how we used it for automating all approval and back-office processes. We will dive into the key features of Azure Logic Apps, including connectors, triggers, and actions, and how they can be used to automate a wide range of processes. We will also discuss the challenges that we faced, such as listening to database triggers and dealing with multiple development/staging/production environments.

Additionally, we will cover how we used Azure Logic Apps to create workflows that integrate with third-party products we use for sales (HubSpot), marketing (HubSpot and Mailjet), and support (Front).

In the end, we achieved what we wanted: our back-office and support staff mainly use email for the vast majority of back-office processes. And it is Azure Logic Apps that does the magic in the background of orchestrating it all. This session will demonstrate how we achieved this, and we will share real-life experiences and challenges we encountered while implementing it all.

Using Azure Logic Apps for automation of all approval and back-office processes for a SaaS product

“Everyone but the kitchen sink can create Power Automate flows” is what the marketing message wants us to believe. From the real world we know that it takes training and experience to create good flows, but how do you create secure Power Automate flows? Can a low-code workflow platform go hand in hand with enterprise-level security?
Yannick believes we could and should do much better. He will show you the possibilities for security improvements, how to harden your implementations, and make your Chief Information Security Officer sleep better at night. Key vaults, security principals, secure environment variables, and much more… they might not always be perfect in Power Platform but they will get you a long way in your journey to be secure.

Attendees will walk away with an understanding of
- security risks in standard implementations
- the use of Service Principals
- Azure Key Vault & secure environment variables
in Power Automate

Secure and harden Power Automate flows in the enterprise

Microsoft 365 is a complex environment and secure by design, but in a shared responsibility model we must do our part as well. Find out about the absolute must-have top 10 ways to secure your Microsoft 365 environment and data - tighten the Microsoft 365 security belt in under an hour!

Top 10 ways to secure your Microsoft 365 environment

Have you ever wondered how to avoid Change-failure?  This session will drive your MS Teams or M365 adoption project, providing the key steps to deliver an iterative successful change program.  You don’t need to be a Change Manager to achieve success in a short timeframe.

Solid takeaways to help you define your Change Scope, RoadMap, identify the value by personae and identify the objectives that will drive your Communications and training planning.

Working through a practical model based on ADKAR we will identify the planning and delivery scopes to ensure your new or experienced M365 users understand what is expected of them in your organisation.


Learn Why “70% of Change Management Projects fail” is Fake News.

Whether you're looking to run a large corporate Town Hall or to launch a product to your adoring public, which Microsoft events platform is going to give you the best experience? As with all good consultants, I'll tell you "Well that depends!", but we won't stop at that!
 
With Microsoft's recent announcement about the new Town Hall experience and the sunsetting and subsequent removal of Live Events, we'll take a look at some of the key differences between Webinars, Town Halls and Live Events, the roadmap for the year ahead as we head towards the proposed removal of Live Events at the end of September 2024. 
 
We'll take a comparative look at all three options, understanding the strengths and capabilities of each, and map these to common scenarios across enterprises.  We'll cover common requirements from departments across the organisation such as Marketing, and Communications and highlight where each product shines, and more importantly where they fall a little short of where they need to be.

Microsoft Teams: Webinars, Live Events or Town Halls?

Working with Power Platform but struggling to decide on which platform to use for your DevOps practices? ALM can be a pain, but having the right platform for your needs makes DevOps and CI/CD practices a lot easier.

In this session, an eagle's view and a deepdive will be taken to explore and compare two of the most popular DevOps platforms nowadays for Power Platform: Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions

The most important features and selling points of both platforms will be discussed, looking at the CI part of CI/CD and the CD part. 

Besides that, some examples of how to use both platforms will be demonstrated, to help you streamline your development process for Power Platform ALM.

After attending this session, you will have more knowledge on the differences between Azure DevOps and GitHub actions, and you will feel more confident to make a choice on what suits best for your DevOps situation. You will also walk away with some practical insights in making a better success out of your Power Platform ALM.

Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions for Power Platform

Almost nobody likes doing repetitive tasks. Are you doing the same tasks over and over again? Maybe you should think about automating them.
In this session I will show you 10 flows that will help you to automate tasks that you normally have to do yourself. This will save you time so you can spend time doing the things you like and make your life more productive. 

Making your life easier with Power Automate

Findability is much more than technology. It needs to be the combination of culture, communication, technology, as well as how your content is organized.

In this session, Agnes discusses the most important success factors of Microsoft Search, as well as how to implement it well:

- Microsoft Search overview – what’s possible today, and what the boundaries are
- How to customize & configure Microsoft Search
- Importance of tagging and taxonomies
- How Viva Topics and Microsoft Syntex can help you to achieve better findability

Optimizing Microsoft Search

The Power Platform has expanded over the past few years to touch and impact every area in your organization, from the technical aspects like data, integration, and automation to the human elements like users and adoption.

Therefore, being a Power Platform technical architect is becoming more and more of a daunting task! Wouldn't it be great if you had guidelines to decide which is the best solution to choose from the Power Platform, which is the best data source to build your solution upon, and what is the best integration scenario to implement to bring your data into a sync harmony?

Join Ahmad Najjar to learn more about choosing the best Power Platform service(s) for your solution, deciding which data source to use to fit the demands best, and how to design and implement integration needs.

Architecting Your Next Power Platform Project

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the task of managing your Microsoft 365 tenant and struggling to keep track of everything? Well, we have the solution for you! In this session on the Command Line Interface (CLI) you'll learn how to manage your tenant from anywhere, even your couch. We'll walk you through installing the CLI, teach you the most useful commands, and show you how to automate tasks like a boss. We'll show how to upgrade your SPFx solutions with ease and you'll also  discover how to use the CLI in an Azure function, giving you the power to take your automation to the next level. Plus, we'll compare the CLI to other tools and make you wonder how you ever lived without it. Don't miss out on this opportunity to level up your admin game 

Unleashing the Power of the CLI for M365: How to Rule Your M365 Universe from anywhere

Are Microsoft Loop components a gimmick? Or do they lever actual business value? What about Loop Pages and Loop Workspaces? Let me take you on a journey of excellent use cases and a most probable future in the collaboration landscape of Microsoft 365. Will it blend?

Do not miss the Microsoft Loop train!

Are you ready to take your Power Platform skills to the next level? Join this exciting session on custom connectors and learn how to extend the capabilities of the Power Platform by building your own connectors. In this session, I will provide an overview of what custom connectors are, how they work, and the benefits of using them in your apps and workflows. I'll also walk through the step-by-step process of building custom connectors using Power Automate and discuss best practices for designing and publishing connectors. 

Whether you're an experienced Power Platform user or just getting started, this session is for you! Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can benefit from creating, using, and eventually publishing custom, certified, or independent publisher connectors.

Here are some takeaways of this session:
▶️ Understanding of what custom connectors are and how they work in the Power Platform
▶️ Knowledge of how to build custom connectors using the UI
▶️ Familiarity with best practices for designing and publishing connectors
▶️ Inspiration to explore and experiment with custom connectors in your own Power Platform projects

Extend the Power Platform with Custom Connectors 🚀

Microsoft Syntex was released in the past mainly for a new way for document management, for help customer to extract information from documents and classify informations. But today Microsoft Syntex capabilities include:​
Enhance: Understand and assemble content with AI powered summarization, translation, auto-assembly, and annotations integrated into Microsoft 365 and Teams​
Connect: Discover and reuse content with AI powered search, eSignature and integration into business workflows like contracts and invoice management​
Manage: Analyze and protect content through its lifecycle with AI powered security and compliance, backup and restore and advanced content management​
If this is not enough with Microsoft SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) add-on, you have a new set of advanced security and content management capabilities.
In this session will see how using all these features you can change how your organization may work with all contents that has.

A journey through Microsoft Syntex - The AI integrated in the flow of work

You have created your Power App, but now what? How can you assure quality with every feature you add, every new release you deploy etc.? What if you work in a team of developers, how will you ensure the same quality throughout the project and the developers? The key is testing your application. I will show you all the possible ways you can test your app, from the test studio to code reviews. I will even share how you can add Power Automate Desktop to the mix.

How to test your Power Apps, a step-by-step guide

Teams Premium, Pretty Secure.  
Let’s take a deep dive into how using Teams Premium features can create secure, but also good looking meetings! 

PRETTY.
Make sure your company's brand is represented before, during and after the meeting with Customization policies in place.

SECURE.
Lets utilize Meeting templates and Sensitivity Labels to protect your meeting and data to prevent sensitive information from being leaked.


Teams Premium, Pretty Secure.

Zero Trust often refers to an architectural paradigm, although the approach as such certainly includes organizational topics and the topic focusing on compliance. 
Consolidating security information at Secuirty.Microsfot.com provides a central location for investigating security incidents in Microsoft 365. This allows the CISO or even the IT security officer to see all incidents in one portal, manage actions on them, or submit them to Microsoft for further analysis. Similarly, the Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal in Microsoft 365 provides a central portal for all compliance topics at Compliance.Microsoft.com. Features such as the Cloud Discovery Report and the Cloud App Catalog provide an overview of applications in use and their evaluation from a security and compliance perspective.
The session will show how all securit and compliance topics can be monitored and managed through these two portals.
An overview of the SharePoint Online Data Access Governance feature and the Azure Identity Governance feature will wrap up the session.

Microsoft Defender - Strategy & Information Security

As a Cloud based software as a service solution Microsoft 365 offers am amazing breadth of capability and evolves continuously at incredible speed. Whilst adoption is high, new features present significant challenges from a security and compliance perspective. This session provides an overview of the risks and how to mitigate them using a combination of tools, process, and people. Covering the key security related components of Microsoft 365, such as Azure AD, Defender, Purview and the individual workload specific security controls this session provides a 360 view of security and compliance in Microsoft 365.

Essential Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance

In the ever-evolving landscape of software development, ensuring the resilience and reliability of applications is paramount. As developers, we often find ourselves immersed in the tranquil environment of our developer tenant, where everything seems calm and orderly, returning the desired HTTP 200 response. However, the real world is far from serene—it is a realm of unpredictability and chaos. So let us dive into the opportunities of the Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy, a tool to help you simulate errors. With samples how this powerful tool empowers developers to simulate diverse failure scenarios, enabling you to replicate real-world conditions within your development environment. By embracing this approach, developers can proactively anticipate potential pitfalls and design robust solutions that gracefully recover from failures.

Enter the Realm of Chaos: Microsoft 365 Developer Proxy

Where are all my licenses? The moment a company works with group-based licensing and using many groups to assign licenses, tracking will become hard. In this session we will use PowerShell, the Power Platform and Azure to get the information needed and provide an information platform for managers and IT specialists.

License Monitoring and Auditing with PowerShell and Power Platform

DevSecOps! Shift left and fail fast! Unfortunately, establishing a secure software development lifecycle takes more than some buzzword bingo. Today, it is not enough that the application works according to the functional requirements; we should also heavily protect it against cybercriminals. This session will demonstrate how to leverage the Azure DevOps platform capabilities to create automated security checks such as static application security testing and software composition analysis to get you well on your way to securing your application with minimal effort. In addition, you'll learn what different tools we have available for spotting security issues and how to analyze and act on the potential vulnerabilities to improve the security posture of your source code repository.

Developing secure software with Azure DevOps

Organisations create a lot of documents in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.  However, how do these organisations manage the authorisations, reviews, retention and archiving of these documents?  In this session Peter will explore the different options available from Microsoft, including approvals and retention.  He will also explain how these can be extended using technologies including Power Automate.  Finally, he will consider where to deploy these solutions in a organisation to achieve maximum impact.  The purpose of this session is not a deep technology into technology, but instead an assessment of the solutions and the gaps.

Managing the lifecycle of documents in Microsoft 365

In this session, we will dive into the practical aspects of Teams governance and discover how to strike the perfect balance between collaboration and compliance.

Gain insights into policy enforcement, user empowerment, and effective governance models. We will be looking at how to implement a governance strategy along with some best practices from the field regarding:

- Microsoft Teams policies & settings
- Security & compliance
- External collaboration

By the end of this session, you will have a solid understanding of practical techniques and best practices for achieving balance through Teams governance. You will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to implement effective governance strategies that foster collaboration, boost productivity, and ensure compliance within your organization's workforce.

Teams Governance - Bringing Balance To Your Workforce

ChatGPT seems like magic to many. Let's utilize this foundation for our enterprise services with Azure OpenAI Services. This session will teach us how to get started with building your custom apps and solutions utilizing Azure OpenAI Services and the available models. We'll also tackle the basics of generative AI and Large Language Models, as well as the integration and extension capabilities. The session will also include guidance on estimating costs and implementing security. 

Building intelligent and magic-like solutions using Azure OpenAI Services

This session delivers on a real-world scenario that I lead technical work packages and hands-on experience at a global renewable energy organisation who divested and separated data areas of Microsoft 365 platform.
We will cover how we did it, including M365 infrastructure, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Power Platform deployments, data migration patterns & validation, project team orientation, workload management together with communication and training.

Divestment and Microsoft 365 service migrations

Finally, we can customize SharePoint forms using SPFX. If you want to know how to do this effectively using React Formik, then come to my Session.

SPFX Forms and React Formik: Easily create custom SharePoint list forms

In this session you will understand how to build an end-to-end solution for Microsoft 365 leveraging technologies like Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Graph, Azure Functions, SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Teams Toolkit, etc. The aim of the session is to explain you how you can build real-life solutions that rely on the main workloads and services of Microsoft 365 with a unique and shared security context.
In order to attend the session you need a basic understanding of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and of its development tools.

Building end-to-end Microsoft 365 Solutions

In this session, Isabelle Van Campenhoudt (Data Platform MVP) and Doctor Flow (aka Serge Luca- Business Application MVP) will illustrate their proposal for a unified pragmatic Power Platform governance and adoption plan combining Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.

Even though Power BI and the Power Platform app creation tools differ, the governance and adoption challenges remain the same.

Conceptually, when it comes to self-service BI and citizen developers, the classical centralized governance approach does not fit the needs of flexibility required by the business.

The presenters will detail the benefit of having a single polymorphic approach where the concrete associated actions can be product-specific.

Many elements of this governance have been experimented on in the field by Isabelle during the last eight years for Power BI and in the previous six years for Power Automate and Power Apps by Doctor Flow.

Many use cases will illustrate this session to be aligned with real-world requirements.

Unified Power Platform Governance for Power Automate, Power Apps and Power BI with Doctor Flow & Isa

In this session, we will dive into the world of Dataverse virtual tables and explore how they can be utilized building data structures in the Microsoft Power Platform. We will examine real-life use cases that showcase the versatility and power of virtual tables, and we will demonstrate how the latest features of Dataverse virtual tables can be leveraged to create innovative solutions.

🌟Attendees of this session will gain:

* A deep understanding of the capabilities of Dataverse virtual tables
* Knowledge of how virtual tables can be used to solve real-world business problems
* Practical examples of how virtual tables can be used to simplify data modeling and integration
* An understanding of how virtual tables can be used to streamline business processes

Specifically, we will explore the new features of virtual tables such as improvements on creating virtual tables using virtual connector provides, virtual tables as part of multi table lookups, and discuss how they can be used to model data in unique ways. 

Overall, attendees will leave with a greater understanding of the possibilities of Dataverse virtual tables and a new set of tools to help them create innovative solutions.

💡📊Exploring Dataverse Virtual Tables: New Features and Real-Life Use Cases

Measuring user engagement is crucial for any SharePoint-based intranet to ensure that the platform is meeting its intended purpose and delivering value to the users. You can already benefit from Viva Connections and Viva Insights to enhance the user engagement measurement capabilities.

We will start by discussing the various engagement metrics that are important for measuring user engagement, such as the number of active users, the frequency of visits, the duration of sessions, and the types of content accessed.

In this session, we will explore how to use the Power Platform to measure user engagement even more deeply using KPI's regarding user engagement and page freshness. We will then explore how to collect this data using various tools available in the Power Platform, such as Power BI and Power Automate.

Next, we will demonstrate how to visualize the collected data in Power BI to gain insights into user behavior and engagement patterns. We will walk through the creation of a dashboard that displays the engagement metrics in a clear and concise manner, allowing intranet administrators to quickly assess the intranet's effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.

By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how to measure user engagement on a SharePoint intranet using the Power Platform and how to use the insights gained to improve the intranet's effectiveness.

Enhancing User Engagement Measurement on SharePoint Intranets with Power Platform

Sensitivity Labels in Microsoft 365 exist for a while now, and now that Microsoft has announced the retirement of its predecessor Azure Information Protection in April 2024, it’s time to fully understand the capabilities of the Microsoft 365 Information Protection features with Sensitivity Labels.

In this session, we will start simple, with protecting emails and files by manually applying a label. But we will switch gears rapidly and we will dive into automatic labelling, applying labels to meetings, to teams in Microsoft Teams and even to assets in Azure SQL. And then we take it even one step further, how you can use your own trainable classifiers to automatically apply labels, and how labels can help you in your DLP policies.

Everything you need to know about Sensitivity Labels in one session!

Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels Deep Dive

Let's focus for a second: take a deep breath and use your imagination to visualize a messy dorm room. So many clothes on the ground - most of them dirty - you can't even see the floor. There's yesterday's dinner on the desk - oh, wait a second, that's from two days ago. And what's that smell? -- Have you had enough? You certainly don't want to live in that space and there are countless M365 tenants that look just like that. 

Let's talk about M365 Governance in real-life scenarios from an IT, business user and organizational perspective. Join this session to learn from other organisations' mistakes, understand how the lack of M365 Governance negatively affects user adoption,  and do it better."


Do or Fail? Just trying M365 Governance is not an option.

As a Microsoft 365 customer, you use AI multiple times during a regular workday, sometimes without even thinking about it and at others as your Co-Pilot. We want to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence and your opportunity with the existing services and APIs in Teams, Power Platform and Azure. From low code to full code, AI is everywhere and here to stay.

AI in Microsoft 365: State of the nation in 2023

In this session, we will explore how to use Playwright to automate testing of Microsoft 365 applications. We will focus on how Playwright can be used to create end-to-end tests that verify the behavior of Microsoft 365 applications for Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint. We will discuss how Playwright can be integrated into a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, and how it can be used to catch bugs and regressions before they reach production. Additionally, we will provide tips and best practices for creating practical tests that cover common scenarios in Microsoft 365 applications. By the end of this session, attendees will have a deeper understanding of how to use Playwright to improve the quality of their Microsoft 365 applications.

Automated Testing for Microsoft 365 with Playwright

Discover why governance and data security are key factors for Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and how they can improve your Copilot experience. Assess your current governance, risk and compliance maturity level using the Microsoft 365 maturity model and find out what you need to do to close the gaps for Copilot readiness. Follow the best practices for improving your Microsoft 365 data quality and data security to ensure that Copilot can deliver more accurate, relevant recommendations and safeguard your sensitive data.

Preparing for Microsoft 365 Copilot - Best Practices for Governance and Data Security

Customizing your Create / Update forms is possible in different ways: You could use JSON or go the Power Apps route. But when should you use what? What is possible? How much work does it take? And how can you make sure it is usable and future-proof?

Anouck and Marijn go head to head in this fierce battle to settle once and for all what is the best solution. Marijn will bring the SharePoint battle axe, Anouck will swing the Canvas app sword.

Who will be victorious?

SharePoint List forms vs PowerApps: The battle between Json vs Canvas app

Join me as I share my experiences and insights gained from helping organizations build functional insider risk programs with the help of Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management capabilities.

We walk through both the hard technical and the softer human dimensions: defining a mission, setting up and fine-tuning indicators and policies, shaping processes, roles and responsibilities.. I share what the toughest challenges have been so far - and what's next, once it's all up and running.

Cutting through the noise: My experiences running an insider risk program with Microsoft Purview

Join us for an eye-opening session where we look into the realm of Microsoft 365 cost optimization.
Discover the insider tips, strategies, and best practices to squeeze every ounce of value from your M365 investment while slashing unnecessary expenses. Marie will reveal the secrets to identify and eliminate wasteful spending.
 Don't miss this golden opportunity to supercharge your organization's productivity while driving substantial savings - unleash the true potential of your Microsoft 365 deployment!

Microsoft 365 License Management: Drive Savings and Enhance Productivity

As more people use Microsoft 365 services, their organizations increasingly face a wide range of problems: Unintended employee access to sensitive information, unwanted exposure and collaboration environments (such as Teams, SharePoint sites and OneDrives) that are not properly secured.
It is critical to know WHO has access to WHAT, as well as WHEN and HOW they gained access - and to change the relevant settings and permissions so that your data is and remains protected.

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