365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference, 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 Microsoft 365, Power Platform and 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;365 EduCon,&nbsp;a Microsoft 365 Conference,&nbsp;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, Microsoft Teams, Teams Development, Teams Architecture &amp; Administration, 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!&nbsp; Find out more: https://365educon.com/Chicago&nbsp;

365 EduCon Chicago - A Microsoft 365 Conference

Room S102a

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this workshop, learn how Microsoft Copilot works with Microsoft 365, Bing Chat, Microsoft Edge, and Windows 11. Discover how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

Deep Dive into Microsoft 365 Copilot across pivotal apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Discover how Copilot enhances your capabilities for document creation, data analysis, presentation design, email management, and note-taking. It’s your digital companion, optimizing each task, making daily operations smoother and unleashing new potentials for efficiency.

You'll discover Microsoft's new Bing Chat, powered by ChatGPT. Learn how to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll discover how the new Bing Chat helps you draft emails, summarize documents, draft blogs, and more!

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by Microsoft Copilot such as:
Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks.
Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits.
Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting.
Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.  

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

Next level productivity with Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaboration platform that allows teams to work together seamlessly, no matter where they are. It's built on top of the Microsoft cloud, which means it can access all the powerful tools and applications available in Office 365. With Teams, you can manage conversations, share files, schedule meetings, and work with colleagues in real time.

This workshop will cover everything you need to know to get the most out of Microsoft Teams. We'll start with an overview of the platform and walk through how to start with Teams. From there, we'll dive into best practices for managing different scenarios, such as managing remote teams, running effective meetings, and collaborating on projects.
We'll also explore how Teams interacts with other Microsoft applications, such as Viva, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Dataverse, and the Power Platform. You'll learn how to use these tools to streamline your workflows and increase productivity.

The workshop will cover data, management, file sharing, governance, and application extensions with Power Platform. We'll also explore the different types of chats and adaptative cards available in Teams. By the end of the workshop, you'll understand how Teams works and how to use it to enhance collaboration within your organization.

To get the most out of the hands-on portion of the workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer with a demo environment. 
While tablets or phones may be used, they may not offer the best experience for completing the labs. This workshop is perfect for organizations considering deploying Microsoft Teams or just starting their journey with the platform. We'll assess everything from A to Z to ensure you have the knowledge and tools to succeed.

Mastering Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content AI solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 investment but is it something that will help you? 

In this session, we will go through what Microsoft Syntex is, how it works, and why it could be an important part of your enterprise in Microsoft 365. 

Introduction to Microsoft Syntex

When you start using SharePoint everyone says, "Don't use folders." If that is true, how do we organize and find the stuff we put into SharePoint? Metadata. 

In this session, we will explore what metadata is, how to use it, and how to get our co-workers to use it. Recreate this demo when you get back to the office to win your users over to the metadata side. 

This demo works in SharePoint Online and On-Premises. 

Key Take Aways: 
  - What is metadata?
  - When to use metadata 
  - Choices for metadata 
  - When to use folders 

Metadata Rules. Folders Drool

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within.  In 2022, over 1800 organizations reported data breaches in the U.S. alone, affecting over 400 million individuals. As a result, protecting its data has become a priority for many organizations worldwide.  Microsoft provides several tools for identifying sensitive information within the organization and protecting it from being provided to sources that should not have it.

In this session, we'll cover features and processes such as Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and more to help you protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into the hands of those that should not have it.

You Have Sensitive Information.  Now Let's Protect It.

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls.  Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it's tempting to think that information architecture is no longer relevant. After all, Copilot promises to find all your information effortlessly, acting as your personal assistant. 

However, we need to consider potential challenges. What if Copilot leads users to sensitive content accidentally? Have we adequately secured our environment in our rush to enable remote work? Additionally, how valuable is the content returned in search queries? Is it time to revisit site lifecycle management and retention to optimize Copilot's performance? 

Join this session as we discuss strategies to prepare your M365 environment for the future, ensuring seamless engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot while addressing critical information architecture considerations.

Rethinking Information Architecture in the Era of Microsoft 365 Copilot

Everyone talks about them, but what the heck are they and how can I use them? We will start with some demos of how to use custom content types, then on to what the heck are content types anyway and we will end with another demo to build content types in the browser.

Key Takeaways:  
1) What are content types?
2) Planning content types 
3) Creating site columns 
4) Creating content types 
5) Using content types 

Content Types: Easier Than the Theory of Relativity

Microsoft’s entry into the backup and recovery market signals a welcome recognition of the importance of backup capabilities for modern cloud environments—but note, backup alone is not enough. Data protection needs to include much more than just backup and restore of Microsoft 365 data. Join our interactive session, where we’ll discuss the biggest obstacles on the path to delivering robust data recovery, outline practical strategies for building on the native data protection for Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, and showcase current best practices of complete data protection. 
 
Reasons to attend: 
•	Learn what emerging cloud and hybrid threats you should be watching for and defending against. 
•	Get answers to your most pressing questions about protecting your key cloud Saas workloads. 
•	Dive into what a good data protection plan for Microsoft 365 looks like. 


Beyond Backup:  Real Talk about Microsoft 365 Data Protection

In this session we will go through the key areas you need to know to help you and your organization to not install OneDrive but adopt and drive usage. 

We will go through key topics like how to best plan a migration and deployment, how to configure client and administrative policies, all while learning the tips and tricks of managing such a central solution within the Microsoft 365 world.

Deploying & Managing OneDrive

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content services and AI together to automate processes, classification, and more, transforming information into working knowledge for your organization in a way we've never seen before.  In this session, you'll learn how Microsoft Syntex has come to the forefront of Content AI and automated knowledge management, the services and solutions it can provide, how they work together, and some proven ways to implement Syntex in your organization.  

We'll start by looking at the AI models that Microsoft Syntex provides for unstructured, structured, and freeform document processing, covering the bread and butter of the solution's features.  Then you'll learn about Microsoft's Syntex's capabilities for content assembly and content processing.  

Finally, we'll look at what Syntex is bringing in upcoming releases, including eSignature, advanced search, data archiving and managing SharePoint data at scale.  We'll share real-world conversations about Syntex implementation, deployment, and adoption scenarios to spark the conversation at your organization.  

Join us to discover how to improve content management and business efficiency with Content AI and Microsoft Syntex.

Discover, Assemble, and Gain Insights into your Content with Microsoft Syntex

As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the sheer amount of data can be daunting.  Administrators and record managers are being called on more and more to support content management to ensure it is maintained and destroyed based on required schedules within the business.

David and Joanne have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build record management solutions within Microsoft 365 from the ground up.  In this session, they will discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing their record management environment.  They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization as it journeys down the information governance path.

Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Tales from the Trenches

In addition to Content AI, the Microsoft Syntex product family brings together a set of key capabilities for better governing Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive as well as securing collaboration within Microsoft 365.  

In this session we'll walk through and demonstrate each of these capabilities and discuss real-world scenarios where you can restrict access to sensitive sites and content, run data governance reports to gain insight on where your organization may have risk, and look at the advanced features for managing content lifecycle.  

We'll also share insights into the licenses needed to take advantage of each feature.  Join us to discover the Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management features.

Learn How to Govern and Secure Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management

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

This session will do a deep-dive on "scoping" retention policies and labels inside Microsoft 365 and how they can help your organization intelligently scale to meet complex retention requirements. Understanding how to leverage scopes is key to an organization's overall Information Governance and Records Management program design and implementation. It requires IT Administrators and Compliance professionals to work in partnership together.

To demonstrate the capability, Joanne will walk thru several real-world use-cases of building adaptive scopes in Microsoft Purview and will highlight the technology dependencies to be aware of before you start down this path. 

4 objectives of session:
- Understand the difference between static and adaptive scopes and when you would use one over the other
- Understand how to create each of the 3 types of adaptive scopes and the technologies they are dependent on
- Understand how to build a query in the Advanced query builder for each type of adaptive scope
- Show how to validate the results of the query


Scaling your Retention with Microsoft Purview Adaptive Scopes

Are you looking for ways to save your company money? Let us show you how to use Content AI to automate traditionally manual processes, like invoice reconciliation. 

Content AI, which includes Microsoft Syntex, forms the basis for this solution. According to Forrester, today’s organizations have 73% of their critical information locked away in their Content Estate, scattered amongst PDFs and other unstructured, hard to analyze file formats. Until now, the process to extract and use this information has been manual, time-consuming, and expensive. How many people does your org have rekeying data, for example?

Learn how you can use Microsoft’s new Content AI technology to convert documents to data at scale.

Using SharePoint Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI, you see how to build a competitor product comparison with your own product. You’ll see how to:
 - Create an extraction model using AI Builder
 - Attach that model to a SharePoint library
 - Have SharePoint Syntex extract the data from the documents automatically
 - Use the new Power BI integration with SharePoint, using your structured data for analysis. 