Learn from the top Microsoft 365, Power Platform and AI experts at TechCon365 SeattleTechCon365 is a leading Microsoft training conference formerly known as 365 EduCon, dedicated to empowering professionals across industries with the latest insights into Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and AI. The conference provides a unique platform for learning, networking, and collaboration, fostering innovation and excellence in the rapidly evolving tech landscape.&nbsp;Find out more:&nbsp;<a href="https://techcon365.com/Seattle" target="_blank">https://techcon365.com/Seattle</a>

TechCon365 and PWRCON - A Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Conference

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Unlock the power of Microsoft 365 in this comprehensive workshop tailored for beginners. Delve into the core components of OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams, understanding their distinct roles and how they work in tandem to boost productivity. We'll explore key functionalities like document co-authoring, file sharing, managing access, and the unique document lifecycle within these platforms. 

Along the way, learn to navigate the diverse terrain of other Microsoft 365 apps including Outlook, Planner, and To Do, enhancing both individual and team productivity. Understand the nuances of choosing the right tool for the right task, be it OneDrive for personal document management, SharePoint for organizational content, or Teams for collaborative projects. Attendees are encouraged to use their own devices and accounts to follow along, ensuring a comprehensive grasp of navigating and using Microsoft 365's capabilities confidently for effective communication and collaboration.

Build Your Skills: Microsoft 365 Essentials for Beginners

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 across Microsoft 365. Discover how Copilot is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

Discover Microsoft 365 Chat, your powerful virtual assistant for work. Learn how Microsoft 365 Chat can help you catch up quickly, create content and brainstorm ideas, and get quick answers to your questions. Microsoft 365 Chat connects to your work data and apps to help you achieve more.

Deep Dive into Copilot for Microsoft 365 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 how to use Copilot in Microsoft Teams to summarize meetings in real time or after they end, highlight the key discussion points, action items, and decisions. You can also ask Copilot questions to get more insights or suggestions during or after a meeting. Catch up on chats or channels quickly without having to scroll through long threads. Create content in chat or channels by asking Copilot to generate text or replies based on your prompt.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Copilot for Microsoft 365 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365 to maximize your productivity.

Next level productivity with Microsoft Copilot

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

In this workshop, we will explore the basics of Information Architecture (IA) and its role in creating effective intranets using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Viva Connections. We’ll talk about why IA is so important to AI – and how you can ensure that your intranet content can act as a valuable partner in your AI solutions. Whether you are just starting out or looking to improve your current intranet design, this workshop will provide you with the necessary tools and techniques to make the most of new and upcoming features, capabilities, and best practices. 

We'll cover key topics including creating and organizing content, building site structures, creating metadata, and leveraging search functionality.

You will take away:
 -  Approaches for planning navigation across the entire intranet and on individual sites
 -  Tips and best practices for audiences, hubs, and home sites
 -  Page design guidance that supports accessibility and great user experiences
 -  Effective use of metadata on pages and documents – and whether it is OK to use folders to organize your content.
 -  How to leverage Viva Connections to bring your intranet to your users in the flow of work – and how to plan audiences to ensure that the right tools and information gets to the right groups.
 -  How Copilot can help your information architecture and vice versa.

You'll leave with a clear understanding of what IA is, why it matters, and how to get started with creating effective intranets that meet your organization's needs.

Best Practices for Intranet Information Architecture: the key to unlocking AI’s full potential

Gartner predicts, “by 2024, over 65% of medium to large enterprises will have adopted a Low Code Application Platform as one of their strategic application platforms.” Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to a native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and frees up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, and Power BI. 

We will cover:
•	Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
•	How does Power Platform use Azure?
•	How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
•	Authentication and Authorization in Azure
•	Azure + Power Automate
•	Azure + Power Apps
•	Azure + Power Pages
•	Azure + Copilot Studio
•	Azure + Power BI
•	Azure + Dataverse
•	PowerFx
•	Copilots in Power Platform
•	Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
•	ChatGPT + Power Platform
•	What are Azure Functions?
•	What are Logic Apps?
•	What is Azure Bot Service?
•	How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development. 
 
Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari. The tablets will not work.

You Will Learn:

1)	How to handle Authentication and Authorization in Azure?
2)	How does fusion teams can take advantages of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
3)	How to create enterprise grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform


Hands-On: Azure, ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Power Platform is Microsoft's low-code, cloud-based service to turn ideas into impactful, end-to-end services. With the Power Platform having been available for over 10 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows, chatbots and websites. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for you company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it. 

However, in the last year Microsoft has infused AI Copilot into all their cloud services and this change has affected Power Platform as well, some might say, more so than other services. Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he gives you a good overview of the Power Platform family in a day including all the AI Copilot features plus the changes coming to two of their services.

Power Platform Copilot In A Day

So, you were just handed a Microsoft 365 (M365) tenant in the cloud. Congratulations are in order! Now that we’ve dispensed with the pleasantries, you’re probably wondering what the heck you’re supposed to do with that tenant. If so, you’re in luck, as this workshop is designed specifically for you and others who find themselves with the same basic question. 

In this workshop, we approach M365 tenant administration from the perspective of someone who now has tenant administration responsibilities without necessarily knowing what that means or encompasses. We’ll spend some time learning the terminology, bounds, and different pieces of tenant administration. 

We’ll also investigate how the admin experience is partially coupled to how your organization is licensed. We’ll cover what you need to do to establish your new tenant, and we’ll take a tour of the various admin surfaces available to M365 administrators. 

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have a functional understanding of M365 administration and the tools you have available to implement your organization’s cloud vision.

An Introduction to Microsoft 365 Tenant Administration

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

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.  

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform.  We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them. 

The workshop will be divided into two parts.  In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate. 

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:
  • Morning: Power Apps
	○ Delegation
	○ Working with Dates and Times
	○ Conditional Formatting of data
	○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow
  • Afternoon: Power Automate
	○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
	○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
	○ Working with Large Data Sources
	○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
	○ Improving Performance


Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Work through a common business use case to see how Power Apps and Power Automate - and their Copilot capabilities - fit into your toolset extending M365, SharePoint, and Teams.  
 
We'll start with some brief foundation info, dig in with demos, and then let you "take the wheel" walking through hands-on examples to build a solution as we work through the day building on top of Microsoft Lists. 
 
You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be used with Power Automate and will create basic Flows yourself. Then, see how Flows integrate with Power Apps you've built and the list data behind them. Your instructors will be there to assist throughout the day with your questions. 
 
Attend this workshop to get a foothold with the Power Platform. 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, Power Automate, Microsoft Lists, Teams, SharePoint 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.


Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) for M365/SharePoint Bootcamp

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 full-day workshop explores how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity. 

You’ll learn how to: 
- Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
- Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage- Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
- Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
- Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Online (SPO) integrates with many services that you need to be familiar with to successfully manage your collaboration content. In this full day workshop, we are going to learn about these different services and how to manage the integration with them by exploring and discussing SharePoint Online best practices for configuring, securing, optimizing, and implementing redundancy. 

We will begin by discussing and creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, followed by exploring how to customize both the M365 and SharePoint administrator dashboards so they only display information related to the Microsoft 365 services and SPO-related components like SharePoint Online and OneDrive. 

We will compare, discuss, and explore SharePoint Premium to understand the differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint Premium and explore the features available in SharePoint Premium including AI integration with SharePoint for content processing, Syntex integration, document portal, content governance, Microsoft backups, Microsoft archives, and SharePoint eSignatures.

We will also explore how to create and assign users to access SharePoint Online as both an end user and as administrators. 

Being most scenarios require the migration of content, we will discuss several options for migrating content from many different sources to SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Out-of-Box tools. 

Most migrations require at least an interim hybrid configuration, so we will introduce and explore the components that can be configured for a hybrid environment as an interim solution, or as a long-term solution.

We will then roll up our sleeves and explore the configuration of several components of SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell. These SPO components and configurations include; 

Creating, configuring, and managing site collections

Configuring the user profile service (UPS) to ensure your Active Directory data is included in your search index 

Exploring several search service configuration options, to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, along with how to access some search-related reports, as well as some suggestions on how to help your users submit better search queries for more accurate search results

Discussing both SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration options for managing and securing your collaboration content

Create and implementing a structured taxonomy to provide consistent and reliable data in SPO by using published tenant-level content types and managed metadata fields via the term store, as well as other custom column types, that can all be managed by information architects. 


As we discuss these topics throughout the day, I’ll be sharing best practices, as well as tips and tricks that every SPO admin should know about while working with SPO. 

When you leave the workshop, you’ll have all the skills and best practices to migrate to, configure, manage, and secure SharePoint Online and OneDrive components using the SharePoint Online Admin center, OneDrive admin Center, and PowerShell.


Establishing SharePoint Online Admin Rockstar Status

Let's face it, Copilot is everywhere, in everything, it's like the force... and sometimes just as confusing and hard to grasp.  Those who learn to harness the power of Copilots within their organization will be able to go where no organization has gone before...  

But what does it all mean? It all seems so overwhelming. What if your organization is unwilling to pay for Copilot licenses? What is the average person to do??  

Join Mark Rackley in this full-day demo-filled tutorial where attendees will learn:
- What is Copilot and Generative AI?
- What do you need to do to prepare for Microsoft Copilot?
- What are your options for extending Microsoft Copilot?
- When and how should you use Copilot Studio?
- How can you create your own Custom Copilot that doesn't require expensive licensing?

With practical demos and real-world stories from the trenches, you will leave with all of your Copilot questions answered and feeling empowered to embrace Generative AI in your organization. 

The One Copilot Workshop to Rule them All

Microsoft 365 gives enterprises and government organizations the tools they need in the modern workplace to identify their risky information and to govern their data effectively to meet regulatory compliance needs. These tools help to protect sensitive data from both accidental and malicious data loss, and they protect the organization from risk by ensuring we retain our data appropriately following regulatory controls such as GDPR, NIST, and CIS. Implementing these compliance solutions requires a clear understanding of the capabilities available in the Microsoft cloud and industry best practices for establishing a data governance framework.

In this all-day workshop, David Drever and Joanne Klein will help you learn how to develop a framework for information governance for enterprises and government organizations, including planning a record retention schedule and implementing retention labels/policies. They’ll teach you how to leverage disposition reviews, implement event-based retention, and to apply retention labels to your data automatically. They’ll discuss how utilizing Compliance Manager and Insider Risk Management can further govern your environment. Finally, you will learn how to use eDiscovery to facilitate legal holds and “Freedom of Information and Privacy” (FOIP) requests. Join David and Joanne to discover how to implement data governance and compliance in Microsoft 365!

Microsoft 365 Compliance: Implementing information governance, risk, and compliance management

Power BI is the gold standard for cloud-based report delivery, and forms the reporting component of Microsoft Fabric. It's very approachable - you can get up and running with it in minutes, but it's also very robust, secure and extensible. As you might expect, it has many pieces and nuances, and it's important to understand what is possible, even if you may not take immediate advantage of some features, to understand what to use when. 
 
This all day tutorial will explore the way that Power BI works, and what it can do. We will walk through its architecture, the Power BI web service, Power BI Desktop and how it works with Microsoft Excel. Then we focus on the relationship with SharePoint, what can be done in an on premises or hybrid environment and how to connect it and refresh it with all sorts of data. Finally, we will cover off how it is licensed, and a whole host of other miscellaneous topics including how it works on its own, and within Microsoft Fabric. 
 
This tutorial consists of a mix of theory and demonstrations, with emphasis on the demonstrations using real world data. It is designed for the beginner and the novice user, but even advanced users will find some nuggets of new information. Power BI is a fast moving, and ever-changing product, and this tutorial is constantly updated to reflect that. 
 
Above all we encourage questions and dialog. We can't answer your questions if you don't bring them, so please come armed! Feel free to even bring us data and we can work through any reporting challenges that you may have. If you want to get exposed to Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, this is certainly a session for you. 

Everything You Wanted to Know About Power BI... but were afraid to ask!

Automate routine tasks, eliminate the chance for errors, and free up time for more important work with robotic process automation (RPA) and Power Automate for desktop. 

This workshop allows you to experience the utility of RPA and Power Automate for desktop and use out of box actions such as manipulating Excel documents as part of an end-to-end invoice processing solution. 

In addition, with the Copilot feature available, building the desktop flows has become easier than ever! Hence join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he walks you everything that Power Automate desktop has to offer.

Automate Desktop Processes using Robotic Process Automation in Power Automate

Have you ever worked in a large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online or OneDrive environment with thousands of sites, or millions of files, or thousands of users?  

If you have, then you probably understand the challenges with trying to get detailed and timely analytics on your current state, including permissions for all files across all sites, or storage information for all sites and to try and figure out which groups are consuming all your space. Governing large enterprise-scale SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 environments is a real challenge due to the sheer amount of data you need to reason over.

In this workshop, we'll look at how the Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes) provides some exciting capabilities which will help to get us this data quickly, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on, across very large enterprise scale environments.  

We'll provide a step by step demonstration of how to setup and use Microsoft Graph Data Connect for SharePoint (Project Archimedes), Azure Synapse and Power BI to get access to these data sets quickly and efficiently, without getting throttled, and in a form that we can easily report on across very large enterprise environments.

Big Data Analytics in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Graph Data Connect

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

We'll also learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list.

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Workshop

This intranet-focused and beginner-friendly half-day workshop will help you transform your SharePoint Online intranet. We'll divide our time into two areas:

Theory & Best Practices: The first half addresses common intranet challenges, such as disorganized content, outdated information, and confusing navigation. We'll cover theoretical aspects of intranet governance, content strategy, and structure optimization.

SharePoint Application: In the latter half, we put theory into practice. Delve into SharePoint specifics, including hub structures, settings, and SharePoint features and tools. Learn to overcome pain points by leveraging SharePoint's abilities for a more organized, current, and user-friendly intranet.

Perfect for those aiming to elevate their intranet experience, this workshop bridges strategic planning with practical SharePoint solutions. 

Note: This is not a hands-on build-an-entire-intranet-in-three-hours workshop. This is entirely focused on best practices and ideas for improving your existing intranet's content, structure, and processes leveraging all SharePoint has to offer.

Let's fix that intranet!

Fix that intranet! Improve your intranet content, structure, and processes

Data modeling is an essential first step in any Power Apps or Power Automate project. Power apps provides a user interface for information stored in a data source and Power Automate creates workflows that manipulate data stored in a data source based on specific events or triggers. Data modeling is difficult enough for professional developers, but it is even harder for citizen developers. Citizen developers usually have little exposure to concepts like data normalization and often can’t use true relational databases like SQL or Dataverse because of the cost of Premium licensing. So, they are left trying to figure out how to build their flows or apps using data stored in SharePoint lists or Excel spreadsheets. 
In this workshop I will show you some real-world techniques for doing data modeling. I’ll start with a typical project requirements definition and show you how to easily convert it into an Entity Relationship model. Next, I’ll show you how to map that Entity Relationship model onto a set of SharePoint lists. Once I have the lists designed, I’ll show you how to use them in a Power App and a flow. Along the way I’ll walk you through what you need to know about using SharePoint as a data source, including:
•	What Column types work well and which ones to avoid
•	When to use (or not use) Lookup columns to create relationships between lists
•	How to plan for Security in SharePoint
•	Other Common issues
I’ll focus on SharePoint in the workshop but the techniques I teach you are also applicable for other data sources like Excel, SQL or even Dataverse. 


SharePoint Data Modeling: From Requirements to Usage

Dataverse, Dataverse, Dataverse… You've heard about it but haven't checked it out yet. Now's the time to see how to scale solutions up from Lists. In this hands-on workshop we'll start with a Power App built with List data and build a similar solution using Dataverse as the data source - talking through the pros and cons comparison along the way. 

Adding Dataverse is an investment in time, skills, and licensing. Know when to engage and what to expect. 
- Learn what Dataverse is, where it fits in the maker toolset, and how Copilot adds to the experience.
- Cover what the differences are between Dataverse, Microsoft Lists, and other data sources and talk through some of the 'what to use when' considerations as Lists solution builders integrate with and shift to Power Platform tools. 
- Get a perspective on the maker skills needed when using Dataverse and how to get started in your organization. 

Using the Developer Plan, attendees will get a hands-on look at Creating Dataverse tables, relationships, forms, and more. 
With Dataverse as a data source, we'll also do a quick compare of model-driven vs. canvas Power Apps. 

Dataverse Bootcamp for M365 Makers

Findability is much more than technology. It needs to be the combination of culture, communication, and technology, as well as how your content is organized. 

This workshop discusses the most important success factors of enterprise search in Microsoft 365: roles and responsibilities, search metrics, risk management, governance, search lifecycle, as well as how to implement it well. Agnes uses real world examples to go through all the steps to enable you to create an actionable plan for your organization. 

Improve Findability in Microsoft 365

Are you an admin who's been administering M365 for years? Or are you brand new to the admin role? Either way, there will be something for you in this workshop!

We will be taking a deep look into the administration of M365 and some of its services, with a heavy focus on Teams, using the admin center, PowerShell, Graph, and more. Expect deep explainers on what different switches really do, and practical advice on how to configure things appropriately for your organization.

We will spend time in this workshop setting up automations together and sharing real world examples of how to make your job easier.

Ultimate guide to administering M365 and Teams

Microsoft 365 is packed with powerful tools and features for building an effective intranet. But with so many options, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. In this presentation, we'll take a deep dive into the "out-of-the-box" features of SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 and show you how to leverage them to build an intranet that meets your organization's unique needs. From creating and organizing content with SharePoint to enhancing communication with Teams and Viva Engage, we'll cover everything you need to get started, including new capabilities like the Brand Center and Copilot for SharePoint. By the end of the workshop, you'll have a solid understanding of the key features of SharePoint Online and how to use them to build an intranet that helps your organization communicate, collaborate, and succeed. You will also understand what is possible “in the box” and where you may want to invest in third party solutions or custom development.

How to Maximize Your Intranet Potential with Out-of-the-Box Features in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint

Content is the lifeblood of every organization. It is how teams collaborate, communicate, and create value. However, managing content effectively can be challenging, especially with the increasing volume and variety of content types. How can you organize, secure, and process your content to maximize its value and prepare it for the next-generation AI assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot?

Join this workshop where you will learn how to get your content in order, so you can fully leverage the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
•	Discover best practices for organizing your files, folders, and sites in Microsoft 365, ensuring easy access and seamless collaboration.
•	Prepare your content for Copilot, the AI assistant that transforms productivity by generating high-quality content, insights, and actions from your data.
•	Perform a security and governance audit to ensure information is not leaked through new AI tools.
•	Walkthrough integrating Copilot into your daily workflow, unlocking the full potential of AI-driven productivity.

By the end of the workshop, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively organize your content within Microsoft 365, enabling you to harness the power of Microsoft AI and revolutionize your work experience.


Content Management for the AI Era: How to Optimize Your Content for Copilot

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus. 

During this workshop, you will:
• Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
• Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success
• Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm
• Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

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. In this half-day workshop, we will cover the key principles of Power Platform Governance, the tools available at our disposal, and how to use those. 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. Managed Environments
4. How to use Co-Pilot for governance?
5. Automation Kit
6. Data Loss Prevention policies
7. User Management
8. Permission manager
9. License and capacity management
10. Security and Control
11. Best Practices

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to implement Governance in Power Platform.


Half-Day Workshop : Power Platform Governance 101

Join Microsoft product leaders as they highlight the value and benefit of Microsoft 365 innovation, and beyond. You'll get unique insights into Copilot and AI innovation, advances in employee experiences, content services that help automate the flow of work, and perspectives across roles: Business, IT Pros, and Developers. This keynote will be packed with product updates and demos across Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more. Get a solid understanding of the strategy and vision, with clarity on where Microsoft is taking content, communication, and collaboration into the future.

Thriving in the era of AI

In this session we will show how easy it is to get setup coding solutions using the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that you can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security.  

We will look at how to use the Graph Explorer to validate our solution and then create a solution that can be a pilot for automating a Visitor intake system for offices to use as health screening and policy assurance before admitting someone onsite. 

This solution will be using Microsoft Teams and Planner with an ASP.NET MVC front end. 

Introduction to Microsoft Graph

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) will replace enterprise search is becoming increasingly relevant. In many organizations, it’s not a question anymore - rather it’s an “all-in” on AI.

During this session, we will explore the evolving relationship between information retrieval and content generation. We will discuss the implications of AI in the context of governance, information management, information architecture, permissions, as well as the balance (or the lack of balance) between information retrieval and content generation.

Join us for this thought-provoking discussion on the future of enterprise search in the era of AI. Gain valuable insights, and discover strategies for harnessing the power of AI while ensuring responsible and effective implementation within your organization.

Will AI replace search?

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously. 

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content. 

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists 
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset. 

We will cover:
 - Simple extensions of the Microsoft List / SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
 - How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
 - Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

Microsoft advanced content management and experiences - where AI meets content. Whether SharePoint Premium, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Archive, or SharePoint Embedded, you now have new ways to engage with your most critical content, while managing and protecting it through its lifecycle. In this era of AI and Copilot, learn how you can not only maximize content value with security and structure but make sure you prime and manage your content for Copilot too. 

SharePoint Premium - Intelligent Content for Everyone

AI capabilities are sweeping business but how do you ensure you are getting business value from your investment.  Join this session to learn the process to set your organization up for success with Copilot capabilities.  Karuana Gatimu and team will share tools, measures and recommended practices for driving meaningful value from Copilot for Microsoft 365 and other generative AI tools. 

Creating an AI Powered Organization - User Satisfaction & Adoption Practices for Copilot and MS

In the ever-evolving IT landscape, enterprises of every size grapple with a critical challenge: managing and consolidating vast amounts of data, especially within Microsoft environments. Effective IT documentation is more critical than ever. Whether you're overseeing a service desk, managing projects, or handling any critical IT function, intelligent documentation is key to managing IT assets, organizing information and standardizing processes. 

Yet, many organizations struggle to develop and maintain documentation that truly supports their operations. This workshop is designed to equip IT professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to master IT documentation and drive success within their organizations. Participants will gain actionable insights to elevate their documentation processes.

This session will cover:
* Fostering a Documentation Culture: Getting your team onboard with documentation is crucial for its success. We'll share practical techniques for inspiring your team to embrace documentation creation, utilization, and maintenance. You'll learn how to cultivate a culture where documentation is valued and prioritized.
* Understanding Great Documentation: We'll highlight the characteristics of intelligent IT documentation that make them stand out, including clarity, completeness, and relevance. By understanding the hallmarks of great documentation, you'll be better equipped to elevate your own documentation practices.
* Creating Process Documentation: We'll guide you through the process of creating comprehensive process documentation strategies, covering essential components such as naming conventions, workflows, templates and more. You’ll learn how to establish a robust documentation framework tailored to your organizational needs.
* Strategies to quantify and maximize the ROI, productivity and utilization of your Microsoft environments. Discover insights for consolidating siloed Microsoft information to centrally track assets and users, securely access passwords and more.

By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to transform their approach to IT documentation, enabling them to drive efficiency, collaboration, and success within their IT teams and across the organization. 

Whether you're a seasoned IT professional or new to the world of documentation, this session offers valuable insights to help you master the art of IT documentation.


Mastering IT Documentation: Strategies for Success

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work. 

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

Microsoft 365 quickly brings together collaborators across your agency and your partners. That built-in collaboration, however, creates new concerns around tracking who has access across your environment. Organizations must monitor how users interact with data within a Zero Trust Architecture.

When viewed individually, core pillars of Zero Trust, such as network, data, and user, are bound in M365: How is our service secured? How do we protect sensitive data? Which users do we authenticate in our system? However, this approach misses the intersection across Zero Trusts pillars in the collaboration spaces themselves.

In the past years we've talked about Governance, but by not talking about security we are leaving a large hole in the security of our data.

In this presentation, we will discuss the importance of including your Collaboration Workspaces (Teams, SharePoint Site Collections, and Groups) in your security plans and how to leverage native and 3rd party tools to best accomplish this.

Secure Collaboration in M365 within a Zero Trust Lens

Session on preparing an organization for Copilot for Microsoft 365 including core concepts, deployment prerequisites, information access optimization, and extensibility options. We'll also cover tips for driving internal adoption and success. Additionally, we'll provide an overview on the importance of trust in the Microsoft Cloud, with a focus on data privacy and residency, and the comprehensive enterprise compliance and security controls in place to protect data and AI models. 

Getting Ready for Copilot for Microsoft 365 

Find out what's new and what's next for Microsoft Viva

What's new and next for Microsoft Viva 

Explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats in 2024 by dissecting some of the most impactful attacks on companies like 23adndMe and MGM in 2023, and revisiting the Mother of All Breaches in 2024. Learn how these breaches and social engineering hacks unfolded and discover key strategies to prevent similar incidents. Recognizing the inevitability of cyberattacks, we'll also delve into rapid data recovery techniques using Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum data protection.

Microsoft 365: Cybersecurity Lessons & Recovery with Spanning Backup

How to set up email signatures for an entire company? Sounds like an easy task: just send a signature template to your users and ask them to add it in their Outlook, mobile devices, etc. Done! Well... not really. In reality, you will end up with just a couple of signatures set up correctly and hours spent by your IT Team to fix the remaining ones. The cycle repeats when your company’s signature needs to be updated. With 120k+ customers worldwide (including Facebook, Samsung or UNICEF) and over 16 years on the market, we know that managing email signatures is actually a huge problem for many organizations.

Emails are still #1 communication channel in business: the average person sends 40 emails per day and spends 28% of their working time on emails. So, having a professional, fully branded email signature across all devices and email apps is also a straightforward way to increase brand awareness.

During this session, we will show you how you can easily automate email signatures and branding in a Microsoft 365 organization with CodeTwo, and unlock new marketing opportunities offered by email signatures. Find out how one person can set up signatures for everyone in your organization within just minutes, saving you both time and resources. 

We will also cover the following:
•	Integrating email signatures with Entra ID (Azure AD)
•	Setting up different signatures for different teams or email recipients, or for internal and external communication
•	Delegating emails signature management task non-IT teams like Marketing
•	Automating email marketing campaigns & customer feedback collection
•	Central management of automatic replies and out-of-office messages, and more.


Save IT resources with email signature & branding automation

Ask the Experts - "Ask the Experts" is for attendees to engage in one-on-one conversations with subject matter experts. Participants have the opportunity to sit down with an expert and receive immediate answers or feedback to their questions on a specific topic of interest. These discussions provide a unique platform for attendees to tap into the knowledge and expertise of industry professionals, fostering meaningful conversations and promoting learning in a personalized and accessible manner.

Ask the Experts - 1

Say your company rushes in the coming months to implement a Copilot over their Intranet. An employee asks the Copilot, "How much does my co-worker make?" How will it answer?

This scenario becomes plausible as Copilot is connected to data sources for Q&A activities. If the data related to pay, layoffs, and other sensitive topics is accessible by the AI, it's possible that an employee could get an answer to their question. You should take great care before connecting it to your own internal data.

Unfortunately hearing GPT, AI and Machine Learning terms thrown about like doubloons at a Mardi Gras parade in the news is giving many organizations FOMO. We'll discuss what you should know before you jump in.

In this session, we'll address:
- What are these technologies and how they will impact you
- How can these technologies be used in your organization
- Data and security considerations
- Preparing for unintended consequences

Join us to learn about this brave new world and how you could apply it in your own work.

How to Avoid AI Disasters: Copilot, Data Security, and Unintended Consequences

Jeremy Thake, Principal PM Lead on Copilot developer experience team will introduce you to the different ways you can extend Copilot for Microsoft 365. 

He will show you both the pro code with Visual Studio Code and low code approaches with Copilot Studio. 

This will be a demo filled session to help you understand the power of generative AI for your business needs.

Introduction to extending Copilot for Microsoft 365

For years client-side development in SharePoint was accomplished with jQuery and JavaScript. In the last year the development landscape has changed. 

With the introduction of the SharePoint Framework, SharePoint developers were introduced to new ways of developing. With this new paradigm we need to refresh our skills. 

React is a library that integrates really well with SharePoint, whether you are currently using the SharePoint Framework or you are prepping your code for the future.

React for the SharePoint Developer

Adaptive Card Extensions are a new way to create custom components that can render dynamic and interactive content in SharePoint pages, news, and lists. 

In this session, you will learn how to use the SharePoint Framework to create and deploy Adaptive Card Extensions, and how to use them as part of dashboards. 

You will also learn how to leverage Viva Connections, a new solution that brings your SharePoint intranet to Microsoft Teams, to enhance the reach and impact of your Adaptive Card Extensions. 

You will see how Viva Connections can help you create a unified and personalized employee experience that boosts engagement, productivity, and wellbeing.

Improve your users' productivity with custom Viva Connections cards

At the Microsoft Ignite event in November 2023, Microsoft made the official announcement of transitioning Syntex to SharePoint Premium. 

Join Joanne Klein and Daniel Christian, Microsoft MVPs as they walk you through the new SharePoint Premium and all the features that come along with it that can help improve the experience, process and governance of all the content that resides in your SharePoint sites. 

Bye, Bye Microsoft Syntex, Hello SharePoint Premium!

Migrating all of your email, documents, intranet and other content to Microsoft 365 is a great step in creating a modern digital workplace.

That goes both for those who are brand-new to Microsoft 365, and those who have been using the platform for a while, but still have some content in other places (like file shares, other cloud drives, different intranets, or other internal social engagement platforms).

This session equips attendees with insights and practical guidance on navigating through their migration journey. 

Key topics covered include:
 - It's not longer an "intranet" it's a "modern digital workplace" - learn the roles of Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage to create a complete communication, collaboration and document management experience for your team
 - Understanding migration solution options
 - Information architecture - why it's important to plan your structure before migrating
 - Real-world case studies - learn from the successes and struggles of others to get to know the best practices and save yourself from potential pitfalls

Migrating to Microsoft 365: Best Practices and Common Mistakes

In today's world getting true data driven insights can take a lot of time and energy. Data is spread across a wide variety of storage systems, all of which can have different operating models, security models and integration requirements. The next generation of Microsoft's data platform, which includes Power BI aims to solve this problem. 

Come to this session to explore some exciting new announcements from Microsoft, understand exactly what they mean, and how they can help position your organization for the new age of AI.


Exploring the Future of Microsoft Analytics with Microsoft Fabric

Power Apps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level. In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a Power App, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to Power Apps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your Power Apps and Flow work more efficiently together. Even if you know both Power Apps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

Using Power Apps and Power Automate Together: Made for eachother

In this session, we'll dive into the consolidation of OneNote's two versions (Win10 and desktop) into a singular app. Get ready to rediscover OneNote with an array of useful tips, tricks, and practical business applications. We'll explore the latest features and announcements, ensuring you're ahead of the curve with OneNote's advancements. Additionally, we'll delve into a comparative analysis of OneNote with Microsoft's other productivity tools you might use for notes like Loop, Whiteboard, Wiki, To Do, and Sticky Notes. This comprehensive overview will empower you to select the most suitable tool for every task, enhancing efficiency and productivity in your professional endeavors.

OneNote Reimagined: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Note-Taking

This session will talk about how Copilot can help you build, monitor and troubleshoot your automations. 

It will also present the new experiences meant to help you scale up reliable and robust desktop automations.

Copilot is beside me along my RPA journey

What is the intranet of the future all about? We'll cover industry trends around content presentation, more robust authoring experiences, and what the era of AI means for your intranet. Learn about the future of SharePoint Portals.  This is the SharePoint session you don't want to miss.

The Future of Your Intranet: Beautiful, flexible and AI ready powered by SharePoint

Ask the Experts - 2

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Treb Gatte.

Discussion Bytes - Business Intelligence

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Prashant G Bhoyar

Discussion Bytes - Finding the ROI on the AI investments

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Wes Preston.

Discussion Bytes - How to help users achieve their desired skill levels and keep up with changes

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Paul Stork.

Discussion Bytes - Governance for Citizen Developers 

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Andy Huneycutt.

Discussion Bytes - Microsoft 365 Power Users

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Susan Hanely.

Discussion Bytes - Intranet design and information architecture

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Daniel Glenn. 

Discussion Bytes - Sharing Strategies

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Daniel Christian.

Discussion Bytes - Power Platform Copilot

Join us for an engaging and informal lunchtime gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Discussion Bytes is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences.  Grab your lunch, pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights over a byte-sized conversation.  Moderated by Heather Cook and Karuana Gatimu

Discussion Bytes - Diversity & Inclusion Lunch - Women and Allies

Did you know that malicious phishing emails have surged by a staggering 1,265% since the close of 2022? This alarming trend is largely attributed to the usage of AI by cybercriminals, rendering traditional detection methods obsolete. No longer can we rely solely on spotting poor grammar or misspellings to discern between genuine and fraudulent emails.
 
Join us for an eye-opening session where we dive into the world of offensive vs. defensive AI tactics. Explore how AI serves as a double-edged sword, empowering cybercriminals with sophisticated attack methodologies while offering cybersecurity experts innovative tools to fortify defenses. Discover how AI can be harnessed to shield against even the most advanced email attacks, providing you with unparalleled protection in the digital battlefield.

The AI Arms Race: Protecting Against Cyber Attacks

In this interesting presentation you’ll see proven case studies for using Generative AI with Automated workflows. We’ll dive deep into practical strategies and management principles to unlock the full potential of human workers as they drive digital work. Uncover strategies to bypass common Automation challenges that ensnares many organizations and get an instant ‘starting point’ for you to improve business value for AI & Automation.

The Future of Work: The Role of Generative AI in Defining Automation Success

Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information. As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders.  

Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy.  

Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information.  

Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information.

Establish a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail.
•	What is Power Fx?
•	What are Data Types?
•	What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support? 
•	How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application?
•	Power Fx Best Practices

Super Charge your Power Apps and Copilots with Power Fx

JSON is EVERYWHERE in SharePoint Online and your ability to take your SharePoint deployments to the next level depend on your ability to understand and create complicated JSON objects. 

In this densely demo-packed session, attendees will learn:
- What is JSON and how to understand the structure
- Tips for creating JSON objects and starting with community content as a starting point

Attendees will also learn how to use JSON Objects in SharePoint Online to:
- Customize list columns and list views
- Create Site Designs for creating custom site templates
- Create stunning Quick Views for Viva Connections ACE's
- Post messages in teams as Adaptive Cards
- Process SharePoint REST queries in Power Automate
- and more!! 

Introduction to JSON to master customizing SharePoint

In today's fast-paced business environment, quick and easy access to knowledge is critical for success. Unfortunately, many organizations and people struggle with finding and accessing information within their intranets. 

In this session, we’ll review several different strategies to improve findability in Microsoft 365 – from simple tips to help users be more successful with search to more strategic approaches for intranet navigation and structure using home sites and hubs, information delivery with Viva Connections, improving knowledge management with Viva Topics and Viva Engage, and how Copilot can help. 

You will learn practical and actionable tips and tricks that you can implement immediately as you evolve your employee experiences.

Elevating Your Experience: Improving Findability and Knowledge Discovery in Microsoft 365 and ShareP

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

Microsoft Loop is an innovative, collaborative platform that revolutionizes how teams collaborate, seamlessly integrating content, tasks, and tools across multiple devices for a truly immersive co-creation experience.

Join this enlightening session to gain comprehensive insights and practical knowledge on leveraging Loop's versatile elements for enhanced productivity and seamless integration across Microsoft's suite of applications.

Mastering Microsoft Loop: A Beginner's Roadmap to Productivity

Daniel and Andy (DnA) are two guys who work for enterprise level companies and must deal with day-to-day tasks that can be both time consuming and mundane. However, now with Copilot available across several Microsoft cloud services, these two Microsoft MVPs are finding ways to making their jobs a lot easier and, in some cases, automated. 

So, join them as these two guys show share their tips and tricks with you to make your jobs easier and make you look like Copilot superstars. This session will cover both Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot features.

Two Guys and A Copilot - The DnA Show!

Files are at the core of Microsoft 365. Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, of course. In addition, all kinds of files, PDFs, pictures, and video are created, shared, viewed, edited, and deleted all day, every day in organizations around the world through the tools and services included as part of their Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Tom Resing is a member of the SharePoint Premium product engineering team at Microsoft. Every day, Tom thinks about the user experience around files and their properties how content AI does or doesn't empower people to achieve more with files.

Come to this session to get an overview of the how, why, what, when, and where you can get started with automatically capturing information about files as they are added to SharePoint, including when they're added in conversations in Teams channels. 

Note that the majority of this talk relates to the new SharePoint Premium offering. However, Tom will demonstrate how you can get started for very little cost and explain scenarios that might provide immediate value to your organization.

Automatically capture information about incoming files in Microsoft 365

Traditionally training Microsoft 365, SharePoint or Power Apps users is a waste of time. Instead, increase user adoption and decrease support tickets by providing User Adoption as a Service (UAaaS). 

Come to this session and I'll tell you the 5 strategies that will help you cut down on support calls and have your users Love the environment and content you create for them in Microsoft 365 and Power Apps. 

5 Immediate Things You Can Do To Increase Microsoft 365 and Power Apps User Adoption

In this session we will go over an overview of what is Copilot Studio and how it fits into the Copilot landscape at Microsoft. We will also discuss the latest features and what Microsoft is working on in this space.

What’s New with Copilot Studio

Do you ever wonder what your Microsoft Team members are thinking or what their thoughts are on a specific topic or initiative? Microsoft Forms is a powerful and versatile tool that allows you to create surveys, quizzes, and polls that can be responded to by your Team members which allows you to view real-time responses from your participants. These results can then be exported to an Excel spreadsheet for additional analysis, and to generate some neat visual charts or graphs using Power BI.

In this session we are going to introduce and discuss the different types of uses for Forms, how to create a form on a Microsoft Teams channel, explore the configuration options for these forms, as well as how to export the results for use in other Microsoft products, like Power BI. 


Integrating Forms with Teams for Real-time Responses

Ask the Experts - 3

Join Preservica’s solution showcase and learn how IT and IG teams can maximize investments in Microsoft 365 to minimize the integrity & readability risks facing SharePoint content with long-term or permanent retention.

In this session we will explore how you can create standardized processes for archiving, governance and retrieval which are a seamless part of users everyday SharePoint experience.

See how you can:

- Automate the secure transfer of inactive SharePoint files & imported records from legacy system migrations

to a dedicated archival repository in just a few clicks and enable business users to retain access & custody

- Automatically comply with information governance policies for long-term & permanent records over decades & multiple technology cycles

- Protect long-term & permanent content from technology obsolescence, bring legacy formats back to life and automatically maintain files in always readable formats over the full retention period

- Let business users self-serve archived information without leaving SharePoint and instantly read & action files without the original application 

Introducing Preserve365® - Closing the information management capabilities gap for long-term & perma

During this session, you will see how the M-Files knowledge work automation platform leverages AI to transform knowledge work.
With M-Files Aino, our GenAI functionality, and the addition of Microsoft Copilot integration the platform becomes a game changer for organizations that actively work in Microsoft 365. Knowledge workers can accelerate their daily work by leveraging automated meeting minutes, email summaries or autogenerated document drafts to name a few use cases. 
Benefits we will demonstrate in this session:
•	AI-Powered Summaries: M-Files Aino generates concise, intelligent summaries of documents, enabling quicker comprehension and review.
•	Language-Independent Queries: Knowledge workers can ask questions and receive answers about document content in any language'
•	Streamlined Information Discovery: Knowledge workers can rapidly locate essential information with the help of AI, cutting through data clutter and saving valuable time.
•	Maintain Compliance and Security: Companies can leverage M-Files Aino's advanced AI capabilities without compromising data security or compliance.
•	Powerful integration with M-Files Copilot: Information from M-Files can be published to the M365 platform so that Copilot can refer to it. The published information retains the permissions in M-Files, so the Copilot user will see only the same information they would see in M-Files. 

The power of GenAI and Copilot Integration to tackle the challenge of information overload

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, JavaScript, 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.

Understanding and Applying AOP to Increase Solution Development Velocity

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within.  In 2021, nearly 80% of large organizations experienced data breaches that had compromised information. 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.

For many global organizations, keeping track of the different office and department locations can be challenging. I

In this session, you will see how we solved this real-world challenge using out of the box SharePoint components and customizations through the PnP Modern Search Web Parts. 

You will leave with an understanding of how to leverage custom Content Types, Lists, and custom templates for the PnP Modern Search Web Parts to create a dynamic directory of locations for your organization.

Building Location Directory using PnP Search Web Part

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world? 

This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites. 

We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

Learn how to use Microsoft Viva to plan, communicate, measure, and support your organization’s rollout of Copilot or other Microsoft services. See Viva in action in this demo-heavy session. Learn real-world strategies, best practices, templates, and prescriptive guidance for an end-to-end campaign to drive adoption and share knowledge about Copilot. Help your organization successfully deploy and harness one of the most powerful productivity tools on the planet. 

Driving rollout & adoption of Microsoft 365 and Copilot with Microsoft Viva  

Join us to learn what is new and what is coming in the Power Platform governance space. 
As an IT professional you can help drive a digital transformation and accelerate your company's journey using the Power Platform. 
Come learn how a new governance approach and the new out of the box governance capabilities help you strike the right balance of empowering your organization to build robust and secure applications, automations, and copilots while easily placing the right guardrails to keep your digital environment safe. 
Join this session to learn how to manage your Power Platform assets at scale, and gain more visibility and more control, with less effort as your Power Platform adoption continues to grow. 

Securing and governing the Power Platform at scale

If you've worked at all with Power BI, you're familiar with Power Query - the built in data transformation engine. Power Query connects to hundreds of different data sources and allows you to powerfully transform your data before loading it into a data set. 

While very powerful, this model can be a little limiting at times. What if you wanted to use the connectivity and flexibility of Power Query to load data into other date destinations? What if Power Query doesn't quite do what you want? What if you want to use alternate languages like Python to do your transformations? All of these things are possible in the context of Microsoft Fabric. 

This session takes a look at these new options through the eyes of a Power BI professional. We'll examine Gen2 dataflows, Pipelines (from Data Factory), Jupyter Notebooks running Python against Lakehouse data, and Eventstreams. There is a whole new world of options available for data transformation in Microsoft Fabric, and this session will give you a taste of them. 

Transform Your Power BI Data in Microsoft Fabric

This session will focus on how to best operationalize your Office 365 investment. 

We will walk through how to develop a governance board focusing on tenant and service management, define roles and responsibilities, learn how to manage change in a SAAS solution that uses an evergreen service management model, and develop a system of communication to better support your customers. 

Managing Change in a Microsoft World! Office 365 Governance and Change Management.

In today’s fast-paced corporate landscape, managers grapple with myriad challenges that can stifle team productivity and morale. From providing timely feedback to dismantling communication barriers, the hurdles are significant. Employees are more disengaged than ever, and managers need ways to avoid misunderstandings and decreased productivity in today's hybrid or remote working environment. 
 
In this session, we will dive into the Microsoft Viva Suite of tools to address these very challenges. Learn how you can foster a vibrant workplace culture by connecting leaders, coworkers, and communities together. Get timely feedback and deliver meaningful communications right where your employees are working. Have real data to show how your team's wellbeing improved by cultivating positive habits to tackle your organization's toughest challenges. 


Empowering Managers with Microsoft Viva

Process Mining is a powerful tool that helps organizations take an x-ray of their business processes for the purpose of finding opportunities for optimization and driving business decisions. However, it has historically been a tool requiring deep analytical knowledge and experience to wield. 

With Power Automate Process Mining, the ability to drive process insights and make impactful changes to how processes are run within your business is now accessible to any business user through the power of Copilot. 


In this demo, Heather will demonstrate how Copilot can help the business user understand the root causes of process deviations, to generate actionable insights and recommendations, and to communicate these results effectively to stakeholders. 

Process Mining with Copilot and AI: A New Frontier for Business Intelligence 

In this session, we'll show you how to use Generative AI capabilities of Power Automate in Copilot Studio to build action orientated custom copilots.

Extend Copilot Studio with intelligent actions, workflows from Power Automate

Got a burning question you just can't yet find an answer to? This AMA is to be a lively live hour of Q&A - to ask questions and voice feedback - direct to the product teams across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Yammer, Power Platform, and more.
And then enjoy pizza and casual networking with all.

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