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TechCon365 and PWRCON - A Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Conference

Room 606

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jeremy Thake, Principal PM Lead on the Copilot extensibility team will walk you through developing a Graph Connector to ground Copilot for Microsoft 365 with your business data. 

He will take you through both the out of the box Graph Connectors as well as building your own in Visual Studio Code.

Developing Graph Connector to ground your business data in Copilot for Microsoft 365

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when? 

This session will walk through updated capabilities, Copilot integration across the forms landscape, and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms. 

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

SharePoint Framework is not just a SharePoint development framework as it could seem from the name.

It allows to develop solutions that are available in Teams, Outlook and office.com.

Join me during this session to learn how to easily implement SPFx web part and expose it in all available hosts.

Expanding SharePoint Framework Web Parts in Teams, Office and Outlook

Search in Microsoft 365 is currently limited to content that is stored natively in its tools, how can you add in your own business content to the search index?

In this session we will discuss the options for getting your content into the search system in Microsoft 365. We will cover hybrid scenarios and how to best leverage them in addition to some other strategies that will help get your content ready for Microsoft Search. We will also discuss Microsoft Graph Connectors and how this can benefit your organization and simplify your hybrid infrastructure.

Having this content in your search index also makes this content available for Copilot to use.


Searching non Microsoft 365 content in Microsoft 365

Microsoft Copilot Studio makes creating chatbots as easy as 1, 2, 3. The generative A.I. feature is able to take natural language from end-users and helps transform that into bot logic which can also be extended to Microsoft 365.

 Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP and certified trainer as he shows you how Copilot Studio makes bot building truly low-code.

How Copilot Studio Uses Generative A.I. to Build Custom Copilot

As the fastest growing business application in Microsoft’s history, more and more data is being generated in and through use of Microsoft Teams. As a result of its extensibility, there are a lot of places this data can be created and stored, from chats and posts to files saved in a Teams channel.

Without governance in place Teams sprawl can negatively impact the business’ experience with Teams. What does governance look like for Microsoft Teams? Should sprawl be a concern and if so, how do we limit it without limiting Teams adoption functionality?

How can you ensure you’re adequately capturing the information your organization needs to be compliant with internal and external policies?

Join information management experts Joy Apple and Jay Leask as they show you:
 -  How Teams fits into the modern architecture model of Microsoft 365 
 -  How to leverage proper architecture in Teams to facilitate collaboration
 -  The importance of an overall Office/Microsoft 365 information management strategy and how it will improve search and audit capabilities
 -  Base-line Teams governance best practices
 -  How to provision Microsoft Teams to automatically tag documents with appropriate metadata needed to meet records mandates
 -  Integration between Teams and SharePoint Online to give you full management over documents within Teams.


Governance, Information Management, and Teams - What you need to know!

Microsoft is adding AI support to the Power Platform low code development platforms called Copilot. You can use Copilot to help build your next App or Flow. 

Using Copilot you can use natural language to describe what you are trying to build. Copilot will return a suggested design for the app, flow, or Dataverse tables which you can then use. 

Copilot will also help you along the way by suggesting modifications to improve your formulas. Copilot won't replace you as a Citizen Developer, but it will help you produce amazing apps and powerful flows in a fraction of the time.

Copilot for Power Platform : Accelerating your Development with AI

Come join the Microsoft Copilot Studio Product Team to learn about building your own Copilots using Copilot Studio. 
This session will go over some key copilot building capabilities to help you make copilots that delight your users. 
We will cover how to incorporate Generative AI capabilities into your copilot and how to incorporate them while also leveraging other capabilities of Copilot Studio to be able to build amazing new experiences for users.