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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

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Theory & Best Practices: The first half addresses common intranet challenges, such as disorganized content, outdated information, and confusing navigation.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

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

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

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

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

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.

Come hear the latest news of how Dataverse is changing to meet the challenge of the evolving AI workspace through use of copilots. 
Learn how real customers are implementing the latest technologies to drive their business forward. 
Learn how Dataverse makes it possible to easily connect data to LLMs using plugins, prompts and connectors to build copilots that meet your needs. 
Learn about the Power Catalog which provides the ability to create and use templates to improve your productivity, and how the governance tools and capabilities ensures proper data access while using AI and copilots.

What’s new in Dataverse & AI Builder: How to easily build generative AI business applications

Microsoft SharePoint Premium brings together a set of key capabilities for better governing Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive as well as securing collaboration within Microsoft 365.  This is in addition to the Content Ai capabilities that SharePoint Premium has brought to our SharePoint Online environments.  

In this session we'll walk through and demonstrate each of the capabilities within SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM) 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 SharePoint Premium - SharePoint Advanced Management features.

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

Microsoft Syntex is evolving into the new SharePoint Premium offering and at the same time, new value in content AI is being unlocked through a first-time billing method for Microsoft 365--pay-as-you-go billing through Azure billing. 

Azure billing might be new to some organizations even when they're familiar with Microsoft 365. However, taking the time to understand how and why the two services are connected for SharePoint Premium will help you unlock significant value for your organization.

Tom Resing is a member of the SharePoint Premium product engineering team at Microsoft. Every day, Tom thinks about how we communicate the user value of our content AI services.

Come to this session to get an overview of the how, why, what, when, and where you can get started with the admin steps that allow your users to begin automatically capturing information about files as they are added to SharePoint, including when they're added in conversations in Teams channels. 

Unlock SharePoint Premium content services by connecting Azure Pay-as-you-go billing

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Premium (previously known as Microsoft Syntex) that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Premium (Microsoft Syntex)

Security is top of mind for any business moving to the cloud and even more so for those who had to move out of necessity without a clear action plan. Knowing where to start and what is available can be half the battle. 

This session will cover some of the top concepts when it comes to securing and monitoring your Microsoft 365 environment, the best tools to start with, and which admin center you can find them in. 

Including but not limited to a look at the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and Microsoft 365 Defender admin center and the osmosis process that has happened since parting ways from what was formally known as the Security and Compliance center. 

The best part is that some of these are available in your subscription now at no extra charge!


Essential Microsoft 365 security features crash course

Data warehouse in Fabric is made for developers of any skillset. Learn how to take advantage of the newest innovations and developer experiences whether you are a SQL developer or a business analyst. 

In this session we’ll provide an overview of capabilities, share best practices and enable you to use Fabric to power your analytical use cases from enterprise reporting to self service BI - and easily manage it in production.

From SQL Developer to Business Analyst: Harnessing Fabric's Innovations

Lots of companies are enhancing their existing SharePoint based intranets and portals or migrating to SharePoint Online from third party tools. The challenge now is to make sure your users will be using the SharePoint intranet and finding information and support at their moment of need.

This session will show real use case scenarios of how companies around the world are onboarding their users on their SharePoint intranet as well as keeping them engaged and fully supported in context of their SharePoint environments. The result: increased usage of SharePoint portals while reducing internal support costs.