Join power users, decision makers, developers, and administrators at&nbsp;M365 Twin Cities.&nbsp;M365 Twin Cities is the evolution of SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities, an educational event with sessions delivered by Microsoft platform professionals and MVPs. The event will include a variety of sessions on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Viva, Azure, and OneDrive.
M365 Twin Cities is a FREE community-run in-person event being held on Friday Sept 6, 2024.

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M365 Twin Cities

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Are you tired of boring SharePoint sites? Worse yet, is your SharePoint site still the generic starter page layout? SharePoint has been my baby for over 20 years and for 20 years they've been calling my baby ugly. Not anymore! Or, at least they don't have to be but all too often I see no one has taken the time to dress up their sites and make them actually interesting and useful. Let's fix that! In this session we will take that generic site from Zero to Hero using the SharePoint Lookbook as inspiration (and a great cheat cheat!)

You will learn:
- What the SharePoint Lookbook is (and where to find it!)
- How to Use Site Templates
- How to Create Visually Appealing SharePoint Pages
- How to Add and Customize Web Parts
- Tips and Tricks, of course!

By the end of this fun and fabulous hour your co-workers will be saying "WOW! Is this SharePoint?"

WOW! Is this really SharePoint? Take Your Sites from Zero to Hero with the SharePoint Lookbook

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Premium and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.

Building your own 365 knowledge network

Are you deploying M365 to your organization?
Are you migrating from on-prem to M365?
Are you rescuing a failed or stalled M365 deployment?
Are your users just not adopting M365 like they should?

Deploying M365 to your organization can be a daunting task. It’s not as simple as “turn it on and they will use it…”

In our experience, the most important part of an M365 rollout is engaging the business and stakeholders in the planning phase to ensure proper architecture, governance, usage, and ultimately adoption. Learn how to utilize our proven Analysis and Design process to your M365 rollout to engage the appropriate people in your organization. We will discuss in detail how to properly plan your M365 rollout, including:

- Implement a Strategy Team to guide the process
- Utilize key employee Focus Groups to educate, engage, and empower the business stakeholders
- Identify “Killer Features” to accelerate adoption
- Shift M365 from an IT Project to a Business Initiative

This session will focus primarily on the rollout of the M365 Collaboration tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive but many of the techniques that we discuss can be used on other M365 tools as well.

How to Strategically and Successfully Deploy M365 to your Organization

The introduction of the Approvals Actions in Microsoft Power Automate has simplified the process of creating Approval Workflows. 

In this talk we’ll go beyond the process of building basic parallel or serial approval flows and look at advanced techniques that can be used to take them to the next level. 

We’ll demonstrate solutions for the following:
• Applying custom formatting to the approval email
• Recording approval results and comments
• Setting SharePoint content Approval status
• Forwarding an approval if the approver is out of the office
• Escalating an approval that hasn’t been responded to
• Sending periodic reminders about pending approvals
• Building an approval workflow for an adjustable list of approvers
• Creating an approval that will work for more than 30 days