The continuum of solutions with Microsoft Lists and the Power Platform"

No-code and low-code solutions are essential productivity boosters in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Lists provides a no-code approach using templates, conditional formatting, rules, views and more. Additional tools from the Power Platform - Power Apps and Power Automate - provide additional low-code capabilities to customize forms and flows. Start a list and expand from there to make your unique app work for you and your team.

Power Platform Fundamentals: An overview of the product suite

In this session, we’ll use the Power Platform Fundamentals exam (PL-900) as a guide as we dive into an overview of the Power Platform within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. We’ll take a look at the platform as a whole included Power Apps, Power Automate (formerly Flow), Power BI, and Power Virtual Agent. Topics included are general administration, security, interactions between the apps, and how to get started using them. We’ll also try to throw in some real-world business scenarios, where these products might be used, especially with the modern desktop platform. Whether you’re thinking about taking the PL-900 exam or want to get a good overview of the Power Platform as a whole, I hope you'll join me for this session!

Teams & Power Platform - Dynamic Duo

Microsoft Teams has become the hub for work. Now is the time to start bringing your Power Platform applications to where your users are. In this session you'll learn about what integrations are currently available and what is coming for Teams and the Power Platform.

SharePoint is from Venus, Dynamics 365 is from Mars

When it comes to document management, Dynamics and SharePoint offer a myriad of options … not all of them good. Even the built-in SharePoint to Dynamics integration can create more problems than it solves.

In this session, you'll learn what nobody tells you about SharePoint to Dynamics integration.

We will review the available options, from using the built-in Dynamics document management, to SharePoint, to Teams, to Power Automate to custom code. You'll learn the different solutions that work best in different scenarios and you'll walk away with a decision-making process for identifying the right integration approach(es) for your organization.

Rise of the Citizen Administrators!

The next generation of Citizen Developers need innovative Citizen Administrators who can configure the Power Platform to keep things secured and let the makers build apps. Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft Business Solutions MVP and an early adopter of the Power Platform as he walks you through several out-of-box features that provides you the ability and the confidence to govern your apps, flows and connectors. Finally, he'll also show you all the free tools available to make your admin tasks easy and automated as well.

Managing large SharePoint lists like a pro in Power Apps

Handling and working with large SharePoint lists in Power Apps can be very challenging. In this session, I will show you how to bring large lists data in seconds and come up with a unique strategy to manage active items in batches of 2000 items for even faster load times.

Using Power Apps to transform your SharePoint Forms

SharePoint forms are ok, they give you the basic interface to be able to create, edit and view data, but they are extremely limited. Power Apps to the rescue! With the constantly improving relationship between SharePoint and Power Apps, we can transform our list forms into something much more functional and graphically rich.

In this session we will look at how we can use Power Apps to take our forms to the next level, looking at some of the capabilities, shortfalls and little gotchas that you need to be aware of.

Effective Communication in Power Apps

There are many ways to present useful information to the users of your Power Apps. This session will explore 3 mechanisms that you can use to make your app experiences more friendly and useful for you users.

The Power of Power Apps Portals!

In this session Mohamed will explain how to get started with Power Apps portals, how you can integrate your existing CDS entities with these Portals and interact with your customers and safely expose CDS info to the world.

Migration from Workflows 2010 what you need to know

Due to the fact that Workflows 2010 in SharePoint Online will stop working November 2020 a lot of organizations need to make their move and migrate process to Power Automate or other workflow solution. This session will provide information what should be considered during migration, what should be done, what actions are mapped in Power Automate and what requires workaround.

Deploy Microsoft learning pathways to get the best use out of Microsoft 365

Are your employees utilizing Microsoft 365 to the fullest? Do they have the training and support needed to be successful in their job?
Microsoft 365 learning pathways is a Microsoft-built solution you can deploy to your tenant, today, for free. It creates an adoption and training center that showcases dynamic, always up-to-date content from Microsoft to support training and adoption for your end users. You can also customize it to fit the exact needs of your organization by incorporating your own training content and highlighting your events.
Come to the session and I will show you how you can deploy and get the best use out of the content from Microsoft 365 learning pathways.

Building no-code chatbots for Microsoft Teams

Chatbots are a good solution for employees to find answers to their questions, help them onboard, participate in processes and much more! We used to think that building a bot requires development. With Virtual Agent this is not true anymore! If you want to learn more how to create a chatbot without a single line of code and give it to Teams users, join this session!

You will learn:
* What is Power Virtual Agent
* How you can build your own chatbot
* How you can integrate that chatbot with other sources using Power Automate
* How you can embed chatbot in Microsoft Teams

Well designed and operating chatbots can save you hours on solving simple employees' problems and answering the most common answers.

Caching and SharePoint: What Works, What No Longer Works, and Where We Are Today

Caching is a critical variable in the SharePoint scalability and performance equation, but it’s one that is oftentimes misunderstood or dismissed as being needed only for large scale/large site scenarios. In this lively and fast-paced session, we’ll build an understanding of the caching options that exist within the SharePoint platform: object caching, BLOB caching, page output caching, and SharePoint’s Distributed Cache service. We’ll examine each option, discuss how it works, identify how it can be controlled, and cover common pitfalls that may impact its use. We’ll also clarify if and how each option works (or doesn’t) in SharePoint Online and the important implications that are carried. Those who attend this session will leave with the knowledge needed to understand and make the use of caching in their own SharePoint environments, whether those environments are on-premises or online.

Use Office 365 eDiscovery for Internal Investigations and Litigation

Responding to data discovery requests can be costly and time-consuming. Fortunately, the new intelligent discovery tools in Office 365 can help to minimize these impacts. Attend this session to learn how you can use Office 365 eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery to meet your organization’s internal investigation and litigation needs. You can manage content across all your Office 365 assets, including SharePoint, Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and more.

When it really is a matter of life and death

COVID-19 forced a rapid change of working practice within the three hospices of Children’s Hospice South West. For the hundreds of children and families that are supported by CHSW we are a literal lifeline offering respite, symptom control and sadly end of life care. Office 365 applications were rapidly deployed to support our doctors and nurses communicate, collaborate and support children, so we can continue to make the most of short and precious lives. Find out how we led this cultural and technological change in critically short timescales.

Using OneNote to Drive Your Office 365 Adoption

Rapidly growing companies must balance focusing on multiple strategic objectives against completing a seemingly endless list of action items. Roles and responsibilities can shift quickly, resulting in undocumented processes that rely heavily on tribal knowledge. Enter Microsoft OneNote – an intuitive system for free-form information collection.

In this session, we will share how one biotech successfully integrated OneNote as the core personal and meeting note solution.

We will explore the benefits of OneNote integration with Microsoft 365 using real-world use cases:
• Multi-user collaboration facilitates faster compilation and dissemination of digital resources
• In-context task tracking drives increased accountability within teams, more productive meetings, and transparency in decision making
• Documented processes accelerate the onboarding of new team members that are essential for sustained business growth

You will leave this session with a full understanding of how OneNote integrates into Microsoft 365, how to drive productivity and adoption of Microsoft 365 within your team using this solution.

Move Your Intranet Into Teams...Easy Peasy

If you're not sure how to integrate your MS Teams, intranet, SharePoint and external/internal apps then this is your session. This Case Study will walk you through the familiar challenges and provide a road map for a simple solution with the least amount of time, effort and no impact to your existing architecture.

Protecting Microsoft Teams from Cyber Security Threats - a Practical Guide

While Microsoft Teams adoption is growing incredibly fast with over 80 million active daily users in 2020, some highly regulated organizations are often hesitant to deploy Teams or limit the deployment of Teams due to information security concerns and possible cyber security threats. Supporting any platform with that many daily users you can be sure that hackers are watching closely and will do everything they can to gain a foothold in your environment.
 
During this presentation we will cover real-world attacks and cyber security threats as well as details for hardening your security configurations to protect your Teams deployment. We'll also cover the available Microsoft add-on solutions to improve security, including Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), increased logging options, and Azure AD P1 licenses that improve Teams governance capabilities. Some of the topics we'll discuss:
- Credential theft campaigns
- Identity spoofing for user impersonation
- Man-in-the-middle attacks
- Locking down 3rd party application implementations
- Conditional access policies
- Permission management settings
- Information boundary configurations
- And more…  
 

SharePoint Framework Connected Web Parts

The session guides how to connect SharePoint Framework web parts using dynamic Property Pane Properties as well as events model.
Knowledge from the session can help to develop such scenarios as search refiners or page anchors navigation.

Migrating On-Premises and Cloud contents to SharePoint Online at no cost with Microsoft Migration Tools

Migrating On-Premises and Cloud contents to SharePoint Online (SPO) and OneDrive For Business (ODFBN) is a process that should not be manually done, but automatically using a migration tool. Until the debut of the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Microsoft didn’t provide a migration tool to move On-Premises and Cloud Contents to both SPO and ODFB. But now in 2020, we have a complete offering of free migration tools (SPMT, Migration Manager and Mover) that can be used to migrate contents to SPO and ODFB at no cost. In this session we will take a look at each of the Microsoft Migration Tool in terms of the features provided and when we should use each one.

Go with the Flow for Your Custom Global Navigation

Do your business owners need to update custom navigation links? Does your custom navigation control break every time someone edits the links?
In this session we will walk through a real life scenario for using a multi-level SPFx custom mega menu. We will create a dynamic way for non-technical business users to create and edit navigation items. Next, we will use PowerAutomate to pull it all together connecting the dynamically generated data to the mega menu.
You have the best of both worlds - an easy to read and performant data structure with an easy way for business users to edit the navigation elements. Remove yourself as the roadblock to update the navigation and help end users help themselves.

Cosmos DB: An Azure Odyssey

In the vast IT Universe, there are two dominant types of particles: the SQL electron and the NoSQL positron. Everyone has seen SQL, but not many have seen NoSQL, or even understand it.
Spark your imagination in an IT Universe where replication works at a magical quantum level, and .Net planets coexist with Cosmos DB star clusters.
Disclaimer: Mixing SQL electrons with NoSQL positrons may lead to the destruction of the known universe. Doing it right however, you can create the brightest supernovas!

Cool & Exciting Ways to Use Forms to Engage Users

Many believe the new Microsoft Forms is the replacement for InfoPath and other form tools. However, that could not be further from the truth and I am so glad that it is. The new Microsoft Forms can increase user engagement by creating a fun and easy way to get users to provide information and learn about their company. Forms is not only the new survey replacement but it has an additional type of form called Quiz, yes I said Quiz!!! Excited yet? I know I am, as many individuals will take a quiz or fill out a survey if there is a competition involved andor some type of reward. Forms brings all of that to the table and more!
Forms has created an engaging results overview and an option to post the results of your quizzes. Who doesn’t like to see their name at the top of a scoreboard? If you’re an organization that has external consultants, partners, clients, etc. well no fear as you can set surveys & quizzes to be internal only or allow for external users to participate. Just think of ALL the possibilities! Come join this session and let’s explore the many ways Microsoft Forms can help improve user engagement throughout your entire organization and who doesn’t love easy User Adoption methods!!

M365 Governance Automation at scale

As the adoption of Microsoft 365 / Office 365 continues to rise, it becomes increasingly difficult for you to manage the rapid growth of your services like Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform etc. In the end, you give up, facing the inevitable sprawl of inactive teams channels, unused accounts for external users, and unknown publicly shared content.

However, it doesn't need to be like that. There is a way to scale M365 governance effectively and stay in control.

In this session we'll share lessons learned from the field as well as many good practices to help manage and govern your Micrsoft 365 tenant on a large scale without compromising on features or usability.

The art of information architecture in Office 365

Too many organisations jump straight into Teams and Microsoft 365 without considering how they want technology to transform their processes. Few consider they'll have the platform for the foreseeable future. This session will range across process vision setting, search, information lifecycles and continuous improvement - and what you need in the IA to support it.

July 15th: 3pm UTC | 4pm UK | 11am Eastern USA | 8am Pacific USA

An Introduction to: Project

Been given access to Project Online and Project Online Desktop or Project for the Web but not sure where to start or how to get the most out of these applications? Looking to configure, use or manage these applications then attend this session to learn how to get started with Microsoft’s Project Management tools.

July 15th: 4pm UTC | 5pm UK | noon Eastern USA | 9am Pacific USA

An Introduction to: SharePoint

Join April Dunnam in this introduction to SharePoint session.

Aimed at beginners or people wanting to get started this session will take you from on a journey from the beginning and hopefully leave you eager to learn more.

July 15th: 5pm UTC | 6pm UK | 1pm Eastern USA | 10am Pacific USA

An Introduction to: OneNote

Join Nate Chamberlain in this introduction to OneNote session.

Aimed at beginners or people wanting to get started this session will take you from on a journey from the beginning and hopefully leave you eager to learn more.

July 15th: 6pm UTC | 7pm UK | 2pm Eastern USA | 11am Pacific USA

An Introduction to: Power BI

This is a re-run of Laura Graham-Browns' introduction to Power BI session and will be available "on-demand" for 12 hours from the scheduled time.

In this session, Laura will introduce Power BI, starting with the very basics and walking through the creation of your first Power BI report.
Topics covered will include loading data and doing some transformations to get it into shape. Then we will move onto putting in some relationships and calculated columns and finally building the report. This session is aimed at the complete beginner.

July 15th: 7pm UTC | 8pm UK | 3pm Eastern USA | noon Pacific USA

An Introduction to: Power Automate

This is a re-run of Matt Weston's introduction to Power Automate session and will be available "on-demand" for 12 hours from the scheduled time.

In this session we will explore Power Automate from the ground up, helping you to understand the very basics including how to access Power Automate, through to creating your first flow from a template or from scratch.

We will look at the terminology, so you know your triggers, from your actions and how they are wrapped with connectors, as well as discussing some basic use cases that will help you get started with your flow development.

July 15th: 8pm UTC | 9pm UK | 4pm Eastern USA | 1pm Pacific USA

An Introduction to: Teams

This is a re-run of Ben Steginks' introduction to Power Automate session and will be available "on-demand" for 12 hours from the scheduled time.

Microsoft Teams is a large product with a plethora of features available within it. Often we get so focused on “what’s new” and the “fancy” new features that we forget to go back to the basics. In this intro to Microsoft Teams session we’ll share some of our favorite tips and tricks for those just getting started with Teams. There won’t be a single slide in this session; it will be one long demo to help those of you getting started or feeling overwhelmed with Teams to get the most out of it!

July 15th: 9pm UTC | 10pm UK | 5pm Eastern USA | 2pm Pacific USA

An Introduction to: Power Apps

This is a re-run of Laura Rogers' introduction to Power Apps session and will be available "on-demand" for 12 hours from the scheduled time.

Aimed at beginners or people wanting to get started on a Power Apps journey, Laura will take you from zero to creating the simplest of apps and hopefully leave you eager to learn more.