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On-Demand sessions available from the morning of the Event until 20th Feb 2021
Please see the additional on-demand sessions that we have available throughout the day on the on-demand page (Only available in the Event site, Linked in your Eventbrite notification)
Channel 1Thu 08:00 – 08:20 -
Automation in the cloud for the reluctant IT Pro
In the old days, scheduling a script was easy: you just created a scheduled task on your favorite Windows Server and made that run your PowerShell script exactly how and when you wanted. Granted, scripts often stopped working when the author left the company and we disabled their user account, some scripts required a very specific environment for them to run properly, and there is plenty of other challenges about. Along came the cloud and our toolbox expanded dramatically: Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps and even the Power Platform offers some interesting possibilities to make stuff happen on a schedule or run when a certain condition is met. This session will provide you with a comprehensive overview of when to use what, their cost aspects and technical boundaries.
Channel 1Thu 09:00 – 09:50 -
Transforming your SharePoint Lists & Libraries with Power Apps
We are heavily dependent on SharePoint for holding content in both lists and libraries, and most of the time we simply rely on the SharePoint list forms to allow us to create and modify metadata. There are times however where we want more than what the out-of-the-box experience gives us.
We want it to draw data from locations other than our list or library, we want it to update multiple data sources in one go, we want it….to look nice!
In this session we will discover the options which we have for enhancing our interactions with lists and libraries by using Power Apps, discovering the capabilities, some ideas and use cases for it, but also discovering where the shortfalls are at the moment so that you can avoid them while designing and developing your SharePoint solutions.Channel 2Thu 09:00 – 09:50 -
Everything you ever wanted to know about external sharing in Microsoft 365
By default, Microsoft 365 is turned for external sharing. We will explore how you can plan to control for enabling and managing external sharing effectively. We will configure variety of settings and services to allow external sharing for your staff and your customers, partners and suppliers. With recent improvements in external sharing, this demo based session will cover the ins and outs for successful implementation of external sharing in Microsoft 365.
Channel 3Thu 09:00 – 09:50 -
Microsoft Dataverse for Teams – new era for Microsoft Teams as digital workplace
With the introduction of the Microsoft Dataverse for Teams companies were given new toolset to create collaboration solutions within Microsoft Teams with no additional costs. Simple relational database, Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Virtual Agents are there to their service. If you are wondering how your company can start building solutions on top of Dataverse for Teams, join this session.
You will learn:
* What is Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
* How does Power Platform landscape looks like in Microsoft Teams
* How to build a simple solution from nearly a scratch!
Microsoft Teams’ image as digital workplace platform is getting more and more vivid. Employees can find here tools for communication and collaboration, can chat and place calls. Today, with Microsoft Dataverse for Teams, they can also build tools that will increase their productivity and help them achieve more!Channel 1Thu 10:00 – 10:50 -
7 things to consider when launching Power Apps in your organization
With the omnipresent smartphone and millenials expecting an app for everything, the demand keeps on rising. Power Apps is a great tool to answer these questions. It provides citizen developers and IT with the tools needed to quickly and effectively build applications on top of your business data.
However, no good ever comes of just releasing something into an organization without proper preparation, governance and a framework surrounding it. In this session we will cover seven of the essential things that you should consider before enabling Power Apps for your people and guidance to make the right decision for your situation.Channel 2Thu 10:00 – 10:50 -
How we did Remote Learning with Microsoft 365 in the Education Space
2020 is now over, however the need for remote learning is still key for schools both now and into the future. I’ll take you back on the story of how the Department for Education, Microsoft, Partners and Schools went on to ensure that the students of the UK kept learning during national and bubble lockdowns. We’ll also look at what the future could look like with online learning.
Channel 3Thu 10:00 – 10:50 -
Building Smarter Solutions Using Azure And Cognitive Services
There’s a lot of discussion going on around Artificial Intelligence, and for good reason. AI and Cognitive Services are getting more powerful all the time, and it can be confronting to see all these developments. But how can we leverage this power in our own solutions, using it for making the life of our users and customers easier?
In this session, you will see learn we can get data from the real world, and use this to drive our business, and all this in a serverless manner. Thanks to Microsoft Cognitive Services it’s easy to integrate and work with speech, text, images and videos into our processes. Come and learn how to use this to your own advantage, driving your business forward.Channel 1Thu 11:00 – 11:50 -
Power Up your Productivity with automations in Microsoft Teams
Power Platform provides several ways to boost your personal and team productivity in Microsoft Teams. End users can start using these for personal and team use-cases in a few simple steps. For organizational level automations you want to consider using bots.
This session is a full demo session highlighting how to start using easy personal and team productivity flows. I will also how to use Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams to automate services for more wider audiences. You will learn what is easily available out there, something about upcoming changes and also how your team & organization can start utilizing Power Platform easily in TeamsChannel 2Thu 11:00 – 11:50 -
Employee offboarding – organizational and technical considerations
A lot has been written and said on getting new users into your company, but what if they (need to) leave? How do you make sure that their knowledge stays in the organization? What actions do you need to take to make sure they don’t run off with your data?
In this session, Corinna and Marijn will depart ways.
They will take you on a journey on all the considerations and action items you need to take to gracefully onboard employees.
You will learn
– The necessary steps to stop users from logging in, retain data, and keep processes running
Best practices to offboard people from an organizational perspectiveChannel 3Thu 11:00 – 11:50 -
(Sponsor) Monitoring M365 User Experience Using Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph has evolved to the API for Microsoft 365. Developers can’t get around it anymore. At NiCE, we have put the Graph API to work and want to share some of the learnings and highlights. Our core use case evolves around synthetic monitoring for M365 services like Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Exchange, and others. In this session, you will learn about the Graph API’s architecture and value in standard monitoring scenarios. Further, we will demo how to use the collected data in Log Analytics and Azure Monitor to visualize traditional M365 services’ user experience.
Channel 1Thu 12:20 – 13:10 -
(Sponsor) What’s new in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5
Although Microsoft Teams data has its own basic data retention, it doesn’t fully protect against accidental deletion or security threats that lead to data loss, nor does it enable long‑term retention for compliance or regulatory purposes.
Whether it’s just Teams or your entire Office 365 environment, it’s your data — you control it — and it is your responsibility to protect it. That’s why Veeam®, the #1 Office 365 backup solution, has added purpose‑built backup and recovery for Teams, making it easier than ever for users to quickly find and restore Teams data.
Watch our session on NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 to see an overview of its capabilities, including:
Purpose-built Teams backup: Full control and protection over Teams data
Faster and easier recovery: Industry leading restore options built for Teams
Unmatched eDiscovery: Enables granular search and find across Teams components
Seriously powerful Office 365 data protection scalability for larger enterprisesChannel 2Thu 12:20 – 13:10 -
(Sponsor) – Mercury Intranet for Office 365
Microsoft SharePoint has evolved and the Modern SharePoint Platform is now the best platform for your Intranet and its content. Come and see how Mercury Intranet has evolved to support this new platform and how Mercury Intranet will help your organisation communicate with the workforce, provide controlled document publishing and track read compliance using our docCentrum module.
Channel 3Thu 12:20 – 13:10 -
3D models and Geospatial Features are now Reality in Power Apps and SharePoint!
The possibility of using 3D models and augmented reality is something that is increasingly in demand within our applications. In this session will be shown what are the news that Microsoft is bringing into SharePoint and Power Apps and will be shown demos of what can already be done today.
Channel 1Thu 13:20 – 14:10 -
How to measure Wellbeing and Productivity using Workplace Analytics
Wellbeing and productivity are essential to all organisations, especially as we all change the ways that we work to adapt to changing conditions for social interaction. Many people are adapting well and many are not adapting so effectively.
This session will explore the signals that provide the data used in Workplace Analytics and the rules regarding privacy that are applied to the data. We will then review ways to augment the data to allow it to be tailored to our organisation using data from HR systems.
With the data, we will then explore what questions we can ask of it and what we should plan to do in response to the answers.
You will leave this session understanding how Workplace Analytics can be used to gain insights into the wellbeing and productivity of teams within your organisation and how you can use this information to identify areas of the organisation where there may be problems that need to be addressed.Channel 2Thu 13:20 – 14:10 -
The Flipped Meeting
You have experienced the traditional meeting. You arrive, you listen to someone speaking for a considerable amount of time, maybe crawling through a PowerPoint deck and at the end asking for questions where everyone fights to give their take. Why do we persist on doing the same thing again and again. We waste time, we waste productivity – especially when we have the perfect tool in our hands. This session will explore the flipped meeting and how it could increase your productivity
Channel 3Thu 13:20 – 14:10 -
Top 10 Security Features to enable in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is a great platform complete with collaboration tools for all types of communication. By default, Microsoft provides core Security capabilities to protect the service itself, as well as controls that are available as needed for any organization. However, most organizations do not implement them or even know where they are. Upon reading Microsoft’s documentation, there are hundreds of different configuration options that control end-user authentication, control external access to restricting downloading of content. Knowing which settings to enable or disable, and their impact on overall security is critical to a better security posture. In this session, we will walk through the top 10 standard security controls and features that every Microsoft 365 tenant needs enabling. We will discuss each one and explain why to use them. At the end of this session, you will understand and know which controls to implement to increase the overall security of your Microsoft 365 Tenant
Channel 1Thu 14:20 – 15:10 -
Introduction to Project Cortex and Microsoft’s vision for Knowledge Management
This session will guide you through the fundamentals of Project Cortex and Microsoft’s vision for knowledge management in Microsoft 365. This includes finding and sharing knowledge & expertise across Microsoft 365 and applying artificial intelligence to classify & organize content in SharePoint Online document libraries.
Channel 2Thu 14:20 – 15:10 -
Using Microsoft Teams Live Events to deliver online conferences
Most of you know about Microsoft Teams Live Events, the attend-only mode in Microsoft Teams for non-interactive events and presentations. However, setting up and managing such an event can be quite challenging. This session will guide you step-by-step through everything that you have to know about Microsoft Teams Live Events: how to set up streaming, how to configure and manage producer and presenter roles, what’s the difference between fully scripted events, live events, and a hybrid between both, what are the pitfalls, and how to solve them. This session will heavily rely on the experiences we have gathered with the Galactic Collaboration Summit, a fully successful online event with 8300 attendees.
Channel 3Thu 14:20 – 15:10 -
Building Business Processes that Can & Will Evolve: Product-Neutral Principles Anyone Can Use
Far more than data management apps, workflow solutions need to factor in the need for frequent change. You should expect even the best-designed models and applications to be regularly modified — and that’s a good thing.
This has an impact on how to design processes, how to create forms and reports, how to connect to external data, and how to maintain internal data.
This session will talk about reasons why workflow solutions need to be modified so often, why you should embrace this, and strategies and tactics for addressing it. Its advice can be applied to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), SharePoint Designer, WEBCON, FireStart, Nintex, K2, or most anything else.Channel 1Thu 15:20 – 16:10 -
Winning Combination: Team up with the Microsoft 365 PnP Community and become a SharePoint All-Star
Championships are won by the efforts of a team. Likewise, award-winning SharePoint solutions are built by the contributions & efforts of a team.
Together we will review how you can harness the PnP tools and resources at your disposal to enhance your SharePoint solution experience.
We’ll learn how to collaborate with team players within the Microsoft 365 PnP community to streamline your development cycles.
We will also demonstrate a variety of SPFx development assets, samples & techniques to increase quality and decrease costs to deploy a championship SharePoint solution.Channel 2Thu 15:20 – 16:10 -
Securing IT Against Modern Threats with Microsoft Cloud Security Tools
Organisations today are facing unprecedented and sophisticated attacks to their internal Information Technology infrastructure. These evolving attacks include cryptojacking, spear phishing, credential hijacking, and more and can result in significant data loss and/or theft of confidential and valuable intellectual property. In response to these threats, Microsoft has released an array of tools such as Azure Sentinel, Cloud App Security, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, and more which can help to secure and protect against these threats. These tools work with both On-Premises and cloud-based infrastructure to provide for comprehensive protection of hybrid environments.
This session breaks down each of these Microsoft tools and provides for an understanding of their value for specific security scenarios. A simple, no-marketing approach is taken to evaluating each individual tool, and a simple breakdown of what is provided with each Microsoft licensing model is outlined. Attendees will gain a better appreciation to which tools to utilise and how to better protect their Information Technology investments from the type of career-ending attacks which are unfortunately common today.
• Understand how modern threats such as cryptojacking, spear phishing, credential hijacking, and more are commonly faced in today’s IT environments and what tools and techniques can be used to mitigate the risk faced by these modern threats
• Examine Microsoft security tools such as Azure Sentinel, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Azure Security Center, Cloud App Security, Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, Azure AD Identity Protection, Azure Information Protection, and more.
• Understand which tools are available for each licensing model in the Microsoft world and when it may make sense to ‘upgrade’ existing licenses to support specific tool-sets as opposed to investment in third-party toolsChannel 3Thu 15:20 – 16:10
