• It’s Alive!!! Animation techniques that bring to life SPFx & List Formatting SharePoint solutions

    My creation...has.....LIFE!!! Animated & interactive solutions bring a spark of excitement to what can be a boring and lifeless user experience.

    In this session see how to use TypeScript, CSS3 and JavaScript animation libraries to breath life into your SharePoint Framework solutions, List Formatting experiences and so much more!!

    Adams
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Governance Planning for Viva Connections - Best Practices for Intranet Governance

    Viva Connections gives you the opportunity to bring your modern, intelligent intranet into the apps and devices your employees already use every day – like Microsoft Teams. But have you planned your intranet with governance in mind? What are the best ways to get started and to ensure that your intranet – delivered in Teams or in the browser – provides a sustainable, useful, and usable experience for everyone in the organization? This session will help you plan and deliver a governance framework for your intranet in Viva Connections – with practical advice, tips and best practices, and content to help you get started!

    Washington
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Modern HR, Communication, & Leadership Best Practices With Microsoft 365

    Today Intranets are about more than just getting key corporate messaging out. Communications have changed just as IT and HR have changed. Communications leaders have shifted from editors to enablers. Communication leaders are moving from enforcing messaging to empowering and amplifying excellent communications and great ideas throughout the business. Human Resources leaders are shifting from hiring/firing and policy enforcement to performance and engagement. From preboarding to offboarding, HR's challenges are harder today than they have ever been before. Naturally, how these leaders leverage the digital workplace has changed, especially in how they leverage technology to achieve more with less.

    Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he explores ideas and solutions that HR and Corporate Communications have embraced to improve how, where, and when they engage with employees. We will discuss how to best leverage SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer for modern communications and take advantage of AI and Microsoft technology to accelerate and improve key communication and content.

    The technology, best practices, and approach can make all the difference, and it has, for some organizations, led to more significant HR, Intranet, and communications success.

    Jefferson
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT

    The world of employee management has undergone an unprecedented rapid and transformative change globally. In consequence, leaders and managers have navigated unexpected and challenging times. Workers worldwide are fundamentally re-evaluating their careers: where and how they work and why they work where they do. The need to re-evaluate culture, technology, and management practices is greater today than it ever has been before.

    With the continued shift towards a ‘new way’ of work, the importance of a physical workplace has decreased while the importance of cultural and technological advantage has taken center stage. What are organizations looking to do in the future to continue to improve the employee experience, and what successes are they having now as they implement new tools, methods, and approaches?

    Today, leaders and managers have new digitally enabled options from new mainstream categories of digital employee management tools like Ally.io for objective management), to GLINT for employee listening, to Microsoft Viva Insights for improving the wellbeing and productivity of individuals, teams, and the organization at large. The demands of employees are higher than ever when it comes to learning and can only be met with pro-active and connected learning initiatives like those powered by Microsoft Viva Learning, while employee recognition, connection, and networking remain essential areas of focus during a time of considerable workforce change.

    Join Brandon Pittman, an award-winning Microsoft 365 strategist and digital employee experience enthusiast, as he shares insight on how to better plan for, prepare for, and benefit from the future of employee management.

    Monroe
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Getting Started Developing Adaptive Card Extensions using the SharePoint Framework

    In this introductory developer session, we will explore the extensibility model for Viva Connections and how to create new Adaptive Card Extensions using SPFx. We will talk about some real world use cases and how to get started.

    We will explore the technical components of creating your first Adaptive Card Extensions. We will look at more advanced concepts such as data binding and data manipulation as well as layout out your cards using the Adaptive Card Framework. You will walk away with a better understanding of how to get started extending Viva Connections and how to avoid some common pitfalls.

    Bretton Woods
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Getting Started with Records Management in Microsoft 365

    Microsoft 365 Information Protection & Governance provides robust Records Management capabilities to enforce policies on your data across SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, OneDrive, and Yammer. In this session, we’ll discuss the key foundational elements for a successful Records Management implementation, share lessons learned from real-world scenarios, and provide a step-by-step walkthrough for how to configure your first policy to enforce governance within your organization.

    Cranmore
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Task Management in Microsoft 365

    Have you ever wondered how you can use all the tools you have to assist with Task Management? During this time, we will review the basics of flagging emails, using Planner, Tasks by Planner and ToDo in Teams, OneNote and ToDo. You will not want to miss this action packed session with LOTS of examples and use cases to help you be more successful with task management.

    Cannon
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Extending your Extensions

    An overview of SharePoint framework extensions. I’ll go over when to, and when not to, use extensions versus webparts or list formatting.

    In my session I go over the development of two extensions: an address verification extension that calls an external api to check the city, state and zip of a list item and a session registration extension that brings together information from multiple lists.

    Jay Peak
    Sat 9:00 am - 10:00 am

  • Mission Impossible: Deliver a feature-rich SharePoint solution with PnP community assets

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build an essential SharePoint solution in the most efficient way possible.

    To help you on your mission, learn how to harness the various open-source PnP gadgets at your disposal. These tools include custom SPFx web parts and extension accelerators, list formatting definitions with interactive, animated interfaces and an Office365 Command Line Interface.

    Be the hero your organization needs without the dangers of building your solution from scratch.

    Good luck…this session description will self-destruct in five seconds.
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    Adams
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Creating the Buzz: Increasing Adoption through a Champions Program

    Do you know "that guy"...or "that girl" in your workgroup? You know the one...that person that everyone goes to when they are confused about technology. Maybe it's YOU! These are going to be your greatest allies in your organization when rolling out a new technology!

    In this session we will cover:
    - Why Champions are Important
    - Who would be the best Champions
    - What are the Expectations of the Champions
    - Where to find your Champions
    - When to engage your Champions
    - How to get started building the Champions program

    Let's build a Champions Program that helps you overcome our biggest foe in technology...User Adoption.

    Washington
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Keeping up with Change in the Microsoft Cloud

    Changes can have a major impact on business solutions and bring new functionality that can alter the way organizations use the platforms in the Microsoft Cloud. Keeping up with all of those changes can prove to be difficult for organizations, especially if they do not have resources allotted to the task.

    During this session, we will discuss how IT Pros and collaboration enablers can keep up with all the changes, promote adoption with your users, and help your organization stay focused on what you do best.

    Jefferson
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Building Intelligent Intranet Solutions Using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, even Yammer!

    A lot has changed since Microsoft began recommending flat information architecture for modern SharePoint intranets.
    In this session we’ll discuss:
    • The advantages of flat information architecture
    • How hub sites provide consistent navigation and content rollups
    • How Teams connected team sites play a role in the intranet
    • Using Yammer to engage employees
    • Creating a single-pane-of-glass experience for employees with Microsoft Viva

    Monroe
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Extend your web app into Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams applications are hot. They streamline work for users and add collaboration to everyday business processes.

    While there are many approaches to building Teams apps, you don't have to start from scratch! In this demo-filled presentation you will learn how to take a generic web application and grow it into a full featured Teams application while preserving your existing code base. You'll learn how to streamline work by allowing users to configure the app to show just the information they need, how to make your app look like it belongs in Teams, add a messaging extension to bring your business data right into the conversation.

    Don't reinvent the wheel! Join this session and learn how to reuse your app in Teams!

    Bretton Woods
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Get started with Adaptive Cards for Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Lists and Power Automate

    In this session, we will transform traditional email reminders into interactive, informative, and actionable user experiences using Adaptive Cards. Microsoft Lists, Teams and Power Automate will be showcased using a maker approach solution development.

    Cranmore
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Getting Started With ALM in Power Platform

    Let's get out of the Default environment and into Application Lifecycle Management with Power Platform. Join Ashley to learn about deploying to test and production environments to support controlled development releases.

    Cannon
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Accessing List Data downstream from .NET 6 APIs

    Sometimes the data you really need is already stored in Microsoft List based lists. Let's look at accessing that list as a downstream database for a .NET 6 API with C#.

    Jay Peak
    Sat 10:10 am - 11:10 am

  • Best Practices in naming, organizing and structuring Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams might seem easy at the start but if left unchecked you will experience the unruliness of the collaboration platform in no time.

    In this pragmatic and demo driven session learn the best practices on how to:
    - Name your Teams, Channels and Tabs in a way that promotes findability and usability
    - Structure your Teams consistently across your organization to ensure consistency and adoption
    - Organize your Microsoft teams so that they can be used in a way that leverages all of Microsoft 365 and drives collaboration.

    Join Michal from his experience in managing over 500,000 Teams across hundreds of customers to find out what actually works and what doesn't.

    Adams
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • An architect's view of SharePoint Syntex + Viva Topics, better together

    The Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) have been working closely with our product teams, partners, and customers on the launch of SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva. Come to this session to learn what SharePoint Syntex is; how it is architected; common use cases and scenarios to apply SharePoint Syntex; how to extend and integrate with Azure Search; and integration with partner solutions such as Fujitsu scanners.

    Washington
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • Protecting data across your environment with Microsoft Purview

    A deep dive into how Microsoft Purview can be leveraged to protect data within Office 365, on-premises, Azure, and other cloud locations.

    Jefferson
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • SharePoint & Knowledge Management = Bad Ass

    Knowledge management is the practice of organizing and bringing information together as a whole. It involves a concerted effort and commitment by an organization to promote a single source and to deliver that information to users in a relevant and efficient manner. It is not a technology, software application or platform. We will explore the questions of "Can it be used?", "Should it be used?, "How can be it used?", and "What should I consider?" when partnering SharePoint (on-premise or Office365) and Microsoft technologies with a Knowledge Management strategy.

    Monroe
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • 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 and\or 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!!

    Bretton Woods
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • Centralizing Content in a Decentralized World

    In modern SharePoint Online, we are building a flat hierarchy through separate site collections and creating connections through hub site relationships. This supports organizational change, cleaner permission models, and so much more but can prove challenging when you want to centralize a subset of content across these site collections.

    Join us as we explore different approaches for centralizing your content in this modern decentralized world. You will leave with scenarios and best practices for how to structure and deliver content throughout your tenant.

    What we'll cover:
    -Understanding the hub site structure and search scopes
    -Using the content type gallery for consistent information architecture
    -Centralizing content through search experiences (including Modern PnP search web part)
    -Creating intuitive microlearning content (through Learning Pathways)

    Cranmore
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • Building Your First Apps with the Microsoft Graph

    The Microsoft Graph is to Office 365 what the REST API and CSOM are to SharePoint. It is a unified endpoint that provides access to a set of RESTful web services that enable you to build applications that work with the data in your Office 365 tenant: users, groups, calendars, files, tasks, people, notes and more. This session shows you how you can use free tools and resources to build applications that use the Microsoft Graph. The topics discussed in the session include: using the Graph API Explorer, registering an app with Azure Active Directory, working with the Graph API, and using the SDK.

    Jay Peak
    Sat 11:20 am - 12:20 pm

  • Orchestry: How to Leverage SharePoint to Get the Most Out of Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams is a smashing success for Microsoft 365, but we often underestimate the role of SharePoint in efficient collaboration. An organization's document management, navigation, and communication highly depend on the utilization of SharePoint to its full potential.

    Seize this opportunity to effectively structure and configure your SharePoint sites and extend the collaboration experience offered within Microsoft Teams.

    What You'll Learn

    Doc Management
    - Learn how to provide an intricate yet simple document management experience in MS Teams and SharePoint.

    Enhanced Styling
    - How to enhance the view of your lists, libraries, and pages with custom formatting for simpler use.

    Page Design
    - Leverage the power of web parts to streamline collaboration across SharePoint.

    MS Teams Integration
    - Discover the best way to integrate your MS Teams and SharePoint platform for effective use.

    Template Examples
    - Experience real and engaging SharePoint collaboration templates for projects and departments.

    Adams
    Sat 12:40 pm - 1:10 pm

  • IceFire: How to translate your SharePoint pages, documents, and UI

    SharePoint lets you make some sites "multilingual" but does not actually translate the content or interface. We will see what is new in multilingual SharePoint and how to use PointFire to machine translate pages, documents, and UI, and make any type of site fully multilingual.

    Washington
    Sat 12:40 pm - 1:10 pm

  • TyGraph: How to measure the performance of your SharePoint intranet

    The modern SharePoint intranet is a cornerstone of the employee experience. Organizations invest money and effort into getting their messaging, information and resources across to their members. But how do you measure the success of those investments? In this 30 minute session we look at the out-of-the-box reporting available and show what is possible with a best in class reporting solution from tyGraph.

    Jefferson
    Sat 12:40 pm - 1:10 pm

  • Adopting Microsoft Viva Connections, a tale of Best Practices

    When it comes to technology, sometimes the deployment and implementation is the easy part. The hard part is the change to the organization and how to adopt it.

    In this session, you will learn some of the best practices developed with customers in using Microsoft Viva Connections. Learn what can be done with front line workers, how to connect and stay connected with remote employees and ensuring your intranet has something for everyone.

    At the end of the session you will have some great tips and tricks for not only the tech side, but getting the change into the business

    Adams
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • Advanced List Formatting

    Lists in SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft Lists are the backbone and even the front end of solutions from tiny to enterprise wide. So why should they look like spreadsheets from the 90's? List formatting enables you to quickly and easily provide dynamic visualizations elevating your lists from basic data to beautiful reports, dashboards, and more. Go beyond the wizards and jump into Advanced mode!

    In this session we'll be emphasizing the code in low-code to show you how to use JSON to transform your columns, views, and list forms. We'll demonstrate integrations with Power Apps, Power Automate, Forms, Teams, and more. We'll look at tailoring views for different users, fancy expressions, provisioning your formats, advanced tools, and even creating miniature applications directly on your modern pages! Whether you're a developer extending your skillset or a power user wanting to take your formatting skills to the next level, you'll leave this session with the tools and resources to get started immediately.

    Washington
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • Creating Engaging and Inclusive News for your Intranet

    The average office worker receives 121 emails a day. Amidst those emails are critical pieces of company news. How do you design your message to successfully communicate necessary information and actions while driving engagement across the organization?

    In this session, we will take a user-centric approach to strengthen your ability to communicate news in a way that fits the needs and expectations of your audience. We will discuss the steps for organizing content, designing pages, and sharing SharePoint news.

    You will walk away from this session with actionable steps to create more engaging and inclusive news in Microsoft 365 by focusing on the audience's goals and mental models, accessibility, and user experience best practices.

    Jefferson
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • Case Study: Visualizing data in context for a theme park operator

    The key to successful data visualization is context. A collection of charts and graphs on a BI dashboard are great, but without context you’re likely to miss key insights. For example, the red bars on a hospital’s environmental monitoring dashboard may alert you that a problem exists, but when you can click the red bars and see the exact location of the problem on a floor plan, you can formulate an immediate response. Similarly, when a dashboard includes a network diagram that shows real-time server status and you can click a failed server to see the data required to initiate a fix, you’re two steps ahead. How do you achieve this level of insight? There’s no better way to add context than to enhance Power BI reports with floor plans, network diagrams, process maps, or org charts created in Visio. The session will include multiple Visio/PBI examples from a current customer project.

    Monroe
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • Modern Employee Experience with MS Viva

    Microsoft Viva is a new kind of employee experience platform designed for the digital era! In this session we will have an introduction Microsoft Viva, its 4 types and how it helps organizations keep their employees more effective and more productive.

    Bretton Woods
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • An 8-week Plan for Engaging, Supporting, and Governing Citizen Developers

    Citizen Developers can be some of the best product and change champions your organization will ever have - if motivated and managed correctly. In this session, we'll show how many of the tools and techniques we have used in Champion programs in the past should be tailored to motivate and educate citizen developers. We'll also discuss how to help Citizen Devs accept and stay within your governance guardrails. You'll leave with an step-by-step 8 week program, including meeting agendas and a Citizen Developer Guide to make your own.

    Cranmore
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • Enabling a Multilingual Intranet: A Case Study

    For global organizations, the ability to make content available to users in the language of their choice can be a big factor in the usefulness and relevance of their intranet.

    Yet, many questions remain:
    -- how much of the intranet needs to be localized?
    -- what does the translation process look like, and how is it managed?
    -- how can we use in-line machine translation effectively and safely?

    Join us for a look at current and planned capabilities for multilingual intranets in two parts:
    1. a summary of the current state of the art, through the lens of the M365 Maturity Model
    2. a case study for a large NGO deciding on how to introduce multilingual content on their intranet.

    Cannon
    Sat 1:20 pm - 2:20 pm

  • SPFx Development with Functional Components & React Hooks

    Are you tired of remembering when to use React lifecycle methods such as componentDidMount and shouldComponentUpdate? Are your components becoming an unmanageable mess of stateful logic? Fear no more! Introducing React Hooks -- a cleaner way to to isolate reusable logic in your React components. We'll discuss the difference between Class based and Function based components, and how we can leverage React hooks to simplify and clean up our SPFx solutions.

    Adams
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Extending your Teams apps with Power Apps & Power Virtual Agents

    Microsoft Teams has become the center of our collaboration universe with meetings, conversation, and apps. Learn how to power your business with a Teams app built using Power Platform and PVA.

    Washington
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Style your intranet with a style guide

    Customisations in SPFx and Microsoft can be time consuming. Wireframe applications such as Figma or Adobe XD can give a good impression of the overall look but not the feel. No one will ever create a documentation on the designed of applications.
    What if you can sketch, build and document everything to speed up your development later for the Microsoft 365 Eco system.
    Learn in this session what a style guide is and how a style guide improve your development workflow and make documentation of the UI/UX a no-brainer. It will also help to work designer and developers better together. The tools for that might be already near you.

    Jefferson
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Exploring Microsoft 365 Migration Options and Tools

    Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you. We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases

    Planning the migration (process and tools)
    Completing the migration
    Managing the cloud-based content after migration

    As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including how to use the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT) with the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

    Monroe
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Teams Architecture for Teams Owners

    Microsoft Teams is truly a cloud-based application--there are parts of it all through Microsoft 365! From an administration perspective, this can be confusing. This session covers the basic Teams architecture in the cloud, from a layman's perspective (not a cloud architect)--what you need to know as an admin to find & protect your data.

    Bretton Woods
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Provisioning MS Team Sites with Power Apps & Power Automate

    Need more controls over the creation of Microsoft Teams? Have you ever wanted to allow users to request a Microsoft Team and have an automated process for their creation? In this session, we'll walk through the steps of setting up the process to allow users to submit a request for a new Microsoft Team through a custom SharePoint list form or Power App. The submission of the request will kick off our approval and creation process using Power Automate.

    The key concepts covered:
    Power Apps - creating a custom list form for SharePoint / Canvas App
    Power Automate / Flows - the engine that builds the Microsoft Teams
    Microsoft Graph - behind-the-scenes API used to create Microsoft Teams sites

    Cranmore
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Bringing DataOps to Power BI with Azure DevOps and PowerShell

    Are you tired of babysitting multiple Power BI reports?
    Do your customers spot errors in your Power BI reports often before you or your team do?
    Are you looking to build more resilient, better tested Power BI reports?
    In this session I’ll cover how to build a more reliable development pipeline for Power BI with the concept of DataOps and tools like Azure DevOps and PowerShell.

    Cannon
    Sat 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

  • Ask Me Anything! Bring your questions for discussion

    An open and wide-ranging discussion about Microsoft 365 moderated by Mike Gilronan and curated by you! Bring your questions to ask our panel on any subject related to the Microsoft 365 platform.

    Adams
    Sat 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm
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