Washington, D.C.
Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 152a

Building a Policy Center with PnP Modern Search

Marc D Anderson

Marc D Anderson

Microsoft MVP

In a modern Intranet, we generally want to store content in the site where it should be managed. We think of this as distributed content management and it's similar to the way News works in modern SharePoint. This usually means each department or organizational unit can manage their content using a process which makes sense for them.

At the same time, we may want to roll up that content in one central location for ease of access. A Policy Center is a great example of this approach and one we find ourselves building for many of our clients.

In this session, you'll see how the following components add up to make a Policy Center:

  • Information architecture (IA) in the form of Site Columns and a Content Type to represent a Policy
  • A Site Template which only instantiates a Policy library in the site and applies the IA
  • A Policy library in each Intranet site, deployed using the Site Template, with Policies specific to that department
  • Changes to the search schema to support metadata filtering
  • A Policy Center page built using PnP Modern Search Web Parts to display the Policies from across the Intranet

Additionally, we'll discuss various approaches to solve the content management puzzle - before the Policy is even visible on the Intranet.

Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 147b

All that you ever wanted to know about Microsoft 365 learning pathways

Asif Rehmani

Asif Rehmani

Microsoft MVP

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.

Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 150a

DataOps 101 - A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics

John Kerski

John Kerski

Microsoft PMP

Power BI has revolutionized the industry by accelerating our ability to deliver Data Analytics solutions. But how do we ensure the code we build is reliable and the data is produced in a timely and trustworthy manner? Enter DataOps, a better way to develop and deliver Data Analytics Solutions.

In this session, I’ll cover the concept of DataOps, why it matters to Power BI, and the principles that can drive you to continuously improve.

Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 149a

Government Tenants vs Consumer: How do they compare?

Nick Brattoli

Nick Brattoli

Microsoft MVP & MCT

If you work in a government or government-adjacent role, it's likely you will come into contact with GCC, GCC High, or even DOD tenants.

When planning your SharePoint intranets, Teams rollouts, and Power Platform solutions, it will be important to know which capabilities you'll have in which types of tenants.

In this session, join Nick Brattoli as he compares portions of Microsoft 365 across tenant types while sharing his experience working on different government projects.

He'll talk about things such as:

Reasons you should be in one tenant type vs another

Basic feature comparisons between commercial, GCC, GCC High, and DOD regarding SharePoint, Teams, the Power Platform, Viva, and Syntex

Challenges that can arise during migrations and fresh implementations, and how to deal with them

If you are new to government tenants, or have experience with government tenants but not commercial, this session will provide a nice jumping off point to start building your solutions!

Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 145b

Microsoft Teams Governance: from A (Admins) to U (Users)

Susan Hanley

Susan Hanley

Microsoft MVP & MBA

Whether your deployed Microsoft Teams quickly in response to COVID-19 or you are planning more strategically, making good governance decisions is critical.

This session guides you through the key governance decisions for Microsoft Teams and provides an approach to ensure that your decisions are communicated and effective. You will take away a framework for making key decisions and an approach for creating a resource center to communicate those decisions to your users.

Note: If you are interested in this session, be sure to attend Bob German's session "Teams App Governance: managing enterprise and 3rd party applications in Microsoft Teams" and join Sue and Bob for a Teams governance “birds of a feather” lunch group.

Category: Friday Sessions

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 145a

Real Life Vacation Request Solution

Tamara Bredemus

Tamara Bredemus

Learning Strategist Manager & Adoption Specialist at Planet Technologies

Don't clutter up your calendar with everyone's vacation. Create a dedicated calendar where only approved vacations show up.

In this session, we will build a vacation request list, turn it into a calendar and then automate the approval process using Power Automate.

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