Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 145b

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

Treb Gatte

Microsoft MVP

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:

• How should I approach my BI need?
• What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
• What are the best practices?
• How much is this going to cost me to license?
• What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course: If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:

• Manager
• Business Analyst
• Power User
• SharePoint Administrator
• Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:

• Marketing
• Information Technology
• Finance
• Sales
• Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class: Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required) We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:

• Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
• How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
• Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
• Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
• Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
• Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
• Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 150b

Microsoft Power Platform in a Day

Daniel Christian

Microsoft MVP & MCT

With the Power Platform having been available for over 6 years, it is now an enterprise level, low code platform to build reports, apps, flows and chatbots. For the first time ever you can build your own solution and make it available for your company users. This skill of building professional low code apps is in such high demand that makers have successfully made a career out of it.

Join Daniel Christian, a Microsoft MVP, certified trainer and an early adopter of the Power Platform, as he walks you through how this Power Platform journey began and gives you a technical overview of Power Apps (Canvas and Model-Driven), Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents.

This workshop will comprise of several walk-through demos, stories with examples and even an interview with a surprise guest.

Here is an overview of the workshop: - Power Apps + Canvas + Model-Driven + Portal - Power Automate + Flows + Robotic Process Automation - Power BI - Power Virtual Agents - Dataverse - Integration with Microsoft Teams - Cross platform integration - Soon to arrive features!

So if you are someone who has heard about Power Platform and would like to get a better technical understanding on what the services have to offer, then you do not want to miss this workshop!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/DhArVJvKZVc

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 147b

Jumpstart your intranet

Emily Mancini

Microsoft MVP

Marc D Anderson

Microsoft MVP

An intranet can support your organization’s ability to communicate and collaborate effectively, make information easy to find, automate business processes, and help cut administrative costs... but where do you start? In this workshop, we will focus on the mechanics of building the basic structure of an intranet in modern SharePoint Online and surfacing it in Teams through Viva Connections.

At the end of the workshop, you will have a simple intranet in your own developer tenant with common solutions like a Policy Center, global navigation, and personalized content experiences.

In the developer tenant, we will:

• Create a branded experience
• Build an enterprise information architecture
• Surface the right information, at the right time
• Centralize information and create search-based experiences
• Create learning and onboarding content
• Implement better practices for writing for the web
• Create a seamless connection between your SharePoint-based Intranet and Microsoft Teams
• And demo some advanced topics

Join us to gain a deeper understanding of the out of the box technical capabilities so you can focus on identifying your desired business outcomes, defining your overall content strategy and governance, and driving the adoption of your intranet at your organization.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/w20ottxujLs

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 152b

Power Platform Governance 101

Prashant G Bhoyar

Microsoft MVP & MCT

In this half-day workshop, we will cover the key principles of Power Platform Governance. Effective governance policies play a big role in the successful roll-out of the Power Platform across the organization and running it on a scale. The governance policies will include Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Power BI.

In this demo-driven workshop, we will cover,

1. Power Platform Governance Overview
2. Center of Excellence ( CoE ) Starter Kit
3. Automation Kit
4. Data Loss Prevention policies
5. User Management
6. Permission manager
7. License and capacity management
8. Security and Control
9. Managed Environments
10. Best Practices