Washington, D.C.
Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 145b

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

Treb Gatte

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.

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 147a

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Paul Papanek Stork

Paul Papanek Stork

Microsoft MVP, MCM & MBA

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see very similar questions asked over and over again. In this workshop, we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:

Part One: Power Apps

  • Managing Delegation Warnings
  • Working with Dates and Times
  • Conditional Formatting of data
  • Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow

Part Two: Power Automate

  • Using Loops and Parallel Branches
  • Working with Large Data Sources
  • Using Conditions and Switches effectively
  • Implementing Error Checking/Correction

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/S1Wjjwv0P50

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 151a

Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

Nate Chamberlain

Nate Chamberlain

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Join Microsoft MVP and certified trainer Nate Chamberlain in this full day workshop for newer Microsoft 365 users or evaluators looking to better understand all the possibilities Microsoft 365 brings to your organization.

Attendees will learn about all the apps and latest features in Microsoft 365 that enable both individual and group productivity including SharePoint, Office 365 apps, Outlook, OneDrive, To Do, Teams, Lists, Planner, Viva, and more.

We’ll go beyond definitions to explore specific business use cases, tips, and FAQs such as:

  • Microsoft 365 overview: What’s in my toolbox?
  • Understand the relationships between apps, and how permissions and Microsoft 365 groups power your modern work
  • Co-authoring documents, version history
  • Requesting files from others, sharing files, and managing access in OneDrive and SharePoint
  • Teams vs SharePoint vs OneDrive
  • Teams conversations vs chats vs emails
  • How do the newer Viva apps fit in?

& more!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/kFgepQcAyT8

 

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 145b

Mastering Microsoft Teams

Gokan Ozcifci

Gokan Ozcifci

Microsoft MVP & RD
Liz Sundet

Liz Sundet

Program Manager at Microsoft

Microsoft Teams has been designed for teamwork and flexibility, powered by the Microsoft cloud to bring together the best of Office 365 into a single workspace for working with people, managing conversations, maintaining files, and integrating Office 365 applications, so everyone has instant access to everything they need for a prosperous collaboration.

With great features come great questions and this workshop will cover how to plan, implement, and master Microsoft Teams. Be ready for an overview of Microsoft Teams, examples of how to get started with Microsoft Teams, best practices for managing different scenarios, and how Viva, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Dataverse, and the Power Platform interacts with Microsoft Teams.

We’ll cover how to plan, deliver, and operational excellence for Microsoft Teams: Data, Files, Reporting’s, Groups, Whiteboards, Meetings, Governance, Application Extensions, Chat, Adaptative cards, … all are available in this workshop!

If your organization is currently considering deploying or just starting your journey to Microsoft Teams, this workshop is for you as we'll assess everything from A to Z.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/haTr1xvgC-E

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 149a

Best Practices for using M365 to conquer your Corporate Communications challenges

Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley

Microsoft MVP
Susan Hanley

Susan Hanley

Microsoft MVP & MBA

Though it may have been challenging in the past, the latest innovations in SharePoint and Microsoft 365 have a great deal to offer for comms professionals planning a comprehensive and compelling corporate communications story.

In this full day workshop, Susan Hanley and Mark Rackley will guide you through the process of architecting and implementing an effective Corporate Communications strategy using Microsoft 365 including:

  • Envisioning a Corp Comms strategy that effectively meets your needs
  • Determining the best site architecture to take advantage of user interests
  • Creating / Publishing / Boosting News Posts
  • Learning about notification options
  • Understanding how Viva Connections can take your Corp Comms to the next level of employee experience and engagement
  • Understanding how Yammer creates an effective mechanism for both informing and engaging your employees

 

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 145a

Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

Brian Alderman

Brian Alderman

Microsoft MCT, MCSA, MCSE & Master's in CIS

SharePoint Online has many services that you need to be familiar with to successfully manage your collaboration content. In this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different services and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.

We will begin by creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, explore how we can customize the M365 administrator dashboard to provide us only information related to the Microsoft 365 services we are working with like SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

We will create and assign users to access SharePoint Online both as an end user or and administrator.

We will then roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell including; creating and configuring site collections, configuring user profile settings, creating and implementing a structured taxonomy using the term store, configuring the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, and explore several other SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business settings. During these configurations you will learn how these settings differ from those in SharePoint Server.

When you leave, you’ll have all the skills necessary to configure and manage the different SharePoint Online components using both the SharePoint Online Admin Center, and PowerShell.

In addition to these skills, you will have a live Microsoft 365 trial tenant that you can use when you get back to the office and you can use while attending other conference sessions.

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/rroc2fVFSgU

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