Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 150b

Driving employee engagement – A deep dive into Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Sarah Haase

Microsoft MVP

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration. This full-day workshop explores how Viva Connections, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

You’ll learn how to:

• Organize your content and intranet with an array of modern SharePoint sites & hubs
• Visualize your information architecture with mind-maps
• Build your Viva Connections implementation strategy
• Empower your leaders to share news, drive strategic changes, and openly dialogue with employees
• Foster connections & conversations with Viva Engage
• Introduce Viva Engage storylines and stories so employees can share knowledge & experiences
• Drive employee engagement with Yammer communities

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 147b

Business Process Automation with Power Apps and Power Automate

William Huneycutt

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Learn how to get started quickly with Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) in SharePoint Online. Discover how to use built-in connections to connect Power Apps to services such as SharePoint Online, Office 365 apps, and even SharePoint on-premise. Learn how to customize the look and feel of forms and apps to meet the needs of users and apply company branding.

Also, learn how to share Power Apps with colleagues without going over budget: 

• Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
• Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
• Connect to data sources
• Themes, branding, and layouts
• Conditional formatting
• Rules and data validation
• Formula bar

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to take advantage of pre-built templates for creating workflows. Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser.

Finally, we'll discuss how to manage your Flows during and after runtime:

• Connectors, data sources, and gateways
• Events vs triggers
• SharePoint Designer actions vs Flow actions
• Conditions for Flow
• Workflow history
• Flow connections and ownership
• Licensing

The future of SharePoint is exciting, and the addition of Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 147a

Dataverse for Teams: Extending Teams with Apps, Flows, and Bots

Paul Papanek Stork

Microsoft MVP, MCM & MBA

Use of Microsoft Teams has exploded for many companies during the global pandemic. For many organizations Teams has become the app that connects all their employees together. Power Platform apps, like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents, provides a low-code platform for extending that functionality. In September, 2020 Microsoft announced Dataverse for Teams. Dataverse for Teams is included in the Teams license so you can build apps, flows, and bots that make use of relational data storage, rich data types, and enterprise-grade governance without additional expense.

In this workshop we'll look at how to use Dataverse in the Power Platform to extend the Teams application. By the time you leave you'll have an integrated Teams application and bot that can help your employees manage their presence as people move back into the office after the Pandemic.

We'll cover the following with slides and hands-on exercises:

• What does the Teams License cover
• Differences between Dataverse (CDS) and Dataverse for Teams
• Creating Dataverse Relational Tables
• Securing Dataverse for Teams Tables
• Building a Power App with Dataverse for Teams
• Integrating Dataverse for Teams with a Flow
• Accessing Dataverse for Teams from a Bot
• Managing Dataverse for Teams Environments
• Deploying Custom Apps, Bots, and Flows to additional Teams

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

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 150a

Power BI For The Absolute Beginner

Daniel Christian

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Scott Shearer

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Have you only heard of Power BI in passing or have always been the end-user but now are ready to learn and invest in this tool to bridge the gap between data and decision making? Then this is a must attend workshop for you.

Join Daniel Christian and Scott Shearer who are both Microsoft MVPs and MCTs as they take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This full day workshop will first introduce you into the past and present of Power BI and then dive into demos. Daniel and Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources such as Dataverse, SharePoint and SQL to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

They also focus on the deep integration across the Power Platform family i.e. from the report kick-off a Power Automate flow or add a Power Apps canvas app to edit data.

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to: • Power BI Licensing • Using the Power BI Desktop App • Using the Power BI Service • How to create reports and dashboards • DAX fundamentals • Integration with Power Apps and Power Automate • Learning resources • And more (time permitting...)

Please note that this is not a hands-on workshop but attendees are welcome to follow along.