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

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 151b

Fix that intranet! Improve your intranet content, structure, and processes

Nate Chamberlain

Nate Chamberlain

Microsoft MVP & MCT

Intranets built in SharePoint Online are running on the galaxy's best platform for enterprise communication and collaboration.

In this half-day, beginner-friendly workshop, we'll learn about SharePoint but with an intranet focus. We'll cover tips and ideas for content strategy, planning and structuring an intranet, best practices for facilitating internal communication and collaboration, how Teams and Viva Connections play into things, digitizing forms, and using the Power Platform to create, automate, and visualize throughout SharePoint.

Note: This is not a hands-on build-an-entire-intranet-in-three-hours workshop. This is entirely focused on best practices and ideas for improving your intranet's content, structure, and processes.

Let's fix that intranet!

Check out my workshop preview: https://youtu.be/z4oXO90wdIE

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 145a

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp

Scott Shearer

Scott Shearer

Microsoft MVP & MCT
Wes Preston

Wes Preston

Microsoft MVP

You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements: To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 151a

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

Sarah Haase

Sarah Haase

Microsoft MVP

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus.

During this workshop, you will:

  • Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
  • Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success
  • Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm
  • Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

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

Power Platform Governance 101

Prashant G Bhoyar

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

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 147b

Jumpstart your intranet

Emily Mancini

Emily Mancini

Microsoft MVP
Marc D Anderson

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

Category: Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 150b

Microsoft Power Platform in a Day

Daniel Christian

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

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