Monday, May 9th 2022, 9:00 am
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Jay Leask
Microsoft MVP, PMP
WRK105 - Accelerate Office 365 Success: How to Best Plan, Manage and Control Migration Projects
Organizations today are maximizing the cloud as a business enablement platform and many are in the process of migrating to Office 365. To deliver successful Office 365 migration projects, having an effective business strategy, migration framework, and project management approach is paramount. Executive support, proper planning, realistic project team and appropriately managing expectations are crucial to ensure Office 365 migration success. Join this interactive session and learn how to best plan, manage and control Office 365 migration projects.
Monday, May 9th 2022, 9:00 am
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Brian Alderman
Microsoft MVP, MCT, Author, Speaker
WRK109 - Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert
SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365 has many components and in this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different components and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized. We will begin by creating a new M365 tenant that you can use during the workshop, during the conference and even after the conference and we will discuss how to securely configure it for use by SharePoint Administrators. We will explore the SharePoint Admin Center and then discuss, explore, and roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online configuration settings, create and configure site collections, configure user profile settings, create a structured taxonomy using the term store, configure the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, and explore the hybrid configuration options. 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. You'll also have your personal Microsoft 365 trial tenant for use after you leave the conference.
Tuesday, May 10th 2022, 9:00 am
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Sarah Haase
Microsoft MVP | Office 365 enthusiast | User adoption advocate
WRK502 - Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class
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
Tuesday, May 10th 2022, 1:30 pm
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Erica Toelle
Sr, Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Compliance -
Joanne Klein
Microsoft MVP
WRK602 - Microsoft 365 Data Governance Hackathon
We know that data governance situations are unique for your company and can be complex. Data governance covers a collection of solutions like retention, data loss prevention, classification, records management, eDiscovery and overall reporting for your data. Do you have a data governance scenario you need a plan or answer for? In this workshop, we will build out solutions live using the scenarios you bring to us. We’ll start the workshop by discussing the data governance features in Microsoft 365. Once we set the framework, we’ll ask you to contribute your scenarios or situations and we’ll work together to build a solution or plan live, during the workshop. This will provide attendees a real-world answer to their data governance question(s). A Data Governance hackathon!
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 8:30 am
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Ben Truelove
Principal Designer at Microsoft -
Bob German
Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft -
CJ Tan
Principal Product Manager -
Erica Toelle
Sr, Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Compliance -
Jeff Teper
Microsoft Corporate Vice President – Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive -
Stephen Rose
Sr Product Marketing Manager
KEY100 - Microsoft 365 for the Hybrid Workplace
Jeff will give an update on Microsoft’s strategy for the hybrid workplace and roadmap for Teams, SharePoint, Viva, OneDrive, and more covering innovations for end users, developers, and admins.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 11:30 am
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Chris McNulty
Director of Product Marketing
SPT102 - Getting started with SharePoint Syntex
Syntex brings seamless AI-powered content services to Microsoft 365 for document automation - tagging and security, taxonomy, content assembly, advanced search, contract management, and knowledge creation. Join me for a deep dive on how to configure and run these powerful tools that are essential to any Microsoft 365 deployment.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 11:30 am
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Craig Jahnke
Office 365 Architect and Collaboration Evangelist, Microsoft -
Jay Leask
Microsoft MVP, PMP
ADM102 - The Fun of a Modern SharePoint Migration
Many companies are considering moving their file shares to Office 365 and the new Modern SharePoint Online, While this creates opportunities for the company to be more productive and manage their data, Modern SharePoint migrations has its unique considerations and constraints. Come to this session to learn tips, tricks, and gotchas while migrating to Modern SharePoint Online.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 1:40 pm
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Joanne Klein
Microsoft MVP
CM103 - SharePoint Syntex: An AI Model Walk-thru
SharePoint Syntex is the first project released out of Project Cortex and is a significant step forward in providing the ability to intelligently identify content across your Microsoft 365 environment. Unstructured content is being produced at an exponential rate in our modern workplaces today and we need a way to manage it at scale by providing structure (content types and metadata) and governance (security and compliance controls) to it. To demonstrate this new capability, Joanne Klein will walkthrough a practical example of using a SharePoint Syntex AI document understanding model to intelligently identify Statements of Work across SharePoint libraries. The walkthrough will cover setup, training, and deployment. SharePoint Syntex. It’s almost magic.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 1:40 pm
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Craig Jahnke
Office 365 Architect and Collaboration Evangelist, Microsoft -
Jay Leask
Microsoft MVP, PMP
ADM103 - How to Ensure a Seamless Hybrid SharePoint Environment
Your agency isn't ready to go all-in with Office 365, but you know it's coming - you are NOT alone: while Office 365 use is skyrocketing, even across the government, the reality is that many agencies are are planning a hybrid SharePoint deployment, not 100% cloud. A hybrid architecture does pose challenges for creating a seamless experience for your IT admins, users and entire organization. You must balance reporting, compliance and administration between on-premise and online components. Join AvePoint Principal Solution Engineer Jay Leask and Microsoft Premier Field Engineer Craig Jahnke as they share best practices for hybrid deployments including: • Addressing administration complexity • Removing silos and connecting to legacy data • Minimizing organizational disruption • Comparison of SharePoint 2013, 2016, and 2019 hybrid capabilities
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 3:30 pm
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Nick Brattoli
Microsoft MVP, MCT
TMS104 - Creating an expandable Teams Architecture for Mergers and Acquisitions
Does your organization acquire other locations or businesses as part of your operations, or have you gone through a merger recently? Are you expanding and opening new brick and mortar locations? If so, you know how complicated it is to onboard a new entity. In this session, join Nick Brattoli as he walks through creating a process within Teams consisting of a SharePoint Home site using Viva connections, a Teams Template for onboarding and management of your acquired location, and a process to request and provision those Teams. If you have many small locations that need to collaborate in a scalable way, this session will be very informative!
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 3:30 pm
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Treb Gatte
Microsoft MVP, MBA
BI104 - SharePoint, Teams and Power BI Integration Strategies
This session will highlight the rich functionality that you can bring to your business needs with the integration that is available between Power BI and Office 365 functionality. We'll discuss why you may want to integrate functionality and how to license for it. Demos will be: • Integrating Yammer, Forms, and Word into Power BI • Integrating Power BI into Office 365 Communications site, Sway, and into a Teams channel.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 3:30 pm
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Brian Alderman
Microsoft MVP, MCT, Author, Speaker
TMS105 - Administration and Management of Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a very powerful and popular service that provides both communication and file management functionality. There are several configuration options available to ensure your users are able to access the features and functionality you want them to, but still control just how much they can do. In this session, we are going to explore how to deploy, configure, and manage Microsoft Teams functionality. After the session you will have a better understanding of how to administer Microsoft Teams policies, external access, Teams-related roles, as well as monitoring and auditing Microsoft Teams which all can be done by using the Teams Admin Center, and PowerShell.
Wednesday, May 11th 2022, 4:50 pm
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Bob German
Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft -
Cathy Dew
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft -
Craig Jahnke
Office 365 Architect and Collaboration Evangelist, Microsoft -
Erica Toelle
Sr, Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft Compliance -
Holly Lehman
Product Marketing Manager, Teams at Microsoft -
Jeff Teper
Microsoft Corporate Vice President – Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive -
Jeremy Thake
Principal Program Manager, Microsoft -
Liz Sundet
Microsoft Program Manager -
Mark Kashman
Senior product manager - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 -
Max Fritz
Microsoft Program Manager -
Sesha Mani
Principal Group Product Manager (GPM)- Microsoft -
Stephen Rose
Sr Product Marketing Manager -
Tom Resing
Content designer @ Microsoft focused on M365
AMA - Ask Microsoft Anything & SharePint
Join Microsoft's experts for an interactive Q&A about Microsoft 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Teams and more! Bring your best questions! Stay after for the SharePint and enjoy refreshments, pizza and the opportunity to network and chat with folks from the Microsoft Product Management team.
Thursday, May 12th 2022, 8:30 am
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Joanne Klein
Microsoft MVP
CM201 - A Primer on Retention Scopes inside Microsoft 365
This session will explain the concept of "scoping" retention policies and labels inside Microsoft 365 and how both Static and Adaptive scopes can help your organization intelligently scale to meet your retention requirements. Understanding how to leverage scopes is key to your overall Information Governance and Records Management program design and implementation. To demonstrate the capability, Joanne will walk thru several real-world use-cases of adaptive scopes and will highlight other technology dependencies to be aware of before you start down this path.
Thursday, May 12th 2022, 2:00 pm
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Brian Alderman
Microsoft MVP, MCT, Author, Speaker
ADM203 - Exploring Microsoft 365 Migration Options and Tools
Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you. We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases: • Before the migration • Completing the migration • Managing the cloud-based content after migration As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including how to use the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool with the SharePoint Migration Tool to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.
Thursday, May 12th 2022, 3:50 pm
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Stephanie Donahue
Microsoft MVP, RD
CM204 - Real world compliance and retention in SharePoint and Teams
You’ve probably attended a few sessions about compliance and retention policies in SharePoint over the years, but how do you make real use of it in your organization? How do you ensure that you have architected your environment to ensure data is securely stored for as long as required but not too long?! How do you ensure that your users understand and know where to store content so that it gets the correct policies applied? Go beyond the how to and learn from real world scenarios that enable organizations to not only set up the correct policies but help ensure users do their part to put data where it needs to go.
Thursday, May 12th 2022, 3:50 pm
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Drew Madelung
MS Solutions Architect | Microsoft MVP
OFF204 - Managing OneDrive for Business
OneDrive for Business is an important workload in Microsoft 365 and can be an integral part of your collaboration strategy. OneDrive provides a cloud location to store, share, and sync your files and with them from any device. Whether you are looking to roll-out OneDrive for Business or are already are utilizing it, there are a lot of important things that you should know about administration. This session will go through things such as: • Intro to OneDrive for Business • Roll out strategy and best practices • Sync capabilities and restrictions • Security capabilities from the user to the tenant • Reporting • What’s new and coming This session will be a technical focused session which will provide you the information and tools you need to ensure your OneDrive for Business deployment is solid and secured.
Thursday, May 12th 2022, 3:50 pm
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Vlad Catrinescu
Microsoft MVP | MCT Regional Lead
ADM204 - Getting Started with PowerShell for Microsoft 365
Take your Microsoft 365 Administrator skills further by learning to automate repetitive tasks using the magic of PowerShell. In this session, you will learn how to use PowerShell for Microsoft 365. A basic understanding of PowerShell is recommended to get the most out of this session!
Friday, May 13th 2022, 9:00 am
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Stephanie Donahue
Microsoft MVP, RD
CM301 - Taming the Hoarders...Organizing Users who Keep Everything!
Email, file shares, documents, legacy systems, metadata…..it can be overwhelming. Whether you are planning a brand new Office 365 implementation, migrating from another system, or supporting the Teams and sites you already have, this presentation will help you get (and stay) organized. I will take you through some tips and tricks for organizing even the most challenging users: • Learn about locations that users typically hoard save their data • Learn methods to help difficult users adopt Teams and SharePoint • Review easy ways to plan your site architecture • Discuss training methods that will increase user engagement
Friday, May 13th 2022, 9:00 am
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Prashant G Bhoyar
Microsoft AI MVP, MCT
ADM301 - Manage Power Platform Like a Pro using PowerShell
The Power Platform Admin center offers a comprehensive list of features to manage the Power Platform. However, the admin center is not great at performing bulk operations and implementing automation as part of your governance process. In this demo-driven session, we will cover how to manage the Power Platform using PowerShell, perform bulk operations, and implement automation as part of your Power Platform governance processes. You will learn: • How to use PowerShell for Power Apps and Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) • Managing Tenant Level Settings • Creating and Managing environments • Managing Power Apps and Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) Owners • Managing Power Apps and Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) Connections • Managing Canvas Apps • Pulling Usage Statistics • How to implement automation as part of your Power Platform Governance Policies • Best Practices
Friday, May 13th 2022, 10:20 am
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Drew Madelung
MS Solutions Architect | Microsoft MVP -
Vlad Catrinescu
Microsoft MVP | MCT Regional Lead
ADM302 - How To Automate Your Modern Microsoft 365 Collaboration Provisioning Solution
Creating modern SharePoint sites only takes a second but what if you want to customize or control that process? It can be a challenge to keep up with all the sites in an organization and can affect support and governance a SharePoint environment. Not to mention that today's modern collaboration workspaces also include Microsoft Teams, Planner, and more tools! In this session, we will learn how to use Microsoft’s latest tools such as Site Templates , Site Scripts, PnP Site Provisioning, Power Apps and Power Automate to create a full Site provisioning system with custom templates, custom branding and easy approval before creation!
Friday, May 13th 2022, 12:30 pm
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Joanne Klein
Microsoft MVP
ADM303 - Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365 | Walk-thru and Guidance
Communication Compliance is part of the Insider Risk solution set in Microsoft 365. Its purpose is to monitor communication methods used both within and outside of the Microsoft 365 cloud to help identify insider non-compliant and risky communication. In the modern workplace today, communication methods are vast and varied and all can be a potential channel for non-compliance. The Communication Compliance tool has been purpose-built to help identify potential areas of non-compliance across these communication methods and remediation actions that can be taken depending on the severity of the activity. To demonstrate this capability, Joanne Klein will walk through some examples of using both built-in and customized templates to monitor end-user communication methods found in a typical modern workplace. Like most tools in the Compliance space, it's always about more than technology alone, so Joanne will also cover some things you may want to have in place in your organization before implementing this tool.
Friday, May 13th 2022, 1:50 pm
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Brian Alderman
Microsoft MVP, MCT, Author, Speaker
OFF304 - Session: What’s all the hype about Hybrid
Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises now makes it better, and easier, than ever to integrate with SharePoint Online providing a rich, robust, and powerful SharePoint hybrid solution for your organization. In this session we will learn what SharePoint hybrid is, and what it isn’t as well as why it may be beneficial to you, or may not work in your particular organization. We’ll also discuss the hybrid components, including OneDrive for Business, Site features, and Search along with their requirements. In addition, we’ll provide an overview of the configuration steps necessary in both Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Server on-premises.
Friday, May 13th 2022, 1:50 pm
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John Peluso
Microsoft Regional Director
ADM304 - More SharePoint More Fun… So… Many… Sites!
Yup, you can have 2 MILLION SharePoint sites in M365. How did this happen? First we got a new Site every time we created a team…. Then a new site every time we created a Private Channel…. Now a new site for every Shared Channel… It makes sense, but how do we even start thinking about managing all these sites? And do we even need to? This session will drill into both the end user experience as well and the admin management experience and explore SharePoint at scale in M365 for management, security, and compliance.
Friday, May 13th 2022, 1:50 pm
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Drew Madelung
MS Solutions Architect | Microsoft MVP
ADM305 - Securing SharePoint, OneDrive & Teams with Sensitivity Labels
How do you protect your confidential content from being exposed? Being able to secure your files and content across workloads is a necessity and the tools are available to you today in the Microsoft 365 Security admin center. Microsoft 365 Sensitivity Labels are the evolution of Azure Information Protection and more within the Microsoft Information Protection suite. In this session, we will go through what Sensitivity Labels are, how they work with files and sites, what kind of protection they provide, and finally how to get started utilizing them in your own organization.