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Keynote

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Development

Modern Workplace

Power Platform

Admin and Security

Viva/Misc

Microsoft Loop has finally debuted with live, editable content components in Microsoft Teams, soon to expand to its own app and workspaces, as well as built into many of the everyday Office apps. Loop is Microsoft’s first truly live-first productivity app and promises—threatens?—to redefine how we create, share, and organize information. But how will users balance the “which tool when” question? Join us as we discuss how Loop is on course to disrupt the existing world of modern collaboration and intranet best practices with a new architectural motif that allows centralized content to show up across files, messages, sites, and more, and how it may not be the clone of Notion it’s purported to be.

Keynote: Out of the Loop? Not Anymore!

As a speaker and a trainer, the most common question I get is "What goes in OneDrive, what goes in SharePoint and what goes in Teams?" .  Join me for this session as we demystify the file sharing options in Office 365 and find the most effective option for how YOU need to collaborate with your peers in your virtual workspace!

Spoiler Alert!  Nothing Actually Lives in Teams!  Managing Your Files in Office 365

Microsoft Dataverse for Teams delivers a no code / low code  out of the box data platform for Microsoft Teams. You get relational data storage, rich data types, enterprise-grade governance, and one-click solution deployment. Dataverse for Teams enables everyone to easily build and deploy apps. Come see what Dataverse for Teams is all about and how to get started building databased apps within Teams. 

Getting Data from Dataverse Inside of Teams

In this hands-on session, we will see how to maximize our Microsoft 365 investment by dissecting a simple referral system built with Microsoft Forms, SharePoint Online and Power Automate. We'll take a look at how these three pillars unite to empower a business with a system designed to track referrals from both internal and external customers. Then, we'll expand on the solution with Microsoft Teams and Power BI which layer in an additional medium for communication and insightful data visualizations. The take-aways from this session will relate to more than just referral tracking; the idea is to examine each component of a real life application and demonstrate how you can get started building functional solutions for any line of business. 

Build a No-Code Application with the Tools Already in your Belt!

This session will give you a foundational understanding of the capabilities and risks inherent in the Power Platform, discuss how the rise of citizen developers and low code tools can be a game changer for how your IT department is viewed, and walk you through the tools for governing, reporting on , and scaling your Power Platform implementation.

Governing PowerPlatform for ITPros

The fundamental building block of M365 is the M365 Group and controlling how they are created, managed, archived, and deleted is a critical governance issue for organizations.  This session will explore the questions that your organization will need to ask itself to properly create a governance structure for M365 Groups and how and when to automate the process.

M365 Group Lifecycle Management

Do you hate talking to people? Do you wish you could simply deploy a tool and move on to the next "problem"? Do you long for the olden days where the business left you alone?

During this session, Jay and Joy will help you look like you care (because we know you really do) about business needs, to fine tune your technological solutions, and ensure the successful adoption of these tools in helping your company succeed.

1. Care for the business
2. Deploy cool technology
3. ...
4. Profit

How to Win Friends (in the Business) and Solve Problems

Microsoft Teams is truly a cloud-based application--there are parts of it all through Microsoft 365! From an administration perspective, this can be confusing. This session covers the basic Teams architecture in the cloud, from a layman's perspective (not a cloud architect)--what you need to know as a Teams Owner or an Admin to find & protect your data.

Teams Architecture for Teams Owners

Our scenario will be looking at when a client submits a request and it gets assigned how can the client easily chat with the assigned representative.  In this session we will be looking at an example with an Adaptive Card button and SharePoint collected information when notification sent via Automate that the submitter can click a button to open chat to reach out to the assigned representative.  This solution is Power User based and no premium involved.

Kick Off a Chat with Adaptive Card Button Click (SharePoint, Teams, Adaptive Card)

There is a growing trend of organizations embracing new capabilities in “the cloud” to meet their digital workplace and Intranet needs. While some organizations are running their Intranets “on premise,” most are transitioning or have migrated to cloud-based solutions or run them on platforms like Microsoft 365.

The question for many companies is not “should our intranet be built with Microsoft 365?” but “how should we integrate or build our Intranets with Microsoft 365”. This is even more true today with the emergence of new modern Intranet capabilities and continued innovation from Microsoft that must be reconciled with enterprise Intranet/Digital Workplace needs.

In this session Richard Harbridge will explore:
• The benefits new Microsoft 365 features bring to an intranet
• Where the issues and challenges will lie
• Practical guidance on when and how you may integrate Office 365 with your existing intranet today

Intranets & Digital Hubs With Microsoft 365: What You Need To Know

Delivering durable business applications is harder than most people think. Success with personal citizen development projects often falls victim to the adage "what got you here won't get you there." 

When it comes to solutions with a wide scope, construction is perhaps only 10% of what's needed; there are security, data integrity, scalability, measurement, auditing, change management, user adoption, documentation, and business continuity concerns to consider. And then there's the matter of delivering solutions at scale; one or two per year will not be enough.

This session will go over what's needed and why, then pivot to how to best address those needs without having to revert to a world of "high-code."


What You Need to Make Low-Code Projects Enterprise Worthy

Stopping data exfiltration dead using Microsoft 365 Endpoint DLP

Protecting sensitive data from risky or inappropriate copying, sharing, transfer, or use is a top priority for any organization. Remote working and data sharing across a plethora of corporate and personally owned devices have created renewed emphasis on providing strong and coordinated protection on the endpoint's employees use every day. 

Microsoft Endpoint DLP identifies and protects information on endpoints. It extends the activity monitoring and protection capabilities of DLP to sensitive items that are physically stored on Windows 10, Windows 11, and macOS devices. It delivers three core capabilities: Native protection, seamless deployment, and integrated insights. 

In this session, Luke will play the disgruntled employee looking to try and conduct some insider data exfiltration with Jon playing the part of the defenders to try and stop Luke dead in his tracks!

After attending this session, you will understand at a high-level:

What Endpoint DLP is, what are the capabilities and how it can better protect your data
A live demo of Endpoint attacker vs defender 
How you can take the insights of Endpoint DLP and integrate it into the Microsoft Sentinel 

Technologies in this session will be
 
Microsoft Teams
Endpoint DLP
Windows 10/11

Stopping Data Exfiltration Dead using Microsoft 365 Endpoint DLP

Microsoft Viva brings us a new way to work, learn, and discover information. Viva Insights identifies communication patterns and helps building better work habits.  
  
There is a dedicated Teams app, user and manager reports, advanced queries tool, integration with Power BI, and much more. Before you go and deploy it on productions, it is important to understand how it works, what kind of data is collected, and how to use it properly. This approach will let you get the most of it and avoid adoption mistakes. 
  
Session plan: 
- Viva Insights overview 
- How to use Personal Insights  
- Working with Manager and leader insights 
- How to work with queries and reports 
- How Viva secure users' information 

How to Start with Viva Insights?

Join us in this session to learn about enhancing the production quality of your Microsoft Teams meetings, live events, and webinars.  We explore the latest out-of-box capabilities Microsoft Teams uses to enhance your meetings, live events, and webinars.  We also demo and discuss advanced capabilities using third-party products such as Open Broadcaster Software (OBS.)  Our goal is to share these capabilities with pro-tips we've learned hosting thousands of meetings and live events for conferences of all sizes so that you can level up the production quality of your Teams meetings, live events, and webinars.

Level Up Your Microsoft Teams Meetings, Live Events, and Webinars

Power Pages are here. A secure, enterprise-grade, low-code SaaS platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Design, configure, and publish websites that seamlessly work across web browsers and devices. But what about a platform for 270 million monthly active users? That's right - let's bring Power Pages into Teams. Let's get hands on and surface them right up into the hub and flow of your users work

Deploying Power Pages in Teams

The vision of Microsoft Stream is one that empowers M365 users to accomplish more with fast intelligent video. Johnny Lopez will provide a quick reminder of the New Stream vision announced at Ignite in 2020 and what is new in Stream on SharePoint. 

Speaker: Johnny Lopez, MVP

Johnny Lopez is a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer for the Core BTS Modern Workplace team. He is a passionate evangelist who delivers his professional experiences, technical expertise, and real-world Microsoft 365 content services and Power Platform experience to the technology communities.

Connecting Video in a Similar M365 Experience with Stream in SharePoint

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously. We'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content. We'll dive into portals ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) using Microsoft Power Platform CLI tool to deploy/publish changes from Dev > QA > Production. 

Build External-Facing Websites using Power Apps Portals

As the list of data compliance policies grows worldwide, companies need to ensure that their data resides in the correct country or region. This session will dive into Microsoft 365 Multi Geo explaining to attendees the basics of Multi Geo and the journey to ensure that data is in the geographical location that it should be.

The session will cover:
- An Overview of M365 Multi Geo
- Prerequisites for companies who want to use Multi Geo
- How SharePoint differs from other products when it comes to M365 Multi Geo
- How to move data between Preferred Data Locations for Exchange, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint Online.

This session is aimed at administrators of multi-national companies who need to prepare their M365 tenant to be expanded to additional geographies to meet data residency requirements. 

Microsoft 365; Exchange Online; Teams; OneDrive for Business; SharePoint Online


Avoid Compliance Nightmares with M365 Multi Geo

Do you want to know what Microsoft Viva Connections is all about? Are you overwhelmed by the possibilites of Yammer and Teams and by their seemingly large overlap of features? Both tools are dedicated to support the information flow and the collaboration in your company. But what if your end-users aren't sure where to share their information or where to start a conversation? Viva Connections can answer these questions.

We will consider the following aspects:

- Modern Workplace, Collaboration and Teamwork in an enterprise scenario
- Introduction into Viva Connections based on a typical business day
- Feature comparison between Yammer and Teams
- Developing an employee focused communication strategy
- Live Demo of exemplary use cases

We will also discuss the conditions for a coexistence of Yammer and Teams and develop a checklist to develop your individual communication strategy

Discover the Power of Viva Connections

Increasingly, organizations are thinking about and thoughtfully planning out their employee experience (EXP) strategy. While it's great that so many companies are thinking about adoption, engagement, and the health and well-being of employees, making organizational change "stick" remains difficult. In this keynote, Christian will share four ingredients required for lasting organizational change, and make the case for identifying change agents or "champions" within the digital workplace to implement real change.

KEYNOTE: Making Change "Stick"

Join MVP and international speaker Knut Relbe-Moe om this session to learn how to setup Webinars in Teams.

We will go trough customize the webinar page, put everything into the social platforms and also the details about where the webinar is located.

So come and learn on how to utilize this for your organization

All You Need to Know about Webinars in Teams

The metaverse is all the talk at present with both Facebook and Microsoft going all into to expand and build into it. But the biggest achievement of the metaverse is an industry wide scramble to figure out just what the metaverse is.

Microsoft Mesh is described by Microsoft as a way of letting people connect with a holographic presence, share across space, and collaborate from anywhere in the world. Mesh for Microsoft Teams combines the mixed-reality capabilities of Microsoft Mesh, which allows people in different physical locations to join collaborative and shared holographic experiences, with the productivity tools of Microsoft Teams, where people can join virtual meetings, send chats, collaborate on shared documents and more.

After attending this session, you will understand at a high-level:

What Mesh for Microsoft Teams is, what new opportunities it introduces and what business benefits it can bring?
A live demo of what stepping into Mesh for Microsoft Teams will feel like
How you can better prepare your organization for the metaverse and Mesh for Microsoft Teams

Technologies in this session will be
 
Microsoft Teams
AltspaceVR

Prepare to Step into the Metaverse with Mesh for Teams

You have (had) issues with OneDrive?
Do you know some of the critical numbers for OneDrive?
You have issues with Coauthoring in OneDrive?
You are an Admin and do not understand the OneDrive Group Policies?

This Session gives you all the answers to the above questions and much more, so in the future OneDrive will run like smoothly.  It Is for end users, advanced users and administrators too.

And: the latest OneDrive News are included

OneDrive - Tips and Tricks

With users having access to Macros, we can see in many organizations a sprawl of solution having been built the past decades. With Office Scripts, Microsoft is offering a new way to automate repetitive Excel-tasks. In this session we’re going to look at the positioning of Office Scripts, how they can be created and used, and how you can integrate with the power platform.

Welcoming the New Kid on the Block: Office Scripts

Looking at deploying Teams and not sure what to expect long term? Already administering Teams and looking for tips and tricks? Either way, this is the session you don't want to miss!
Come learn the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks every good Teams admin should be doing. Learn how to keep up with the near-constant changes in Teams, and how manage governance and reporting. We'll even share some solutions you can use to automate regular tasks and save yourself precious time. Lastly, we'll cover how Teams is interconnected with other Office 365 services, and what administration you need to keep in mind for those services.

A Year in the Life of a Teams Admin

Starting a Champions Program is hard - and keeping it going over time is even harder.  

The introduction of Viva Connections, Insights, Learn and Topics PLUS the cool capabilities of Power Platform for Teams give us a fresh new 'story' to tell to re-ignite interest. They also present many opportunities for 'quick wins' we can use to expand our Champions program and ultimately drive adoption.

In this session I'll present an 8-week program you can use to either start or refresh your Champions program, and include some examples of quick wins that other organizations have used to energize and mobilize their champions.

Kick-Start Your Champions Program in 8 Weeks with Viva and Power Platform for Teams

Microsoft Teams empowers users to collaborate. However without governance it is easy for organizations to create thousands of Teams sites with no clear ownership and no lifecycle.  This uncontrolled growth can quickly turn into sprawl resulting in an IT admin headache to manage and lead to user confusion and dissatisfaction as they struggle to identify which is the correct team to use. 
This session will discuss best practices on how to implement Teams lifecycle management to manage your teams through the following stages:
1.	Teams creation
2.	Ongoing management
3.	End of life


Implementing Microsoft Teams Lifecycle Governance to Stop Team Sprawl

Power Virtual Agents is available as an app within Microsoft Teams, which means you can easily create your chatbots that answer questions posed by other employees or team members. The Power Virtual Agents app in Microsoft Teams makes it easy to fulfil any scenario, especially those that arise within an organisation. 

Join this session to learn the critical concepts of Power Virtual Agents and see a live demonstration of chatbot creation from scratch. Learn about different scenarios where chatbots can help improve your organisation's knowledge sharing and productivity and how to begin.

Create Chat Bots in Teams with Power Virtual Agents

Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaborative platform with a web of interconnecting components for everyday work life. To some, the interconnections might be obvious and a part of our daily practice to get the most out of the application suite. But to some of us, the "intuitive" nature of the platform is more allusive. This session we will take a look at how to efficiently navigate Microsoft Teams to get the most out of meetings and daily communication.

How to Efficiently Navigate Microsoft Teams Meetings and Applications

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

PowerShell for Power Apps and Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )

Come join us for this session to learn one of the most crucial components of Office 365 governance: identity.
We will cover hot topics such as onboarding/offboarding strategies, permission models and changes, self service requests, and more. And all from the context of SharePoint Online and Teams.
We will look at group models such as Office 365 and Security Groups, integration with local AD and other identity sources, and automation technologies.

Identity Governance 101

If containers are the new virtual machines, then Kubernetes are the new servers. Kubernetes is an important technology to the future of containerized applications, especially running enterprise workloads like SQL Server .In this session :
Containers Explained
Docker architecture
Installation choices
Install Docker Desktop on Windows
State of Windows & Linux  SQL Server Containers
Demo SQL Linux Containers
How to uninstall Docker Machine under Windows 10
docker run hello-world
Exploring Docker Hub
Docker image
Docker ps
Stop running containers, remove all containers and images
Docker Inspect
Distribution Hash
Image Manifest
Running SQL Server on Linux images Container
Union Filesystem
Running SQL Server on Linux images Container
docker exec command
Runtime options with Memory, CPUs, and GPUs
copy backup file to container
Copy a file out of the container
Exploring the Container Logs
Docker Networking for SQL Server DBAs
Smart SQL Server 2019 In-Place Upgrade
If time permits : 
SQL Server and Kubernetes  VS Windows Clustering
Getting Started with Kubernetes on Docker Desktop
kubectl command to ineteract with K8s Cluster
SQL Server Docker desktop  and Kubernetes without persistency Demo
Helm Chart o SQL Server Availability Groups on k8s
SQL Server Docker desktop  and Kubernetes with persistency Demo
only with minimum theory & lessons from the fields !



SQL Server 2019/22 on Containers and Kubernetes(k8s) from Zero to a Hero!

The term 'digital ink' is becoming a new concept with communication and Microsoft's Whiteboard is the perfect tool to enhance engaging communication.   Everyone is a visual person, yet we communicate with straight text and clip art in meetings. 

Recent studies have found that the use of handwriting in presentations and communications is 90% more effective than traditional PowerPoint slides and other studies have shown that an audience goes brain dead with traditional PowerPoint communication platforms. 

Peter Ward, MVP, adds an engagement WOW factor with the Surface Pen and Whiteboard with Teams to explain the lost art of handwriting to communicate.  Yes your history teacher at school had something with their handwriting on the blackboard -  You can remember key points, yet you half paid attention.  Go figure, there's something to be said with handwriting.

Other topics covered include: 

-How people engage with content 

-Why do people zone out 

-How to get your message across with Message Board 

-The must-have features to use with Whiteboard and Teams 

-Digital ink - How to turn what you have just heard into reality- Next Steps 

Peter reveals that everyone is born with a talent for visual thinking, even those who swear they can't draw. And he shows how thinking with the whiteboard can help teams collaborate, discover and develop new ideas, solve problems in unexpected ways, and dramatically improve your ability to share your insights.  

Integrating Powerful and Effective Communication with Teams and Whiteboard

Microsoft Teams has powerful capabilities out-of-the-box but as more organizations adopt Teams into their modern workplace, many are looking for ways to integrate more features to help streamline their business processes. You can extend Teams with Microsoft apps, third-party apps, or integrate your own custom apps using the Teams extensible framework. Instead of building a custom app from scratch, Microsoft has made it easier by providing pre-built app templates that you can download from GitHub for free and install into your tenant. In this session, we will cover an overview of the extensibility options for Teams as well as demonstrate some of the top app templates being used today based on common use cases.

Making Teams Cooler with Pre-Built App Templates

Recently I was working through a process and it took me hours. The further I got in, the more I thought “Why am I doing this manually?” So rather than spending the time manually processing, I spent the time automating, and now I have an employee onboarding process which will take minutes of my time rather than hours. In this session I’ll share with you my thought process and how I built my solution including electronic signatures.

Powering up Processes with Power Automate

The new name for Intune in Microsoft 365 is Endpoint Manager and appears within the Microsoft 365 portal. We remember that for more advanced management we had to open the Azure portal. It now provides us with access from Microsoft 365 portals. 
In the lecture, we will deal with mobile device management (Android, iOS). This option has become especially important at the time of working from home and accessing corporate data on private devices. 
How to create a hybrid business-private environment, create a Store and isolate corporate data, as well as access to them. We will show how to define compliance policy, configuration policy, show how users can manage their own through Company Portal with their devices and applications and even reset their passwords. 

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