Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 604

Establishing SharePoint Online Admin Rockstar Status

SharePoint Online (SPO) integrates with 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 the integration with them by exploring and discussing SharePoint Online best practices for configuring, securing, optimizing, and implementing redundancy.

We will begin by discussing and creating a new Microsoft 365 tenant, followed by exploring how to customize both the M365 and SharePoint administrator dashboards so they only display information related to the Microsoft 365 services and SPO-related components like SharePoint Online and OneDrive.

We will compare, discuss, and explore SharePoint Premium to understand the differences between SharePoint Online and SharePoint Premium and explore the features available in SharePoint Premium including AI integration with SharePoint for content processing, Syntex integration, document portal, content governance, Microsoft backups, Microsoft archives, and SharePoint eSignatures.

We will also explore how to create and assign users to access SharePoint Online as both an end user and as administrators.

Being most scenarios require the migration of content, we will discuss several options for migrating content from many different sources to SharePoint Online and OneDrive using Out-of-Box tools.

Most migrations require at least an interim hybrid configuration, so we will introduce and explore the components that can be configured for a hybrid environment as an interim solution, or as a long-term solution.

We will then roll up our sleeves and explore the configuration of several components of SharePoint Online using both the GUI and PowerShell. These SPO components and configurations include;

Creating, configuring, and managing site collections

Configuring the user profile service (UPS) to ensure your Active Directory data is included in your search index

Exploring several search service configuration options, to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need, along with how to access some search-related reports, as well as some suggestions on how to help your users submit better search queries for more accurate search results

Discussing both SharePoint Online and OneDrive configuration options for managing and securing your collaboration content

Create and implementing a structured taxonomy to provide consistent and reliable data in SPO by using published tenant-level content types and managed metadata fields via the term store, as well as other custom column types, that can all be managed by information architects.

As we discuss these topics throughout the day, I’ll be sharing best practices, as well as tips and tricks that every SPO admin should know about while working with SPO.

When you leave the workshop, you’ll have all the skills and best practices to migrate to, configure, manage, and secure SharePoint Online and OneDrive components using the SharePoint Online Admin center, OneDrive admin Center, and PowerShell.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 606

Microsoft 365 Compliance: Implementing information governance, risk, and compliance management

Microsoft 365 gives enterprises and government organizations the tools they need in the modern workplace to identify their risky information and to govern their data effectively to meet regulatory compliance needs. These tools help to protect sensitive data from both accidental and malicious data loss, and they protect the organization from risk by ensuring we retain our data appropriately following regulatory controls such as GDPR, NIST, and CIS. Implementing these compliance solutions requires a clear understanding of the capabilities available in the Microsoft cloud and industry best practices for establishing a data governance framework.

In this all-day workshop, David Drever and Joanne Klein will help you learn how to develop a framework for information governance for enterprises and government organizations, including planning a record retention schedule and implementing retention labels/policies. They’ll teach you how to leverage disposition reviews, implement event-based retention, and to apply retention labels to your data automatically. They’ll discuss how utilizing Compliance Manager and Insider Risk Management can further govern your environment. Finally, you will learn how to use eDiscovery to facilitate legal holds and “Freedom of Information and Privacy” (FOIP) requests. Join David and Joanne to discover how to implement data governance and compliance in Microsoft 365!

Wednesday 3:40 PM - 4:50 PM · Room 611

Transform Your Power BI Data in Microsoft Fabric

If you've worked at all with Power BI, you're familiar with Power Query - the built in data transformation engine. Power Query connects to hundreds of different data sources and allows you to powerfully transform your data before loading it into a data set.

While very powerful, this model can be a little limiting at times. What if you wanted to use the connectivity and flexibility of Power Query to load data into other date destinations? What if Power Query doesn't quite do what you want? What if you want to use alternate languages like Python to do your transformations? All of these things are possible in the context of Microsoft Fabric.

This session takes a look at these new options through the eyes of a Power BI professional. We'll examine Gen2 dataflows, Pipelines (from Data Factory), Jupyter Notebooks running Python against Lakehouse data, and Eventstreams. There is a whole new world of options available for data transformation in Microsoft Fabric, and this session will give you a taste of them.

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 613:614

ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite.

In this demo-drive session, we will delve deeper into several intricate details and technical aspects and will also cover Practical guidance on developing next-gen, robust, scalable applications using Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Services, focusing on industry requirements and best practices.

We will cover :

• Azure OpenAI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM · Room 615:616

Power Platform Architecture

Power Platform Architecture Internals delves deeper into the inner workings of Business Applications and the Power Platform. The discussion focuses on the high-level design of the platform, with an emphasis on its High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities. Discover how the Power Platform team has invested in a cell-based architecture, resource governance, fault injections, and safe deployment practices to make the platform resilient to faults. Additionally, learn how the Power Platform leverages Microsoft Azure for better resource isolation, improved performance, and global scalability.

Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 609

Source Control with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

The wait is over. It is now possible to integrate both Power BI Desktop and Microsoft Fabric workspaces with GIT repositories to provide a full set of CI/CD capabilities for Power BI reports.

This session will cover exactly how this works so that you can begin to take advantage of this capability now. We'll cover what is possible, and what is currently not possible, and explain the difference between the GIT integration in Power BI Desktop, and in Microsoft Fabric workspace.

If you're part of a team that works with Power BI, you won't want to miss this.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 604

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

We will then compare, discuss, and explore Microsoft Backup, and Microsoft Archive that can be used to perform your own backups for quicker and easier document recovery.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm.

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 602:603

How to Execute JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel Formulas In Power Automate

Power Automate has become an essential tool for the Microsoft 365 developer. However, all too often executing simple logic can become tedious and painful using Power Automate standard features. Doing math in Power Automate shouldn't be so painful!

Thankfully, Power Automate developers can now create scripts that use JavaScript, TypeScript, or even Excel formulas to execute complicated business logic and bring more power to your Power Automate solutions. Attend this demo-packed session to learn out to take your Power Automate Flows to the next level as we dive into a real-world scenario and build a practical solution step-by-step.

In this session, attendees will learn to use Office Scripts to:

• Execute JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel Formulas
• Simplify complicated Flows
• How to quickly and easily generate dynamic adaptive cards
• Generate graphs and charts on the fly for real-time updates to SharePoint data

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 606

Deep dive into building Copilots with Copilot Studio

Come join the Microsoft Copilot Studio Product Team to learn about building your own Copilots using Copilot Studio. This session will go over some key copilot building capabilities to help you make copilots that delight your users. We will cover how to incorporate Generative AI capabilities into your copilot and how to incorporate them while also leveraging other capabilities of Copilot Studio to be able to build amazing new experiences for users.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 607

Nailing Down Performance Issues in SharePoint Online Sites (2024 Edition)

SharePoint Online (SPO) has been with us for over a decade, and in that time it has received numerous changes and adjustments intended to optimize performance. Despite the work that has gone into the platform, some organization still find users reporting a poor experience and "bad performance."

In this session, we will look at development and design approaches that will enable SPO to deliver optimal performance when your organization begins using it. We'll review the current state of tooling available for our use (like the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool) and how it can be used to guide analysis of performance issues. We will also look at elements in any environment that can negatively impact SPO performance to make it look like the "bad guy" when SPO is actually innocent.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will have the confidence needed to troubleshoot, classify, and possibly resolve performance-based issues in their SPO tenant.