Wednesday 1:40 PM - 2:50 PM · Room S104b

Building a Rich People Search with OOTB and Open Source Components

Peter Carson

President

Whenever we poll an organization for the top features for their Intranet, People Search that actually works is always in the top three. You'd think this would have been long solved, but it's often still a challenge for many organizations.

There are a number of reasons for this:

• People data is often spread in many different places and systems in an organization, and there is no single version of the truth
• As a result, Azure AD, which is the core of identity in Microsoft 365, is either not well populated or just plain wrong
• People search and people cards in Microsoft 365 has gotten tremendously better, but it's still not all the way there

With so much of an organization's IP and knowledge actually in the heads of the people, finding a person or expert is key to success for the organization as a whole.

In this session we'll go over a series of steps any organization can take to get a handle on their people in Microsoft 365, and provide a simple and rich experience for finding the right person at the right time.

• Review of Azure AD identities and how they are managed
  • Synced users from on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect
  • Cloud only identities
  • What IT manages, and what users or the business can self-manage
• Other sources of truth, and how they can be synced to Azure AD
  • HRIS, payroll
  • Customizing and extending Azure AD with additional attributes specific to the organization
  • Easily deploying and configuring an open-source, rich people search web part that can be used organization wide or within departments or business units
    • https://github.com/YannickRe/spfx-msgraph-peoplesearch
  • Building fully-customized person pages and self-managed profile pages

We'll also share real-world examples of this in use for a municipal police force, large charity, and post-secondary college.

Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S102bc

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

Bart Peluso

VP of Marketing

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag!

Thursday 2:40 PM - 3:50 PM · Room S104b

Microsoft Search: The glues that binds 365

Virgil Carroll

Principal Human Solutions Architect

Microsoft Search has been slowly rolling out over the last few years in 365, but it is only in the last year that it has started to achieve its vision of unifying all our content.

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Search is creating a unified experience across the multitude of 365 apps (and beyond) and how you can leverage this opportunity best in your organization.

Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room S106a

PnP Modern Search – Microsoft Search and the Art of the Possible

Eric Overfield

PixelMill, RD, MVP, MCT

Microsoft Search and SharePoint Search are powerful search tools with a growing set of customization options. In this session, we will investigate search scenarios where out-of-the-box Microsoft and SharePoint Search may and may not meet your requirements. We will look at where Search shines, as well as when a custom solution may be right for you.

Our look at custom search solutions will include an overview of the PnP Modern Search solution and webparts, an open source project managed by the PnP Team, with continued contributions by the community. Learn how to set up, use, and customize PnP Modern Search as well as learn the skillsets required to get the most out of search solutions.

In this session, you'll learn:

• The when and why for custom search experiences
• Overview of PnP Modern Search webparts
• Skillsets for building custom search solutions

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room S103bc

Building your own 365 knowledge network

Virgil Carroll

Principal Human Solutions Architect

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.