Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room S104a
Organizational Tools & Resources: Configuration thru Customization
Julie Turner
Partner/CTO Sympraxis Consulting, MVP
Your intranet is the entry point to all your company tools and resources. This can be anything from an external website or solution, a custom application, etc. How to centralize all these different tools and applications is one of the most common questions Sympraxis Consulting gets from clients.
Typically, organizations will manually add links to these resources using various web parts across many sites. There is no way out of the box to search your environment for these links. This introduces individual management of enterprise resources, which can cause challenges when there are company changes.
For example, if your company uses Workday for their finances but then decides to switch to Oracle, you’ll have to manually adjust all the different links to Workday within your intranet. If all those links are centralized it is scalable and much easier to manage as the owner of that link can instead edit in one place and have it reflected everywhere.
In this session, we'll take a holistic view of the technology through the lens of the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 and gain an understanding of current state vs. desired state can help organizations in these important ways:
- Define current state and limitations with out of the box web parts
- Understand and compare options for solving your organizations quick links issues through extension
- Identify the pros and cons of each approach
Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S102a
Beyond Backup: Real Talk about Microsoft 365 Data Protection
Paul Robichaux
Senior Director of Product Management
Microsoft’s entry into the backup and recovery market signals a welcome recognition of the importance of backup capabilities for modern cloud environments—but note, backup alone is not enough. Data protection needs to include much more than just backup and restore of Microsoft 365 data. Join our interactive session, where we’ll discuss the biggest obstacles on the path to delivering robust data recovery, outline practical strategies for building on the native data protection for Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, and showcase current best practices of complete data protection.
Reasons to attend: • Learn what emerging cloud and hybrid threats you should be watching for and defending against. • Get answers to your most pressing questions about protecting your key cloud Saas workloads. • Dive into what a good data protection plan for Microsoft 365 looks like.
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 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S102d
Building a Roadmap to Safeguard Your Data with Microsoft Purview
Darren Kraut
Protiviti M365 Senior Consultant
Matt Lavieri
Senior Manager, Protiviti
In today's ever-evolving landscape, safeguarding your data goes beyond meeting internal security benchmarks—it's about staying ahead of emerging compliance and privacy demands. Join our distinguished Microsoft Purview experts in this session where we dive deep into the capabilities of Microsoft Purview. Discover how to not only comprehend these capabilities but also leverage them to construct a strategic roadmap for deploying and harnessing Purview's potential, all in the service of enhancing your Data Protection, Risk, and Compliance Programs. This actionable roadmap is designed to outline the vision, strategy and high-level timeline for success and includes an assessment of organizational priorities and current state of data protection technology.
Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S103a
From Insights to Impact: Measuring Your Intranet ROI
Nick Palermo
AvePoint, Senior Solution Engineer
Digital Transformation has taken businesses on a journey of technical advances resulting in a new way of working. SharePoint Intranets are no longer static file repositories. They’re dynamic venues for knowledge sharing, productivity, and collaboration. A well-managed modern SharePoint Intranet streamlines communication, improves employee experience and facilitates connection. How can you tell if the investments you have made in modernizing are successful resulting in a well-managed intranet?
Thursday 12:40 PM - 1:10 PM · Room S106a
How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant
Christian Buckley
NorAmerica + APAC Channel @Rencore
In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:
- Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
- Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
- Automate Operational Processes
- Manage Access and Permissions
- Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning
Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.