Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room A

Maximizing Copilot: Preparing Your Content and People

Daniel Glenn

Microsoft MVP, Owner and Microsoft 365 Consultant at CollabFront

Emily Mancini

Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the largest user interface paradigm shift in 60 years. It will inherently shift how we interact with content and complete tasks moving forward. How can you organize, secure, and process your content in Microsoft 365 to maximize its value and prepare it for the next-generation AI assistant- Microsoft 365 Copilot?

In this workshop, we will cover:

Technical insights: Understand the differences between natural language search and semantic indexes, along with best practices for information architecture.

Effective search strategies: Explore when to leverage Copilot versus Microsoft search for optimal results to support the findability and discoverability of business-critical content.

Preparing your content: Perform a security and governance audit and adjust search or permission settings before content is unintentionally exposed through new AI tools.

Integrating Copilot into your daily workflow: Understand the new user experience behaviors emerging and learn better practices for launching Copilot to your organization so employees can unlock the full potential of AI-driven productivity.

By the end of the workshop, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively organize your Microsoft 365 content in SharePoint Online, enabling you to harness the power of Copilot and unleash the knowledge stored in your organization.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 1

Creating a solid findability foundation with Microsoft Search

Virgil Carroll

Principal Human Solutions Architect

You've invested in the tools, you've watched some videos, attended some educational sessions and turned everything on...yet your people still cannot find what they are looking for. What do you do? and where do you start?

In this session, we explore the good, the bad and the ugly of a solid findability strategy and how you can work with Microsoft Search to provide a more satisfying and customized search experience. Virgil will walk you through the strategic side of search and help you understand how to better leverage it for success in your organization.

Thursday 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM · Room 7

Enhance Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Graph with your own data

Martina Grom

CEO atwork, MVP Azure and Microsoft 365, Microsoft RD

Toni Pohl

CTO atwork, Microsoft MVP

In this session, we explore how to leverage Microsoft Graph to seamlessly integrate custom data into your Microsoft 365 environment, resulting in optimal output when using Copilot. Furthermore, we explore a Microsoft Teams sample bot that seamlessly incorporates personalized data to provide relevant answers and perform actions. Join and see how to integrate custom data into M365 Copilot!

Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM · Room 8

Customizing Microsoft Search to fit your organization's needs

Virgil Carroll

Principal Human Solutions Architect

A solid search strategy includes creating a targeted experience. Even if you have the most 'groomed' search results ever, presenting those results in a meaningful, useful manner will help people using it be more successful.

In this session, Virgil will demonstrate how to use the powerful customization features of Microsoft Search to build a visually appealing, targeted search experience.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 1

Improving Microsoft Search by improving your Content Practices

Virgil Carroll

Principal Human Solutions Architect

In a world where content is increasing exponentially every day, more and more people inside organizations are relying on Microsoft Search and AI-based tools (like Copilot) to help them break through their increasingly confused information environments. While these tools continue to improve and better understand people's 'intent', even the best cannot make up for poor content practices that plague most organizations.

In this session, Join Virgil as he explores how to improve your content practices to increase search findability and better support the people in your organization that rely on Microsoft Search to find the RIGHT content for what they need, when they need it.

Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 8

What's all the hype about SharePoint/OneDrive hybrid

Brian Alderman

Six-year MVP Alumni, 28-year MCT, Author, Speaker, Consultant

Microsoft SharePoint Server on-premises now makes it better, and easier, than ever to integrate with SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business providing a rich, robust, and powerful collaboration hybrid solution for your organization.

In this session we will learn what SharePoint/OneDrive hybrid is about, as well as why it may be beneficial to your organization. We’ll explore the several hybrid components including Active Directory configurations, search, managed metadata, connectivity services, as well as other hybrid components and their requirements.

In addition, we'll introduce an overview of the configuration steps necessary in both Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Server on-premises for a successful hybrid configuration.

Friday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room D

Enhancing Communication and Collaboration through Customized Search Experiences

Emily Mancini

Founder & Executive Director, Left Uncharted

In SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams, we are building a flat hierarchy through separate site collections or Teams and creating connections through hub site relationships. This supports organizational change, cleaner permission models, and so much more but can prove challenging when you want to centralize a subset of content across these site collections.

Join us as we explore different approaches for centralizing your content in this modern decentralized world. You will leave with scenarios and best practices for how to structure and deliver content throughout your tenant.

What we'll cover: -Understanding the hub site structure and search scopes -Using the content type gallery for consistent information architecture -Centralizing content through search experiences (including Modern PnP search web part and search verticals) -Creating intuitive microlearning content (through Learning Pathways or Viva Learning)