Admin/Implementation Track
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 435-436
How to Effectively Manage and Govern Your Power Platform Service
In this workshop you will learn how to effectively manage and govern your Power Platform environment with a focus on maintaining control, ensuring compliance, and optimizing resources. This session will cover:
- Controlling and Monitoring Copilot: Learn best practices for governing AI capabilities like Copilot, ensuring responsible use while enhancing productivity.
- License and Capacity Management: Understand how to track and allocate licenses, monitor usage, and optimize capacity to meet organizational needs.
- App and Workflow Creation Control: Explore strategies for managing app and workflow development, enforcing governance policies, and empowering users within boundaries.
This workshop is perfect for administrators, governance leaders, and IT professionals looking to maintain a well-managed and secure Power Platform environment.
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 443-444
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 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.
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 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 431
SharePoint Premium - Implementation
Microsoft advanced content management and experiences - where AI meets content. Whether SharePoint Premium, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Archive, or SharePoint Embedded, you now have new ways to engage with your most critical content, while managing and protecting it through its lifecycle.
In this half-day workshop, we'll go hands on for configuring billing, model creation, autofill columns, content assembly,
Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 442
Managing Insider Risk with Microsoft Purview
Learn how Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management and Adaptive Protection can effectively manage insider risk by dynamically adjusting security controls based on users' behavior and their data-related activity. I'll showcase the Purview features that work together to safeguard sensitive information and mitigate potential threats from risky users within an organization. To demonstrate, I'll walk thru the practical use-case of a departing employee, the potential data-related risks that are often associated with that, and how Insider Risk Management can help.
In the words of one security leader, ‘If any company thinks they don’t have an insider risk problem, they aren’t paying attention.’
Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 421-422
IT Pro meets Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management
This session will explain Data Lifecycle and Records Management in Microsoft Purview from an IT-Pro's perspective. With compliance concerns on the rise in the modern workplace, Compliance teams are reaching out to their IT-Pro partners for assistance. This is unfamiliar territory for many IT-Pros, so this session is designed to help clear the path forward. It covers topics like: • Recommendations for mapping a retention schedule into a "software-friendly" Purview File Plan • Using automation to apply retention labels to your content • Using scopes to scale and meet complex retention requirements • SharePoint and Teams architecture impacts • Understanding what configurations can't (easily) be changed after-the-fact
To reinforce the topics, Joanne will discuss the skills IT-Pros should bring to the table when working with their Compliance team partners.
Thursday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 442
Real-World Implementation Experiences of Microsoft Purview
Organizations have invested heavily in recent years in moving to Microsoft 365 to improve productivity and collaboration. With this transition comes incredible opportunities to increase business efficiencies. However, it also brings increased risks as users collaborate more with internal coworkers as well as with external partners and customers. In addition, the continually changing regulatory compliance landscape makes this an ever evolving challenge. Microsoft has provided a robust set of capabilities for mitigating risks and meeting compliance obligations with Microsoft Purview, such as information protection, data loss prevention, records management and eDiscovery. In this session, we'll share real-world experiences implementing Microsoft Purview across different types of organizations. We'll deep dive into many the features of Purview, share real examples and provide actionable guidance to help you leverage Microsoft Purview to mitigate risks and comply with regulations in your organization.
Friday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 421-422
Microsoft Purview Compliance – Tales from the Trenches
As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the amount of data can be daunting. Administrators and compliance professionals are being called on to support content management to ensure it is protected and maintained throughout its data lifecycle.
Joanne and David have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build compliance solutions using Microsoft Purview from the ground up. In this session, they'll discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing Records Management and Information Protection controls. They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization on its compliance journey.
Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 421-422
Establish a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview
Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information. As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders. Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy. Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information. Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information.
Friday 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM · Room 437-439
Deploying M365 to Solve Business Problems
Microsoft 365, including Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, and more, offers a full suite of tools to solve business problems. But how do we know we're addressing the right problems? "Ship it and forget it" is no longer viable (if it ever was). We must define successful deployment, ensure solutions truly address business needs, and build trust with stakeholders.
This session will explore:
- Addressing Shadow IT consequences
- IT as a service framework
- Business engagement
- Holistic requirements gathering
- Defining success
- Embracing continuous improvement
Join Joy to learn how a Human First approach can maximize your tech skills and ensure effective M365 deployment.