Tuesday 29 November, 16:45 - 17:45

Christian Buckley

MVP, Microsoft Regional Director

How Organizations Can Prepare for Microsoft Viva

As organizations investigate the Microsoft Viva offerings and begin to develop their own Employee Experience strategies, one common question is: What can I do today to prepare for these new solutions?

In this session, we’ll cover the 4 business areas of Microsoft Viva (Culture & Communications, Productivity & Wellbeing, Knowledge & Expertise, Skilling & Growth) and their current (pre-Viva deployment) state, and what can/should be done to prepare for Viva Connections, Topics, Learning, Insights, Objectives & Key Results.

In addition, we’ll walk through the customer and partner resources available to organizations to help you develop a comprehensive strategy.

Benefits of Attending this Session:

• Solid overview of necessary steps prior to Viva deployment
• Better understanding of the solution architecture of the Viva components
• Stronger vision for how Viva can strengthen your overall collaboration strategy

Thursday December 1, 14.00 - 15:00,

Dux Raymond Sy

Microsoft Regional Director, MVP

How to Ensure Operational Governance for Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is revolutionizing the way companies across the globe are doing business. With simple one-step provisioning and built-in integration with the full Office 365 stack, it is easier than ever for end-users to create a Team and start collaborating. But how can you prevent content sprawl, and ensure the right permissions and privacy settings are in place when most admin controls are out of your hands?

Join this interactive session and learn practical strategies for Microsoft Teams provisioning, establishing operational governance and ensuring information lifecycle management.

Benefits of Attending this Session:

• Establish guidance provisioning, operations and lifecycle management
• Tailor governance policies based on business needs
• Automate governance enforcement

Tuesday November 29, 16:45 - 17.45

John P. White

MVP, tyGraph, Canada Jason Himmelstein, Microsoft, USA

Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Power BI, Oh My!

Log Analytics is increasingly becoming the storage mechanism of choice for telemetry data. At its core is Azure Data Explorer (ADX) or “Kusto”, and the KQL language for analysis, which can also be used independently. Power BI is of course the standard for data analysis and reporting in the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s easy enough for Power BI to report on Log Analytics and ADX data, but the devil is in the details.

When should you use native KQL Queries? When should you use Direct Query? What about Hybrid tables and aggregations? This session will dive deeply into the nuances of reporting on both Log Analytics and ADX data with Power BI.

Benefits of Attending this Session:

• Learn how to report on telemetry data in real time
• Enable unlimited retention for your telemetry data
• Use Power BI to gain otherwise unavailable insight to Azure Monitor data

Thursday December 1, 11.45 - 12.45

John P. White

MVP, tyGraph, Canada Jason Himmelstein, Microsoft, USA

Deep Dive on Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power BI can work very well together. SharePoint can be a data source (lists), a container for data files (Excel. CSV etc in libraries), and as a dashboarding platform (pages). Teams can be a complete front end for Power BI, and host content contextually.

This demo-rich session will explore all of these scenarios in great depth. SharePoint data can be finicky to retrieve, and this session will show examples and suggest a few best practices for doing so. In addition, connecting Power BI to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel. If it can be done with Power BI, SharePoint and Teams, this session will show you how.

Benefits of Attending this Session:

• Increase the value of all three products through integration
• Report on list-based data properly
• Increase accessibility of your organizational insights