Building Modern Websites with SharePoint: A Hands‑On Introduction for New Content Owners

New to SharePoint and not sure where to begin? This one‑hour, beginner‑friendly session will walk you through the technical fundamentals of creating a modern website using SharePoint communication sites or team sites. You’ll learn how SharePoint is structured—its pages, libraries, and lists—and how these building blocks come together to create a clean, functional, and user‑friendly site.

We’ll walk step‑by‑step through how to build a simple but powerful web page, manage your site’s navigation, and assign permissions to ensure the right people have access. You’ll also see how SharePoint’s built‑in AI tools can help you design and publish polished content faster.

By the end of the session, you’ll understand the core features of SharePoint and be ready to confidently create and manage your own site.

Copilot Without Chaos: How Sensitivity Labels Prevent Oversharing Before It Happens

Copilot doesn’t create risk; it exposes the gaps already in your data estate. When a prompt surfaces the wrong file or summarizes information that was never meant to travel, the issue isn’t Copilot itself; it’s the permissions, labels, and lifecycle decisions that have quietly accumulated over time. These moments often trigger questions from Legal, Security, or HR about what happened and whether the organization can stand behind its governance model.

This session walks through a realistic Copilot-enabled scenario end to end: the initial prompt, the unintended oversharing, the resulting escalation, and the investigation that follows. You’ll see how Sensitivity Labels guide what Copilot can use, how Purview and eDiscovery form the record of truth, and why label design and content architecture show up later when accountability matters.

We focus on what Copilot changes in M365, how it amplifies the structures already in place, and how to align labels, retention, DLP, permissions, and eDiscovery so Copilot remains both useful and defensible. This is not a policy walkthrough. It’s a practical, real-world view of how to prepare your environment before and after Copilot goes live.

Who Should Attend

- M365 Admins and Architects
- Security, Compliance, and Purview teams
- Teams and SharePoint Admins
- Copilot rollout leads
- Anyone responsible for governance or risk in M365

How to Store and Display Video in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

Now that you have to store all video files in SharePoint and OneDrive, what options do you have for displaying and sharing videos? What can Copilot do for you with Stream? Learn how Karen helped clients reorganize their videos on their intranets, in Microsoft Teams, and for sharing from OneDrive. Gain an understanding of how many different web parts can support your video goals for your organization. And a bonus (time permitting) - learn about some cool, new features in the new Stream app in Microsoft 365 including what Copilot can do for you in Stream.

This session will help Stream Classic video administrators understand how to manage videos in SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive and how to use Copilot for Stream.

Stream classic administrators are having a difficult time understanding how to transition from managing video files in Stream classic to managing them in SharePoint. SharePoint Administrators don't know anything about displaying videos. This session will help bridge the gap for both groups.

Managing Permissions in SharePoint and Teams

This session will focus on how to manage permissions whether you are a SharePoint site owner or an owner of a team in Microsoft Teams. We will discuss and demonstrate
• how to plan your site permissions for Intranet sites, collaboration sites, or team sites.
• the tricks to managing permissions for videos in your SharePoint environment.
• how permissions are handled for Power Apps that you display on your SharePoint site.
• how to protect work in a team in Microsoft Teams while sharing information and files from your team to people outside of it via your team’s SharePoint site.

Project Management in Microsoft 365

Tools like Planner, Planner Premium (aka Project for the Web), Project Online, and Task Lists make it confusing to understand which tool to use to manage different kinds of projects. Add Copilot's new Project Manager agent into the mix and it isn't always straightforward. Let's take a tour of these tools and leave the session knowing what to use for tracking tasks, running projects, and what can be automated or streamlined with a Copilot license.

Lights, Camera, Copilot: Creating Impactful Videos with Microsoft 365

Your Microsoft 365 tenant includes powerful capabilities for recording, editing, and producing video content—and now Copilot makes it even easier. In this session, you’ll explore how Microsoft Clipchamp and the new M365 Copilot Video Creator can transform how your organization communicates.

Learn how to:

- Produce polished videos in minutes using Copilot‑assisted scripting, editing, and scene generation
- Apply your organization’s branding automatically with Brand Center integration
- Create personalized, one‑minute videos for colleagues and teams
- Edit Copilot‑generated videos or revise meeting recordings to highlight key moments
- Navigate practical tips, best practices, and common questions about using video across Microsoft 365

Walk away with the confidence to bring video into your everyday workflows—no production studio required.

Making Sense of Project Tools in Microsoft 365: Planner, Projects, and the Power of Copilot

Microsoft 365 offers a suite of project and task management tools—but with recent changes, overlapping features, and evolving deprecations, it can be difficult to know which one to rely on. From Planner to Planner Premium (formerly Project for the Web), from legacy Project Online to SharePoint Task Lists, and now the Copilot Project Manager agent, the choices can feel overwhelming.
Join this session for a fast-paced, practical tour of the Microsoft 365 project management ecosystem. You’ll learn:

- Which tools are actively evolving—and which are on the path to retirement
- How Planner, Planner Premium, Project Online, and List-based task tracking differ
- Clear “use this when…” scenarios for personal tasks, team collaboration, structured projects, and enterprise portfolios
- How Copilot enhances planning, reporting, and project automation across the stack

Walk away with a confident understanding of the tools available today—and a simple decision framework to choose the right one for every project, every team, and every level of complexity.

Planning Your Sensitivity Labels for Copilot Readiness

Sensitivity labels are a critical foundation for Microsoft Copilot—and getting them wrong can create real risk.
In this session, you’ll see how Microsoft Purview Sensitivity Labels work and why they matter for protecting information across Microsoft 365. Through live demonstrations and interactive discussion, you’ll learn how to identify what data is truly sensitive in your organization and how to plan labels that align with business needs, compliance requirements, and user behavior.
Rather than diving deep into technical configuration, this session focuses on practical planning—helping you define the right labels before implementation so they support productivity instead of slowing it down.
Perfect for business leaders, compliance teams, and administrators preparing for Copilot, this session will leave you with a clear approach to designing sensitivity labels that enable secure, responsible AI adoption.

This will be an abbreviated version of my half day workshop on Sensitivity Labels.