Office Features You Didn't Know About

This session will focus on some of the best Microsoft Office features that you may not know about, but that can help you improve your work performance. We will focus on ways to leverage Microsoft Teams as well as new AI helpers in Office apps like PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Outlook, and features you may not know about in OneNote to make your work day smoother.

Microsoft 365 Secrets

Learn about a lot of cool features and advanced configuration tricks that will help you make your intranet, team site, or team (in Microsoft Teams) more interactive, more automated, and just more fun. Join me in exploring an overview of the newest features in Microsoft 365 like
• Viva Engage Storylines
• New Planner in Teams
• Loop Workspaces
• Video playlists and channels
• Displaying your intranet into Teams using Viva Connections
• Embedding a form into a video
• Viva Engage communities in Teams and on your SharePoint intranet
• Re-usable page templates for more than just news
Note: Exact topics may vary depending on the latest features rolled out by the conference and attendee interest.

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.

Experience Insights for User Adoption

Did you know there is an Experience Insights dashboard in Microsoft 365? It is there to help you help your users. Adoption and change managers along with technical support specialists will find the information available in this dashboard extremely helpful in identifying gaps in knowledge their users face in the Microsoft 365 environment.

This session will include an interactive discussion about user training and adoption. If your tenant does not have the Experience Insights dashboard yet, we will discuss ways that you can find data to help with adoption ideas for your organization too.

How to Build a Video Portal in SharePoint Online

Classic Stream is being retired and the handling of videos is moving to SharePoint. Learn how to create a video portal in SharePoint Online or in Microsoft Teams. Karen will walk you through how to plan your video portal and then build it. BONUS: Learn how to use the new features in Microsoft Stream.

Become a Microsoft 365 Champion

Have you just recently started using Microsoft Teams or other Microsoft 365 applications to work remotely?
Are you a stakeholder, product owner, or project manager who is responsible for rolling out Microsoft 365 in your organization?
Are you transitioning from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams?

You will wear a number of hats in the ever-changing Microsoft 365 environment to successfully implement, manage, train and/or promote the use of all the tools available. Karen will share an outline of one way to do this, citing her experience with coordinating the transition from Skype to MS Teams for a local manufacturing company. She will include her adoption plan and some examples of how to promote and train everyone. This will include ways to keep up with what's new, coordinate the right people in and outside your organization, find the good info, and learn what will get others enthusiastic about working virtually. Karen will share information about joining and leveraging the Microsoft 365 Champion program and the Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist certification.

How to Store and Display Video in SharePoint and Microsoft Teams

Now that you have to store all video files in SharePoint and OneDrive, how can you build a video portal? Should you build a video portal? What options do you have for displaying and sharing videos? 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.

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

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.