Managing the Process: Migrating to SharePoint Online

You've upgraded your SharePoint site in the past (or maybe you haven't), but now you're moving it to the Microsoft 365 Cloud. What do you need to plan for? What steps are needed for this kind of migration? Who do you need to include in the planning process? How do you identify and manage the risks? Karen will talk through real examples of managing simple and highly customized migrations from on-premise SharePoint sites to Microsoft 365 - managing the requirements, timeline, migration, and follow-up for a successful migration.

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 Copilot and 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.

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.

Organization Branding in Your Tenant

Almost all organizations expect their employees to support their brand by following the organization's branding guidelines. Organization branding guidelines can be automatically enabled through the use of three tools that allow business users to manage branding in your tenant. See the power of utilizing the Organization Assets Library in your tenant, the new Brand Center in SharePoint, and the Brand Center for ClipChamp. In addition to demonstrating how these branding tools work, this session will walk administrators through how to set them up.

Not an Administrator? This session will show you what is possible with the use of the Organization Asset libraries and Brand Kits. Come to the session to learn what you can do with branding in your SharePoint sites and how to use an organization asset library. You will leave knowing what to ask your admins to setup for you.

That's SharePoint?

If you are new to Microsoft 365 or if you have never really thought about how Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner, and Viva Engage are all related . . . This session is for you! Whether you are a business user, a systems administrator for SharePoint, Teams, or M365 Groups -- or if you are a security person -- understanding the foundation of Microsoft 365 will benefit you. This session will cover the basics of Microsoft 365 groups as well as the foundations of the different types of SharePoint sites. Karen will simplify this complex topic and help everyone understand the need for governance and education for users - and how this will prepare you for M365 Copilot.

This is a topic I share frequently through work. There isn't a time when I have given it that an admin or user hasn't been surprised by some of the information. It's a primary building block for understanding the tools used in a Microsoft 365 tenant.

Copilot Can Create Video?

Did you know that in your Microsoft 365 tenant you have access to tools for recording and editing video? This session will show you what you can do with Microsoft Clipchamp in your organization. Create a video with the new M365 Copilot Video Creator. Leverage the Brand Center for videos. Send personalized one-minute videos to colleagues. Edit videos that were created by Copilot or a meeting recording. Get your questions answered related to video in Microsoft 365.

First time delivery, but I am very well-versed in classic Stream, Stream for SharePoint, and now ClipChamp.

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.