Microsoft Loop: Collaboration without Borders

In a world where collaboration no longer has boundaries, Microsoft Loops enables seamless experience either working synchronously, asynchronously or combining best of both methods. Collaboration happens where users are, in Teams, emails, OneNote, Whiteboards, or the Loop app.

This session introduces the power of Microsoft Loop for enabling collaboration within and outside the organization. In this session you will learn:
- How to use Microsoft Loop components in different Microsoft 365 apps
- How to use Loop workspaces and Loop pages efficiently
- Prepare for meeting using Loops
- Working together with partners and customer using Loops
- Copilot with Loop

App Governance in Microsoft 365 - Wild, Wild West or Staying In Control

Microsoft 365 is a platform for apps. Extending Teams and SharePoint with modern app development practices is quite common, and both offer already hundreds of third-party, ready-made solutions in their stores. Microsoft 365 user identity allows also using lots of third-party SaaS apps. Modern apps are easy to deploy, and in most cases require just a couple of clicks, and the new app is deployed to the whole organization or to a single user.
When a new app is deployed, some permissions are always required. User sign-in information and a small portion of the user's identity are required always for single sign-on, but an app can require wider permission set for accessing users' or organizations' data. This brings one threat factor, which requires governance.
Is the user really aware of what happens when he/she approve permission for a new app? Should there be some level of control over what apps are used in the organization?
In this session I will cover the management of apps in Teams and SharePoint, how organizations can govern apps and have a centralized way to publish apps to users, and what basic app security settings organizations should consider in their cloud environment.

How to manage apps in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a platform for apps. There are several ways to bring apps available to your users and users can even bring their own apps to the environment.
Should there be some governance as well?

In this session, we will take a look at how to manage and publish apps to your users, how to bring your organization's custom apps to Teams and what are app templates. We will explore Teams settings for apps, Teams app policies, and recent app store functionalities.

At the end of this session, you will understand the capabilities to manage apps in Teams and what are the options to bring custom apps to Teams.

What is the current story with team templates

Creating a new team from a template on Microsoft Teams and management of templates in Microsoft Teams Admin Center were released generally available during last autumn.
Templating have been already available on Microsoft Graph API for a couple of years and templates have been used on customized solutions utilizing for example Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps or Azure Functions.
In this session I will go though what is the current status of native features and roadmap ahead in Teams clients and Teams admin center, what are current option for team templating, and what is available on Microsoft Graph.

Control and enable efficient usage with Microsoft Teams policies

Microsoft Teams is continuously evolving and new features are landing in rapid phase. With Teams policies, administrators can control and, most importantly, enable efficient usage of Teams.

In this session we go through Teams policies, policy packages, policy assignments to users and groups and required tools.

Session in a nutshell:
- Overview of different Teams policies
- What are policy packages
- Targeting policies to users and groups
- Needed tools with demos

Target audience: IT administrators, consultants
Duration: 45 minutes