
Nicolas Georgeault
MuBrain, CEO and Office 365/SharePoint Consultant
Montréal, Canada
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"For 30 years we have been building systems that enable human intelligence to collaborate and build collective intelligence together. It is now time to combine also the know-how of artificial intelligence."
With more than 25 years of experience in knowledge management and in the design of portals and information architectures, particularly in the context of corporate social networks, Nicolas Georgeault specializes today in the capitalization of the collective intelligence of its customers. Through the MuBrain research center specialized in collective intelligence also extended to artificial intelligence, it focuses today on analysis and automated writing of meeting content and conversations using Microsoft Viva technologies.
SharePoint Server MVP for 6 years, it is now honored to be Office Server and Services MVP for 7 years.
His vision of the future and his qualities as speakers regularly brings him to share his knowledge in several books and web publications and regularly at several conferences and user groups in Canada but also in Europe and the United States.
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Quelles sont vos opportunités AI dans Microsoft 365en
A l'heure ou l'AI est encore une technologie en vogue et que les initiatives se multiplient dans l'environnement Microsoft 365, nous feront un inventaire des possibilités.
Parce que toutes ces initiatives ne se valent pas en termes d'investissement, il est important de bien en comprendre les périmètres et les usages mais surtout le temps qu'il vous faudra investir pour en tirer les premiers bénéfices.
Au cours de cette session, nous verrons chacune des solutions utilisant AI ou l'apprentissage automatisé et nous passerons en revu les couts et l'évaluation du ROI.
SharePoint Syntex, AIBuilder, Power Virtual Agent, ... Quelle stratégie devez-vous adopter pour tirer le maximum du potentiel de ces solutions pour améliorer votre Intelligence Collective.
Ce que vous apprendrez dans cette session :
- Inventaire des solutions exploitant l'AI dans Microsoft 365
- Évaluation de l'effort à produire pour le déploiement
- Gains immédiats, moyen ou long terme
- Quelles solutions prioriser pour optimiser votre stratégie AI
From Engage to storyline, new experiences to engage leaders and employees in Viva.enfr
What's new with social knowledge network in Microsoft 365 and how Viva Engage is introducing new experiences that connect leaders and employees. Innovations will empower leaders to shape culture, inform and align the workforce. Employees have opportunities to gain clarity of purpose, ask questions of leadership, and contribute toward shared goals and initiatives. Join product leadership to learn more and to provide feedback on the future of leader-employee engagement in Viva.
Highlights:
- How to use Engage to share your vision in the company
- How to build a strong community around topics like AI and Copilot
- How to bring back experience and know how in Copilot
Improve your Dynamics 365 usage with AIen
Customer Insights, Customer Service Insights, Supply Chain Insights, ... Microsoft is adding lots of new features in Dynamics 365 using AI in many ways. Let's take some time to review the most significant ones and explore what is already or will be available soon that will improve the way you are working personally or as a team in your day-to-day activities. We will together introduce each of these opportunities to improve our work in some real scenarios and business cases.
Engaging a Diverse Workforce with Microsoft 365en
Building community and culture within teams that are physically separated can be challenging. Now, more than ever before, the digital workplace includes people culturally different in different time zones and workspaces.
During this session, you will hear first-hand how Microsoft Viva Engage can help creating connections between these people and why it's crucial for your company.
Build a Gantt Calendar View in PowerApps for your own activitiesenfr
Based on a direct feedback from a project at Quebec Alcohol Corporation, you will learn how we built this Gantt view on top of a SharePoint List. Using this kind of database system need to respect some governance rules and you will also discover what are our best pratices and recommandations to insure your customers will love your Activities calendar application from any tablet, SharePoint or even Teams.
We will also cover the licences recommendations and governance best pratices in order to start your journey in Power Platform in the right way.
Are you thinking about building PowerApps on to of SharePoint? Seriously?en
Back from the field, this session will talk about Best Practices about using SharePoint lists as a backend for your PowerApps and PowerBI applications. Based on real situations, we will see what are the impacts of prototyping and releasing Business applications that are using SharePoint and how you will have to organize your items if you don’t want to get in huge troubles.
Step by step, we will analyze what are the different options and the risks in using a platform where people can change the data model and how to avoid that risks.
How to use Process Advisor in Power Automateenfr
You want to automate a process in Power Automate but don't know how to get started?
Are you familiar with Process Advisor?
In this session you will discover how with Power Automate Desktop your users can record their operations and how from these records you can analyze the substance to accelerate the automation of even your most complex business processes.
Highlights:
- Introduce process advisor for process mining
- Identify steps for using process advisor
- Use process maps to understand the work
- Use analytics to understand variations
- Automate your process based on recommandations
You want to automate a process in Power Automate but don't know how to get started?
Are you familiar with Process Advisor?
In this session you will discover how with Power Automate Desktop your users can record their operations and how from these records you can analyze the substance to accelerate the automation of even your most complex business processes.
Solving problems... and what we could learn from COVID19en
Since march 2020, we, our companies have had to change the way they approach problems. What if the COVID19 crisis was an opportunity for us to return to a more pragmatic management of our problems? What if the survival of our businesses depended on our ability to question the approach to the needs of our customers or our users of the IT resources we provide them? Frugal... Jugaad... how to keep the pragmatism and efficiency of march 2020?
How cloud and Microsoft ecosystem can simply help you to solve problems and get things done to keep your business close to your users and customers needs?
Power Apps, BI et Flow... Beaucoup de pouvoir pour votre gestion de tempsen
Basé sur un cas client réel. Cette compagnie Canadienne voulait une solution simple pour gérer les heures consommées sur ses projets. Lors de cette session, je vous présenterai comment nous avons développé une application Power Apps sur la base de listes SharePoint pour faciliter la saisie des feuilles de temps et comment nous avons produit des tableaux de bord simples pour en assurer le suivi. Flow est utilisé pour en valider les saisies par leur responsables hiérarchiques. Et ce, en un minimum de temps... Permettant ainsi de consommer l'application depuis Microsoft Teams pour leurs équipes distantes.
Nous verrons en détails comment nous avons répondu aux besoins de ce client dans un scenario complet.
What if your Intranet was just a single Bot?!enfr
We are all focusing on creating again and again the same old Intranet concept with pages and publication logic. But what if your intranet was just a single ASK ME ANYTHING chatbot to answer questions but also to bring you to the right page in your portals?
Let's forget about Global navigation that never fits all and let start thinking about Language understanding to provide the right answer to your users.
During this session we will build a Bot using Power Virtual Agent and we will define the Language Understanding structure to build a conversational experience with your end-users. We will push this bot on your Office 365 environment to make it available for every user through Microsoft Teams.
As an exemple I will show you how easy it is to provide a great On Boarding experience for your fresh new collaborators using the import feature.
During this session we will cover:
- Create a chatbot using Power Virtual Agents
- Integrate the chatbot into the digital workspace using Microsoft Teams
- Import existing content for Onboarding process
We are all focusing on creating again and again the same old Intranet concept with pages and publication logic. But what if your intranet was just a single ASK ME ANYTHING chatbot to answer questions but also to bring you to the right page in your portals?
Let's forget about Global navigation that never fits all and let start thinking about Language understanding to provide the right answer to your users.
Comment fonctionne la Passerelle de données localefren
Vos données se trouvent On-Prem? Vous souhaitez quand même utiliser vos données pour vos services Office 365 dans le cloud? Vous exploitez SharePoint Server 2016 et 2019 mais vous souhaitez profiter des avantages de Microsoft Flow et PowerApps? Alors cette session vous concerne!
Au cours de cette session nous reviendrons sur ce qu’est la Passerelle de données locales et nous détaillerons comment elle vous permettra de compléter vos installation Hybrides pour les services de Power BI, Microsoft Flow et PowerApps. A cette occasion, nous découvrirons également le service Azure qui se cache derrière Microsoft Flow: Azure Logic Apps.
Common Data Model et Service ? Qu'est-ce que c’est ? Comment l'utiliser?fren
Le Common Data Model de Microsoft (CDM) est le mécanisme de stockage Azure pour la plate-forme d'applications d'affaire de Microsoft. Dans un scenario réel ayant pour but pour une entreprise de type ONBL de construire à moindre frais, une base de données centrale permettant d'évoluer facilement vers une CRM si nécessaire. Cette base centralisée doit permettre aux applications actuelles de rester synchroniser sans couts de développement important mais également de développer de nouvelles applications permettant simplement l'administration de ces nouveaux services comme la gestion des abonnements et leur facturation. Ce développement est effectué facilement grâce à PowerApps de concert avec des utilisateurs sans aucune connaissance en développement.
Pour terminer la session, nous montrerons comment certains processus peuvent dès lors être automatises grâce à Microsoft Flow, évalues grâce à PowerBI et étendues d’intelligence Artificielle grâce au services Cognitifs de Microsoft.
Beaucoup de contenu, donc on ira très vite alors accrochez vous...
Qu’est-ce que Dynamics 365 et comment Microsoft utilise Office 365 pour moderniser ses applications?fren
Nous connaissons tous et aimons la façon dont Microsoft modernise sa pile de bureau, mais parlons un peu du cœur de vos processus d’affaires. Au cours de la dernière WPC, Satya Nadella dévoiler la prochaine évolution de Microsoft Business applications avec Dynamics 365. L’idée est la modernisation de tous les produits Dynamics en utilisant la puissance du Cloud et des services locaux. Mais la vision de Microsoft est un peu plus complexe. Dynamics CRM faisait déjà partie d’Office 365, au cours de cette session, vous apprendrez comment Microsoft envisage de reconstruire une stratégie complète sur xRM et les relations avec les gens comme les relations clients et partenaires. Nous allons parler de la façon dont Office 365 groupes, Power BI, applications de puissance, Microsoft Flow, et de nombreux autres services seront utilisés et l’impact pour construire l’avenir de Dynamics CRM, AX et NAV pour fournir un ERP hybride capable d’exploiter votre entreprise Big Data dans une solution globale et ouverte.
From the field: Modernize your SharePoint Intranet with SharePoint Online and PowerAppsenfr
In order to migrate an old Intranet from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint Online, we had to built a fresh new agile strategy using the Power Platform. During this session, you will learn how Quebec Alcohol Corporation built a new modern intranet with the power of PowerApps. The 406 stores are using a Gantt calendar view to see all critical and important activities like products retirement. This Calendar was first a mockup we delivered in a couple of days before delivering the real application.
During this session you will learn how to use PowerApps to start modernizing your digital desktop but we will also cover the Governance we have had to think about to insure the environment works correctly.
You're not a developer? Me Neither. Build your first PowerApps in 30 minutes.en
15 minutes to introduce PowerApps and 30 minutes to achieve your first application that lets you fill your project timesheet in SharePoint.
Simple! And without a line of code.
Login and register on powerapps.com order to realize yourself this application during the session.
As a bonus, we will use Microsoft PowerBI to get a quick dashboard as well.
No more need of developers ?! Of course not, finally, we will also discuss the possibilities of supplementing our application with advanced code.
La Passerelle de données localeen
Vos données se trouvent On-Prem? Vous souhaitez quand même utiliser vos données pour vos services Office 365 dans le cloud? Au cours de cette session nous reviendrons sur ce qu’est la Passerelle de données locales et nous détaillerons comment elle vous permettra de compléter vos installation Hybrides pour les services de Power BI, Microsoft Flow et PowerApps. A cette occasion, nous découvrirons également le service Azure qui se cache derrière Microsoft Flow: Azure Logic Apps.
Common Data Model et Service ? Qu'est-ce que c’est ? Comment l'utiliser?en
Le Common Data Model de Microsoft (CDM) est le mécanisme de stockage Azure pour la plate-forme d'applications d'affaire de Microsoft. Dans un scenario réel ayant pour but pour une entreprise de type ONBL de construire à moindre frais, une base de données centrale permettant d'évoluer facilement vers une CRM si nécessaire. Cette base centralisée doit permettre aux applications actuelles de rester synchroniser sans couts de développement important mais également de développer de nouvelles applications permettant simplement l'administration de ces nouveaux services comme la gestion des abonnements et leur facturation. Ce développement est effectué facilement grâce à PowerApps de concert avec des utilisateurs sans aucune connaissance en développement.
Pour terminer la session, nous montrerons comment certains processus peuvent dès lors être automatises grâce à Microsoft Flow, évalues grâce à PowerBI et étendues d’intelligence Artificielle grâce au services Cognitifs de Microsoft.
Beaucoup de contenu, donc on ira très vite alors accrochez vous...
Microsoft 365 Governance en
The arrival of Microsoft 365 in IT infrastructure has disrupted the organization of organizational structures to support it. During this session we will see together the different processes that you will need to be adapted and modified to effectively take into account the arrival of this new platform. At the end of this session, you will leave with your first governance plan and the next steps that you will need to incorporate into your infrastructure.
Highlights:
- Build your initial governance plan for Microsoft 365
- Build your own dedicated PowerShell Governance Module
- Set up your production, pre-production and development environments
Level: 200 - Feature Orientated
Target Audience: IT Professionals
Session format: 4 hours workshop
A Power Shell module to rule them all !enfr
The transition to Power Shell is still relatively poorly managed in most companies. Each administrator often uses their own scripts found on Internet to run them directly in your production environments. Now is the time to think about how to unite the efforts of your teams. This is what I propose to discover during this session where we will put in place a complete management of your own scripts gathered in modules of which you have total control. So that your administrators never have to run un validated scripts on your infrastructure, we'll set the foundation for managing your naming conventions as well as those that frame the use of Git for all of your teams.
Finally, we will quickly discuss the concepts of Just Enough Administration as well as that of the DSC modules dedicated to Office 365.
Because in DevOps, Operations are still very important!
Highlights:
- Build your own PowerShell Module using templates and test
- Deploy your own validated local Power Shell gallery
- Learn how to use Office365DSC to align your environments
Build your Power Platform Governanceenfr
Managing the Microsoft Power Platform can sometimes be extraordinarily complex, and because your users have access to the various Power Apps and Power Automate options from other services, it's important to understand and understand the intricacies of the options. Understanding the differences in fault environments and others will allow you to better understand its management and better control the costs.
We'll also discuss the risks of letting unchecked developments proliferate at the risk of seeing a repeat of situations already encountered with Microsoft Access and Excel and some applications that have become critical in your business but completely absent from your service contract.
Highlights:
- Build your initial governance plan for Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI
- Define your governance processes for Power Platform Solutions
- Understand licensing and usage monitoring rules
Managing the Microsoft Power Platform can sometimes be very complex, and because your users have access to the various Power Apps and Power Automate options from other services, it's important to understand and understand the intricacies of the options. Understanding the differences in fault environments and others will allow you to better understand its management and better control the costs.
What are Common Data Service and Model Driven applications?enfr
The Microsoft Common Data service (CDS) is the Azure-based storage mechanism for the Microsoft business application platform. The most intuitive use case for the CDS is to provide an easy to use relational database for Power Apps. App Creators can use the Common Data Model to model their data and easily share apps created on that data. During this session we will go deeper into what can be done with Power Apps Model Driven Apps and how these apps can complete your processes providing an Admin center for your own apps but also how these Forms and Views can be used into your Power Apps Portal deployment to interact with your public facing website.
Highlights:
- Discover the Power Platform Solution ALM process with Azure DevOps
- Understand how to use Model Driven Apps and integrate them into public facing websites
- Build your own initial governance plan for the Common Data Service
How to get prepared for SharePoint Syntexenfr
Using SharePoint Syntex we will be able to move from document management to knowledge management. But building your corporate knowledge graph needs to anticipate a bit on some changes in the way you are considering your content. During this session you will discover what need to be done in order to use SharePoint Syntex at it maximum potential. Because people are working based on their own semantic, we will see how bridging these personal semantics into a federated one is important to start working like a real team.
It's time to move from collaboration to collective intelligence but is your intranet ready for that?
Highlights:
- Understand private and corporate knowledge graph concepts
- Discover how to categorize content into Microsoft 365
- Learn how to start measuring and comparing collective intelligence
Prepare your MS-900 certificationenfr
Because all Microsoft 365 Administrator sould be certified, this session will give you all the preparation you need to take the MS-900 exam.
From Cloud Concepts to Microsoft 365 Pricing and Support but also discovering the governance of all Microsoft 365 Services and Security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365, you'll learn or validate you knowledge to make sure your will be ready to pass this exam successfully.
Highlights:
- Prepare the MS-900 Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Certification
- Validate your knowledge and learn all you need to know to manage the Microsoft 365 platform
- Practice some exam-like questions to understand the exam process
Define your Power Platform ALM processes enfr
Because packaging, managing and deploying your Power Apps and Power Automate artefacts into solutions and between environments is still very complex, this session will show you how this process can be simplified. You'll learn how to leverage Azure DevOps to manage your solutions and automate your application deployment from development environment to UAT and production. You will see how you can publish your solution content in a repository and even work on the code from any other development tool without using Power Apps or Automate before releasing patchs or new versions of your solutions.
Highlights:
- Learn how to use Azure DevOps to automate Power Platform ALM
- Discover how to package and deliver Managed Solutions to your customers
- Understand the Power Platform ALM process
What are sensivity labels and how to use it in Microsoft 365enfr
Sensitivity Label is classifying and protecting document/email using labels.
Now sensitivity Label available from Microsoft 365 Security center but usage is maybe not clear enough. Same functionality is already available in Azure Information Protection for long time and you will learn how to plan your Information protection strategy based on a real company use case.
From licencing till deployement you will learn how to use and set sensitivity labels in your Microsoft 365 environement.
In this session you'll learn about, both, functional and technical side of information protection and discover how this works in collaborative scenario's.
Highlights:
- Build your Information Protection strategy
- Plan your sensitivity labels structure
- Create your sensitivity labels policies
Hey! What's the problem with Teams Private channels?!enfr
We are all a bit confused about differences between Public and Private channels. So let"s take an hour to see in details what are the PROS and CONS using private channels in Teams. From Teams, to SharePoint and Governance stand points you will learn from various real life situations when to use private vs public channels.
Take aways:
- Understand PROS and CONS using private channels versus public channels
- Prepare the Office Groups and SharePoint governance to manage your environment
- Adapt your Teams management and Policies according YOUR governance
Work like a Brain with... AI and Copilotenfr
AI is booming. Co-pilots are everywhere. But what is the real value for your business?
During this session we will return to the vision. But not the vision of Microsoft or big tech companies. YOUR vision. Let's go back to your original mission and build YOUR own story and how the AI and Copilot should serve YOUR vision. From high-value data stored deep in your documents and all employee knowledge stuck in ad-hoc discussions, to how AI and Copilot can help your business capitalize on your know-how. Let’s talk about your company’s Collective Intelligence!
Because build products and delivering services is not just about how to submit the right prompt in a LLM. AI needs human intelligence first to ensure you continue to serve your consumers at high standards and serendipity still exist in your business development.
Highlights:
- Build your own vision about AI
- How to bring the human at the center of the Collective Intelligence
- How to use Teams ad'hoc meeting and how to structure meetings to optimize the value
Discovering Process Mining and Task Mining with Power Automateenfr
Have you ever considered the complexity of your business processes, amplified by the constant arrival of new tools? This 45-minute session will shed light on process mining and task mining, essential techniques for understanding and optimizing your processes before considering automation. Through detailed demonstrations and practical case studies, discover how Power Automate can help you analyze and improve your processes, identify bottlenecks, and maximize the efficiency and compliance of your operations.
Takeaways:
- Learn to break down and analyze your business processes to identify value points and inefficiencies.
- Discover how to use Power Automate for process mining and task mining to optimize your workflows.
- Understand the importance of prior analysis for successful and sustainable process automation.
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Solving problems! And What We Could Learn from COVID19
Since March 2020, companies have had to change the way they approach problems. What if the COVID19 crisis was an opportunity for us to return to a more pragmatic management of our problems? What if the survival of our businesses depended on our ability to question the approach to the needs of our customers or our users of the IT resources we provide them? Frugal... Jugaad... how can we keep the pragmatism and efficiency of March 2020?
Join this talk with Microsoft MVP, Nicolas Georgault, to learn how cloud and the Microsoft ecosystem can help you to solve problems simply and get things done to keep your business close to your users and customers needs.
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Nicolas Georgeault
MuBrain, CEO and Office 365/SharePoint Consultant
Montréal, Canada
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