Richard Toland
Principal Architect, Developer & Owner - Perpetual Reality, LLC
Parker, Colorado, United States
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With experience spanning numerous industries, technologies, and platform disciplines. Primarily focused on Microsoft’s technologies stack, Richard has amassed a wealth of knowledge in enterprise development, support, governance, systems architecture and business practices encompassing the SharePoint, Azure and Microsoft 365 platforms’ endless product offerings. As a community evangelist, Richard continues to share his expertise in SharePoint, Microsoft 365, PowerBI, HoloLens, Azure, etc. to educate his colleagues and peers, empowering them to thrive with the skills to implement and support environments of any size, in any industry.
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teams, Teams, TEAMS: Let's create some Teams
Many of us in our daily roles are asked to provision, secure and configure Microsoft Teams in rapid fashion for our organization. In some organizations this can be quite time consuming depending on the various layers of complexity in the configuration requirements we were given.
This session examines many different interfaces and methods to automate the process of creating a Team (capital 'T'), securing it, configuring it from settings right down to creating a Plan within it. To do so, we will examine the request process and data collection using PowerApps, then provisioning & configuration using several methods of automation including from Flow/Azure Logic Apps, Azure Runbooks/Functions, Powershell, and GraphAPI.
Integrating Power Platform with Azure Automation to expand business process automation.
This session discusses how to integrate Power Apps with Azure automation tools like Logic Apps, Runbooks, or Functions, and scale to business processes according to need, cost, and complexity in addition to, outside of, or beyond Power Automate Flows. We will cover the basics of Power Apps with Power Automate then dive into setup for Azure Automation tools and the current method of configuration for integration with an Azure Logic App to understand differences in triggers, responses, and cost models when integrating them to low code, user facing apps and process automation flows.
Intro to Power Platform Solutions, Power App Components, and Connection References
This training session will introduce participants to the benefits of using Power Platform Solutions from vantage points of promotion through the software development lifecycle and the benefits reusable applications, components, connection references and data. We will examine how they can be used to improve productivity, streamline processes, and enhance organizations' time to delivery.
Participants will learn how to create Power Platform Solutions, canvas apps to house and consume reusable components, connection references, and automate flows, and learn the difference and benefits of managed vs unmanaged solutions and layering.
Let's solve some common Power Pain Points
Have you tried to convert your SharePoint designer workflows to Flows in Power Automate and found there are some actions that still don't align? Have you customized a SharePoint form or created a Power App and realized your expected feature parity is finding differences? In this session we will examine common hurdles you may encounter with Power Apps, & Power Automate both separately, and (better) together. For each, we will discuss solutions and identify how these Power(ful) tools can accomplish the desired tasks with some creative workarounds and a little extra elbow grease.
Understanding the Power of Microsoft Loop: Collaboration and Co-Creation Reimagined
Microsoft Loop is a super-charger for modern teamwork, enabling fluid collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps like Teams, Outlook, and Word. In this session, we'll explore how Loop’s components allow for real-time collaboration, updating automatically wherever they're embedded. Learn how to leverage Loop to streamline your workflows, increase collaboration efficiency, and create shared workspaces that evolve with your projects. By the end, you'll have actionable strategies for integrating Loop into your team’s daily processes and maximizing its potential to transform communication and co-creation.
Let's talk about Power Apps with Style(s), a look at different ways to pull CSS into Canvas Apps
Power Apps is an incredible platform for building quick, functional apps, but when it comes to design and styling, many users feel limited. In this session, we’ll dive into different ways to bring advanced styling techniques into your Canvas Apps using CSS. Whether you’re looking to create a sleek, professional interface or align with your company’s branding guidelines, understanding how to apply styles can elevate your apps from functional to fantastic.
From Power Apps' built-in capabilities for colors and fonts, to Component Controls and Environment Variables, you'll explore several methods for incorporating CSS-like styles into your Canvas Apps. We’ll dive into the benefits and challenges of each approach, helping you decide which method works best for your specific needs.
By the end of this session, you'll walk away with practical solutions for creating visually stunning apps that perform as great as they look. If you've ever wanted more design control in Power Apps, this session is for you.
SharePoint Workflow for Cross-Site data, web services, and Power Automate.
This session teaches how to leverage SharePoint Designer 2013 or better workflow to interface with remote web services. While this provides the ability for everything from posting to Twitter or instantiating Azure automation routines, it is also particularly useful to SharePoint users for list item creation and manipulation between sites or site collections or even provisioning sites. With the recent release of Microsoft Flow this can now be used in tandem to seamlessly integrate between SharePoint onprem and online or beyond.
Gateway Drugs: PowerApps/BI & Flow for On-Prem, Just the Beginning, now Azure Data Factory, Look Out
For some admins and developers, the demand for cloud capabilities using data accessible only on-prem has increased as many organizations continue to employ Hybrid architectures. To meet that need (and the security constraints that accompany on-prem data), the Microsoft Data Management Gateway gives us better integration to this data and in more secure ways, all while leaving it at the source. Coupled with the Azure Data Factory, your on-prem content can architecturally reach a number of connections/computations never possible before by leveraging the unprecedented scale and compute power throughout the breadth of Azure services. This session will illustrate how to leverage on-prem SharePoint content to interface with and drive cloud services through the secure Data Management Gateway and Azure Data Factory integrations. We’ll cover the setup and configuration of the Gateway, the Factory, and our data connections, as well as some gotcha’s and pitfalls along the path to becoming a full Gateway/Hybrid addict.
Advanced PowerShell for remote SharePoint administration & inspection
As SharePoint admins and consultants in tightly secured ecosystems, we often are not granted the access to run PowerShell connected to an onprem farm or MSO tennant. Or perhaps you have access to run the commandlets but need to shave time off of your job run with parallel processing methods. Or maybe you've been given a task to offload administrative tasks to Azure Automation & functions. This session teaches advanced tactics for remote SharePoint administration PowerShell. Topics will cover a broad range of SharePoint connections and automation optimization as we examine gathering collections from Search, exploring object attributes with web services, processing these objects quickly through parallel processing with script blocks, jobs, and queues.
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