Michelle Gilbert
Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Copilot for M365, Microsoft
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Principal Cloud Solution Architect focused on Modern Work and Copilot for M365. Trusted advisor for delivering the value proposition of Copilot and leading architectural design sessions. Former Director of Modern Work Customer Success, Teams Technical Specialist, Microsoft MVP and Office 365 solution architect in the Twin Cities, MN. She has been delivering business collaboration solutions for years with her focus on Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, and Office 365. Michelle is the board President of the Minnesota Microsoft 365 User Group, community organizer of MN M365 Workshop Day and has been a member of the SharePoint community since 2009.
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Top 10 best practices every Admin should be doing in M365!
Come and learn the top 10 best practices you should be doing to both manage and secure your environment. Tenant configuration can be a balance of usability and security when planning your roll-out or management model.
These best practices will assist you in improving visibility into M365 and help you understand the necessary controls needed to have in place to ensure your tenant is protected.
End to End Deployment of Viva Connections
In this session, you will see the creation of a SharePoint Communication Site from the SharePoint Look Book as your Intranet. The step-by-step guide to setting up Viva Connections as a first party app for Teams desktop and mobile deploying without using PowerShell. Walking through enablement of SharePoint home site, global navigation, configuring app permission and setup policies, and pinning the app to the side rail in Teams. And a peak at the new dashboard. You will learn how easy it is to create Viva Connections for your organization.
AMA - Ask Microsoft & MVP's Anything
Join Microsoft experts for an interactive Q&A about Microsoft 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, OneDrive, Viva, Teams, Microsoft Graph and more! Bring your best questions!
Being Purposeful with Viva
The Viva platform is growing with new functionality being routinely released. To successfully implement the platform it should be driven by purpose with clear alignment to the goals of the organization. Let's discuss what assessments and evaluations should be completed on your organization before, during, and after implementation. We'll review some key components to consider such as an organization's culture, leadership mindset, strategy, goals, technology infrastructure, and resources for the implementation. This will be an interactive session meant to help stimulate the way you think about the implementation of Viva.
Manage the mess: Building an organizational strategy for pinned apps in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams continues to be the work zone for employees. Integration with SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Lists, Planner, OneNote, etc. make it possible to live and work inside of Teams all day. Managing the prime-time real estate of pinned apps in Teams can be challenging, especially as your employees' list of critical apps grows. How do you prioritize which apps get pinned for all users? And should you leave open navigation space so users can select their own favorite apps to pin?
In this session, we'll examine sizing and use of the Teams navigation bar. We'll discuss organizing principles, talk about types of models (pre-selected app pinning vs. employee self-service pinning) that may work for your organization, and give you tips on how to prioritize Teams navigation icons.
Managing Change in a Microsoft World! Office 365 Governance and Change Management.
This session will focus on how to best operationalize your Office 365 investment. We will walk through how to develop a governance board focusing on tenant and service management, define roles and responsibilities, learn how to manage change in a SAAS solution that uses an evergreen service management model, and develop a system of communication to better support your customers.
Delivered to SPS Omaha 2018, SPSTC 2018 and SPS San Diego 2019.
Microsoft 365 Governance for Large Organizations: Why Task Force Teams are Critical to your Success!
Come and learn how to best operationalize your Microsoft 365 investment by defining roles and responsibilities, creating a governance board to broaden knowledge through-out your organization, and react to service and tenant management by developing task force teams. You will learn why task force teams are critical to your success and how you can take these real-world examples and bring them back to your organization.
Microsoft Community Booth
Visit the Microsoft Community Booth and connect with speakers from Microsoft and MVPs in person and a Meet & Greet with Microsoft's Adam Harmetz and Karuana Gatimu! Your chance to engage, learn, and be inspired awaits at the Microsoft Community Booth.
Microsoft Teams in a Regulated Environment
Come learn how you can deploy, use, and achieve success with Teams in a regulated environment.
In this session we will show you the strategies and technologies you need to succeed.
You will learn:
- Governance Strategies
- Compliance & Records Management
- Security Options
- Monitoring & Auditing Capabilities
- Training and Enablement
Morning Keynote: What is the MVP Program - learn from past and present MN MVP's
Come and listen to Minnesota's MVP Community and learn about the program, their journey, and how it has made an impact in their lives. Wes Preston, Richard Brynteson, Maria Barnes, Melanie Hohertz, Doug Wilson, Dean Swann, Michelle Gilbert, Liz Sundet, and Sarah Haase.
Ultimate guide to administering M365 and Teams
Are you an admin who's been administering M365 for years? Or are you brand new to the admin role? Either way, there will be something for you in this workshop!
We will be taking a deep look into the administration of M365 and some of its services, with a heavy focus on Teams, using the admin center, PowerShell, Graph, and more. Expect deep explainers on what different switches really do, and practical advice on how to configure things appropriately for your organization.
We will spend time in this workshop setting up automations together and sharing real world examples of how to make your job easier.
The Art of Prompt Engineering in Copilot for M365
The art of prompt engineering of M365 Copilot is the skill of creating effective and clear instructions or questions that tell M365 Copilot what you want it to do for you.
M365 Copilot will then use its large language model to generate a summary based on your prompt. Prompt engineering helps you collaborate with M365 Copilot by following up on your prompts with more questions or feedback, which can help M365 Copilot learn from your preferences and improve its suggestions over time.
If you want to learn more about prompt engineering this session is for you as we will learn the essential ingredients of a prompt and how to properly communicate with semantic index and connect to our data.
Roundtable Discussion - Copilot for real world productivity
Join us for an engaging and informal gathering where participants delve into topics that matter to them. Round Table Discussions is a space for sharing ideas, perspectives, and experiences with other attendees. Pull up a chair, and let’s exchange insights!
Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot
Join this session to learn more about the future of work with Microsoft 365 Copilot that can help you work better by unleashing your creativity, unlocking productivity, and upleveling your skills.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a new feature that combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and more—and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into a powerful productivity tool. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more—to unleash creativity, unlock productivity, and uplevel skills. Copilot provides real-time intelligent assistance and enables users to enhance their creativity, productivity, and skills.
M365 Copilot is also a new Teams app experience. It works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data—your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts—to do things you’ve never been able to do before.
Keynote: AI in Microsoft 365
Join Michelle Gilbert as she cover's all the latest Copilot and AI innovations in Microsoft 365, including what to expect in the future.
Improve your personal productivity in Teams
Come and learn some ways to reduce the noise and make Teams work for you. Walk away with tips to organize your teams, channels, chat, and notifications that will be more effective and help you feel more productive.
Women in Technology Discussion Panel
Join us for an interactive discussion about Women in Technology
Microsoft Teams Public and Private Channels
This session will provide you with the fundamentals of Microsoft Teams and Channels. Teams are a collection of people, content, and tools surrounding different projects and outcomes within an organization. They can be public or private, come and learn the differences between them and how you can expand your tabs with apps to make them work for you.
Create a Curated Experience in Teams!
You will learn the needs of generational workforces and how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organization's personas. You will see how four diverse types of employee's experiences in Teams have unique needs: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives. And learn to apply policies and settings that matter to them.
Which Role When? Guidance for assigning M365 administrative roles.
When Office 365 began there were two roles: User and Global Admin (GA). This left a huge security risk in organizations with administrators having the keys to the kingdom without the knowledge or understanding of the risk. Come and learn about the many roles and how assigning granular or least permissive roles will improve your security posture.
Reduce your Risk and Increase your Security Posture with Microsoft Secure Score!
Do you need increased visibility and control over your organization's security posture in Microsoft 365? You do not need to wait any longer, begin assessing your M365 security telemetry now with Microsoft Secure Score. Come and learn how to best manage and monitor your identity, data, device, app, and infrastructure to improve security from a centralized dashboard. Understand the improvement activities recommended and learn how to work to complete them. Threats arise every day in the cloud, configure your tenant to ensure your organization is protected.
Navigating the Complexities of Hybrid Work
The past couple of years has fundamentally transformed employee and customer experiences and expectations. And there’s no going back. Learn about Microsoft’s approach, new operating model, lessons we’re learning along the way, and how we can help you empower your employees and meet new customer needs as you navigate hybrid work.
Deep Dive in enabling Microsoft Teams Connect - Shared Channels
Shared channels enables multiple orgs to work together as one team in a shared space for a more structured, deeper and longer-term collaboration. Chat, call, meet, share and co-author files, and collaborate on apps. This session will focus on how to enable Teams Connect using cross-tenant access settings to manage collaboration with external Azure AD organizations using the new Direct B2B Connect architecture model.
Improve your security posture of Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Secure Score
Protect your organization from threats by measuring your organizations security posture of Microsoft Teams and learn Microsoft's recommendations of new improvement actions you can take in Secure Score. In this session you will learn the overview of Secure Score and the latest actions you should monitor and take action on to protect your environment from threats.
Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self
Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences. You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.
M365 Copilot
Join our deep dive to learn more about accelerating your productivity, unleashing your creativity and uplevelling your skills with Microsoft 365 Copilot. We'll include answering your questions on the governance and management of these AI driven experiences.
Create an engaged and productive workforce with Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva empowers organizations with next-generation AI and insights to continuously improve engagement and productivity - bringing together the tools and applications to align goals, employee communications, workplace analytics and employee feedback, and learning for everyone in your organization. And best of all, Viva works in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365, is personalized, customizable and extensible. In this session, we’ll explore how Viva puts people at the center, connecting them to company information, communications, workplace insights, knowledge and learning - sharing latest innovations and addressing your open questions.
MN Microsoft 365 User Group - In person Workshop Day Fall, 2024 Sessionize Event
M365 Twin Cities Sessionize Event
Microsoft TechCon365 DC 2024 Sessionize Event
Microsoft TechCon365 & PWRCON Seattle 2024 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Conference
Copilot Roundtable for Early Access Program Customers, Michelle Gilbert
Power Skills Lightning Talk: Embracing Your Leadership Skills; Heather Cook & Michelle Gilbert
Boost Your Personal Productivity with M365 Copilot; Michelle Gilbert
MN Microsoft 365 User Group - In person Workshop Day Spring, 2024 Sessionize Event
M365 Twin Cities Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 EduCon Chicago 2023 Sessionize Event
MN Microsoft 365 User Group - In person Workshop Day Fall, 2023 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 EduCon & PWR EduCon Seattle 2023 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 EduCon DC 2023 Sessionize Event
Viva Round The World Sessionize Event
Teams10X - April 12 - 13, 2023 Sessionize Event
M365 Twin Cities Sessionize Event
M365 Chicago - A Salute to Services! Sessionize Event
Teams10X - Sep 28-29, 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 EduCon Chicago 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2022 Sessionize Event
Teams Nation 2022 Sessionize Event
Microsoft Teams Day Online 4 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Friday Cabo San Lucas Sessionize Event
Teams Nation 2021 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Sessionize Event
M365 Virtual Career Fair Sessionize Event
Teams Day Online 2 Sessionize Event
Teams Thursday New England 2020 Sessionize Event
Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon Sessionize Event
Office 365 Saturday San Diego 2020 Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Ottawa Sessionize Event
SPS Los Angeles Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities Sessionize Event
SharePoint/Office 365 Saturday San Diego 2019 Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday - Omaha 2018 Sessionize Event
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities Sessionize Event
Michelle Gilbert
Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Copilot for M365, Microsoft
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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