Tony Ambrose
Technology Strategist | Process Improvement Evangelist | Data Connoisseur
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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With over 25 years of experience in information technology and business, I bring strategic leadership and guidance to customer projects and initiatives. As a consultant and thought leader, I envision, architect, design, and simplify technical solutions for complex business needs, leveraging my expertise in Microsoft tools and technologies, process improvement and automation, and ERP system implementation and optimization.
My mission is to help organizations achieve their goals and transform their operations with innovative and effective solutions that align with their vision and values. I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality results, exceeding customer expectations, and fostering long-term relationships. I am passionate about learning, growing, and collaborating with others in the IT and business community.
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Right-Sizing Data Classification: A Practical Path to Sensitivity Labels
You don’t need a perfect data classification framework to start protecting your information, and waiting for one often means nothing gets done.
This introductory session takes a simple, grounded, incremental approach to implementing sensitivity labels and data classification across Microsoft 365, with a focus on real-world adoption and usability.
We’ll cover:
* What sensitivity labels actually do (and how they impact Copilot and search)
* The biggest mistakes organizations make when starting their labeling journey
* How to define a simple, effective classification scheme (without overcomplicating it)
* How to get started, and more importantly, how not to get started
* Balancing usability with protection to drive adoption
* Building toward a scalable governance model over time
By the end, you’ll have a clear, actionable path to start classifying and protecting your data, while laying the groundwork for better compliance, security, and Copilot outcomes.
From Chaos to CoPilot Ready: A Practical Path To Organizing Microsoft 365 Content
Microsoft Copilot is only as powerful as the content it can access. For many organizations, that content lives in a mix of poorly organized SharePoint sites, Teams channels, and OneDrive folders.
This session focuses on a pragmatic, incremental approach to getting your Microsoft 365 content ready for Copilot—without requiring a full-scale information architecture overhaul.
We’ll cover:
* How Copilot actually finds and uses your content (and why structure matters)
* Common anti-patterns in SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive that reduce Copilot effectiveness
* Practical strategies to improve organization, including simplifying Site and Team structures, moving from folders to metadata (where it makes sense), and cleaning up permissions and access sprawl
* Identifying “good enough” governance vs. over-engineering
* Quick wins you can implement immediately
You’ll leave with a realistic roadmap to improve findability, usability, and Copilot outcomes—starting from where your organization is today.
A Crawl-Walk-Run Approach to Document Management
Document Management is not a topic that most people find fun, exciting, or entertaining. However, anyone charged with the organization, maintenance, and management of corporate information knows this is one of the biggest challenges we face--dealing with an ever-growing mountain of recorded knowledge and intellectual property.
Ultimately, all we really need to do is provide an intuitive, user-focused set of tools to facilitate the creation, storage, publication, security, retrieval, retention, and disposition of our company's most critical digital assets. No problem, right?
This session will focus on providing practical guidance, both non-technical and technical, to assist in developing a multigenerational battle plan to implement Document Management in your organization.
Pro Dev Practices in a Citizen Dev World: Leveling Up Your Power Platform Game
Are you a Power BI, Power Apps, or Power Automate enthusiast who’s built something amazing—only to have it break, disappear, or become impossible to maintain? You’re not alone! In this session, we’ll explore how everyday builders (a.k.a. citizen developers) can leverage a few tricks from the pros to make their Power Platform solutions more reliable, scalable, and future-proof.
We'll demystify common pro-dev tools, patterns, and practices such as version control, code repositories, and work management, discuss why they're critical to long-term success, and talk through a crawl-walk-run process to implement these for your team and organization.
No previous knowledge of semicolons or curly braces required... just curiosity, creativity, and a desire to build in a sustainable way!
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Tony Ambrose
Technology Strategist | Process Improvement Evangelist | Data Connoisseur
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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