Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 337-339

Master your Microsoft Environments: Manage, Secure and Recover to Reduce Complexity

As Microsoft environments continue to grow, so does the complexity of managing them. IT teams must oversee an expanding mix of users, endpoints, identities, cloud workloads and security controls across multiple dashboards and disconnected tools — all while defending against increasingly sophisticated and fast-moving cyber threats. Join this educational workshop to learn 8 winning strategies for simplifying your Microsoft operations, strengthening security and improving recovery. The session focuses on real operational challenges, common blind spots and actionable steps IT teams can take to make Microsoft environments easier to manage, harder to compromise and faster to recover. Attendees will discover how to: Centralize visibility across Microsoft users, devices, identities and cloud resources. Automate routine management and security tasks to improve efficiency and accelerate response. Connect email, identity, endpoint and cloud telemetry to detect and contain threats faster. Recover Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure and collaboration workloads quickly, after ransomware, accidental deletion or malicious changes. You'll leave this event with practical strategies to reduce operational silos, strengthen your security posture, automate key response workflows and accelerate recovery across your Microsoft environment.

Wednesday 1:20 PM - 1:40 PM · Insight Studio

Building a Modern Microsoft 365 Backup & Archiving Strategy

This session explores how backup, recovery, and archiving work together as complementary components of a modern Microsoft 365 data resilience strategy. We'll explore a practical approach for Microsoft 365 life-cycle data management including backup and archiving that combines E-Discovery/Search with fast, granular recovery with long-term data preservation and cost-effective storage management. Using real-world customer examples, we'll examine how backup and archiving serve distinct purposes, why storage architecture matters, and how organizations can reduce Microsoft 365 storage growth without sacrificing accessibility or compliance. You'll leave with a framework for building a resilient Microsoft 365 data protection strategy that improves recovery readiness while keeping long-term costs under control.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 421-422

Microsoft 365: Beyond Collaboration. Unlocking What You Already Own.

When you hear Microsoft 365, what comes to mind? Probably Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Maybe Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and Planner. But what if I told you those collaboration tools are just the tip of the iceberg?

Here's the thing. Microsoft 365 is a full platform for identity management, security, compliance, and device management. And there's a good chance you're already paying for capabilities you haven't tapped into yet. We're talking Entra ID and Conditional Access, Microsoft Intune, Purview, the Defender suite, and more. There's a lot hiding under the hood that most organizations never touch.

Join me as we go beyond the familiar and dig into how to get real value from the rest of your Microsoft 365 investment. We'll walk through practical ways to streamline your workflows, protect your data, manage your endpoints, and strengthen your security posture. All with services that are likely already sitting in your subscription.

Whether you're an IT admin looking for quick wins, a technical leader trying to justify what you're already spending, or looking to cut costs by dropping third party serivces and using what you already have in Microsoft 365 this session will give you actionable takeaways you can put to work right away. Get the most out of Microsoft 365. Let's figure out what you've got!

Wednesday 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM · Insight Studio

Accelerating Migration to Microsoft Fabric with MigrateFAST and Microsoft Funding Programs

Modernizing analytics platforms can be complex, costly, and time-consuming. In this 20-minute session, discover how MigrateFAST, MAQ Software’s Fabric migration accelerator, helps organizations accelerate their journey to Microsoft Fabric through an automation-first approach.

Through a customer case study and live demo, attendees will see how MigrateFAST streamlines migration across three critical modernization paths:

Data Integration – Modernizing ETL/ELT pipelines and data movement workloads

Analytics – Migrating data engineering, data science, and advanced analytics workloads

Reporting – Transitioning BI and reporting assets to a unified Fabric ecosystem

The session will highlight how organizations can reduce migration effort, improve accuracy, minimize risk, and accelerate time-to-value while adopting a scalable, future-ready data platform on Microsoft Fabric and leverage Microsoft funding programs to reduce migration costs.

Wednesday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 440-442

Unlocking Seamless Collaboration: Microsoft 365 Multi-Tenant Organizations

In today’s interconnected business landscape, organizations often collaborate with partners, suppliers, and customers who use different Microsoft 365 tenants. Microsoft Multi-Tenant Organizations (MTO) provide a solution to seamlessly connect these disparate tenants, enabling efficient collaboration and resource sharing. In this session, we explore the concept of MTO, its use cases, benefits, and configuration.

Wednesday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 445-446

Playbook: Environment-Centric Governance for Building & Publishing Copilot Studio Agents

Design a Power Platform environment strategy that makes Copilot Studio agent creation and publishing secure-by-default—and fast. Learn how to structure and configure environments to include environment groups, environment rules, and environment routing; align agent publishing with governance guidelines; standardize connector/integration associations; and support optional review/approval workflows before broad release. Discover practical patterns to separate build, test, and release, align environments with different licensing scenarios, and scale a consistent administration model across diverse teams and business units. The result: a clear, repeatable playbook that empowers makers and admins in organizations of any size to innovate responsibly with Copilot Studio.

Thursday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 445-446

Managing Change in a Microsoft World: M365 Governance and Change Management

Microsoft 365 is evolving faster than ever, with new Copilot capabilities, agents, apps, and experiences arriving continuously. Success isn't just about deploying technology. It's about creating the governance, communication, and adoption strategies that help people embrace change with confidence.

In this 70-minute session, you'll learn how to establish effective Microsoft 365 governance practices, manage ongoing feature change, and drive user adoption without overwhelming your organization. We'll explore practical frameworks for balancing innovation with control, communicating updates effectively, managing risk, and building a culture that turns change into a competitive advantage.

Key Takeaways:

Build a sustainable M365 governance framework Navigate continuous features and AI-driven change Develop effective communication and adoption strategies Balance innovation, security, compliance, and user experience Create habits and processes that support long-term success

Thursday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 447-448

The Admin's Guide to AI in SharePoint

Someone in your organization is going to ask you to turn on AI in SharePoint. Maybe they already have. This session is everything you need to answer that request with confidence. We'll cover the tenant and site-level opt-in process, licensing prerequisites, what gets enabled and for whom, how the role-based permissions model determines which users see which capabilities, and what controls you have over the experience once it's live.

You'll see the admin configuration workflow end to end through live demos, and we'll talk honestly about what you should test in a pilot before rolling it out broadly. If you're the person responsible for saying yes or not yet, this session will help you make that call.

• The complete admin setup path from tenant opt-in through role-based capability exposure
• What to test and validate in a pilot before broad rollout
• The licensing, permissions, and governance guardrails you need to have in place first

Thursday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 320-321

Engage everywhere: communities, events, and storylines in Teams, powered by AI​

What's new and next with Engage. We will showcase Engage Roadmap including communities, events, and storylines in Teams, and more, all powered by AI​.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 445-446

Stay Ahead: Managing Microsoft 365 Updates Like a Pro

Every month, Microsoft 365 introduces dozens of changes that can bring new features and alter existing functionalities on which your business solutions rely. Keeping up with these changes can be a daunting task for organizations, as it requires staying informed, preparing the environment for updates, and ensuring users are up-to-date with the latest features. The challenge is further compounded by the need to manage the process of change effectively and leverage AI and Copilot to assist (or not) in this endeavor.

In this session, we will look at a comprehensive approach for organizations to manage Microsoft 365 changes. From receiving information about a change, processing the message, delegating tasks, to taking action with a champions program, we will cover all the essential steps. Additionally, we will build a Power BI dashboard to track changes, providing real-world examples and tools to help you be proactive in managing cloud changes within your organization. Join us to learn how IT Pros and collaboration enablers can promote adoption, keep users informed, and ensure your organization stays focused on what it does best.