Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 445-446

SharePoint: Zero to Hero

If you are new to SharePoint, this is your workshop. We will start at the beginning with, “What is this thing you call SharePoint?” and then go step-by-step to “Now I can build basic business solutions.” Everything we do during this session will be in SharePoint Online, but also works for On-Premises environments. No Code.

Here’s what we will cover:  1.            What is SharePoint 2.            Getting around SharePoint 3.            How to build and use a solution for your business needs 4.            Discover what metadata is and how it can help 5.            How to make sure the right people have the right access to the right things at the right time 6.            Create a one-stop-shop with a custom page

At the end of this workshop, you will have the information needed to create simple solutions using the tools provided by SharePoint without waiting for IT to build it for you. Buckle up. We’ve got a lot to cover.

Monday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM · Room 437-439

Designing Intelligent Intranets: Information Architecture That Powers AI and Great User Experience

Are you building a new intranet or reimagining an existing one with Microsoft 365? This full-day workshop is your roadmap to designing an intranet that not only works beautifully for your users - but also sets the foundation for AI to deliver real value.

We’ll demystify Information Architecture (IA) and show how smart content organization fuels better search, personalization, and Copilot experiences. You’ll learn how to structure your intranet so that content is easy to find, relevant to the right audiences, and ready to support AI-powered tools. Whether you're just starting out or refining your current design, you'll leave with practical strategies, templates, and examples to guide your journey.

What you’ll learn:

• How to plan intuitive navigation across your intranet and individual sites • Best practices for hubs, home sites, and audience targeting • Page design tips that support accessibility, engagement, and Copilot-assisted content creation • Smart use of metadata and folders—what works, what doesn’t, and why it matters for AI • How to use Viva Connections to deliver personalized intranet experiences in the flow of work • How to take a strategic approach to communications using SharePoint and Microsoft 365

By the end of the day, you’ll understand how IA drives both usability and AI success—and be equipped to build an intranet that meets your organization’s goals and delights your users.

Tuesday 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM · Room 435-436

SharePoint Automation Deep Dive

You know the basics of "Create Item," but are you ready to automate the full lifecycle of your SharePoint content? Join Microsoft MVPs Heidi Jordan and Norm Young for a solution-focused workshop designed specifically for SharePoint enthusiasts.

As experts in the field, we believe that "Fundamental skills pay the bills." This session focuses 80% of the time on the essential logic every maker needs, and 20% on the "New School" future of SharePoint automation. We move beyond simple notifications to build robust solutions that manage structured intake, govern data cleanliness, and handle complex document conversions.

The Takeaway: Every attendee will receive our exclusive "Automation Field Guide," containing the exact demo scripts, OData snippets, and step-by-step instructions used in the session so you can recreate these solutions the moment you get back to the office.

Tuesday 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 435-436

From Guidelines to Gorgeous: The Beautiful SharePoint Portal Playbook

Beautiful portals don’t happen by accident—they’re built with intention, consistency, and the right foundation. In this session, you'll gain a clear understanding of how the SharePoint Brand Center centralizes your organization’s brand assets and enables you to deliver cohesive, visually compelling experiences across your sites. We’ll walk through the essential components of site branding, including logos, themes, fonts, and color palettes, and show how to apply them effectively and sustainably.

From there, we’ll shift into what truly brings a portal to life: beautiful, purposeful content. You’ll learn practical techniques for designing pages that feel modern and polished—leveraging page layouts, imagery, web parts, and content patterns that elevate both usability and aesthetics. Whether you're refreshing an existing intranet or launching something new, you’ll leave with a playbook of best practices, creative approaches, and governance tips to ensure every page looks and feels on brand. Perfect for designers

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

SharePoint That Looks as Good as It Works

Learn how to keep your brand consistent and take advantage of the SharePoint brand center and site branding experiences to customize your SharePoint and Viva Connections portals.

This session explores best practices for creating themes and font packages as well as tips and tricks for creating beautiful sites and pages with design-centric techniques while keeping your sites accessible.

Wednesday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 335-336

Turning Over a New Leaf: The Reimagined OneDrive Experience:

OneDrive is where work and life come together, your files, your photos, and your collaboration, all in one place. In this all-up session, we'll take you on a complete tour of the OneDrive experience and everything that's new. Start on the modern OneDrive web experience, where finding, organizing, and acting on your content is faster than ever. Go deeper on Sync, the engine that keeps your files available everywhere, with the latest reliability, performance, and admin improvements. Then see how AI is transforming OneDrive from a storage layer into an intelligent assistant that helps you find, summarize, and work with your content. We'll spend time in Photos, showing how OneDrive keeps your memories organized and accessible, and walk through the collaboration experiences that make co-authoring and teamwork seamless. Finally, we'll unpack the new sharing model, a simpler, more secure, and more transparent way to control who has access to your content. Whether you're an admin, a power user, or just OneDrive-curious, you'll leave with a clear picture of where OneDrive is today and where it's headed.

Wednesday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 447-448

Intranets Reimagined: Practical Strategies to Ensure Your Intranet Drives AI-Ready Knowledge

Your intranet should be more than a static portal - it can become a dynamic workplace partner that helps shape communications, strengthens culture, supports decision-making, and serves as the authoritative foundation for AI. But many organizations struggle with scattered content, inconsistent messaging, and experiences that fail to meet employee expectations.

This session presents a practical blueprint for building or enhancing a modern intranet that delivers real impact using the latest features of SharePoint, Viva Engage, Teams, and Copilot. You will learn how to ensure that your intranet blends structured content, personalized experiences, and community engagement. We’ll explore how to create AI ready content models, build a trusted knowledge foundation, and create a governance framework to sustain quality over time.

You will leave with a clear roadmap for transforming your intranet into a strategic communications channel and a cohesive digital workplace hub - one that employees trust, leaders rely on, and AI can confidently use!

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 443-444

Leveraging Power Automate and Lists to Streamline a Chaotic Process

Asynchronous availability, procrastination, and lack of a clearly defined process meant that timesheet approvals before pay dates were a pain point for an entire organization. This session breaks down the List and Power Automate features used to bring some order to the chaos and includes a live demo of the solution in action.

Wednesday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM · Room 447-448

SharePoint Automation: 4 Design Patterns to Stop the Chaos

Are your SharePoint flows causing more noise than value? Many organizations struggle with "Spam-bots" - automated processes that dump unstructured data and overwhelm users with notifications. In this session, Microsoft MVPs Norm Young and Heidi Jordan will move beyond the basics of "When an item is created" to show you four proven architectural patterns for SharePoint automation.

We will demonstrate how to transition from flat lists to structured Document Sets, how to kill the "notification storm" with OData-driven digests, and how to automate the document lifecycle from draft to PDF. Whether you are a Site Owner or a Power User, you will leave with a blueprint for building smarter, cleaner, and more professional SharePoint solutions.

Wednesday 3:50 PM - 5:00 PM · Room 447-448

Case Document Management with Document Sets

In this session we will walk through how to enable and build Document Set Content types. We will explore features and configuration options. Join us as we explore uses for this folder 2.0.

In this session we will explore: What is it and how can it be used Plan
Build a Custom Document Set Document Set Settings Additional Configurations in the Library

Thursday 10:20 AM - 11:30 AM · Room 440-442

Reimagining Corporate Communications with Microsoft 365 and Copilot

In today’s fast-paced business environment, delivering consistent, engaging corporate communications across multiple channels is more critical - and more complex - than ever. This session explores how Microsoft 365, including SharePoint News, Viva Engage, Viva Amplify, and Copilot, can help you streamline and elevate your internal communications strategy. It will also help you decide "what to use when" when it comes to communications tools. Discover how you can use Copilot to help with content creation, targeting, and amplification, while enabling communicators to focus on storytelling and impact. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, you'll gain practical tips, fresh ideas, and a forward-looking perspective on the future of communications in the age of Copilot.

Thursday 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM · Room 447-448

Designing Modern Portals with SharePoint: Leveraging the Latest Features for Impactful Experiences

SharePoint’s latest innovations make it easier than ever to build portals that are not only functional but visually compelling and deeply engaging. This session explores how to use new design elements—like Flexible Sections, custom fonts, and enhanced branding tools—to create modern, user-friendly portals that reflect your organization’s identity. We’ll also cover how to integrate AI-powered features such as Copilot and SharePoint Agents to personalize content delivery and streamline user interactions. Whether you're refreshing an intranet or launching a new digital workspace, this session will equip you with the strategies and tools to build portals that are not only functional—but transformative.

Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM · Room 447-448

Ensure your intranet is ready for Copilot: How to plan an effective governance strategy

Are you tired of your intranet being a mess of unorganized, outdated, and non-compliant content? Do you have a governance plan that no one reads, follows, or cares about? Do you want to learn an approach to make your digital workplace more efficient, engaging, and secure? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you! Learn how to plan and implement a governance strategy for your intranet in a way that actually works – and provides a framework to help you prepare and deploy Copilot. Whether you are new to governance or a seasoned pro, this session will give you the tips, tricks, and templates you need to succeed!

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 447-448

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world? This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites. We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:10 PM · Room 435-436

Use What You Have: Leveraging No- and Low-Code Solutions in 365 to Enhance and Extend Your Intranet

In this practical session, discover easy-to-implement but impactful ways to enhance the functionality and visual appeal of your SharePoint implementation. You’ll leave with examples of formatting modifications that make life easier for users, simple Power Automate flows that help streamline internal processes, and other ways to add meaningful value without learning JavaScript or bringing in an outside development team.

Friday 9:00 AM - 10:10 AM · Room 447-448

News That Works: What to Share, Where to Share It, and Why It Matters

With so many ways to communicate—SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage, and Outlook—it can be hard to know which channel to use. This session breaks down the strengths of each platform and helps you match the right message to the right place. Learn how to deliver clearer, more effective organizational news that reaches your audience where they’re most likely to engage.

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

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy.

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:

1. Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
2. Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
3. Add conditional formatting to a calendar