by admin | May 23, 2019
The SharePoint Conference returns to Las Vegas: the world’s biggest and most comprehensive event empowering you to achieve more in the modern workplace with Microsoft 365.
SPC is where business leaders, IT pros, developers, consultants come together to learn how technology can power teamwork, employee engagement and communications, and organizational effectiveness.
CONNECT with industry gurus, thought leaders and Microsoft’s product groups
COLLABORATE with peers to share best practices and insights
CREATE solutions to your business challenges
CELEBRATE the launch of Microsoft’s latest innovations and our diverse and vibrant community
SPC is packed with over 200 sessions, panels and workshops for everyone who works with SharePoint and Microsoft 365, presented by Microsoft’s leaders and experts from around the world.
For the first time, Microsoft is hand-picking sessions for people who are new to Microsoft 365.
For seasoned veterans, you’ll learn what’s coming to the suite, and dive deep into practical guidance to help you plan, architect, deploy, support, and extend Microsoft technologies to address your business objectives.
SPC embraces all of Microsoft 365: SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Microsoft Stream, Outlook, Office applications, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and more.
SPC is an immersive, “actual reality” experience that brings the community together, from around the world. Don’t miss your chance to experience it! Register today.
by Staci Davidson | Mar 14, 2019
SharePoint administrators, end users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure technologies will meet on April 6th at the Houston Microsoft Technology Center located at 750 Town and Country Blvd. Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77042
Welcome to the future for the Houston Office 365 Saturday. We started as the Houston SharePoint Saturday, but have decided to move forward that involves everything available through Microsoft Office 365. SharePoint is still a building block for our businesses and now we can include so much more like Teams, Forms, Planner, OneNote, OneDrive and the list goes on.
by admin | Mar 14, 2019
Speaker Max Fritz will be presenting the below session
Anatomy of an Office 365 Breach
Ever wonder what it would take to breach the security of your Office 365 tenant? Come to this session and wonder no longer!
We’ll show some of the most common ways attackers are getting access to your tenants, identities and data in a live demo. More importantly, we’ll cover how to protect yourself from these breach points in the future, and even how to detect suspicious activity within your tenant.
BIO:
Max is an Office 365 and Azure Consultant at Now Micro, Inc. He focuses on improving collaboration and simplifying implementation, and has worked with Office 365 and SharePoint for the past seven years. He is a self-proclaimed geek, passionate about a broad range of messaging and collaboration tools and can’t stop talking about the technology he loves.
Max is the founder and leader of the Minnesota Office 365 User Group, and holds MCSA and MCSE Microsoft certifications. Max can be found speaking at SharePoint and Office 365 conferences all over the country.
by admin | Jun 22, 2018
Choose from over 130 Sessions in Multiple Tracks!
Attend SharePoint Fest – Seattle, where you’ll be able to attend technical classes and workshops – taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers, and Microsoft Regional Directors, MVPs & MCMs – covering Content Management, Power Users, Azure, Business Value, Implementation/Administration, Office 365, Workflow, Business Intelligence, Office 365 Development, Special Topics & SharePoint Development. Choose one complete learning track or mix & match based on what content best meets you and your organization’s current needs!
At SharePoint Fest – Seattle, there are sessions created for SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects and knowledge workers which will ensure that you and your team walk away with as much knowledge as you desire to truly leverage SharePoint in your current environment!
Great Reasons to Attend SharePoint Fest – Seattle:
- The technical classes and workshops at SharePoint Fest are focused on practical techniques and practices you can put to work today!
- Our expanded five-day SharePoint conference allows for more topics and additional expert speakers from the community!
- Get answers to your questions in the classroom, or as you mingle with speakers and peers at coffee breaks or at the evening cocktail reception!
- Bring a group of developers, IT pros and business teams to improve your whole organization’s skills – and get a discount to boot! Contact us for group registration discounts!
- Attend the SharePoint & Office 365 sessions that work best for you. With more than 150 classes and workshops to choose from, you can make SharePoint Fest your own custom SharePoint and Office 365 training event.
- See how the Microsoft SharePoint ecosystem is growing and evolving by speaking with technical experts from the local Microsoft field and diverse channels within the Microsoft Partner Network all in our exhibit hall!
- Learn from the brightest minds in the SharePoint & Office 365 universe! Many of our speakers are either Microsoft engineers or have achieved Microsoft MVP, Regional Director or MCM status based on their in-depth knowledge of SharePoint and Office 365.
Choose From Multiple Tracks:
- ECM Track: Sessions in this track will focus on Content Management as it relates to SharePoint and Office 365 technologies. Included in this track will be sessions on OneDrive, Intranets and Extranets as well as Web Publishing (WCM).
- Power User Track: Sessions in this track will focus on non-code solutions that allow business analysts and knowledge workers to leverage the power of SharePoint and Office 365.
- Office 365 Track: Microsoft’s cloud-based platform is having a dramatic impact on the way many organizations structure their IT functions. As more and more new features and capabilities come online, applications that previously were on-premise only can now be migrated to the cloud – resulting in dramatic cost savings as well as other operational advantages.
- Business Intelligence Track: Sessions in this track will focus on exposing, customizing, and extending SharePoint 2010 & 2013/16 Business Intelligence (BI) services like charting, Access services, Visio services, Excel services, PowerBI, PowerPivot, PowerView and PowerQuery.
- Business Value Track: Sessions in this track will focus on calculating the ROI and investment considerations for SharePoint and Office 365 as well as solutions that drive business value.
- Azure / 365 Development Track: Sessions in this track explore the new development functionality available to Office 365 developers with Azure Functions, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Graph and Cognitive Services,
- Search Track: Sessions in this track will focus on search as just one of several major categories of capabilities in SharePoint 2010 & 2013/16, but also will focus on enterprise search as a big investment area for Microsoft and an area where they’ve added depth at all levels in SharePoint 2010 & 2013/16. Discussed in this track will be Enterprise Search, Search & Records Management, & FAST for SharePoint.
- Workflow / Flow Track: Sessions in this track will focus on SharePoint workflow and highlight that SharePoint 2010 & SharePoint 2013/16 and SharePoint Online provide more choices in tooling to better fit the needs of those creating and maintaining workflow models. Also being part of this track are sessions on Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps..
- Implementation & Administration Track: Sessions in this track will focus on topics necessary for all SharePoint and Office 365 administrators throughout the planning, implementation, and management phases of their internal SharePoint and Office 365 deployments. Topics in this track include authentication, performance, recovery and storage management.
- SharePoint Developer Track: Sessions in this track will focus on how software developers can use the SharePoint 2010 or 2013/16 business collaboration platforms to build enterprise-class solutions and apps for intranet portals and the web.
- Special Topics Track: Sessions in this track are on topics outside the scope of the other tracks but are still related to SharePoint or Office 365.
by admin | Jun 22, 2018
Join us for the 6th SPS Events Charlotte event on Saturday, August 11th, 2018. SharePoint Saturday draws upon the expertise of local IT Professionals, Users of Technology, Developers and Solution Architects who come together to share their real-world experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and general knowledge with other like-minded individuals. SharePoint and its related Office 365 services will be covered.
