TEC 2021 on-demand: Office 365 Management track

In this session, Tony Redmond will discuss how to combine the flexibility of PowerShell’s operations automation with the power and speed of Microsoft Graph APIs to get work done faster. This practical session features a variety of demonstrations.

Curtis Johnstone uses this session to give an overview of Teams Connect, better known as “Shared Channels”: a powerful new cross-organization collaboration capability in Microsoft Teams. Johnstone will discuss the user and administrative differences between Teams Connect and external sharing (federation), as well as guest access and collaboration policies.

In this session, Christina Wheeler will walk through how to create Flows with the latest Microsoft Teams template to aggregate and streamline your team’s approval process, as well as how to launch a Flow from a Teams bot, the deployment of the Request a Team app template and best practices when creating new team instances.

In this session, Ingo Gegenwarth will teach you how to manage EXO at scale with 10,000+ objects using PowerShell. You will also learn how to manage multiple tenants in one PowerShell session.

Hybrid identity management with Azure AD is slowly driving out Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs). In this session, Paul Robichaux discusses the most common use cases that have required GPOs, how to transition to device and application management using Intune and new capabilities in Microsoft 365 to ease the transition to a hybrid model and how to manage your applications and devices.

After migration to the cloud, you'll usually find you still need to run an Exchange Server. In this session, Steve Goodman will teach you why this is and what the challenges you’ll face, as well as the latest updates from Microsoft, mitigating security concerns, how to solve application integration issues and how to plan to completely remove Exchange from on-premises.

In this session, Sanjoyan Mustafi will teach you how you can use Sensitivity labels to “classify” and protect various resources in SharePoint Online. Mustaki will cover manual and automated ways to apply labels to documents hosted in SPO, applying labels to Teams, Sites and Groups, various related policies and what’s new on the Sensitivity Labels roadmap.

Your users’ mistakes and requests can be frustrating, but luckily, the rapid growth of Microsoft Teams and advances in AI mean that you can easily create bots to solve many of your user woes. In this session, Mark Rackley will show you how to use Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft Teams to create bots that can ask users specific questions, prompt them with options and quickly direct them to where they need to go, all without additional licensing costs to you.