Solutions Day 1: Learn how 6 real-world solutions are built with the Power Platform

Solutions Day took place on January 18th and showcased the 'art of the possible' by demonstrating how Microsoft's Power Platform can help to solve six real-world problems.

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Presenters

Multiple Experts

Suitable For

All Levels

Duration

6 Hours

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What you'll learn from the Solutions Day recordings:

  • Develop An In-House Staff Vacation Request App (And Not Spend A Fortune On Licenses).
  • Create A Site Check-In System To Improve Your Organizations Safety Responsibilities.
  • Build A Buffer Clone To Automate Your Social Media Marketing In The Power Platform.
  • Architect A Learning Management System (LMS) With The Power Platform And SharePoint.
  • Create Microsoft Teams Provisioning Solution To Allow For Better Governance!
  • Craft Rich Power BI Dashboards With Your SharePoint List Data.

Note: You can find 6 more Power Platform Solutions in Solutions Day 2

Want To Learn How To Build Real-World Solutions Using The Power Platform, Teams & SharePoint?

If you're looking to get ahead of the curve and build solutions on top of Microsoft's cutting-edge technology, then the recordings from Solutions Day are for you!

Watch as industry experts show how they developed six powerful solutions using Power Platform, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

With the content from Collab365 Solutions Day, you'll get insight into the tools and techniques you need to start creating amazing solutions for your business.

Is Solutions Day for you?

Our belief at Collab365 is that we learn better by building real-world solutions rather than struggling to apply theory based knowledge from courses that you quickly forget. So, if you'd like to see what is possible in the Power Platform by examining real-world solutions, this event content is ideal for you..

Solutions Day Agenda:

Solution 1: Learning Management System (LMS)

This session was presented by Dawid Ziolkowski MVP.

Dawid recently built a fully-featured Learning Management System (LMS) that's been "road-tested" by a large company. During this session, you will understand how he developed it (with no code) and the architectural design decisions before the build.

You will learn:

  • Create and manage Quizzes to ensure staff understood a lesson.
  • Embed the quizzes into the lesson modules to track student pass-rates.
  • Delivery of assignments so that managers can request that their staff do the training. 
  • Understand the security requirements of an LMS built on top of Microsoft 365.
  • Create the SharePoint Site that contains the content for the course pages.
  • Understand the lists required to manage the course and assignment data.
  • Monitor the overall activity on the LMS in a  Power BI dashboard.
  • Learn how to adapt a SharePoint Communications Site to suit an LMS. 

Solution 2: Microsoft Teams Provisioning Solution

This session was presented by Dawid Ziolkowski MVP.

Allowing staff to create brand new Teams "on-demand" can quickly lead to sprawl and security issues. So how do we solve the problem of staff asking for new teams without burdening the IT Team with hundreds of requests? In this session, Dawid will teach you how to develop a Teams provisioning process that manages "new Team" requests, approvals and the provisioning of new Teams.

You will learn:

  • Create a "new Team" request form in Power Apps and have it available in Teams.
  • Manage the requests for new Teams in a SharePoint List.
  • Send an adaptive card to Teams when a new request arrives.
  • Develop a process to manage approvals for new Teams.
  • Make a Power Apps Screen to support different languages.
  • Develop a Power BI Dashboard to monitor the requests over time.
  • Develop a Flow to provision a new Team on approval. 

Solution 3: Staff Vacation Request App

This session was presented by Nick Brattoli MVP.

If your company needs to manage the process of staff vacations then this session is for you. With not too much effort you can create a simple staff vacation request system on top of existing Microsoft 365 E3 & Power BI Pro licenses.

You will learn:

  • Create an application to submit and manage your vacation requests.
  • Deploy a SharePoint site/Microsoft Team to administratively track requests and approvals.
  • Develop a Power BI dashboard for administrators and leadership to see trends and analytics over time.
  • Develop a Microsoft list to store back-end data.
  • Compose an approval workflow to approve or reject vacation requests.

Solution 4: Site Check-In System to manage staff safety

This session was presented by Mark Stokes.

Do your staff work and meet in multiple locations? Ever wanted a system where you can track the location of your colleagues (in working hours)? This session will demonstrate how to use the Power Platform to develop the barebones of a staff check-in system. An application like this allows you to ensure that your staff are safe and secure.

You will learn:

  • Develop a Power App that allows a staff member to check-in to a location.
  • Create a directory of locations and "hotspots". 
  • Use your mobile's GPS capabilities to quickly find the "current location". 
  • Design an architect a solution on top of the power platform.

Solution 5: Rich Power BI Dashboards With SharePoint List Data.

This session was presented by Nate Chamberlain MVP.

SharePoint Lists are one of the simplest and most popular ways to store your organizational data. However, one of the challenges they present is quickly visualizing the data because a "View" only takes us so far.

This session will teach someone with no previous Power BI knowledge to transform their SharePoint list data into a beautiful, interactive dashboard. We'll start at square one, cover all the steps and requirements to create and publish a report, and end on some beginner-level Power BI basics so you can take your list visualizations to the next level.

You will learn:

  • Prepare your SharePoint Lists to make them easy to consume in Power BI.
  • Edit and manage your new Power BI Reports.
  • Publish your Reports so you can share with other users.
  • Provide access to published Reports.
  • Customize the report to suit your data storytelling needs.
  • Get started with Power BI.

Solution 6:  Buffer Clone To Automate Your Social Media Marketing

This session ws co-presented by Jon Manderville and Connor Deasey.

This session will demonstrate how we developed a social media manager that allows us to add content to a calendar via a Power App to be posted on a schedule. We show how we used Power Automate Desktop to post to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok without using their API's. 

You will learn:

  • Capture text, videos and images in a mobile powerapps.
  • Develop a social media schedule to define what should be posted to where and when. 
  • Created a Cloud Flow that creates the post by communicating to a dedicated machine using Power Automate Desktop.
  • Handle synchronisation of attachments from mobile devices to One Drive so that Power Automate Desktop can utilise them.
  • Created a web automation script that automatically posts to every social network. 
  • Catered for the different demands of each social platform by checking and validating text length and attachment types.
  • Kept end user up to date using data passed between Power Automate Cloud, Desktop, SharePoint and Power Apps.

This training includes:

  • All of the recordings from Solutions Day
  • Access to the Collab365 Academy
  • Watch on Desktop or Mobile

Meet your Trainers:

DAWID ZIOLKOWSKI MVP

I have worked for over a decade in IT and am passionate about processes and automation. I’m always looking for ways to move processes from paper to digital or increase efficiency. I have used Workflows 2010/2013, InfoPath, Nintex, K2, and, of course, Power Platform throughout my career so far.

Dawid Ziolkowski MVP
B3 Consulting
Mark Stokes

I am a software specialist who focuses on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office365 suite of applications and related technologies. I have been a specialist in this area since around 2005 with extensive development and management experience.

mark stokes
attollo
 Nate Chamberlain

Microsoft MVP, MCSA, M365 Enterprise Administrator Expert, and Automation Anywhere Certified Advanced RPA Professional with experience in higher education, healthcare, and corporate information technology and process improvement.

Nate Chamberlain MVP
Centriq Training
Connor Deasey, Trainer

Connor Deasey works on the Collab365 Team as Power Plaform trainer and is the Editor for the increasingly popular Collab365 Daily Digest Newsletter Service

connor deasey
Collab365
MVP, MCT, Collab365 Community Manager, And Independent Consultant

Nick Brattoli is an Ohio native, MVP, MCT, Collab365 Community Manager, and consultant. He’s worked in the IT Field for 16 years, 10 of which have been SharePoint-focused. Over the years, he’s worked in a variety of industries, such as Healthcare, Finance, Law, and Manufacturing.

Nick brattoli mvp
self-employed
Jon Manderville, Coach

Like Connor, Jon also works on the Collab365 Team as a Trainer. Jon is currently spending his days creating Solution Accelerators to help people develop usable solutions quickly and easily.

jon manderville
Collab365

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