With less than two weeks until Microsoft Ignite 2017, the SharePoint and OneDrive team and MVP speakers are firing on all cylinders to finalize their sessions for this year's conference. And while the Ignite session catalog is live at https://myignite.microsoft.com, choosing from over 1,400 sessions can take some time even for the veteran attendee. But have no fear, we are here to help! If you're passionate about SharePoint and OneDrive here are the recommended sessions to get you started along with a full list of 70+ SharePoint and OneDrive sessions in the attached guides.
Pre-Day Sessions
We start by hitting the ground running with three great pre-day sessions on Sunday, September 25 to jumpstart your learning.
- PRE08 - Get started with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 and Office 365 hybrid scenarios Learn from an all-star cast of SharePoint experts in a workshop designed to give you the deep technical knowledge to deploy SharePoint Server 2016 as well as design and implement the latest hybrid scenarios including search, auditing, taxonomy and more.
- PRE11 - The SharePoint mobile and intelligent intranet: Empowering you, your teams, and your organiz... Join members of the SharePoint product group and top MVPs for a deep dive into best practices for building an intranet with SharePoint that empowers you, your teams, and your organization to achieve more. For more details and the full description, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Ignite-2017-SharePoint-workshop/ba-p/104879
- PRE09 - Office 365 Platform: Learn to build enterprise-ready apps with Microsoft Graph, SharePoint a... Roll up your sleeves for some hands-on time working with what's new for developers on the Office 365 platform. Members of the Office product teams and MVPs show you new ways to design and build secure, modern, intelligent productivity solutions.
General Sessions
This first official days of Ignite bring several great keynote and general sessions allowing you to better understand our vision, new capabilities and roadmap as you start to deep dive into what's new.
- GS09 - Microsoft 365: Unlock creativity and empower teamwork in the modern workplace Corporate Vice Presidents Ron Markezich and Jeff Teper give you an inside look at the latest collaboration tools and use cases, exciting demos, and what other customers are doing to bring creativity and teamwork to life in the modern workplace. Monday, September 26, 4:00pm
- BRK2184 - Accelerate your digital transformation with SharePoint and OneDrive Join Jeff Teper and members of the SharePoint and OneDrive product team as they share the latest product innovations, demos and roadmap. This is a can't miss session for any fan of SharePoint and OneDrive. Tuesday, September 27, 9:00am
Key Topic Breakouts
In addition to Jeff Teper's general session on Tuesday morning we encourage you to attend our key topic breakout sessions for a deeper dive into all things SharePoint and OneDrive where we will explore specific business value, usage scenarios, and provide comprehensive feature coverage.
Share and work together
- BRK2205 - OneDrive - Past, Present, and Future Hear Stephen Rose and Jason Moore share how we celebrated 10 years of OneDrive by being named a leader by Gartner and launched over 100 new features since last Ignite. They'll talk about what's next for file share and sync as well as how Lowe's is using OneDrive to change how they engage with each other and their customers. If you are considering OneDrive or are newly deployed, this is the must attend session. Tuesday, September 26, 10:45am
- BRK2206 - Share and work together on the intranet with SharePoint team sites Jeremy Mazner and Mark Kashman will show how Microsoft SharePoint team sites are the anchor of content-centric collaboration for Office 365 Groups. They'll highlight improvements in creating and customizing SharePoint team sites, and integrating documents, lists, pages and news across sites and with other Office 365 services like Planner and Microsoft Teams. Come learn how to make SharePoint a perfect fit for the way your organization works. Tuesday, September 26, 12:30pm
Inform and engage people
- BRK2207 - Inform and engage employees with SharePoint communications sites and news Join Mark Kashman and Andy Haon as they share what new and coming to communication sites, modern pages, authoring canvas, and SharePoint News system that engages users with published content wherever they work. Tuesday, September 26, 2:15pm
Transform business process
- BRK2224 - Transform business process with SharePoint, PowerApps, and Flow for biz apps, forms, and a... Chris McNulty and Kerem Yuceturk show how you can leverage no-code and low-code applications such as Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Flow, and Microsoft PowerApps connected with SharePoint to transform your business process. They'll also showcase how NASCAR is doing this to empower their employees and vendors each and every race day. Tuesday, September 26, 10:45am
Harness collective knowledge
- BRK2181 - Accelerate productivity with search and discovery in SharePoint and Office 365 Search gurus, Kathrine Hammervold and Naomi Moneypenny, show how we're using insights across Microsoft Office to create highly relevant, personalized search experiences. You'll learn how search supports multi-national corporations and how hybrid search works with the Microsoft Graph. Additionally, they share the roadmap for enterprise search in SharePoint and Office 365 and the convergence of FAST and Bing search innovations. Monday, September 25, 2:15pm
- BRK2226 - Harness collective knowledge with SharePoint content services (ECM) Chris McNulty & Ian Story will share how we continue to push Enterprise Content Management (ECM) forward into the modern content services world. In this session, we review our investments and roadmap to help you create, coordinate, protect and reuse content in SharePoint. Wednesday, September 27, 9:00am
Protect and manage
- BRK2229 - Secure your SharePoint and OneDrive content in a new world of work Navjot Virk and Bill Baer will share how we are making Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive more secure for users, implementing and continuously improving security-aware software development, operational management, and threat-mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of your services and data. Tuesday, September 26, 4:00pm
Server and co-existence
- BRK2422 - Discover SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 2 and Beyond Troy Starr, Hani Loza and Bill Baer will discuss the key tenets that drive our SharePoint Server 2016 investments, detail of those investment areas, and the roadmap for SharePoint Server moving forward. Wednesday, September 27, 9:00am
- BRK2225 - Dive into Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint hybrid scenarios Sesha Mani and Bill Baer will cover the array of hybrid capabilities enabling you to cloud-accelerate your on-premises deployment. They will also showcase how Statoil is leveraging their on-premises SharePoint investment with a recent hybrid search implementation. Wednesday, September 27, 2:15pm
Extend and develop
- BRK2249 - Microsoft Office 365 platform overview For all the Office 365 developers out there, you won't want to miss Rob Howard and Tristan Davis sharing the latest of what Office 365 has to offer developers and power users alike. Monday, September 26, 2:15pm
- BRK2250 - SharePoint Development in the Enterprise Learn from Daniel Kogan the entire landscape of how you can extend SharePoint to add the tools and customizations every team wants, from small branding tweaks all the way up through full collaboration applications. Tuesday, September 26, 4:00pm
Connecting the workplace with SharePoint and Yammer
The modern intranet drives digital transformation by connecting people with expertise and knowledge from across the organization. SharePoint and Yammer connect the workplace to inform and engage employees, and to let you share and work together on the intranet and extranet. There are more than 50 sessions featuring Yammer, and here are a few we strongly recommend:
- BRK2103 - Connecting your company with Yammer: Vision and roadmap Learn about recent innovation in Yammer, and get insight into the overall product strategy and roadmap. This must-see session will cover exciting news from new capabilities within the Yammer experience to enhanced integrations with Microsoft 365. Monday, September 25, 2:15pm
- BRK2162 - Achieve more in Yammer through O365 integrations Get a deep dive into recent and upcoming innovation for greater integration between Yammer and the other powerful services and tools in the suite such as Office 365 groups and SharePoint. Tuesday, September 26, 12:00pm
- BRK2185 - Build your personalized and social intranet with SharePoint, Yammer, Delve, OneDrive and T... Hear how other companies have recently built their intelligent intranets and learn how to use capabilities of SharePoint, OneDrive, Office Delve, Yammer, Microsoft Teams to create cohesive experiences for productivity and cohesive digital culture. Thursday, September 28, 4:00pm
AMA Style wrap to the week
After you've had a chance to attend the above sessions as well as 300-400 level breakout sessions we'll close the week with three great Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions so you can leave Ignite fully informed and ready to implement all you've learned when you return to work.
- BRK3258 - Unplug with the experts on SharePoint September 28th, 2:15pm
- BRK3244 - Unplug with the experts on OneDrive September 28th, 4:30pm
- BRK2247 - Learn from MVPs: Panel discussion on all things SharePoint and OneDrive September 29th, 10:45am
Hopefully this post will help you build your schedule and get the most out of your time at this year's conference. Are there other SharePoint and OneDrive sessions you'd recommend? Share them below!
Safe travels and we look forward to seeing you all in Orlando!
