Microsoft Copilot and Viva Days ,2024 is a one-day virtual event organized by the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Cloud Security India User group on April 6th, 2024. While the last year’s event focussed only on Microsoft Viva, this year the focus was on both Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Viva so that the goodness of both the product suites can be covered in one single virtual event. This year’s event had two separate tracks, where-in one track was dedicated to Microsoft Copilot products and the second track was dedicated to Microsoft Viva products. The goal of this one-day virtual event is to cover all the aspects of Microsoft Copilot & Microsoft Viva so that the audience can get the best of both the worlds in this one single event.
We had close to 750 registrations and 200+ live attendees for this event. If you missed the sessions, then please use the link below to view all the session recordings and please do subscribe to this YouTube channel without fail so that you don’t miss any of our upcoming event recordings.
Also, if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our upcoming events.
India Cloud Security Summit, 2023 is a one-day free virtual event organized by the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Cloud Security India User group. This year’s event was held virtually on Dec 9th, 2023 and was organized by the Microsoft community members – Vignesh Ganesan, Jasjit Chopra, Narasima Perumal Chandramohan, Shrushti Shah, Dr. Abhilasha Vyas & Samik Roy. This year’s event will focus on the Cloud Security topics related to Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Endpoint security. This is the third Cloud Security event from the Microsoft Community in India followed by the first one which we had on 2021. You can find the recordings of last year’s event in this link. The ultimate goal of this one-day virtual event is to cover all the aspects of the Microsoft Cloud Security services. In this one-day virtual event we will deep-dive into Microsoft’s Cloud Security stack with hands-on sessions and labs, delivered to you by industry experts, Microsoft MVP’s and RD’s, Microsoft employees and community leaders from different parts of the world.
We had close to 1000 registrations and 300+ live attendees for this event. If you missed the sessions, then please use the link below to view all the session recordings and please to subscribe to this YouTube channel without fail to view all our session recordings.
Also, if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our upcoming events.
A few weeks back I had the opportunity to deliver a session on how to get your enterprise ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot on Copilot Day Virtual event organized by the Pune Tech Community . In this event I briefly spoke on these key topics given below
Introduction to Microsoft 365 copilot
The Copilot system & Semantic Index
Demo videos
M365 Copilot EAP & Licensing
Getting your enterprise ready for M365 Copilot
Next steps & useful resources
So, if this is something that you are interested on, then please go through the session recording below and I am also sharing the session slides for your reference. Good luck with your Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment and feel free to reach out to me for any questions or clarifications on this topic.
Microsoft Viva Days, 2023 is a one-day free virtual event organized by the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Cloud Security India User group. This year’s event was held virtually on Aug 12th, 2023 and was organized by the Microsoft community members – Vignesh Ganesan, Jasjit Chopra, Narasima Perumal Chandramohan & Shrushti Shah. This year’s event focussed on all the various features and capabilities of the Microsoft Viva family such as Microsoft Viva Connections, Microsoft Viva Topics, Microsoft Viva Insights, Microsoft Viva Learning, Microsoft Viva Goals, Microsoft Viva Sales, Microsoft Viva Engage & Viva answers etc. This is the second virtual event on Microsoft Viva from the Microsoft Community in India followed by the first one we had on 2022. You can find all the details about the previous event in this link. The ultimate goal of this one-day virtual event is to cover all the aspects of Microsoft Viva. In this one-day virtual event we did a deep-dive into all the Microsoft Viva modules with hands-on sessions and labs, delivered to you by industry experts, Microsoft MVP’s and RD’s, Microsoft employees and community leaders from different parts of the world.
We had close to 750 registrations and 100 live attendees for this event. If you missed the sessions, then please use the link below to view all the session recordings and please to subscribe to this YouTube channel without fail to view all our session recordings.
Also,if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our upcoming events.
If your work revolves around Microsoft 365, then tenant to tenant migrations shouldn’t be new to you. More than often you’d here your customers or the IT directors in your organization say that they’d like to have a seamless tenant to tenant migration approach to be developed and implemented. While this might look doable to an extent with advent of new tools and technologies in the market the reality is something else. The bitter truth is, there’s no such thing as a seamless migration and instead T2T migrations are just chaos, and it makes you feel that you’re constantly walking on eggshells because there a lot of moving parts involved in it and without a proper plan things could really go haywire in no time.
So, my wonderful fellow MVPs from Germany (i.e., Thomas Poett, Raphael Kollner, Michael Plettner & Ruud Gijsbers Rademakers (yet to become a MVP) )and I have put together a wonderful video series where we discuss in detail about the various aspects of a T2T migration. In this video we’ve discussed about how to plan for a T2T migration, how to deal with OneDrive data, Mailboxes, Power Platform components, Devices, Enterprise Voice, IDAM and Security and Compliance related stuff. So, it’s pretty much everything that you’d like to know when you’re planning for a T2T migration.
Here’s the link to all the session recordings on YouTube,
I hope these videos will help you to plan your T2T migrations in a much better manner and help you to avoid some mistakes that going to cost you a lot of bucks. Good luck!
Microsoft Purview Days, 2023 is a one-day free virtual event organized by the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Cloud Security India User group. This year’s event was held virtually on May 6th, 2023 and was organized by the Microsoft community members – Vignesh Ganesan, Jasjit Chopra, Narasima Perumal Chandramohan, Shrushti Shah, & Tushar Kumar. Microsoft Purview provides a unified data governance solution to help manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data.This event is the first of its kind from the Microsoft Community in India and the goal of this one-day virtual event is to cover all the aspects of the Microsoft Purview solutions. The main focus of this one-day virtual event is to deep-dive into all the Microsoft Purview topics with hands-on sessions and labs, delivered to you by industry experts, Microsoft MVP’s and RD’s, Microsoft employees and community leaders from different parts of the world.
We had close to 600 registrations and 100 live attendees for this event. If you missed the sessions, then please use the link below to view all the session recordings and please to subscribe to this YouTube channel without fail to view all our session recordings.
Also,if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our events.
In a world that is interconnected, organizations need to freely collaborate across boundaries, because connections with partners, vendors, and customers have always been very critical for any business to succeed. In addition to that, more than ever before, the need to collaborate with external partners in Teams with the same ease and efficiency that you would normally collaborate within your own company employees has also become very important. The old model simply will not work for the new business needs because time is key for any business to succeed. So, we need a solution that is secure, governable, compliant and most of all something that overcomes the challenges that we had in the past. So, Microsoft Teams Connect brought that dream to reality. In this blog post we will discuss about what is Microsoft Teams connect shared channels, how to set it up and how to securely collaborate using shared channels.
For demo purpose, we would be using two users here who belongs to two different tenants.
Tenant 1:
Domain – vigneshganesan.com
User – vijaianand@vigneshganesan.com
Tenant 2:
Domain – vigneshcloud.com
User – vijai@vigneshcloud.com
In Tenant 1, user will create a shared channel and share it with Tenant 2 user. Tenant 2 user can access the Tenant 1 shared channel without switching the organization in Microsoft Teams.
In the left navigation, expand Teams and click Teams Policies.
Click the Teams policy for which you want to enable shared channels, turn on the shared channels and click Apply. The following options are available as part of shared channel.
Create Shared Channels – Team owners can create shared channels for people within and outside the organization. Only people added to the shared channel can read and write messages.
Invite external users to shared channels – Owners of a shared channel can invite external users to join the channel, if Azure AD external sharing policies are configured. If the channel has been shared with an external member or team, they will continue to have access to the channel even if this control is turned off.
Join external shared channels – Users and teams can be invited to external shared channels, if Azure AD external sharing policies are configured. If a team in your organization is part of an external shared channel, new team members will have access to the channel even if this control is turned off.
Step 2: Enable external access to users
In this step, you will see how to enable external access to users so that they can participate in external meetings and to see external participants’ presence in the channel. This step needs to be performed in both the tenants (Tenant 1 & Tenant 2).
In the left navigation, expand Users and click External access.
Under Teams and Skype for Business users in external organizations section, select Allow all external domains option from the dropdown.
Step 3: Enable shared channels with all external organizations
In this step, you will see how to enable shared channels with all external organizations access to users so that they can participate in external meetings and to see external participants’ presence in the channel. To achieve this, B2B direct connect default settings should be changed to allow all organizations. This step needs to be performed in both the tenants (Tenant 1 & Tenant 2).
Note: We can allow access to specific organizations also.
Note: Changes to cross-tenant access settings may take up to six hours to take effect.
Step 4: Create Shared Channel in Teams
In this step, you will see how to create a shared channel in Microsoft Teams app. This step needs to be performed by the user in Tenant 1.
Open Microsoft Teams.
Navigate to the Team where you need to create the shared channel, click more options (…) and then click Add Channel.
Enter the channel name, select Shared option from Privacy drop down and click Create.
Step 5: Share Channel with external users
In this step, you will see how to share channel with external users. This step needs to be performed by Tenant 1 user.
Open Microsoft Teams.
Navigate to the shared channel, click more options (…) -> Share Channel-> With people.
Enter the email address of the user and click Share.
Click Close.
Step 6: Access the shared channel
In this step, you will see how to access the shared channel without switching the organizations in Microsoft Teams. This step needs to be performed by the Tenant 2 user.
Open Microsoft Teams.
Login using Tenant 2 user.
You can view the shared channel in Teams as shown below without switching the organization.
So finally in this blog post we saw how to enable Teams shared channel as an admin and how your users can share the channel with external participants so that they can access the content in the shared channel without switching the organization in Microsoft Teams.
India Cloud Security Summit, 2022 is a one-day free virtual event organized by the Microsoft 365, Power Platform & Cloud Security India User group. This year’s event was held virtually on Oct 29th, 2022 and was organized by the Microsoft community members – Vignesh Ganesan, Jasjit Chopra, Narasima Perumal Chandramohan, Shrushti Shah, & Mythili Ranganathan. In this year’s event we focussed on Cloud Security topics related to Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Endpoint security. This is the second Cloud Security event from the Microsoft Community in India followed by the first one which we had on August 2021.This event had close to 50 sessions with three different tracks and we had speakers from different parts of the world who joined virtually and shared their knowledge and expertise on various Microsoft Cloud Security services. Our speakers line up included Microsoft MVPs and RDs, Microsoft engineering and Sales team members, Industry leaders and Cybersecurity experts.
We had close to 1200 registrations and 300 live attendees for this event. If you missed the sessions, then please use the link below to view all the session recordings and please to subscribe to this YouTube channel without fail to view all our session recordings.
Also,if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our events.
Microsoft Viva Days 2022 is the first-ever event in India for Microsoft Viva products. It was held on May 14th and organized by Microsoft community members – Jasjit Chopra, Narasima Perumal Chandramohan, Vignesh Ganesan, Shrushti Shah, & Mythili Ranganathan. This was a one-day virtual event which saw great success and participation from all around the globe. More than 550 people registered themselves to attend the event. The registrations and attendances both exceeded our expectations and we had around 80+ attendees.
The goal of the event was to make people aware of and to give them a deeper knowledge about Microsoft Viva products – topics, learnings, connections & insights. We conducted a total of 11 sessions which received a lot of enthusiasm in the form of questions and answers from the speakers in the chat. The sessions were delivered by renowned Microsoft MVPs, MCTs, MCPs, experts, and community leaders & speakers from different places of the world.
Special thanks to all speakers who helped make this event a success (Vignesh Ganesan, Manpreet Singh, Abhijeet Jadhav, Narasima Perumal, Shrushti Shah, Aroh Shukla, Nanddeep Nachan, Smita Nachan, Siddharth Vaghasia, Kat Greenan, Ana Inés Urrutia, Sara Fennah, Lesley Crook & Merethe Stave).
You can find all the details about the event on the event website www.microsoftvivadays.com and for those who missed the event, please find the session recordings below.
Also,if you’re not a member of the Microsoft365,Power Platform and Cloud Security India meetup group then please use the link below to become a member so that you can be a part of all our events.
Vignesh's SharePoint Thoughts 