This workshop is designed to introduce the value of Microsoft 365 to you and your company when you are at an early stage of the cloud transformations, using Exchange, Skype for Business on-premises, or industry point solutions.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Understanding customer business objectives and envisioning priority scenarios to enable secure work from anywhere
- Evaluating options and implications to enable secure remote work scenarios
- Defining activation plans, and risks and mitigations for a successful deployment and adoption
Current challenges addressed in the workshop
Topics covered during the day
- Understanding customer business objectives and envisioning priority scenarios to enable secure work from anywhere
- Evaluating options and implications to enable secure remote work scenarios
- Defining activation plans, and risks and mitigations for a successful deployment and adoption
After the workshop
You will get defined activation plans, and risks and mitigation actions for a successful deployment and adoption of Microsoft 365
Next step after the workshop
After the workshop we can continue working with you to ensure you enable frontline workers.
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• An assessment
• A Proof of Concept
• A Project
• A combination of above or all
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Who will hold the workshop?
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Collaboration and Communication
- Enable Frontline
- Transition to Cloud
- Digital Wellbeing
- Hybrid Meetings and Rooms
- Microsoft Viva Suite
- Microsoft Viva Insights
- Modernize Communications
- The practical approach to tasks in Teams
- Microsoft Viva Engage
- Understand Microsoft 365
Enable Frontline
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
In this workshop, we will assess your frontline worker's needs, help you understand the potential of easy onboarding with SMS authentication, and how Microsoft Teams can be the information hub replacing physical info boards.
Frontline workers are the backbone of your organization. Make them strong!
Topics covered during the workshop
- Presenting Microsoft Viva Connection Dashboard
- Learning good practice for Culture and Digital Wellbeing
- Delve into employee and resource onboarding, licensing and SMS-authentication
- Examine improved and automated processes and ways of collaboration and communication
After the workshop
You will clearly understand how Microsoft 365 for frontline workers can empower your employees. You will have a business case ready to address the frontline worker’s business challenges and understand the potential of easy onboarding with SMS authentication and recommendations based on the frontline worker’s scenarios.
Transition to Cloud
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Topics covered during the workshop
- Understanding customer business objectives and envisioning priority scenarios to enable secure work from anywhere
- Evaluating options and implications to enable secure remote work scenarios
- Defining activation plans, and risks and mitigations for a successful deployment and adoption
After the workshop
You will get defined activation plans, and risks and mitigation actions for a successful deployment and adoption of Microsoft 365
Digital Wellbeing
1 day event
Digital Wellbeing nurtures individual productivity, collaboration and an empathic culture. This may not be a brand-new philosophy but it has a new level of importance and recent research makes it clear how empathy is the leadership competency to develop and demonstrate now and in the future of work as contributes to positive relationships and increased productivity.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Notifications in Microsoft Teams and mobile apps
- How to tune your social media platforms so that they become less overwhelming and more like the useful tool it was designed to be
- Work is a mindset, not a place, learn how to mute work apps when you are not working
- How to take vacation, this is a skill everyone needs to learn
After the workshop
By the end of this workshop, you will be conscious about notifications in your life, which will remove unnecessary interruptions and help you focus on what you are doing. Next simple step is to go to Settings on your devices and make the changes. Then pay it forward and share digital wellbeing insights with friends, family and colleagues and help them be conscious about managing notifications in their lives too
Hybrid Meetings and Rooms
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Meeting rooms have undergone a significant transition in the last few years, once the only space where people could collaborate in a company, then made swiftly defunct by COVID. Meeting rooms are now finding their feet again, but times have changed. Users now expect a first-class meeting experience regardless of where they participate; in the room, at home, in another office or on the road.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Looking at Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams usage data
- Exploring on feedback from end-users about current meeting challenges
- Exploring different device types and how they impact the overall meeting experience
- Overview of Microsoft Teams meeting policies and controls
- Making sure you know how the meeting experience can be controlled for users and guests alike
- Reviewing hybrid meeting culture to ensure that everyone has a front-row view
After the workshop
- By the end of this workshop, you will know how to elevate your meeting experience for all participants
- You will be able to host safe and secure meetings for both internal and external users
- You will know how to evaluate the on-going quality of your meeting experiences
Microsoft Viva Suite
Microsoft Workshop
Discover how Microsoft Viva helps your organization deliver personalized experiences to your employees and make them thrive.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Culture and communications: Microsoft Viva Connections
- Knowledge and expertise: Microsoft Viva Topics
- Skilling and growth: Microsoft Viva Learning
- News and views: Viva Engage
After the workshop
You will have a clear understanding of how to get started with Microsoft Viva Connections which is included in the Microsoft 365 license. You will have a business case ready for how to get started with Microsoft Viva Topics and Microsoft Viva Learning.
Microsoft Viva Insights
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Discover Microsoft Viva Insights, which helps individuals, managers, and leaders gain personalized insights and actionable recommendations that help everyone in your organization thrive. Microsoft Viva Insights is one of the Microsoft Viva modules laid on top of the Microsoft Teams interface which is part of Microsoft 365 applications.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Understand the impact of work patterns on productivity and wellbeing
- Provide privacy-protected insights and actionable recommendations
- Address complex challenges with advanced tools and capabilities
After the workshop
You will have next steps on how you can utilize built in reports to get ROI from day one. You will also have a business case for diving further in to customized analytics and operationalize Viva Insights
Modernize Communications
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
We will help you and your company to experience Microsoft Teams Phone capabilities and calling scenarios through this in-person or virtual workshop. We will help you make an informed decision when choosing between Calling Plans vs. Operator Connect vs. Direct Routing to enable your users with telephony in Teams. CloudWay has many years of experience delivering telephony for Teams and Skype for Business and will share best practices and insights into what can be automated.
Topics covered during the workshop
- An evaluation of your current telephony and PBX needs
- Environmental and workload analysis, including current infrastructure and telephony estate
- The “Art of the Possible” for Teams Phone – a combination of presentations and immersive experiences that will give you insight and excitement about Teams Phone capabilities and identify migration strategies
- End-to-end Teams Phone experience demonstration showcasing the viability of Microsoft Teams as your telephony solution
- Guidance about how to transition various user profiles into a modern collaboration and communication environment
- Services showcase featuring versatile offerings across Operator Connect, Direct Routing, and Microsoft Calling Plans
- Third-party showcase featuring a rich portfolio of applications and devices that can complement the Teams Phone experience
- Customized, actionable recommendations you can follow to enable and adopt Microsoft Teams Phone
After the workshop
You will have a plan for how to deliver telephony to your users and a ready-made project plan for tech pilot, business pilot, and org. wide rollout.
The practical approach to tasks in Teams
You know how to create and complete tasks. But do you really know how to succeed with tasks? Learn a practical approach to working with tasks in Teams and Microsoft 365 from MVP Ståle Hansen. He has been teaching his methodology for over 5 years. You WILL learn something new in this workshop, which might even change your life!
Topics covered during the workshop
- All the methods of capturing tasks in Teams
- Sorting and organizing tasks in Teams
- Breaking tasks and goals into actionable steps
- Prioritizing and executing the most important task for you at that time
- Hacking the custom focusing status in Teams for deep work
After the workshop
You will clearly understand which tool to use for task management in Microsoft 365 and have a robust system for long-term success with tasks as an individual.
Microsoft Viva Engage
Research tells us that 43% of leaders believe building professional relationships is the top challenge for remote work. Viva Engage builds on Yammer Communities enabling the free flow of news and views with new expressive features in Storylines to connect and follow colleagues. Integrated into Teams and Outlook just the same as Yammer with Microsoft 365 security, privacy, compliance, and eDiscovery administration and policies.
Topics covered during the workshop
- How Microsoft Viva Engage cross-pollinates with other tools and features with Microsoft Graph
- Fundamentals of Working Out Loud
- Sharing Experiences, Storylines, and Followers
- When to use which channel in the Microsoft 365 Suite to best engage employees
After the workshop
- You will have a clear understanding of how to get started with Microsoft Viva Engage and/or a Yammer transition plan.
- A Communication Strategy
- Engaging Conversation Starters
- Champion Strategy
Understand Microsoft 365
This workshop is designed to get organizations started with Microsoft 365 secure productivity. Microsoft 365 is the toolbox for being productive within IT security policies. Learn the Microsoft 365 story from a Teams perspective and understand how to get started with Microsoft 365 the right way.
What you will learn: Actionable recommendations for implementing secure productivity
Topics covered during the workshop
- Understand the Microsoft 365 licensing options
- Master the Microsoft Teams story
- Migrate to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online
- Succeed with OneDrive for Business
- Go back up less with retention policies
- Go back up less with eDiscovery
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- SPF & DKIM
- Secure devices with Intune
- Secure identities with Azure AD
- Conditional AccessTarget Audience
After the workshop
After the workshop, you will know the correct thinking for adopting Microsoft 365 secure productivity.
About Assessments
We help you discover what you didn’t know about your Microsoft 365 platform.
Microsoft 365 Assessments
- The Microsoft 365 assessment gives you full overall:
- Platform and adoption status
- Overview of components that is not implemented and components that could be improved
- Help to prioritize tasks and activity
Proof Of Concept
CloudWay can run Proof of Concept for all topics mentioned under Workshops and Assessments.
Discovery:
- Map
- Needs, requirements and delivery criteria
- Roles and responsibilities (including ownership for respective areas)
- Technical landscape
- Digital strategy
- Analyse current setup and plans so far, including reports from productivity score, usage reports, and other relevant reports
- Clarify expectations, ownership, roles and responsibilities in the project
Based on Discovery results draw up a roadmap with clear delivery activities and outcome and roles/responsibilities
Handover to customer
Estimated hours: 75-100*
- Discovery
- PoC and recommendations
- Meeting/workshop to go through report/recommendations
*Depending on customers resources and engagement. Optional to extend with 75-100 more hours.
Regarding resource requirement it is hard to state before we know who, and for which activities, the customer and/or other parties who will be involved. Any good practice shows that clear ownership and involvement from key internal stakeholder is important.
Projects
Projects where CloudWay succeeds are when we work with a customer or partner who believes what we believe. We believe in best practice implementations using all the tools available for secure productivity. Our goal is to transfer knowledge and to help customers do cloud operations the right way.
Governance & Compliance
- Discover Sensitive Data
- Mitigate Compliance and Privacy Risks
- Protect and Govern your data in Microsoft 365
- Improve your compliance and risk posture
Discover Sensitive Data
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Compliance in Microsoft 365 is about protecting your data using retention policies, sensitivity labels and data loss prevention. This is a workshops focusing on how to get started with compliance and is designed to provide you with examples of privacy and regulatory risks in the organizational data contained within their own Modern Work environments. The workshop helps you create a plan to get started with remediating the risks through Microsoft 365 E5-associated technologies.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Uncovering data risks in your company’s environment
- Building your company confidence and mitigating risk through data-driven analytics and visualization
- Discussing the need for third part backup in Microsoft 365
- Identifying compliance solutions in Microsoft 365 that reduce privacy and regulatory risks and help meet compliance expectations
After the workshop
You will have clear understanding of how to get started with Microsoft 365 compliance solutions in your environment.
Mitigate Compliance and Privacy Risks
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
This is an advanced compliance workshops focusing on automating discovery of data leaks and data theft within their Modern Work environments. Through this workshop, you will be able to identify deviations from common corporate policies using Microsoft 365.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Uncover risky user activities in your company’s environment
- Discover privacy, policy, and regulatory risks, by evaluating user communication inside the organization
- Help you and your team to better understand, prioritize, and mitigate the identified privacy and regulatory risks
After the workshop
You will have a clear understanding of advanced compliance features through automation to mitigate data loss and data theft.
Protect and Govern your data in Microsoft 365
With data growing exponentially over time, it’s more important than ever for organisations to implement the right tools and processes to ensure data protection and governance.
Topics covered during the workshop
This “Art of the Possible” workshop will demonstrate how to discover, classify, protect and govern your organisation’s vital business data in Microsoft 365. You will discover
- Why data protection and governance are top of mind
- The importance of the right label taxonomy and protection policies to balance the need of security and productivity
- How to start your data protection and governance journey
After the workshop
Improve your compliance and risk posture
With data growing exponentially over time, it’s more important than ever for organisations to implement the right tools and processes to manage compliance risks, stay up-to-date with regulatory requirements, and keep their most important asset, data, safe.
Topics covered during the workshop
This “Art of the Possible” workshop will demonstrate. Learn how to use Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to help you understand how to improve your risk and manage regulatory compliance posture in Microsoft 365.
Learn how to simplify compliance and reduce to risk to safeguard your organisation’s compliance posture in today’s rapidly evolving landscape.
After the workshop
Recommendations and best practices on how to develop a phased deployment plan to improve your risk and manage regulatory compliance posture in Microsoft 365
About Assessments
We help you discover what you didn’t know about your Microsoft 365 platform.
Microsoft 365 Assessments
- The Microsoft 365 assessment gives you full overall:
- Platform and adoption status
- Overview of components that is not implemented and components that could be improved
- Help to prioritize tasks and activity
Proof Of Concept
CloudWay can run Proof of Concept for all topics mentioned under Workshops and Assessments.
Discovery:
- Map
- Needs, requirements and delivery criteria
- Roles and responsibilities (including ownership for respective areas)
- Technical landscape
- Digital strategy
- Analyse current setup and plans so far, including reports from productivity score, usage reports, and other relevant reports
- Clarify expectations, ownership, roles and responsibilities in the project
Based on Discovery results draw up a roadmap with clear delivery activities and outcome and roles/responsibilities
Handover to customer
Estimated hours: 75-100*
- Discovery
- PoC and recommendations
- Meeting/workshop to go through report/recommendations
*Depending on customers resources and engagement. Optional to extend with 75-100 more hours.
Regarding resource requirement it is hard to state before we know who, and for which activities, the customer and/or other parties who will be involved. Any good practice shows that clear ownership and involvement from key internal stakeholder is important.
Projects
Projects where CloudWay succeeds are when we work with a customer or partner who believes what we believe. We believe in best practice implementations using all the tools available for secure productivity. Our goal is to transfer knowledge and to help customers do cloud operations the right way.
Security, Identity & Endpoints
Endpoint Management
3 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Ninety-five percent of organizations allow personal devices in the workplace1 while 70 million smartphones are lost every year. The Endpoint Management Workshop is a three-day engagement where we will showcase the value of Microsoft 365, leading with Microsoft Endpoint Manager to show you how to manage users’ devices, apps, and identities from anywhere.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Teaching you and your colleagues about how you can improve your current endpoint and device management practices using Microsoft Endpoint Manager
- Demonstrating how we can discover existing endpoints using your tenant capabilities, and protecting you from threats
- Securing your company’s identities with easy-to-use multifactor authentication and automatic, risk-based conditional access from any device
- Enabling users to be productive by giving them access to the apps they need on whichever device they want to use
After the workshop
You will get prescriptive guidance about how to design and deploy Endpoint Management solutions to strengthen security throughout the organization.
Hybrid Cloud Security
3 day event
Microsoft Workshop
Get a customized threat & vulnerability analysis of your hybrid and multi-cloud environment and learn how to build a more robust cloud security system. Get help achieving your broader security objectives—and identify current and real threats—by scheduling a Microsoft Hybrid Security Workshop.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Discover threats and vulnerabilities in your hybrid environment
- Learn how to prioritize and mitigate potential threats to your servers and services.
- Understand what can be done to reduce the attack surface area for hybrid workloads
- Learn about benefits and capabilities of Azure Defender and Azure Network Security
- Develop defined next steps based on your needs and objectives.
After the workshop
- Identified current, ongoing risks to your cloud environment
- Actionable next steps, based on your specific needs and objectives
- Document your security priorities and needs for the benefit of key stakeholders
- Better understanding of how to accelerate your security journey using the latest tools
Securing Identities
1 day event
Microsoft Workshop
The Microsoft Securing Identities Workshop is designed to help you assess the maturity of their identity estates. By using Secure Score and application discovery tools, you can gain visibility into your current identity estates. We can work together with you to define clear next steps and the best ways to mitigate risks.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Get a rating of your identity security posture and see how it compares to your peers
- Gain insights into apps used in your environment – even ones unsanctioned by IT
- Understand how to prevent identities from being compromised
- Learn how to reduce costs and improve business agility and security with simplified app access
After the workshop
You will have a clear understanding of how to protect your identities, a good overview of prerequisites and be comfortable using the secure score to drive your security posture forward.
Threat Protection
3 day event
Microsoft Workshop
The Threat protection workshops enables your organization protect their environments from an ever-evolving threat landscape. This workshop is designed to understand the security toolbox of Microsoft 365 and deploying advanced Microsoft Security products.
Topics covered during the workshop
- Understanding your security goals and objectives
- Identifying security threats using a Microsoft 365 E5 trial
- Providing an overview of the Microsoft Security end-to-end story
- Showcasing product capabilities through newly designed rich demos
- Developing joint plans and recommending next steps
After the workshop
You will understand and be able to identify potential cyber attacks, and define a security strategy with actionable recommendations.
About Assessments
We help you discover what you didn’t know about your Microsoft 365 platform.
Microsoft 365 Assessments
- The Microsoft 365 assessment gives you full overall:
- Platform and adoption status
- Overview of components that is not implemented and components that could be improved
- Help to prioritize tasks and activity
Proof Of Concept
CloudWay can run Proof of Concept for all topics mentioned under Workshops and Assessments.
Discovery:
- Map
- Needs, requirements and delivery criteria
- Roles and responsibilities (including ownership for respective areas)
- Technical landscape
- Digital strategy
- Analyse current setup and plans so far, including reports from productivity score, usage reports, and other relevant reports
- Clarify expectations, ownership, roles and responsibilities in the project
Based on Discovery results draw up a roadmap with clear delivery activities and outcome and roles/responsibilities
Handover to customer
Estimated hours: 75-100*
- Discovery
- PoC and recommendations
- Meeting/workshop to go through report/recommendations
*Depending on customers resources and engagement. Optional to extend with 75-100 more hours.
Regarding resource requirement it is hard to state before we know who, and for which activities, the customer and/or other parties who will be involved. Any good practice shows that clear ownership and involvement from key internal stakeholder is important.
Projects
Projects where CloudWay succeeds are when we work with a customer or partner who believes what we believe. We believe in best practice implementations using all the tools available for secure productivity. Our goal is to transfer knowledge and to help customers do cloud operations the right way.
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Are you eligible for a free Microsoft 365 workshop?
Cloud Accelerator workshops can be run for customers and partners world wide, and CloudWay has specifically been chosen to run these workshops for select customers, which typically would not be elligible, all sponsored by Microsoft!
Are you evaluating Microsoft 365 possibilities and have less than 40% adoption? Then you might be elligible for Microsoft Cloud Accelerator workshop for Microsoft 365. Find a suitable workshop below.
About the Microsoft Cloud Accelerators
Microsoft Cloud Accelerators provide a set of pre-made workshops that enable partners like CloudWay to accelerate your Microsoft 365 journey, including a rapid deployment program to address your current needs for business continuity. Leveraging these accelerators enables you to facilitate more productive conversations in your organization, help you envision the possibilities, and more efficiently realize your Microsoft 365 opportunities.
Typical reasons for companies booking workshops
- They want to understand and get the fullest of Microsoft 365
- They want to know how to secure their journey to the cloud
- They want to succeed with Microsoft Teams; lifecycle, adoption and data governance
- They want an outside perspective on their cloud strategy
- They want a day with practical information about any topic in Microsoft 365 that they can execute on
- They have implemented Microsoft Teams and wants to be inspired to be productive as a team
- They want to learn how to implement MFA the correct way
- They want us to do deep dive training for their IT-Pros
- They want us to change how individuals succeed with personal productivity using digital tools
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Of course! We can talk about everything Skype for Business Server to Teams or Config Manager and AD to AzureAD, Intune and conditional access. We can also do Automation introductions. Depending on the topics, we may need extra time to prepare.
As long as it is no hands-on you can have as many as the room or auditorium fits to attend the workshop.
Bring your questions, assumptions and understanding to the workshop. It helps if you have clear strategy for the cloud before the workshop or the workshop could be a source for a cloud strategy
Reach out to us in this contact form.
We are flexible in moving the day, but if we already have travel expenses booked that we are unable to cancel, then these needs to be covered
The material from the workshop is shared after the workshop. We typically identify concrete areas where we can help remove blockers to proceed with existing or new projects
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