ESPC – Engineering and Operations
Area of Interest Guide for Tutorials and Sessions, designed for your role!
Engineering and Operations at ESPC
ESPC26 delivers a dedicated Engineering & Operations programme for IT professionals responsible for securing, managing, and scaling Microsoft environments. Explore practical sessions on Azure architecture, security and compliance, governance, automation, SharePoint and Teams administration, Entra ID, Power Platform governance, and AI operations.
From Copilot governance and agent security to Zero Trust, Microsoft Defender, Purview, and cloud infrastructure, you’ll gain real-world insights, proven frameworks, and technical best practices to help you build secure, compliant, and AI-ready workplaces. Join your peers in Amsterdam and take away strategies you can implement immediately across your organisation.
Tutorials
When Things Go Wrong: Managing Risk, Compliance, and Investigations with Microsoft 365
This full-day workshop uses a single, realistic business scenario – a departing employee leaking confidential data to both their personal accounts and a competitor prior to their resignation – to demonstrate several Microsoft Purview’s data security, risk, and compliance solutions.
Accelerating Copilot Adoption by using the ADKAR & Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist Frameworks
Receive a guide through the complete ADKAR and Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist (MSAS) frameworks, showing how the ADKAR model and the MSAS six core competencies can transform Copilot rollouts into lasting organizational change.
The AI-era SharePoint administrator: governance, skills, and agents for the modern admin
Walk through everything a SharePoint administrator needs to know to operate effectively in the AI era. We start where every AI journey should begin: getting your content ready. Using SharePoint Advanced Management, we will demonstrate site lifecycle policies, Restricted Content Discovery, oversharing reports, data access governance, and more.
Agent Governance for the Real World: End-to-End Security with Defender, Entra, Purview & Agent 365
This full-day tutorial takes a risk-based, end-to-end view of agent governance, built around the Microsoft security stack that sits underneath the agent platforms: Defender XDR, Entra (including Global Secure Access), and Purview
Using AI to Simplify Azure Scripting and Management
You’ll see practical demos covering everything from generating scripts to troubleshooting deployments, all using natural language. We’ll cover real-world scenarios such as automating tasks, building infrastructure as code, querying for inventory and security data, and fixing common issues.
Understanding Microsoft 365 Copilot Extensibility: When to Use What
This tutorial provides a comprehensive architectural overview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility landscape and explains how these building blocks fit together within the broader Microsoft AI platform. Rather than focusing on implementation details, learn how to evaluate and select the most appropriate extensibility model based on business needs, governance requirements, developer skills, and solution complexity.
Building an AI-Ready Analytics Platform with Microsoft Fabric
The tutorial demonstrates how CI/CD practices improve deployment confidence and how trusted datasets can be prepared for intelligent consumption through Microsoft Foundry. Participants will explore how Data Agents and Copilot can accelerate development and enable natural interaction with enterprise data.
Engineering and Operations Sessions
The Architect’s Warehouse: Building a Global, Self-Healing Infrastructure from Scratch
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Your Next Breach Is an App: Detecting and Containing Supply Chain Attacks with App Governance
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Why Your DLP Strategy Is Failing (And How to Fix It)
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
The Future of DevOps with Azure & ADO MCP Servers
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Mastering Large-Scale Events in Microsoft Teams Events: What’s New, What’s Possible, and What’s Next
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Turn Infrastructure Complexity into Strategic Advantage
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Power Platform Governance Reloaded: Leveling Up for the Age of Copilot Agents
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
SharePoints of Interest: Building a Modern, Copilot-ready and user-friendly Intranet in SharePoint
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Microsoft Defender for Cloud: What Do You Actually Get When You Pay?
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Copilot Cowork in Action: What It Is, How to Get It & What You Can Do With It
Engineering & Operations
Level 100
SharePoint Advanced Management 2026 Deep Dive
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Architecting Multi-Agent Solutions with Copilot Studio vs. M365 Agents Toolkit
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Shadow AI: Find It. Control It.
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Tokenomics – Controlling the Bill for M365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Foundry Agents
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
[CASE STUDY] RAG or GraphRAG, that is the Question!
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Digital Sovereignty on the Azure Cloud
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
We Hacked Security Defaults (Safely): Designing the Modern Zero Trust Baseline for Microsoft 365
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Sheep Herding with Agent 365
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Powering Search, Copilot, and Content Delivery with Custom Search Experiences
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Data Hygiene for AI: What Records Management Fixes That Security Can’t
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Responsible AI, Responsible Planet: The New Blueprint for Sustainable Business Growth
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Migrating Hybrid Active Directory to Entra ID Cloud Native – A Technical Deep Dive
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Catch Configuration Drift in Microsoft 365 before it Catches You
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Promises, Prompts, and Plot Twists: The Reality of AI-Generated Apps
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Securing Modern Workloads with Entra Agent ID
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Building a Cloud Vending Machine: One-Click Environments with Azure + GitHub
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Mastering Purview Data Security Solution Design: Lessons from Years of Deployments
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
The Admin’s Guide to AI in SharePoint
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Mind the Guest List: B2B Access at Scale with Entitlement Management
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
When Users Leave: The Ripple Effect Across Microsoft 365 and Power Platform
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Ten Critical Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK Skills to Master
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Architecting Azure Integration Environments: Comparing AKS vs Azure PaaS
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Implementing Azure Policies: Before the Portal
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Not Secure by Default: 20+ Microsoft 365 Settings you Must Fix Immediately
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
The Tenant Whisperer: Custom Skills and the CLI for Microsoft 365
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Beyond Sensitivity Labels: Building a Real Data Protection Architecture in M365
Engineering & Operations
Level 300
Windows 365 for Agents: Building, Securing, and Operating AI-Driven Cloud PCs
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
Power Automate to Autonomous Agents
Engineering & Operations
Level 200
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