M365UK - Ownerless Groups & Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions Feb 2022

Welcome to Microsoft 365 UK (M365UK) user group as well as guests from around the globe.
Want to learn & deal with ownerless Microsoft 365 Groups & Teams and practical workings with Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs)?
Join us online for free on Microsoft Teams with our UK guest speakers Nikki Chapple and Anoop Tatti MVP.

Agenda (UK Time):
16:00-16:10 - Welcome & Introductions

16:10-17:00 - Using Power Automate to mitigate ownerless Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams - Nikki Chapple
Ownerless groups occur because of the mover and leavers process. An Administrator removes the user from the Group or closes their account. If there is no other owner in the Group then the Group becomes ownerless. Ownerless Microsoft 365 Groups causes several issues:

• The Group has no accountability
• Membership requests to join private groups stay unapproved because no owner exists to process requests.
• If Azure AD Access reviews or Expiration reviews are enforced then there is no owner to either review the membership of the Group or confirm whether the Group is still needed.
  This session will show you how to build a Power Automate process to reassign the Group and Team ownership to the user's manager.

17:00-17:10 - Break

17:10-18:00 - Microsoft Viva Connections Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) - Anoop Tatti MVP
This session will cover the following:

• Introduction to Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) - controls and views
• How to get started with creating ACEs
• Retrieving data in ACEs (SharePoint or external)
• Customizing the way data can displayed using adaptive cards
  The session will then show a couple of example ACEs:
• An ACE that displays service health information of the tenant using Microsoft Graph
• An ACE that displays the status of train lines in London using the Transport for London API
  By the end of the session, the attendees will have an overview of ACEs and will be in a position to start creating ACEs that meet their requirements. The attendees will take away resources and code that they will undoubtedly use as a developer.

18:00 - Finish

Speaker Profiles:
Nikki Chapple, Principal Cloud Architect, Cloudway
She specialises in Microsoft 365 governance, compliance and adoption and is a regular speaker and has presented at conferences such as South Coast Summit, Teams Day Online and M365 Chicago as well as user groups.
She has recently joined the organizing committee for Microsoft Teams Day Online and is also an advocate for women in technology.
Nikki has 30 years’ experience covering both IT and business roles and prides herself on delivering a holistic and risk based approach to digital transformations.
Nikki holds multiple certifications from Microsoft including the Certified Enterprise Administrator Expert and is also a TOGAF qualified Enterprise Architect and PROCSI qualified Organisational Change Manager.

Anoop Tatti MVP, Developer Architect, Content + Cloud Ltd
He has worked across the entire lifecycle of projects, from gathering and analysing requirements to handing over the solution to managed services. He has 8+ years of experience in SharePoint development and has worked mainly on Office 365, SharePoint Online, SharePoint 2013 and 2010. Anoop is a regular contributor to the Microsoft 365 Developer Patterns and Practices project on GitHub. He also writes blog articles dedicated to his experience with SharePoint development which can be found here - https://anoopt.medium.com