We’re excited to invite you to an exclusive webinar hosted by Microsoft and OETC on Sept. 26th, 2024 at 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT. Join us as we explore how to maximize the value of Microsoft’s free AI offerings to save significant teacher and admin time.

The agenda for this webinar includes:

• Current AI trends
• Using Windows Copilot to save time
• Using Copilot for Bing to save time
• Specific examples of how districts in the Americas are using Copilot to save time
• Q&A

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Thursday, Dec 1 – 10:00-11:15 a.m.

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This webinar will showcase how Microsoft 365 A3 and A5 help protect your staff and students in a modern world. You’ll experience a day in the life of a M365 security admin and how Microsoft Secure Score can help you on your organization’s cybersecurity journey.

Presented by:

• Garrett Chandler, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft
• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Azure Active Directory (Entra) & Hybrid Identities

Tuesday, Dec 13 – 10:00-11:15 a.m.

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This webinar will explain the various identity scenarios (cloud only, hybrid, on-prem) and how they impact an organization as well as a deeper dive on our newest hybrid identity technology changes to help your organization manage your identities in a Modern World.

Presented by:

• Garrett Chandler, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft
• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Cloud Native Endpoints

Wednesday, Jan 18 – 10:00-11:15 a.m.

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This webinar is part of our series on cloud native Windows Endpoints. This session will cover demo’s on deploying commonly used Educational Applications, Windows Update Settings, The Microsoft Store, and commonly configured policies.

Presented by:

• Garrett Chandler, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft
• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

The OETC Microsoft Volume Agreement with Softchoice

Wednesday, Jan 25 – 10:00-11:00 a.m.

As the new partner on the OETC Microsoft Volume Agreement, Softchoice is excited to introduce themselves, review the details of the licensing agreement, and update you on the support they can provide.

Members of the Softchoice Team will provide an overview of the program and all its tools and benefits. They will review what’s included and how to best take advantage of the program offerings. Softchoice is also a full IT service provider and will provide information on programs and services available to support your IT environment.

They will cover:

• Introduction to your Softchoice Support Team
• What’s included in Microsoft 365
• Overview of Program Options (A3, A5, Security)
• Softchoice Contract Management & Expectations
• Softchoice Service Offerings

Cloud Native Endpoints – Universal Printing

Tuesday, January 31 – 10:00-11:15 a.m.

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This webinar is part of our series on cloud native Windows Endpoints. This session will cover demo’s on deploying Universal Print and discussing common challenges when deploying it to your organization’s environment.

Presented by:

• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

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Come learn about Microsoft’s newest OS – Windows 11 SE along with the Surface Laptop SE.

These new products bring Windows devices to a whole new segment of the student device market. They can provide the cloud-first experience many schools utilize, at a similar price point to options in the market today. Additionally, they have full desktop versions of Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and do not need to be connected to the Internet in order to utilize these applications. We hope you can join the session which will provide a path to get one of these devices in your hands to test out in your environment.

Speakers:

• David Comer, EDU Surface Specialist
• Tyler Duncan, EDU Technical Specialist

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This webinar will provide you with the quick start guide to successfully enrolling and managing cloud native Windows devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager. This session will cover the pre-requisites for getting started, as well as the best practices for device enrollment, policy configuration, app deployment, and retirement of devices that are managed using only cloud technologies.

Speakers:

• Garrett Chandler, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft
• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

Intune 201

This webinar is the second part of our series on cloud native Windows endpoints. This session will cover advanced configurations such as best practices on printing, access to on-premises resources, remote assistance, endpoint security and advanced policy management.

Speakers:

• Garrett Chandler, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft
• Tyler Duncan, Education Technical Specialist, Microsoft

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As a modelling software, a STEM lab, a literacy support tool, a coding platform, and a space for creative, competitive, and collaborative interaction and learning experiences, Minecraft offers your teaching staff a solution to almost every learning outcome they have all year.

Questions about how to best to deploy and manage Minecraft in your system? This is an opportunity to ask the team at Microsoft.

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Shifts to the cloud alter security challenges. It is more important than ever to detect and defend with tools designed to support flexible, dynamic cloud environments. Now you can!

Through the Make It Real: Security Immersion Workshop, you will step into the role of a Cyber Defense Analyst and use Microsoft XDR + SIEM security tools to investigate indicators of an advanced threat that is conducting an attack on your network across multiple phases of the kill chain.

Microsoft 365 Defender

In this instructor-led demonstration session, we will show you how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Azure Defender, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies.

Microsoft KQL and Sentinel 

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool developed to integrate cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI). Azure Sentinel will help customers to identify security issues in their environment, and then use automation to help resolve these issues.

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Join the Google for Education team for a hands-on look into the most popular features in Google Workspace Plus.

• We will run through the top K-12 use cases across Security, Teaching & Learning to help you understand the value of upgrading to a paid edition.
• From the Investigation Tool to Context Aware Access to Plagiarism Detection with Originality Reports, and more!
• After the webinar, you can set up a free trial of Workspace Plus through OETC.

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In this session, Richard Balsley, Principal Specialist at Microsoft, will go over Windows application and policy deployment best practices in Microsoft Intune. We’ll cover the different application types (Win32, Store, Line of Business), how to create a self-service application catalog for your end users, and how policy management differs from Group Policy to Intune. This is a follow up session to the Intune Enrollment session.

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KnowBe4 is one of OETC members’ favorite tools to train employees and safeguard institutions against phishing attacks. Now, they offer dozens of additional training modules with Compliance Plus — learn more during our April 6 webinar.

Compliance training is challenging for organizations to offer, difficult to do right, and hard to move beyond a tick-box approach. To meet compliance requirements, users must not only understand requirements but be able to apply them on the job in real-time. KnowBe4’s Compliance Plus training solves these issues with interactive, engaging training that uses real-life simulated scenarios that teach your users how to respond in a challenging situation.

The compliance content can help you satisfy risk, regulatory and HR compliance needs, along with some education-specific trainings such as FERPA, SOPPA, COPPA, and Title IX.

• Why new-school compliance training is more engaging for your users
• The education specific compliance pillars supported in KnowBe4’s Compliance Plus Training
• How to load users, distribute campaigns, track status and pull reporting
• How to use automated features to save the organization time for new staff and annual trainings

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In this session we go over the basics on how to enroll and manage your Windows devices with Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Richard Balsley, Principal Technical Specialist on Microsoft’s Education team will discuss:

• Methods of enrolling new devices – Windows Autopilot, provisioning packages, and setting up school PCs
• How to enroll existing devices joined to your domain leveraging Group Policy and Hybrid Azure AD Join
• Application deployment best practices
• Policy deployment – differences between group policy and how Microsoft Endpoint Manager handles policies

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