The Microsoft Power Platform provides a tremendous amount of native functionality, enhanced by premium and third-party connectors. But sometimes that's just not enough to get the job done. You need something specific, a plugin that does exactly what the business needs without complex backend configuration, confusing expression syntax or additional per-user cost. In this step-by-step tutorial you will learn how to create a custom connector from scratch, construct an API definition, deploy it to the cloud and make it available to users throughout your tenant so they can easily drop it into their forms and flows. As an added bonus, you'll also learn valuable tips and tricks for scaling out your custom connectors for enterprise, ISV and multi-tenant scenarios.

Many organizations are still evaluating cloud strategies or have settled on a hybrid approach to cloud integration. Thankfully, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about such customers and continues to provide a proven on-premises solution. SharePoint Server Edition is packed full of exciting new features and hybrid capabilities in areas such as authentication and identity management, upgrade and migration, farm administration, health and monitoring, search, security, lists and libraries, and so much more. Take a guided tour through all the new features and discover why SharePoint continues to be the best choice for on-premises collaboration.

Your organization is finally moving to the cloud and you've been tasked with ensuring the project is successful. But where do you begin? What elements are absolutely critical for a good implementation? How will you get users to adapt and adopt? What will it take to avoid the mistakes of the past? It all begins with a good plan and in this session you will discover tried and true methods for creating and executing a solid implementation plan that ensures your success.

Enterprise content management continues to be a vital area of focus in many organizations and is one of the fastest growing cloud segments. Microsoft, already a leader in this space, continues to invest in new ECM capabilities across the entire 365 suite. Take a guided tour through a wealth of ECM features for document management, records, retention, discovery, labeling and disposition in Office 365 and learn how to leverage them in your organization.

Let's face it - API's are boring. But what if you could turn your RESTful services into a recurring revenue stream? Integreate your products more deeply with customer systems? Or easily scale a research project to thousands of contributors? Now that's exciting! Learn how to leverage the power of Azure Functions and API Management to create a robust, scalable infrastructure for delivering managed, publicly accessible API endpoints for a wide range of scenarios, from open source projects to multi-platform system integration and commercial applications.