Get Your Tenant Ready for AI and the Power Platform

The Copilot and Power Platform Administration and Governance Workshop is the most effective way to train your team to be fully capable on implementing and maintaining your Power Platform environment properly and AI in M365 Copilot.

Who Should Attend

This class is designed for:

Power Platform Administrators
Microsoft 365 / Entra ID Administrators
Security and Compliance Administrators
IT Operations and Cloud Platform Teams
Center of Excellence (CoE) leads
AI governance and risk teams
Solution Architects responsible for Power Platform or Copilot

Why They Should Attend

Attendees will walk away with:

A clear administrative operating model for Power Platform and AI
Confidence in securing environments, data, and AI experiences
Practical guidance to avoid accidental data exposure
A framework to prepare their tenant for Copilot and AI safely
A shared language to align IT, security, and AI teams
Reduced risk around shadow IT, oversharing, and prompt abuse

Event Details

This hands-on workshop is designed to prepare administrators and architects to securely govern and scale Microsoft Copilot and the Power Platform. You’ll learn practical strategies for managing environments, deploying solutions, securing data and access, and implementing governance controls across apps, agents, flows, and AI experiences. The session also covers tenant readiness for AI, risk mitigation (including oversharing and prompt attacks), and core Microsoft Purview capabilities such as labeling, DLP, auditing, and monitoring to ensure a secure and compliant deployment.

Power Platform and Copilot

9:00 → 10:30

Power Platform Strategies

Goal: Establish a scalable, governable foundation before users build anything.

Topics:

Understanding the types of Power Platform workloads
- Canvas apps vs model-driven apps
- Power Automate cloud flows vs desktop flows
- Copilot Studio agents and AI-powered workloads
Deciding what belongs where
- Business-led vs IT-led solutions
- Personal productivity vs enterprise apps
Environment strategy
- Default environment pitfalls
- Dedicated dev, test, prod patterns
- Environment per department vs per solution
Managed Environments
- When to enable them
- What controls they actually enforce
- How they support scale and governance
Aligning strategy with licensing, security, and support models

Key outcome: Admins can explain and justify their Power Platform structure.

10:45 → 11:15

Power Platform Lifecycle

Goal: Move from manual exports to repeatable, auditable deployments.

Topics:

Solution fundamentals
- Managed vs unmanaged solutions
- What should and should not go into solutions
Deployment patterns
- Dev to test to prod flow
- Supporting multiple teams and makers
Pipelines in Power Platform
- What they automate
- Security implications
- Common failure scenarios
Versioning, rollback, and ownership

Key outcome: A sane deployment story that survives audits and incidents.

11:15 → 12:00

Securing the Platform

Goal: Protect data without breaking the user experience.

Topics:

Environment-level security
- Who can create apps, flows, and copilots
- Restricting connectors and capabilities
Dataverse security model
- Business units overview
- Row-level security concepts
Building and managing security roles
- Least-privilege role design
- Common over-permission mistakes
Sharing apps and flows correctly
- Individual vs group sharing
- Ownership risks
- Automation misuse patterns

Key outcome: Admins can answer “who can see what and why.”

1:00 → 1:30

Prepare Your Tenant for AI

Goal: Avoid turning on AI blindly.

Topics:

Key tenant-level settings that affect AI
- Copilot and AI service controls
- Data access boundaries
Understanding AI scope
- What Copilot can and cannot see
- How permissions carry into AI responses
Readiness checklist
- Identity, data, and compliance prerequisites
Common mistakes organizations make before enabling Copilot

Key outcome: A controlled, intentional AI rollout plan.

1:00 → 1:30

Securing your resources for AI

Goal: Prevent AI from becoming a data exfiltration tool.

Topics:

SharePoint and OneDrive oversharing risks
- How AI amplifies poor permissions
- Inherited access and legacy links
Prompt injection and AI abuse
- What prompt attacks actually look like
- Where they show up in Power Platform and Copilot
Guardrails for AI integrations
- Connector restrictions
- Input and output validation concepts
Monitoring AI usage patterns
- Identifying risky behavior early

Key outcome: Reduced likelihood of AI-driven data leaks.

2:45 → End

Enabling Governance with Purview for Power Platform and AI

Goal: Use Microsoft Purview as a control plane, not an afterthought.

Topics:

Sensitivity labeling
- How labels impact AI and Power Platform
- Label inheritance and conflicts
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- DLP for Power Platform connectors
- DLP considerations for AI scenarios
Auditing and activity tracking
- What admins can and cannot see
- Key logs to monitor
Monitoring AI usage
- Detecting misuse and policy violations
Insider risk awareness
- Where AI increases internal risk
- Early warning indicators

Key outcome: Admins know how to prove control, not just claim it.

Copilot and Power Platform Administration and Governance Workshop

Control Issues?

Are you worried about the power platform becoming the wild, wild west? The Copilot and Power Platform Administration and Governance Workshop helps you create an excellent governance plan and secure your environment for user success.

Environment Setup

Ensure your environment is set-up properly, and ready to be shared across your organization.

Application Lifecycle Management

ALM will help you deploy your applications, and easily perform code reviews with your prospective users.

Security

Protect the safety of your information by preventing unauthorized users from accessing your business applications, data, and flows.

Monitoring

Manage and track your applications and components to prevent unexpected issues from occurring within your company network.

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