Past Events

The Insider Dev Tour is for developers interested in building Microsoft 365 experiences today, using the latest developer technologies, as well as for those who want a peek into the future. If you can read code, this is for you, regardless if you are a beginner, expert, student, or hobbyist developer!

The morning anchor session will give you a demo and code-focused overview of the new developer technology coming out of Redmond. We’ll cover Windows, Azure, Office, AI and more, so that you are up-to-date and able to make informed decisions when picking from the latest technology for your next project.

In the afternoon, we will drill down into the code. You will learn to build native Win32/XAML apps and Progressive Web Apps, and take advantage of the latest Windows 10 capabilities. You’ll learn how to add AI (Artificial Intelligence) into your projects, how to connect with new ecosystems using the Microsoft Graph, and how to bring your experiences into the next dimension through Mixed Reality.

The tour is an opportunity to connect directly with leads and engineers from Redmond, as well as regional industry leads and Microsoft Developer MVPs. We’re excited to meet you in person! #InsiderDevTour

The question for most organisations is no longer ‘should we go to the cloud’ – but ‘when’ and ‘how’.

Ensuring your digital transformation strategy is aligned with your multicloud initiatives first and foremost, while evaluating large scale workload migration efforts can be a daunting task, if not done right.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate the value of migrating Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) workloads between public clouds, leveraging the best of Zerto replication technology to help achieve the best business outcomes with the multicloud.

Join our webinar to learn:

• How a multicloud strategy can make a huge difference to your success
• How to start an actionable plan to migrate your workloads from cloud-to-cloud
• How process automation (Zerto) is changing the game for completion time, risk and cost in migration & modernisation
• Demonstrate how to migrate a workload from AWS to Azure
• Demonstrate how to migrate a workload from Azure to AWS

The best reports don’t just show data – they both contain and tell a full story with it.

End users might only judge reports on appearance, but as the data expert, you know the underlying data model and its calculations are the core foundation to a successful BI solution.

Xello’s data analytics training course is focused on helping you learn the key technical skills around data modelling and DAX in Power BI. With hands-on demonstrations and interactive workshops, we will break down complex topics into smaller understandable pieces to help you solve complex real-life problems, and design reports that are both visually stunning and follow best practices.

The team at Xello is dedicated to helping you become more data savvy and produce better reports and timely insights. Leverage the technical expertise of our resident DAX guru Hunter Shen and sharpen your data knowledge across the following key topics:

• Fundamental skills around data modelling and visualisation with DAX & Power BI

• Best practices around data model design

• Effective DAX formulas, calculated columns and measures

• How Syntax, Functions and Context work in DAX

• Table relationships and filtering with DAX

• Understanding of how DAX can solve many types of analytical challenges

What will this course cover?

• Module 1 – Overview of Power BI & BI development cycle

• Module 2 – Connect to a sample dataset & calendar table

• Module 3 – Working with DAX: Calculated column & Measures

• Module 4 – Working with DAX: Time intelligence Function

• Module 5 – Working with DAX: Role Playing Dimension

• Module 6 – Build a dashboard on sample dataset (Hands on Lab 1)

• Module 7 – Data modelling: Fact & Dimension Table

• Module 8 – Advanced data modelling: Type 2 Slowing Changing Dimension

• Module 9 – Build a second dashboard on Fact & Dimension tables (Hands on Lab 2)

Who is this course for?

• Intermediate business analysts who want to have a better tool for playing with the data and learn how to produce actionable insights easier.

• Developers and consultants who want to know how to develop solutions with Power BI.

• BI architects and decision-makers who want to use Power BI in their BI applications.

• Passionate data experts who want a deeper dive into DAX & Power BI’s capabilities.

Training Pre-requisites

• BYOL (Bring your own laptop)

• Power BI Desktop Installed (we can help you with this if not)

• SQL Server Management Studio (Optional)

About Our Trainer

Hunter Shen is a Business Intelligence Consultant at Xello. He has a master’s degree in BI and Data Warehousing and has worked with Microsoft Power BI and its data modelling capabilities since its original release. Hunter has extensive experience delivering data analytics and BI solutions for Tier 1 and SMB across multiple industries (Finance, Retail, Sales, Manufacturing, Government, Utility, Telecommunications) and helping businesses leverage better reporting.

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Ensuring your digital transformation is backed by a strong identity strategy, with extensible connectivity and functionality, can be daunting for even seasoned admins.

In this hour long session, Xello’s technical consultants will take you through onboarding Office 365 to Okta and the common pitfalls companies may face during migration.

Join our webinar to learn:

• Best options when onboarding from Office 365 to Okta
• How Okta can enable your digital-first identity strategy
• How modern SAML/WS-Fed authentication works
• Demonstrating how to migrate from Azure AD to Okta
• What to configure before Azure AD to Okta migration

Are you currently considering a new identity governance tool?

A modern identity strategy is never complete without a holistic governance strategy covering all your applications.

With the workforce becoming more mobile and moving to a digital-first, remote work model, identity has become the new critical security boundary. – with a new set of challenges.

Join our hands-on, on-demand webinar to learn:

• What HR as a master identity is + how it reduces costs
• How Okta Universal Directory works
• How Okta Provisioning enables smooth onboarding
• Demonstrate HR to SaaS provisioning using Okta UD
• Active Directory to SaaS provisioning using Okta UD

Microsoft Ignite has just finished in Orlando with a bunch of new announcements. We’ll demo the new UI Flows & Power Virtual Agents (Chat bots). If time permits we’ll discuss & demo “PowerApps Portals”, PowerApps built on websites that can be used by people outside your organisation.

Meetup Agenda

• 5:45pm – Arrive, meet & greet, drinks
• 6:10pm – Welcome & intro – Greg Nash
• 6:15pm – Presentation – Brett Randall
• 7:15pm – Wrap up

About the Speaker

Brett Randall is an O365 Specialist from Rapid Circle. His goal is to help customers get the most out of the Office 365 suite with minimum code (ideally none!).

Our Sponsors – Xello (https://xello.com.au) and Dear Watson Consulting (https://www.dearwatson.net.au)

A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, Xello , for their support of this Meetup; providing the venue as well as drinks for attendees.

Xello is a cloud and data consultancy based in Melbourne, providing business solutions around the Microsoft Azure ecosystem that drive our customers’ success. Xello is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner and works with a diverse number of enterprise customers across various sectors, including FSI, Government, Health, Professional Services and Retail.

Xello is always on the lookout for talented individuals. If you think you’d be a fit for Xello, get in touch.

A big thank also to our co-sponsor, Dear Watson, for their ongoing support of our Meetup and providing us with food for each event.

Azure Arc extends Azure management across your multi-cloud environment including Windows and Linux servers, Kubernetes clusters, and data services running across datacentres, edge. This session explores what Arc is, when to use it, and how it works.

Meetup Agenda

• 6:00pm – Arrive, meet & greet, drinks
• 6:30pm – Presentation by Janaka Ranaga
• 7:30pm – Wrap up

About the Speaker

Janaka Rangama is a Microsoft Azure MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer originally hailing from Sri Lanka “The Pearl of The Indian Ocean”. Janaka is a Senior Principal Product Technologist at Dell EMC Azure Stack Product Engineering Team. He is a well-known speaker in many international conferences and an expert in both Microsoft & OSS technologies.

About Sponsors – Xello (https://xello.com.au)

Xello is a cloud and data consultancy based in Melbourne, providing business solutions around the Microsoft Azure ecosystem that drive our customers’ success. Xello is an award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner and works with a diverse number of enterprise customers across various sectors, including FSI, Government, Health, Professional Services and Retail.

Xello is always on the lookout for talented individuals. If you think you’d be a fit for Xello, please get in touch.