Tech Carpenter - Ahmad Najjar's Blog

This May 28 th , I will be delivering a full day tutorial with Serge Luca on Building Solutions with Power Apps & Power Automate . But that’s not all! On June 2nd, I will be delivering a session: Business RPA with Power Automate . Learn about what is RPA, its business benefits and how you can fit Power Automate Desktop to transform business processes in your organization, freeing your from repetitive tasks.   I will be taking any questions you may have live during my session, so come prepared!      ESPC21 is always amazing, whether in-person or virtual – the best speakers, topics and audience and everyone is so engaged, so I am really excited to be speaking at this event.  Register today to be sure you don’t miss it!   As a speaker at  ESPC21 Online  I can share with you a special 25% discount on Pro Access tickets, which includes a pre-event tutorial of your choice, all event sessions on demand and more....

I’m so excited to be part of my 6th SharePoint Saturday event this year! Once again I’m flying to England but this time to another city; and to be more specific I’m headed to the prestigious city of Cambridge! SharePoint Saturday Cambridge will be held at Møller Centre at Churchill College in Cambridge, and as per the event organizers, and I quote “This time it is WAR!” SPS Cambridge will be joining with a sister event (SQLSaturday Cambridge) whereas event speakers and attendees this time will do battle with one another to show *who* is the boss -so expect lots of fun and games throughout the day to mark our special Civil War Edition. SOUNDS FUN! As I did in SPS Toronto, and as part of my tech channel “The 365-Tech Talk” I’ll be doing interviews with my fellow speakers at SPS Cambridge  … For SPS Cambridge, I’ll be holding a session on PowerApps & Microsoft Flow: Advanced Scenarios which will give a deep dive on PowerApps and Flow for building and using custom busines...

Community contribution doesn’t know any limits! And this time around my contribution passion drove me to another continent and specifically to Canada-Toronto, whereas I’ll be part of one of the biggest community events in north America generally and Canada particularly. SharePoint Saturday Toronto is known for its awesome reputation, not to mention it was one of the first events to host Jeff Teper – Office, SharePoint and OneDrive corporate vice president at Microsoft – or for short “The father of SharePoint”.  As per SPS Toronto organizers, a huge crowd is expected to show up at this year's event, which is a good opportunity to meet with more people from the community and hear their stories.  For SPS Toronto I have prepared two things, a session and a surprise ! I’ll start with the latter mystery, which is something I’m going to announce/launch during this week before SPS Toronto, whereas it’s going to be a pleasant surprise for the community in general and for th...

Once again, I'm ready to be part of another SharePoint Saturday! This time, I'll be speaking at the 6th SharePoint Saturday in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) in the city of Dubai on 15th July. I'll be meeting with some usual faces from SPS Warsaw 2017, but also looking forward to meet new faces and hear their SharePoint stories... For SPS Dubai, I'll be throwing a session on  PowerApps & Microsoft Flow: Advanced Scenarios which will give a deep dive on PowerApps and Flow for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile. An I'll also shed some light on the scenarios where the need to customize and develop extra features for workflows, in order to take workflows to the next level. This session demonstrates key advanced scenarios addressing the next level workflows using PowerApps and Flow, featuring Azure API Apps and Azure Functions. As usual, my session brand is fun slides and demos, demos, demo...

I'm honored and humbled to be speaking at the 3rd SharePoint Saturday in London on 24th June. SPS London is known to be one of the most famous and elegant SPSs around Europe! This year around, Chris McNulty, Senior Product Manager (and by definition SON of the Father of SharePoint 😁) at Microsoft will be throwing a closing keynote discussing the Future of SharePoint building based on the announcements made at the virtual SharePoint Summit in May. This year's SPS London is bigger than ever, 43 speakers - including myself - will be participating in this year's geek out, delivering various sessions touching on subjects like bots, IoT, webhooks, SharePoint Framework, Microsoft Teams, and - of course - PowerApps and Microsoft Flow, which I'll be speaking about in my session. I'll be delivering a session on  Building Applications with Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and Office 365 which illustrates the use of PowerApps and Flow for building and using custom busin...

I'll be speaking at the very first SharePoint Saturday in the Czech republic in the city of Brno on 10th June. What is most exciting about this is not only being part of the very first SPS in Brno, but also doing two sessions! My first observation is, unlike any other SPS event I've been to, SPS Brno 2017 speakers gets to speak for 1 hour and 15 minutes, which gives enough room for alotta fun and loads of demos, which in turn will turn sessions into a firehose of information! For SPS Brno, these are the two sessions I'll be doing: Go with the Microsoft Flow which will be an introduction on Microsoft Flow and how it can help you save time, and make your business highly visible by partnering with Microsoft's growing ecosystem including O365 and SharePoint Online. I'll demonstrate how you can create an automated workflow between your favorite O365 apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and more! PowerApps & Microsoft F...

While I was exploring the awesomeness of Power BI in Excel 2013 and Office 365, I came across this amazing feature of Power BI  Q&A . Simply, Q&A is a way to interact with your data, to filter, sort, aggregate, group and display data using natural language! Yea, you read that correctly, natural language!  I was really blown away by this smart yet indeed useful feature. Well, in this post I'll lay down how to utilize this amazing feature, step by step. Prerequisites First of all, Power BI features associated with SharePoint are only available with Office 365 (cloud only, not available on-prem). In order to get Power BI capabilities (app) with Office 365, you need to register for Power BI for Office 365 . You need to have Excel 2013 Professional Plus installed on your local machine. Finally, you need to start PowerPivot add-in Excel 2013 . Collect and Model Your Data There are various ...