SharePoint and SQL Server offer several methods with which you can externalise the BLOBs—the files that are stored in libraries and as attachments—to reduce the size of your content databases. BLOB…

Traditional BI setups can require specialist skills to develop dashboards. Furthermore there are many tools in the Microsoft stack which can all be used to create dashboards – SharePoint…

One of the 'killer apps' with SQL Server 2008 is the ability to transparently encrypt all of your SharePoint content databases at the SQL level, without the need to modify any settings in the…

Chris will show a fully sick SharePoint solution with cold-hard-chillin' eye candy guaranteed to bring all the cool cats to check the funky shizzle on your SharePoint site. He will use…

When you think about data you typically think about those folks wearing brown pants in the accounts team. In this fast paced-presentation you will see how Project Crescent leverages SharePoint 2010…

Learn about how to create Content Types, Document Sets, classify documents with Managed Metadata and apply unique Document ID's.

Matthew wrote and illustrated a geeky kids' book called Charlie Weatherburn and the Flying Machine. In this talk he challenges the notion that "perfect is the enemy of done" and suggests…

Jane is a Senior Product Manager at Cochlear – the leader in advanced hearing loss solutions. She discusses how the technology and software she works with is literally changing the lives of hundreds…

Jarod's the guy that created that beached whale and its feathered friend with the Kiwi accents. His viral video, Beached Az, kick-started his career by creating quite the splash on YouTube - in fact,…

This session is intended to introduce developers to Windows Phone. It isn’t your boring old level 100 intro session. This session assumes that you know how to develop applications and skips past the…

Come along and be delighted, hear what’s new in Windows Phone 7.5, this session will help you understand how Windows Phone is maturing , what's new for end users, deeper integration with Windows Live,…

Microsoft and Citrix have teamed to deliver cost-effective desktop virtualization solutions with on-demand applications. Citrix XenDesktop and the Microsoft VDI Suite deliver the most comprehensive…

Are you are a customer with unmanaged desktops or a partner looking at desktops managed using the Internet? Are you feeling left out of the business benefits of Cloud for desktop management? Windows…

The File Services role in Windows Server 2008 R2 is a core function, accounting for a large number of server deployments. You probably see the trend, from small business to global enterprises, to…

In this session we discuss why Hyper-V is the best Hypervisor for VDI workloads. Come learn both the value of Hyper-V for VDI along with performance, cost and customer proof points. This session also…

CommVault’s Singular Information Management® solution ensures a single piece of Windows centric software enables high-performance data management, active-archiving; backup/recovery, deduplication and…

Mobile platforms open up a whole new world of possibilities to extend a market to affluent customers willing to pay money for apps that are everything from useful and helpful, to just cool to have.…

This session offers early insights into the future of Application Lifecycle Management and agile development that are incorporated in the next release of Visual Studio. See some of the significant…

XNA is one of the underutilised powerhouses driving Windows Phone Application Development today. Primarily used as a game development framework but you as a developer can use it to create anything. In…

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit will be released soon! Learn about all the new features and enhancements in this version, including support for Configuration Manager 2012; the…

SharePoint is becoming more popular around the world as a core business application platform. It is important to understand the close relationship between SharePoint and SQL server when you…

In this session Sofiane and Colin will provide notes from the field as they take you on a journey to upgrading your legacy Exchange environment. They will highlight the best practices you should…

Consumerization is really about managed vs. unmanaged devices. If you want to know how to enable consumerization of IT, this session is for you. We will cover how to responsibly architect a…

The MDT can be a comprehensive, reliable and easy to use tool when you know how to set it up properly. Rhonda provides consulting services to many large agencies and has seen MDT set up incorrectly…

Learn how Veeam Software helps simplify and standardize virtualization management by enabling organizations to consolidate monitoring and business continuity. The nworks Management Pack provides…

User Device Affinity (UDA) in SCCM 2012 treats users as first-class citizens within the SCCM environment, and gives administrators new and innovative abilities to target users, devices and groups and…

This session covers virtualization scenarios for Exchange 2010 and how the combination of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solves them. We discuss the various deployment scenarios for Exchange and…

Microsoft offers a variety of services under the Windows Azure Platform umbrella. This session will go through them all at a high level to help you catch up with what's happening outside your…

This presentation will showcase the magic of asynchronous programming in C# 5. We'll start with the basics: exactly what asynchronous programming is, how it differs from multithreading, and why it's…

In this demo-heavy session we examine a series of case studies for troubleshooting application compatibility issues with Windows 7. Using this approach, we show you more about how Windows 7 works and…

HTML 5, NoSQL and ASP.NET MVC 3 are popular technologies within the IT industry today. This session will bond all these glorious buzzwords together in a stew of awesomeness to bring you an application…

It’s just meant to be – Project Server and SharePoint server are better together, and this is the session that will show you why. Come and join us as we take you on a tour showing how the two products…

This session will dive into Microsoft's new Database Consolidation Appliance reference architecture. We will explore the appliance software stack, and its relationship to SQL Server in areas like…

This is a must-see session for anyone who is comparing VMware with Microsoft's virtualization offerings. We will review Microsoft's technology compared to VMware, focusing on what differentiates the…

When your website doesn't work with a new browser, what do you do? In this demo-heavy session we explore the primary causes of application troubles, take a deep dive into the compatibility…

Have you wondered what it would take to build your own private cloud? Going from bare metal to Hyper-V to a Cloud used to take a significant amount of time and expertise, but with the…

This session will cover .NET parallel programming in the present and future. Starting with a recap of the parallel programming libraries in Framework 4.0, we'll highlight the most effective patterns…

Intelledox is a business process automation platform focused on producing personalized documentation for customer and staff communication. Automating employment contract generation is one example of…

Come along to the sessions to learn about all about the essential tools, accelerators, SDKs and plugins to develop, debug, deploy and manage Windows Azure solutions. The session is a must for all…

PART 1: DIY Private Cloud Ben Parker will take you on a 30 minute tour of the auteched private cloud. Learn how we built out the infrastructure to support several hundred virtual machines with huge…

The topic of IT’s Really Cloudy So Now What Do We DO is centred around cutting through all the hype and noise created by a swirling mass of emerging technologies, cloud-based services, generational…

The upcoming version of Service Manager 2012 will deliver standardised, compliant, and automated IT as a Service. This session will deliver an early preview of the new Silverlight based SharePoint…

A journey into the world of managing Sharepoint, Active Directory and other environments using System Center Opalis. Integration Packs, (IP's), are already available to manage many technologies and…

Come on a journey starting with Scrum. Why is it the most popular development methodology around? How come 84% of agile projects use Scrum? Get abreast of the recent updates to Scrum (aka Scrum 2011)…

This session will discuss how to create cloud architectures that address data security, and data sovereignty concerns while providing scalable, and cost effective cloud based solutions. We will…

This session provides a scenario rich detailed walk through of VMM 2012 deployment, planning, and upgrade scenarios. Come and learn how to best plan your next VMM rollout

This session provides a scenario rich detailed walk through of new and more robust networking and storage features in VMM 2012. In this session you will learn how to discover, configure, and provision…

Server Application Virtualization (Server App-V), which ships with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, will dramatically simplify the deployment and management of datacenter…

Ensuring the needs of the customer are considered in line with budget expectations is a delicate balance in any industry. When planning for future server upgrades The Barossa Council under the…

Understanding the details on how to set up and deploy Edge Servers is a key feature to allow the customer investment to include different users: domain members, partners in a federated infrastructure…

Scope creeping? Vision dissipating? Stakeholders disengaging? Team splintering? Specification ballooning? User experience rehashing? Application prototyping can help with these ailments and more by…

There is no mobile Web, there is no desktop Web, and there is no tablet Web. We view the same Web just in different ways. So how do we do it? If you are a designer or front-end developer, come to this…

The Reactive Extensions (Rx) provides a convenient way to create complex event driven, asynchronous applications. The framework makes it possible to elegantly address a wide variety of application…

See the GreenButton cloud-based High Performance Computing solution in action. The GreenButton leverages massive scalability in the cloud (Windows Azure) to dramatically reduce compute times on…

Just because you are using the private cloud doesn’t mean you can stop thinking about basics such as data protection and recovery. In this session you will learn how to use the system center suite,…

Since the release of SharePoint 2010, enterprise customers have ramped up the adoption of SharePoint as the platform for enterprise content management. Large customers have pushed the technology…

With the coming release of SQL Server code name "Denali" Microsoft is releasing the next wave of SQL Server products. The new release will extend organisations beyond the database with a…

Two real-world experts will discuss practical approaches to SQL Server Consolidation. Carl Weibgen (Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited) was a pioneer in database-level consolidation, Rolf Tesmer…

With the upcoming release of Windows Phone, comes with it some amazing new features for developers. This key update enables your applications to take advantage of more services available to you, the…

Developers and Designers working together in harmony has become a crucial part of creating killer experiences on any platform. Expression Blend and Visual studio together allow us to create designer…

Take PowerShell from being a command-line or scripting language to being an integral part of your management processes. Enable self-service functionality (perfect for private clouds!) by using…

Office 2010 deployment in large organisations can be a daunting task. Many tools exist to make life easier, but how do you get the most out of them? This session is a deep dive into the various Office…

SCOM 2012 provides a significant number of new features over its predecessor SCOM 2007 R2. This session will introduce you to these new features including the new SCOM topology which includes the…

Jeff Wilcox, developer of successful Windows Phone App 4th & Mayor will deliver a 300-level talk that looks into what it takes to create a large Windows Phone app, from dealing with the…

If you're an ASP.NET programmer, chances are you’ve dabbled in MVC. MVC is the latest newcomer to the ASP.NET world and the demo’s you see looks simple, but there are some hidden gotchas' that you’ll…

See how the process of application virtualization (Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6) revolutionizes the traditional process of deploying applications in your organization. Understand how the…

Private clouds enable abstraction of services from the underlying fabric. This abstraction delivers benefits to the enterprise for fabric management as well as service management. Come and see how…

Multi-tasking, TICK! Background Agents, TICK! Tiles, back and front, TICK! Notifications, TICK! Search, TICK! In this session you'll learn how to take you Windows Phone application to the next level…

With Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC 3 you can start now to hyper accelerate your delivery of bespoke business applications. In this session you will learn to take advantage of MVC Scaffolding, HTML 5…

The next version of Opalis will be known as System Center Orchestrator. In this session,we cover the new capabilities that Orchestrator will bring to the System Center integration, orchestration and…

So you want to be a Deployment master... This session provides you with tips & tricks on how to migrate your Windows XP machines to Windows 7 using Zero Touch deployments with ConfigMgr 2007 SP2.…

That IPv6 has arrived is a fact. There is a lot of media coverage about IPv6. It’s time to take a serious look at IPv6, but do you really need to migrate? - Which steps are involved in the migration?…

This session provides a preview of our next generation cloud productivity services, Office 365 (previously known as Business Productivity Online Standard Suite). Office 365 brings together cloud…

Whether you’re looking to migrate all of your mailboxes to the cloud or planning to run a hybrid environment then this is the session for you. This presentation will cover how and when to take…

In this session, we start off with the critical phase of planning for Lync voice and designing for an architecture that allows enterprises to deploy Lync as an alternative to existing PBX systems.…

C++ remains as the favourite workhorse in thousands (maybe millions) of programming shops and it keeps getting better and better, specifically with the upcoming release of the new C++…

In this session we explore the new High Availability and resiliency offerings from Microsoft Lync Server 2010 including branch office resiliency, data center resiliency and intra-site high…

Everything you need to know about how Microsoft Lync works with the Enterprise Network. Learn all about new features like Call Admission Control and how the Lync media stack interacts with policy…

So you've invested heavily in SCCM 2007 and it's working just the way you like. Will you have to undo everything to move to SCCM 2012? What about all that precious data, client history and inventory?…

iSCSI is a great protocol. With it you can leverage existing network equipment to connect servers to storage. Virtual environments also gain through the everywhere-for-everyone nature of iSCSI. But…

Take the latest in hardware acceleration, high speed JavaScript engines, jQuery and the latest client development patterns and you have the ability to make some of the most stunning web apps that…

This session is jam packed with amazing PowerPivot report examples. This is *the* session to attend if you want to get the most out of PowerPivot visualizations. Essentially we look at multiple…

With the regulations and compliance that many organisations are scrutinised with today, it is often no longer an option for a Database Administrator to be a member of the sysadmin Server Role. If you…

Virtualization promises ease of deployment but there is a lot to think about when automating the process, or even doing it manually. In this session we will create a solution for Hyper-V host…

The communications industry is undergoing a transformation from proprietary hardware-based communications systems to a more flexible software-based solution as provided by Microsoft. During this…

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. LightSwitch simplifies the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic,…

Customers are looking to further virtualize their environments: file servers, web servers, DNS servers, and even their domain controllers. It is clear that virtualization provides many benefits in…

With SharePoint’s rapid growth as a web content management platform, it is extremely important to have a thorough grounding on the core concepts and practices required to deliver websites which meets…

Does your organisation do more than just .NET development? Did you know that you can manage technology projects that use non-Microsoft technologies using Team Foundation Server? In this session learn…

Do your customers love your application? Not just accept, survive or struggle with your application but actively seek out and enjoy using your application every chance they get? Do they chat excitedly…

SQL Azure provides sophisticated data storage options for your cloud applications. We will explore the patterns and practices that help you develop and deploy applications that can exploit the full…

Overview and live demonstration of Fujitsu's fully automated user initiated XP to Windows 7 migration.

You can't wait any longer. Your infrastructure is still clinging to the 2003 x86 server architecture but with every day that goes by, you worry more and more that the other shoe will drop. You know…

You’ve read the white papers, you’ve “Binged” governance, but how, exactly, do you design a SharePoint implementation that will support governance, security, and information management? Join…

Understand how a Best Practice MED-V v2 solution is engineered to allow organisations to unblock Windows 7 deployment.

Work with clients and servers long enough and sooner or later one of them is going to start running slowly. Whether you work in a data centre which is the mission critical hub for an international…

Office 365 is the ideal platform to get your business up and running with the best productivity suite on the market. In this session you will witness the birth of a full infrastructure offering watch…

This is a deep dive into the new features of the upcoming release of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) R2. The session will cover: Web based user self-service password reset Enhanced Reporting,…

This technical session discusses Hyper-V and Failover Clustering live migration, deployment considerations, licensing, upgrades, host clustering, guest clustering, disaster recovery, multi-site…

With Microsoft Office expanding out to the cloud, you may be asking what is the developer story for Office 365? How is it the same, and how is it different? What does a developer need to do to get…

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and learn what's really going on under the hood in an Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG). This session covers the inner workings of…

This session covers the basics of the new technologies, concepts, terms and methods used to plan, design, manage and troubleshoot Exchange high availability. Learn how settings like…

Successfully delivering on an Identity Management project within your enterprise will depend on how many applications you can successfully reach. In this session you will learn how Microsoft Forefront…

Many production Exchange Server deployments are virtualized. This is to achieve better hardware utilisation, provide operational flexibility or align with data centre deployment standards. As a…

This session demonstrates how to build a Visio Add-in to make use of SharePoint based templates and Business Objects for realising an agile business process modelling site supporting a central process…

Are you architecting 10 year solutions? Is your architecture driving your business decisions? Are you aiming to integrate all your legacy systems? Without you does your organisation cease to operate…

This is a demo orientated session with a few explanatory slides which shows how to build out a domain model which supports domain events and testability via TDD and BDD techniques. Topics covered will…

Network troubleshooters soon learn that the first place to look when the network stops working is DNS... and soon after that, they learn that the in-the-box DNS troubleshooting tool, nslookup, is a…

This session will be filled with hands-on demonstrations using SQL Azure with new and existing tools. First I'll show how to get started with a SQL Azure account (database and object), then I'll walk…

What actually happens in a complete end to end Microsoft Solution implementation. We’ll share with you our lessons learned getting it all to work together. Server 2008 R2, MS-SQL & SSRS 2008,…

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 is a significant upgrade. Learn how this new version affects the OS deployment process, and explore the new OS deployment capabilities provided in this release.

In this session, you will learn about new features of SQL Server 2008 R2 for Developers. Topics covered will include the following: use of Entity Framework, DACPACs (Data Tier Applications) for…

Migrating from XP and want your existing user profiles to work after Windows 7 is up and running? Learn how the User State Migration Tool (USMT) can easily migrate your user’s data, settings and…

Configuration Manager 2012 introduces a number of hierarchy, role, and architecture changes. In this session we will provide guidance on how best to design and deploy an optimised Configuration…

Not all applications can be hosted in the cloud. Increasingly, cloud services must provide access to new cloud-based assets as well as support connectivity with existing on-premises resources, such as…

This session gives an in-depth view of all the new features in WinPE 3.0 (Windows PE) architecture, tools and usage scenarios. It covers advanced techniques for building and customizing Windows PE as…

Do you want to achieve maximum application availability and data protection? Attend this session for an overview of AlwaysOn, the new, integrated, flexible, cost-efficient high availability and…

n this session, learn how user virtualization will enable you to realize the true potential of desktop virtualization and deploy a consistent desktop experience and synchronize desktops, apps and data…

In this session, Greg will show the enhancements that have been made to SQL Server Integration Services in SQL Server Denali. This will include visual and component enhancements, SSIS service and…

HPC and Azure are both emerging technologies which integrate together to provide a scalable, cost effective and on-demand compute power capability. This session covers using Excel to distrbute…

Learn how to build Phone applications that are backed by scalable cloud components hosted in Windows Azure. This demo-focused session will cover the end-to-end experience and address how to tackle…

Which mobile platform should I build my application for? Why pick one, when you can have them all. In this session you’ll learn how you can use your existing .NET skills to build either rich client or…

With the myriad of new capabilities in Exchange 2010, organisations are looking to their solutions providers to help them not only deploy the new platform but help them manage it. In this…

Users are demanding a more dynamic and flexible experience from IT and want a true user centric experience. You are required to provide secure access to personal and organisational data seamlessly…

This is a customer presented session that will demonstrate how Microsoft Business Intelligence is enabling the NSW Department of Education and Communities to harness its usage data statistics from…

Cloud computing is here to stay and there's no turning back. But you have existing on-premise systems that can't or wont ever leave your data centre. This session will discuss how to integrate those…

It's been a long time since we've seen browsers evolving at the rate which they currently are with Microsoft, Mozilla and Google releasing preview versions of their future browser rolling every few…

SharePoint Online moves SharePoint 2010 to the cloud. With that move, SharePoint developers are now empowered to build collaboration solutions that run in the cloud using Visual Studio 2010,…

This session explores how you to leverage cloud technologies to develop advanced business solutions with CRM. Attend to see how to develop solutions that pull together Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011,…

One of the main challenges organisations face is giving users the flexibility to report against Project, Resource and Portfolio information. This session will give you the insight on how you can take…

Are you ready to update your desktop to Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010? Not sure the easiest way to pilot? Looking for the best place to get started? This session shows an Office 2003 and Windows…

Many of you may be confused about the complexity of setting up a large scale VDI properly. What do I optimize? Where are the bottlenecks I should think about? Tony Sanchez from Citrix Systems, Gareth…

SharePoint 2010 has matured over the past year, with improvements in scalability, enterprise search, and administration. Best practices from SharePoint 2007 are no longer relevant, and new guidance…

Cloud hosting architects and system integrators are challenged by repetitive tasks, costs, and delegation associated with building customer portals with multiple layers of security and integrating…

This session covers Lync 2010 meeting features and architecture in Microsoft Lync 2010 Client and Server, for both on-premise and Microsoft Office 365 Service deployments. This session helps you…

Have you been wondering how to tweak that extra bit of performance out of your WP7 app? Come learn how to analyze the performance of your Windows Phone application and make it faster using top…

Mature ALM processes and tools are critical to help teams execute predictably across the application lifecycle. While many standard ALM processes apply equally to Windows Azure projects, there are…

Like it or not, application testing remains a critical part of all application transformations. If it is Windows 7, IE9, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a more comprehensive project around desktop…

LightSwitch is a new product in the Visual Studio family aimed at developers who want to easily create business applications for the desktop and the cloud. In this session we’ll go beyond the basics…

You want to produce software that is far reaching, compelling, scalable, on time and within budget? Don’t we all! So join our intrepid band of enthusiastic explorers; armed with an array of…

Office is everywhere and building on it is easy and powerful, but where do you start? In this highly engaging, demo-heavy session, Jake will cut to the chase and give you the 5 pieces of information…

Active Directory and all that you can do with it has come a long way in the last ten years. Unfortunately, many organizations rolled out Active Directory early on and never had the time or resources…

What is the Microsoft project code-named "Crescent" really capable of? How can it address the needs of your business? This session covers a variety of demonstrations against REAL DATA,…

200,000+ transactions per minute, 10000+ concurrent users, sub 40 millisecond responses times, 4 continents. This track explores the architecture used, the nature of the load tests conducted…

Are you planning to deploy Windows 7? If so, this is a great time to explore whether you should use the 32-bit or 64-bit versions of the OS. Explore the factors that should be considered as you try to…

This session covers virtualization scenarios for SQL Server 2008 R2 and how the combination of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center solves them. We perform a deep dive into SQL Server with Hyper-V. The…

Forefront Endpoint Protection enables customers to use their existing System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint protection. In this session, we will provide a…

SharePoint 2010 brought with it some great tooling in visual studio 2010, and with all the online resources available its easier than ever to get started with SharePoint development. If you want a…

This session provides a preview of the identity and access solutions in the next generation of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (Office 365). The session focuses on how…

Have you got an existing project that you are thinking about moving to Azure and not sure how to get started? Watch Mahesh Krishnan, take an existing web application and move it to Windows Azure. In…

The Microsoft Kinect holds the Guiness World Record as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device ever, selling 8 million units in the first 2 months. With the recent release of the official SDK,…

Understand the Exchange 2010 requirements for load balancing. Review the pros and cons of current hardware-based load balancing solutions. Discuss the nuances of high-end/high-scale load balancing and…

We’ve all heard HTML 5 is just around the corner but what can you use now? What’s likely to be useful? And when is it actually coming out? We probably won’t be able to answer the last question,…

Beautiful designs and architectures are all good and well, but is application architecture enough? To what degree are modern solutions architected around end user adoption or for operational…

Come hear from Spausnet, Ausenco and Microsoft on the theory and practice of why they bet their business's on the Cloud and why Microsoft Online Services. This will be an interactive session that will…