In today’s world of connected cloud-centric applications with rich user experiences, the need for asynchronous and event programming is bigger than ever. With the C# and Visual Basic language features…

A different kind of session, driven by attendees, built in real time. Visual Studio VP Jason Zander "hosts" the session. Unplugged sessions are a very nice approach to interactive learning.…

With the upcoming releases of Dev11 and Windows 8, there has never been a better time to be a C++ developer! Metro-style applications, C++/CX, DirectX, the C++11 language…

Are you building a connected Windows Metro Style App? This session will introduce you to Windows Azure and demonstrate how you can build connected experiences for your Windows 8 Metro Style apps.…

At PDC a few years back, we introduced the LINQ project to solve the impedance mismatch between various data models by means of integrated query syntax in mainstream programming languages. Today,…

The enhancements to Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 affect many core areas of the system including platform, deployment, virtualization, authentication and management. In this session, hear…

In this session, see how to create and solve solutions using SQL Server 2012 Reporting Features. Learn how to best author reports using Report Designer and learn how to manage and deploy reports.…

Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language…

It is always a ‘cat and mouse’ game! Funny and scary at the same time. When you try to get access to the victim’s computer, all your moves are logged, but computer owners don't always check for them.…

Keynotes from Day 1 of TechEd Europe 2012

This session will do a deep technical dive of the new Cluster Shared Volumes architecture and new features coming in Windows Server 2012. CSV is now a full blown clustered file system, and all of the…

This session showcases the improvements to Windows PowerShell introduced in Windows Server 2012. Demos for this talk include how IT administrators can create cmdlet functionality without the need for…

What's that you say, you've not had time to check out all thirteen years’ worth? No problem: Mark's here to offer a fast-paced, entertaining look at some of the best power tools he's uncovered over…

If you have been tasked with designing and building out a private cloud for your business or are trying to understand how you can take the best advantage of HP and Microsoft technologies to accelerate…

As you prepare for deployment of Windows Server 2012, you will need to understand the value of the new Server Manager. This demo-heavy session showcases the new scenarios which include remote…

Windows Server “8” provides the most highly cloud-optimized operating system available today. VPN site-to-site technology enables cross-premise connectivity between enterprises and hosting service…

The session focuses on the new performance, scalability, and security features that are available in IIS 8, including how IIS scales on modern hardware, offers additional security via dynamic rules,…

This session focuses on how IIS is evolving as a hosting platform in the areas of sand-boxing resources, scalability, and manageability. It's packed with live demos of these investments to highlight…

Architecting a private cloud presents many complex design decisions and technology tradeoffs. These decisions touch areas such as network topologies, storage architecture selection, performance,…

In IT organizations, there’s only one thing more critical than information—and that’s ensuring access to that information whenever it is needed. Today’s organizations simply cannot afford system…

Windows Server 2012 brings a wide arsenal of storage features and capabilities to the field in order to address common storage issues faced by organizations of any size and in any industry. From small…

AS a federation and security architect John Craddock has been involved in enterprise systems since the early days of Windows NT. His passion is for determining how things really work and then…

Windows Server 2012 delivers innovative new capabilities that enable you to build dynamic availability solutions in which workloads, networks, and storage become more flexible, efficient, and…

Windows Server 2012 is making large investments in cloud related technologies, most of which is based on direct customer feedback. The Windows Server 2012 TAP (Technology Adoption Program) had a…

Learn about Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's interactive command line shell and scripting solution, directly from its inventor and architect— Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover. PowerShell…

The Hosted Private Cloud is a new deployment model that enables an exceptional level of mobility and availability for your private cloud deployments. However, to get the most out of a Hosted Private…

For the past few years, we've all heard about "the cloud" and how it'll can save us money and make our IT infrastructure more "agile," .. but what does that really mean? For the…

Windows Server 2012 includes two great new features to increase both performance and reliability. NIC teaming, a new feature in Windows Server 2012 provides greater availability and performance to…

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…

Today, almost 30% of networks support IPv6. We are making progress, but many still have not looked at the basics of their new network. In this session we dive into the IPv6 stack, discovering the…

A new wave of hardware is planned to be released by Microsoft’s industry partners with Windows Server 2012 designed to provide a true volume platform for Continuous Availability. Come to this session…

What’s the best way to deploy Windows Server 2012? This session will overview new deployment options for Windows Server 2012 from bare metal deployments to choosing full GUI, Server Core or Minimal…

Windows has always implemented formal and industry standards but the Windows Server 2012 mission to be a Cloud OS required us to take this to a new level with investments in storage, networking and…

IPAM in Windows Server 2012 can reduce the time and expense needed to manage IP address space. For example, by using the centralized architecture feature in IPAM, you can more easily obtain updated…

Windows Server 2012 will offer excellent total cost of ownership as an integrated platform with comprehensive, multicomputer manageability. Two areas in which Windows Server 2012 improves…

Windows Server 2012 includes major performance features and improvements to help increase networking throughput, improve scalability, and provide customers with a more powerful, easily managed,…

With the new DirectAccess and Remote Access enhancements, you can easily provide more secure remote access connections for your users, faster than ever before. The new features in Windows Server 2012…

Windows Server 2012 comes with plenty of features to help hosters build public Infrastructure as a Service clouds. In this session, learn how hosters can take advantage of the new Hyper-v, storage,…

This session outlines the various features and capabilities within Windows Server 2012 to build a cost effective, scalable, and highly available hosted service / private cloud solution. This is based…

Everyone is talking about “The Cloud”, but what does it really mean to an organization and the IT professionals who are managing it? How does the private cloud drive down cost and increase efficiency…

Windows Server 2012 brings Microsoft’s experience building and operating public clouds to the server operating system, making it a dynamic, highly available, and cost-effective platform for private…

Learn about designing and implementing both on-premise and cloud-based messaging and collaboration solutions with SBS8Windows Small Business Server. Including utilizing Office 365, Exchange server,…

This session demonstrates the new features and enhancements in Windows MultiPoint Server. Learn how MultiPoint can provide huge cost savings in classroom or small business environments, and discover…

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track delivers the fastest path to Private Cloud via pre-validated configurations from Microsoft and server partners. Originally announced at TechEd Europe in November of…

Come and hear how we bring to life Nokia Lumia – our smartphones based on Windows Phone. See the exciting technologies we are working on for our smartphones. Understand the journey we have taken and…

Do you require device encryption for smartphones in your organization? With Windows Phone 8 we are delivering not only encryption but also robust security overall and data protection for business…

Users will appreciate your Windows Phone applications better if they perform well. You can benefit from lessons learned over the last years to optimize the performance of your own Windows Phone apps.…

Windows Phone is now available is in 60+ countries around the world. What better way to expand the availability of your application than to make it available in the native language and culture of…

Since the initial release of Windows Phone, Live Tiles have been the defining experience of the platform and end-users have come to expect apps to provide full support for that. In this session we'll…

Unit Testing? MVVM? Yeah, well we’ve always meant to do that but you know, we never found the time to really get into that properly..." Too often, adoption of proper testing as an integral part…

Most of us want to make money. Developers are no exception. Windows Phone provides a uniform infrastructure for publishing your apps to every Windows Phone user. In our next release, we'll add several…

Now that we have closed the gap with device encryption, the next mile to cover will be device management. With Windows Phone 8 Microsoft is making some big steps forward with MDM; this session will…

Windows Phone has always been about delivering outstanding end user experiences. In this session we'll go in depth on the nuts and bolts of the Metro user experience platform, and how to use it as a…

If you’ve never written apps or games for WP, this session is for you. Windows Phone is unique among mobile operating systems in its focus on providing people quick and easy ways to accomplish the…

If you know anything about Windows Phone, you know that it provides users the best possible mobile platform for using Microsoft's powerful collaboration tools, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and the new…

This session will provide an overview of some of the new capabilities coming in the next version of Windows Phone and why you need to get excited about it now.

Ever thought about what Windows 7 actually is doing while you are waiting? Learn to troubleshoot and analyze a wide range of performance problems including application start times, boot issues,…

The essence of enterprise mobility is the secure extension of the critical data of an organization's back end systems out to the mobile devices used by employees. Windows Phone is an enterprise-class…

Private Cloud Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman leads this session discussing Windows Server “8” and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Failover Clustering design, infrastructure planning and…

With Windows Server 2012, the deployment of session-based desktops and applications becomes simpler and more powerful than ever before. Discover new features and enhancements with Remote Desktop…

As RemoteFX expands its reach into the market, software and hardware companies are designing solutions to deliver the best experiences to users and IT managers. This session includes a deep dive into…

Another must-see session for anyone comparing private cloud and systems management technologies! Building on Part 1, in this session, we focus on comparing and contrasting the private cloud and…

This is a must-see session for anyone who is comparing virtualization offerings! In this session, we review the key capabilities of Hyper-V, in both Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012, in…

In System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012 we now have the capability to deploy hyper-v hosts directly from SCVMM 2012. So how do you do that in reality? What are the requirements? How…

This session overviews the new and updated features for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, including Multitenancy, High Availability, flexibility infrastructure, and Scale and Density. In this session, it…

With the proliferation of virtualization, hypervisor customers are demanding integrated protection, consistent management, the ability to add virtual appliances, and to tailor virtual switches to…

In this session, we cover the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support for remote file storage using SMB 3.0. This introduces a new first-class storage option for Hyper-V that is a flexible, easy to use…

“Any service at any server in any cloud.” Next generation data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation and consolidation across large resource pools. The topological constrains of today’s…

To maintain optimal use of physical resources and to be able to easily add new virtual machines, you must be able to move virtual machines whenever necessary without disrupting business. In Windows…

With Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V networking is evolved and expanded to be optimized for all sizes of customers, public and private clouds. New features in Windows Server 2012 networking include SMB2…

Most SMB customers do not have robust disaster recovery plans despite experiencing around six outages in a year. This is because current solutions for disaster recovery are expensive, complicated to…

In this session, we cover the changes to the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V storage stack. We dive into the enhancements around the new virtual disk format, integrating new storage industry innovations…

Learn key principles to quickly transform your IT operations into a robust, private cloud. Return home with recommendations for achieving performance, availability, and flexibility through the…

Ever wondered how malware manages to exploit vulnerabities in order to run shellcode? And how advanced mitigation technologies, such as DEP, ASLR, EMET, etc., manage to block them? In this session, we…

If the problem persists, contact the administrator of this site and provide the reference number to identify the problem. Reference number: 551e28c1-e9f1-4622-aa1d-dff0065e33b1e. Is that administrator…

As a consultant with more than ten years of experience in troubleshooting Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and as MVP for Directory Services, in this session we prepare an AD DS with the top…

In part two of this two-part series Andy Malone focuses firmly on putting cryptography to work. Including technologies like EFS, PKI, IPSec, and BitLocker. This session offers tips, tricks and…

Cryptography, for thousands of years has helped keep secrets safe from our enemies, competitors, and thieves. Today we live in a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed and the need to…

How does Dynamic Access Control affect Active Directory Domain Services? Come to this session and find out how it works! This session provides a technical deep-dive on Dynamic Access Control…

The Web browser is the primary path that malware uses to get on users’ computers. Web browser security (especially Internet Explorer’s) has improved dramatically in the past few years to defend…

Companies are looking up to Microsoft for guidance on: Protecting information from unauthorized view and unwanted disclosure; Enabling Regulatory Compliance and IP Protection; Enabling Secure Business…

An Active Directory failure is the most critical disaster in most organizations, and the infrastructure has changed: virtualization provides benefits, but also risks. Active Directory Recycle bin…

So, you installed Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), and maybe even federated with an application or Microsoft Office 365. Now what? Come learn how MSIT has customized and extended their AD…

Virtualization is a key technology underpinning and enabling both private- and public-cloud deployments. In this session, we will discuss the technical details surrounding domain controller…

Microsoft IT is one of the first early-adopters of the Dynamic Access Control feature set, deploying multiple business scenarios to achieve Data Governance. This session explains how Microsoft is…

Today, access entitlements to applications stored in AD are expressed through rights and security groups. Learn about new techniques Microsoft is using to provide more control to the business decision…

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 will introduce dramatic changes to its self-service password reset capabilities which will simplify its deployment and unblock many customer scenarios.…

The enhancements to Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 affect many core areas of the system including platform, deployment, virtualization, authentication and management. In this session, hear…

In the latest edition of the popular Sysinternals Primer series, join Aaron (Mark Russinovich’s co-author of The Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference) as he goes mining for gems. Uncover…

In this session we discuss Microsoft’s internal privacy process, one that is responsible for ensuring that privacy needs are taken into account throughout the product development process and into the…

It started with Stuxnet, followed by the attack on RSA and many others. During this live session, Marcus Murray gives you a deep understanding of the new threats, how they are created, what they can…

This session provides an overview of several Sysinternals tools, including Process Monitor, Process Explorer, and Autoruns, focusing on the features useful for malware analysis and removal. These…

Only 10?! Security audits are the best opportunity to become familiar with the common and uncommon security mistakes made by administrators. The reasons of misconfiguration are very typical: lack of…

Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) is the conceptual equivalent in the cloud of Windows Server Active Directory (WS AD), and is integrated with WS AD itself. In this session, developers,…

This session provides an overview of Microsoft Forefront edge security technologies - Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Threat Management Gateway (TMG). It explains in detail what the capabilities of…

This session provides an overview of the new Dynamic Access Control capabilities built into Windows Server 2012 and how it can best be leveraged for Compliance and Data Leakage Prevention to enable…

In a world with evolving security threats, protecting your organization's data is a key part of a defense in depth strategy. Learn how to use Microsoft technology to introduce a layered Information…

With the introduction of virtual machines in Windows Azure, it is now possible to host Active Directory to support your Windows Azure applications and solutions. For example, you might host AD to…

For more than two decades, individuals have struggled to understand cyber threats, evaluate the risks to individuals, and organizations (including nation-states), and craft appropriate responses.…

This session covers tips for defending against current attackers in the form of recommendations for both IT/IS Management prioritization and technology configuration/integration. This session also…

Whether experienced or novice, most SharePoint development teams can improve their processes, and this session looks at how Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio can help - specifically with…

Have you considered connecting SharePoint to LiveID, Azure or more than one ADFS? In this session, we will discuss some things to consider when implementing Claims based authentication with…

Ever wondered what the best methods are for deploying Microsoft Office 2010? Should Office be in your operating system image or installed as part of a deployment? How do you install the Office ProPlus…

The upgrade process from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 is pretty smooth, as long as nothing is customized. In the real world though, customizations are aplenty and they must be dealt with. In…

Finding content is more important than ever. Whether your deployment is on-premise or in the cloud with SharePoint Online, your users want a great search experience. In this session, you will learn…

The My Sites capability of SharePoint 2010 is the backbone of SharePoint's social capabilities. In this session, we'll cover how to customize your My Site deployment and how to apply custom branding.…

Page Layouts are a key part of any SharePoint Server 2010 WCM implementation. Just about every SharePoint WCM site requires hundreds or thousands of content pages that have all been created based on…

Microsoft is making significant investments in Windows Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). One of the primary scenarios is running SharePoint on Windows Azure virtual machines. In this session…

Based on the Microsoft SharePoint product team’s experience with sites like Microsoft.com and other large customer sites, this session provides a set of best practices for designing, developing,…

Want to learn about how to leverage your on premise SharePoint and line of business data in SharePoint Online? Come and learn about various techniques to build applications on SharePoint Online that…

If you are wondering how Office 365 is architected for less than a few hours of lost productivity per year, even in the light of extreme disasters, this is the session for you! We talk about the…

Some of your most important considerations when evaluating a cloud solution should be the provider's privacy and security practices. Microsoft strives to take a leadership role in industry privacy,…

This session is intended to discuss in-depth the different Identity options, Identity architecture and features that enable an organization to integrate their on-premise Active Directory to Office…

Don’t let Office file and solution compatibility concerns delay your Office and Office 365 deployment project. Using the wrong process to address compatibility planning can lead to extended (and…

During this session we discuss tools and techniques that can be used to troubleshoot Microsoft Office in the enterprise. The focus of this session is troubleshooting Outlook, but we also cover Word,…

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is now available in Office 365 tenancies worldwide, providing a host of new opportunities for developing business solutions for SharePoint Online. These include…

In many organizations, SharePoint is a disruptive technology: It’s no longer business-as-usual for users, for developers, for IT, or for the enterprise. SharePoint shines a spotlight on everything…

In this demo-heavy session we will explore Visual Studio 2010’s tightly integrated support for SharePoint development. You will see Visual Studio’s built-in support for creating the most common…

Office 365 has been continually improving the ease of migration and will continue to do so in the future. In this session understand the investments that are being made to simplify deployment,…

Office 365 for Education is the service replacing Live@edu, with rich collaborative services through Microsoft Exchange Online, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Lync Online, and Microsoft SharePoint Online.…

Office 365 is the online service combining the Exchange Online, Office Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. There are multiple versions of the service for various types of customers,…

Office 365 is the online service offerings of Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online, and Office Professional Plus. This session introduces you to Office 365 and…

In this session you will learn how business users can be empowered to create self-managed analytic applications by harnessing the power of SharePoint Server 2010. The session will cover an…

Microsoft MVPs share their top production experiences with Service Manager and Orchestrator. Hear about best practices from implementations serving thousands of users and crazy interesting application…

Service delivery and automation with the System Center 2012 suite is about delivering IT services effectively and consistently. This session covers how the System Center 2012 suite of products…

Service Manager 2012 introduces a new reporting capability that spans the System Center suite. This session presents the new capabilities of the Service Manager data warehouse and how to take…

In today’s dynamic datacenter, it is critical to protect workloads against a wide range of potential failures. IT Pros do so by configuring workloads to be highly available and resilient to failures.…

This session presents supported upgrade scenarios, recommends upgrade best practices, explains tools, documents and resources that will help you upgrade a Service Manager 2010 production installation…

Once upon a time, Microsoft had a "if we build it, someone else will back it up" mentality. Today, Windows' built-in backup solution continues to evolve, Microsoft System Center 2012 is…

You’ve moved a substantial amount of your organization’s critical services and applications across your new private cloud—but how can you determine if it has been properly protected? You can’t perform…

We all know that you can create a service template and deploy services within Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), but what does it look like under the covers? What is a Custom…

I have three Bare Metal machines, and I want to make them into a Hyper-V cluster using Virtual Machine Manager. How do I do this? This session includes a walk-through of the entire process end-to-end…

With the release of Desired Configuration Management in Configuration Manager 2007, organizations were given the ability to define models of Operating System, Application, Update levels, and more.…

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager introduced the concept of Services which provides IT Pros a mechanism to codify application deployment on their virtual infrastructure. This provides…

Windows Server 2012 introduces core capabilities that enable storage automation scenarios like end-to-end discovery and mapping, host and cluster storage management, and rapid provisioning. This also…

With the advent of Windows Server 2012, multiple isolation capabilities like Hyper-V network virtualization are surfaced through Virtual Machine Manager in a simple, discoverable way. In this session,…

Building on the Deployment and Infrastructure Design session, this technical session walks you through planning and deploying a Configuration Manager 2012 hierarchy, including migration from an…

Configuration Manager 2012 allows users to be productive from anywhere, on both corporate and consumer devices. It evaluates device and network capabilities to deliver applications in the most optimal…

System Center Configuration Manager helps IT to streamline operations with a unified infrastructure that integrates client management and protection across mobile, physical, and virtual environments.…

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection is now System Center Endpoint Protection. Attend this session to discover what's new and how System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection is integrated with System…

Are you ready for System Center Configuration Manager 2012? It's just around the corner and is the most important release for client administrators! Configuration Manager 2012 will manage…

System Center 2012 Operations Manager is the best-of-breed in monitoring from Microsoft. Once it is installed, a wealth of information about the environment is obtained. Here are some lessons learned…

To really tap into the power of System Center Operations Manager, you have to start building custom management packs. This session provides you with all the tips and tricks you need to build…

In this session we look at how we configure, deploy, manage, and operate services in the private cloud, how we deploy and monitor Windows Azure applications, and how we consolidate Azure subscriptions…

The applications to empower our businesses are what we should focus on. We should choose the platform to host the application that best meets the needs, whether it's a public cloud (Windows Azure) or…

Simplify managing all of your applications across cloud environments from a single integrated tool. This session provides an overview of the latest functionality in App Controller including support…

In this overview session we provide a summary of all the major changes in Operations Manager 2012 and what new functionality has been included. We cover advanced topics like APM and our X-Platform…

Whether you are looking to build your own private cloud, offer cloud services or securely connect to IT services in the cloud, this Foundational Session helps you understand how Windows Server 2012…

How people work has changed dramatically over the last few years. Today’s users have access to the latest technology in their personal lives, and increasingly have a say in what technology they use to…

With today’s organizations quickly adopting Hybrid IT and pursuing the potential of Big Data, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is at the heart of the data revolution. Join us for a demo-intensive session…

This session provides in-depth information on how we establish media connectivity using ICE, STUN, and TURN. We discuss how clients and server find and allocate IP addresses locally and on the Edge…

Lync Edge Server provides federation and remote user access. As an entry point to the corporate network, it's important for administrators to understand these threat vectors and how to defend against…

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…

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…

High availability and disaster recovery mean different things to different people. The reality is that failures come in many shapes and forms. Learn about the features in Lync to address failures and…

Consumerization of IT has brought an irreversible shift of power from IT to the Business where IT is no longer king. Come learn about the 5 ways Lync can supercharge and automate business processes!…

In this session we share best practices when investigating your deployment options for Microsoft Lync 2010. Learn the questions you should answer to decide if you should go online, on premises, or go…

Microsoft has been promoting Network Load Balancing (NLB) in an Exchange Server environment for years, but is now recommending using hardware load balancers. This offers lots of opportunities, like…

This session covers both the requirements and best practice recommendations for running Exchange Server 2010 in a hardware virtualization environment. If you’re running or planning on running Exchange…

This session continues the 14+ year tradition of the Exchange Server Tips & Tricks presentation. Learn how to get more out of Exchange 2010 SP2 in this session, packed with new tips and tricks…

Exchange Server 2010 SP2 was released at the end of 2011 and brought with it some fantastic new features. Come hear from the product group about OWA Mini, the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and OWA…

Come learn about the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, what it does, and take a look inside at how the “Hybrid Configuration Engine” works. Whether you…

Moving to the cloud? We’ve listened to feedback and we’ve made migrating to Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Office 365 even better. Come learn migration planning recommendations, details of…

Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) is a cloud-based email archive for on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This session walks through end-to-end set up of EOA, provisioning archives for your…

Outsourcing your mail filtering is nothing new, however that doesn't mean it isn't a complex area which needs careful consideration and configuration. In this session we introduce the capabilities of…

It’s a common problem: you’re getting close to when you’re supposed to deploy your new ASP.NET or WCF application into production and somehow it just doesn’t seem very fast. Yikes! You’ve got…

One of the most challenging things developers face when unit testing their code is writing good tests that exercise only the parts they want to test. Dependencies outside your code are the number-one…

IntelliTrace is a Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate feature that helps debug applications using a historical application log. If you want to know how it works and how to use it, then this is the…

Learn how to use Blend to visually construct, style, and layout Metro style apps using HTML. Learn how to start from scratch and have a fully functioning (and visually appealing!) application that…

Learn how Visual Studio and Blend can help you be more productive in building amazing Metro style apps for Windows 8. In this session, you will learn how to work with layout, controls, data, styling,…

Quality standards are only of value if they are adhered to and regularly verified. In the best case, this happens automatically, which allows for early feedback. This session is all about automated…

C++ is back! Did you know you can build Metro style apps with C++ and XAML? How about reusing existing C++ business logic in apps built with XAML/C# or HTML/Javascript? Join…

Let’s build a Windows 8 Metro style apps using HTML and JavaScript! Learn how to use the Windows Library for JavaScript, the Windows Runtime, and Visual Studio to implement a metro style app that…

In this talk we will build a services application from scratch using Visual Studio, Entity Framework POCO, and TFS. See how development patterns like dependency injection and persistence ignorance can…

In this session, we’ll look at building Metro style line of business (LOB) apps. We’ll discuss why you want to build Metro style LOB apps. We will explore strategies for working with data, including…

In this session, we will show the many different ways to monetize your Windows 8 Metro-style application, including subscriptions, trial apps, advertisement, and in-app purchases. We will cover the…

Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language…

If you are experienced with .NET or Silverlight and are already familiar with XAML, this session will teach you everything you need to know to create a Metro style app for Windows 8. This session will…

Get started writing Metro style apps using your existing HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS skills today! You’ll discover how Metro style app development mirrors or differs from traditional web programming…

Windows 8 marks the next step in the evolution of the Metro design language. Through the bold use of color, typography, and motion, the Metro design language brings a fresh new approach to the user…

Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language…

This technical session focuses on continued investments in IIS Express as a developer server and how they are being consumed by developers in WebMatrix and Visual Studio. Learn some tips and tricks…

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to create business applications for the desktop and cloud. In Visual Studio 2012 we’ve opened up the LightSwitch application architecture by embracing the…

Using Team Foundation Server to share your source code, track work and automate builds has never been easier. In this session we dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation…

Did you install Team Foundation Server (TFS) one day out of interest and suddenly discover that because you touched it last you are now the de-facto administrator of the single most important system…

With Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 there have been a lot of improvements to make developer collaboration even easier. We’ll cover integrated code review, the new “My Work”…

You’ve heard about the brand new Team Foundation Service that brings together Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Windows Azure and now it’s time to find out how to get started. In this…

Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information, and services. F# 3.0, to ship in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET…

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web and is the new standard for data-based services. In this session, learn how to easily create these…

Did you know that most of the computers on which you deploy applications have more power in the GPU on the video card than in the CPU, even multi-core machines? Harnessing the power of the GPU is the…

The new Windows Runtime is adopting a heavily asynchronous programming model to ensure the responsiveness of Windows 8 client apps. This makes it more critical than ever to have great support for…

.NET recently had its 10th birthday. A lot has happened in the past decade. .NET 4.5 marks the occasion with many new features and scenarios. We’ll build a modern connected app to see Entity…

Come and see how we have enabled new scenarios with WCF in .NET 4.5. We’ll show you how you can use the new WCF support for WebSockets and UDP. We’ll show you how you can leverage WCF from your…

This session leads you through 20 steps to achieve a 'Modern Architecture Review' that demonstrates how to perform an architecture review on a big project no longer needs to be daunting. We will…

How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you were ready to ship that it was not quite what they wanted? Have you received conflicting…

Learn how to become a Visual Studio coding guru! In this fast-paced session, learn to write code faster than a speeding bullet, leap around large projects in a single bound, and become more powerful…

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 bring a valuable set of new features and capabilities to agile teams. In this talk we take a ride through an example project and show you…

Visual Studio is the tool of code craftsman yet many developers use its debugging features as if they were a novice apprentice. This session takes you on a tour of the goodness that can be found in…

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio Ultimate offers many features for…

Windows Azure and Visual Studio enable you to build the most demanding cloud applications. This session will focus on the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio for constructing, debugging,…

Coded UI tests allow developers to automate important end-to-end scenarios which can then quickly alert the team about regressions. These tests can be created quickly, but as with any automated tests…

Do you want to make Visual Studio bend to your will? Are you looking to simplify common tasks for your team or visualize source code in new ways? Are there common practices you want to share across…

Now that you’ve published your cloud app, your delivery process should be automated and hands free. In this session you will learn how to automate the build, packaging and deployment process from pure…

ASP.NET MVC 4 now includes rich support for creating web APIs using the new ASP.NET Web API framework. In this talk I’ll show you how you can use ASP.NET Web API to create HTTP services that can reach…

As JavaScript's ubiquity continues to grow, it becomes increasingly harder for developers—regardless what platform they're targeting—to avoid it. To make the choice of adopting it into your…

JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, but has also unfortunately remained one of the most misunderstood programming languages. This session gives a…

Cloud enabling your ASP.NET applications is more than simply hosting your app on Azure. Azure provides many services that applications can leverage to ensure they can scale with the demands of your…

Users want to see results, and they want them right now. As the options for real-time applications grow, so does the demand and the need for you, the developer, to understand the variety of tools…

HTML 5 is a game changer for the entire industry and opens up new and exciting possibilities for web developers. Come join us for a talk about how ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 makes building web…

Building websites has become more and more important for most businesses worldwide, and with the introduction of HTML 5 we now have more possibilities than ever. Join Mads on a journey through the…

Interesting new solutions to internet problems continue to emerge. Realtime, Web APIs, mobile, Gmail-style apps in a single page, and hybrids are the norm. Time to abandon .NET? Let's look at what…

Building a high-quality code is essential, but only matters when the application is in production. In this talk, learn how Visual Studio 2012 and System Center 2012 tools can work together to improve…

Windows Azure is a flexible and open cloud platform for a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites to enterprise and mobile applications. In this foundational session Scott Guthrie will…

Microsoft’s application lifecycle management tooling is all about enabling teams to deliver great software. In this demo-packed session, you will learn how to engage early and often with your…

In this session we cover the improvements to Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Management which will make it easier to conduct manual and automated testing across a variety of environments. We cover the…

Come to this must-see session to find out how you can use the Kinect for Windows SDK to build commercial applications! Learn how the RGB and depth cameras work, how to use and fine-tune skeletal…

Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 bring a valuable set of new features and capabilities to agile teams. They provide an easy, simple-to-use experience on top of a powerful,…

In Visual Studio 2012, we have done a lot of work to improve the developer unit testing experience, particularly for agile teams. We have even made the entire unit testing framework extensible, which…

Software development continues to make great advances and so does Visual Studio. Come learn about the trends impacting software development and how you can take advantage of them with Visual Studio…

Today, most Agile teams are using Scrum. Microsoft uses it internally and so do your competitors. It’s time you take a serious look at this framework for managing complex projects, such as software…

The release of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 allows standalone tabular models. This session goes into the internal architecture of the engine and describes implications on performance and scale of the…

With the introduction of the Vertipaq engine and the DAX programming language, it seems that many-to-many relationships are no longer supported. As shown in this session, this is not true:…

The new filetable feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 provides new opportunities for server, search, and file system integration. This session focuses on filetable as a substrate for integration of…

Columnstore indexes, and a new, vector-based query execution method called “batch mode,” can speed up query processing in data warehouses and data marts using SQL Server 2012 by a breathtaking 10X to…

In 2011, we introduced SQL Azure Federations to enable building application-aware scale-out solutions. In order to build applications that can deal with aspects such as analyzing data across…

The ability to audit user operations has become a fundamental requirement for database systems. Much of this is being driven by compliance regulations that require companies to be able to answer…

As part of Business Continuity Management, cloud applications and online services need to plan for scenarios where data in the cluster or the entire datacenter becomes temporary or permanently…

Dive deep into PowerPivot architectures, deployment dependencies, maintenance best practices, security, and troubleshooting options. #TEDBI402

Several customers have deployed AlwaysOn in production and reaping the benefits of new High Availability and Disaster Recovery capabilities. What aplications and scenarios are they using it for and…

Many customers have existing SQL Server applications running on Windows Server that are already virtualized and would benefit from running in the public cloud. Windows Azure is introducing an expanded…

Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services are both great products in their own right, but put them together and things are even better! During this session we discuss why you…

Who says relational databases can't scale out? If you're looking for a relational data store that can scale out like a NoSQL product, then come to this session. Hold on to your seats, because we have…

Microsoft SQL Server speed boils down to how fast we can get data in and out of storage. Sooner or later, we're going to run out of memory to cache. In this session, we take a lesson from Microsoft's…

In this session, learn how you can use Windows Azure to do Business Intelligence. We take a deep dive into interesting BI scenarios and see how we can leverage SQL Azure Reporting to solve them.…

This session covers an introduction to the DAX language and to new DAX capabilities coming in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in PowerPivot and SQL Server Data tools to enrich your Tabular BI applications.…

SQL Server is releasing AU3 version of Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) with a new software architecture featuring a cost based optimizer, stored procedure support, SQL Server security model, as well as…

With the introduction of BISM Tabular in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, you have two options for a new project. BISM Multidimensional, formerly known as UDM, is still an option. In this session, see a…

In this session, learn what you should be looking at within your virtual environment to ensure you are getting the performance you should out of it. This includes how to look for CPU performance…

This session will describe how to build practical end-to-end HA and DR solutions for mission critical applications using SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn technologies, for example, how to combine Failover…

SQL Server 2012 is the first version of SQL Server to support Windows Server Core. Windows Server Core is a good way to increase uptime and reliability—two things all administrators care about. This…

One of the most highly requested features in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is the ability to offload read workloads and backups to secondary replicas in AlwaysOn configurations. In this session we…

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) transforms traditional database development by introducing a declarative, model-based experience that supports both online and offline (project-based) database…

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is an industry term for managing your data for data integration, quality, and governance, and is an important part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 release.…

Data-tier applications (DAC) were introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. A DAC provides a single unit for authoring, deploying, and managing the data-tier objects instead of having to manage them…

SQL Server 2012 adds a number of very powerful new T-SQL features that allow you to improve your existing solutions. However, in order to get the most out of those features you need to know how they…

In this session, see how to create and solve solutions using SQL Server 2012 Reporting Features. Learn how to best author reports using Report Designer and learn how to manage and deploy reports.…

With the introduction of the Business Intelligence Semantic Model, there are now two ways to create and deliver successful Analysis Services projects: Tabular and Multidimensional. In this demo-driven…

A top call generator for SharePoint BI is the configuration of Kerberos to allow user credentials to be passed to back end data sources. With Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Reporting Services will be…

Power View is the exciting the ad-hoc data visualization capability coming in Microsoft SQL Server 2012, that relies on a Tabular Model or PowerPivot workbook. Creating the right experience in Power…

In this session we explore the new capabilities of Power View and how you can create the right interactive reports. #TEDBI302

In this session we explore the new capabilities in PowerPivot that will enable you to create rich applications with KPIs, using the new measure grid, new DAX capabilities, and advanced mode. We…

Learn how SQL Server 2012 fits into your virtualization and private cloud strategy. We cover the key virtualization and private cloud features of SQL Server 2012, and show how new capabilities in…

The legacy continues. The Microsoft Business Intelligence team is excited to once again present the BI PowerHour. In this entertaining session, we dazzle you with new demonstrations that expose the…

The new Business Intelligence and Data Visualization features and functionality are key to the strategic and technical changes in SQL Server 2012. In this session, we look at Power View and its impact…

Excel 2010 provides a world-class platform for enterprise decision making. This presentation introduces the decision-making ability possible with the free Excel add-ins for PowerPivot and SQL Server…

The Data Market on the Windows Azure Marketplace is a global online marketplace for premium datasets, Data Quality Service (DQS) providers and Data Services. The Azure DataMarket is now available with…

Node.js is a platform for building fast, high-scale applications in JavaScript. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that allows developers to quickly and easily create everything from…

Web 2.0 companies have been fully taking advantage of Hadoop based open source tools to tackle Big Data needs. Microsoft now offers the best of both worlds with its own Hadoop solution on Windows…

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) shipped with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and is a great way to build extensible apps, model long-running processes, and orchestrate services. Further investments are…

If you have built or are building a commercial SaaS application on Windows Azure then you also need to understand the operations side of this picture. It's not all plain sailing and your ITPro's are a…

Windows Azure is Microsoft's open and flexible cloud platform. Come learn how you can easily and effectively monitor and manage the applications and virtual machines you've built and deployed to…

This session will cover some of the technical aspects of developing and running software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions on Windows Azure, with an emphasis on architecture and implementation. Specific…

Windows Azure Service Bus is an application communication and messaging platform that enables integration and orchestration of continuous services and connected devices across boundaries. Core…

Project Brooklyn is a networking on-ramp for migrating existing Enterprise applications onto Windows Azure. Project Brooklyn enables Enterprise customers to extend their enterprise networks into the…

So, you're building apps that span multiple devices and you're curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable Web apps and services on Windows Azure? How about storing data…

Now that you know about Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks stop by to see how you can quickly take advantage of this new functionality to migrate existing applications to the cloud…

This session goes under the hood and in-depth; it assumes you already understand the basics of the new Windows Azure VM Role. The focus of this session is to help you understand its architecture, how…

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the Windows Azure Service Bus and the current and upcoming capabilities that are being added. You will get to understand what the capabilities are,…

Windows Azure is not just about Windows, the Virtual Machine capability allows to run other operating systems and application stacks and bring these virtual machines to Windows Azure. In this session…

Most applications need to store files, content and data in unstructured and semi-structured storage along with the relational data you would store in a database such as SQLAzure. Windows Azure Storage…

Windows Azure Web Sites allows you to quickly and easily deploy sites to a highly scalable cloud environment with the frameworks and open source applications you love. In this session, we will go deep…

This session provides an overview of both the current and new networking features supported in Windows Azure and explains the scenarios in which these features are relevant. It covers the investments…

Mark Russinovich goes under the hood of Microsoft’s cloud OS, Windows Azure. Intended for developers that have already gotten their hands dirty with Windows Azure and understand its basic concepts,…

Are you planning to support or maybe you are already supporting Windows Azure applications? Microsoft IT is running a revenue-impacting Windows Azure application and the team has gained valuable…

Windows Azure includes a complete set of enterprise-ready data services, including Windows Azure Storage and SQL Databases. In this demo-filled session developers will see how to can effectively use…

Windows Azure Web Sites is a simple and powerful hosting platform that allows developers to easily build and rapidly deploy web applications on Windows Azure using their favorite languages,…

Join Mark Russinovich for a tour of the features that make up the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks offerings. Using demonstrations throughout, he explains the Virtual Machine…

Enterprise Application Integration or EAI solutions bridge systems with disparate data formats and communication protocols. Solutions increasingly need to connect on-premise systems with applications…

As an IT Pro, Cloud Computing in general, is a great opportunity to do more strategic things in your job. To be strategic, you need to know what Windows Azure is and you need to know about your new…

What are the scenarios and the options when you need to connect on-premise applications, data and infrastructure with Windows Azure. How can you treat Windows Azure as an extension of your data center…

This talk discusses the cloud impact on business continuity. In this session, you will learn about the platform services you can leverage to make your application resilient to major failures. We…

In this session we cover the significant investments that Microsoft is making in our Windows Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) strategy. We discuss the details about how the platform works when…

Here’s a dirty little secret: Non-trivial unit testing is hard. Testing simple method calls and return values is straightforward, but rarely is interesting code so simple! Come get some tips and…

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) offer new ways to think about developer testing. These approaches evolve the conversation of Test-Driven Development and…

Learn all you need to know about the Microsoft Datacenter Services Solution (DCS) IaaS scenario in a private cloud deployment mode. Find out the new scenarios delivered by the Data Center Services…

We’re agile, so we don’t have to estimate and have no deadlines, right? Wrong! This session will consist of review of the problem with estimation in projects today and then an overview of the concept…

Cloud computing introduces new opportunities and new challenges. One of those challenges is how security is approached in the private cloud. While private cloud can share a lot of security issues with…

How does one build a “modern” application? What are the key design patterns ranging from adaptive and insight-driven applications to 'Social'-enabled & aware application design, to Big Data: why…

So you've heard a lot about the Private Cloud—but, what exactly is a Private Cloud? What are the principals, patterns, and concepts that drive a private cloud infrastructure? Attend this session to…

This session discusses the importance of considering sustainability and supportability needs in IT Architecture projects. Topics to be explored include monitoring, scaling for performance and…

Internet and cloud computing have revolutionized the way people expect to access and share information. To be successful, organizations need to develop a comprehensive identity and access strategy for…

Virtualization means a better life for developers. This session answers questions regarding what hardware to buy and why you really want an SSD-including options for desktop and servers in the…

Spatial data operations are often expensive. Thus, in order to achieve the required performance and scalability in spatial database applications, we need to define spatial indices. This presentation…

Have you ever written an XQuery against the XML data type and had performance issues? Have you ever wondered how to improve performance of your XML-based application? In this presentation, we analyze…

SQL Server and SQL Azure are providing extensive support for two-dimensional spatial data processing. This presentation is providing a short introduction to the world of spatial data processing. It…