A summary video of Friday 13th September 2013 at Microsoft TechEd New Zealand 2013

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A summary of the Keynote delivered by Scott Guthrie, Sean Gourley and Nigel Parker.

Windows 8 introduces a number of highly visible changes to Windows, such as a store experience, a new model and UI paradigm for apps, and touch friendliness. But, if you're a nerd, there's a lot more…

In this 300 level session Tony delves deep into the bowels of AD to bring forth best practice tips and tricks learned in the field. The content will cover a number of different areas, including…

Do you still love to hate Internet Explorer? We think we can change your mind. Come and join Alan Burchill (APAC GPO MVP) and Chris Jackson ("The App Compat Guy") as we talk about all of the…

In this session, we'll talk about the changes in MDT 2013 and explore how to use MDT to build and deploy Windows 8.1 images. Along the way, tips and tricks for getting the most out of MDT will be…

Learning the latest architecture ahead of time is a massive time saver for any virtual Desktops n Apps enterprise or cloud architect. What can I expect for scalability and how should I build it? What…

System Center 2012 - Configuration Manager Service Pack 1 and Windows Intune provide a unified approach for device management on-premise and through the cloud. Come and learn how this can help…

Join Kent Agerlund, as he will give walk you thru deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 in different environments with a focus on high availability and performance optimization. Some…

Group Policy in Windows 8.1 is getting even better!!! Come to this session to learn about the new improvements with Group Policy in Windows 8.1. Also see how you can use Group Policy to configure the…

Trying to find the right architecture for delivering virtual apps and desktops together is often like trying to find a needle in a haystack. What are the new features and functions that exist with…

Join Kent Agerlund, as he gives you a tour of the new features in Configuration Manager 2012 R2. Learn how you can manage your Windows 8.1 environment with new cool features like workplace support and…

In this session we'll talk about what's changed with Windows 8.1 in regards to the operating system deployment processes and tools, digging into the technical details of these changes to understand…

Description: Breathing a big sigh of relief after your migration to Windows 7 and thinking "that'll do us for the next 5 years"? Come and check out this session looking at specific reasons…

Chances are that you may have heard that April 2014 marks the retirement party of our long-toothed friend Windows XP. She has served us well over the years and for most organisations a 12 year return…

Come and take a look at what is new in Windows 8.1 and the number of great new form factor and designs of computers that run it. Break free of the shackles of your desk and see how you can work and…

Want an opportunity to stump some the worldwide experts on SharePoint with some of your nasty gnarly questions? Now here's your chance! This is an open panel discussion where you can test your…

High Availability and Disaster Recovery are two topics that frequently come up. But how do you architect your SharePoint environment in order to meet these requirements? This session will review what…

This session will cover from A-Z how to setup, configure, patch and maintain your Office Web Apps Server 2013 farm. Through an extensive set of demos we’re going to set up a new Office Web Apps Farm,…

Two Microsoft Certified Masters, one on SharePoint the other on SQL Server, will bring their experiences from the field to give tips and tricks on how to avoid common and not so common pitfalls with…

This is a practical hands on session including initial deployment, scale out of components and of course key elements of upgrade including upgrading FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 as well as…

Search in SharePoint 2013 has been completely re-architected. One of the design goals was to make this as extensible as possible while still making it easy to customise the search experience. This…

JavaScript is becoming the new de-facto standard for developing solutions on top of SharePoint, thanks to the new App model. But what if you’re still running on-premises installations and what if you…

This session includes an architectural walkthrough discussing scale points and changes to the new SharePoint Search 2013 platform. This is followed by a comprehensive review of just why you want to…

SharePoint 2013 is still a new kid on the block in the enterprises and even though large portions of the architecture is similar to SharePoint 2010 there are some tough choices to be made by a…

If something were to go wrong with your SharePoint environment tomorrow would you know? Relying on end users to alert administrators of a problem is not the best way to monitor your environment, but…

Okay, so want to upgrade to SharePoint 2013 but you're not quite sure what you need to do and this seems like a scary task. This session will provide practical guidance for preparing, performing,…

Come learn all about the new hotness in SharePoint 2013 web content management! This session will provide a good overview of new functionality including SEO, meta-data driven navigation, catalogues,…

SharePoint 2013 introduced the App Model to SharePoint, allowing for potentially quicker and easier development of Apps, however the developers do not get all the fun. SharePoint Administrators still…

Enterprise Social is enabling organizations to transform their businesses, to harnesses the power of their most valuable asset, their people, by connecting employees, partners, and customers.…

This session will first position Social in Enterprise, helping you to understand just why Social has been such a significant focus for SharePoint 2013. It will provide you with tips and guidance on…

In this session we will hear from Fonterra and Lincoln University on their journey to Unified Communications with Microsoft Lync. It will give a detailed technical view of the solution stacks…

Exchange Server 2013 offers many enhancements for redundancy, availability, and recovery. This session focuses on the improvements in the areas of storage, high availability, site resilience in…

Lync 2013 introduces a myriad of opportunities for driving user satisfaction by offering engineers and administrators the ability to publish highly available services and to more efficiently recover…

Come learn about the Office-wide investments in Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and Office around compliance, including content management, data governance, immutability, preservation, and eDiscovery.…

Support for multi-forest hybrid deployments is coming, so come learn about how multi-forest deployments work with Exchange Online. This includes what’s available and possible with different…

This session continues the now 20-year tradition of the Exchange Tips & Tricks series. This is the debut Tips & Tricks session for Exchange 2013, with all new and never before seen tips,…

This session discusses the best practices for planning and implementing Microsoft Lync Server 2013 as the successor to your PBX. Topics presented include: Choosing your project sponsors and building…

Join us to learn about Exchange Server 2013 on-premises deployment and coexistence with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 including planning best practices and feedback from customers who have already…

Microsoft Office 365 provides industry leading features to help customers stay secure and in control of their data. This session covers a breadth of security features across the service workloads,…

Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus uses a Setup technology called Click-to-Run, instead of the traditional Windows Installer (MSI) method. What does this mean for how you deploy and update Office 365…

As you move to the cloud with Microsoft Office 365, your directory moves there as well. Your organisation's directory lists all the people who you can collaborate with using Office 365 and it enables…

Come learn the best way to get Office 365 deployed. This session details the new Office 365 deployment process that enables you to quickly begin piloting Office 365 and move this pilot into production…

In this session you will hear about and see demos of a variety of applications built by Microsoft ISV partners that provide additional functionality. From Call Recording to Geo-Presence Location apps,…

A full-on demo session (NO PowerPoint guaranteed!) of Lync 2013 - From IM & Presence, to Voice, Video and collaboration, this session will give you great understanding of the full capabilities of…

This session will take you through the architecture and steps to create and manage an Private/Hybrid Cloud. We will talk about multi-tentant, charge back, network virtualisation and new features of…

Your private cloud should be designed to be protected from downtime. This session will cover the breath of features available to reduce and protect from both planned and unplanned downtime, such as:…

In this session we'll go through DPM 2012, Windows Server Backup and Windows Azure Backup and which technology is appropriate for specific workloads when developing a comprehensive backup strategy.…

This is an architectural session will look into identity management and how it can reduce business costs in terms of risk, access and compliance management by one of New Zealand's top Identity…

In this session you'll learn how to deploy a Minecraft server on Windows Azure Free Trial account. We'll go through all the steps, starting from scratch with setting up a trial account, through…

Implementing SCOM 2012 into Kiwibank from a client and Vendor perspective. Kiwibank's intention to implement all types of monitoring functionality to support improved IT Monitoring & IT…

In this session, discover how you can make Windows Azure YOUR datacentre. From compute and storage on demand to messaging and identity services, come and see how you can power your enterprise today…

Now that you have had your time to see what is new in Windows Server 2012 and how you can use it - you need the missing piece - how to get there! With your Active Directory in tip top shape, it's time…

Now that you have had your time to see what is new in Windows Server 2012 and how you can use it - you need the missing piece - how to get there! This session covers your bread and butter -…

This session discusses the different ways that you can deploy and use Windows Server Work Folders to gain oversight of IW corporate data. The session touches on different deployment options as well as…

Windows Server 2012 R2 continues on the path laid out in Windows Server 2012 by taking learnings from our deployments in our massive datacenters and providing them to our customers. In this talk, we…

Regardless of whether you're building on a private infrastructure, in a hybrid environment, or deploying to a public cloud, there are optimizations you can make in storage and availability that will…

Join this session to learn about the new features and functionality in Windows Server vNext in Hyper-V.

Hyper-V Replica has seen a lot of positive press and some early customer adoption case studies have been published. The level of interest from customers and the sophistication in the types of…

In this demo-packed session, Enterprise Client MVPs James Bannan and Peter Daalmans will show how Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 sits at the heart of the modern datacentre, providing a rich experience…

An exciting look at the innovation HP SDN is bringing to the data centre, the campus and networks globally. IT has radically changed over the last 10 years yet our underlying networks have largely…

Enterprise customers are seeing an exponential growth in storage requirements and costs. Join this session to hear how the combination of capabilities available in Windows Azure, Windows Server 2012,…

Microsoft's Cloud OS vision is to deliver a consistent datacenter platform and set of experiences regardless of deployment location. This means that customers can choose to run their business from…

In this session, learn how you can deploy Storage Spaces as the infrastructure on which your public or private cloud runs. We demonstrate how to deliver cost efficiency, availability, and performance…

Windows PowerShell 3.0 is at the heart of much of Windows management, yet many administrators seem to shy away from using it in anything but the most basic ways. This session will provide IT…

Get the details on Microsoft's upcoming release of Windows Server. We will go over enhancements and new capabilities in Networking, Storage, Hyper-V, PowerShell and availability - making it easier…

You've heard how a small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy…

A small, covert team of engineers at Microsoft cast aside suggestions that the company spend US$60 million to turn its 500-acre headquarters into a smart campus to achieve energy savings and other…

Developers are doing amazing things with devices and cloud computing. From monitoring beer brewing kits to keeping track of lighting and moisture changes, embedded devices open up a world of…

We've all seen artists and technologists create instruments translating the body's movements into music. But The V Motion Project from Assembly is the next step. As seen on YouTube the performer uses…

Neutrino detection at the South Pole, Zapping Mosquitoes with Laser beams, Virtual Reality headsets, Cloud Computing, HPC. Cool stuff is here now. The paradigm shift is the new paradigm, solving…

Discover how Trade Me encourages innovation and how their teams have embraced and extended Spotify's squad-based approach to web and mobile development. Learn from our successes and failures at this…

The asynchronous programming model in C# has proven to be a very effective way of dealing with the complications of UI threading code. How this API works provides a great example of leveraging a large…

Traditional programming techniques pretend the program is in control of its environment, that they can freeze time and deal only with a world at rest. It's time to abandon the pretence. Devices like…

Join us as we show you tips and tricks of the trade so that you can become a Dynamics CRM 2011 JavaScript ninja to develop enterprise grade applications using the latest Microsoft technologies such as…

Distributed Version Control Systems are increasing in popularity, but what are they and how do they work? In this session Ian will answer 3 questions: What is Git? Why should I care about it as a TFS…

With the advent of Chrome, or more relevantly the V8 javascript engine behind Chrome, we suddenly had a platform capable of making server-side javascript a possibility. Node.js was born in 2009 and…

Targeting Mac or Windows or Linux? iPhone or Windows Phone or Android? C# or VB.NET? We take a tour through Xamarin, Mono, and Visual C++ 2012, and show how easy multi and cross platform…

One of the first questions you'll ask when venturing into the world of rich Web applications is, "Is it possible to write JavaScript that doesn't make other developers cry" As your client…

Seen and heard of WebApi? Want to look at the new features of ASP.Net WebApi and how they can help? This session will demonstrate features currently shipping in the ASP.Net WebApi nightly builds and…

Come and see how to use Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio to get the most out of your agile planning process. Recent updates to the platform provide simple tools to achieve great results. We…

F#, Microsoft's functional programming language for .NET, comes out of the box in Visual Studio, but a lot of C# developers still see it as a specialised language that they would mostly use only for…

In the world of Web Services, REST is the new black. We are starting to move away from the heavily coupled client server interactions which came with SOAP and in to a world of lighter weight, simple…

Have you ever found times where you just want to write and execute some C# code and you ask yourself Do I really need an IDE? a solution? a project? a class? Do I really need to compile? Why do I have…

Let's do a lap around the improvements to Microsoft Test Manager and see how the world has improved with manual, exploratory, and automated testing. In this session, we will: Talk about how…

This year John-Daniel and Jeremy built a Raygun for Mindscape and along the way discovered that delivering a modern software platform seriously blurs the lines between development and operations. To…

In this session we cover the new features coming in SQL Server which allow for the DAX query language over traditional OLAP cubes. This new feature of Analysis Services allows users to unlock value in…

With the explosion of data that we have seen over the last few years, many companies have deployed SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) cubes to allow faster access to large volumes of data. However as…

Come and see what's different and learn about key performance considerations and characteristics for running SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Understand how to monitor performance and…

This session discusses high availability and disaster recovery technologies for SQL Server in Windows Azure virtual machines. Through demos, learn how to ensure high availability of SQL Server on…

In this session you will learn how to provide valuable data insights through data discovery and visualisation with Microsoft’s Power BI capabilities. You'll learn how to connect and discover the…

Discuss the top SQL Server projects, their architecture and how they scale. We divide the customers into OLTP and DW and present a brief architecture and numbers.

In the highly competitive and brutal retail sector there is an emerging need by retailers to access near real-time store performance to maximise store efficiency, to better understand their customer…

This session explores the seven CUBE functions that are natively available in Excel 2013. Unknown to many business analysts, these useful functions can be used to retrieve data model members and…

The thought of running SQL Server on anything other than physical hardware scares a lot of DBAs. But for many years now, SQL Server has been fully supported running in a virtualised environment. And…

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 builds on the mission critical capabilities delivered in the prior release by providing breakthrough performance, increased availability and manageability for mission…

This session describes the drivers, benefits and lessons learned from the migration of Kordia's SAP platform to the Azure cloud. This session should be attended by those interested in all things cloud…

The Microsoft Business Intelligence team is excited to present the BI PowerHour. In this entertaining session, we dazzle you with new demos that expose the lighter side of Business Intelligence, and…

In this session you will learn how Office and SharePoint professionals can be empowered to create self-service data modelling, reporting and analytic solutions. The session will commence by…

You might have looked at Windows Azure Table Storage (or ATS to its friends) and said "That's interesting, but we are living in a relational world and I am a relational developer, I have no need…

Node.js is a great platform for developing realtime scalable server apps. Not only that but because of its lightweight nature you can develop and deploy your app practically at realtime as well! Best…

Just because you're using an Azure SQL database does not mean you can avoid tuning queries. You could run into throttling which could seriously impact your systems if your queries are using up lots of…

Want less slides and more live action? Me too! Come join me in this session to learn how to develop Windows Store apps that take advantage of Mobile Services as a cloud backend. Throughout I will…

Windows Azure SQL Database is a fully-managed, scalable service based on SQL Server technology. Yet “fully-managed” does not necessarily mean that many or all of the tasks and responsibilities of the…

Azure Mobile Services makes it really easy to get a mobile backend up and running in minutes. Under the hood however it is a really node.js powered powerful platform that you can take much further…

When it comes to storing Data in the Cloud there are "many ways to skin a cat". While a particular prominent economist might be able to tell you a dozen different he'd like to do it, in this…

This two part talk will explore how to build real world cloud applications using Windows Azure. The talk will cover key patterns of cloud computing including: - Automating Everything - Source Control…

This two part talk will explore how to build real world cloud applications using Windows Azure. The talk will cover key patterns of cloud computing including: - Automating Everything - Source Control…

With the advent of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD), the normal on- premise Identity management paradigm has been extended into the cloud and provides support for Windows Azure, Microsoft Office…

In this session we'll explore the endless possibilities when you couple SignalR, the open-source real-time web framework built on top of ASP.NET with Windows Azure. You'll learn how to run a SignalR…

Join us for a demo-packed introduction to how Windows Azure Mobile Services can bring your Windows Store apps to life. We look at Mobile Services end-to-end and how easy it is to add authentication,…

Come and learn how to build media workflows for encoding, encrypting and delivering media to multiple formats and devices. Learn how to ingest content securely into the cloud using the Media Services…

Following a brief introduction of Windows Azure Web Sites, Microsoft Windows Azure Evangelist Brady Gaster will take you on a tour of how Web Sites provides a great place to build and expand a…

Read any article about cloud, security, IT governance or administration best practices, and you'll find talk about "identity" often paired with the word "management". But this…

New to Agile? Having challenges implementing an agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Can't get the business…

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…

Your job as a defender is to reduce the attack surface of your environment and protect your infrastructure and data from being breached. However we can't be involved in every decision that goes on in…

This session will present a holistic view on the much broadened integration technologies toolset from Microsoft, including BizTalk, WF, Service Bus, and Windows Azure BizTalk Services. We will look at…

Live hacking on stage, improbable situations we've found ourselves in, and awkward humour that will make you cringe - it's time for another Hack-Ed at TechEd! Previous Hack-Ed's have seen…

Using a selection of techniques from his book "Stories That Move Mountains" Martin Sykes from the Microsoft Services, Enterprise Strategy Centre of Excellence will explain how to use…

Service Management is a journey of growing people, process and technology. In this session, Z Energy and Microsoft will share the amazing road trip that Z Energy have embarked on, describing where…

Learn how a key technique called the Benefits Dependency Network (BDN) is used by Microsoft Enterprise Architects to scope programmes, develop business cases and gain commitment for change…

Data is becoming more and more prolific. However organizations providing this data or the public getting access to is not as easy and simple as it should be. This session provides an overview of an…

Disaster is a topic that is often forgotten in today's Modern Datacentre landscape, particularly within NZ where the attitude leans towards delivery output alone. Labelling a solution as Cloud, does…

A guide for technical people to the ...er... art of educating staff to make a positive contribution to ICT security, privacy, and safety. This session will take a look at why most existing staff…

In today's financial climate with great pressure to achieve more with less, can your architecture pass the "so what" test? Can you demonstrate the specific value that a particular…

In this session we will cover why you should consider native proof-of-concept apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, including: • XAML based apps are quick to develop because C# as a general purpose…

One of the tenants of Modern UI is ‘Fast and Fluid’, delivering buttery smooth and responsive interfaces across a range of devices. However making this happen in practice can sometimes be a bit…

Mobile and tablet devices are slowly saturating the way enterprises engage with their workforce. BYOD policies, and corporate roll outs have seen an all-time peak in the usage of such computing - but…

Sick of apps being information silos? You're not the only one. With the Windows 8 charms you can build apps that fully participate in the Windows 8 application ecosystem. No matter where you are…

With Unity for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 now being free for Unity Pro users, there has never been a better time to build for the Windows platform. In this session learn how to build games for both…

We'll look at developing a simple windows 8 app to use on a kiosk running Windows Embedded. We'll talk a bit about the various embedded sku's, and some things to consider when developing kiosk apps,…

In this session we will introduce client ecosystem of Windows Azure Media Services. With this set of video services built on top of Azure platform, you could create and deliver rich media with a…

With incredible cameras in today's devices, photo extensibility has become a key component for Windows Phone. In this session learn how to build a camera from scratch, turn your camera into a lens,…

Be inspired and take away key learning's of how only two local developers managed to bring Eventfinda to the Windows 8 platform. Book your tickets for front row seats, as we unveil the thoughts put…

TechEd New Zealand 2013 kicked off in style on Tuesday September 10th, with a Keynote Address by two exceptional international speakers. First, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and developer guru…

Windows 8.1 is just about to be released and with it a swag of new capabilities for developers as well as users. Will your applications just keep working, and what will you be able to do now that you…