We're off to Vector Arena! TechEd 2014 will be launched in style at 4pm Tuesday 9 September with our international keynote speakers followed immediately by TechLive - the ultimate welcome reception.…

As the name suggests, if you are a women in tech then this event is for you. You are invited to come along for a few drinks and nibbles, to network and to hear from three outstanding speakers; Frances…

While designing a Microsoft Lync Deployment the question of what to do in Group meeting rooms will need to be addressed._x000D_ If you use or need video conferencing, it may not be obvious that a PC…

AngularJS has become one of the most robust, feature-rich, frameworks for building modern web applications. This positions it uniquely well for anywhere web technologies can be applied ... like…

The challenge for most organisations is to identify, assess and maintain the best collection of projects and programmes that help the organisation achieve its stated goals and objectives. Being able…

Building a web app with Azure Web Sites couldn't be easier. But building one that handles thousands of requests per second requires more than just turning on auto scale. Building scalable, reliable,…

Come hear about the latest in enterprise mobility management using Windows Intune and System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. See the newest Windows Intune enhancements for managing Windows…

In today’s high pressured business environments the need for agile BI has forced users to produce information at an ever increasing rate. The aspect of data quality is often overlooked as the need to…

Save time, effort and cost by learning how to leverage the power of automation in the Microsoft Azure platform. Discover the tools available to automate the creation, deployment, monitoring, and…

Developing a mobile application in the real world to leverage Office 365 functionality involves integrating a number of moving parts. In addition, there are a number of different mobile platforms to…

You all would like to have better performance with your queries, Right? You have concerns around migrating databases and code from legacy versions of SQL Server to higher because of heavy amount of…

Your developers are using continuous integration, unit testing and deployment, why can’t databases? They can, with SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio! Take a look at how you can make database…

IP address configuration, domain join, computer rename, firewall configuration, network configuration testing, role and feature install, virtual machine creation. There are a large number of everyday…

Or "The Tiny Farm". Microsoft designed SharePoint 2013 for massive scale (both cloud and on-premises) but this introduces an overhead for smaller organizations who have to deal with hardware…

This session will cover the application model, updating operating system base images with latest updates, key log files to check, built-in the reports etc. This is a consolidation of often asked…

Are you using Team Foundation Server at your organisation and wish it could do X? _x000D_ _x000D_ You might be surprised to learn that TFS exposes a very large number of extensibility points. Some are…

Modern WiFi technology has made accurate indoor navigation a reality. This session is going to explore the use of WiFi location APIs, building 3D maps in Unity that integrate with these APIs, and…

You know by now that Office 365 uses Azure Active Directory and that you can synchronize accounts from your On-Premises Active Directory using the DirSync tool and you can do federated authentication…

This session will demonstrate how to effectively automate with Microsoft Orchestrator and showcasing a production solution developed for Fidelity Life ._x000D_ Technically we will cover the on the fly…

Bring scale, agility and global access to your business applications._x000D_ Azure RemoteApp helps employees stay productive anywhere, and on a variety of devices - Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, or Android.…

From a young age, we are taught to be good people. Don't touch that!, Don't go over there! Be careful, you'll break it!_x000D_ We are taught to anticipate what the behaviour of a tool, system or…

A case study of the way Microsoft B.I. technologies are used internally by TradeMe to improve visibility of key data across the business.

As a .NET developer, whether you're working in C#, Visual Basic or F#, the Common Language Runtime underpins everything you do. It's the basic substrate of .NET computation, providing everything from…

An introduction to building cross-platform (Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS, Android) apps using Microsoft technologies (Visual Studio .Net, SignalR, Azure Mobile Services) and Xamarin._x000D_ How…

This session will look under the covers of the SharePoint 2013 search feature to demonstrate how you can improve the relevance of results and drive more information to your users. Will also exam ways…

Visual Studio Online Application Insights can tell you proactively whether your application is available and performing from around the world—usually before your customers even realize there is an…

I joined Xero back in the day when we had about 8 developers full time. When I left I was Chief Architect of a team of about 100 developers around the world._x000D_ _x000D_ Now I'm back to a team of…

Keeping you company secure from hacks and attacks can be hard. See the new guidance around Group Policy to manage security in your organisation and how it can also be used to mitigate Pass the Hash…

In a world where everyone wants an app and no one has budget, how can we use our existing skills and tools to create amazing apps with a single code base. Take a tour of the new Multi-Device Hybrid…

A guide through the latest Lync 2013 clients and showing it’s now much easier it is to deliver the clients (VDI plugin, Baked in Mobility, WebApp etc). How Lync 2013 has evolved each client and how…

What is a "thing"?_x000D_ Currently 100 new "things" per second are connecting to the internet and by 2020 there will 250 "things" per second. By 2020 there will be 9.4…

SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) provides a MPP scale-out solution for data warehouse implementations. The recent release of Appliance Update 1 includes a set of features to better allow…

Experience has taught that the application of Software Updates to Failover Clusters has classically been a topic of concern with many organizations. With the need for 100% uptime, or a distrust of…

A great developer experience has been a cornerstone of Azure Web Sites. Azure Web Sites has a lot of hidden treasures to offer for those in-the-know. For example, opening a remote console shell, live…

So you want to migrate to the cloud or you want to ensure that your on-premises deployment can be migrated in the future if required. Unfortunately the biggest issue is always the customisations. So…

Four simple prompts that help us to transform: Competence, Attitude, Wisdom and Failure. Andy will share his thoughts and observations of people’s experiences and insights and a few anecdotes along…

This session provides and overview and demos of DLP in Office 365. It covers DLP for end users, DLP policy management, document fingerprinting, policy tips, and reporting and logging.

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…

With the introduction of the SQL Server Tabular Model (BISM) in SQL Server 2012 many solutions are looking at leveraging the new in-memory architecture. With the enhancements in SQL Server 2014 there…

This session covers how Operations Manager as a platform has been extended with System Center Advisor to provide Operational Intelligence about customers’ environments by capturing their…

Time and time again common questions are asks by customers who use Service Manager, how do I?, why is it like this?. This session will focus on lessons from the field with respects to deployment,…

Recent updates to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online have enhanced the web-based test case management capabilities available to testers. In this session we’ll examine these recent…

You may have heard about the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit - but do you understand how it works? Join Chris Jackson ("The App Compat Guy") for a review of the toolkit, with a focus…

Converged networking has great potential for increasing the performance, flexibility, and cost effectiveness of your Hyper-V deployment. However, it also introduces new concepts and new potentials for…

With Metrotube, Tweetro+, Weave News Reader and his work with a handful of the world's biggest brands. Atta has designed some of the most popular apps on Windows Phone and the Windows Store. Come…

You may have noticed that System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 has a new partner in automation, Service Management Automation. But what exactly is Service Management Automation and how does it align…

Software and IT Infrastructure architects have long aspired to the values of engineering and aesthetics; we have been scientists; we have been artists. In the age of cloud computing we need to start…

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 demos that expose the lighter…

The Social Journey _x000D_ Yammer and Office365 Case Study

The Actor pattern is gaining popularity for building large-scale distributed concurrent applications. Microsoft "Orleans" is a framework that abstracts away complexities of managing state,…

Building an Enterprise Architecture practice from scratch can be daunting. Creating the required capability and establishing the required thinking while delivering something of value to those around…

Take a lightning tour of the many connectivity options for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 Store Apps. There are more than ever before: HTTP networking APIs, NFC and Bluetooth and WebApi REST…

Video is transforming how organizations create compelling customer experiences and how they share knowledge and engage with employees. The reality is challenging though: how do you provide a first…

Team Estimeet_x000D_ _x000D_ Join this session to find out more about the winning idea from this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Innovation Category. Team Estimeet won the local Imagine Cup Competition…

Learn how Microsoft and CommVault can improve your data management efficiency by enabling a single, Windows Centric Data Management software solution to give administrators and users better and more…

There are many parts that come into play to deliver a Private Cloud; the fabric with networking, compute and storage, the hypervisor, automation and management and application servers. How do stay…

Work Folders is a new feature for Windows 7 & 8.1 that enables users to synchronize work-related user data with work and personal devices. This is a must attend session if you are looking for a…

The near future: your boss has just announced that big parts of your IT environment are heading to the cloud. Hey, wait a minute, if that stuff is moving to the cloud then I'm not going to be…

Have you ever come across a situation where you want to re-index complete database and other queries are facing slowness because of IO bottleneck? _x000D_ _x000D_ IOPS is certainly a point of concern…

This session will explore how to optimise SharePoint 2013 for multiple devices using responsive design. We’ll explain what responsive design is and why you can’t afford to ignore it while developing…

There has never been such an abundance of available and useful information as there is today both across the web and across your organization. However, most of us are challenged by effectively…

Lets face it server management can be a real real pain, if done manually it's time consuming and unreliable. _x000D_ _x000D_ Meet Chef the scripted way to provision and manage servers. Learn how Chef…

Windows To Go is gaining more and more market interest and traction. This session will provide a technical deep dive on performing single and bulk deployments of Windows To Go onto secure Ironkey…

In the 13+ years since the original Active Directory product launched with Windows 2000, it has grown to become the default identity management and access-control solution for over 95% of…

NoSQL databases bring the promise of near limitless scale out and improved developer productivity. Join Chris Auld and David Shorter as they take you on a tour of NoSQL storage options in Microsoft…

In this session we cover different aspects of Hyper-V Recovery Manager, an enterprise-scale Disaster Recovery solution to provide a single click failover in case of disaster (e.g., automation of…

In this session, "architecture" has a dual meaning. We'll start by covering the architecture of Exchange 2013 and then we'll talk about the "preferred architecture" for…

As a software developer you have to think about a myriad of things through the day, and preparing for the hundreds of techniques that can be used to hack your applications is almost…

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

The next version of ASP.NET will be completely open source, modular, and feature a no-compile refresh-and-go development process while exploiting the full power of Roslyn and the .NET Framework.…

Moving your business to Office 365 may seem like a pretty daunting task but with a careful planning you could be up and running before you know it. In this deep dive we take you through the maze of…

For the enterprise IT professional, DevOps can seem difficult and irrelevant. However, many of the tools and methods are actually quite useful for the enterprise. Virtual machines, containers,…

Enterprise mobility is a top priority for Chief Information Officers who must empower employees and reach customers by moving data from backend systems out to apps on mobile devices. This data must…

In NZTA's ISSP from 2012 one of the key themes is that NZTA become a service-oriented enterprise. We believe that the NZTA SOA journey ticks many of the boxes that are of critical interest to…

Overview of what's been released with the Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 series and how it can help business control storage growth and increase flexibility 1. Describe the new StorSimple cloud…

Tension between departments and roles in tech companies is normal. Different fields of practice have been taught to optimise for different outcomes. When they come together in business it ceases to be…

In the past, you had the choice: stay on an older version of IE for my on-premise apps to work, or get on a new version for my cloud-service apps to work. The problem is - you have both! With…

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines is a robust infrastructure for SQL Server, providing the full benefits of infrastructure-as-a-service offering in Microsoft data centers. SQL Server in a Microsoft…

2014 is the social year of Dynamics CRM. With the acquisition of NetBreeze in March last year, Dynamics CRM will offer out of the box integration with social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook,…

This session with take IT Pros, Managers through various aspects of Azure, but with a focus on SharePoint and how organizations should be looking at Azure with regards to: 1. Hybrid Approach2.…

This session discusses the protocols available for Outlook to connect to Exchange 2013 or Exchange Online, namely Outlook Anywhere and MAPI over HTTP. It also covers multi-factor authentication with…

Taking an enterprise into the cloud is not something to be taken lightly._x000D_ _x000D_ The session will focus on the journey into the cloud, covering the strategy, the approach & the pro's &…

With the new hybrid cloud provisioning feature in Citrix XenDesktop 7.5 / XenApp 7.5, you are just a few mouse clicks away from provisioning your app and desktop workloads on public cloud resources.…

Azure Web Sites has been developing at a rapid pace, and since Azure Web Sites GA, dozens of new features have been added. This presentation will discuss the most important and sought-after new…

Nathan will provide a look at current and upcoming devices from Microsoft and partners. He will demonstrate how they compare against competing offerings, and discuss the value proposition.

Find Me is a workplace geo-location system developed by Microsoft Australia. It was originally developed to run on-premises, but we soon set our sights to the cloud. However with the app spanning…

Come and join us for an open mike Q&A session with our TechEd speakers and industry leaders. This panel is a great place to ask questions about SQL server and Azure Mission Critical…

When I started at Provoke the company strategy was “5 on 3”. 5 offices, 3 continents with a 3 year timeline. This was an ambitious plan in its own right but to make things even more hectic we achieved…

Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 include a new mobile device management (MDM) capability that provides functionality for deploying apps, managing settings, configuring VPN and wireless, deploying certs…

This session will demonstrate how to leverage the collaboration capabilities of Exchange, Sharepoint and Lync. This includes information about prerequisites, setup and configuration of Site Mailboxes,…

Learn how Wintec, one of New Zealand's leading institutions of technology used innovation and "no constraints" thinking to move their operation into the cloud, gaining access to world…

This session will canvas ten traps that developers commonly fall into as they try and turn their ideas into businesses, including splitting equity, muddled IP ownership, and agreeing terrible terms…

This will be a joint presentation by Jeani Powell-Smith (Auckland Transport) and Leon Swart (Microsoft). We have started the service management journey at Auckland Transport in 2013, and have invested…

Got System Center? Got Hyper-V? Got VMware? Learn how to harness the awesome power of System Center to monitor virtual environments running Hyper-V, VMware or both. In this session we demonstrate…

Server Administrators are often reactive rather than pro-active. They spend most of their time responding to issues rather than configuring existing infrastructure according to best practice. In this…

Pass-the-hash transforms the breach of one machine into total compromise of infrastructure. The publication of attacks and lack of tools to respond have forced enterprises to rely on onerous and…

This session will detail some of the current limitations for large projects in SharePoint Online. It will go on to explain some of the existing tools available to overcome these limitations. There…

Since its introduction in 2002, C# has gone from strength to strength. This year, the C# team took their most radical step yet -- open sourcing the new "Roslyn" compiler, accepting…

Microsoft is making huge investments in Azure SQL Database; their relational database service. With their recent announcement of new service tiers and new mission-critical features and enhancements to…

Quality is the most important non-functional requirement that should be shipped with every application built. _x000D_ Measuring and tracking quality can be a difficult task. Quality assurance can…

Microsoft Azure isn't just for developers! In this session we'll look at how IT professionals can leverage the power of Microsoft Azure to run virtual workloads. We'll have a look at virtual machines,…

Using the new tools included in the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, it is easier than ever to create apps that share most of their code. Code can be shared using the new shared app template in Visual Studio,…

This session will provide infrastructure architects with a view of current Software Defined Networking developments and trends, providing use cases and practical advice around implementation.

Nanotechnology is a fascinating field of science which is accelerating huge advancements in our technology and smart devices. This talk will show some of the scientific advantages of nanotechnology…

How innovation doesn’t necessarily require the most advanced technology, but that it is about taking technologies that work and combining them in new ways to achieve innovative outcomes.

Team Foundation Server has always supported great development practices, but traditionally, the deployment of applications has been handled out of band. Often, it involves Barry from Infrastructure…

A common driver for Microsoft Lync purchases is the mobile client and use of the desktop client on mobile PC’s like Laptops and Tablets. As such most enterprises now have a significant number of…

Most mobile apps require the ability to store data locally to deal with the realities of a disconnected world where ubiquitous wireless networks are non-existent. While many consumer apps get by with…

An "Advanced Persistent Threat" is a coordinated attack that establishes a permanent foothold in your network._x000D_ _x000D_ We'll demo some of the techniques that an attacker can use to…

Learn how real customers deployed SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn to meet the database high availability and disaster recovery needs for their mission-critical applications. Members of our customer panel…

An examination of Higher Order Functions with examples in C#, JavaScript and F#. This talk will discuss:- What is a First Class Function?- What is a Higher Order Function? Ian will show you how to…

Windows Server 2012 was a huge release for Hyper-V. Windows Server 2012 R2 continues to the pace of innovation with many new features and technologies coming to Hyper-V. Come to this session to learn…

Data Warehouses are heavily in use nowadays in most of businesses around the world. Data Warehousing brings higher performance, faster and more insightful data analysis out of operational databases.…

Too often we focus just on the development of our apps and feel that once it's submitted we can relax. In reality it's just the start of the work. Learn what's needed to promote your app to users,…

Windows 8.1 continues to build on the foundation of Windows Security to deliver not only a trusted operating system experience, but to build a trusted application experience. Join Chris Jackson…

Configuration Manager provides a powerful platform to scan for enterprise baseline security and configuration compliance, and remediate non-compliance when it is discovered. However, by extending this…

Agile development is being embraced by a wide range of New Zealand organisations and producing a range of innovative products and services. Integrating security into this lifecycle however is…

When organizations implement a new system they face two distinct challenges: 1) How do I get this to work? 2) How do I get my people to use it? As IT Professionals, we are more comfortable and…

ASP.NET and Web Tools for Visual Studio 2013.2 is has been released, and it brings with it updated scaffolders, better bootstrap, a JSON editor, improved CSS editor, SASS support, SSL Support under…

We have a number of experiences to share around customer migrations to SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP through working with them in the TAP and Early Adoption programs. This session provides feedback…

Anna Guenther co-founded PledgeMe, a crowdfunding platform focussed on kiwi campaigns. In the two years since launching they have raised almost $3million for over 600 campaigns. Anna will talk about…

Windows Azure Pack (WAP) for Windows Server enables the Microsoft Cloud OS vision by providing a consistent datacenter platform and DevOps experience regardless of target cloud environments_x000D_…

Line up all the successful people in the world. Take away the pedigreed and the prodigies—you know the people who are going to succeed no matter what—and the brown-nosers and right-time-right-place…

Automated user interface tests are not a new practise, however they often seem to be more trouble then they’re worth. Tests can end up fragile, and a failing test frequently points to itself as the…

Hippy Tech? An Oil Company telling ME how to do Sustainable and Cost Efficient IT? Z Energy isn’t Big Oil, and we believe that climate change is real._x000D_ So what?_x000D_ The sustainability…

With recent advancements to the windows platform to support the likes of Bluetooth LE, the world has all of a sudden become a place where our phones and tablets can interact with our surroundings.…

The beginners guide to getting your business, or your client’s business, running on Office 365. I will show the tools you need to get started, and also how easy it is.

_x000D_ The Business Information Technology team is using the Microsoft Azure platform for the development, test and delivery of a new financials solution for the Debt Management Office of The…

So you’ve deployed Hyper-V 2012 (R2) and want to move your virtual machines over. But how do you do that without interrupting service delivery? Do you know what steps to take? And how do you safely…

Level 100 One device - home and work Many devices at home Pick up any device and do what you need to with single sign on Access, Information and Protection Windows - 8", phone and desktop (AIO)…

After two decades of almost no change, C++ is experiencing renaissance. New versions of language have added lot of ideas form languages like C#, and mobile development has made performance…

This session will introduce three JavaScript MV* frameworks - AngularJS, Ember.js, and Backbone.js. It will demonstrate their usage by exploring a simple demo application that has been built in each…

Don't get Git? Can't understand the fuss? This session is for you. We will cover Git fundamentals through to advanced workflows only possible with a DVCS. We will then show the Git support that was…

Data is being generated faster than ever before, so what can it do for your business? Join us to understand how you can empower people with robust BI tools to get from this raw data to business…

How companies adapt, learn and respond to a constantly evolving world_x000D_ www.theresponsiveorg.com

Rapid prototyping is a growing as the standard methodology for entrepreneurs to bring new ideas and concepts to market. This session will describe this methodology and how Enterprises can use it in a…

This session will outline both the advantages and challenges of implementing large scale SharePoint intranet solutions in the cloud. It will cover deployment options such as 365, Azure and hybrid…

This session will take attendees through a high level view of how Azure integrates into the existing environment, address security and privacy concerns and discuss some of the core workloads customers…

Thought Windows is just something on your desktop and phone? Think again! We'll look at all the various places where can find some variant of Windows running, and how you can leverage that.

Leveraging Hyper-V Citrix ANZ has built a set of fully load tested, real world desktop and application virtualisation reference architectures. An overview of current Citrix best practise…