If you are a VMware Administrator or you are considering a Virtualization Platform purchase, this session is for you. Using demos, we cover in comparative nature how things are configured within…

Join us to explore a proven architectural approach to migrating VMs between geographically separated datacenters. While there has been a lot of buzz in the industry around the VMware/Cisco/EMC “VCE…

Learn how Office 2010 was designed to take advantage of advanced graphics chips, limited bandwidth environments, multicore processors, 64-bit chips, netbooks and more, while also optimizing…

With every new version of the Office Suite released, Microsoft’s customers are facing the multifaceted challenge of the newly released version of Office deployment. One of the biggest issues related…

Access Services introduces a new toolset to develop Microsoft SharePoint-connected applications. Learn how Access Services works with SharePoint to deliver a new user experience. We discuss the data…

Access enables end-users in business units to develop applications quickly at low cost. This agility is valued by large organizations around the world. However, some of these same organizations…

In this session we discuss the new MAK and KMS volume activation methodology for Office 2010, including overview, how-to, and demos.

This session provides best practices, tips, and pros and cons of using SQL Server CLR integration.

Do you want to know the top 10 new features that are going to make designing and creating leading-edge Business Intelligence solutions easier? In this session we walk you through an overview of the…

Report Builder 3.0 that ships with SQL Server 2008 R2 is the next generation report authoring tools targeted at business users. As a stand-alone Windows application, it provides a rich report…

Everyone is excited about Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010 launch, and many have shown interest in extending those tools enterprise-wide with an end-to-end BI solution that will satisfy the needs…

Come see real-world examples of how PowerPivot is being leveraged at Microsoft in MSIT to meet self-service BI needs. Learn about the capabilities and guidance gained from these TAP teams. Discuss…

See a live demo of how Microsoft IT is delivering BI to the masses (23,000+ active users globally) at Microsoft using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010, Excel…

How will users work with Microsoft PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010? Will they find problems during their everyday work? We tried to answer this apparently simple question creating a complete…

This session covers advanced Visio Services concepts. We discuss mash-up scenarios using the developer features of Visio Services. Learn how to integrate Visio diagrams in a BI-centric LOB…

ProViz Inc. introduces a self-service business intelligence solution for analysts and risk officers of an asset management firm. The solution platform is based on Microsoft SQL Server Business…

DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is the language for the definition of calculation expressions in PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel. It has syntax similar to Excel, but it also offers a set of functions…

PowerPivot presents an interesting challenge for debugging and figuring out what is happening when problems occur. There are a lot of moving parts on a running farm. PowerPivot uses a mixture of…

Time Intelligence allows you to create custom time sets in PerformancePoint without using MDX on all data sources. Come an learn more about how to use the TI feature in PPS.

Learn how to program using APIs and controls exposed by SQL Server Reporting Services. Report Viewer controls are covered, as well as extensions and custom code in reports. The focus is on covering…

The users are using your dashboard, but they need to comment and add their own information to the dashboard. Learn how to use built-in Social functionalities in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with your…

Get an overview of the SQL Server Reporting Services architecture and deployment topologies. This session covers some details on the internals of Reporting Services like Report Server and Report…

This session demonstrates how to build dashboards that span from individual project managers to company executives that show project and portfolio status and details in rich and interactive way to…

Implementing a good security framework is critical for delivering a top-notch BI solution within and outside of your firewall. In this session we discuss the core things to consider with Microsoft…

Come here how the speaker saved millions for his company -- and made the business happy -- by creating a comprehensive reporting strategy based on the Simplement Data Liberator and the power of…

Learn how to leverage and use the new APIs in Excel Services to create mission critical business applications and solutions.

In this demo-rich presentation, learn some of the common and not so common ways to tune SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Learn how to tune the data flow using some of the advanced SSIS options…

This session presents Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services solutions requiring the use of MDX in the Calculation Script. Example scenarios come directly from field engagements, so most of the…

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services was improved significantly under the covers in server architecture, report processing, and report rendering. While many of your existing reports will…

In this session, learn how to set up standard and data-driven subscriptions using Report Manager. We discuss creating file-share, email, and null subscriptions; and how to deal with potential issues…

This chalk talk allows you to learn about the Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse Architecture initiative to better understand how to build, configure, load, query, and maintain a SQL…

Need a fast data integration solution, but don't have the time or budget for heavy performance tuning? Come learn how to maximize your ROI by applying trusted design patterns to your Integration…

PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is the next generation performance management application from Microsoft. While the feature set of the product is mature and…

In this session, we discuss the new Microsoft Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. This lets users create diagrams that show objects by geography on a map, by location in a…

Learn how in four months Amherst H. Wilder Foundation deployed a solution by GNet partners to: • Leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint Server as the Web platform with its enterprise services • …

This session covers the SAP BI landscape and common customer pain points in this environment. A detailed overview of integration scenarios between SAP BW and Microsoft BI front ends is discussed.…

This session discusses the problems of dimension and hierarchy management for data warehouses and Analysis Services and describes a solution to the data management problem using Microsoft SQL Server…

In this session we demonstrate how Microsoft BI technologies are helping Kimberly Clark in sales management, discussing tips and tricks for quick results.

This session showcases how the Microsoft BI stack (Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server) unseated Cognos and Oracle, which were in use at American Tire, by providing better value…

Since Windows Vista, we started seeing some stange codes in our IPConfigs. The purpose of this session is to get a first look at the new generation of IP protocols and understand their benefits and…

This session showcases the improvements to Windows PowerShell introduced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Demos for this talk include how to easily build administration GUI over PowerShell,…

Explore the latest Windows Server release via a quick-paced demo-oriented survey of features with a focus on performance, Web, management, and other server solution scenarios. Learn about developing…

Learn how to scale Web applications and Web servers by using Application Request Routing (ARR). ARR determines the best server for each request based on HTTP header information and load-balancing…

We start with a problem domain algorithm and demonstrate different solution domain approaches building a series of sub-project solvers from serial implementation to parallel. Featured technologies and…

For customers who have skipped deployment of Windows Server releases, there are often questions about the benefits of the releases they have missed out on. This session focuses on how customer…

In this session we outline the current and future Windows Storage Server offerings and demonstrate the flexibility of the iSCSI Software Target. See the new high-availability setup experience coming…

The session provides an deep dive of the BranchCache feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2. This is your chance to dive into underlying technologies to understand how BranchCache works, as…

The Server Core installation alternative has gotten a bad reputation for being hard to manage. In this session we kill that rumour once and for all. Having co-authored the whitepaper on remote…

Windows Server runs on many of the servers in your data center, but perhaps not all of them. It may not be feasible to move all applications or functions to Windows, or some critical business…

Learn to be a more effective, efficient administrator using new Windows PowerShell v2 remoting features -- available in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server…

Learn how to manage Web server farms on IIS 7; from the initial deployment of servers, replication of content and configuration, to deploying new applications into the farm. The session covers using…

The new management features built into Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 are the foundation for deploying and managing HPC clusters of scale up to 1000 nodes. Join us for a deep dive in monitoring and…

Microsoft solutions give IT organizations the means to maximize the value as they implement storage area networks (SANs). In this session we explore the features in Windows Server 2008 R2 delivering…

Learn all about setup and deployment of Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters. This session gives an overview of the interaction of Failover Clustering with a variety of deployment strategies and…

Join us to understand the new power efficiency features within Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, and discover how the latest Microsoft operating systems provide the most optimal and efficiently…

Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2 has seen the fastest adoption rate of any clustering release, but do you know all the tips and tricks to make it even better? Do you know what to do…

On March 18th Microsoft announced Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 during the Desktop Virtualization Hour. As part of the announcement, two new technologies were unveiled, Dynamic…

Remote Desktop Services has provided many device redirection mechanisms supporting access of locally attached devices from rich clients. With VDI becoming prominent and the increased use of thin…

Do cloud services make the IT pro obsolete? Join us in this informative session to discuss the role of IT pros with regard to Windows Azure. Discover what’s changed and what hasn’t for the IT…

“The network is slow.” Spine-tingling words to any IT professional. They always blame the network. This session focuses on the top reasons network performance generates complaints. Using Wireshark,…

What does it take to run Linux and other operating systems on Hyper-V alongside Windows? Where do you obtain and enable the Linux specific Integration Services, and what do they actually do? What…

Rand Morimoto, author of the bestselling book "Windows 2008 R2 Unleashed" shares best practices and lessons learned on configuring DirectAccess for Windows 7 clients into a Windows 2008 R2 server…

Providing small business customers with a sophisticated technology infrastructure to help them solve their productivity challenges and meet their business goals can seem like a daunting task. Windows…

Whether you are running financial risk modeling, solving difficult engineering problems through simulation, or making scientific discovery through advanced computing, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 1…

You're using WSUS, but are you using it to its fullest extent? In this tips and tricks session, learn the best ways to architect and implement WSUS for the improved security of your organization.…

Ten years after Active Directory's release, a lot has been learned. Unfortunately, many organizations rolled out Active Directory early on and never had the time or resources to revisit what *really*…

Remote Desktop Services, previously Terminal Services, offers a mature alternative to scalable desktop delivery. Did you know it scales better than VDI? Come and learn more about the new changes in…

Windows Small Business Server (SBS) is the next generation server solution from Microsoft that is designed for small businesses. By integrating management, messaging, and security technologies…

DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems that gives users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have…

Data contained in File Servers is completely opaque to administrators. The requirements introduced by corporate GRC and compliance rules require administrators to understand what kind of data they…

Windows Server 2008 R2 is an awesome operating system, and the real benefits are for the IT administrator. Join Matt Hester and Chris Henley, authors of "Windows Server 2008 R2 Administrators Instant…

This session discusses each of the Windows Embedded operating systems, providing an assessment and criteria for selection, based on many factors including hardware, form factor, and time to market.…

Windows Embedded Compact incorporates a gesture API that enables users to interact with applications in a very user-friendly manner. This talk covers how to use this API on Windows Embedded systems to…

Windows Server has come a long way since the days of Windows NT 3.51. Large organizations including banks, stock exchanges and manufacturers are running Windows Server for Business Critical workloads.…

"Did you ever dream of building highly interactive and robust next generation applications on a platform that can be tailored exactly to your needs? If so, this session is just for you! Discover how…

Learn about the new Web developer innovations in Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 makes development of standards-based Web sites better than ever with new support for CSS 2, HTML code snippets,…

Don't let cross-browser CSS display issues surprise you at the end of your next project. We explore a variety of tools and resources that can help you diagnose and correct cross-browser display issues…

Join one of the world’s foremost deployment experts in a dazzling session on how to deploy Windows Embedded Standard and Windows Embedded POSReady with style... all using state-of-the-art management…

Discover next-generation technologies available in Windows Embedded Standard 7 for specialized entertainment devices, set top boxes and beyond. The exploration discusses existing technologies like…

Maintainability, testability, performance, and security can be improved by understanding the components and tools and following some basic guidelines. This session uses Windows Communication…

It seemed that Bing came out of nowhere. Even Microsoft MVPs, who are privileged to product information earlier than most, were surprised by the release of the new search engine. Well, Bing really…

XAML-based User Interface development is a game changer in the embedded space. Windows Embedded Compact brings its own embedded-centric implementation of Silverlight development called Silverlight…

The jQuery library is an open source JavaScript library that has a passionate community of developers. Come learn how Microsoft is working with the jQuery project to contribute new features to jQuery…

You’ve seen the beautiful user interfaces and you have seen the gratuitous animations. And it’s in the browser. And it is not just any browser; it is cross platform. You might not be doing it now, but…

Internet Explorer 9 contains many new features that give developers many new options for building rich Web applications. From enhanced features like the developer tools and or support for more DOM…

Orchard CMS is a free, open source, community-focused content management solution that aims to simplify the experience for building and publishing content-driven Web sites on the Microsoft ASP.NET…

Scalable, highly available and flexible Web farms were previously a secret art, only mastered by the elite. With IIS 7.5 and Application Request Routing (ARR) that's no longer the case. This session…

In this session we look at using the Microsoft Silverlight Unit Test Framework. We discuss common patterns for testing Silverlight components and user interfaces and explore available testing…

This session is for those who fully understand the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, but are looking to do more. We pool the key deployment customization themes and provide concrete examples to improve…

xCopy Web deployment is a myth, the reality is that today’s world of Web deployment is far away from xCopy... Remember creating monolithic deployment documents which no one likes to read and still…

How many processes, threads, and handles can you make? How does Windows react when it's pushed to the limit? This session goes deep into the kernel to explain what limits Windows from creating more…

Every day, hackers try to compromise users and Web sites. How can you protect your users from phishing attacks, or cross site scripting, SQL injection attacks, and all of the other risks on the…

Explore how Expression Blend lets you design and build rich, vibrant Silverlight 4 applications. Take advantage of a host of new platform and tools capabilities to produce better user experiences,…

In this session we demonstrate how IT organizations can combine Windows 7 and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) technologies to enable “replaceable PCs” that recover user settings, data, and…

When you approach customers to talk about a Windows 7 migration, inevitably ACT comes up. But how does ACT really work? In this session, we dissect the tool to really understand where its strengths…

In this session, learn how to create a Windows PE 3.0 iso that can be burned to a CD or a USB flash disk, and then use the disk to boot to Windows PE on malfunctioning systems and recover data, repair…

Learn about what other IT professionals are doing to configure, deploy, and manage their deployments of Windows Internet Explorer 8 to ensure their Web applications and Web sites remain compatible. In…

Join Andreas Hammarskjold and Johan Arwidmark, two of the world’s foremost deployment experts in a dazzling session that gives you the tools and processes to use when troubleshooting OS Deployments…

Accessing new Windows 7 features is a challenge from managed (.NET) code. The level of interoperability required is out of reach for many developers. The Windows API Code Pack for the Microsoft .NET…

Come hear Mark Russinovich, the master of Windows troubleshooting, walk you through step-by-step how he has solved seemingly unsolvable system and application problems on Windows. With all new real…

This session helps you understand how to better manage and deploy the Find and Organize features of Windows 7, such as Libraries, Windows Search, Federated Search, and Enterprise Search Scopes.

Malware with RootKits, forgotten administrator passwords, unbootable PCs, lost critical business data. All of these and more are problems faced in the Enterprise every day. In this session we look at…

Deploying, troubleshooting, managing, restricting, and validating applications are tasks that dog every IT organization. Whether you install applications manually, use static images, or implement…

Learning Windows PowerShell can be tough without a practical task to tackle. While you're not going to write the next System Center product in Windows PowerShell, you can certainly write your own…

The Sysinternals utilities are vital tools for any computer professional on the Windows platform. Mark Russinovich's popular "Case Of The Unexplained" demonstrates some of their capabilities in…

Getting the fundamentals right was a key goal of Windows 7. The team worked hard to decrease memory usage, disk I/Os, and power usage while increasing speed, responsiveness, and scale. As a result of…

Are you an experienced administrative scripter? Perhaps you have a few VBS scripts and you’re wondering how to turn them into PowerShell scripts. This session guides you through the transition from…

This session dives into new APIs that enable integration with the latest Windows desktop features. Learn about new extensibility methods to surface your application's key tasks. Discover how…

Need to migrate 5 or 50,000 Windows XP machines to Windows 7 without losing any of your users documents, Internet Explorer favorites or other profile settings? Microsoft’s Deployment Toolkit (MDT…

You are about to deploy Windows 7 in your organization and you are ready to impress. Windows 7 allows for unprecedented customizations of the operating system that enable you to add your corporate…

Applications designed for an older version of Windows can break for a variety of reasons when moving to a new and/or more locked-down platform. The breakage symptoms can offer clues to the likely…

Getting ready to start piloting Windows 7 in your organizations? Hear from Microsoft customers from the FirstWave Early Adoption Program about their real-world Windows 7 deployment challenges and how…

Windows 7 enables developers to create distinctive and intuitive applications that enhance discoverability, usability, and enjoyment. Join the experts and learn about how to use Extended Touch,…

There are many common questions and misunderstandings circulating around application compatibility which can leave the customer in a state of fear or worse, paralysis. If you are not already…

The goal of AppLocker is simple enough: block applications users should and shouldn’t use. Sounds simple enough -- until you realize you have zillions of known and unknown applications on your…

Networking is one of the most critical components in a successful virtualization solution. This session is focused on enabling you to plan and develop effective virtualization solutions that build on…

This session covers the technical requirements (compute, storage, network, DR, management and security, compliance) and highlights partner solutions that augment the vision of a next generation…

In this fun and interactive session we look at different ways to convert a Windows XP machine to Windows 7, keeping user data and settings in place, while installing required applications in the…

In this session, learn about and understand the advanced management capabilities of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to effectively and efficiently manage Virtual Infrastructures. Topics covered…

In this session we drill down into the architecture of the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and determine what key questions need to be asked and answered around required components,…

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 provide a host of new features, including the Visual State Manager, new controls, a freshly redesigned designer, and more. This…

Ever wondered what Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) can do to help you to more easily and quickly deploy Office? We cover the areas of investment in the next versions of both products --…

As servers are consolidated into VMs, the availability of those VMs is becoming increasingly important, along with providing disaster tolerance and business continuance. This session covers…

Microsoft RemoteFX is a comprehensive set of technologies designed to enable a next-generation, full-fidelity user experience for remote desktops and VDI. From a content standpoint, RemoteFX enables a…

Learn about the Microsoft virtualization strategy from the datacenter, to the desktop, to the cloud -- and how it will help you cut costs and build value. In this session we review and demonstrate…

Dynamic memory is a new feature of Hyper-V coming to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Come to learn how Dynamic Memory enables Hyper-V to more efficiently utilize system resource, and how this can benefit…

In this session, Rand Morimoto, author of the bestselling books “Windows 2008 R2 Unleashed” and “System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed” shares best practices and lessons learned from hundreds of…

You want to deploy Windows 7 in your organization, but there is one or more critical application problems that will not work with Windows 7. Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V)…

This session addresses how Microsoft and EMC technologies work together to deliver scalable and reliable enterprise deployments of Microsoft virtualization. Working together, Microsoft and EMC tested…

Come and see an overview of the new Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls for integrating Microsoft Communicator "14" experiences into your line-of-business apps, as…

The HP-Microsoft Application-Optimized Infrastructure initiative is focused on enabling IT admins to manage virtualized/private cloud infrastructure and optimize IT service delivery through Deployment…

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

Get an overview of how the new upcoming UC Managed API 3.0 can help build useful applications like contact center including Web chat and a personal mobile voice assistant. This session demonstrates…

This session covers new meeting features in Microsoft Communications Server “14”, specifically the rich and reach capabilities that are relevant for organizations. This session helps you understand…

In this session we explore all the core call routing and voice interoperability features and capability in the new release of Communications Server. We review the architecture of interoperability as…

Microsoft Communications Server “14” will deliver unmatched tools for monitoring system health and performance across all platform capabilities in real time and across longer time periods to…

Microsoft Communications Server “14” features a new suite of planning, setup, and deployment tools to use when planning new installations or making changes to a deployed system. This session will…

In Microsoft Communications Server “14” we will be delivering totally new administration capabilities and tools, with a new foundation, and entirely new UI for management and administration. In this…

Learn about the new Microsoft Communicator “14” Experience and what’s new in IM/presence. See demos of the newly redesigned client which accommodates the evolution of Communicator to provide a single…

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

Exchange Server 2010 was designed to support hybrid deployments of on-premises and cloud users. Come and learn how rolling out an Exchange 2010 server in your current Exchange environment prepares you…

Microsoft Communications Server “14” makes several significant updates and improvements on the architecture of Office Communications Server 2007 R2. This session reviews the overall architecture…

This session discusses lessons learned from over 200 field deployments of Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging with OCS, IP PBXs, and legacy PBXs. Design and planning considerations are covered,…

As the volume of email continues to increase, you are likely seeking new and better ways to preserve and discover this critical email data to meet an array of IT governance, legal, and compliance…

Delivering Voice Quality within Unified Communications deployments requires an understanding of the many factors that ultimately determine the experience of end-users. This session identifies the…

Exchange Web Services and the Exchange Web Services API are the key APIs for Exchange Development. This session outlines what types of applications are possible on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, and…

High availability is a significant source of investment for the Communications Server team with the upcoming release. In this session we review the new Survivable Branch Appliance offering for branch…

Microsoft Exchange is a mission-critical infrastructure staple in organizations of all sizes. As an application which demands high levels of the "-abilities" (availability, reliability, scalability,…

RBAC is the new administration model for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 offers the capabilities to improve efficiencies with the Exchange administrative experience. In this session we…

Rand Morimoto, author of the bestselling book "Exchange 2010 Unleashed" shares over two years of early adopter and real-world experience in upgrading from Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 to Exchange…

With each new generation of Microsoft Exchange, features are added and Exchange is further refined in its capabilities as an email system. Exchange Server 2010 enables the use of multiple storage…

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and gain a solid understanding of what's going on under the hood in an Exchange 2010 database availability group. This session dives deep into the…

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and gain a solid understanding of what you need to know to design a highly available and site resilient Exchange 2010 solution. In this session we…

Get a closer look on what’s new in devices in Microsoft Communications Server “14”. This session focuses on showing features and benefits of a new set of low-cost IP phones. See the new USB…

Microsoft Communications Server "14" is on the way and that means new capabilities for both on-premises and cloud service offerings. Gain a better understanding of the current and future capabilities…

Conversation View, Calendar Sharing, Exchange ActiveSync Block/Allow/Quarantine list, Outlook Mobile and more are all being updated in Exchange Server 2010 SP1. User interfaces have been improved,…

Microsoft Communications Server “14” promises to transform the way people will communicate across the PC, Web and phone, making traditional communications systems obsolete. In this session, Gurdeep…

Discover the details around Microsoft IT’s own Exchange Server 2010 architecture and operational practices. The session includes architecture description of the Exchange Server 2010 roles, design…

Don’t miss the chance to see demos and understand how Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) can be used to manage objects in Active Directory (AD). We walk through importing objects from Active…

This session addresses the security, performance, and migration concerns involved with deploying your edge protection on virtual deployments.

Come and learn how Microsoft Identity and Security products work together to help mitigate risks associated with email such as secure access, virus, malware, and information protection.

With the dark forces of Cybercrime continuing to grow, it’s critical that individuals and businesses are fully aware that doing business in the “wild west” of the 21st century can be potentially…

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 is designed to meet the growing demand for a single sign-on solution that crosses organization, application and platform boundaries. In this session…

General Manager of Exchange Server, Harvinder Bhela, talks about (and demos) key investments in Exchange Server 2010 and SP1 and how Exchange provides unprecedented IT cost savings; the richest user…

Identity and access is at the center of the secure and well managed infrastructure, and a robust identity and access infrastructure and management solution is critical to enabling the people in your…

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) includes rich features across multiple platforms. Troubleshooting FIM requires broad domain knowledge such as Active Directory, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL,…

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is a powerful platform which can satisfy many customer requirements for identity and access management. This session covers capacity planning, project…

The infrastructure that supports Microsoft’s consumer and enterprise cloud offerings, including Azure, Bing, BPOS, Hotmail, and Messenger, runs on servers in datacenters world-wide. Running as many…

Join us as we walk through all the best practices and technologies available to help secure and extend Microsoft SharePoint to your employees on the go, partners/vendors and even customers! This…

Learn about the new Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange and Forefront Online Protection for Exchange products. Find out how they help provide protection for inbound and outbound email from spam,…

Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) is Microsoft’s information protection technology that helps prevent information leakage by applying persistent access rights to digital assets. …

Come and learn how new Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) features protect Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 collaboration deployments against…

Learn best practices, pros and cons on deploying different kinds of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) trusts with external partners using Active Directory Federation Services (AD…

This session dives deep into the application publishing scenarios and solutions for Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway. It includes a demonstration of how this product helps configuring remote…

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) is the next generation of ISA Server that offers comprehensive protection to environments looking to overcome the challenges of a dynamic and…

This session takes an under the hood look at Microsoft IT's migration from a proprietary smart card management system (CMS) to FIM 2010 Certificate Management. The session describes Microsoft's PKI…

Windows Server 2008 R2 brought a number of nice changes to Active Directory, but the number-one crowd pleaser had to be the Active Directory Recycle Bin, a useful tool for undeleting Active Directory…

The disciplines of system management and security can be considered two sides of the same IT coin when it comes to endpoints – one ensures that systems are configured, patched, and operating…

Spend an hour learning about Microsoft's complete remote access vision and how UAG and Direct Access Technology together provide seamless remote access to users while reducing IT risks and costs. This…

Microsoft IT has over 2500 "known" line-of-business applications (and probably as many unofficial). Microsoft IT discusses how we're leveraging AD FS 2.0 and Windows Identity Framework to redefine…

Commercial businesses and governments are rolling out identity systems to improve their security and to provide online access to services. Current identity framework efforts (including federated…

For people who create software today, working with identity isn’t much fun. There are too many technologies and too much complexity. The industry-wide shift toward claims-based identity improves this,…

This session looks at the 20 most common configuration changes or customizations that we implement in our consulting engagements. At the end of this session, you'll leave with the knowledge of how to…

System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 is designed to deliver enterprise-class management to mid-sized organizations between 50-500 PCs. This session is full of demos – to highlight each of the major…

Microsoft has updated its flagship deployment tools including the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and the Operating System Deployment (OSD) in Configuration Manager 2007 to ease and facilitate the…

Driven by customer needs, the security industry is evolving into a new phase of development: the convergence and integration of IT protection, access, and management around an identity-centric…

The first phase of delivering on the new user centric client management vision for v.Next is to revolutionalize software distribution. The most popular capability in the history of Systems Management…

This session focuses on how Service Manager 2010 automates Change, Incident, Problem, and Configuration Management. Gain a deep understanding of the features and capabilities of Service Manager and…

Service Manager 2010 is about to RTM -- are you ready? Learn how to design a scalable, redundant installation of Service Manager, how to configure the most common settings such as creating…

This session covers how to use the new service level features in Operations Manager 2007 R2 to create service level reports and dashboards, how to use our out-of-the-box reports effectively and how to…

The next release of Configuration Manager is coming! For over a decade now, Systems Management Server and Configuration Manager have been used by thousands of customers and partners to deliver classic…

How do you use the System Center suite to monitor the whole Service stack? Operations Manager MVP Maarten Goet show how to build out Distributed Applications in Operations Manager and how to monitor…

Configuration Manager v.Next is coming soon and for those of you running the current platform -- Configuration Manager 2007 -- there are some considerations you may want to make in your design. In…

HP Insight Control, combined with Microsoft System Center and Hyper-V, enables customers to consolidate hardware, improve utilization, increase automation, and enhance system portability. This session…

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 is the latest release of the flagship System Center product. While a general overview topic has been presented at past events, this session focuses on the…

Get a first-hand understanding of the implementation details and capabilities of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager R2 as it is used to manage the System Health of enterprise scale Web…

This session walks you through the Opalis workflow designer, demonstrating along the way how to integrate Microsoft System Center products with other IT tools to create automated processes. Also, see…

Join us to learn developments that have taken place since the R2 release of Operations Manager 2007, including cumulative updates for SP1 and R2, new tools for diagnosis and troubleshooting, and new…

Where scale or a simplified architecture is desired, the next release of Configuration Manager allows large and small organizations to meet those needs through a new site hierarchy architecture. These…

System Center Configuration Manager v.Next will expand the landscape for device management like never before. From enhancements to the Configuration Manager device management capability, to…

Join the System Center team to learn how Microsoft System Center products are helping customers to lower costs and increase their business capabilities. This session focuses on the latest product…

The new DPM 2010 release will be available in June, so this session (the second in a three-part series) focuses on protecting and recovering Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and 2007, Microsoft…

Scrum is a process model that promotes highly interative, value driven development and has been successfully adopted by agile teams worldwide. Kanban, meaning "signboard", is a concept relating to…

Invalid requirements, new technologies, a fixed cost, and a deadline of 10 weeks and not one day more. Good times. Learn how one team used Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to blend various aspects…

Explore the results of evolving a BDD testing model in a real-world project. See how the code base and requirements started, and where they evolved to over the course of the project. We also see a…

In the Agile world of Scrum, the people who build software, the development teams, are referred to as pigs because they are committed while the others are referred to as chickens because they are only…

The new DPM 2010 release will be available in June, so this session (the first in a three-part series) covers installing a new DPM 2010 server, and then provides an overview of the core capabilities…

Everybody likes to talk about best practices, tips, and tricks, but often it is by analyzing failures that we learn from our own and others' mistakes. In this session, Steve describes various…

Today, the enormous cost and complexity of compliance and risk is managed through manual labor and disconnected processes within the organization. Customers are working diligently to drive efficiency…

Have you ever been burned by an estimate you wish you never gave, worked on a project with an impossible schedule, or created an estimate, only to have it chopped in half? Do you wonder what Agile…

LINQ technology in Microsoft .NET has some great hooks into XML that make using XML documents a breeze. This session explores how you will put this technology to work in your applications. Many XPath…

With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, we now have a great new ability to visualize architectural dependencies using Architectural Graphs. But why stop there? In this session,…

It's a truism in our industry that many developers just can't design user interfaces. Why not? Because most developers are classic left-brain thinkers. They are skilled at procedural logic and…

In this session we review the top 10 ways you can cause unit testing to fail to work for your project. From readability problems and lack of trust to mock object abuse and semi-integration testing --…

The idea of profiling and debugging parallel code can be a thing of nightmares for many developers. Not only is it difficult to understand the code, the tooling doesn’t exactly help you out if you…

Come learn some impressive power scenarios with the new Visual Basic 2010 language features. Use array literals and collection initializers in clever ways to make your own APIs more elegant. Learn the…

Scrum.org has introduced a Professional Scrum Developer program. As part of this program and in collaboration with Accentient and Microsoft, Scrum.org has developed a .NET VS Professional Scrum…

Agile methodologies have redefined how our teams build software. Lean Thinking naturally frames and enhances our agile mindset by helping us understand and identify value and waste. In this session we…

Why wait for the C++ committee to finish the specification when you can enjoy much of the power of C++0x today! C++0x, the next C++ standard, is almost upon us and it contains the most important…

Microsoft’s Developer Division is the largest early adopter of Microsoft Visual Studio products on the planet. In this session, Microsoft Technical Fellow Brian Harry gives a perspective on key…

Testers are always under time pressure to do more in less time, to do a better job, to make sure the developers did not screw up the quality of the app. In this session we use Microsoft Test Manager…

Building Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications has become much more straightforward in Visual Studio 2010. Whether you’re already a seasoned WPF/Silverlight developer or…

Team Foundation Build 2010 has been radically improved. Not only has its scalability and management been improved through a build controller/agent architecture, but its core is now based on Windows…

As applications become more complex and pressures to decrease costs increase, we need tools to facilitate reducing the turn-around time for testers and developers to find and fix bugs. Microsoft Test…

Own Visual Studio! Own it! If Visual Studio is where you spend the majority of your day, this session is for you. We look at tips and tricks to save you time, make Visual Studio easier to use, and…

Developers, testers, project managers, and pointy-haired bosses... Come one, come all, and learn how to add a new tool to your kit to find and kill bugs faster. Watch as Brian fires up Microsoft’s new…

Visual Studio 2010 provides integrated support for F#, a productive new functional and object-oriented programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. This session highlights the many ways…

When was the last time you saw a computer with only a single CPU and single core? Even smaller devices have more than one core and it’s fairly common to find machines with four cores, eight cores, and…

Did you know that Team Foundation Server can be used for software development by your entire organization - not just the team using Microsoft platforms and technologies? Come along to this session to…

Agile database development for Oracle is now possible with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, using the Toad Extension for Visual Studio. With support for the Visual Studio 2010 application lifecycle…

The Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools make development for SharePoint much easier and this means you can focus on building your application instead of configuring the system. Just how much more…

Entity Framework 4.0 is Microsoft’s recommended data access layer for new applications. This session is a deep dive into the capabilities and limitations of Entity Framework 4.0. We cover a large span…

There is no shortage of valuable data being generated by applications, reports, tools, Web sites, etc. Unfortunately, this leaves many of us wishing we could programmatically access the data and logic…

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 that addresses the problems of monolithic software by simplifying the design of extensible applications…

See how PreEmptive Solutions built an editor extension for Visual Studio 2010 that provides in-line visualizations of usage and stability data collected from applications in production via Runtime…

Applications today are expected to expose their data and consume data-centric services via REST. In this session we discuss what REST is and have an overview of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)…

Visual Studio 2010 brings a range of new capabilities for anybody doing team-based Windows development. This session begins with a broad introduction to the new Visual Studio landscape, showing the…

In this demo intensive session we take a look at improved support in Visual Studio 2010 for building distributed business applications. We focus on Visual Studio support for building rich client…

The Visual Studio 2010 IDE has been completely rewritten for Visual Studio 2010, and it contains a ton of new features, some of which aren't easily discoverable. In addition, both the C# and Visual…

Forget a good portion of everything you know about deploying failover clustering if you're used to Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 or 2005. With the introduction of Windows Server 2008 and…

Come see how the ADO.NET Entity Framework enables new capabilities to leverage multiple development approaches, for example the use of code-first, model-first, and database-first. Hear how, regardless…

How often have you written an XQuery in SQL Server and your performance was so bad that you were able to eat lunch while the query executed? Have you ever wondered that you have specified secondary…

In this session, we cover how you can use Team Foundation Server to define, track, and verify against requirements. We cover the key partners that TFS integrates with, both TFS handles both formal…

In this session we present how .NET developers can reuse their Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills to take advantage of the integrated tooling and rich extensibility of a single WCF…

Don’t know a thing about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) in Microsoft .NET Framework 4, but want to learn? No problem. Join us for this session that starts at “Hello World” and moves you through the…

Execution plan reuse is one of the most important aspects of building well-performing and scalable SQL Server solutions. But it's also the one that is often overlooked during the design phase and…

Have you ever stared at a convoluted requirement, unsure of where to begin and how to get there with T-SQL? Have you ever spent three days working on a long and complex query, wondering if there might…

This session covers the obscure territory of passing sets of data from a client application to SQL Server. There are (almost) countless solutions to this task; use of the SQL Server 2008 feature Table…

Microsoft SQL Server provides various High Availability and Disaster Recovery technologies. This session involves discussions on how various customers use these technologies to achieve their HA and DR…

SQL Server Extended Events is a diagnostic feature that revolutionizes troubleshooting, profiling, and enables end-to-end tracing, with only a small amount of overhead when it’s active. In this…

This session provides tips, tricks, and techniques demonstrating how to develop apps using key T-SQL features and enhancements available in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2005. Both the functional and…

You’ve heard it before: “It worked fine on my machine, but the users say it’s too slow.” Don’t blame the developers: they’re using SQL Server features that look great on paper, but in reality, they…

Regulatory bodies...end-users...your boss. They all want answers. Many questions are easy enough to deal with: "Did someone drop my view?" Others are a bit trickier: "What was the previous value of…

Come explore the new enhancements in SQL Server 2008 R2, known as Application and Multi-Server Management, which enable a more efficient way to develop, deploy, and manage data-tier applications and…

In this session, we will provide a SQL Server 2008 upgrade overview. The session will cover the essential phases and steps involved in upgrading SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, and SQL Server 2008…

SQL Server 2008 introduced two new features that can greatly improve your productivity for managing instances of SQL Server called Policy-Based Management and PowerShell scripting. With Policy-Based…

This session provides an overview of SQL Server consolidation and focuses on helping IT planners, developers, and administrators choose between the various consolidation options such as…

Have you experienced slow-down in your application because of blocking and wondered what you can do? This session covers the basics of concurrency starting with isolation levels including RCSI and…

Hardware development leveraging n-core technology and 64Bit computing turned around the capabilities of industry standard servers radically over the last six years. This session gives an on overview…

Data Compression has been one of the most popular features of SQL Server 2008. In this presentation we look into the common customer questions regarding usage scenarios and performance. We then…

SharePoint Server 2010 ships with a lot of databases. Planning is extremely critical for scale and disaster recovery. In this session we focus on key enterprise scale deployment methods including high…

How do they scale; do they scale up or scale out? How are High Availabilty and Disaster Recovery architected? Are there any common techniques that bring the largest gain? This session is intended for…

Regulatory compliance is a hot topic these days. Governments and industries are forcing businesses to comply with their regulations, such as HIPAA and the PCI DSS, under threat of severe penalties. …

We all know how important it is to keep a baseline of performance metrics that allow us to know when something is wrong and help us to track it down and fix the problem. We don't always know how to do…

The addition of virtualization support has changed the way architects and DBAs need to look at availability in the SQL Server world. How does Hyper-V Live Migration or vMWare's vMotion work in…

This session provides a deep dive by providing walk-throughs and demos of how to run and maintain SQL Server in a Hyper-V virtual machine environment. We provide an overview of terminology and…

Learn how the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data platform complements and builds on the foundations provided by Windows Server security capabilities. SQL Server uses the core security infrastructure of…

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 includes an exciting new platform called StreamInsight for building rich data processing over real-time event streams. This technology is ideal for applications that need…

Server consolidation has been pursued for years yet not many companies have been truly successful when it comes to database consolidation. The maturation of virtualization technologies further adds to…

You will have read the news about the major partnership deal between HP and Microsoft. In this session, leading members of the BI teams from both companies explore what this means in practical terms.…

Do you want to know what it takes to get your application to scale? Do you really need more powerful hardware? In this session we discuss all aspects of scalability and show you how to design your…

This session covers the performance implications of using two new Microsoft data access frameworks. We look at the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of code generation with the frameworks using SQL…

SQL Azure provides a highly available and scalable relational database engine in the cloud. In this demo-intensive and interactive session learn how to quickly build Web applications with SQL Azure…

Are you tasked with managing your company's SQL Server instances just because you're "the Microsoft person" in your environment? Worry not: Self-proclaimed "Jack of All Tech" and MVP Don Jones gives…

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the newly released version of SQL Server -- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Get a comprehensive understanding of the new technologies and improvements…

Many developers are aware of the importance of high availability, critically analyzing any single points of failure in the infrastructure. Those same developers rarely give a second thought to the…

When it comes to Microsoft .NET-connected development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and from open source. Think of ASP.NET MVC, Castle, Windows Workflow Foundation…

Based on in-depth analysis of IT and business data from Platform Value Assessments of worldwide enterprises, most IT organizations share common problems that are costing their companies money. Learn…

More and more developers are starting to use messaging patterns and domain models in their N-Tier architectures. Many are surprised by the added complexity and beginning to wonder, was it worth it?…

In today’s Web applications, data is no longer locked up behind a Web site, but is now exposed via a set of service APIs that allow for third-party developers to create an endless number of…

Stateful client-based technologies for user interfaces, such as Silverlight, require more sophisticated design and architecture for the client tier than typical Web applications. This session…

Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge…

Wonder about architecture best practices, guidelines, and pitfalls? Wonder how to design world-class systems? You understand the concepts, but not how to apply them? In the first half of this…

The concepts of rule engines and meta-data aren’t new from a technology perspective, but more organizations are having success in execution when they begin from an architectural approach and provide…

The cloud computing paradigm combines service orientation with utility computing. How does this impact application architecture? How do we design solutions that seize on the opportunity of cloud…

Is it possible to connect business objectives with IT initiatives? Haven’t we tried too many times just to find that it is too hard? In this session we walk through a proven process to assess your…

We think of Dell as a global technology solution provider – but what is it like inside of Dell’s internal IT shop? With over 90,000 employees and a fast-moving global business focused on technology…

The foundation of business success is new, more effective business strategies. The foundation of most business strategies is IT innovation. Yet organizations often don’t think systematically about IT…

Multi-core and HPC technologies are rapidly moving into the computing mainstream, allowing us to develop applications with improved performance, increased responsiveness, and reduced latency. The many…

Architects always strive for modularity to achieve extensibility, maintainability, and reuse – the technology for the modules, the glue, changes over time, from objects, to .NET to WCF. And yet, all…

Claims-based identity provides an open and interoperable approach to identity and access control that can be consistently applied both on-premises and in the cloud. Come to this session to learn…

Hear how Windows Identity Foundation makes advanced identity capabilities and open standards first class citizens in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Learn how the Claims-Based access model integrates…

This presentation covers the internals and subtle nuances of how backing up Hyper-V works in Windows Server 2008 R2 in standalone as well as clustered environments that use clustered shared volume…

In this session we discuss key upgrade decisions MSIT made before and during upgrade. We review, in depth, the new capabilities and improvements to the upgrade process that we leveraged, our patching…

.NET Framework 4 represents a significant release of Microsoft’s developer platform and comes with a lot of new technologies and enhancements to existing technologies. In this session, we explore some…

A senior HP consultant reviews the state of the client infrastructure, and the many options that customers face. Because of the complexity of the desktop environment and the diverse nature of today’s…

The Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC) has been renamed. It is now called Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit (DDTK) . This session explores the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit (DDTK); a…

Everyone has heard about hackers. It is commonly known that their jobs differ from system administrator jobs. However, things they do in their darkened rooms are definitely interesting and worth…

Learn how to avoid SharePoint Sprawl or Portal Propagation with SharePoint. With all the new features of SharePoint 2010, even more planning is required to maintain a healthy environment which will…

Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications and database from MySql or other RDBMs to SQL Azure? Or are you simply focused on the easiest ways to get your SQL Server database up to SQL…

As SharePoint adoption grows, many companies want to increase their integration of CRM data into their SharePoint assets. This session provides an overview of how you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics…

Microsoft Codename “Dallas” enables developers to consume premium commercial and public domain data to power consumer and business apps on any platform or device. You can provide relevant data to…

SharePoint Online is quickly becoming a great cost-effective way to manage SharePoint in the 'cloud' that can complement the way you architect and deploy your on-premises instance of SharePoint 2010.…

There is immense opportunity for you to build and deploy cloud-centric solutions using the new Windows Azure platform. However, what does that opportunity look like vis-à-vis Microsoft SharePoint? In…

SketchFlow is the prototyping environment in Expression Blend. See how to use SketchFlow to collaboratively design, evolve, explore and review user experiences and interactive content.

FAST is Microsoft's super-charged enterprise search and will be integrated into the SharePoint 2010 experience. This session explores the different ways in which you can customize FAST to optimize the…

This session focuses on the operations and infrastructure for delivering Microsoft Online Services, enterprise-class software hosted by Microsoft and delivered as a subscription service. Customers…

Silverlight for Windows Embedded comes with support only for a native API, and at first glance it would appear that it is not possible to build a Silverlight UI and use it from a .NET Compact…

This session walks you through the practical challenges, theoretical considerations, and finally actual solution implementations of moving communication and collaboration to Microsoft Business…

During this session, we discuss how we accomplished the CRM Online and SharePoint Online customizations and integration that are available in our Stratus product. We initially demo the final product…

This session covers virtualization scenarios for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Exchange Server, the customer pain points and how a combination of Hyper-V and…

The Model-View-ViewModel design pattern is one of the best ways to build a maintainable and testable UI in Microsoft Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation. The MVVM pattern is emerging as one…

To realize the true benefits of a virtualized solution, companies need good management. This session demonstrates the true power and potential of a Microsoft Virtualization solution, and shows how…

This session provides a preview of the next generation of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, including a preview of the new administration and end-user portals. The session demonstrates…

This session provides a preview of the identify and access solutions in the next generation of the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, showing the evolution of the BPOS sign-in services and…

Using PowerShell commandlets, Business Productivity Online Standard Suite administrators have a variety of tools that can automate many BPOS administrative tasks, such as adding users and activating…

Making the decision to move your messaging and collaboration infrastructure to the cloud is a big step. But now that you’ve finished the evaluation phase and have decided to purchase the Microsoft…

Cloud computing is a technology that has widespread impact on IT organizations of all sizes. Organizations with large enterprise applications, such as SAP or mainframe applications, often wonder how…

In this session, learn how Seattle Children’s Hospital is using the Microsoft platform to develop a comprehensive knowledge management solution to empower administrators, doctors, nurses, and other…

Perhaps the most important considerations when planning a SharePoint deployment are: how do I authenticate my users and how do I ensure they have access to the content they need? This session…

As Microsoft SharePoint secures its position in the Enterprise, it has never been more important to ensure its global reach to drive information worker adoption and productivity. Today’s global…

This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people-aware applications that…

Use the information you already have in Excel as the starting point for building business centered applications. This is a demo-heavy session that provides real-world examples using the…

SharePoint Server 2010 includes new workflow features and there are many improvements in the tools for workflow. SharePoint 2010 now supports workflows that can run without a SharePoint list item.…

Tired of hearing statistics about the high rate of failure for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiatives? In this session, learn about the new features in SharePoint 2010 and discover how…

Activities form the atoms of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) universe and enable you to expose tailored, productive authoring experiences for your users to define business and application logic…

SharePoint has built-in user authorization so that a site owner can specify what access particular users have to resources. Authentication is the identification of who the user is and this is provided…

Was the first time you really tested your Microsoft ASP.NET application under load when you put it into production? Don’t do it! This session digs into how you can test your ASP.NET application using…

There are a number of capabilities in Windows Server AppFabric that just simply work behind the scenes, providing resilience and scalability for your applications. Find out how the more advanced…

Search connects people to the information they need to get their jobs done. General productivity search solutions connect a broad set of people to a broad set of information. High-value search…

SharePoint 2010 has new improvements for customizing the SharePoint user interface. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, allowing you to add or remove pieces to easily customize the…

SharePoint is the development platform that many developers with ASP.NET background are moving to. Because SharePoint is entirely built on ASP.NET it is a natural way to get access to higher level…

A platform is only as powerful as the tools that let you build applications for it. This session focuses on using demos, not slides, to show the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows…

Learn about the storage capabilities provided by Windows Azure including storing and manipulating blobs, structured non-relational entities, and using queues. Learn tips, tricks, and performance…

SharePoint 2010 has new and improved ways to work with data. LINQ to SharePoint lets a developer work with data from SharePoint lists in a strongly typed way that preserves relationships between…

The combination of the great presentation and user interface capabilities of Silverlight and the rich collaboration platform of SharePoint create an unbeatable combination for making developers very…

A significant number of Business Intelligence and Performance Management rollouts fail or never realize their true potential. The blame often falls on technology, consultants, even the users…

With BI-related IT skills still in short supply, business users have taken matters into their own hands, developing and deploying more of their own analytic applications. Not surprisingly, they like…

Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables integration with line-of-business applications and other enterprise and Web 2.0 data sources. It was known in Microsoft…

What are the factors that make a business intelligence initiative successful? How is BI maturing and being deployed? What technologies are impacting BI? There is a great deal to be learned from the…

Most BI deployments emphasize information delivery and analysis to support fact-based decision making, but fail to link BI content with the decision itself, the decision outcome, decision making best…

SharePoint 2010 adds a new deployment model for SharePoint called Sandboxed Solutions. It is a controlled solution packaging format that offers SharePoint Server Farm owners a way to easily mitigate…

Learn how Studio Moderna, a multi-channel retailer in over 20 countries, has used Microsoft Business Intelligence to grow their business. From the early days of Access to the current offerings within…

The Mobile Web has been a long time in coming, and now that it’s here, it’s a force that you and your business can’t afford to ignore. What has made all of this possible is the combination of…

When architecting and developing cloud applications, you now have the ability to directly impact the cost for running your application. In this session, learn about the Windows Azure Platform pricing…

This session covers best practices for using the SQL Azure cloud relational database. We walk through the creation of a departmental application from scratch. We see firsthand how easy it is to…

Together with part 2, this session gives an overview of the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. Part 1 covers new input paradigms…

Together with part 1, this session gives an overview of the functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. Part 2 covers the new application…

Windows Phone OS 7.0 is coming! Want to learn what is new for the developer? This session covers the new application platform and provides a complete picture of the developer story. Learn about the…

Go beyond "Hello, World" and see how Windows Azure supports building complex, multi-tier applications.

This session details how to use XNA to develop 3D games for Windows Phone, with an eye towards the special characteristics of the Windows Phone application platform. Special attention is placed on…

Learn how to optimize your Silverlight code for Windows Phone. This session discusses common bottlenecks using the graphics and managed stacks, and highlights how to optimize startup and reaction…

There are many important differences between Windows Phone OS 7.0 and earlier Windows Phone platforms that application programmers must understand in order to be successful. With all of Microsoft's…

The Silverlight development environment has proven itself to be a rich, capable, and adaptable runtime that has reached across platforms to support Windows, the Mac and the Web. Silverlight has now…

With the release of Windows Phone, game developers will be able to create amazing content rapidly through the power of Microsoft Silverlight and the XNA Framework. This talk outlines the basic…

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 brings several improvements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), including improved REST capabilities, service routing, and discovery. This session walks you through…

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, we now have the ability to build UML and Architectural Layer designs within Visual Studio. But why stop there? In this session, learn how to take the…

Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) provides a flexible, declarative programming model and a brand new runtime architecture that makes it easily accessible for .NET developers. What that means for…

The availability of the Service Bus in Windows Azure AppFabric is disruptive since it enables new design and deployment patterns that are simply inconceivable without it, opening new horizons for…

Learn the best practices for writing compatible applications for the Windows operating system and migrating Windows XP applications to Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Also, learn about common application…

In this session, TELUS Communications, Canada's third largest Telecommunications company, discusses the process of re-platforming their legacy BI architecture with Microsoft. Hear how they…

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. Companies also need to be…

Come learn how to use Windows Azure AppFabric (with Service Bus and Access Control) as building block services for Web-based and hosted applications, and how developers can leverage services to create…

In this session, learn how you can use cloud computing to drive business agility while reducing your costs.

The consumer market is driving devices applications development models, tools, market places to a new direction, and things are evolving really fast. Windows Embedded Compact being a small footprint…

Why should anybody ever write a custom app? In a world full of packaged software, why not just buy everything you need? The answer is that custom applications let an organization differentiate itself,…

Instead of a boring overview of APIs, in this fun and interactive session, learn how we built a real-world Windows Phone 7 application that is used to control a robotic t-shirt cannon. Learn about key…

The mantra of Antivirus, Firewall, and Patch is often cited as being enough to keep your organization's information secure. Microsoft's Defense in Depth model applied correctly is an excellent start…

Join this session for a deep technical walkthrough of the Windows Phone OS 7.0 architecture.

Windows Phone presents developers with the opportunity to monetize their applications using the next generation of Windows Phone application distribution: Windows Phone OS 7.0. Windows Marketplace…

In this session we discuss managing BizTalk Server, both for small and large deployments. We discuss what we are doing in BizTalk 2010 to make BizTalk management simpler, to facilitate performance…

In this session, we discuss the B2B space, and how BizTalk can help customers manage their B2B processes, partner relationships, etc. BizTalk Server 2010 boosts developers productivity and reduce the…

When you build composite applications on the new Windows Server AppFabric and on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you usually need to connect to existing line-of-business (LOB) systems. These LOB…

Do you have a significant existing code base? Adopting the latest Visual Studio doesn’t have to be an all or nothing proposition. In this session, learn how you can move to Visual Studio 2010 to use…

The OData ecosystem is a vibrant growing community of data producers and consumers using the OData protocol to exchange data. The easiest way to become an OData producer and join the OData community…

We're all familiar with using a defense-in-depth strategy when planning IT security. All these important layers…yet none of them matter if I can take your servers and load them into my truck! Physical…

While your enterprise applications and infrastructure technology change rapidly, the underlying Information Architecture must transcend those evolutions and persist data consistently over long periods…

A conference staple, the BI Power Hour provides attendees a view into less convential ways of looking at BI solutions. These may not be "business ready", but provide some fun and help stretch the…

The speaker has led three enterprise BI implementations for companies running SAP. Learn why, at her current employer, she switched to the Microsoft BI stack, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2,…

The new features of C# 4.0 focuses on being a good citizen in a big world. In this talk we look at named and optional arguments, as well as the much improved COM interaction. We pay special attention…

Attackers are increasingly targeting applications to get at sensitive corporate data, and Office is no exception. It's not just about macro viruses anymore – any Office file can be used in an attack,…

If you believe that knowing how something works helps you use it better, and that patterns and best-practices provide guidance and inspiration, then this talk is for you. In this session we look into…

In this session, learn how to use tools like Utility Control Point, Data Collector, Policy-Based Management and PowerShell to detect and prevent problems in multi-instance SQL Server 2008 R2…

Planning for capacity, connecting to external data, and on-going administration is critical to unleashing the new capabilities in Microsoft Excel and Excel Services. This session explains how to…

There are many reasons to contemplate data integration: constructing a data warehouse, achieving master data management, getting synchronization and consistency, system migration or consolidation, and…

Learn how you can create a real-time dashboard with the Microsoft BI Stack. This session walks through how to create all the necessary components and use them together with the SharePoint Server 2010…

With Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft has made a major leap forward in new enterprise search options that cover the full spectrum of business needs. This session provides an overview of the…

In this session the speakers demonstrate an implementation architecture for a real-time data and events driven infrastructure for Real-time Business Insight, Analytics, and reporting. OSIsoft is a…

Getting data out of SAP BW and into your preferred reporting and analysis application has always been a challenge. In this session, learn how to make your enterprise data more accessible to business…

Explore enhancements to the experience for Silverlight out-of-browser applications including the ability to host HTML content within Silverlight, playback rights-protected media when offline and…

During this session Marcus Murray uses live demonstrations to give you an insight in the impact of choosing the correct authentication methods and strategy for your exposed systems and services. We…

This session covers the new advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel 2010 to help you create detailed analytical reports. We cover new capabilities, such as how to use dynamic sets leveraging the…

You're ready to move to PerformancePoint Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, but what do you do with your existing dashboards, KPIs, and reports? This session explains best practices in…

Dashboards are most powerful when they provide a tailored experience for users, integrated into existing business processes. SharePoint provides limitless opportunities for creating a custom BI…

Mission-critical applications require careful planning to achieve maximum uptime. Various factors like availability SLAs for RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective), log…

The SharePoint security model can be confusing, with its deep hierarchy of securable objects, granular permissions and policies, and clunky user and group management interfaces. This session…

Process improvement without adequate metrics is shooting in the dark -- you might hit your target, but it's impossible to aim and difficult to determine how close you were to hitting your goal. In…

Learn how to extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2010 with the power of SQL Server Reporting Services. SQL Server Reporting Services enables end-users to view, manage…

Even though we haven't published performance data for Hyper-V R2, we have done some internal testing and seen that Hyper-V R2 performs really well compared to Hyper-V R1. It performs well enough that…

Windows MultiPoint Server (WMS) is Microsoft's solution for low-cost shared resource computing scenarios in education. WMS can give schools the ability to provide more computing access to their…

This is an in-depth view of basic and advanced troubleshooting techniques for easily creating virtual packages of complex applications. The App-V sequencer will virtualize the majority of the…

This sessions dives deep into understanding Team Foundation Server 2010 reporting. We very briefly overview the provided reports, both SSRS and Excel that come out of the box, before diving into what…

Information is one of our customers' most valuable assets. It must be protected, yet also be shareable. Find out how Information Protection solution is the most effective approach to discovering,…

Are you currently using Crystal Reports for your reporting needs? Do you want to leverage your SQL Server license to meet your reporting needs? This partner presentation can help put you on a path to…

This is an in-depth overview of the sequencing process during which you learn how an application is transformed from an installed entity into a virtualized application using the Microsoft Application…

Do you need to create reports for your users or partners? Are you wondering how Reporting Services can help your developers, end users and IT admins? This is your introduction to SQL Server Reporting…

How can you design an effective, useful, and appealing dashboard? Many articles and books focus on the mechanics of how to choose KPIs and the various formats available for displaying data. But even…

VDI is one of the fastest growing trends in IT, and is arguably the most popular topic of debate within the desktop community. Most companies are in the process of treating desktop virtualization as a…

Advances in charting, maps, KPI, and dashboard representations are leading some of the key innovations in Business Intelligence and helping users make sense of the mountains of data they deal with…

Enterprise Service Bus has emerged as an architectural pattern that can help organizations develop flexible solutions to connect their applications. In this session we discuss the ESB pattern,…

The distributed in-memory caching capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric will change how you think about scaling your Microsoft .NET-connected applications. Come learn how the distributed nature of…

Customers are looking to align decision making across the business user organization at different levels and roles. Typical scenarios include providing aligned information across the procurement…

In 2009, Intel Corporation used the Microsoft BI stack to address needs in the protection of its intellectual property. A team inside Intel developed a flexible architecture that uses business…

This session dives into Microsoft's endpoint security solution for businesses. Learn how you can protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling…

The fastest way to load data into a SQL Server Data Warehouse and query a data warehouse is with the SQL Server Data Warehousing Fast Track reference architecture. It gives the ability to load…

Server deployment and MDT 2010 LiteTouch really makes sense -- using LiteTouch to deploy your servers is, in many cases, the best solution there could be. In this session learn how to build templates…

Data recovery is non-negotiable; you can't buy back lost data. Learn why IT continuity management is important, how to protect your content, and investments in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to get…

Visual Studio 2010 is a huge release for C++ developers. We have rebuilt the IDE to scale to huge source bases spanning tens of thousands of files and millions of lines of code, all while providing…

You're an experienced Microsoft BI professional and you think Microsoft's is the best BI stack out there. What happens if your employer or client has a large investment in a competing stack and…

Active Directory and all that you can do with it has come a long way in the last ten years. Are you really using everything that is in there to get the best bang for your buck? Learn how to make your…

Organizations today struggle with the challenge of maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of personal information and intellectual property, as well as meeting associated regulatory compliance…

One of the most essential professional skills in any organization is communication: you've got to be as successful in talking to the carbon units as you are in talking to the silicon units, or even…

Search engine crawlers are the most important site visitors. You have to play by their rules if you want to see your Web site in the top search results. In this session, learn how to leverage the…

Using Wireshark, the world’s most popular network analyzer, Laura delves into network communications from suspect hosts -- hosts that have been compromised and hosts that are performing a variety of…

Itching to upgrade your SharePoint Server 2007 farm to SharePoint Server 2010? Then this is the session for you. In this session we cover the upgrade methods that are available, and explain how to…

Real-time business intelligence (BI) has become one of the top priorities of big enterprises. The ability of having near real-time access to large amounts of data across heterogeneous data sources is…

PowerShell is the command line admin interface for SharePoint Server 2010. It can be pretty scary for SharePoint admins who haven't used it before. In this session we provide PowerShell basics, then…

Carol Avansino, Chief of Compstat, and Derek Visocky present an introduction to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation COMPSTAT SharePoint Portal. They discuss their Enterprise…

The enterprise BI solution at Blue Square was recognized as the 2009 Microsoft (Israel) – Best Innovation solution award winner, granted to Opisoft by Microsoft COO, Kevin Ternerwhich. It was…

Companies worldwide are enjoying the benefits and efficiencies that can be realized through a well-defined and implement Service-Oriented Architecture strategy. For many, with the recent “go-live” of…

Cloud computing offers enterprises of all sizes opportunities to shift and reduce costs, take advantage of the latest technologies, gain disaster recovery capabilities, and do away with much of the…

Developing applications for Windows Phone 7 is a efficient and easy, thanks to an excellent suite of development and design tools. For the first time, Microsoft offers free tools to develop…

Get more from Group Policy with AGPM: Advanced Group Policy Management is part of the suite of MDOP products. It delivers change management and advanced reporting to Group Policy management. This…

Microsoft Office 2010 expands your productivity solution options by offering improved development options and tools, simplified solution design, richer programmability for Office data and formats, and…

Office Business Applications (OBAs) have evolved and with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 there are new platform services to make these productivity solutions more powerful and connected to more data.…

The successful deployment of Microsoft BI has supported an important change in the decision making culture at the Mint. Learn firsthand from the CIO of the Mint, how they turned technology into true…

Do you want to meet your user’s service level agreements? Are you trying to get the most from your IT budget? Led by Jeff Spiller, Sr. Solution Architect from HP’s Performance and Solutions…

This session focuses on the role of IT professionals in the Managed Self-Service BI environment consisting of PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint. We show how to set up a new SharePoint farm with…

This demo-heavy session will illustrate how to use new features in Group Policy to do the following customer demands: - Check and compare settings across all domains - Reduce complexity of your…

Development teams frequently get wrapped around the tree when it comes to branching. It’s easy to lose track of code in a dense tree and even easier to release code that you didn’t mean to release.…

With Windows Server 2008 R2, the traditional session virtualization scenario delivered through Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Services) is expanding its role to provide an extensible…

Learn how Visio 2010 will revolutionize the way IT pros work; how it will save valuable time and money with the enhancements made to the product. The is the best Visio release in 10 years. Learn how…

SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a rich new environment for managing and authoring Web content, along with a wide range of platform improvements. In this session we demonstrate a live upgrade of a…

In this session, learn about a new capability in SharePoint Server 2010 that allows users to create a single work product that is comprised of many components: Document Sets. This session begins with…

This session provides an in-depth technical review of the PowerPivot architecture. We look at the PowerPivot Excel addin, its various components, how they interact, and the ways that they communicate…

This session covers the recently announced Outlook Social Connector (OSC). Outlook Product Manager Dev Balasubramanian reviews the OSC, covers deployment options, and discusses the technical details…

Silverlight is different. Because Silverlight applications typically live outside the firewall, securing them requires an additional level of finesse. There are several security vectors that must be…

This session goes beneath the hood of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to describe and demonstrate the key changes in the kernel. Topics include: scalability improvements (such as removal of the…

This session provides an overview on how to deploy a Project Server 2010 Farm. Specific topics discussed includes upgrading and migrating from prior version (2007 and 2003), how to architect and…

Database design has the greatest impact on performance, reliability, and security. Yet many IT professionals focus only on the physical model of the database. This session takes a simple set of…

Are you comfortable creating ASP.NET Web Form applications but even a little curious about what all the fuss is about MVC and test-driven development? In this session, Web Form junkie Paul Litwin…

Have you written scripts for your ETL process that you find particularly useful? Do you find yourself frequently cutting and pasting code between SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages? There…

PowerPivot for Excel (and SharePoint) is a breakthrough technology that enables end users to build BI solutions and collaborate with their peers. This session dives deep into the capabilities of…

In the most basic way, the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) combines the best aspects of traditional OLAP analysis and relational reporting. In doing so it presents a "single version of the truth" that…

Business Intelligence (BI) technologies are emerging as important tools for organizations that need to consolidate, analyze, report, and scorecard their data. The challenge for today's organizations…

DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is a new expression language for end users to add business logic to their PowerPivot applications. DAX offers a lot of power and flexibility while retaining the the…

There are many ways to bind controls in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to the data from your database, XML files, or your objects. This session explores many ways to retrieve and present data…

SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse uses MPP (massively parallel processing) to deliver high performance and scalability on SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 and industry-standard hardware. The…

Deploying clustered Hyper-V servers in Windows 2008 R2 involves a wide variety of technologies, including Hyper-V, Failover Clusters, Cluster Shared Volumes, Live Migration, Microsoft System Center…

The audience will actively participate as we analyze requirements, design, build, and deploy a real-world BI solution from the ground up. Participants provide some of the data, help white-board a…

Tuning your SharePoint environment is an important step in optimizing its performance and enabling an efficient deployment that reduces overutilization in resources and in turn provides the best…

Silverlight provides a great deal of functionality that can be used to build robust Line-of-Business (LOB) applications for companies. In this session Silverlight MVP Dan Wahlin discusses lessons…

Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President, Business Platform Division, presents at the Business Intelligence conference in New Orleans

This session helps IT decision-makers take advantage of Cloud Computing to meet the new imperatives of business agility. Discussion includes guidance for conducting your own Cloud Assessment and the…

In Foundational Sessions, senior executives from Microsoft bridge the general Keynote topics and the in-depth Breakout Sessions by sharing the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap across our…

In Foundational Sessions, senior executives from Microsoft bridge the general Keynote topics and the in-depth Breakout Sessions by sharing the company’s vision, strategy, and roadmap across our…

In this session we discuss the features in the BizTalk 2010 release. We focus on how this release will help developers build BizTalk applications faster and IT admins to manage BizTalk deployments…

This session focuses on the benefits realized from refreshing client and server infrastructures with the latest processor technology from Intel and latest software from Microsoft. We examine the…

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) – the evolution of the Business Data Catalog – is a key feature of SharePoint 2010. In this session we discuss the new improvements to this functionality for this…

Question: When is your bank's Web site NOT your bank's Web site? Answer: After some criminal hijacks your bank's DNS domain, fooling you and other bank customers into divulging your usernames and…

Over the last two decades, Microsoft has been developing ever-more powerful and flexible data development technologies, from DB-Library and OBDC to the ADO.NET Entity Framework and WCF Data Services.…

Technology innovations keep getting better and better, so what’s new in SharePoint 2010 for social computing? Find out what is new, improved, and the business value of social computing in this…

Windows PC and server operating systems are designed to work cooperatively with the hardware to save power. Unfortunately, it only takes one application to undermine all of those efforts – and that…

Take your career further through earning Microsoft Certification Master or Architect credentials. Learn from people who have actually achieved these credentials the truth behind how, why, and when to…

As the title states, this session is about demos only, no slides. If you want to learn about the latest technologies for Embedded such as Microsoft Silverlight for Windows Embedded, Windows Embedded…

Implementation of a new BI setup in TDC based on Microsoft's BI suite: The first benefits. Hear how TDC in spite of many older legacy systems are able to create drill-down down to individual customers…

This session provides an overview of the key investment areas and capabilities of Project Server 2010 and Project Professional 2010, including demand management, portfolio analysis, time tracking,…

A growing number of employees are using their smartphones for business purposes. This makes planning secure access to email, documents, and applications a mission critical job for IT. Learn how…

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a flexible and powerful platform for building service-oriented applications, and with that flexibility comes some complexity. As of .NET Framework 4 –…

Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational…

Search connects people to the information they need to get their jobs done. General productivity search solutions connect a broad set of people to a broad set of information. They deliver a great…

In today’s world there is plenty of talk about healthcare change, transparency, accountability, and patient quality. As a world-renowned leader in Imaging and Radiology Medicine, Massachusetts General…

Microsoft Communications Server “14”, Microsoft Communicator “14”, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provide the communication platform for developers to rapidly build solutions that integrate and…

SharePoint 2010 has many new developer oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers…

Windows Phone is an important tool for personal productivity and collaboration. Windows Phone 7 will be taking this to the next level. In this session, learn what's new in Office Mobile, how it…

SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 provides a new feature called Report Parts. This enhances collobaration between report developers and end users. Report authors can share data sets and report…

Microsoft has a broad range of tools that can be used to create a BI application: PerformancePoint, Reporting Services, and Excel on the presentation side and SQL Server, Analysis Services,…

How bad is it? What are the things that you need to be worried about in your job? Where is this whole thing headed? Join Kai Axford and the FBI Cyber Squad as we look deep into recent trends evolving…

Companies today face many challenges and have certain priorities they must address. With Microsoft Virtualization you can address these challenges and concerns with the essential capabilities…

SharePoint dashboards and scorecards can help you and your organization achieve even greater success. Join us for an in-depth view of how to deliver these capabilities using the PerformancePoint…

Let's talk about what's new in Office 2010, specifically about implications for IT pros. Topics include security improvements, hardware and performance enhancements, Web Apps principles and…

Do you remember when we talked about Decision Support, more than Business Intelligence? Even today, when technologies and business have changed so much, one of our key objectives is still to help…

Excel and PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions, and facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions. Come and learn how you can deliver…

Are you still using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe? Is your source code in Subversion? Have you hobbled together a set of open source tools that just “get the job done”? Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team…

With over 500,000 downloads a month, Wiresharks is the world’s most popular network analyzer and listed as one of the top five security tools by insecure.org (Fyodor, maker of Nmap). In this active…

In this session, learn how Schumacher Group, the third largest emergency medical management services company in the U.S., leveraged their enterprise business intelligence program to drive fundamental…

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 provide the automation platform and a set of solutions that empower your customers to manage the breadth of their IT environment. This demo-heavy session shows you…

This session introduces Master Data Services (MDS) and describes typical solutions. Product demonstrations illustrate how Master Data Services can help synchronize operational systems and build better…

Are you already familiar with designing reports for SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services? Are you looking for how to add that wow factor to your reports or your customer demos? This session covers…

Terry Myerson is the Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Engineering. He shows how Windows Phone will excite business end-users and enable rich applications that run on PC, Web, and phone. He…

Come see and hear about the latest innovations in ASP.NET MVC 2 and the tooling support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. We introduce you to a range of productivity (and extensibility)…

Performance tuning of Web sites is not a secret art form. All you need is a few tools and a checklist. This session has four parts: 1. Get familiar with performance optimization concepts 2.…

Are you considering adopting IronRuby or IronPython in your Microsoft .NET enterprise applications? Thinking about integrating dynamic languages with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows…

The Microsoft application server has many parts: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) (along with other parts of the Microsoft .NET Framework), the forthcoming…

There are numerous new features in Reporting Services as part of the upcoming SQL Server 2008 R2 release. In this session, all new features are introduced with specific focus on several of the most…

See how hosted, cloud-based services from Microsoft can help you more efficiently manage and secure your business PCs without the need to set up enterprise deployment infrastructure. This session…

In this session, Outlook Program Manager Andrew Sullivan reviews the various integration points between Outlook and Exchange 2010, highlighting core scenarios for end users and valuable integration…

Bob Muglia in New Orleans for TechEd 2010