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

Ask a group of people who have run through the DirectAccess step-by-step guides, and they will report different levels of success. If DirectAccess doesn’t work, then the normal recourse has been to…

The session provides a deep dive of BranchCache in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. It explains what BranchCache is and how it works, covering the different modes of operation, deployment model…

From its inception the Windows Registry has been a bane and boon to Windows administrators. Some might refer to it as a necessary evil. But managing the registry, especially for remote systems, has…

This practical session shows you tools and techniques to migrate from Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 and SBS 2008 to either SBS 2011 Standard or SBS 2011 Essentials. Learn about initial environment…

Active Directory is the core component of many infrastructures and handles authentication for a variety of applications and non-Windows clients. Windows Admins must be familiar with how authentication…

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

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

Are your customers ready for migration to Windows Server 2008 R2? Which of their existing servers are good candidates for Hyper-V consolidation? Attend this session to preview server consolidation…

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…

At the center of any successful deployment is a powerful server and just as important tools. From Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), and to Microsoft Assessment…

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

The uber-demo spaceship has landed in Atlanta... Join Johan Arwidmark in an hour (plus) live demo on how to build a Windows Server 2008 R2 deployment solution, based on Microsoft Deployment Toolkit…

This session goes in-depth into Windows Deployment Services (WDS), it shows you the valid scenarios, and how to configure the PXE listener and Multicast features. It covers advanced techniques for…

High-performance computing (HPC) is used to address some of today’s most important problems. With the advent of the cloud, using HPC gets significantly easier, making this technology accessible to a…

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

The combination of mobile and cloud computing is like peanut butter and chocolate. Nobody does it better than Microsoft when Windows Phones and Slates are connected to Windows Azure over wireless. The…

Windows Phone is especially attractive for organizations because of its emphasis on interoperability with existing Windows infrastructures, and especially Microsoft Exchange Server. This session…

Technical women and organizations face challenges surrounding growth, retention and job satisfaction for women. The low number of women, behavior amongst women, and the industry culture can pose…

In this session we explore a set of common issues encountered during the Windows 7 deployment process, digging as deeply as possible into the root causes and understanding how to troubleshoot similar…

This session dives deep into the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 setup engine, explains the driver store, log files, device driver ranking, and much more. It goes deep into the configuration…

Microsoft recently announced the commercial availability of Windows Intune, a new solution that simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7. Intune is a…

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

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…

You noticed that Windows 7 is much less frequent in its requests for elevation than Windows Vista. But why are some applications still requesting for elevation? Why do some applications running in the…

Virtualizing Windows 7 desktops provides new challenges for Group Policy administrators, interested in managing desktop lockdown while at the same time ensuring that the advantages of VDI are…

The goal of this session is to review the viable solutions available to support a local installation of DaRT on your Windows 7 desktops. We walk through each option available and discuss the avantages…

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…

Learn how USMT 4.0 can be used as an integral part of a fully automated Enterprise Deployment environment. This session shares advanced techniques for migrating user files and settings, including…

Internet Explorer 9 has a number of features that are exciting to end users and developers – but what about IT pros? In this highly interactive session, join Chris Jackson (“The App Compat Guy”) and a…

During the early adopter program on Windows 7, Norway had 19 cases -- all very different, with quite different reasons and goals. With the help of Partners and a Deployment Ranger, it was a big…

During the early adopter program on Windows 7, Norway had 19 cases -- all very different, with quite different reasons and goals. With the help of Partners and a Deployment Ranger, it was a big…

Come hear from developers who have built Windows 7 Touch optimized applications and learn some great tips they gained along the way. This talk cover each of the available Microsoft platforms…

Microsoft RDP/RemoteFX, Citrix ICA/HDX, Quest EOP and VMware/Teradici PCoIP represent a selection of popular virtual desktop remoting protocols. But how are they different from each other and what…

See how information flows to the right place at the right time for the Auxiliary IT group at Indiana University. Take a look inside AIT’s Hyper-V multi-site cluster deployment. Watch as Associate IT…

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

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

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,…

Have you deployed or are you planning to deploy an App-V Management Server and are curious to understand how to plan for optimal performance and scalability? This session helps you understand the…

What if the product you need to integrate doesn’t yet have an Integration Pack? How can you integrate to custom/home-grown applications? This session explores Extensibility options in Opalis,…

To really be successful running IT as a Service, one needs to have a complete solution around monitoring health, issue tracking and remediation and the automation to make it happen consistently. In…

This session is the final in a series of three sessions and provides a technical overview of the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 Server Fabric Lifecycle, covering VMM 2012 features which enable the…

One of the most exciting aspects of Operations Manager 2012 is the monitoring of network devices. Instead of just monitoring each server with Operations Manager, it is now possible to look at the…

This final session in a series of four on Operations Manager 2012 covers several advanced topics including new dashboards, authoring and reporting. This session is full of demos from the next…

Configuration Manager 2012 is now in Beta 2! As we enter a new era for IT Administration, the System Center flagship product is evolving. This technical session highlights the engineering investments…

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 is the latest release of our flagship System Center product. This session offers a technical overview of the latest features included in the new R3 release.…

Learn how to leverage Microsoft's recently acquired AVIcode application monitoring technologies today and later within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012. We show how to use AVIcode to…

In this session, see how Microsoft has integrated System Center Configuration Manager Desired Configuration Manager (DCM), System Center Operations Manager, and System Center Service Manager to…

Join this session to learn how Microsoft IT converged security management and desktop management using single infrastructure on 280,000 desktops. With just a single server purchase, see how Microsoft…

In this session we discuss how to do certificate enrollment using Certificate Enrollment Service (CES) and Certificate Enrollment Policy (CEP), two new features of Windows 2008 R2. These services…

This session provides a one-hour technical introduction to Active Directory Rights Management Services. But this session is anything but “basic”. We cover all the fundamentals, including core…

Come and learn how Forefront protection technologies provide end-to-end on-premises and cloud protection to your customers.

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…

Explore options for writing rich client applications for the desktop and Windows Phone that use claims-based identity. Topics cover building Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation…

When customers adopt productivity services in Office 365 they are enabling users in their Active Directory to use these services in the cloud. We go through the steps and process needed to get the…

Learn what’s new for RMS customers in 2011. Hear about the investments in and the direction for RMS moving forward.

Get better performance and reliability from Forefront Identity Manager 2010 deployment and avoid support calls.

The increasing number of mobile devices makes enterprise wireless LAN security a persistent concern for every system and network administrator today. This session provides best practices to promote…

A live demonstration on how the cloud changes the threat landscape. During this session Marcus Murray demonstrates both how hackers target your cloud infrastructure and how you can mitigate the…

Come and learn about new Forefront Online Protection for Exchange provides capabilities to manage email traffic for standalone/on-premises and cross-premises scenarios.

This session demonstrates tools that can be used right away to improve the security posture of Windows clients and servers on the Internet, such as: Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) – TWC…

Have you ever wondered what could happen with your company if your administrator moved to the dark side? Today! Right now! Sounds scary, huh? There are no doubts that there are better business…

This session covers the lessons learned implementing federal government mandated security guidance called FDCC now rebranded USGCB. This session covers implementing least-privilege user…

This session offers real-life notes from the field of 14 different Conficker infections in the UK and how we overcame the problems with a winning team and great software.

This session offers real-life notes from the field of 14 different Conficker infections in the UK and how we overcame the problems with a winning team and great software.

Get your cloak and wand. Open your books and prepare for all new lessons in defense against the dark arts. In his latest cybercrime session Andy Malone not only brings you up to date with the latest…

With millions of bits of your data transmitted over the airwaves every day, it’s critical that your wireless security solution is rock solid. In this intriguing 75min session Andy Malone takes you on…

The upcoming version of Service Manager 2010 R2 will deliver standardized, compliant, and automated IT as a Service. Come to this session to see an early preview the all new Silverlight based…

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 includes a new facility for moving intensive processing from the Web Front End servers and onto load balanced application servers. A Service Application Farm can even be…

SharePoint 2010 ships with six service applications that can be consumed from other farms. In this session we explore these service applications and demonstrate how to configure them for sharing.

Learn the details of how SharePoint 2010 makes My Site creation easier and results in more rebust pages.

With the 2010 releases both for Visio and SharePoint, the ability to quickly create and share powerful, intuitive, automatically-refreshing web mash-up dashboard visualizations of both your critical…

Is your company considering Bring Your Own PC/Device? Are you already BYO? As IT, you are under pressure to deliver company information through a wide range of new services and devices due to the…

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

Learn what is provided by the new web analytics and health data collection framework and how you can extend it to suit your administration monitoring and usage reporting.

SharePoint Online supports declarative workflows when automating business processes via SharePoint Online. In this session, we develop a workflow from beginning to end to show what is possible. We…

With Microsoft Office 365, customers now have at the ability to buy Office as a subscription service. Office Professional Plus includes unique subscription activation technology, and this session…

Moving to the cloud requires a new way of thinking about security and compliance. Who does what will change, yet organizations must still comply with policies, regulations and laws. This session…

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

The Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack further strengthens the Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management Solution by bridging the gap…

This session provides a deeper look at how to build applications and services using Windows Azure AppFabric. You will learn about the AppFabric programming model and runtime, and we will discuss…

Business processes that react and respond to events are best modeled as a State Machine. In this session, learn how you can use the new State Machine activity to model complex interactions of systems…

Caching is a key technology to improving application performance and scale by taking the load off your database and moving into distributed memory, frequently used data that is very close to the…

Deploying Site Resilience is a simple technological process with Exchange 2010. But, is Site Resilience really needed for your deployment? Site Resilience can be quite expensive, and many…

Exchange Online and Lync 2010 Online development is largely consistent with on premise development, leveraging the Exchange Web Services Managed API and the Lync 2010 Managed API and Visual Studio…

Exchange Online Unified Messaging (UM) is available in Office 365. This session explains the UM service architecture, what’s needed to connect to UM from customer premises, and compare the features of…

Come to this session and learn about the new manageability experience for Lync 2010. We talk about the new administration architecture for Lync 2010 and also look at the specific tools that help you…

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

In this session, we start off with the critical phase of planning for Lync voice and continue with a review of features such as location-based call routing, media bypass, number manipulation, caller…

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

This presentation demos and describes when and how to take advantage of Simple Exchange Migration which supports migrating existing Exchange on-premise customers who want to move all of their…

Migrating to the cloud isn't a myth or just an in-theory demo,Exchange customers have done it successfully, pre-Office 365 launch through the Live@edu program. Come experience a real-life case study…

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

Gartner predicts that by 2014, there will be close to 1bn smart mobile devices in use worldwide. Chances are that many of your customers are already part of this revolution. Given this incredible…

This presentation will be revision for some and new for others. In it we cover the process of calculating which algorithm is more efficient than another. This seems to be a forgotten skill since the…

Imported from Japan, Kanban is an agile methodology that is gaining a lot of traction. Kanban, or Japanese for signal card, is a process that focuses on transparency and limiting the work in progress.…

Security is a key component of applications and something that developers often struggle with to get right. How do you authenticate a Silverlight user? How do you integrate roles and use them to show…

Building a cloud application on the Microsoft cloud stack isn’t always an obvious set of decisions. Building an app for the cloud requires a different perspective, and in this session we go over the…

Ok, when was the last time you looked at JavaScript? Maybe you haven’t really taken a close look at it and dismissed it as a “toy” technology. JavaScript is a key part of building HTML5 applications.…

HTML5 is the biggest and most powerful HTML specification to ever come out of the W3C. Its roots come from a proposal to extend HTML4 to make it easier for web developers to create web applications.…

Do you have any page that needs to access the database, or a web service? Do any of those takes longer than five seconds? Do you know what happens to the rest of your application? All these questions…

Security is an afterthought with most developers. A common problem is that most web applications can be easily hacked. This presentation explores the most common attacks on web applications, how they…

Internet Explorer 9 allows developers to more tightly integrate their websites with the Windows 7 task bar and start menu. With Pinned Sites, you can add a website to the start menu, define Jump List…

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

Be one of the first to get a sneak peek at the new IDE features planned for the next version of Visual Studio! At this session, see how we’ve improved the Visual Studio developer experience --…

Whether you have a simple collection of reference data, are building a Rich Internet Application or building the data platform for a high-end website, you'll benefit from this code-heavy session…

If recent C# language features are passing you by or you are stuck developing with an older version of the Microsoft .NET Framework and Visual Studio, this session is designed for you! In this session…

The Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Build component includes numerous improvements that let you build your solutions without writing code or custom build tasks. Under the covers…

C++0x, the next C++ standard, is almost upon us and it contains the most important updates to the language since the mid-90s. These new features bring more expressiveness and power to…

It’s a common problem: you’re getting close to when you’re supposed to deploy your new Microsoft ASP.NET or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) application into production and somehow it just…

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) overwhelmed us with the most powerful data binding ever released in a development platform. It seemed there was so much to learn in order to use it, but it really…

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has evolved into a great developer platform with new tools, services and APIs. Visual Studio 2010 now provides a first-class development environment for building SharePoint…

Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is a new calculation language introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 within PowerPivot. DAX is an extension to the Excel formula syntax and offers information…

In this session we will review the various deployment options that are available for PowerPivot. We will discuss the pros and cons of each configuration and how to extend and evolve your PowerPivot…

This session covers building and deploying large scale SQL Server Reporting Services environments including general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out…

Security continues to be a top concern for database administrators as they face the ever-present threat of data breaches and the increasing pressures from compliance regulations such as PCI and HIPAA.…

This presentation presents Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining (SSDM) for SQL Server Professionals based on the speaker's past presentations for SQL Saturday. Starting with SQL Server Management Studio…

This session provides an in-depth look at how to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 or how to upgrade to the next major release of SQL Server called SQL Server "Denali". The session covers the…

This session offers a case study of redesigning a NMS application on Oracle handling 1TB/day (X100 days) to work on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. We walk through the key design principles that helped…

Building data tier applications that can be deployed to and moved between on-premise and cloud is fast becoming a major requirement for applications. The SQL Server team is enabling customers to build…

If you are interested in or currently developing Java and PHP applications for SQL Server and SQL Azure, then find out how the Microsoft multi-platform strategy can help you utilize the features of…

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces StreamInsight, a comprehensive platform for building event-driven applications. While typical relational database applications are query-driven, event-driven…

So you just made your first Windows Azure deployment. Now what? Is it healthy? How many instances do you need? What will my bill be? When do I need to scale up? Was that a DoS attack? Will…

Migrating data back and forth from on-premises to the cloud and back again is one of the toughest challenges facing developers and architects. Learn about tools, features and scenarios that easily…

Windows Azure Virtual Network is a component of Windows Azure that enables customers to setup secure, IP-level network connectivity between their Windows Azure compute services and existing,…

Join Mark Russinovich, now working on Azure, for an under-the-hood tour of the internals of Microsoft’s new cloud OS. Topics include datacenter architecture, cloud OS architecture, and what goes on…

Any platform, by its own nature, creates an ecosystem for third-party tools and helpers. Windows Azure is no different. In this session we look at a variety of the third-party tools available in the…

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

This session covers a group of calculations in T-SQL that can help in addressing a wide variety of querying tasks. It first describes the limitations and shortcomings of traditional, or classic, T-SQL…

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,how…

If you are responsible for understanding,implementing or verifying security configurations for compliance,join us! Learn how the Security Compliance Manager can help reduce your investment in security…

Join and learn how Windows Server File Server Classification Infrastructure and Data Classification Toolkit for Windows Server 2008 R2 Solution Accelerator help IT professionals enable information…

Active Directory is the core component of many infrastructures and handles authentication for a variety of applications and non-Windows clients. Windows Admins must be familiar with how authentication…

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 is a superset of Windows Server 2008 R2 intended primarily for file server workloads. It contains all of the features,and adds other storage-specific features including…

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

Learn about what makes Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering the #1 Server High-Availability solution! Clustering has changed in every area since 2003,so in this technical…

This session goes in-depth into Windows Deployment Services (WDS),it shows you the valid scenarios,and how to configure the PXE listener and Multicast features. It covers advanced techniques for…

High Performance Computing (HPC) is expected to be the single largest workload on Windows Azure. This session discusses how Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2 enables our customers to easily run their HPC…

Big data is a rapidly growing customer need. The HPC team is enabling commodity clusters running Windows HPC Server to address the “unstructured” part of the big data workload using the Dryad…

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 released recently and provides a low-cost shared resource computing model targetted at academic environments. It's a great value solution to solve classroom contention…

If you have branch offices,or really any offices that are connected by slow network lines,then you probably have network problems. Or,at least network slowness from time to time. One day,the network…

This session will walk you through the steps and resources available to build a game with the XNA Framework. During the session the presenter will go through the steps to code a game as part of the…

The XNA Framework vastly simplifies the building of cool interactive games on Windows Phone. In the next version of Windows Phone,we’ll be making it even better by adding full Silverlight/XNA…

If you are a Windows Phone developer,this sample-filled session shows you how to create,manage and access structured data that is locally stored on the phone. This new functionality will be available…

Consumerization of IT is a fact at Microsoft,and we have deployed thousands of Windows Phones to employees and contractors to make them more productive and connected. This session covers lessons…

If you want to know the difference between System Committed memory and Process Committed memory,wondered what all those memory numbers shown by Task Manager really mean,or want to gain insight into…

If you want to know the difference between System Committed memory and Process Committed memory,wondered what all those memory numbers shown by Task Manager really mean,or want to gain insight into…

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

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

Windows PowerShell v2 includes powerful remote control features. It's available all the way back to Windows XP,built into Windows 7,and it's a "killer reason" for deploying Windows 7 and…

Are you looking for a tool to simplify your organization's migration to Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer,for improved desktop security,reliability and manageability? The MAP 5.5 Internet…

Arguably the most innovative and forward thinking feature of Windows 7 is its multi-touch support. And it should be no surprise to see that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4 boasts the same…

You noticed that Windows 7 is much less frequent in its requests for elevation than Windows Vista. But why are some applications still requesting for elevation? Why do some applications running in the…

What if your project requires a system that should give not any hint about the OS it is running on? A system that instead should be branded with your corporate identity only? Well,this is quite hard…

Windows Intune,Microsoft's cloud-based offering for PC management,simplifies and helps businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows cloud services and Windows 7. As an integrated Microsoft…

If you are interested in taking advantage of the new Windows Touch enabled PCs,get some details regarding which development platform is right for your app,Windows Native APIs,Microsoft Silverlight and…

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

MED-V solves the tough application compatibility challenges,including Windows Internet Explorer 6 compatibility,by providing a way to use Windows XP applications on Windows 7. Targeted for the…

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

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

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

Learn about the Hyper-V feature that no other hypervisor has - GPU virtualization. Learn about how RemoteFX makes this all happen.

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…

So you are thinking of having your own private cloud,maybe for testing,for building pilots or you really want to re-design your own infrastructure. In this session we look into this. This session is…

In this session,learn about the new Sequencer enhancements in App-V 4.6 SP1. Through the Sequencing process we show many of the new features added to the 4.6 SP1 Sequencer - from workstation…

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

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

Want to build out a Microsoft Private Cloud solution? Want to learn the best practices for implementing,managing and growing your Private cloud topology? Come to this session to ramp up on the various…

Come join this interactive session to learn how EMC technologies help customers to realize the full potential of Hyper-V. Technologies discussed include improved storage optimization and improved…

In Part 1 of this session you learn how to build a federated solution using Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) v2 and Microsoft SharePoint. In Part 2,learn how to build enhanced solutions by…

Secure applications must be able to “trust” the identity of users who are accessing the resources. It is simple to establish that trust when Active Directory Windows authentication is used. And,if the…

This is the second in a series of three sessions and provides a technical overview of the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 Server Fabric Lifecycle,covering VMM 2012 features which enable the…

With Operations Manager 2012 public beta almost here,this second in a series of four sessions will get you started by explaining the new Operations Manager 2012 configuration – without an RMS! We also…

The first of four sessions on Operations Manager 2012. The public beta is almost here – so be the first to see what is coming in the next generation of IT monitoring. This session provides you with an…

Configuration Manager 2012 promises to significantly improve application management for organizations of any size. In order to deliver this vision,the Application Model has been designed to provide…

Microsoft recently acquired AVIcode,and some of its key application monitoring technologies will soon be available in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012. However,many of the features are…

The power of Service Manager and its integrated platform means organizations can adapt their business processes and automate them using Service Manager and Opalis. This session discusses how Service…

See how the System Center Orchestrator and Service Manager tight integration allows you to build out system level integrations and orchestrations as part of your Process and Compliance requirements.

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

Two people responsible for testing security combine forces! Everybody has heard about ISO/OSI model. On every layer of this model you can conduct many attacks and at the same time protect yourself…

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. EMET achieves this by using security mitigation…

Get your cloak and wand. Open your books and prepare for all new lessons in defense against the dark arts. In his latest cybercrime session Andy Malone not only brings you up to date with the latest…

The move to cloud-based deployment of services will result in deployments which are partly on private on-premise clouds based on Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Hyper-V and partly…

Learn how Service Manager,through the power of its integrated platform makes it easy to implement change,incident and problem management. Learn how easy it is to create and maintain a baseline CMDB.…

This session focuses on what the Directory Synchronization tool is used for,and what will be available in V2 of the tool. We demo the tool and discuss when a company should use it in a…

The agility of Microsoft Access is valued by large organizations around the world. However,some of these same organizations struggle with managing the myriad of Access databases in use. Learn how…

Office is one of Microsoft’s best-selling,long-standing products with amazing surface area across many industries and sectors. So what does it mean to take Office 2010 to the cloud? And what does it…

Learn to use Microsoft InfoPath 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 to build form-centric composite applications. We show you a job applicant management application and then take you behind…

This session discusses how to scale document and records management workloads in SharePoint 2010. Learn what it takes to store an extremely large number of documents,and the considerations that must…

Search Driven Applications provide direct value for people in a wide variety of roles: research,operations,sales,consulting,etc. While there are many great examples of search-based applications,they…

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…

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

With Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 there are a number of ways to integrate with SAP to provide business solutions. Some of these ways to integrate are out-of-the-box and others are…

SharePoint and Silverlight make an unbeatable combination for building great web applications. In this session,learn how to develop these solutions more easily than ever with Microsoft Visual Studio…

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

Is SharePoint becoming an important part of your company’s overall IT offering? If so,it's likely that you have a need to better manage SharePoint business requests – things like new…

During the past few years,Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) has established itself as the fundamental technology to enable service orientation in the Microsoft platform. However,adopting WCF in…

Learn how Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the upcoming Windows Azure AppFabric CTP provide a great middle-tier platform for building,deploying,running and managing workflow solutions in Azure.…

WCF RIA Services provides a prescriptive architecture pattern for building N-tier Rich Internet Applications. It allows you to focus on your application functionality instead of spending time on…

The Unified Communications Managed API v3.0 is the foundation of the server side UC Platform. UCMA can be used by developers to deeply embed communications in business processes and to offer presence…

This breakout session looks at what can go wrong with some of the core modalities of Lync Server 2007 R2 such as IM/Presence and Conferencing,and how to determine and resolve those issues. We provide…

If you are involved in selling,consulting or supporting Lync Server 2010 in customer organizations,this session is for you. Understanding the details on how to set up and deploy Edge Servers is a key…

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

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…

Regulatory compliance drives the need to archive and retain messages sent within your Exchange environment. With increasing volumes of email being sent and received today,the ability to effectively…

Scrum,Feature Driven Development,extreme programing,DSDM,Test Driven Development,Business Driven Development,Kanban - wow,lots to choose from. Why choose one when you can take the best from all of…

Use cases are a well-recognized and standardized requirements technique. Under regular circumstances,projects apply use cases to model and describe the interaction between the users and the system.…

Visual Studio LightSwitch simplifies developing line-of-business applications and is extensible for future needs. In this demo-intensive session discover what is under the hood to better understand…

Given that you want to deliver high quality code,when you drive your entire software development lifecycle with tests – you will dramatically improve overall quality. Microsoft’s introduction of…

Are you a web developer or designer? Or are you just someone who is curious when a web page doesn’t act appropriately? Take advantage of your curiosity and use the developer tools that are available…

Developers love to make their web applications go fast. But do you know the real benefit of high performance websites? In a word,it's money. This session digs into the real revenue returns of high…

Like planning a trip into the mountains,developing offline/occasionally connected applications requires some up front thought. Planning what to take with you,and what you can do along the way.…

There’s an Open Source package manager for .NET available now called NuGet. It’s supported and shipping with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3,but it’s not just for ASP.NET. In fact,it’s not just for open…

Let's tackle moving a Windows Forms application to Silverlight. We cover the differences between the platforms and overall approaches,look at what is successful,and then run through an application…

Come hear Alex Turner,Program Manager for the Visual Basic and C# Compilers,describe the language innovations for the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio. See how the async language feature and…

Microsoft 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…

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides a wealth of functionality for figuring out what is happening with your application or even being able to debug what happened up to that point with IntelliTrace.…

In the SQL Server code-named “Denali” release,SQL Server Developer Tools,code-named "Juneau" will provide a brand-new developer experience for database developers,bringing a familiar Visual…

The Entity Framework is Microsoft’s recommended data access technology,for both on-premises and the cloud. In this session,see how to leverage the best of Entity Framework to build robust,real-world…

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

Join Jason Zander for a no-slides,just answers,Q&A session. Jason is the Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division,responsible for Microsoft Visual Studio. This is your opportunity to…

So many of the Silverlight demos show how to use Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework with WCF RIA Services. But what if you already have an extensive investment in your own business objects? This talk…

In this session we walk you through the steps to deploy a high availability solution using AlwaysOn. This is a demo-heavy presentation and the experts from the product development team walk you…

In this session,hear about innovative storage and data management strategies that are being used by leading organizations around the world to build highly efficient,flexible and reliable IT…

Do your users have the same old,mundane table reports they’ve been using for decades? Stop living in the past and make your reports pop. Learn to use design patterns,best practices and visuals that…

Deep dive into how and why to integrate SQL Server code-named “Denali” Reporting Services (SSRS) with SharePoint 2010,including an overview of the new claims-aware shared service architecture,IT…

PerformancePoint Services 2010 (PPS) is the next generation performance management application from Microsoft. It delivers a design environment targeted at power users for creating and deploying…

In 2010,Stein Mart deployed a Microsoft SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse and launched an aggressive effort to become an information-based culture leveraging the Microsoft Business Intelligence…

This session shows off the new features of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services in SQL Server code-named “Denali”. Using customer scenarios,we demonstrate the migration process and highlight the…

Become an expert on SQL Azure by learning how to best utilize the cloud database platform to your advantage. We show you the unique performance considerations to keep in mind when architecting your…

This session depicts some of the new features and architecture changes present in version 3.0 of SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehousing. Best practices derived from HP's extensive joint testing with…

Learn what are the current and future SQL Server Appliances and References Architectures that allow customers to deploy OLTP,DW,BI and Database consolidation solutions in a very short time,with all…

Microsoft SQL Server code-named “Denali” brings the simplicity and power of the PowerPivot technologies to corporate BI,and at the same time drives forward the PowerPivot self-service capabilities…

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

The Windows Azure AppFabric Composite Application service lets you easily build,deploy,run and manage applications that span application tiers and technologies. See how to build an application that…

This session shows you how to build applications that leverage DataMarket as part of Windows Azure Marketplace. We are going to introduce the development model for DataMarket and then immediately jump…

Windows Azure Storage is a scalable cloud storage service that provides the ability to store and manipulate blobs,structured non-relational entities,and persistent queues. In this session,learn…

Global Foundational Services (GFS) is the group that is the foundational platform for Microsoft’s search,advertising,live,cloud,and other online services including datacenters,networking,security,tier…

Without a doubt,you know how important it is to protect your Hyper-V environment,but what’s the best approach to take to ensure that environment is not only protected but also easily recoverable?…

This session is all about Penetration Testing. We demonstrate how to hack-proof your Windows environment with Microsoft tools and we Pen Test our systems with free but reliable products to have a Zero…

This is an advanced session that covers the operational aspects of a database availability group (DAG),including managing and activating mailbox database copies,lagged copies,database copy…

Microsoft Lync™ 2010 delivers unmatched tools for monitoring system health and performance across all platform capabilities in real-time as well as long term trends. The Microsoft Lync™ SCOM pack and…

Regulatory compliance drives the need to archive and retain messages sent within your Exchange environment. With increasing volumes of email being sent and received today,the ability to effectively…

For more than 30 years developers have been building software for small computers like the PC. Now a reinvigorated focus on user experience with rich client and rich internet application (RIA)…

Most of the time when we deploy practices in our Data Centers we are blind to the effect they will have in our operating environment. We have a very good indication that the result is worthwhile but…

JQuery turned the world on its ear. Do we still write JavaScript or do we just write jQuery? Damian answers that question with new JavaScript techniques and AJAX as well as some jQuery plugin…

As more browsers deliver rich support for the next generation of standards-based web development,new techniques are enabling web developers to design with unprecedented levels of control. In this…

Come see what’s new and exciting with the Silverlight 5 beta. Learn about features for business application development,visualization and casual gaming. In this demo- and code-focused developer…

Are you a Visual Basic developer,interested in building Windows Phone applications that scale with your user base? Come to this demo-packed session and learn tips to develop these applications. Start…

Test automation with Visual Studio has never looked so good! In this session we take a detailed look at coded UI tests,which can be used to create fully automated UI tests for Microsoft…

Ever since the drag and drop designer changed user interface construction,the way developers have built GUIs has been changing. HTML and XAML now permeate the world of Microsoft user interface design.…

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services allows developers to produces cubes which,when designed well,can deliver intuitive,feature-rich and highly-performant data models. In many ways they are a key…

Come and learn how SQL Server fits into your company's strategy on virtualization and private cloud. We talk talk about SQL Server feautures that are relevant in virtualization and private cloud…

Some of us take elasticity,scalability,reliability and availability for granted in the cloud,but latency is not that simple. In this session we look at reducing latency through asynchronous design…

As an update from his DirectAccess implementation and integration deep dive from Tech·Ed 2010,Rand Morimoto,author and Microsoft MVP walks through the step-by-step process of implementing DirectAccess…

It is now common knowledge that Active Directory is widely deployed across all types of businesses. After more than a decade of deploying and managing Active Directory,you might well imagine that…

SANs offer great performance in return for perceived complexity and expense. Many IT pros incorrectly equate SAN with Fibre Channel,but iSCSI offers an alternative that is widely available. Microsoft…

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

Learn about what makes Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering the #1 Server High-Availability solution! Clustering has changed in every area since 2003,so in this technical…

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

This session is for IT pros who want to learn about Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering for the first time. Learn how to build a highly-available File Server and Hyper-V…

In this session we talk about the various hardware configurations that support RemoteFX as well as deployment considerations for your environment.

Windows Phone has the unique ability to provide the end user direct access to the information they care most about,via Live Tiles. In the next release of Windows Phone,we’ll be substantially improving…

One of the most exciting new features coming to the next update for is the support for multi-tasking of applications and the ability for users to switch quickly between running third-party…

Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Phone brings more of the web to life on the small screen so you can easily see things and play on the web. Internet Explorer Mobile supports HTML5,CSS3,and SVG,and uses…

Developing applications for Windows Phone is efficient and easy,thanks to an excellent suite of free development and design tools. To get the most out of your day-to-day work,it is important to…

Windows Phone presents developers and organizations with the ability to reach thousands of users and the opportunity to extend their reach and monetize their applications using Windows Phone…

Come and see what Windows Embedded can do in the Connected Media space. During this demo-intense and interactive session,see what devices running Windows Embedded can do.

Internet Explorer 9 provides the premiere modern enterprise browser experience: fast,clean,and trusted. In this demo-heavy session,we will cover the impressive performance of IE9,including javascript…

This session provides a overview and demo of Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring which will provide an enterprise solution for BitLocker provisioning,monitoring and key recovery.

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

Deploying Microsoft operating systems using WDS is a snap if you know the most common mistakes and issues that are made and how to resolve them. In this session,learn about PXE boot issues… why they…

Microsoft has a secret weapon to ensure that your whole team works together when it comes to Group Policy management. In this session,learn why a "change management" for Group Policy is…

New desktop technologies such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) are causing many to consider re-architecting their desktop infrastructure. In this session we show the progression of the Thin…

This session demonstrates how to generate and use Group Policy Resultant Set of Policy reports that can assist in troubleshooting a user or computer configuration problem. Learn how to use the Group…

Consumerization is driving profound changes in how businesses think about IT. Employee-owned devices,consumer services,and a blurring of traditional work/life boundaries are all shaping how we conduct…

As VDI adoption grows and stabilizes,customers are now looking to reduce their end point costs with thin client computing. Thin clients offer benefits such as lower power consumption and better device…

Learn about the key resources,tips and tricks to building images in minutes and deploying them in hours. This session focuses on the pre- and post-deployment gotchas as well as the key tools like…

Ever wish Windows XP Mode actually redelivered your old configured Windows XP environment,with all of your old potentially incompatible applications,Internet Explorer 6 and the Internet Explorer…

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track delivers the quickest path to Private Cloud via pre-validated configurations from Microsoft and server partners. Originally announced at Tech·Ed Europe in November of…

Learn how HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V works under the covers. What is a template? What is a workflow? How has HP enhanced standard Matrix templates and workflows with PowerShell scripts. How does…

In this session we look at the core Hybrid Cloud topologies capable with Windows Azure and Windows Server Private Cloud Architecture. We showcase bridging the two environments together and how you can…

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

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

In this session,learn how user virtualization will enable you to deploy a consistent desktop experience and synchronize desktops,apps and data across PCs,laptops and tablets - and mobile devices too…

Given the ever-rising adoption and deployment of embedded devices in the enterprise,business owners and administrators have been calling for administrative,management and reporting solutions that can…

This session outlines approaches and best practices to improve the quality of identity data (users and groups) in your on-premises Active Directory,leveraging Forefront Identity Manager integrating…

Configuration Manager 2012 is now in Beta 2! By now you have hopefully had a chance to experience the beta of the next release of Configuration Manager,the world’s leading systems management toolset.…

Offering highly available services in the datacenter depends among other things on adherence to best practices and awareness of the latest patches and updates. More information on managing your server…

Configuration Manager 2012 is now in Beta 2! A strong engineering investment has been made in optimizing the site and hierarchy architecture for the Configuration Manager 2012 release. This session…

Join us to discover what is new in application monitoring for Microsoft customers through the recently acquired AVIcode technologies,as well as other solutions from our partner community in extending…

The next generation of Data Protection Manager (DPM) is on the way. While there is still some time before Beta,this is your first chance to look at what is coming in backup and recovery from System…

Typically,Data Protection Manager (DPM) is thought of as a ‘Datacenter’ solution. But with up to 60% of corporate data often residing individual desktops,it is important that DPM be discussed in…

This first session in a series of three provides a scenario-based,rich,detailed walk through of new and more robust networking and storage features in Virtual Machine Manager 2012. In this…

Come and learn about best practices to protect your email,using Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). Learn how to integrate your on-premises FPE for Hybrid Protection scenarios.

Learn about how Microsoft Forefront Protection Server Management Console and Forefront Protection Server Script Kit can help enterprise customers with large deployments of Microsoft Office SharePoint…

Join us for a lap around Forefront Identity Manager and the updates we are making in an upcoming R2 release. This session should give you a good understanding of how FIM 2010 and FIM 2010 R2 fits into…

Come and learn how Forefront Online Protection for Exchange 11.1 and Office 365 provides new scenarios to protect customers against viruses and spam while using advanced routing scenarios.

The Windows Azure Access Control Service 2.0 provides comprehensive federation and authorization services for cloud applications,so that you don't have to build identity infrastructure yourself. Come…

Signing users in and granting them access is a core function of almost every cloud-based application. In this session we show you how to simplify your user experience by enabling users to sign in with…

As the world grows more connected,demand is increasing for easy,secure ways to collaborate across companies and over the Internet using familiar tools and applications. In this session learn how to…

This session provides a deep dive into the protection capabilities provided by the Microsoft antimalware platform,which is included in Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010. Learn how Microsoft…

Security-conscious organizations often lock down their systems based on prescriptive guidance from Microsoft,US Federal government agencies or other security organizations. Sometimes these settings…

With millions of bits of your data transmitted over the airwaves every day,it’s critical that your wireless security solution is rock solid. In this intriguing 75min session Andy Malone takes you on a…

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 is designed to deliver industry-leading virtual machine management,deployment and configuration for services in private cloud environments. It features…

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

Identity and Access will be critical elements of the next big computing waves: cloud,collaboration,and consumerization. At Microsoft we’ve been thinking about challenges and opportunities for identity…

Why go to the GUI when the command-line capabilities of Tshark or tcpdump may be all you need to capture files to file sets,use a ring buffer,apply capture filters,extract specific fields,export…

Online applications such as Microsoft Office 365,Windows Intune,or Salesforce.com offer significantly lower cost of ownership and hold the promise of freeing up IT resources for business-critical…

This session will talk about customizations that can be made to Fast Search for SharePoint both at the backend and front-end to drive great search experiences.

Desktop IT pros are faced with several methods to deliver Microsoft Office to client computers. Office offers a wide range of deployment options,ranging from the well proven setup program MSI…

Over the years,businesses have embraced Microsoft Office for their business solutions for its ease of use and broad feature set. Now with Office Services in Microsoft SharePoint 2010,Windows…

SharePoint and CRM is a match made in heaven! With Dynamics CRM 2011 & CRM Online,Microsoft provides out-of-box document integration with SharePoint 2010 but customers are increasingly looking for…

This session looks at integrating HTML (including 5) into your SharePoint 2010 development projects. HTML along with jQuery,OData and the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model gives you a very…

Many companies are beginning to use Windows Azure and looking to integrate SharePoint with Windows Azure. In this session,we’ll explore three primary ways that these technologies come together:…

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

This session addresses your questions about moving from the current version of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS-S) to the next version,Office 365. It highlights key areas…

Take your SharePoint business applications on the go with Windows Phone. Windows Phone has great integration with SharePoint via the Microsoft Office hub,but how do access your custom line-of-business…

This session walks through key scenarios to understand when deploying ECM across the your organization. It discusses pros and cons for some common deployment questions and helps you understand what…

Beginning with Law #1: “Thou Shalt secure the entire stack from Level 1 to 7”,you will see there is more to securing SharePoint than permissions and locking down IIS. Come to this session to learn…

At PDC 2010,the Windows Azure AppFabric team provided customers with the first glimpse into the future of Service Bus. Since then,we've wrapped up another milestone on our way and will soon be…

Join us for a discussion about the future investments we should be making in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF),the Microsoft services stack. Discuss the opportunities and challenges with building…

Today with the influx of devices and move to the cloud,it is becoming more and more common for organizations to expose their systems over HTTP in a lightweight and RESTFul manner. You CAN use Windows…

This session focuses on a methodology for capacity planning,discussing various parameters (such as workload mix,type of data,deployment topology,etc.) that affect distributed cache cluster setup and…

Middleware is a critical component in most business applications today and Microsoft has a broad range of products and technologies in this space to use in building distributed applications. The Cloud…

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 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 reviews these new…

This session continues the 10+ year tradition of the Exchange Server Tips and Tricks presentation. In this session,get information on how to get more out of Exchange 2010 SP1. This deck is packed…

Exchange 2010 deployments often encounter teams wanting to share resources (such as storage,a hypervisor layer,network infrastructure,etc). Learn about the concept of failure domains and how to apply…

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

Many production Exchange deployments are virtualized in order to achieve better utilization of hardware or align with datacenter deployment standards. As a critical server application,it's important…

This session walks you through the capabilities of the Lync 2010 client SDK. We demonstrate how easy it is to embed Lync 2010 functionality in your Windows or Microsoft Silverlight application,as well…

Cloud computing offers a number of useful services including Software as a Service (Saas),Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Companies can leverage these services in…

This session offers a discussion of how usage of multiple cloud solutions enables large enterprises to be successful in adopting cloud computing,as well as a review of challenges that go with it.

Software developers have always had the power to reduce (or inflate) Software Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Architectural decisions and developer skills have had only an indirect impact on the…

You have invested a lot of your career into learning and building solutions on the Microsoft platform. But your customers are asking for solutions that target iPhone,iPad,and Android devices. Now…

Many teams build software that does not behave as expected by their stakeholders. Teams that build valuable software need more than written specifications to ensure the value of that software. Agile…

New UI technologies increase user expectations,and developers need to ramp up better design sensibilities to help meet that challenge. Billy Hollis distills out the most important concepts and ideas…

High functioning teams are alike,but each dysfunctional team is dysfunctional in its own way. As you know,software development is a function of tools,process and culture (people). Sure,the wrong tools…

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

Often overlooked as a potential development time-saver,customizing Visual Studio has never been easier,with Visual Studio 2010. From the old familiar Macro system all the way to custom Packages,Visual…

Orchard is a free,open-source Web Content Management platform built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and built with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. In this session we create a real public facing…

Microsoft ASP.NET is greater than WebForms,just as ASP.NET is greater than ASP.NET MVC. As MVC evolves so does WebForms. Join Damian Edwards for a tour of new features in the next version of ASP.NET…

The IViewEngine is a fantastic extensibility point. The two view engines built into MVC and many third party options are all based on this simple interface. In this session you will learn how to…

If you are an experienced Microsoft ASP.NET developer who has yet to discover the benefits of the new Web Deploy feature in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010,this session is for you. You have…

Whenever doing blocking tasks,particularly service calls in a Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client,you will need to make those calls asynchronously. While async calls have been…

Learn how to set up,configure,and manage IIS 7 and IIS 7.5. Microsoft made significant changes in IIS 7. Everything from architectural changes,setup process,plug-in architecture,security…

Most projects start from an existing code base – whether you are enhancing an existing application or re-writing an application to modernize it. In either case,the documentation for the existing…

One area that people simply don’t talk often enough about is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for Visual C++ development teams. ALM tools are critical for…

Do you ever have the feeling that the technology evolves faster than you are assimilating it? Do you ever wonder how you will develop applications tomorrow,or how the new many-core processors will…

Code First has been incredibly popular since its release,and in this session we take a deep dive into how it works. See how Code First uses convention over configuration to improve developer…

Traditional status reporting is about as accurate as a fairgrounds fortune teller,and worse,it takes too much effort and time! Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 can help! Its’ built in…

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

Are too many branches leaving you tired and overworked? Not quite sure where your code is? Does your teammate keep overwriting your code? Learn how to set up solid branching structures and perform…

Windows 7 development in managed code can be very simple,especially for those using the Windows API Code Pack. But there's more! Your integration with Windows 7 doesn't have to be limited to simple…

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 introduced a host of new features for building parallel applications that leverage the full power of today's multicore CPUs. In this session we…

Confused about how to get started using Microsoft Silverlight? Have you attended Silverlight sessions only to find out that they are doing all this graphics stuff and you need to write a business…

Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs? Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other? Is it difficult to determine which tests are most…

The purpose of this session is to highlight issues,best practices and lessons learned from a select group of SQL Server Enterprise customers. Some example of the customer projects we cover in this…

Understanding when to search for performance problems and how to tune your queries to correct them is one of the most persistent questions that face DBAs. Join Adam and Mike to explore a methodology…

Learn how you can utilize the power of Excel and Excel Services BI features to easily create a compelling BI solution using the tools you already know.

Microsoft Data Warehousing brings you a solid offering that provides the right data warehousing solution for customer needs and workloads. In this session,learn about Reference Architectures using…

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

See a live demo of how Microsoft IT is distributing terabytes of data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse to various business and IT groups at Microsoft using SQL Azure cloud and on-premise platform.…

The cornerstone of any enterprise application is the ability to backup and restore data. In this session we focus on the various options available to application developers and administrators of SQL…

This talk describes a new data warehouse SQL query acceleration feature in Microsoft SQL Server code-named "Denali" based on a new type of index called the columnstore. This new…

This session covers real-life customer deployment scenarios to achieve high availability (99.99+) and disaster recovery (regional and distant),lessons learned,and associated best practices. The…

Microsoft SQL Server "Denali" has many new features and enhancements. With a focus on manageability,this session tours new features including Contained Databases,Distributed Replay…

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces StreamInsight,a comprehensive platform for building event-driven applications. While typical relational database applications are query-driven,event-driven…

Microsoft SQL Server code-named “Denali” introduces many new features and enhancements for both IT professionals and business users. This session provides an end-to-end introduction and demonstrations…

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

In Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2,we introduced PowerPivot which is a self-service Business Intelligence experience that enables information workers to build,share and collaborate on their personal and…

Master Data Services (MDS) was released in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and enables organizations to do a better job of managing key data assets. In the next release of SQL Server,it will be even…

If you want to get a broad overview of the range of capabilities that are being delivered in Windows Azure AppFabric,this session is for you. AppFabric is a set of middle-tier building block services…

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

You have been building applications on the Microsoft platform for years. You master ASP.NET,SQL Server,Active Directory,and the .NET framework. What does the Windows Azure Platform represent? What are…

This session is jam-packed with hands-on demonstrations lighting up SQL Azure with new and existing applications. We start with the steps to creating a SQL Azure account and database,then walk through…

App-V has always been a great way to deploy applications on RDS machines. The latest App-V release is compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2 and also has a “shared cache” feature added for use in VDI…

The software industry is in a deep crisis. Projects suffer from low quality,schedule slips and cost overruns are common. But this is hardly ordained,since there are plenty of examples of projects done…

This session provides IT pros as well as developers the latest updates on what is new in the Windows Phone platform. For IT pros,we cover how to integrate Windows Phone into your existing on-premises…

Join us for an overview of how Microsoft can help IT operations evolve to embrace cloud computing,how you can enable the efficiency and flexibility of the private cloud,and how you can optimize,secure…

This session walks through the steps required to take branding elements from an existing website and apply it to SharePoint. The goal is to migrate an existing site to SharePoint and have it maintain…

This session compares the architectural patterns of Model-View-Controller (MVC),Model-View-Presenter (MVP) and Model-View-View Model (MVVM). Each pattern creates testable,maintainable and reusable…

Familiar with the database functionality of Microsoft SQL Server or the collaboration functionality of Microsoft SharePoint,but have not had the chance to explore the broad and integrated Business…

In this session,Laura lists numerous "unusual" communication patterns and demonstrates how to configure Wireshark to easily spot these issues. From black hole detection packets to…

Your job as IT administrator is all about applications and data. You need to protect your users' data,and you need to ensure access to it via applications. But today's workforce requires us to make…

The packets never lie! When Fred whines and cries about network performance,it's time to whip out your Wireshark,baby. As the world's foremost network analyzer tool with over 400,000 downloads a month…

This session showcases the Hyper-V R2 HealthCheck process available to help you follow best practices,detect and remediate possible errors or improvements within your Hyper-V R2 environments.

Ever wonder how we manage to deliver high-scale internet video broadcasts like Sunday Night Football,Vancouver Olympics and PDC broadcasts? Come and hear from one of the team leads on these projects…

This session takes a look at the Windows Azure Platform from an IT pro perspective. We provide a brief overview of the Windows Azure Platform featuring the recently announced changes to the platform…

Your Business Intelligence solution is ready for prime-time but will it perform well? Join this session to learn techniques for testing the performance and scalability of Microsoft SQL Server…

If you have not yet adopted .NET Framework 4,or if you already did but you're not positive you're leveraging all it has to offer,this session is for you! This unique session provides an overview of…

With the advent of cloud computing,enhanced service offerings from external providers,and consumer-class expectations of the business community,IT departments are being forced to evolve swiftly. This…

Want to learn how to build great UX and still use development patterns such as Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)? This session shows how to take advantage of design time data,visual states,and animations in…

Does your organization have Oracle,Sybase,MySQL or Access databases that you like to migrate to SQL Server or SQL Azure? Do you know that Microsoft offers a free tool to automate database migration?…

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a flexible and powerful platform for building service-oriented applications. With the improvements to WCF made in Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio…

This session covers the RemoteFX / VDI technologies included in SP1 where Rand Morimoto,an early adopter to SP1 with over a year-and-a-half of production experience with the release,shares…

SharePoint 2010 is the premier BI portal solution. In this session learn how business users can be empowered to create self-service analytic applications by harnessing the power of SharePoint. Topics…

The popularity of agile software development processes and methodologies is imminent and fast growing. Many organizations and projects turn towards agile to help solve the problems of traditional…

Cloud-based infrastructure solutions can now be delivered at an affordable price,bringing enterprise-class functionality,reliability and security within the reach of virtually every small and midsized…

Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 is your gateway to the cloud,but has strong dependencies on your on-premise infrastructure. Join us as we dissect how to deploy and manage ADFS 2.0 as a…

The cloud has many possibilities and advantages for your Business Intelligence deployments,enhancing and even simplifying your on-premises environments. In this demo-packed session,we go over the…

This session continues the 10+ year tradition of the Exchange Server Tips and Tricks presentation. In this session,get information on how to get more out of Exchange 2010 SP1. This deck is packed…

Windows Phone is an important tool for personal productivity and collaboration. Learn what is new in Office Mobile,how it integrates with Exchange Server,Microsoft SharePoint Server,and Office 365. To…

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 is the next generation to Forefront Client Security. It is built on System Center Configuration Manager to provide centralized,simplified management of endpoint…

Configuration Manager has layers upon layers of functionality such that even the most experienced admins discover new twists and quirks on a regular basis. This session presents in detail some of the…

The first of four sessions on Operations Manager 2012. The public beta is almost here – so be the first to see what is coming in the next generation of IT monitoring. This session provides you with an…

System Center is the management platform for the datacenter and offers customers a way to deliver well managed IT services from their datacenters. Cloud is another place for our customers to run some…

Many database applications today need to manage not only tabular relational data,but documents,images,objects such as spatial objects etc. In fact,80% or more of the data produced and stored are…

The Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) is one of the most popular tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Come learn why it's so popular and learn the amazing new features we are…

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2,allowing customers to use their existing client management infrastructure to deploy and manage endpoint…

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

This session focuses on leveraging the protection and recovery capabilities of Data Protection Manager (DPM) in large datacenters. We look at how DPM protects and recovers application workloads such…

Organizations have started using services such as Microsoft Office 365 and Windows Azure but are worried about security and how to manage identities and provide access. This session goes through how…

In this session,we run through how Opalis is being used internally within Microsoft,explain what the adoption process has been,the scenarios we are targeting and what we have learned.

In the SQL Server code-named “Denali” release,SQL Server Developer Tools,code-named "Juneau" will provide a brand-new developer experience for database developers by bringing a familiar…

Agile software development emphasizes that some increment of business value be delivered every iteration. How can this happen when your iterations are two weeks in length and you estimate it will take…

Learn how to use the Virtual Machine Role on Windows Azure. We’ll demonstrate best practices for building and uploading customized OS images and deploying and managing services using those images.

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

Exchange Server 2010 SP2 is due out later this year and there’s no better way to understand and be prepared for what it has to offer than to hear directly from one of the team members working on it!…

Oh yes. Building web applications on the Microsoft stack continues to evolve. There are lots of great tools to leverage,but it can be difficult to keep up with all the options. In this technical and…

The Optimized Desktop enables flexibility of provisioning and managing by benefitting from integration between Windows 7,the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP),Microsoft Forefront and…

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 provides guidance for individuals responsible for coordinating and performing customer deployment and migration activities related to migrating customers from their current environment to…

In this session we walk through the new T-SQL-related features that are being delivered in the next version of SQL Server. We show off some cool demos as well as describe the use-cases that these…

All the way from building a thin client device to deploying it in an infrastructure,detailing some great features such as RemoteFX supported by Windows Embedded Operating Systems,this session shows…

Rich in demos,this session presents top reasons to upgrade to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 versions of Reporting Services. Use this information to convince your boss that it's time…

Lync Online is Microsoft’s cloud communications service and a key component of Microsoft Office 365. Come to this session to understand which Lync capabilities will be available in the cloud. The…

SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) is a Knowledge-Driven Data Quality product aimed at the data stewards and IT professionals who seek to improve the quality of their business data. In this…

SQL Azure provides an information platform that you can easily provision,configure and use to power your cloud applications. In this session we explore the patterns and practices that help you develop…

This session takes a deep dive into 20 tools to help you Pilot,Deploy and Manage Windows 7 in your environment. We cover everything from automated end user learning programs,ready-baked deployment…

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

Lessons learned in the past year have enabled the Silverlight team to substantially improve the Silverlight framework and runtime on Windows Phone from top to bottom. In this session we give you the…

This informative and demo-filled session provides an overview of SharePoint Online,and as much detail as we can fit into one hour.

With so many new Windows Server releases,small and medium businesses can sometimes struggle to know which server platform is best. Do they need an entry-level server,an appliance,an integrated…

In a competitive professional market,smart people take a long-term perspective by investing in their professional development. The bottom line is that certification helps IT professionals get jobs and…

Join this overview of Tech·Ed. We explain the major components of the event and how to take advantage of all that is offered. Whether it is your first Tech·Ed or your 19th,there’s always something to…

This session helps you understand how to bring Lync 2010 to market.

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

This session gives you a great overview of what Windows Embedded delivers to enable next generation retail solutions. Point of sale machines,digital signage,kiosks,handheld devices,server…

Join Mikael Nystrom and Johan Arwidmark in this session that shares the joy of the Offline Servicing Stack in Windows. Learn about the Offline Servicing Stack and the tools to use it in Windows 7 and…

In this demo-intensive session we look at how the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack solves many common pain points that IT professionals deal with. From Virtualization technologies like Application…

Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. But taking advantage of the shift requires understanding this new approach and how to exploit it. In this…

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

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

Security and management are core to delivering optimized desktop experiences to users – and Microsoft is working to deliver the best user and IT experience on the market. Today,Microsoft System Center…

This session is for IT pros who want to learn about Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering for the first time. Learn how to build a highly-available File Server and Hyper-V…

Learn about Microsoft’s end-to-end virtualization strategy - from the desktop to the datacenter to the cloud. In this overview session we review how Microsoft virtualization products/technologies can…

This session is born of the hard lessons learned from years of working with diverse companies using metrics to improve their software development processes. Come learn from my successes and be warned…

In this session we talk about the new high availability solution that is being introduced in SQL Server code-named "Denali". The session provides an overview of AlwaysOn and introduces the…

Come see what’s new and exciting with the Silverlight 5 beta. Learn about features for business application development,visualization and casual gaming. In this demo- and code-focused developer…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

Foundational Sessions bridge the general topics outlined in the keynote address and the in-depth coverage in breakout sessions by sharing the company’s vision,strategy and roadmap for particular…

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

Hear from the C#,Visual Basic,and F# language designers themselves,about how we create the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft. Where do we get ideas? How do we incorporate new paradigms without…

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from two senior Microsoft leaders -- Corporate Vice President,Server and Tools Marketing,Robert Wahbe and Corporate Vice President,Visual Studio,Jason Zander -- as…