Windows PowerShell v3 is here, and it is delivering on Microsoft's promise to make nearly everything in Windows manageable from the command-line. Are you finally going to learn the shell, or learn to…

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

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

Windows Corporate Vice President Antoine Leblond discusses Windows 8, Windows 8 Metro style apps for the enterprise, Windows Store and more. Lots of great of demos of the latest version of Microsoft's…

This session takes a deep technical dive into the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) architecture and new features coming in Windows Server 2012. CSV is now a full-blown clustered file system, and all…

In this session led by PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks and Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz, we discuss techniques for analyzing Group Policy objects to identify potential problems. We look at ways to…

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

In Windows Server 2012 there will be new ways to monitor application health state and have recovery inside of a virtual machine. This session details the new VM Monitoring feature in Windows Server…

This session provides a technical drilldown into the new Scale Out File Server for file-based storage with Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server. For the first time Microsoft will have a zero…

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

Do your customers use VMware? Do they think converting VMs to Hyper-V is a complicated, labor-intensive process? Do you know customers can automatically migrate thousands of VMs with the click of a…

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

Windows Server 2012 dramatically increases the scalability, flexibility, and availability of your storage environment. It also provides new ways to manage your storage environment including single…

Windows Server 2012 provides the most highly cloud-optimized operating system available today. VPN site-to-site technology enables cross-premise connectivity between enterprises and hosting service…

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

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

Did you know you can use Windows Server 2012 SMB 3.0 shares to store your Microsoft SQL Server data? And now Windows Server 2012 can extend SMB remote storage support with a host of new features…

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

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

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

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

In this session we discuss in detail how to deploy DNSSEC in the Enterprise. We cover zone signing, validation, and last mile security. We also discuss using validation to protect the network edge.…

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

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

Today, patch management is a required component of any security strategy. In Windows Server 2012, the new Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) feature delivers Continuous Availability through automated…

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

Join us to explore the ins-and-outs of planning and deploying a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Private Cloud running Microsoft System Center 2012 products! This session examines the entire process of…

As cloud computing is becoming an emerging vehicle for IT to deliver services, private cloud has been perplexing IT professionals. The confusion between virtualization and private cloud, the…

Get ready for this demo-packed session from Maarten Goet, five-year System Center MVP, who shows you in this session how you really can build a private cloud using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and…

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

Windows Server 2012 introduces two important new features, Storage Spaces and the Resilient File System (ReFS), that empower customers to build resilient, scalable, available, and high performance…

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

It is complex and expensive to manage the enterprise IP address space due to proliferation of net enabled devices, adoption of technologies like virtualization and IPv6, and also due to the impending…

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

Learn how Windows Server 2012 makes enterprise-level storage possible for small and midsize businesses—without the enterprise-class price tag. In this session, we describe how to design and implement…

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

The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is the file sharing protocol that is used by default on Windows computers. To support this, Windows Server 2012 now provides a vast set of new SMB features with…

With the new DirectAccess and Remote Access enhancements, you can easily provide more secure remote access connections for your users, and then log reports for monitoring and troubleshooting those…

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

In this session we cover the new storage innovation in Windows Server 2012 by showing intelligent storage offloading (ODX), an overview of the storage integration between Windows Server 2012 and…

Understand how to accelerate deployments of Microsoft Private Cloud Infrastructures with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track configurations from EMC. Learn how you can confidently transition your…

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

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

Customer Group Policy Implementations have grown and morphed over the years to perform a variety of Windows configuration management tasks. Today many customers find themselves with many, many GPOs,…

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

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

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

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

Both Johan Arwidmark and Mikael Nystrom have been doing deployment for many years, (Johan started in the era of 5¼” floppy and Mikael started in the era of 8” floppy) in many very different…

Say you've written an incredible PowerShell command or script. How do you leverage that as a tool across your entire organization? Learn to turn those commands and scripts into tools that can be…

Remoting is a foundation feature in Windows PowerShell, and is poised to become one of the most important protocols on your network, especially for remote client management and support. Do you know…

Are you interested in getting started with application compatibility? Have you been doing app compat for a while and just looking to discover some new tips on how to troubleshoot and fix existing…

Learn how Microsoft Client Management products, Configuration Manager and Windows Intune will leverage Windows 8 new features and platforms to further enhance enterprise customer’s embracement of…

Consumer purchased technologies are increasingly being used to access corporate resources. Learn how Windows Intune is keeping IT on the front line by providing the highest level of service to these…

Want more out of your Group Policy? See how you can unlock the power of Group Policy in your organization and reduce administrative overhead. This session includes a number of demos that can make you…

Cloud Computing is changing the way we manage PCs in the enterprise. In this session we take a deep dive exploration into the cloud based Windows management solution. We explore all the security…

How can Enterprise-level companies benefit from Windows Intune? In this session, Windows Expert - IT Pro MVP David Nudelman shares his experiences with Windows Intune in large corporations.

Windows 7 performance is great in all its glory, but there are many things you can do with your corporate server infrastructure to boost performance on your client machines even more. In this session,…

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…

Many involved with networking are declaring 2012 the year of IPv6. This presentation is focused on an introduction to IPv6 and how to start using it quickly. Topics covered include IPv6 addresses,…

When everything works, Windows 7 deployment is great. But what about when things break? In this session, we look at common causes and solutions for failed Windows 7 deployments, looking at issues with…

When deploying Windows 7 to existing machines, you need to ensure that all the users' data and settings are migrated. While much of this is gathered automatically by USMT, additional customization may…

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit will be released soon! Learn about all the new features and enhancements in this version, including support for Microsoft System Center 2012…

Join Mikael Nystrom and Johan Arwidmark in a dazzling session on using the right tools for deploying Windows. They navigate you through the current deployment tools that Microsoft provides and help…

One of the biggest challenges of Windows deployment is dealing with device drivers. Meet Johan Arwidmark and Michael Niehaus sharing their lessons learned around handling device drivers in the…

Learn how Microsoft IT and other enterprises have found and fixed top causes of slow boots and logons. We can measure boot in terms of coffee cups (or you can measure user productivity losses in…

Most organizations have a large collection of existing software assets, which continue to drive enormous value. While the compatibility infrastructure of the Microsoft stack provides ways to continue…

Deploying Desktop Virtualization is becoming one of the top priorities for our customers, but they want to understand which technology best addresses their pain points and where to start. Join us to…

Come join us to learn more about Microsoft’s strategy for securing Windows PCs. In this session we talk about our approach to desktop security and how a comprehensive security solution can be achieved…

Windows 8 has been designed from the ground up to be fundamentally resistant to threats such as malware. Come join us to learn how Microsoft secures the Windows code, core, boot, and desktop with…

Total workstation lockdown isn’t for every machine in your organization but some machines require it. It’s usually those "public walk up" machines that we need to manage a little bit…

Whether you are managing your own or assisting a customer with a desktop deployment project, you can’t avoid the conversation around application compatibility. How should you put together a solution?…

In this session we will discuss the business capabilities of Windows RT (Windows on ARM) devices. We will talk about the Windows RT capabilities from business angle - e.g., user experience,…

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0, introduces the ability to automate Sequencing, Client, and Server components through PowerShell. In this demo-rich session, learn how to use…

Private Cloud Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman leads this session discussing Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Failover Clustering design, infrastructure planning and…

Ever wonder if you've made mistakes with your VDI or RDS environment? You might be surprised. With so many moving parts, Remote Desktop Services and VDI atop Hyper-V are ripe candidates for…

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

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

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

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

Building on Part 1, the second part of What's new in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V continues to show a complete summary of why Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is the best virtualization platform for server…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Together, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 provide powerful solutions to build private clouds and enhance your datacenter. This session overviews the new enhancements within System…

Wondering how you can leverage Windows Server Active Directory PowerShell to achieve certain tasks and maximum efficiency on your job? In this demo-packed session, learn how to use new and existing…

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

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

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

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

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

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

This session introduces the new Directory Graph API, a REST-based API that enables access to Windows Azure Active Directory (Directory for Office 365 Tenants and Azure customers). We review the data…

With .NET 4.5, WIF gets a major update and is now directly part of .NET itself. Every Principal class in .NET now derives from ClaimsPrincipal, making claims ubiquitous in every .NET application. This…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smart phones, slates, tablets. The increasing proliferation of these new and increasingly sophisticated smart devices is simply mind boggling. But just what are the security implications of allowing…

Join us to learn how Windows 8 has been built from the ground up to be malware resistant by design. In this discussion we provide an overview of our end-to-end malware resistance strategy and then we…

From our ongoing dialog with our customers we've learned that they are eager to understand the dynamics of the malware ecosystem and antimalware solutions. The evolving malware industry poses great…

Wireless is getting more and more interesting as a primary communication channel for many of our users and devices today, including an increasing number of mobile devices such as tablets and phones,…

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

Penetration testing is an important part of improving security in any network environment. A hacker usually only needs to find one or a very few weaknesses in order to compromize important IT-systems.…

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

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

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

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

Windows Azure Active Directory provides easy-to-use, multi-tenant identity management services for applications running in the cloud and on any device and any platform. In this session, developers,…

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

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

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

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

Security is a top priority when considering moving applications to the cloud. Does Windows Azure provide the rock-solid security required for the most sensitive data and applications? How do you…

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. Today…

As customers contemplate cloud migrations and request insight and direction, their top-level cloud trust needs have remained consistent: They demand that vendors offer credible explanations for how…

Take advantage of the Ribbon in your SharePoint applications for a tightly integrated and great user experience! Developers can customize and extend the Ribbon for custom solutions. In this session we…

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

Have you considered connecting Microsoft SharePoint to Windows Live ID, Windows Azure or more than one Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)? In this session, we discuss some things to consider…

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

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

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

Search-based solutions are applications that use a search page as the primary interface, such as image or travel search in Bing. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 offers developers new ways to extend search…

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

In a world where SharePoint is a dominant collaboration platform, a common question is how do Windows Azure and SharePoint play together? You’d be surprised at the number of ways in which you can tie…

This session from the SharePoint product team provides a set of best practices for designing, developing, deploying, and operating large Internet sites built on SharePoint for Internet Sites 2007 and…

Are you interested in deploying Microsoft Project Server 2010, but don't know where to start? In this session we provide you with an overview on how to deploy Project Server 2010 in a SharePoint 2010…

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

Office 365 can simplify your environment considerably, but often you need to navigate a complex and unique IT environment to get there. You may be stuck on a legacy platform or maintain a mish-mash of…

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

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

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

Office deployment in large organizations can be a daunting task. Many tools exist to make life easier, but how do you get the most out of them? This session is a deep dive into various Office…

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

After a long week of sessions, sit back and relax while desktop deployment gurus battle to prove who knows most about the dirty details of deploying Windows and Microsoft Office using tools like…

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

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

Learn how Microsoft Project Server 2010 leverages existing SharePoint BI tools to provide elegant reporting options to the enterprise. Attend this presentation to see how Project Server data may be…

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

Microsoft’s internal SharePoint services currently provides 180,000 global users a comprehensive collaboration experience hosting 36 terabytes of content across three regional data centers. Learn how…

In this demo-heavy session we explore the tightly integrated support for SharePoint development in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. See the built-in support in Visual Studio for creating the most common…

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

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

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

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

Recently Microsoft has expanded the reach of Excel Services by allowing developers to use the Excel Services JavaScript object model on any website to access and manipulate Excel workbooks stored on…

What separates the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform from the competition? Be armed with the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 integrated analytics platform that allows your customers to…

Today, many of you will be virtualizing your workloads with VMware vSphere, but organizations wishing to move to the private cloud are looking beyond just VMware’s technologies. In this session, we…

IT Admins are responding to incidents on a day-to-day basis, but management wants to shift to service monitoring. The biggest mismatch there is the maturity level and misconception that technology…

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

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

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

This session covers how the new capabilities in System Center 2012 enable automation for the Private Cloud in Datacenter. Integration with System Center 2012 including Virtual Machine Manager,…

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

Come to this session to learn about new capabilities for enabling hosted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 using Windows Server 2012. System Center Service…

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

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

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

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

As you are transitioning to a private cloud, you have to take into account how you manage the compute, storage, and networking fabric of your infrastructure. After you have configured the fabric, you…

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

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

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

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

Windows Server 2012 introduces a cloud optimized OS. This session provides an overview of how a customer can build out a private or hosted cloud solution using Windows Server 2012 and System Center…

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

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

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

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

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

Join Alec King, author of Veeam’s nworks MP for VMware, to learn about Operations Manager management pack architecture for enterprise environments. Discuss best practice for designing your own MPs,…

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

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

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

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

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

In this session we provide a summary of the application monitoring capabilities enabled through System Center 2012 Operations Manager against Microsoft .NET and Java applications, covering the…

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

One of the challenges for organizations wanting to move to the public and private cloud is learning how this will affect existing investments in software licensing. In this session, we review how…

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

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

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

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and learn what's really going on under the hood in an Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG). This session covers the inner workings of…

Dial Plans are an essential piece in the integration between Lync and public telephony. This session dives deep into call processing in Lync in order to understand what the requirements to dial plans…

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…

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

This session discusses planning for conferencing deployments using Lync 2010.

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

This session provides guidance around virtualization of Lync 2010 Server and Client.

This session is designed to provide both a high-level overview of the Lync features that come as part of the CORE CAL, as well as an in-depth look at the Lync Server deployment process. The focus of…

If you attended EXL401, you got a good, deep understanding of how the HA features of Exchange 2010 work, but how do you apply those features in a real world environment? This session will talk about…

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

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

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

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

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

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

As systems offer bigger and bigger mailboxes and Microsoft has published whitepapers on large mailbox vision, it is important to understand the infrastructure to support such designs, what your…

Whether you deploy Exchange and SharePoint separately or at the same time through Microsoft Windows Small Business SErver (SBS), these two do not just talk to each other without a little help.…

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

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

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

This sessions dives deep into understanding Team Foundation Server 2012 reporting. We very briefly overview the provided reports, both SSRS and Excel that come out of the box, before diving into what…

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

Learn how to embrace the Metro style UI design principles in your LOB app by utilizing Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio to their full potential. In this session we focus on building an end-to-end LOB…

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

A startup often needs to build something fast and show traction, but also wants to create a solid foundation for the product roadmap—all while operating on a minimal budget and few resources. While a…

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

Did you ever have that bug that you just could not reproduce? Not getting enough information from production environments to really solve your problems quickly? Why does it always take way longer to…

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

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

Do you write a lot of HTML and JavaScript code to push and pull data? In this session, learn popular techniques to use data binding to bind your data to your target controls in HTML writing less code,…

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

In this session, we show the many different ways to monetize your application, including subscriptions, trial apps, advertisement, and in-app purchases. We cover the end-to-end lifecycle of an…

Contracts are agreements between Windows and your Metro style app that allow you to integrate Windows 8 features into your app. For example, Windows 8 lets users share content from one application to…

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

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

Get started writing Metro style apps using your existing HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS skills today! Discover how Metro style application development mirrors or differs from traditional web programming…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Implementing a central service in a large organization presents challenges that are both easy to spot and difficult to predict until you start running into problems. This session is a straightforward…

Think Team Foundation Build is too hard for you to use? Don't quite grasp the reason for an automated build process? Then this session is for you. The session starts by building a basic automated…

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

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 successes and be warned of…

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

In this session we cover the improvements to Microsoft Test Manager 2012 and Lab Management which will make it easier to conduct manual and automated testing across a variety of environments. We cover…

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

WPF 4.5 includes a number of targeted enhancements requested by our customers. During this code-focused session, we take a romp through the new and updated features in the latest version of WPF,…

As our ASP.NET web applications become more and more successful we switch our focus from adding feature to performance, scale and management. Richard has been in the lab studying the scaling habits of…

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

Microsoft .NET is approaching its ten-year birthday party. A lot has happened in the past decade—.NET 4.5 marks the occasion with many new features and scenarios. While the most exciting of these is…

This session provides a review of the key investments we’re making in Windows Workflows Foundation (WF) in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. Come learn about the improvements we’re making for workflow…

Come and see how we have enabled new scenarios with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in .NET 4.5. Learn how you can use the new WCF support for WebSockets and UDP. See how you can leverage WCF…

This session details some of the evolution of the C#/VB syntax. This session will serve as an overview of various language syntax like lambdas, anonymous methods and closures. Included will be…

With modern UI stacks, it's much more practical to implement new and useful interaction patterns, such as viewports, timelines, dashboards, queues, and configurators. Even traditional patterns such as…

Windows 8 comes with a brand new Metro style app experience where native developers and designers can work in parallel. This session covers an end-to-end view of the developer experience for…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASP.NET Web API is a new framework in ASP.NET MVC 4 for creating and consuming HTTP services that can reach a broad set of clients, including browser and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API gives you a…

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

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

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

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

Mobile traffic on the web is exploding. Are you ready? Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 includes new mobile-friendly templates, a focus on responsive design, as well as dedicated mobile templates that leverage…

HTML5 is a game changer for the entire industry and opens up new and exciting possibilities for web developers. Come join us for a talk about how Microsoft ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 makes…

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

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

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

There are way too many overly complex Model View View Model (MVVM) design patterns and libraries in the development world. How is a programmer that is new to Microsoft Silverlight, Windows…

There are many demos on the Internet for using the Entity Framework but few seem to address good architectural project structures to use the Entity Framework in a layered application. This talk shows…

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

Learn how to become a Visual Studio ninja for the future. Software development continues to make great advances and so does Visual Studio. Come learn about the trends impacting software development…

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

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

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

Big Data is now a reality and more than ever we are asked to analyze greter volumes of data. Find out how to make Analysis Services work harder and more effectively in this new world of Big Data.…

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

While introduced in an earlier version of SQL Server, Extended Events have been significantly enhanced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Learning the use of Extended Events is crucial as they will…

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

In 2011, we introduced Federations to enable building large scale solutions on SQL Azure. In this session we cover the best practices and patterns for building database tiers with best of breed…

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

Yes, indexes still remain the main bottleneck when it comes to performance; especially when your data grows big. In this demo-heavy session, Amit takes you through real-world scenarios of bad indexing…

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

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

This deep dive session walks you through the necessary steps on how to set up and administer Excel Services and PerformancePoint Services. We address common issues and workarounds, focusing on data…

In this session, learn how to successfully upgrade SQL Server databases to SQL Server 2012. Learn how to successfully implement different upgrade scenarios, including advanced upgrade scenarios such…

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

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

You’ve heard it said, “If you have to do it twice, automate it.” That’s great advice and PowerShell provides a simple but extremely powerful way to do it. PowerShell is the future of Windows…

This session is even more jam packed with amazing PowerPivot report examples than last year's presentation. This is *the* session to attend if you want to get the most out of PowerPivot…

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has received significant upgrades in SQL Server 2012. How to effectively upgrade SSIS packages to take advantage of the new SSIS features is the main…

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

We know that you're getting requests for accessing your BI dashboard on multiple devices. Learn more about what to consider when designing your SharePoint dashboard for consumption on tablet devices.…

In this session we will focus on the database and application administrators of SQL Azure, including the significant enhancements introduced with the refreshed SQL Azure Management Portal The cloud…

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

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

This session covers the new DAX capabilities in PowerPivot and Tabular models to create rich BI applications. #TEDBI323

Exploring real-world customer scenarios, we take a look at how the new Change Data Capture (CDC) components for SSIS in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 simplify incremental ETL and Data Warehouse loads. We…

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

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are important measurements that influence behavior and allow an organization to evaluate whether they are meeting target for specific objectives. This session begins…

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

Do you want to learn how Microsoft helped one of the largest Financial Services organizations in the world designed a Private Cloud infrastructure using Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft System…

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

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

This session covers real-life customer scenarios on how they achieve high availability and disaster recovery (regional and distant) today and how they plan to leverage SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn for…

Have you ever wondered how you could validate a merge replication topology before it is deployed? In particular a topology targeting mobile devices using SQL Server Compact? Have ever dreamed of a…

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

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

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

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

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

In this session, see how to create rich reports that encourage immediate understanding and make insights pop. We’ll use Report Builder 3.0 to illustrate a wide range of report design techniques..…

In this session, we cover best practices from Microsoft, as well as some nifty tips and tricks about how to monitor and analyze your SharePoint Farm using Microsoft BI tools like System Center…

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

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

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

In this demo-packed session, we will cover everything you need to know to build interactive reports with Power View. New with SQL Server 2012, Power View is a data exploration, visualization, and…

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this demo-only session, discover 12 good reasons to love SQL Server 2012. Learn about AlwaysOn, ColumnStore Indexing, Data Quality Services, Transact-SQL Enhancements, Power View, SQL Server Data…

In this session, learn about the new capabilities and features in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services. #TEDBI201

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

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

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

In this session we share some of the key learnings from running OSS software (Drupal, Ruby) on Windows Azure through real-life customer projects. We discuss the use case, the candidate architecture…

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project ""Brooklyn"" is a networking on-ramp for migrating existing Enterprise applications onto Windows Azure. Project ""Brooklyn"" enables Enterprise…

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

Building cloud-based applications with a PaaS model allows for the developer to focus on the task of building software instead of worrying about the underlying infrastructure. However, this…

In this session we look deeper into migration, authoring, and managing Virtual Machines on Windows Azure, advanced IT and management scenarios using PowerShell and REST. We discuss prescriptive…

If you work in IT, as most of you reading this do, the future must look very 'cloudy'. In this session, we will look at the full spectrum of capabilities that exist to help you move computing…

Are you building a connected Windows Metro style app? This session introduces you to Windows Azure and demonstrates how you can build connected experiences for your Windows 8 Metro style apps. After…

Windows Azure Caching is a simple to use distributed cache that can help make your applications perform faster and be more scalable. In this session we will quickly get you up to speed on Caching and…

This session provides a comprehensive overview of the Windows Azure Service Bus and the current and upcoming capabilities that are being added. Learn what the capabilities are, how they work, how you…

Bring your Linux operating system and applications stack to the Public Cloud by creating Linux-based virtual machines in Windows Azure. In this session, we show Linux users how to take advantage of…

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

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

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

Windows Azure is an ideal environment for deploying existing, and new compute-intensive apps that take advantage of the scale-on-demand capability of the cloud. The Windows Azure HPC Job Scheduler…

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

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

This session presents an overview of the v-next of BizTalk Server, Microsoft’s flagship integration platform for bridging enterprise applications. The session is packed with exciting demos of some of…

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

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

Microsoft BizTalk Server provides a platform to help enterprises overcome data and protocol dissonance to bridge systems together and create a frictionless application environment. Come find out how…

Everyone seems to be working on a game these days. And why not? You can make some great money, have fun building something, and become famous. Many new games, especially casual games, are using the…

Windows Azure has a range of application deployment options to suit all needs. Whether you want to simply push your files to Azure using FTP or use powerful Web Deploy to deploy your databases along…

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

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

Come join us as we unveil the integrated Windows Azure Management story with the new portal, enhanced APIs, and new PowerShell cmdlets, built to get you started quickly and easily with the Windows…

In this session we cover the significant investments that Microsoft is making in our Windows Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution and how it works. We discuss how you provision, deploy,…

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

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

Caching is a key technology for improving application performance and scale. It does so by taking the load off your database, and moving frequently used data into a distributed memory storage that…

It would be so easy if everyone at our companies just used Scrum—or at least Agile. No one would lean on the team for dates and deadlines, and everyone would know that change is a good thing. It'd be…

Despite new and powerful UI technology stacks, most developers are creating applications that look and feel the same as ten years ago, except for pretty colors and gratuitous animations. Like zoo…

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

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

Self-Service is one of the key components in the Private Cloud concept. But how do you start with this? What are you going to offer? Who needs to be involved in such a project? This session is all…

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

How does one build a “modern” application? In this session, learn about the key design patterns ranging from adaptive and insight-driven applications to 'Social'-enabled and aware application design,…

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

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

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

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

Natural User Interface (NUI) applications are driven in three major ways: multi-touch, voice, and gesture with Kinect for Windows. These NUI applications manifest in multiple form factors and…

Kanban is the most talked about and implemented new approach to process improvement in software development, IT work, and DevOps. Taken from Lean Product Development, the Toyota Way and even some…

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

What makes a design good, and most importantly successful? There are many theories about design; in this session you discover theories that designers have been using over the years to build…

Windows PowerShell v3 is here, and it is delivering on Microsoft's promise to make nearly everything in Windows manageable from the command-line. Are you finally going to learn the shell, or learn to…

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

Microsoft VM Conversion Solution Accelerator enables low overhead simple virtual to virtual migration to the Hyper-V Platform. Planning to provide point-and-click migration of Windows Server 2008/R2,…

Dive deep and learn how using Microsoft’s package-based imaging tools can save you time and money over sector-based imaging. Learn how tools and resources like the Microsoft Assessment and Planning…

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…

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

Kicking off TechEd North America, Satya Nadella, President of Server and Tools Business shared his vision of the cloud OS and how this is re-shaping the datacenter and application environment. He…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Service recently gathered subject matter experts and architects actively consulting in the field to research the problem space of Hybrid IT. Hybrid IT is defined as the composition of two or…