This session outlines the latest enhancements in enterprise mobility management using Microsoft Intune and System Center Configuration Manager. Learn about the current state of the System Center…

Office 365 is leveraging Microsoft's significant cloud infrastructure to provide machine learning capabilities that extend the Office 365 experience beyond what is possible in the individual products…

Microsoft Edge brings an exciting number of features that developers can take advantage of to build next generation web apps on Windows 10 Mobile. In this session, you'll learn about responsive…

In this session, we cover what containers are, what makes them such an exciting technology, how they will work in Windows Server, and how Docker will integrate with them.

In this session we'll extend System Center with Operations Management Suite. We will explore the Operations Management Suite onboarding for an Australian organisation. How one integrated console now…

In this track we will be taking a look at the developer side of Power BI. This will involve taking a look at the custom visualisation sdk and building our custom visualisation. The session will also…

By its nature, SQL Server installations on-prem can often require significant CapEx investment on a recurring basis. If you are considering the cloud then you want to ensure that you have received the…

Join StorageCraft and learn about the next generation of backup and recovery technology designed for medium and enterprise organisations. A complete and comprehensive solution to keep business…

Temporal, Query store and JSON support in SQL Server 2016

Everything you want to know about next-generation SQL Server, mission critical performance and scale for transactional, data warehouse and mixed workloads, structured and unstructured data, security…

Virtualisation, Cloud and Modern Storage have pushed the expectations of application availability to new heights. Our users expect every application to be available from every device at any time and…

This session will demonstrate in detail the steps required to migrate workloads from AWS to Azure. This session will be demo heavy and show the migration of some internal workloads and also those…

This session will take a developer and architect through the steps to create complex Logic Apps with non-connector API Apps and leveraging the numerous existing connector API Apps. Attendee will learn…

Containers, unless you haven't heard, are a big thing. Docker, who have a strategic partnership with Microsoft, makes it incredibly easy to create, deploy and run applications using containers.…

Introduction to AD and Azure RMS How Azure RMS works and it can facilitate cross organization collaboration Azure RMS components overview and deployment Azure RMS integration with server workload

Good developers try to make their jobs as easy as possible. We know our application will evolve and will need to scale, so we try to make future changes as simple as possible by layering and…

With organisations moving into the Microsoft Cloud, providing a solid identity management foundation has become crucial to successful projects. One of the core features of Azure is Azure Active…

This session will cover the 'coal-face' agile process we used to deliver alongside a customer during a development phase. Then how those lessons translated into the Ops space where process service…

Windows to Go is another way of deploying Windows 10. It allows end users to boot into a corporate configured and managed Windows 10 image on any Windows 7 or later certified hardware. This session…

This session will focus on two aspects of on-premise Active Directory. Firstly, the security of Active Directory, taking into consideration the latest best practice and tools. Secondly, the proactive…

Edge (previously code named Project Spartan) is Microsoft's new browser included with Windows 10. In this session we will cover everything you as a designer & developer need to be aware of…

The industry has been changing at a rapid rate but it has felt like the DBA toolkit has been left behind... That is until now. In this session we will explore the new features in SQL Server 2016 which…

With the wealth of new knowledge you're going to acquire at Ignite, Dr Jason Fox will help you take it to the next level. Want to take what you have learned and apply it? Want to find ways to motivate…

Whether you are a developer, tester, administrator or analyst, this session can help you master different types of UI testing of an MVC app, by using Microsoft Edge WebDriver for creating robust…

This session we will have fun and take you a Power BI developer to the next level. Power BI Desktop under the covers is Power Pivot, Power Query, and Power View. You will learn best practices and…

Using new "ClickToRun" deployment technology, Office 365 ProPlus provides new cloud enabled management capabilities to IT departments, but also requires a rethink to some traditional…

Do you want to be a cool secret agent and command your app just with your voice? Do you want to enable your users to quickly use your app while hands free or while doing other tasks. Meet Cortana,…

Come learn about Microsoft's approach to Linux. This session covers the Microsoft broad strategy for Linux and showcases our investments across Windows Server, Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center,…

This session is all about making the switch from programmatic infrastructure deployment ("Dear Azure, here's a list of everything I want you do, in excruciating detail"), to declarative…

This is an interactive session. Bring you Windows 10 with you. Learn all the steps and requirements to Enable, Configure and use Hyper-V on Windows 10. Bring along your Windows 10 machine and let's…

As you consider moving your workloads to Azure, you want to ensure you get the same level of protection as you do on premise. This session will demo how to setup backup for VMs created in the cloud,…

Live Query Statistics (LQS) is a feature from SQL Server 2016, but the impact of it can be felt in SQL 2014, and you can use this to discover even more information about how your query is running.…

Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book devices are the most productive devices on planet. Come hear how we have innovated on Surface accessories - Surface Type Cover, Surface Pen and Surface Dock, to make…

With Microsoft planning to release a new version of SQL Server every couple of years, your organization should take a new approach to upgrading your SQL Server solution(s) so as to realize numerous…

In this session we learn more about the different deployment options, management capabilities and administrative configurations along with best practices for Azure RemoteApp. We will look into best…

Learn how Microsoft's Hybrid cloud backup solution can help you leverage Azure to eliminate traditional tape backup as well reduce/eliminate branch office backup infrastructure. In addition to that,…

Exchange hybrid deployments are one of the most common Office 365 configurations. In this session, we dig into the architecture of hybrid deployments, review the deployment options, discuss the…

in this session, discover the features made available by enabling Active Directory Premium. Join Mark Rhodes in this session and he explains and demonstrates these features including Multi Factor…

Take one part wearable computing, one part IOT and one part SDK and you have the Microsoft Band. In this session you will learn how to get started on your first app for the Microsoft Band from the…

In the last couple of year Satya Nadella and used the term More Personal Computing multiple times to define the new era of devices that consumers will carry with them and on their bodies. In this…

In this session we'll cover the investments we're making in Dynamics CRM with a particular focus on the mobile client. We'll showcase how productivity is integral to the mobile clients, including…

Ordinary documents are one of the largest repositories of an organization's secrets. However most organizations are terrible at protecting those files. A host of technologies exist to assist…

As IoT becomes part of the fabric of your digital business, organizations are realizing the need to connect different devices to cloud services and applications. The Azure IoT Suite is an integrated…

Microsoft has been quietly revamping it's build system with the goal of making it genuinely cross platform and much, much easier to work with. The results are pretty amazing. In this session we'll be…

What do you do when Active Directory-dependent critical business applications stop working because your DCs have started dropping like flies? Don't panic. In this session, Justin Turner walks you…

Leading an Azure engagement but don't know where to start? Do you want to plan the next generation of IT services based on the Microsoft Azure platform? The Architecture will help you to reach your…

It's been a busy year for the Visual Studio team with the release of Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 and cross-platform tools - but what has been happening with the Visual Studio Online serivce? This…

PBX's, Gateways/SBC's, SIP -PSTN, and interworking with them all on Skype for Business. Learn all of the options available to interoperate SfB with other systems and hardware in order to migrate to…

This session provides a code-based walkthrough of Azure App Service, including web apps, mobile apps, API apps and logic apps. Included is a discussion of integration with Visual Studio online for…

Having your SQL Server databases not available for business to be making money is not a good way to stay employed. Do you understand what features and options can assist you with keeping SQL Server…

Developing for Windows is now no longer exclusive to C# developers. This session will explore the new UWP bridge toolkits and demonstrate how to leverage your existing mobile or web investments into…

The Universal Windows Platform offers developers a unique opportunity to build applications that run on an extensive range of devices. However, this comes the challenge of how to scale the user…

"There is more to using Microsoft Azure and cloud technologies then simply provisioning machines using the web interface, templates or powershell. How do you architect multiple machines for…

We'll go behind the scenes and under the car hood to learn about how Azure RemoteApp works in-depth, we'll also deep dive into how to use App-V in Azure RemoteApp, and other advanced configurations of…

Heterogeneous environments with Windows Server, Linux and FreeBSD are more common than not. Being able to run all your virtualized workloads on a single hypervisor simplifies management and optimizes…

The new Windows Store for Business (previously called the Business Store), organizations can now acquire apps for their organization, distribute those apps in a variety of ways, and manage and reclaim…

Azure offers enormous promise in terms of just how quickly we can achieve amazing things and for mere fractions of what it cost us in the "traditional" world. But can you trust the…

Watch AltaVault in action and see how it can provide: • Unparalleled efficiency. Cut data volumes by 30x and speed transport times by 4x. • Enterprise scale on an open platform. Integrates with…

2016 represents a major release for Office, across PCs, Macs, mobile phones and tablets with new end user experiences for simple users and power users alike. The Office 2016 release also includes more…

Windows 10 has become Mobile and available on Phone! Now is the time to get yourself and your infrastructure ready for Windows 10 Mobile. This session provides the guidance and learnings for a…

That start menu is back and you can pin your own custom Windows 10 applications there!!! In this session we will look at the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and how to build Office 365 connected…

In this session you will learn the various interoperability options to connect 3rd party VC rooms, gateways, and hardware into your Skype for Business deployment.

Traditional DR is expensive and hard to maintain. With Azure Site Recovery organisations can have a DR solution that replicates your Datacenter VMware, AWS and Hyper-V VMs to Azure. Microsoft partners…

Do you run both Windows and Linux application stacks? See the new System Center investments in monitoring Linux applications, including demos of monitoring Apache web servers and MySQL databases, plus…

This session will show you how to start using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric to create highly available and resilient microservices that can be deployed into Service Fabric clusters running on…

From online retailers who need to quickly serve up in-browser recommendations to increase click-to-sales metrics; to car retailers, insurance and automobile companies who need to gain insights on…

Thanks to organisations like Netflix, and the need to develop solutions that scale well in the cloud, microservices have become the hot new topic. Yet, for all the talk, there's still little practical…

In this session I'm going to walk through the process of how I built a pedometer for iOS, Android and Windows phone using C# and Xamarin. The app has number of interesting features such as using…

Igor Jericevich, K2 Technical Specialist will show you how you can integrate your line of business data into useful business applications surfaced through SharePoint and Office 365. This will be a…

Sick of developing a user interface for mobile, then doing it again for desktop, then again for tablet? How about including features that make sense on a smaller device, but not on a larger screen? Or…

Spatial data has the ability to bring your analytics and reporting to life. SQL Server support for spatial data has been rapidly improving in every version. Spatial data isn't just about mapping…

Are web apps holding you back from upgrading to the latest version of Internet Explorer? In this session, we go deep on the tools you can use to identify and remediate compatibility issues to unlock…

Learn how you can deploy infrastructure in minutes, upgrade it non-disruptively during lunch time with one click, and have it self heal so you can go home early and not wake up at 2am for break fix…

Microsoft has recently announced Power BI is now becoming generally available (GA). It's a great time to start exploring some of the advanced functionality Power BI offers. In this session Adam Cogan…

Customers rarely adopt Office 365 with no data, and most customers want to move their email and files into Office 365 to take advantage of its many productivity features. Whilst email migration is…

Cybersecurity investigations look very quick and glamorous in TV and movies, but the reality is a little bit different. Microsoft Security Engineer Jessica Payne walks you through the way Microsoft…

Software development is only about one thing, shipping your product. If you don't ship you fail. In fact the faster you ship something the higher your chance of success. In this session Neil will…

Microsoft Azure Stack brings proven innovation from Microsoft's hyper-scale public cloud into your datacenter, providing agility and productivity for application owners, flexibility and control for…

We will be covering the capabilities of DocumentDB, the PaaS based NoSQL Database service in azure. How to build applications around it. Some use cases and examples.

Microsoft today provides a wide range of hardware products including Xbox One, Kinect for Windows, HoloLens, Surface Hub, Band, phones and Surface. There is a whole lot of hype surrounding some of…

Today's mobile workers are demanding tools so they can be productive anywhere. Enterprise Mobility Suite is a powerful toolset that enables organisations to meet the demands of users while ensuring…

This year has been a huge year for Microsoft, they have open sourced the .NET Framework and made it work on Mac and Linux. The problem, Visual Studio and MSBuild are not cross-platform, so we lose…

This session will show you how you can protect your mobile devices, and more importantly, the data being accessed by those devices. Whether these are corporate owned, or a BYOD scenario, protecting…

Identity management in the cloud-first, mobile-first world has become the core of enterprise mobility. Azure Active Directory, Microsoft's IDaaS solution, is evolving and provides secure and easy to…

Xamarin gives us access to 100% of the iOS and Android APIs. This talk covers how to delve into some platform specific features and UI elements, and explains how this is all possible from within a…

So it's obvious to you that Office 365 productivity solutions are the right option for your company for a number of technical, commercial and innovative reasons - and hey cloud is the future right?…

This session will give you an overview of how Dynamics AX takes advantages of great IaaS, PaaS, SaaS capabilities offered by Azure.

While Office 365 provides relevant solutions to drive better communication and knowledge sharing to help drive productivity, the platform can lose its effectiveness and present compliance risks…

Logging - collect Events, Alert when something is wrong. Simple right? Unfortunately, it isn't. Collecting the right data and alerting appropriately is a major challenge for most IT organizations…

A new feature in Windows 10, runtime provisioning will help to reduce the cost of deploying Windows PCs and devices such as tablets and phones. This new feature will enable IT professionals and system…

This session will explore the concepts found in Windows Azure and Office 365 which enables the rapid enablement of connecting your core enterprise applications to your existing mobile user-base. We'll…

In a world where there are already more than 120 Million windows 10 devices - will you step or will you leap? In this session we will provide an overview of some of the changes that Windows 10 brings,…

Azure service that helps you prevent, detect and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources and advanced analytics to identify attacks that…

On premises. Online. Hybrid. Where does my directory live? How many servers do I need? All of these questions and more will be covered in this Skype for Business Architecture session. If you want to…

This session will provide you with guidance on building fail-safe applications and also demo an App that keeps on working even in the event of a DC wide outage - watch Azure MVP, Mahesh Krishnan as he…

This session provides an introduction to the Xamarin toolset, explaining how we can use the magic of C# and .Net to develop native apps for iOS and Android which share code with Windows apps, and how…

Let's face it, all of use spend a significant amount of time in email. Attend this session to see how to build custom mail add-ins that can deliver a more productive experience in Outlook. Get ready…

In this session, we'll review the new methods available for deploying Windows 10, including tool like MDT, ConfigMgr, WDS, ADK, and more. We'll also talk about how Windows as a Service impacts the…

"You might start using Cloud technologies using the web interface, but eventually you will find that it is easier and more scaleable to setup your work environment to use PowerShell or CLI to…

ASP.NET has always been a great technology to deliver content over the web. Though, with the new cloud platforms bringing a lot of interesting concepts, like instant scaling, architecting a web…

This session will show you how to marry the newest PowerShell DSC tools with latest code deployment techniques to automate the setup and maintenance of hundreds of servers

Want to build some really powerful Office add-ins? In this session we will dive deep into the advanced client-specific APIs for building add-ins in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Office has propelled…

How Azure under your EA works Recommended practices for your Azure enrolment Estimating workload costs Gaining insights from your Usage reports

Have you wondered what does it take to pack the power of an Intel Core processing power in thinnest Surface devices ever? Come hear it from the engineers who built Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book…

In this session you will learn all about the investments the Surface group took to make sure Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 are the right devices for your organization. Milad Aslaner, Commercial…

A common pattern adversaries are using are to exploit weaknesses in an organization, and then leverage credential theft to obtain more privileged access in the organization. Join Cybersecurity…

In this session learn more about the different management capabilities, deployment options, and administrative configurations along with best practices for Azure RemoteApp. We will dive into best…

While Windows has always provided great learning outcomes for students and a comprehensive platform for teachers and administrators, there are several reasons why education customers in general should…

This session describes key considerations for enabling business benefits through the adoption of Office 365. It will show people the importance of understanding: • the change readiness of different…

You have a brand new Office 365 tenant and during the pilot phase some of your users start complaining that things are going really slowly. Troubleshooting this issue is complicated and requires…

This session will look what is a developer life during developing on Office 365 / SharePoint. What sort of challenges are seen on daily basis and how one can utilize best of their time. How one can…

It's time to upgrade your desktop experience... but how? In this session, we will explain the options and recommendations for deploying the latest Windows and Office desktop experience and suggestions…

Last year, we introduced a new cross-suite service called Office 365 Groups, which enables people to create public or private groups. The first apps to take advantage of the Office 365 Groups service…

This session will provide an update on security and compliance features recently added to Office 365 with a focus on the Australian market. We will also cover new capabilities in the roadmap and how…

Using traditional methods and approaches, migrating large quantities of data to Office 365 can be complex, resource intensive, and slow. Those days are over. Join AvePoint to learn how to automate and…

Advances in cloud, mobile and social technologies have forever changed the way we interact in the workplace. Collaboration is now central to productivity and the formation of teams has become…

The Azure IoT Suite provides heterogeneous device support via the Azure IoT SDKs. The goal of the architecture is to enable secure, efficient, and robust communication between nearly any kind of…

Unity provides a world class development environment for games and interactive applications. Now with support for Universal Windows Platform your Unity projects will be able to target a wide variety…

Windows 10 will be available on many form factors including Phone! Do you want to know what Windows 10 Mobile on phones has to offer for the Enterprise? This session will give you the overview and…

This session provides an overview of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), a single platform that developers can target to build applications that will run across a myriad of devices. After years of…

With the release of Windows 10, there is a lot of focus on its use within the enterprise on desktops, laptops, tablets and phones, but did you know that Windows 10 also introduced support for low-cost…

Microsoft and Chef are working closely to provide a robust, scalable management platform for all your Azure IaaS needs. Why is this important to you? Because idempotent, development-driven…

Networking is a foundational part of the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) platform, and Windows Server 2016 provides new and improved Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies to help you move…

Non expiring admin accounts, over privileged accounts, the same service account credentials used for every service in the organization, disabled firewalls and help desk technicians with domain admin…

It's not as hard as you might think to tackle the clean-up of an environment that has passed through many hands and ended up a little neglected. In this session we will discuss why this is a good…

There are lots of new features and possibilities with Hyper-V in Windows 10 and the Windows Server Technical Previews. Come to this session to get the nitty gritty details of all the new stuff that is…

Migrating applications from servers is a laborious complicated task heavily relying on the customer to provide all installation source, patch history, interoperability and configuration details. Then…

Are you an early riser? Arrive at 7.15am for our inspiring keynote address by Deb Noller, CEO of Switch Automation, and a Q&A panel session moderated by Sarah Vaughan, DX Lead Australia. At this…

SQL Server is a very forgiving product. It does an awesome job of dealing with what are often unreasonable demands placed on it by applications. In this session, Greg will describe the biggest issues…

Over the past few years git has been becoming more prolific, most open source projects are hosted on GitHub including DotNet itself and Visual Studio Online supports git out of the box. Git is no…

Does your development team's lifecycle actually cycle? Or is a feature considered done when it hits production? A great process involves effective requirements gathering, development, testing, then…

A deep dive into the layers of Entity Framework 7, Migrations, Model building, Seeding Data, Dependency Injection, Verbose Logging, Unit Tests and the new In-Memory Provider

A deep dive through of the new version of Microsoft .NET (vNext) outlining some of the fundamental changes (NuGet packaging), improvements, changes to hosting models and the new found appreciation of…

This session will focus on how to tackle building a real world application, its one thing to want an 'app' it's another to be able to deal with the different technology stacks involved. Combining…

We can't wait to share the exciting new Integration Service and Master Data Services features and functionality we have lined up for SQL Server 2016! More and more of businesses are looking for…

The SQL Server 2016 release is one of the most exciting and feature packed releases we have had! Not only have we added a significant amount of new features but we have made a number of enhancements…

Apache Spark is an open source processing framework that runs large-scale data analytics applications. Built on an in-memory compute engine, Spark is known for high performance querying on big data.…

The Azure SQL Data Warehouse is the industry's first elastic scale, relational SQL data warehouse. Azure SQL Data Warehouse offers elastic performance and scale to 1+ PB, market leading…

Activate your data! Join Commvault in showcasing our next generation data platform and how we take information on its lifecycle journey from an application on a Hyper-V machine, to an orchestrated…

Do your data and applications belong on-premises, in Microsoft Azure, or : Do your data and applications belong on-premises, in Microsoft Azure or some combination of both? How will you provide highly…

In this talk, we will describe a cloud-centric data science process to go from raw data on premise or in the cloud to operationalized machine learning models using only a browser and elastic resources.

This session walks through incorporating Microsoft Service Fabric into your next application for zero downtime and upgradability. Microsoft have released the very same Azure Fabric smarts that look…

"Hybrid connectivity for our on-premises systems is one way to dip your toe into the world of Public Cloud offerings like Microsoft Azure. Come to this session to learn what's new in the ever…

In this detailed architecture examination of Azure Media Services we look into the reasons why Azure Media Services exists, why organisations should use it (or not) and will examine the architecture…

Business is looking up to the cloud to create a brilliant tomorrow and a roadmap for future success. Craig Fulton, Director Infrastructure and Cloud Solutions will lead a presentation on how the world…

There is no one size fits all when it comes to Cloud. Organisations have different requirements, investments, technology footprints, internal skill sets and challenges that will impact their Cloud…

Confused about all the data-related services in Azure and what they offer? Come to attend this rapid-fire hour where you'll get a rapid introduction to Azure SQL Database, DocumentDB, Azure Machine…

Your datacenter is safe. Right?? Are you sure? Would you bet your career on it?? No! this is the session for you. Come and learn how Azure Site Recovery enables you to leverage Azure IaaS as a zero…

I see you, I hear you, I understand you. People can, but organisations as a whole have more trouble. In this session we will review the Cortana Analytics Perceptual APIs: Vision, Face, Speech,…

Buy is always better than build. The Dynamics stack has always provided an excellent set of products to construct broader solutions from, but the stack has grown out of all proportions over recent…

We have all tried how-old.net, but what if we could add sentiment analysis? We will review and demonstrate the state-of-the-art in static (text/image) and real-time (video/voice/language) sentiment…

Azure Resource Manager enables simplified management of Azure resources, using best practices for security and compliance, and at any scale. The ARM template language generalizes your deployments to…

Visual Studio 2015 is going to be a huge change for both windows and non-windows developers. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome change of attitude, Microsoft is embracing the winning tools in the…

Holistic data management is required within organisations. This include primary storage, backup, archive and DR. StorSimple, ASR and Azure Backup each have their strengths, but individually do not…

Find out how Azure API management can help you to create a consolidated API gateway layer between all your containerized back end micro services. See how you can group your micro services in domains…

As the world in which we work is changing rapidly, Microsoft is building new mobile workstyles and tools that will bring people together in better ways and help people harness their real-time…

Hear from Ulrich Homann, Distinguished Architect for Microsoft's Cloud and Enterprise Business. Hear first hand insights about the Data and Insights Landscape at Microsoft, The future of Analytics and…

The Internet of Things has the potential to radically alter our lives and our businesses but it runs the risk of just being the new buzz with seemingly endless innovations, products and technologies.…

This session will introduce DevOps teams (IT Pro and Developer) to the latest features of Azure Automation, including hybrid workers, web hooks and PowerShell DSC support to drive automation…

Microsoft's new cloud-first, mobile-first business model has generated new solutions, architecture, and services faster than ever before. In this keynote, Microsoft Corp. VP Brad Anderson will speak…