TechEd Australia 2012 Sessions

What SharePoint Admins Should Know About SQL Server

Victor Isakov — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:07:23 GMT

The performance, reliability and availability of your SharePoint farm depends on SQL Server. Therefore it is important for SharePoint Administrators to understand how to best configure and administer the SQL Server instances used by SharePoint. In this session Victor Isakov (MCA, MCM, MCT, MVP) will present on what SharePoint Admins should know about SQL Server so that they can maximize performance, minimize data loss and correctly administer SQL Server within their SharePoint farm.

Data Mining for Fun and Profit

Darien Nagle, Kevin Clarke, Russ Blake — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:03:04 GMT

SQL Server Data Mining is the crown jewel of the Microsoft BI stack, delivering Best of Breed data mining algorithms packaged for ready use. But these powerful tools remain neglected on the shelf of many shops in spite of the fact that, according to Gartner Group, BI is the top priority of IT organisations over the next 5 years, with the biggest skills gap in the data mining area. We’ll demystify the data mining algorithms, terminology and tools so you can apply the technology with ease to help your organisation look into its future and adapt as needed in the present, all without any need for a Cube. EB Games will join us to discuss how they have used Data Mining to improve their countrywide retailing operations.

What's New in Windows Azure?

Wade Wegner — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:36:00 GMT

There have been a lot of additions to Windows Azure that open up new opportunities for Developers and IT Pros. Join Wade Wegner - formerly Director of Technical Evangelism for Windows Azure at Microsoft - as he reviews everything you've missed!

Project Server 2013, a Landmark Release!

Christophe Fiessinger — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:25:00 GMT

Project Server 2013 offers flexible online and on-premise solutions for project portfolio management. This session will provide an overview of the key innovations in the New Microsoft Project that makes Project and SharePoint work better together.

SharePoint 2013 Authentication with Azure – Part I

Mark Rhodes — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:15:00 GMT

If you have considered a SharePoint extranet, one of the most difficult components is generally Authentication. Providing an authentication source becomes very difficult, especially if you have to manage it yourself, provisioning user accounts and providing assistance to reset passwords. The best possible solution would be to use an external identity provider, enter Azure Access Control Services. In this session Mark will introduce Azure ACS and show you how to configure SharePoint 2010 or 2013 to connect into Azure ACS, allowing your users to authentication with either their Windows Live, Open Authentication or Facebook user accounts and access your SharePoint environment, taking away all the hassle of having to provide an authentication source.

The new Exchange - Data Loss Prevention

Steve Chew — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:57:00 GMT

Data loss prevention (DLP) is an important issue for enterprise message systems because of the extensive use of email for business critical communication that includes sensitive data. This session covers the DLP features in Exchange Server 2013, including transport rules, DLP policies, templates and rules, and reporting.

The Path to Continuous Availability with WS2012

Luke Notley — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:36:00 GMT

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 failures or maintenance to cause downtime in any area. That’s why Windows Server 2012 includes enhancements that not only protect data but maximize availability from the foundational layers of the storage stack all the way up to the application and beyond. Windows Server 2012 goes beyond high availability with a versatile array of capabilities that are flexible enough to address availability needs under a wide variety of scenarios. Whether your organization is small or large, whether your environment is heterogeneous or not, Windows Server 2012 capabilities can help you lead your organization down the path towards continuous availability.

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: VDI Deployment on WS2012

Darren Milne, Kevin Mayo — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:13:00 GMT

Join Thales to explore the ins-and-outs of planning and deploying a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V VDI solution! This session examines the entire process of envisioning, analyzing, planning, and designing a successful, scalable, elastic VDI infrastructure and takes attendees through construction, testing, and piloting into production. Hear from the solution provider on what worked and the challenges they faced in successfully deploying this complex and extensive architecture. This session arms you with the information, details, and background that you need to be successful in your own VDI deployments.

Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 3.0

Chris Bellee, Ian Lucas — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:08:00 GMT

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 programming skills, PowerShell Remoting, Jobs, Modules, Debugging, and Constrained Endpoints, among others.

Power View - The Future of Visual Business Intelligence via SharePoint

Bhavik Merchant — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:12:00 GMT

Office 15 brings a revamped Power View to SharePoint 2013 - providing interactive, intuitive visualisation and data exploration capability for true business users.

This session will demonstrate how to create rich dashboards in SharePoint using a purely drag and drop, browser-based interface. See categorical charts, trends, hierarchies, cross-filtering, slicers, drilldowns, native geospatial/map integration and more! You will also learn what the software requirements and dependencies are. Finally, you will learn how you can deploy a lot of this to your user base right now, even with SharePoint 2010!

SharePoint Solution Development Lifecycle – The Right Way

Shimron Shimla — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:11:00 GMT

Learn about the different benefits of different methodologies for developing rapid solutions for SharePoint with tools, examples, tips & tricks

As a Productivity vTSP, I am often invited to speak to customers about their methodology and make recommendations. In these sessions I noticed common mistakes that most organisations follow when trying to adopt a mature .NET Development methodology and life cycle governance to a rapid deployment platform like SharePoint and wanted to share some tips I learned in the past few years as a result

Record Management in SharePoint 2013

James Milne — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:10:00 GMT

In this session we will provide an express overview of the various record management capabilities within SharePoint. We will demonstrate the various options available for record management in SharePoint 2010 and we will also touch on the new enhancements that will be available in the upcoming SharePoint 2013.

Designing a High-Availability Solution for Your SharePoint Infrastructure

Victor Isakov — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:06:15 GMT

Designing a High-Availability solution for SharePoint at the SQL Server level has traditionally been difficult due to a different release cadence. In this session Victor Isakov (MCA, MCM, MCT, MVP) will present on the different SQL Server high-availability technologies available for a SharePoint farm. Victor will discuss their respective pros and cons, as well as Microsoft's strategic direction in this space, which will help you decide what high availability solution suits you best.

Ask an Expert: SharePoint 2013 Q&A Panel

William Cornwill, Jeremy Thake, Alistair Speirs, Mark Rhodes, Shyam Narayan — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:06:00 GMT

With Microsoft® SharePoint® 2013 Preview now available, this is your chance to get your questions answered by speakers from the Office, Office 365 and SharePoint Track! Take a sneak peek into what's new and how to get ready, before you dive into the Track sessions on SharePoint on Wednesday!

Tips & Tricks for Creating Custom Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager

Dan Kregor — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:02:00 GMT

This session was cancelled. Please refer to session SIM334a.

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 successful custom management packs, from what tools to use, to how to build custom composite modules for complex monitoring scenarios. All of these tips and tricks are based on real-world implementations of custom management packs, and will work for both SCOM 2007 and 2012.

NABs Windows 8 Style Internet Banking Application

Oscar Zarate, Stephan Dekker — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:06:00 GMT

NAB is developing their Windows 8 Internet Banking application and have built a “Concept App” to test ideas and concepts. In this session the developers will cover their journey on how they started from an idea to a "Ready to be deployed" application in less than 2 months without sacrificing quality. Furthermore, they will give you the tools and industry best practices you need to do this yourself in your organisation!

SharePoint 2013 Authentication with Azure – Part II

Mark Rhodes — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:04:00 GMT

Introducing Office 365 for Enterprises

Andy O'Donald — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:57:00 GMT

Come see the new Office 365 preview and learn how the service is evolving to meet customer needs. This session will be a high level overview of all of the new features in Office 365.

Voice of the Customer: Office 365

Gavin Wall — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:47:00 GMT

In this session you will hear from an Enterprise customer who has recently migrated their productivity platform to Office 365. Learn what, why and how the migration went in the real world. - Why Office 365, business challenges and opportunities - Enterprise set up, ADFS, single sign on. - Exchange Online - Migration process, velocity of migration - Challenges, lessons learnt - What’s next - SharePoint Online - Hybrid Strategy - Cloud workloads - Challenges to date, lessons learnt - What’s next, Where we’re heading - Operational considerations for Office 365 - Automating processes, PowerShell is your friend.

Rapid Application Development with Access 2013

James Milne — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:06:00 GMT

During this session we will demonstrate some of the major enhancements that Access 2013 provides to create rich web based applications. Access 2013 heralds a new level of development as power users can now build rich web based applications that leverage you enterprise platform of SharePoint 2013 and SQL 2012. The true challenge of rapid application development will be demonstrated by the challenge "to build an application in 60 seconds". This level of agility provides a new tool to business users to create and deploy online applications on-premise or in the Cloud.

Building Video Application on Windows 8 with Windows Azure Media Service

Mingfei Yan — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:31:00 GMT

Video streaming traffic is growing incredibly rapid and you won’t want to miss the chance for delivering video on Windows 8 platform. Microsoft provides solution for enabling HTML5 tag with Smooth Streaming in Metro style apps or building a XAML Smooth streaming Metro style player that consume On-Demand and Live Smooth Streaming content w/ PlayReady protection. Even better, with Microsoft Windows Azure Media Service, you could create, manage and delivery media with a high-quality viewing experience on a global scale.

Authentication in the Cloud: Step by Step

Alexander Jorkowski — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:02:00 GMT

When migrating internal applications to the cloud it is no longer possible to hide behind firewalls and windows authentication. Care needs to be taken to make sure your applications are secure. This talk will be based on a real-life example of migrating an application from an internal windows authentication style environment to the cloud. We will start with a simple WCF service that uses netTcpBinding with windows auth and change the bindings to use a Federation server via the Azure Access Control Service (ACS). Care will be taken to compare the authentication methods. Additionally different configurations of the bindings will be explored to cover a number of security implementations (For instance the differences between certificate encryption of your tokens or just running them over SSL).

FIM Best Practices - Architecting Identity Solutions that Really Work!

Carol Wapshere — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:29:00 GMT

Best practices in the Identity Management world come hard-won, and are often discovered only after going down paths that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time, only to find they don't scale or adapt to new business requirements. Projects fail for many non-technical reasons - politics, resistance to change, poor data quality and unrealistic expectations. In this session get the inside track from someone who's been architecting and delivering Identity solutions with FIM (and its predecessors) for 7 years, and in many different environments. The session offers practical advice on preparing the non-technical landscape for your IdM project, and on architecting your solution to really benefit from the strengths of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2.

Casablanca: C++ on Azure

Mahesh Krishnan, John Azariah — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:15:00 GMT

Casablanca is a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. Think of it as Node.js, but using C++. Casablanca gives you the power to use existing native C++ libraries and code to do awesome things on the server. Come and watch John Azariah and Mahesh Krishnan show you how it is done

Closing Presentation - The Transformation of Work and the Office

Joseph Williams — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:20 GMT

Work is no longer tied to a person, a place, or even a job. In our era work is done by collaborating teams scattered around the world that blend the real-time efforts of employees, vendors, customers, and even regulators. Come hear how Microsoft is enabling the future of work today.

WS2012 Dynamic Access Control Overview and Tips

Pete Calvert — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 Data Governance. Administrators now have greater control over file server data by leveraging Active Directory claims, a more robust ACL model, Active Directory centralized authorization/auditing policy, and data classification. We also look at how Dynamic Access Control affects Active Directory Domain Services. This session has components specifically targeted to the AD Administrator, including the mechanics of Active Directory claims, central access policies, new authentication and authorization capabilities, the latest guidance on AD token bloat.

Windows Phone Marketplace - Satisfy More Customers and Make Money

Dave Glover — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Windows 8 Games and High Performance Development

Vaughan Knight — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Pew pew! With JavaScript, C#, and C++ on offer, come along and get a head start with your Windows 8 game. Dive into an audio visual feast of game development, looking at what Windows 8 application development brings to the table. From canvas to Direct3D, we'll be looking at frameworks, techniques, tools, and performance.

vFuture – Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 – BEHOLD THE AWESOME!!

Andrew McMurray, James Bannan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 is imminent, and radically changes the framework of systems management. Apart from a range of significant architectural enhancement, it brings a wealth of support for next-gen technologies including Windows 8, Metro applications and App-V 5.0, and opens the playing field for cross-platform management of non-Windows operating systems, including Mac OS X. Come along and check out the future of systems management.

SC2012 Infrastructure Components Management

Justin Cook, Noel Fairclough — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

System Center 2012 provides unmatched infrastructure deployment and monitoring capabilities, offering incredibly powerful capabilities to support a private cloud or highly-virtualized environment. In this session we will provide an overview of the features used to manage the infrastructure and configure a private cloud in the datacenter. Learn about heterogeneous support with VMware and Citrix, process automation, self-service infrastructure, delegation, bare-metal deployments, clustering, network monitoring and update management. You will see many physical, virtual and cloud management capabilities using Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager and Data Protection Manager.

Porting the e5 solution to Azure IaaS roles

Chris Wessels — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

e5 Workflow is an adaptive case management platform that optimizes and automates back-office processes to improve productivity and quality while reducing cycle time. It is an Enterprise application that deeply leverages the Microsoft stack, particularly SQL 2012, .Net 4.0, Office 365 and SharePoint 2010 to deliver a highly adaptive and scalable solution. It is a market leader in the Australian Health and Financial services sectors and has recently opened an office in the USA following successes in that market. Traditionally deployed on premise or via privately hosted cloud, the Windows Azure IaaS offering provides the ideal platform on which to leverage the cloud to maximise the opportunity to deliver the power of e5 process management as a Service . In this session we share our experience in porting real-world e5 deployments to Azure VM Roles including the integration and security challenges of hybrid deployments.

Office 365 Deployment Lessons from the Field: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Glen Gooda — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Since the release of Office 365 in 2011, Microsoft Services has been at the forefront of leading deployment projects that serve as both examples of best practices, as well as opportunities to learn. Hear from the members of the Office 365 Center of Excellence team as they will share their customer onboarding experiences both good and bad.

Lync 2013 and Enterprise Networking

Andrew Ehrensing, Vakhtang Assatrian — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Lync 2013 can leverage capabilities deployed on your network to enhance the call quality and user experience. Attend this session to learn about deployment guidance for Lync over Wi-Fi networks, an overview Lync 2013 Media monitoring and troubleshooting, IPv6, and how to enable real-time media traffic over Wi-Fi networks. Additionally, we will cover the Lync 2013 QoE architecture, metrics, & media troubleshooting.

WS2012 DirectAccess: Your Next Gen Remote Access Experience

Chad Duffey, Tristan Kington — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 connections. The new features in Windows Server 2012 support deployments in dispersed geographical locations, improved scalability with high availability, and improved performance in virtualized environments. This session overviews the new integrated remote access solution that is easier to deploy, enabling employees access to corporate network resources while they work remotely, and IT administrators to manage corporate computers that are located outside the internal network.

Windows 8: Windows To Go Overview

Tanya Koval, Zvezdan Pavkovic — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Join the session to get an in-depth overview of Windows To Go, a new feature in Windows 8 Enterprise that will offer new possibilities in mobile productivity.

The New Exchange - Archiving and Compliance

Steve Chew — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2013 includes improvements in the area of archiving and compliance. This session covers features such as in-place archiving, in-place hold, eDiscovery and more.

System Center 2012 Application Management

Mark Rhodes — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

System Center 2012 provides the industry's leading management technologies for IT services, automation and applications for the datacenter. Everyone knows Virtual Machine Manager can be used to manage virtual machines, but how often is a single virtual machine the entire story in your Private Cloud? In this session Mark Rhodes, OBS Senior Consultant and Microsoft MVP, will provide an overview of the features used to configure and operate Services and Applications within Virtual Machine Manager. In this session we will walk through the internals of the Service Templates and Virtual Machine Templates, as well as building and deploying your own templates with comprehensive demonstrations of delivering services through Virtual Machine Manager.

Scalable SQL Server Design with just a Credit Card

Peter Ward — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

The traditional approach to database scalability has been to simply buy a bigger box. However with the ongoing data explosion that is occurring in organisations today there is a need to re-think how to achieve scalability for the database platform. In this session we will explore how to deploy Microsoft SQL Server into a Private Cloud and how to extend this scalability as a Hybrid solution using the Azure platform. With nothing more than a credit card and the Azure platform you will see how it is now possible to create highly-available, infinitely scalable SQL Server environments that support automated deployment and elastic scale.

Planning for Failure in Cloud Applications

Wade Wegner — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

You can count on one of three things failing: hardware, software, or people. One of the most important considerations when moving applications into the public cloud is how to plan for - and mitigate - these failures. Certainly there are best practices in building any application that help you to handle failures, but what are the practices when your applications run in the public cloud? In this presentation, Wade Wegner will draw upon his years of experience with cloud applications in Windows Azure to share proven practices for handling failure in cloud applications.

LightSwitch 2012 - Even Faster

Andrew Coates — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 OData protocol, making LightSwitch also the simplest way to create a Data Service. LightSwitch continues to simplify the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic, while LightSwitch handles the common tasks for you. In this demo-heavy session, see end-to-end how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch and how to leverage Data Services created with LightSwitch to make data and business logic available through other applications. In this session you’ll gain an understanding of the LightSwitch application architecture and learn advanced techniques for customizing a LightSwitch application.

Developing for Key Windows Phone Consumer Scenarios

Vaughan Knight — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Application Hosting Models in SharePoint 2013

Shyam Narayan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

SharePoint 2013 introduces a new application development model which adopts a radically different approach to extending the SharePoint platform. This session dives deep into the different options available to developers to develop on the SharePoint platform by harnessing the power of the entire .NET stack and Windows Azure. The session also provides insight on building highly transaction and scalable applications with multi -tenancy and isolation in mind.

Presenting SharePoint as a Service to your Organisation

Garth Luke, Jeremy Thake — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

This session will discuss how to strike a successful balance between top-down control and trusting users to "do the right thing", resulting in a desired distributed management method that complies to policies agreed upon by the organisation’s governance committees. Topics such as accountability, restrictions, site lifecycle management, adoption, and return on investment of the service will be highlighted, as well as a review of available solutions to support delivery of SharePoint as a service. You’ll leave with a fresh understanding of: • How organisations are presenting SharePoint as a service • Several of the key services presented to business users • Best practices for measuring adoption and return on investment • Incorporating guidance for optimised information architecture

Whats in Windows Server 2012 for SQL Server

James Crawshaw, Raja Narayanaswamy — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Learn about the new, key Windows Server 2012 features which compliments SQL Server on its High Availability, Performance & Scalability, Mobility and Security. The session will drill into the major enhancements such as SMB( SMB Transparent Failover, SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (Remote Direct Memory Access), SMB Scale-Out, increased performance, and more), Hyper-V (replication-HA, Scalability, Mobility and Security enhancements)

SQL Azure Federations Deep Dive

Chris Auld — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Most developers are familiar with the concept of scaling out their application tier; with SQL Azure Federations it is now possible to scale out the data tier as well. In this session we will deep dive on building large scale solutions on SQL Azure. In this session we will cover patterns and techniques for building scalability into your relational databases. SQL Azure Federations allow databases to be spread over 100s of nodes in the Azure datacentre with databases paid for by the day. This presents a unique avenue for dealing with particularly massive volumes of data, of user load, or both. This session will discuss how to design a schema for federation scale-out while still maintaining the value afforded by a true relational (SQL) database. We’ll look at approaches for minimizing cross federation queries and as well as approaches to fan-out queries when necessary. We will examine approaches for dealing with elastically scaling applications and other high load scenarios.

Sounds like a Windows Phone Application

Nick Randolph — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Private Cloud Service Delivery and Automation with Microsoft System Center 2012

Toby Alcock, Chris Thurtell — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 supports the delivery of IT services through process and systems automation. This session also focuses on the monitoring and operating aspects of service delivery and automation through the System Center 2012 suite such as building an integrated cmdb and driving proactive and reactive processes.

Maximise your Hyper-V Deployment with HP Reference Architecture

Ana Hernandez, Paul Armstrong — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Hyper-V introduces some unique features that demands infrastructure designed to take full advantage of this new platform. Let HP and Microsoft show you how a reference architecture for Hyper-V will maximise performance, integrate infrastructure and virtual machine management from a single console, mitigating risks in deploying a virtualised environment. Take the guess work out of defining storage IO requirements, ensure you virtualise network connectivity to reduce complexity and guarantee a flexible infrastructure that's ready for your private, public, hybrid or managed cloud! HP VirtualSystem Solution for Microsoft, is an architecture designed as a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, specifically for virtualising Microsoft applications and workloads.

Exchange Server 2013 Deployment and Coexistence

Scott Schnoll — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

This session covers the Exchange Server 2013 upgrade and Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Server 2007 coexistence process, including best practices for planning and performing successful upgrades. This session also includes details on changes to Setup, as well as public folder migration to modern public folders in Exchange Server 2013.

Cluster-Aware Updating and the New Generation of WSUS

Orin Thomas — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 self-updating of failover clusters. In Windows Server 2012, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has evolved to become a Server Role with exciting new capabilities. This session introduces CAU with a discussion of its GUI, cmdlets, remote-updating and self-updating capabilities. And then we proceed to highlight the main functionalities of WSUS in Windows Server 2012 including the security enhancements, patch deployment automation, and new Windows PowerShell cmdlets to perform maintenance, manage and deploy updates.

Building Responsive Web Applications with MVC4, WebAPI and HTML5

Brendan Kowitz — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Slow websites don’t cut it anymore. In this session, discover how to build Web Applications that have a beautiful responsive UI using components from MVC4 and WebAPI. Then, together with powerful client-side libraries like Knockout we can enrich the user experience, target a variety of browsers and take advantage of the latest HTML5 standards. If you want to know what next generation web applications look like, you’re in the right place.

VDI in Windows Server 2012

James Bannan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Out-of-the-box, Windows Server 2012 presents you with a massive opportunity to deliver a flexible, powerful and comprehensive managed VDI environment. Find out why Server 2012 will drive VDI, and how you can take immediate advantage.

SQL Server Warehousing (Fast Track 4.0 & PDW)

Matthew Winter, Stephen Strong — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Scaling Microsoft SQL Server to manage the trend to analyse and report on increasing data volumes. This session covers using FastTrack 4.0 and Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW) offerings from Microsoft to not only scale to the required volumes but also more efficiently. We provide a deep dive into the technical aspects and architecture, along with actual customer case studies.

Lessons Learned: Deploying a Hybrid Cloud

Joel Neff, Shiran Herath — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Join McGrath Nichol, an early adopter customer, to understand their lessons learned in deploying a hybrid cloud environment using Windows Server 2012 and Azure Infrastructure as a Service.

Kick Starting your Migration to Windows Server 2012

Alexander Pubanz, Jesse Suna — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Now that you have seen all the cool new features in Windows Server 2012, we will show you how to get started and put them to use. In this demo intensive session we will show you how to prepare your current Windows Server 2003/2008R2 environment for the first Windows Server 2012 and how to migrate essential services such as AD, File, DNS, DHCP and more.

Demystifying Integration of Lync to your Existing PABX

Selvan Loganathan, Vakhtang Assatrian — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

You already own a PABX that you are not yet ready to replace fully with Lync but would like to integrate your PABX to Lync and leverage the most out of Lync as well as your legacy or new PABX. What options do you have? Why are some better than others ? What is supported? Come and find out what others around the world are doing.

Cross Platform Development with Windows Phone and Mono

Nick Randolph — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

A Modern Architecture Review: Using the New Code Review Tools

Adam Cogan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

This session leads you through 20 steps to achieve a 'Modern Architecture Review' that demonstrates how to perform an architecture review on a big project no longer needs to be daunting. We will demonstrates the first steps, and finding patterns and anti-patterns, that shows how Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 helps the process with architecture tools, code smell tools, etc. to enable you to attend to the code that needs the most attention. All this while creating Team Foundation Server code review work items to speed great results of the review.

What you Need to Know to Successfully Recover Active Directory

Alexander Pubanz — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

AD is core to most of our organisations. It is how we provide and restrict access to our information so we really can’t afford to have it missing in action. In this session we look at how to recover from various Active Directory disaster scenarios using on-board tools in Windows Server 2012 like the Windows Backup Feature, the AD Recycle Bin, an enhanced GPMC and PowerShell. Learn what you need in your backups, what you need to prepare for recovery, what the issues are and how to solve them.

Microsoft & Citrix: Better Together – A System Center Story

Derek Moir, Danny Newport — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Love the idea of BYOD & VDI but hate the idea of managing it? Citrix and Microsoft have made it easy; we’ll review XenDesktop & XenApp integration with Microsoft System Center 2012 and how we’ve simplified enterprise virtual desktop and application management. We’ll also cover off Citrix’s newer solutions for supporting BYO and give you a glimpse into what’s coming next. This is an in-depth technical session with many never-before-seen demos and a few free giveaways!

The Mass Mobile Experiment Powered by Windows Azure and Node.js

Simon Raik-Allen, Aidan Casey — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Come along armed with your smart phone to participate in the mass mobile experiment – a world first for Tech Ed! This is an interactive session – you’ll participate in the experiment first hand first hand and then learn about the open-source technology that makes it all possible - Windows Azure, Node.js, WebSockets, JavaScript and HTML5.

Building Hybrid Solutions with Windows Azure

Chris Padgett — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Building new applications for, or migrating existing applications to, the cloud is not an “all-or-nothing” decision. Applications might fit a “hybrid” approach, where components for the application can be hosted in the cloud and on-premises. This session explains how to connect, extend, and integrate applications in your data centre with the cloud using Windows Azure, including technologies such as Service Bus, SQL Azure Data Sync, Access Control Service, and Connect.

Agile Planning Tools in Team Foundation Server 2012 – Make them your Own

Anthony Borton — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

The Agile Planning tools in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 offer fantastic value to agile teams. In this session you’ll see how you can customise them and make them fit the way you team works better. We’ll also look at some other useful template customisations and how to get started making customisations to the latest version of Microsoft’s TFS process templates.

WS2012 File and Storage Services Management

Jeff Alexander — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 ‘pane of glass’ experience for storage and file services on standalone and clustered servers, pooling storage and allocating capacity with appropriate resiliency and performance for Windows, and a consistent storage management experience to configure Windows Storage Spaces or hardware subsystems. This session delves into these topics, as well as managing the deduplication policies to save storage capacity, remote/network access to Windows storage including SMB and NFS file shares for Information Workers and Applications as well as iSCSI block storage for diskless boot and application data, and ways to investigate and troubleshoot common end-user issues.

App Compat for Nerds

Chris Jackson — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

As a nerd (or geek, if you prefer), you're interested in leveraging the latest and greatest. But sometimes applications can hold you back! How can you help? In this demo-heavy session, come join "The App Compat Guy" Chris Jackson as he presents a tried and tested approach to troubleshooting failing applications, and then use this approach to interactively troubleshoot several real-world applications. Whether you are interested in Windows or Web applications, we will give you tools and techniques for resolving issues more quickly, so you can retire those old platforms sooner. Note: This session is designed for nerds/geeks who are interested in troubleshooting and remediating failing applications. If you are interested in best practices for running an app compat project, you should attend App Compat for Humans instead.

Migrate from Configuration Manager 2007 to Configuration Manager 2012

James Bannan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Configuration Manager 2012 is here – it’s no longer academic! In this session we work through a live, uncut, down-and-dirty, demo-driven migration from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012 – everything you need to know for your own Configuration Manager environment.

Real World: SharePoint Customisation – Developer vs. IT Pro

Jeremy Thake, Mark Rhodes — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Find out what happens when Microsoft SharePoint MVPs stop being polite, and start getting real. Don’t miss Brisbane-based SharePoint MVP Mark Rhodes and New York-based SharePoint MVP & AvePoint Chief Architect Jeremy Thake face off on how to customise SharePoint in an enterprise environment from the perspective of an IT Pro and Developer, respectively. Mark and Jeremy will discuss the main issues that IT Pros and Developers have with regard to customisations, highlighting how the disconnect between the two camps hinders progress and makes daily tasks more difficult. The two SharePoint MVPs will also use real world examples to illustrate their pains and highlight tools and processes that have helped make their lives easier. SharePoint platform upgrade scenarios, patching, updates to developed solutions and much more will be covered in this session. Attendees will leave with a fresh understanding of how customisations typically occur in an enterprise SharePoint environment, as well as how tools and processes can be put in place to make both parties happy and provide a successful platform to the business.

Lync 2013 Voice Improvements

Don Kerr, Andrew Ehrensing — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Lync 2013 has improved the voice experience. Learn about Voice in the cloud, including IP phone support and Hybrid voice providing on-premises interoperability with Lync Online. Learn about network stack changes including support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for both mixed (v4/v6) & standalone environments. Understand how to implement robust session management with trunk to trunk routing, call routing with multiple gateways and IP-PBXs. Discover user functionality changes including delegation enhancements including Shared Line Appearance (w/IP phone) and simring delegate calls and more administrative control of calling with per-call authorization for forwarding & simul-ring

All Aboard the Team Foundation Server Express

Anthony Borton — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 Server (TFS). Learn how to install Team Foundation Server 2012 Express and migrate your existing code from Visual SourceSafe or elsewhere. This session also covers additional capabilities of TFS that enable you to set up continuous integration builds with quality gates while documenting and tracking items from your backlog. While most of what we cover is included for free in the new TFS Express product, we also show the additional functionality that you can grow into with a paid TFS instance. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

Big Data for Relational Practitioners

Len Wyatt — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

You’ve heard the hype about Big Data, Hadoop, and so on… How does this relate to you? This session will describe how the Hadoop ecosystem relates to the ETL, Data Warehousing and BI that you are already doing. We’ll discuss what no-SQL means in practice: What is gained and what is lost. There will be some examples showing Hadoop tools like Pig, Hive and Sqoop, and when you might use them. Finally, what skills should you focus on to make the transition from relational expert to Big Data expert?

WS2012 IP Address Management (IPAM)

Rick Claus — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 exhaustion of the public IPv4 address space. This has led to a pressing need for automating IP address space management, obtaining real-time insight into address utilization, and the monitoring and management of the addressing and naming infrastructure (DNS and DHCP servers). Windows Server 2012 introduces the in-box IP address management (IPAM) feature - a central framework for monitoring and managing the IP address space and the associated infrastructure servers. Apart from the core offerings, IPAM also provides support for auto-discovery of infrastructure servers in Active Directory forest; supports migration of IP address space data from legacy tracking tools and enables integration with other address provisioning systems such as SCVMM. IPAM also supports audit of IP address activity on the network to ensure compliance and enhanced change management. IPAM thus caters to the requirements of various enterprise admin personas like the network administrator, the server administrator and the forensics investigator, and it significantly reduces the operational cost of managing the IP address space and associated infrastructure servers. This session will describe the rationale, objectives and design of Windows Server 2012 IPAM, and demonstrate its key capabilities.

Enhancing User State Virtualization through MDOP

Toby Alcock, Glen Sarsero — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

In a future version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a new product called User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) will be added. This session offers an early look into how this upcoming product will provide you with an enhanced user state

Mobile + Cloud: Building Mobile Applications with Windows Azure

Wade Wegner — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? In this session, learn how to build Windows Phone, Android and even iOS apps that are backed by scalable cloud services with the Windows Azure platform.

Guest Clustering and VM Monitoring in WS2012

Luke Notley — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 2012 as well as discusses Guest Clustering and changes in Windows Server 2012 (such as virtual FC), along with pros and cons of when to use each.

Implementing Security Compliance Manager for Compliance in SCCM 2012

George Smpyrakis, Matt Shadbolt — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

In this session, see Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Administrator and learn how to use Security Compliance Manager and the baseline templates to apply them in setting management. This will allow the administrators to check for Compliance in their IT Environment

Office 365 Identity Federation Technology Deep-Dive

Toby Knight, Ben Walters, Paul Black — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Synchronisation is an critical part of Directory Integration with Windows Azure AD. This session will perform a deep dive into synchronisation from Active Directory and non-AD sources. We will discuss how to plan, design, and deploy directory sync solutions such as DirSync and FIM 2010-based solutions for advanced synchronisation scenarios.

Lync Customer Panel Q & A

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Hear from customers that have deployed Lync as an IP-telephony platform. Why did they deploy it. How did they deploy it. What was their business case. Things to consider while deploying Lync.

Windows 8 with a View

Jordan Knight — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

WinRT on Windows 8 is a fantastic and exciting new platform for developers - but how do you get the most out of this new platform? New framework features and controls are one thing, but how does a developer (and designer!) really squeeze the most out of the new platform? In this session, Jordan will cover one of the most important facets of WinRT development - client side patterns. Not for the faint hearted - we explore the latest and greatest ways to build amazing applications, using patterns like Model-View-ViewModel, automatic convention based view selection, navigation, transitions, parallel workflows and much more. Walk away from this session wondering how you ever managed before seeing these techniques in action!

Killer Real World PowerPivot Examples Part II

Grant Paisley — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

This session is even more jam packed with amazing PowerPivot report examples than last years entertaining presentation. This is *the* session to attend if you want to get the most out of Powerpivot visualizations. Essentially you will see real world PowerPivot reports from clients in Education, Retail, Banking, and Telco and learn a variety of visualization techniques including sparklines, slicers, and charts. You will leave this fun session armed with plenty of ideas for your next personal BI project. Oh and watch out for flying Koala's.

Cluster Shared Volumes Reborn in Windows Server 2012: Deep Dive

Gareth James, Hani Adhami — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

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 of the challenges of the past have been addressed, along with many enhancements. This is an in-depth session that covers the CSV architecture, CSV backup integration, and integration with a wealth of new features that enhance CSV and its performance.

From Server to Service: How Microsoft Moved Team Foundation Server to Windows Azure

Grant Holliday — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is a multi-tier client/server application that Microsoft ported to Windows Azure. In this session, you will get an idea of what it takes to take an existing application and turn it into an Internet-scale service. Getting the code running is the easy part - you will learn about all the other things you need to think about when shifting from building a server to running a service, including deployment, patching, monitoring, scaling and testing.

Building Robust Windows Azure Applications with P&P Guidance

Mahesh Krishnan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

The Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure from the p&p group provides some useful application blocks such as the Transient Fault Handling Application Block and the Windows Azure Scaling Application Block (WASABi). The Transient Fault Handling Application Block can make access to storage in the cloud more resilient to temporary errors by helping you add retry logic to your code, and WASABi allows you to automatically scale your application in response to changes in demand. Come and hear how you can make your Azure applications more robust by using these application blocks.

WS2012 Capabilities to Enable Multi-Tenancy

David Starrenburg, Philip Meyer — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

“Any service at any server in any cloud.” Large organisations with different business groups, government agencies and hosters have long worked to provide effective multi-tenanted solutions for their end customers but it hasn’t been easy. With the growth of private clouds, interest in this capability has increased. In this session you will learn how Windows Server 2012 enables you to create an agile, multi-tenant cloud on top of your existing infrastructure.

FIM Best Practices - Technical Deep-Dive

Carol Wapshere — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

This session focuses on technical best practices in deploying the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Synchronization Service, Portal and Password management components. The recommendations presented come from years of implementation experience and are not merely theoretical. This session will help you develop your own IdM solution that is scalable, redundant and fit for purpose within your organisation.

Presenting SharePoint as a Service to your Organisation

Garth Luke, Jeremy Thake — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Selling & Deploying Windows 8 Apps

Nick Hodge, Patrick Klug — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Windows 8 offers developers the opportunity to distribute apps via the Store; or in a business scenario: via Group Policy. In this session you will learn about both of these scenarios. See the different revenue-earning mechanisms; App Store publishing guidelines & processes. For enterprise deployed Apps, this session will provide details on how Apps are developed and deployed to Enterprise users.

From Start to Rest in 60 minutes.

Paul Glavich — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

In this session, you will find out how to make a very REST friendly API using the new and shiny ASP.Net WebApi technology set shipped with MVC 4. We will look at the way we have exposed Api's in the past, and how that has changed overtime to what we have today. We will examine how to create our Api to automatically handle HTTP verbs, easy support of multiple content types, usage logging, various media handling and much more. If you are creating a new Api, or are currentlyusing ASMX, WCF, WCFWebApi or MVC to expose your Api, come and see how to do it using the new kid on the block.

Best Practices for deploying WS2012 on HP BladeSystem

Ana Hernandez, Paul Armstrong — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Windows Server 2012 is an exciting product that most of us can’t wait to get our hands on. Over the next few weeks and months, we will all see the rubber hit the road as we face the realities of deploying Windows Server 2012. As we all know that the OS does not live in isolation, we need to consider the environment we are going to deploy into. This session will cover the best practices for deploying Windows Server 2012 in a BladeSystem environment. You will leave with pragmatic advice on how to make the most out of your hardware and software as you move forward with these exciting tools for your business.

Windows 8 Security Internals

Chris Jackson — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Chris Jackson (“The App Compat Guy”) goes under the hood of Microsoft’s newest client OS, Windows 8. Intended for IT Pros and Developers that have already gotten their hands dirty with Windows 8 and understand its basic concepts, this session gives an inside look at the architectural design of Windows 8’s security platform. You’ll learn about the Windows security architecture, what goes on behind the scenes when you deploy and run a Metro-style app, and how the end-to-end experience delivers a trusted application experience. He’ll also highlight how the platform both leverages and extends features you can already use with Windows 7.

Azure; Security, Data Sovereignty: No Problem

Rocky Heckman, Chris Zhong — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Do you want to take advantage of Windows Azure but either have Data Sovereignty concerns, or are fighting them? Do you want to know how to understand the issues, address them and design architectures for your systems to deal with Data Sovereignty? In this session we will discuss the actual issues around security and Data Sovereignty. We'll look at what they really mean to you and cut through the FUD surrounding them. We'll look at how Windows Azure is uniquely positioned to be able to deal with these issues while maintaining security and privacy while maintaining reliability, confidentiality and most importantly availability of your missions critical data. We'll look at policy, architecture, development and deployment options that ensure peace of mind of you and your customers. Bring your questions, and let's take down some barriers to cost and efficiency savings so you can get to the important role of running your business.

Enabling Next Gen Multi-Datacenter Resilience at Kennards Hire

Michael Chanter, Richard Fox-Smith — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Like many organisations, Kennards drove great business value by deploying virtualization in the datacentre. As a result of strategic changes, they revisited their architecture and looked at how they could best deliver for their future state. Join the team from Kennards, and their partner Frontline, to understand their drivers and strategy to build complete resilience for their mission critical applications including how they are approaching disaster recovery. You will learn how they worked to do this using current infrastructure and without having to re-engineer storage. You will also hear how they used some of the new technologies in Windows Server 2012 to achieve this.

Click-to-Run: The New Office Deployment and Update Management

Yoni Kirsh, Alistair Speirs — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Based on application virtualization technology, Click-to-Run enables Office installation in a fraction of the time it used to take, lets you use previous versions of Office side-by-side and even allows local executable to interact with it. Click-to-Run is designed to go beyond simple user self-installation and enable enterprise software distribution tools to automate installation. In this session, we show the controls available for Office, Visio and Project Click-to-Run deployment and integrate those into tools like the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Intune, scripting – or just about anything that can run an elevated command to install Office. We will also discuss how software update management works in this new model and methods for downloading, configuring and consuming updated Click-to-Run builds. Finally, we will point you to further content where you can learn more about Click-to-Run deployment and management.

Windows 8 Application Development with HTML/Java Script

Aaron Powell — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:58:00 GMT

Having spent my career being a web developer and focusing on front end technologies like JavaScript, CSS and HTML the promotion of these to a first-class development platform in Windows 8. So I decided to build a Windows 8 application using WinJS, but what was it like? What lessons were learnt and how can you avoid potential pitfalls when building a Windows 8 Metro application using WinJS?

Building Cross-Device Mobile Applications Powered by Windows Azure and SQL Azure

Chris Auld — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:58:00 GMT

This session will present extensions to the Azure StockTrader application to run on mobile devices including Windows Phone, IPhone, and Android devices. The sample application includes a backend powered by the Windows Azure Service Bus and SQL Azure with Federations to enable data display and user interface to be optimized for these devices from a Windows Azure backend service. Learn about the technology choices facing mobile application developers, technologies adopted for the sample and why those choices were made. The application is an end-to-end sample that includes full sample code and documentation

Build Smart: Developing for Windows Phone and Windows 8

Vaughan Knight — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:58:00 GMT

Windows Phone SDK - Be Productive Straight out of the Blocks

Jordan Knight — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:58:00 GMT

In this talk, Jordan provides a great foundation to begin your Windows Phone development career. Starting with a quick overview of the WP7 development tools we’ll then quickly move in to some very important development techniques, tips and tricks. See how to make your applications run super smooth and why that network call is misbehaving plus much more. To finish up you’ll see how to create awesome applications by using the power of the WP7 emulator, including apps that use the accelerometer and mapping. This session will slingshot you along the path to making great WP7 applications.

WS2012 NIC Teaming and Multichannel Solutions

Rick Claus — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 your environment through link aggregation, switch independent mode, and supported load balancing algorithms. To add to this SMB 3.0 includes a capability called SMB Multichannel that provides scalable and resilient connections to SMB shares that dynamically create multiple connections for single sessions or multiple sessions on single connections depending on connection capabilities and current demand. This session delves deep into both of these great new features, and how to use them in your organization.

Windows Azure SQL Database and SQL Reporting for Developers

Greg Low — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session, Greg will introduce Windows Azure SQL Database and SQL Reporting with an emphasis on how they can be implemented by developers. Working with SQL in the cloud means more than just redirecting your database connections. Greg will discuss important considerations that need to be made when working in this environment.

Enabling Disaster Recovery using Hyper-V Replica

Ben Armstrong — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Hyper-V Replica offers an affordable DR solution for virtualized workloads. It is included with Hyper-V, works with commodity storage, and has an inbox UI to set up standard DR flows. It also has a rich API surface (PowerShell and WMI) which provides extensibility for management partners (e.g., extend the inbox UI to an enterprise-grade DR solution) and hosting service providers (e.g., offer DR as a service).

Enabling Mature Self Service with System Center 2012

Justin Cook, Jeffrey Cook — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

System Center 2012 delivers an unbelievable amount of automation and self service capabilities, but where do you start? This session will help you understand what self service capabilities are delivered natively with each component in the System Center 2012 suite. This ranges from application distribution to Windows 8 clients with Configuration Manager, VM provisioning with Virtual Machine Manager or complete Private Cloud management with Orchestrator. In addition learn how the Service Catalog in Service Manager and the automation delivered via Orchestrator runbooks allows you to centralise the self service functionality into a single portal. Utilising Orchestrator runbooks and integration packs, allows the automation to extend beyond System Center to many systems deployed in your environment. This session will show you how you can get the most out of automation and the System Center 2012 suite, whether it is for managing a simple AD group membership task, or delivering a complete Private Cloud provisioning process.

Introducing the New App Model for Office and SharePoint

Alistair Speirs, Jake Ginnivan — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

The new Office and SharePoint introduce exciting features for the developer. This session will focus on what is new in Office and SharePoint development to include the new Cloud App Model and building apps for Office and SharePoint. We will discuss the architecture of both apps for Office and SharePoint. We will then look inside the anatomy of an app for both Office and SharePoint.

Lync 2013 Deployment

Andrew Ehrensing, Ewan MacKellar — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Lync 2013 includes new options for deploying and migration. This session will transfer knowledge about the homogenous setup flow to include new roles and features, new hardware and software requirements along with the new capacity model, and new/updated tools for the setup & administration

Design and Layout for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Style Apps

Shane Morris — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

This session is a followup to Shane's Introduction to Windows UI Style talk. In this session we will cover the detailed layout and design rules for Windows 8 applications (and also Windows Phone). We'll walk through the design process from concept to wireframe to finished layout, and along the way we'll highlight the most important guidelines to look out for.

SQL Server Database Private Cloud Deep Dive

Danny Tambs — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session, learn about the DPC (Database Private Cloud) Reference Architecture and how it can be used to consolidate thousands of databases on a single scalable platform. The session will drill into the hardware and software configuration and cover how its wired together. We will cover the use cases, savings, workload types and migrating workloads to the solution as well as discuss management options.

WS2012 Server Manager for Remote and Multi-Server Mgt

Pete Calvert — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 multicomputer management are Server Manager and Windows PowerShell 3.0. Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 helps you efficiently deploy and manage roles and features on the local server, on remote servers, and on both online and offline virtual hard disks. It also provides a multiserver experience where you can centralize your Windows Server management in a single view, and streamlined your server configuration and deployment from the same window. Windows PowerShell 3.0 provides an extensive platform to help you manage server roles and automate management tasks. With access to over 2300 commandlets (a tenfold increase from the previous version), Windows PowerShell 3.0 offers comprehensive management across your datacenter. This session overviews these subjects in detail and prepares you for enhancing your management capability.

Windows Runtime (WinRT) Deep Dive

Brendan Forster — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

The launch of Windows 8 has brought with it a lot of interest in building Metro apps. But what about the technology which lies at the core of this new platform – Windows Runtime? Join Brendan as he explains what this “WinRT” thing is and what it means for developers. He will demonstrate how to work with WinRT, how you can share code written in C#, C++ or Javascript, and how to unlock some secrets to the platform.

Deploying Virtualization Infrastructure from Ground Zero

Kyle Rosenthal — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

This session steps through a scenario of deploying a new Hyper-V cluster environment from Bare Metal to placing it in a cluster to automating the deployment of VM and Services. The goal of this session is to look at best practices around server and branch virtualization deployment using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012.

Data Quality Services in Enterprise Info Management

James Beresford — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

This session introduces the basic concepts of SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) and how to use it as part of building Credible, Consistent Data. It will cover the concepts and terminology that the product uses and the basics of how to use it to cleanse data. The session will also showcase the automation of Data Quality processes via its integration with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), and how it can be used to help manage reference data in Master Data Services (MDS).

WS2012 File System Enhancements: ReFS and Storage Spaces

Rick Claus — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 storage solutions. Storage Spaces delivers powerful platform-based enterprise storage capabilities enabling utilization of cost-effective commodity storage hardware for business critical application deployments. ReFS maximizes data availability and online operation, despite errors that would historically cause data loss or downtime. Both of these can help build greater resiliency and data integrity to ensure that business-critical data is protected from errors and available when needed, using commodity hardware. In this session learn how Windows Server 2012 maintains the highest levels system availability and reliability providing a full end-to-end resilient architecture for ReFS when used in conjunction with Storage Spaces to magnify the capabilities and reliability of one another. This sessions includes demos of these technologies and uses real-world customer deployments to discuss how to deploy commodity storage hardware to build a cost-effective, resilient, and scalable storage platform.

What’s New for Windows 8 Devs Part 3

Lewis Benge — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

As with any app, user experience is fundamental to its success; but experience is more than looks and design. Windows 8, and it’s WinRT APIs have opened up a new ecosystem of integration points and capabilities that allow developers to expand their applications in new ways, and maximise on the user experience to help improve success. This session will highlight some of the new ways we can now integrate into hardware and devices, maximise interoperability with other platforms, and use new technologies that are now available to us.

Microsoft Project Online Overview

Brad Purdy, Christophe Fiessinger — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Microsoft Project Online is the *new* Office 365 service that enables teams and organizations to manage their day-to-day work, plan mission critical projects and prioritize portfolio investments to maximize business value. This session provides an overview of Project Online and how to get started. We will be spending a significant amount of time demonstrating Project Online!

Lync 2013 Meeting Improvements

Andrew Ehrensing, Val Tuckett — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Lync 2013 has optimized the meeting experience. Learn about how to make meetings more personal with multiparty video, more productive with OneNote and PowerPoint integration, accessible from a wide range of platforms and devices, and how to scale to 1,000 people

Enable the Consumerization of IT

David Tesar — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 get the job done. Opportunities exist to enable greater productivity, hire great people and keep them happy, but also a responsibility to properly secure and manage devices and data. Learn how Microsoft can help you responsibly enable this vision to “Consumerize the IT” inside your company.

Data Protection and Monitoring in a Virtualized Datacentre

Charles Clarke — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session we will explore architectural elements from Veeam that tightly integrate with Microsoft System Centre 2012 to extend its reach into VMware environments, helping provide a single pane of glass for monitoring infrastructure and applications. This session will also explore the future of Data Protection in the Virtualized Datacentre, focused on Hyper-V support introduced in Veeam Backup and Replication v6.1. Utilizing Veeam Software’s new Demo Centre of Excellence in Australia we discuss and demonstrate successful image-based backup, replication and recovery for VM workloads running on Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Presenter: Charles Clarke is the Pre-Sales Manager for Veeam Software in the Asia Pacific region. He has over 17 years experience in the IT industry working with a wide range of technologies and organizations around the world.

Comparing Private Cloud Capabilities

Michael Pascoe — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Another must-see session for anyone comparing private cloud and systems management technologies! Building on the "Comparing Core Virtualization Platforms" session, we focus on comparing and contrasting the private cloud and systems management technologies offered by both Microsoft and other hypervisor providers, and learn how, with System Center 2012, Microsoft has brought to market the most integrated, comprehensive suite of technologies for managing your entire infrastructure, from desktop to the datacenter, across physical and virtual, into the cloud. We compare and contrast technologies across application and workload monitoring, backup and application protection, service management and automation and much more! If you’re looking at building a comprehensively managed infrastructure, or moving towards a private cloud, this session is for you!

Enable “Bring Your Own Device” with SCCM 2012

David Caddick — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is one of the hottest topics in Information Technology today: Microsoft & Quest define Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) strategies which tightly integrate with System Center providing centralized administration, centralized asset reporting, and tightly managing security. Many organizations are just starting to scratch the surface of these strategies and have not yet fully considered the extended impacts of personal devices becoming repositories for sensitive corporate data. Quest’s solution allows medium to large organizations to effectively and securely enable the use of personal mobile devices, providing the highest levels of data protection for the regulated, security-conscious enterprise. Are you confused about the current offerings to enable BYOD? Are you aware of the limitations of the Agent based approach? Join us for an informative discussion on new directions in device & desktop management founded on the principle of Data Loss Protection as the cornerstone of provisioning BYOD

Diving into SMB 3.0

Jerome Brown — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 an updated SMB protocol that greatly enhance the reliability, availability, manageability, and performance of file servers. This session overviews all the new SMB related features that Windows Server 2012 provides, and how to use them in your organization.

Developing an Optimized Analysis Services Tabular Project BI Semantic Model

Peter Myers — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session learn how to develop and deploy a tabular project BI Semantic Model – a new data modelling approach made available to developers in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. The session will cover many design practices including how to load and relate data, how to enrich the model with hierarchies and calculations, and how to deploy, secure and process the model. Best practice design considerations will introduce the internal architecture of the engine and describe how to optimize the model for performance and scale. Finally, and with due emphasis, discussion to help you decide when the tabular project BI Semantic Model is the appropriate modelling choice will be introduced

Automating Protection and Recovery with DPM and the System Center Suite

Orin Thomas — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Ensuring that a service is protected so that it is easily recoverable can be time consuming, complicated, and tedious. Performing a recovery can be routine or stressful. Automating the protection and recovery of services can minimize mistakes and failures. We show how you can use Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager and System Center to deliver an automated protection and recovery service for your organization: Driven from Service Manager, organized by Orchestrator and implemented through Data Protection Manager.

.NET 4.5: Just the Good Stuff

Mahesh Krishnan, William Tulloch — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session, William Tulloch and Mahesh Krishnan, authors of the book "Introducing .NET 4.5" talk about all the new stuff in .NET 4.5. If there is one session that you want to go to that covers all the important bits in .NET 4.5, this is it.

WS2012 Hyper-V Live Migration and Live Storage Migration

Ben Armstrong — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 Server 2012 live migrations are no longer limited to a cluster and you can now move both Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine storage using clusters, SMB shares and even just a simple network cable (no shared storage) – with no downtime. You have ultimate flexibility in your virtual infrastructure and further, when combined with features such as Network Virtualization, virtual machines can even be moved between hosts that are on different network subnets.

What’s New for Windows 8 Devs Part 2

David Burela — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

David Burela takes anyone new to Desktop development through the basics of developing for Windows 8. XAML, Databinding, DataTemplates and ViewModels will all be introduced. Discover how to separate your UI from your business logic, how to create List Views that display your data richly, how portable libraries can help your business logic be used cross platform, plus much more. The techniques will be focused on Windows 8, but can be applied to any XAML based application: WinRT, Windows Phone, WPF, Silverlight 5.

The Faces of WS2012: Bare Metal, Server Core, Minimal Server Interface…

Ian Lucas — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In Windows Server 2012 we take a huge leap forward in the ease of leveraging the value of Server Core. This session details the flexibility you can enjoy by seamlessly moving between full GUI, Server Core or Minimal Server Interface installations. We will discuss new deployment options for Windows Server 2012 and its roles and features, including the ability to minimize server footprint using Features on Demand. By understanding the choices you now have, we will provide you with practical ways to design your deployments and plan your ongoing management.

Lync 2013 Architecture

Andrew Ehrensing, Selvan Loganathan — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

During this session, we will cover new and improved capabilities of Lync 2013 in the core workload, mobile access, scaling, security, manageability, and ease of operations. This includes architectural underpinnings for these changes and details around the Lync 2013 Server Management, high availability, Lync Online Manageability, Remote PS, LOCP, RBAC, and hybrid management.

Introducing the New SharePoint

Ben Walters, William Cornwill, Alistair Speirs — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Social connections are at the core of your modern Office. Social should live where your people are. It should just be where they go to get work done. However, the question that enterprises are asking of social technologies are asking is ‘What will social technology do to make me more productive, and how can I ensure high-levels of adoption’? In this session, learn how we show you how we have implemented social technology into SharePoint, Office, Exchange and Lync.

Deploying Windows 8: What’s New

Michael Niehaus — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

With the coming release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, new questions arise: How to deploy it? In this session, we will explore the changes in the tools and processes for deploying Windows 8, then look at how the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Configuration Manager 2012 help make Windows 8 deployment easy.

Deep Dive - System Center Configuration Manager 2012 AppModel

James Bannan — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Discover the magic behind the new AppModel in Configuration Manager 2012, which enables administrators to deploy and manage applications on current and future versions of Windows, anywhere within your private cloud. Users quickly get access to the applications they need, while administrators no longer need to use monolithic operating system images or layers of task sequences, and applications are managed fully throughout their lifecycle.

Azure SQL, Tables, Blobs, Queues, Cache, Hadoop; What is the Best for Me?

Richard Laxton — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

There are numerous options available for data storage available on Windows Azure and it can be very difficult to pick the right one for a given application profile. This session will evaluate many of the various storage options available to the Azure developer in terms of their: - Ease of use - Real-world performance - Cost - Features The session will also explore the benefits of tiered storage and review patterns that the developer can use to get the most out of a few key storage options.

Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

Michael Washam — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Join Michael Washam 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 storage architecture and shows how to provision and customize virtual machines, configure network connectivity between virtual machines, and configure site-to-site networks that enable true applications that span from on-premises to Windows Azure. He’ll focus specifically on features that enable you to create highly available Virtual Machine-based services and how to connect Virtual Machines with Cloud Services.

What's New in MDT 2012?

Michael Niehaus — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

The latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit has been released! Learn about all the new features and enhancements in this version, including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 deployment; support for Configuration Manager 2012; the ability to deploy to UEFI computers; integration with the DaRT tools; and much more.

Turbocharging a Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes

Len Wyatt — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Do you have data warehouse queries that run too long? Adding a columnstore index can provide a tremendous performance boost. Do you know why? Do you know when to create a columnstore index and how to get the best performance from your columnstore indexes? In this session we’ll address how columnstore indexes speed up queries, best practices for creating and using columnstore indexes, and how to diagnose and treat potential issues.

Office Beyond the Desktop

Adam Glick — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In this session, see how the new Office, SharePoint, Lync and Exchange will continue to define productivity for businesses anywhere and everywhere. We define it to be more than just software, to encompass experiences powered by PCs, devices, servers and cloud services. Come see our vision for your modern office!

Hyper-V Performance, Scale & Architecture Changes

Ben Armstrong — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

You’ve probably heard that Hyper-V has changed in Windows Server 2012 – a lot. We can’t tell you a lot about what we’re going to talk about but we can tell you that you’ll leave excited. At level 400 and not for the virtually faint-hearted, Ben Armstrong from the Microsoft engineering team walks you through how to get performance and scale out of Hyper-V and helps you understand the architecture changes we’ve made in the product to make it so.

How I Became Authentically Digital - An Introduction to the Windows 8 UI Design Language

Shane Morris — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Thanks to Microsoft's minimalist, type-centric UI design language, designing great looking user interfaces seems more attainable than ever. But designing a great app for Windows 8 or Windows Phone requires more than just following the 'syntax'. In this session we'll look at the principles behind Metro, and how you can use them to design user experiences that don't just look good, but are easy to use and effectively communicate your app's unique personality.

Best Practises for Orchestrator Runbook Authoring

Gareth James — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

System Centre Orchestrator can the be central engine for many IT automation projects. All the secret sauce is in the Runbooks, and there are good ways and bad ways to write them. In this session you'll find discover the tips for authoring good ones.

Architecting Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012

Michael Pascoe — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Architecting a private cloud presents many complex design decisions and technology tradeoffs. These decisions touch areas such as network topologies, storage architecture selection, performance, reliability, security, dynamic virtual machine deployment, and interoperability with existing architecture. This talk presents a few canonical architectures that highlight interesting design decisions of a private cloud that are new in Windows Server 2012.

What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 1

Stu Fox — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

This 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 sessions, it provides a complete summary of why Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is the best virtualization platform for server consolidation, key workload support and VDI, as well as the ideal platform for Infrastructure as a Service, including Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Public Cloud.

What's New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012

Pete Calvert — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 about each of the features, the problems they address, and what’s required for your customers to deploy and leverage them. We delve into how virtualization now “just works”, how we’ve simplified the deployment of Active Directory, and where we focused our efforts in and around the broader topic of management both from a graphical- and command-line standpoint.

What’s New for Windows 8 Developers Part 1 aka The Square Cheese Has Moved. A Little

Nick Hodge, Patrick Klug — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Windows 8 introduces many new APIs, UX design concepts, runtime models and security considerations. What does this mean for the traditional Win32 and/or .NET developer? Has the world completed changed? In this session, Nick Hodge will provide a comprehensive overview of the new parts in Windows 8 for developers; how to reuse your existing skills in the new world. See where you can use Windows 8 in Line-of-Business and Consumer facing application scenarios.

Keeping the Lights On with SQLServer 2012 AlwaysOn

Simon Brown, Warwick Rudd — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

In today’s ever changing environment, the requirements for High Availability and Disaster Recoverability are becoming more complex. Are you able to meet these requirements with your current SQL Server Stack ? With the release of SQL Server 2012, the High Availability/Disaster Recovery feature AlwaysOn provides a more granular approach and control over your environment. In this presentation we will look at how to configure, setup & monitor SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

ITIL and the Private Cloud

Gareth James, Mark Dowling — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Private Cloud is all about automation, self-service and empowering IT consumers so System Administrators are doing less manual tasks. That sounds great, but wait I hear you cry, that sounds like the Wild West. How do you even start to manage change in that kind of environment? Join an ITIL Certified Operations Consultant and Private Cloud SME from Microsoft Services as we explain that ITIL does not go out the window. In fact, Private Cloud does not work without process control. However, there is one part that might need to change in your organisation – the dreaded Change Control Board!

Introduction to Windows Azure Web Sites

Nathan Totten — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 favourite languages, frameworks, and tools. Join Nathan Totten as he demonstrates how you can use this new technology to build, deploy, and run everything from classic ASP sites to modern ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications using both new and familiar tools including Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and WebMatrix.

Your Modern Office - Introducing the new Office, SharePoint, Lync, and Exchange

Quin Nikel, Michael Atalla, Peter Kelly — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Virtual keynote to introduce the Office, Sharepoint, Office 365, Exchange and Lync tracks. This session will cover what is coming in the 2013 wave of products and provide a roadmap for the rest of TechEd.

What's New in WS2012

David Tesar — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 clouds and on-premise datacenters. It can take you Beyond Virtualization while offering The Power of Many Servers, and the Simplicity of One. It helps with Every App, Any Cloud, and offers to help Enable the Modern Work Style. Learn what we mean by all that and furthermore, experience this in a number of demos showing exciting new features and scenarios.

What's New in Visual Studio 2012

Adam Cogan — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Software development continues to make great advances and so does Visual Studio. Come learn about the trends impacting software development and how you can take advantage of them with Visual Studio 2012. This talk provides a brief overview coupled with lots of demos to highlight how Visual Studio 2012 simplifies development, streamlines collaboration for teams, and helps you create apps that your users will love. Visual Studio 2012 helps you turn ideas into software; this session gets you started.

How to Architect the Private Cloud

Gareth James — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

System Centre 2012 can deliver the Private Cloud - Great. How do integrate all those components to provide a sustainable Private Cloud infrastructure? In this session, you will find out how Microsoft Services architected its Private Cloud solution based on System Centre 2012 and Hyper-V. What the guiding principles that were used and how rubber of theory meets the road of deployment and sustainment.

Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Deep Dive

Scott Schnoll — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2013 has been redesigned and boasts a new architecture that is different from all previous versions. This session covers the new server architecture in Exchange Server 2013 and the significant changes for servers roles in Exchange Server 2013. This session includes details on client access protocol proxying and connectivity flow, Outlook connectivity, namespace and load balancing changes, and the new front-end transport service. It also includes details on mailbox, store, ESE and related changes, the new FAST search infrastructure, modern public folders, managed availability, and transport high availability and components.

Becoming a Windows Intune IT Administrator - A Real-World Perspective

John Pritchard, Harris Schneiderman — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

Windows Intune simplifies how businesses manage their Windows PCs. It delivers cloud-based management and security capabilities using a single Web-based console. Intune enables IT to manage PCs from virtually anywhere. All that’s required is an Internet connection. This session will provide an overview of Windows Intune from an IT administrator’s perspective. The presenter will share his tips and tricks for running a successful Intune tenant for the past 12 months. Demos of a production Intune environment will be presented throughout the session to illustrate the capabilities of the product in a real-world environment.

Enabling Hosted IaaS Clouds for Service Providers

Philip Meyer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

This Session provides deep technical insight to Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 for enabling Hosted Cloud IaaS services by Service Providers. The topic covers the key components of System Center VMM; introduces themes around multi-tenancy, Partner enablement, Performance and Scale; outlines the various User Profiles and Roles enabled; demonstrates Tenant Administration Services; and most significantly presents Services Provider Foundation (SPF) to faciliate Hybrid Cloud solutions leveraging AppController. AppController will be demonstrated for management of On-Premise Cloud and Hosted IaaS Cloud Fabric and Resource Pools

Building Connected Windows Store apps with Windows Azure Mobile Services

Nick Harris — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

Join this session to see how you can leverage Visual Studio 2012 and Windows Azure Mobile Services to add structured storage, push notifications and integrated authentication and in literally minutes to your Windows Store applications.

Node.js and Windows Azure

Nathan Totten — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

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 simple websites to high-scale real-time applications. In this session you will learn how to build, deploy, and host your Node.js application on Windows Azure.

What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 2

Stu Fox — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

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 consolidation, key workload support and VDI, as well as the ideal platform for Infrastructure as a Service, including Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Public Cloud.

Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience

Scott Schnoll — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2013 offers many enhancements for redundancy, availability and recovery. This session focuses on the improvements in the areas of storage, high availability, site resilience in Exchange Server 2013. It includes details on new storage features, enhancements to lagged database copies, the introduction and integration of managed availability, database availability group network enhancements, namespace changes, site resilience, and datacenter failovers.

Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0: Introduction

Ian Bartlett, Mohnish Mohnish — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:04:00 GMT

See how the next version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) takes application virtualization to the next level. In this session, see how version 5.0 is more integrated, more flexible, and more manageable than ever before.

TechEd Keynote Presentation

Jason Silva — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:18:00 GMT

TechEd Keynote Presentation - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Stuff Developers will Want to See

Andrew Coates, Dave Glover, Nick Hodge, Nathan Totten, Nick Harris — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:18:00 GMT

Technical Evangelist, Andrew Coates is joined by colleagues from around the world as they explore and discuss the technologies, platforms and tools that make developing on the Microsoft platform the most productive of any available. In this demo-intensive session, Andrew and friends will discuss the current state of the art and show the immediate and medium-term future of the “art and science” of software development.

Windows Server 2012 - Prepare to be Amazed

Andrew McMurray, Jeff Woolsey — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:18:00 GMT

Seeing is believing! Technical Evangelist, Andrew McMurray is joined by our very own A-Team from Microsoft Corporation to showcase the latest components and technologies that make up the modern datacentre. Jam-packed with real-world demos, this session will show you why components such as Windows Server 2012 along with System Center 2012 SP1 are the number one platform for your Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud, Storage and Workflow solutions. Join us for this no-fluff, deep-tech session - don’t miss out!

Comparing Core Virtualization Platforms

Reid Purvis — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:04:00 GMT

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 comparison with the alternative virtualization technologies in this space, focusing on what differentiates the offerings. We spend time dispelling common myths around Hyper-V enabling you to more effectively compare the different solutions, both now, and in the future. If you need to know how the Microsoft virtualization stack compares to other offerings, this is the session for you!