Tech·Ed Europe 2008 Sessions

Using Dynamic Management Views To Improve Your Development

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Dynamic Management Views were added to SQL Server 2005 and have been enhanced in SQL Server 2008. While they provide great functionality and usefulness, they appear to not be widely understood or implemented as yet. In this session, Greg will provide an overview of the Dynamic Management Objects available (both Views and Functions), describe those he considers the most useful and show how they can be utilized in both monitoring, troubleshooting and ongoing management of SQL Server systems and in gaining an understanding of SQL Server's operation. He will show how they can be used to improve the database development experience and show how they can be used in custom reports within SQL Server Management Studio.

Deep Dive on IIS 7.0 Architecture & New Features

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

In this session we will dig into the details of the new modular architecture of IIS 7.0, including support for diagnostics, extensibility and delegation. We'll show you our best practices for application hosting, security and performance tuning and demonstrate why this improves how your ASP.NET and PHP Web applications run on Windows Server 2008. Attending this demonstration-rich session will provide you with an understanding of how the extensible and highly componentized architecture of IIS 7.0 enables you to easily acquire and quickly integrate the next generation of IIS Extensions and third party applications, and maximize the benefits to your company's business!

Going Big! A Discussion on Deploying Large Mailboxes with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 without Breaking the Bank

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Are your users complaining that they spend almost as much time cleaning out their 25MB mailboxes than they do actually processing e-mail? Are you hesitant to increase mailbox sizes due to challenges around storage and backup/restore costs? Join us in this Interactive Session to learn the value of large mailboxes and how Exchange Server 2007 can overcome the challenges associated with them.

Active Directory Information Security - Where is the boundary?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

How do you control access to data when different legal constraints and jursidictional boundaries get in the way? What is it that is important to your business? Can you have confidence in protecting the data that is improtant to your customers? In this session we discuss some challenges that customers are facing around information security in the ever expanding organisational boundary, the experiences we have in dealing with this and how the technology can be implemented to help satisfy your requirements.

What's New in the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 - Deep Dive!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

What's New? Desktop developers stub toes and wonder about a missing class, property, or method. Device mavens marvel at the kilobytes expended on new features. Can both be right? This talk gives you the critical development insights needed to maximize your fun and trim your workload in building managed mobile and embedded solutions.

PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

PowerShell is the future of scripting in Windows, and the new PowerShell Provider for IIS makes managing IIS servers as easy as navigating through files and folders in the operating system! In this deep dive session you will learn highly useful methods for managing your Web servers using the new IIS PowerShell Provider, as well as the latest information about the powerful PowerShell cmd-lets that the IIS team has written to help you automate common IIS management tasks. Expect lots of demos!

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol Finals - Rhonda Layfield

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

The 2008 TechEd EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol Winner!! Join Rhonda Layfield on stage and learn about Network Monitor. A great presentation by a great Tech·Ed EMEA speaker of the future!

Mobility Smackdown

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Want to see the most exciting mobile technology that exists today? Want to understand how mobile devices can add value to your organization? Want to have fun? This session is powerpoint free and shows the breadth of exciting mobile solutions that exists on Windows Mobile today!

Windows Security Boundaries

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

In this session, learn what constitutes a security boundary; get a tour through core Windows technologies, including user sessions, Code Integrity, PatchGuard, Service Security Hardening, and User Account Control, to learn where Windows currently defines such boundaries. Also gain insight into why application compatibility and user experience make defining boundaries much more difficult than it might seem.

Data Mining as an Application Platform

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining is not just a powerful application - it is a complete platform that customers and partners can embed, extend, and customize. In this session we'll look at various ways in which this can be achieved. In particular, it examines the custom algorithms and stored procedures that can extend the range of the analytic technology. As an attendee of this session, you will learn techniques for designing, building, and testing these interesting and useful extensions.

Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework v3.5

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Connecting Office Client, SharePoint Search and Workflow

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

SharePoint is a powerful platform for managing information. In this session you'll see how you can leverage Quick Parts in Word to allow users to enter metadata without even knowing it. You'll learn how to leverage those metadata properties by converting them into managed properties and making them available on the advanced search page. Finally, you'll learn how to automate a process leveraging those same metadata properties in a SharePoint Visual Studio Workflow.

Configuring Hyper-V for High Availability

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

Running virtualized operating systems introduces a dependency on the underlying virtualization infrastructure. If the virtualization host is a standalone machine, it actually becomes a single point of failure for all guest systems running on top of it. So, let's get this thing clustered! But how do we do that and do so in a way that allows every single guest system to move around in that cluster independently from all the others? Well, turning one single virtual machine stored on a shared LUN into a Cluster resource has become almost embarrassingly simple with Hyper-V. But that's one - how about one hundred or one thousand? We might want to avoid using drive letters in that case - unless you want to limit yourself to 22 virtual machines on a 16 node cluster. How then do we store the guest systems data and configuration files? Actually there are multiple ways of how to accomplish this, and we'll look into the technical details, and the advantages and disadvantages of those, and try them out live on stage.

Windows 7 DirectAccess

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

DirectAccess is a new feature in Windows® 7 that gives users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have Internet access. When IT enables DirectAccess, Windows 7 securely directs requests for corporate resources (such as e-mail, shared folders, or intranet Web sites) to the corporate network, without requiring users to connect to a virtual private network (VPN). Windows 7 DirectAccess provides increased productivity for a mobile workforce by offering the same connectivity experience both in and outside of the office.

MDOP: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, formerly from Kidaro.

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:14 GMT

The Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization enhances deployment and management of Virtual PC images on a Windows Desktop while also providing a seamless user experience on a Virtual PC environment independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system. Application-to-OS compatibility issues are minimized, OS migrations are accelerated. Delivery and reconstitution of corporate desktops are made easy, simplifying support tasks, business continuity and incorporation of heterogeneous IT environments.

Naked Dancing Pigs and Werner Heisenberg: How Security Changes Everything

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Security has never been more important than it is today. Not only are organizations more or less constantly attacked, individuals are also under attack. To say that software is becoming the new battleground is a bit trite but absolutely true. Yet, security is too often thought of as another feature or something you can bolt on at the end or, even worse, something we should hide to avoid frightening people. In this talk, Jesper Johansson will discuss how security changes everything we do as software engineers and software implementers.

Why Software Sucks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Users think that today's software sucks. It's unsafe, it's unreliable, and it's hard to use. These problems are not technical. We've been able to solve them for many years, but instead we've gotten a paper clip with eyebrows. Why? Software sucks because developers forget (or never knew) the bedrock principle of software development: KNOW THY USER, FOR HE IS NOT THEE. For example, what do your customers come to you for? Hint: It's not software. For another example, do you think your users care about your application? They don't. Never have; never will. They care about accomplishing the task that it does. They don't want to think about you or your application at all. It's your job to care about them anyway. We show good and bad examples from commercial software and Web sites: those that understand and help their users, and those that treat users with contempt. For example, consider the ads for Microsoft Office that show non-upgrading users wearing plastic dinosaur heads. Developers fear looking like dinosaurs by not having the latest technology, but ordinary users fear breaking an installation that currently works, or having useless junk like dancing paper clips slow down their computers so they need to buy new ones. Your user is not you. We put this nation on wheels not by training the entire population as mechanics, but by improving cars so they didn't often need mechanics. The same transition needs to happen to the software industry. This talk provides sound design principles so that your software won't suck. Learn how blindness will improve your vision.

Universal sign-in: how to sign in any user, in any kind of application, in any scenario, using "Zermatt" and claims-based identity

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Should you use passwords, X.509, Kerberos, LDAP, SAML or something else? Developers are faced with a dizzying array of identity technologies, no one of which works for all scenarios. In this session, learn how a new abstraction layer for identity - the claims based identity model - gives developers a single way to secure an application regardless of type of application (web application, web service or other) or scenario (B2B, B2C, B2E, enterprise, cloud). Find out how, using this model, it is easy to enable security features previously out of reach: supporting multiple authentication types in a single application, enforcing "step up" to a stronger authentication type on the fly and delegating user identity between applications. Learn how to use this model in .Net with Microsoft Code Name "Zermatt", how it works with Active Directory using Microsoft Code Name "Geneva", how it works with Windows CardSpace and how it interoperates across platforms.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Wave Two - Kurt Claeys

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Migrating to Exchange Server 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Migrating a messaging infrastructure can be one of the most complex projects in an organization. Learn about the major issues for migration from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange, options for coexistence and best practices for successful migrations. Understand the difference between a "transition" and a "migration" and the capabilities of each.

Inside Windows 2008 R2 Virtualization Improvements and Native VHD Support

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

In this session you'll get an inside look at new Windows virtualization features, including dynamic virtual memory, live VM migration, hypervisor power management support and new hardware-assisted guest memory management. VHDs are taking on a more key role in simplifying systems management and Windows 7's integrated VHD mount and boot from VHD are a major step toward standardization on VHDs as a common container format for physical and virtual machine images. Learn how Windows 7 implements a native VHD stack and how the boot architecture has changed to accommodate booting from VHD images.

Regain control of your desktop estate with Citrix XenDesktop

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Consuming and Building WCF LOB Adapters

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

The WCF LOB Adapter SDK is built on the WCF channel model to simplify the experience around building custom adapters to line-of-business (LOB) applications that expose large sets of dynamic metadata. An adapter created using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK is surfaced to the consumer as a custom WCF binding, making it immediately consumable by any WCF client application (outside of BizTalk) through a simple wizard-driven process. Microsoft has shipped several LOB adapters built on this model for Oracle, mySAP, Siebel, and MQ -- this suite is known as the BizTalk Adapter Pack. This session introduces you to the BizTalk Adapter Pack and discusses how to build custom adapters with the SDK.

What's New in Conferencing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

This session focuses on the audio, video and web conferencing improvements in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Come and see how our new on-premise audio conferencing functionality will help your organization save money!

ASP.NET AJAX

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Learn about the new features coming with the next version of the ASP.NET AJAX framework. In this talk, you learn how to create database-driven ASP.NET AJAX applications that are created purely in JavaScript. You learn how to retrieve and display database data by taking advantage of the new client-side DataView and DataSource controls. You also learn how to work with client-side templates. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate how you can build fast and responsive AJAX applications by performing all of your data manipulation on the client.

SQL Server 2008 Replication: Providing High-Availability Using Database Mirroring

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

How can you increase the availability of the publication AND subscription databases in SQL Server 2008? This session explains how to combine database mirroring with transactional replication to increase the availability of the replication stream in a transactional environment. It covers setting up replication in a mirrored environment (for both publication and subscription databases), the effect of mirroring partnership state changes, and the effect of mirroring failovers on replication. In addition, it describes how to use the new LSN-based initialization mechanism to recover from a failover of a mirrored subscriber database. This session will give you the tip and tricks involved and how to avoid potential problems

Developing Accessible Web Experiences with Silverlight

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

How can you make a complex web application accessible? This talk will cover specific coding techniques using HTML, Script and CSS that will allow you to make most dynamic web sites accessible in a variety of browsers, to make rich internet applications accessible in ways that have never before been possible using Silverlight 2.0 and WAI-ARIA and to make accessible multimedia using Silverlight.

Windows Azure

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Microsoft is developing Windows Azure, a new cloud-service platform developed for a pay-as-you-go consumption model common to Software + Services businesses. Microsoft designed Azure so that customers can extend their existing on-premise applications via this cloud-optimized platform, enabling companies to build and run new applications and SaaS-based businesses in Microsoft's datacenters. Join Microsoft's Eric Jewett as he discusses the company's strategy to bring the power of Windows Server into the cloud.

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 deep-dive

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

An in-depth look at the new Windows Essential Business Server 2008. Designed for Mid-size organizations of under 300 seats. We'll look at the new three and four server set-up in the Standard and Premium editions, go deep into the management console and demonstrate how to migrate to EBS 2008 from existing networks.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Mobile: The Ultimate Ingredients for Mobile Messaging

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Exchange 2007 and Windows Mobile provide the perfect partners for delivering a scaleable and secure mobile messaging solution. The combination also provides the best experience for the mobile professional for accessing their key business information. This session provides you with best practice and guidance on deploying Mobile Messaging to the masses.

Using Network Access Protection (NAP) in combination with FCS

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Network Access Protection (NAP) is a new protection mechanism provided by Windows Server 2008 to ensure the health of client computers in your organization. The NAP technology allows for extensibility, so that third parties can add additional health checks for client computers. In this session, you will learn how Microsoft's own Forefront Client Security (FCS) product extends NAP to include additional anti-virus and anti-spyware checks and make them part of the NAP infrastructure. This combines the benefits of NAP with the protection by FCS.

Sharing Assets between the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework and the Microsoft .NET Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Whether you were first introduced to .NET via the .NET Compact Framework in Windows Mobile or via the full .NET Framework on the PC, it may make sense to share your code assets between the two platforms. In this session we explore when you should be doing this and when not. We then explore the options available (e.g. directly sharing binaries or conditional compilation) and drill into problems and workarounds. This includes framework differences, platform/OS differences, optimal usage of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (and Visual Studio 2005) and how things have improved from .NET Compact Framework v1.0 and v2.0 through to v3.5.

SQLCLR Enhancements in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Using .NET code in user-written stored procedures, user-defined functions and triggers was introduced in SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2008 extends this concept (.NET code in SQL Server) to system objects. The new hierarchyID and spatial data types are implemented in CLR code, as well as system procedures in functions like change data capture. In addition the capabilities for user-written SQLCLR code have been enchanted and extended to support new libraries, new data types and more. This presentation will provide real-world examples of how your programs would take advantage of this new and extended functionality.

Using Active Directory Domain Services for Linux Servers

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

If you have to manage a mixed environment and if you have Linux-servers like Apache or Samba running, why not using the ADDS for authentication? This session will show you how to integrate those servers in ADDS using LDAP and Kerberos and will give you the ideas to integrate other services as well.

Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Troubleshooting Tips and Best Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

As Windows Server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of organizations, the requirements for disaster tolerance and business continuance become more and more important. The goal of this session is to cover the considerations on how you can build a complete High Availability solution with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Failover Clustering to ensure that there is no single point of failure.

Using ILM 2007 Certificate Management for Something Other than Smart Cards

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

So you have heard a lot about Microsoft smart card management system called ILM 2007 Certificate Management or CLM. Did you know that it can do a whole lot more than issue smart cards? This session looks at how you can use CLM for anything other than issuing smart cards. The deployments examples include EFS certificates, Web server certificates, EFS and Key Recovery Agents, IPSec certificates, and other medium assurance software certificates.

Creating a WPF Data Provider Control

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

WPF data binding is very powerful, and includes the concept of a data provider control. You can create your own data provider controls to allow XAML designers to easily access data without resorting to code-behind. Learn how to create a WFP data provider control that retrieves data, provides asynchronous behavior and can even save the data.

Automating Test Creation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Most unit tests, functional tests, etc. are hand crafted by people anticipating expected results. With model-based testing (MBT), developers use their skills to create a model that generates both the sequences of calls and their expected results. Models also allow analysis for expected properties and behaviors before the production code is written. Just as test first development can help expose testability issues, model-based approaches can show design issues up front. This talk will show the Spec Explorer plug in for Visual Studio that has been used to verify over 50 of the Windows Protocols and the experiences of product teams using MBT. Come to this session to learn how to find unexpected consequences up front.

Metropolis: Buildings and Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

The Metropolis series of talks refers to a collection of presentations which examine cities and their evolution since being connected by the railroads and shows how Information Technology is undergoing the same transformations as IT shops are connected by the Internet. This second talk in the series examines the parallels between buildings in the city and applications in the IT shop. Buildings come in many shapes, forms, and uses. Some are built with major investments and the builders anticipate a long and vibrant lifetime for the building. Others are built for quick turnover and short lives. As buildings age, different aspects of the building have different lifetimes and amortizations. It is common to see the roof, siding, plumbing, or wiring redone a number of times before the building is discarded. We are also seeing an increasing trend towards buildings being designed for a class or category of occupant without knowing the specific occupant. You see this in retail malls, office buildings, and more. As time moves on, a larger percentage of buildings are designed for a generalized use and a smaller percentage customized for the buyer. Applications are following the same trend (although lagging the construction industry by a number of decades). We see major investments in some pieces of software and then surprisingly quick-and-dirty implementations of others. We see renovation of applications across releases with some aspects of the application remaining intact while other aspects may change many times over the lifetime of the code. Finally, we are gradually seeing the creation of patterns or classes of applications and supporting infrastructure to ease their development. This talk will cover a number of parallels between buildings and applications. We intend to show that the same forces that have shaped the building industry are shaping the development of applications. It is possible to look to the building industry to tell us where applications will be going.

Advanced Performance Tuning of Location-Aware Applications in SQL Server 2008 : Indexing Strategies & Techniques

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Increasing amounts of data-centric applications add spatial information such as GPS coordinates, vehicle routes, manufacturing floor layouts, map services etc. With the introduction of the new spatial capabilities in SQL Server 2008, new capabilities have become available to the database developer to manage and query such information efficiently. In this session we will present a deep dive into how developers can work with spatial data in SQL Server and how to use spatial indexing to scale to large amounts of spatial data.

Notes from the Field: Findability and Taxonomies

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:13 GMT

Notes from the Field: In this presentation, Bill English, MVP, will cover the latest research on Findability and discuss why Findability is much more than a set of applications or technologies. Bill will outline the inherent problems with keyword queries and offer suggestions on how the SharePoint product can be improved to be a foundational technology in an overall Findability solution. This session will challenge assumptions about search technologies and is appropriate for technologists as well as project managers, information architects and CIOs.

Introduction to Windows Embedded CE 6.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Windows Embedded CE is a real-time embedded modular operating system, developed from the ground up to address the specific needs of embedded devices. The variety of devices running Windows Embedded CE is huge: everything from industrial automation systems, robots, digital picture frames, set-top boxes, personal navigation devices, and the list goes on! This session will provide an overview of the operating system and tools. You'll see how simple it is to design, build, deploy, and debug an image for a specific device.

Creating an Adaptive Infrastructure with HP ProLiant and Microsoft

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, combined with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), enables customers to consolidate server hardware, improve server utilization, increase server automation, and enhances system portability. As a leader in Virtualization infrastructure management and technologies, HP has been working closely with Microsoft throughout the development of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft System Center, and Hyper-V virtualization technology. HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers and StorageWorks storage are designed to help customers maximize the business benefits from their Microsoft physical and virtual server environments.

The UC Managed API 2.0: Building Services that Manage Communications with OCS 2007 R2 (Part 1)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Part 1 of a series of 2 - Communications Enabled Business Processes reduce human latency by using Presence, IM and voice communications to communicate with human stakeholders at the right time in the right context. In this session you'll learn how the UC Managed API SDK provide you the tools you need to enable communications in your business processes. Learn how the Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 provides a powerful communications arsenal to build Presence, IM and voice enabled services that can be leveraged from any application. This session will focus on the basic concepts of the UC Managed API 2.0 and will show how to use text based communications.

If You Have Too Much Data, Then Good Enough Is Good Enough

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Quick Integration from SharePoint to Your Application

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Do you need a quick way to add search to your application? Do you want to add document management including version control and check in/out? In this session you will learn how you can use SharePoint to add more robust features to your application and how you can use SharePoint to provide a central framework around your existing individual applications.

Cybercrime - Security Panel Discussion

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

The world of computer cybercrime is a dark murky world which is constantly adapting. It's critical that security professionals and IT Pros understand the dangers and how to combat them. Listen in on this intense and focused 60 min discussion panel. The panel aims to discuss current and emerging threats and trends as well as learning from experience in order to combat them.

Securing a Server Using Server Roles in Windows Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Windows Server 2008 uses a completely new concept of management based on Server Roles. A Server Role is, in a nutshell, the functionality you bought the server for. Under this concept most of the management tools you are familiar with from previous Windows Server operating systems have changed. In this talk, Jesper Johansson will introduce you to Server Roles, show you the tools to manage them and describe how to secure a server based on its role. As an extra bonus, you will learn about the two different ways the term "Role" is used in Windows Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008 - Resource Governor

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

SQL Server 2008 introduces Resource Governor, a feature than enables DBAs to provide a consistent and predictable response to SQL Server workloads and system resource consumption. In an environment where multiple distinct workloads are present on the same server, Resource Governor enables DBAs to differentiate these workloads and allocate shared resources as they are requested, based on the specified limits. These resources are CPU and memory. This session will illustrate the basic concepts, components and functionalities associated with the SQL 2008 Resource Governor and will demonstrate how to configure it in response to common business scenarios.

Windows Server 2008 R2: Streamlined Management

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Managing the network, servers and lines of communication is of paramount importance to any administrator. Windows Server 2008 R2 has made notable changes that will facilitate these tasks. One of the main focuses in the design and development of Windows Server 2008 R2 was increased Manageability. Come join this session to get an overview of the new features coming in Windows Server 2008 R2.

Visual Studio 2010: Making your day easier

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Recently Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2010, the next release of the market leading Visual Studio toolset. This release delivers advances through the following focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM). In his keynote, Jason will talk about what the team is doing as the leader of the Visual Studio division at Microsoft to make a developer's job easier with this release and provide extensive examples with Visual Studio 2010 demonstrations.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Finals - Richard Pawson

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Making the Move to 64-bit with Windows Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

By the time you read this abstract, the demand for 64-bit Windows servers will require all IT administrators to be aware of the ins and outs of 64-bit computing. Driven by the need to deploy the 64-bit Windows OS to support applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, what are the challenges you'll face when moving down the 64-bit road: what does this mean for your 32-bit applications? Will they work and how? Will they perform better or worse? Should you leverage the x64 architecture or move to Itanium? What's really the difference between the two? And how does Windows Server 2008 support either architecture? This session explains the most important things to know about the different 64-bit Windows architectures and why you should care about them. Special focus is placed on 32-bit compatibility challenges and solutions as well as discussing deployment scenarios for the 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008.

WPF Performance & Best Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

In this session we'll head for the next step and learn how to optimize applications that use Windows Presentation Foundation. Learn about performance design, techniques, and tools, and pick up tips on how to investigate performance issues in Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Topics that are covered in this session include efficient resource usage in Windows Presentation Foundation or tools and methods used by performance developers.

Building Data Sync Solutions with Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

In this session we will take a detailed look at Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET to explain solutions for the things that make data synchronization solutions tough, such as how to batch updates so that you can successfully sync large volumes of updates over low bandwidth connections, and how to build a custom server sync provider for when your backend database isn't SQL Server. There will be plenty of demos, as we walk through practical examples of synchronizing data items between a backend Server and 'Edge of the Network' computers such as laptops and mobile devices.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

In this session, filled with some very cool demos, you will not only learn how to extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile but also learn how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that play media, handle simple gestures, have cool animations, access location and popular web services. We will also talk about tooling enhancements in Visual Studio that support Silverlight app development on Windows Mobile, what to consider when delivering eye-popping UI on mobile, and help you understand the key differences from developing Silverlight apps for the desktop.

Using Scrum to Run Your Projects

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

One of the most popular Agile project management and development methods, Scrum is starting to be adopted at major corporations and on very large projects. After an introduction to the basics of Scrum like: the Scrum Master, team, product owner, and burn down, and of course the daily Scrum, Stephen, a certified scrum master, shows many real world applications of the methodology drawn from his own experience as a Scrum Master. Negotiating with the business, estimation, and team dynamics are all discussed as well as how to use Scrum in small organizations, large enterprise environments, and consulting environments. Stephen will also discuss using Scrum with virtual teams and even an offshoring environment.

Talking Web Services to Microcontrollers

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

The newest release of the .NET Micro Framework adds full support for Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS). Not only can you leverage your .NET skills to develop for microcontrollers running the .NET Micro Framework, you can now use DPWS to create sophisticated distributed experiences between such connected devices. This session shows how to use this brand new technology to enable even the smallest devices to participate in the digital ecosystem. Explore a complete new universe full of exciting gadgets!

Building Powerful Office Applications the Easy Way with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

This session focuses on the power and developer productivity of Visual Studio Tools for the Office System (VSTO). VSTO is a .NET Smart Client technology and this session will delve into the tips and tricks, positives and negatives when designing and building smart client applications with VSTO. VSTO allows you to build managed code applications with .NET languages like VB.NET and C# and have the functionality of those applications manifest in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook and others from the Office stack. You will learn just how easy it is to build powerful VSTO applications in this session and how to deploy those applications. This session will cover all versions of VSTO (versions 1.0 through 3.0) targeting both Office 2003 and Office 2007. VSTO addresses some of the biggest challenges that Office solution developers are facing today, including separation of data and view elements, server-side and offline scenarios, seamless integration with the Visual Studio tools, deployment and updating. Lastly, this session will delve into the future of VSTO and its potential coverage of document-centric and add-in solutions for the entire Office System stack.

Windows Vista, Take Two: Understanding Windows Vista SP1 from A to Z

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Okay, all of you Vista haters - it's here! You've been saying "um, I'm not really sure about Vista, so I'm going to wait for SP1", so let's ask: Is it good enough yet? Join a Windows techie, an unabashed and unrepentant Vista liker, in a steely-eyed look at Windows Vista SP1. First, learn the easiest ways to roll it out and how it affects Windows new nifty deployment tools. Then, really dive down with a look at how it affects performance and compatibility. Following that, see what completely new things arrive with SP1. Does SP1 make things better? Worse? Will it actually take so long to download that Windows Vista SP2 will be out before you get it? Join Mark for this session and find out!

Hosting Media using Windows Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Learn how to host video and audio media content using the IIS 7.0 Media Pack and Windows Media Services 2008. Find out how to keep control of both your content and your network while reducing operating costs. Learn how easily you can integrate your Web and media content while optimizing the end user experience with the latest streaming features.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave One - Maral Topalian

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Watch the winning presentation from Speaker Idol Wave 1. Maral Topalian wins the heat with her presentation on Microsoft Desktop Optimization and software assurance.

Going Cold Turkey on the GUI: Server Core Setup Step-by-Step

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

For years you've known it: you've just GOT to get more familiar with the command line. You will get things done faster, you will be able to create simple batch files for automating many tasks and, best of all, when you're working from the GUI, then your boss starts to think, "hey, what IS that thing he/she's using? We need to pay techie employees like them more money!" Well, Windows 2008 command-line-only Server Core has arrived, so here is your opportunity. Picking up where his popular "Command Windows from C: Level" talk left off, Mark Minasi walks you through the process of building a Server Core server from setup to initial configuration to full-blown DNS, Active Directory and more. Every step includes the specific commands, options and working examples to ease the path from "GUI admin" to "command-line ninja!".

Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Scaling and Performance Considerations

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

This session addresses methods for scaling VOIP gateway and UM server deployments as well as pertinent UM performance metrics. Learn quantitative methods for determining the number of circuits, T1s, E1s, VOIP gateways and UM servers required to support a UM infrastructure. As well, gain exposure to the most relevant UM performance counters and suggested thresholds through a discussion of how UM performance is measured in MSIT, the world's largest UM deployment (90 dialplans, 63 individual sites).

Enterprise Library 4.0 - Now with More Peace, Love and Rock-n-Roll

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks that help address the common problems that software engineers face when developing enterprise LOB applications. This session will provide an overview of the Enterprise Library and walk you through a demo of an application that gradually takes advantage of various application blocks. We will showcase popular features from the earlier releases (such as logging, exception handling, policy injection, and validation) as well as new features of version 4.0, including Unity dependency injection container and WMI2 support. We will also share our vision of the Enterprise Library future evolution. The session targets both developers and architects who are new to the Enterprise Library and those who have previously used it.

Exchange Server 2007 CAS\HUB Deployment Scaling and Testing

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Interested in understanding sizing considerations when combining Exchange Server 2007 HUB and CAS roles? The Exchange Center Of Excellence will present information on how they tested HUB/CAS scalability, including information about the testing tools and methodology, which will help anyone who is interested in doing scalability validation with their customers. The Exchange Center Of Excellence will share the split role scalability data from multi-protocol baselines that match and exceed MSIT server loads. The HUB/CAS scalability guidance for SP1 will also be provided.

A Technical Preview and Deep Dive of Next Generation ISA Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

It is a new era for the ever popular ISA Server as we move to releasing the next beta of the Forefront Threat Management Gateway. As the traditional networks are evolving through re-perimeterization, the Forefront TMG is also evolving from traditional access and publishing to robust network threat and protection management. This session will be a deep dive of the feature set of TMG, live demonstrations of the new technology and a discussion of the many new scenarios and solutions enabled by the next generation product. The session will also dive into the integration with the Forefront "Stirling" release and the unique value proposition TMG provides in a Forefront Stirling deployment.

The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

What is an application platform? Why is it important? And how should we think about application platforms in a world of cloud computing? In this session, David Chappell looks at all of these topics, providing a general model for both on-premises and cloud platforms. He then uses this model to examine several important issues in this area, including the competition between .NET and Java, why SOA is failing, and how the Microsoft platform compares with its on-premises and cloud competitors.

Deep Dive into XQuery and XML in Microsoft SQL Server: Common Problems and Best Practice Solutions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

How often have you written XQueries or FOR XML queries or used XML datatype and have not been happy with the performance? This presentation analyses commonly encountered query patterns and provides best practices and improved queries that can provide improved performance up to an order of magnitude.

Proving the Value of Office IT to Your Boss

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:12 GMT

Microsoft Office has evolved a great deal since the introduction of the Office suite over 15 years ago. Office 2007 includes new innovations including an improved Setup process, a more efficient User Interface, an open file format and streamlined integration with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange. This session will explore all these benefits and help you prove their worth to your organization. The session is designed for those who are evaluating Office 2007 or would like to better understand the benefits of the latest version of Office. This session is ideal for IT managers who must communicate business value but also understand the technical details.

Troubleshooting Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (formerly BDD)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

You should attend this session if you want to learn about specific troubleshooting scenarios for troubleshooting process flow, interpreting log files, and finding root cause problems for common errors that occur duing deployment. This session assumes detailed understanding of Microsoft Deployment or BDD and will not cover basic installation and configuration of Microsoft Deployment.

Building Search-Driven Portals Using FAST ESP, MOSS 2007 and Silverlight

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

FAST ESP is the leading enterprise search platform. Combining the strengths of FAST ESP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 allows the development of powerful search-driven portals. In this session, you'll learn more about the architecture and functionality of FAST ESP and how it can complement and extend the existing search features in MOSS 2007. We will demonstrate how to create search user interfaces by configuring and extending the FAST ESP Search Web Parts, including the use of Silverlight to deliver unique search experiences.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory: What's Coming Up?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Windows Server 2008 is released, but what's next? Microsoft is making the management of Windows a priority and Active Directory is no exception! Come to this session and see how, with Powershell and the new Active Directory cmdlets, you can get the best of the UI and the best of the CLI! You will also see the upcoming Directory Service Administrative Center and its new UI concepts such as progressive disclosure and task oriented navigation. Last but not least, we will also show how the core of Active Directory has been enhanced to support new scenarios for service accounts, offline domain joins and recovery of deleted Active Directory objects more easily than it has been for the last 8 years! Come to this session to understand our future plans and to prepare yourself for an enhanced day-to-day Active Directory management experience!

What's New for Your Enterprise in Windows Internet Explorer 8

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Learn about the new features in Internet Explorer 8 that will delight your users. See hands on demonstrations of the new features and hear the application compatibility, security and privacy story. Most importantly, get tips on how to prepare your environment to roll out Internet Explorer 8.

Windows 2008 Terminal Services Deep Dive: TS Gateway, Security & Certificates

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

This deep dive session will focus on a detailed look at configuring the more complex features of TS in Windows 2008. Learn how to integrate TS Gateway with Network Access Protection, discover how and when to configure TS single sign on and leave with a detailed understanding of all the different uses of digital certificates with TS and how to help customers choose the type of certificates they need.

SQL Server Compact Edition : Connection Not Required

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Whilst there are some large companies banking on pervasive connectivity, anyone who has worked in the real world will know that connectivity is, and will remain, an issue when it comes to using online applications. In this session you will see how you can use Microsoft SQL Compact Edition for applications that will continue to function long after the network connection has dropped out. SQL Compact Edition offers a low maintenance, compact embedded database for all Windows platforms, including tablet PCs, pocket PCs, smart phones and desktops, making it a perfect offline application data cache. Combine this with the power of Merge Replication and/or the Microsoft Synchronisation Services and you have a robust application data platform.

Overview of standards-based Windows Remote Management and what's coming in v2.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Whether it's network restrictions, agent deployment constraints or just domain separation, see how the new Windows Remote Management technologies in Windows Server 2008 can extend your management, monitoring and troubleshooting into environments that were previously blocked. We'll demonstrate how these powerful technologies are built on the new Web Services for Management (WS-Man) DMTF standard and leverage the new WINRM, WINRS (Windows Remote Shell) command-line utilities, and PowerShell to remotely manage and troubleshoot a production Windows Server 2008 web server in the Microsoft Internet DMZ. These aren't local Virtual PCs! Over the open Internet, these demos will be accessing WMI properties and methods, Windows Events and a remote command shell, all over an out-of-the box encrypted HTTP management channel. In addition, we'll show how these new Windows Remote Management technologies have been made available for down-level XP and Server 2003 environments and we'll discuss both the advantages and limitations of these extensions. The session will finish by demonstrating how PowerShell scripts can bring all of this together.

Forefront Security for Exchange Server: Advanced Spam and AntiMalware Scanning Today and Tomorrow

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Forefront Security for Exchange Server provides comprehensive, multiple engine antivirus and anti-spam protection for Exchange 2007 environments. This session will provide attendees with insights into the architecture and capabilities that Forefront brings to the table as well as improvements that are planned for future versions. It will cover advanced spam protection features that Forefront activates within Exchange 2007 and will showcase planned improvements and enhancements available in the next generation of Forefront Security for Exchange Server.

Intentions & Interfaces - Making Patterns Concrete

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

The pattern movement is shifting into high gear. Not only are more patterns coming out, but they are at higher levels and have deeper meanings than ever before. Unfortunately, many developers are having problems incorporating these patterns in day-to-day development. In this session, we will see the practical aspects of intentional, interface-based programming that are at the core of almost all advanced patterns. You will leave this session being able to write more maintainable, intention-revealing code than before.

Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Silverlight provides a powerful platform for building the next generation of rich interactive applications on the Internet. In this session, we take a deep look at the programming model and tools that developers and designers can leverage to build these true next-generation experiences for consumers and businesses, and demonstrate building a Rich Interactive Application (RIA) using Silverlight and Microsoft .NET. We cover how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. We also discuss Silverlight roadmap and positioning.

Protecting SharePoint with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Disaster and content recovery of SharePoint can be a complex procedure. With so many data components and servers to protect, it can also be a painful experience. Data Protection Manager 2007 is here to change that experience. This session is intended for SharePoint IT Pros, whom want to understand the fundamentals of protecting the SharePoint workload by using Data Protection Manager 2007. You will be given a deep dive look at how Data Protection Manager 2007 works, and learn the setup pre-requisites required for protecting and recovering SharePoint content down to the item level. In addition to this, you will see full demos of Data Protection Manager 2007 protecting and recovering a SharePoint environment.

Deploying Project Server 2007 in an Existing SharePoint Server 2007 Farm

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Project Server is part of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution allowing the enterprises to create, select, plan and manage projects over their lifespan. It is made up of the following products: Project Professional, Project Server, and Project Portfolio Server 2007. This session will discuss the EPM solution, benefits of deploying it into a SharePoint Server 2007 Farm, and deployment pre-requisite procedures and best practices.

Managing Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data in SQL Server 2008: Technical Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

SQL Server 2008 adds a series of new features and improves existing features that simplify the management of unstructured and semi-structured documents and hierarchical information. This presentation will focus on the language level functionality such as the XML additions, large CLR UDTs, sparse columns and hierarchyIDs. Functionality that is covered in other presentations such as Full-Text Search, FileStream and the new geo-spatial support will not be covered.

Demo: Naked Objects for .NET

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

How LINQ Works: A Deep Dive into the C# Implementation of LINQ

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Want to know what really happens when you execute your favorite LINQ queries? Curious how the same query expression can target either in-memory data or relational data. You are going to see the use of Reflector and other tools to reveal exactly how the compiler translates LINQ query expressions. Gain a deeper understanding of LINQ's functional roots as we see how lambda expressions and iterator methods enable LINQ to Objects' elegant syntax. Then find out what's the same and what's radically different as we explore LINQ to SQL and the expression trees that make it tick.

Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals Daily Interview - Day Five

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

You won't want to miss these daily videos from Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals 2008 with attendees and speakers, including Don't trip over the Nerd, Location of the Day, Beauty and the Nerd, and Interview of the Day. Brought to you by NGN TV (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland or Network Usergroup Netherlands). Day Five - Interviews with Security Specialist Marcus Murray, Stephen Rose from the Springboard group, and more!

Reporting Services 2008 Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

SQL Server Reporting Services is a complete server-based platform supporting the authoring, management and delivery of relevant, interactive reports where needed across the entire enterprise. This session provides an overview and demonstration of the capabilities added in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services including rich visualizations, powerful report design, enhanced rendering options, Information Worker targeted report design experience, easier deployment and an improved architecture that scales to any sized reporting workload.

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Hyper-V

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

The new 64-bit hypervisor in Windows Server 2008 released earlier this year. Come and learn what this means for your Exchange deployment. Find out what server roles are supported and hear the Exchange team's recommendations for running Exchange 2007 in a Hyper-V environment.

Report Authoring with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Explore the SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Designer tool. This session is a walkthrough of the many enhancements in the new release. Learn about some of the new Report Designer usability features, how to add data visualizations with Gauges, build complex structures with Tablix, and build richly-formatted Textboxes.

Join the Cloud with Solution Accelerators for Microsoft Online Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Are you interested in online e-mail messaging services for your enterprise? Go no further. Listen to experts from Microsoft and see how you can migrate to Exchange Online with the new Solution Accelerators including Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides and Microsoft Operations Framework.

MDOP: Asset Inventory Services (AIS) will count your software and your licenses

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Asset Inventory Services is an online service that collects information about your installed software applications, compares them to a central software knowledgebase and translates the results into easily used business information. The service can also retrieve your volume license agreement information and compare it to installed quantities which greatly simplifies license management activities.

Best-Kept Secret: Jumpstart Your Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V Projects with the new Microsoft Assessment and Planning Tool

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:11 GMT

Start planning your next Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V virtualization projects with the new Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) tool. This new tool makes it easier for you to assess existing servers for hardware compatibility with Windows Server 2008 and generate recommendations for Hyper-V virtualization. Learn how MAP can save you valuable time by automating these labor-intensive tasks!

.NET Framework: Application Life Cycle Best Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Decisions made during V1 of an application reverberate throughout a product's lifetime and dramatically effect what's possible in later releases. This session follows an application from V1 design through development, deployment, servicing and V2. We will explore best practices for each step, including application versioning, extensibility, performance and security, that keep options open and set you up for success in later steps. With this approach you can focus your energies on creating value for your customers, instead of paying for unfortunate decisions of years past. Don't let your V2 catch you by surprise!

High Performance Computing Server 2008 - Advanced Management and Deployment

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

The new management features built into Windows High Performance Computing Server 2008 (successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2008) are the foundation of Microsoft's High Productivity Computing offer. Join us for a deep dive in monitoring and diagnostic tools, a review of the heatmap and template-based deployment. We also cover the new Windows PowerShell-based Windows HPC Server 2008 commandline and scripting interface, the basics of management shell, as well as the underlying design and key concepts.

HPC Server Development, the WCF Application Model

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Windows HPC Server 2008 introduces a new interactive programming model for High Performance Computing solutions. In this session you will learn how to host Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) components within a compute cluster and how to leverage the cluster in various service-oriented client application scenarios. An innovative departure from traditional clustered computing, the HPC+WCF Services model enables ease of solution development, deployment and management. Early adopters include financial services enterprises with near real-time interactive compute requirements.

How to manage technology and not have it manage you

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

To be an effective software development manager, you must remain current on an increasing number of technologies, concepts and ideas, and the rate of change is only increasing. This session will provide you with tools to manage the change, deal with the new technologies and make rational choices for short and longer term strategies. These tools include an architectural model to help organize technology, along with ideas on how to leverage your colleagues, staff and other resources at your disposal.

Long Running Conversations in Workflow Services 3.5 and 4.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 introduced the functionality to call services from Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and to expose workflows as a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. Windows Workflow 4.0 will offer exciting new correlation capabilities in this area as well. A common pattern is to have a workflow serve as the coordinator between a number of other processes (including workflows). This talk discusses how these conversations are implemented in WF 3.5 and will be implemented in 4.0, and common patterns for conversing over a long period of time, including asynchronous messaging, long-running cancellable work, managing m-of-n responses and check pointing of progress.

Exploring the ASP.NET Model View Control

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

System Center Operations Manager 2007: Administrative Best Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

A well managed deployment of Operations Manager can drive down management costs for any organization, but only if it's well managed and information presented in a timely manner. In this session we will present best practices for the top administrative tasks and challenges faced by customers like yourselves: agent deployment; deployment and tuning of Operations Manager management packs; reporting on the health of Operations Manager; and use of notification subscriptions to forward alerts via email, SMS or instant messaging.

Hybrid Messaging Security for Exchange Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

On premise and in-the-cloud message security solutions (also called hybrid messaging security) can improve the security of your Exchange Server and reduce the costs of protecting your network and messaging environment. This session looks at the existing version of Forefront Security for Exchange (FSE) and Exchange Hosted Filtering (EHF) and demonstrates how these solutions can be used together to provide layered protection for Exchange Server. This session also highlights how the next generation of FSE and EHF are designed to run together within the Stirling system.

Internationalizing WPF And Silverlight Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications have as many similarities as differences from Windows Forms applications. The same is true for WPF's localization model. This session illustrates how to localize and globalize WPF and Silverlight applications and pays particular attention to those issues that are unique to XAML, WPF and Silverlight.

Windows Logins Revealed

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Every day we log into our Windows systems. But what really happens when we do? How DO our workstations and our domain controllers exchange logon information without revealing our passwords? Security hardening guides talk about how scary old-style LM, NTLM and NTLMv2 logons are, but why EXACTLY do they say that - particularly when it's practically impossible to keep all of the old-style logins from happening even in the most modern network? How DOES AD's favorite logon protocol, Kerberos, work? How is it more secure than the old guys and where should you look more closely at securing it? Everyone wants to harden their systems and Windows supplies a wealth of really neat group policy and Registry settings but many people still haven't taken those simple hardening steps because, firstly, they don't understand them entirely and, secondly, they fear compatibility problems. Join expert Windows explainer and security geek Mark Minasi in an in-depth look at how Windows logins work, how they can not work (and how you can fix them) as well as how to better secure them. After seeing this talk, you will have NO excuses for not tweaking those group policy security settings!

Know Thy User: Instrumenting the User Experience

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

The most important principle of user experience design is "Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee". However, it is very difficult to know exactly what users think of your application - what they find easy to use, what's hard, what makes sense to them and what doesn't. If you ask them, they don't know, or can't remember, or don't want to admit they can't use your application, or don't want to insult you. Even finding users to ask is difficult, and current techniques such as focus groups almost always produce unrepresentative results. The only way to know for sure is to instrument your application so that it reports user experiences over many sessions. This talk will discuss ways in which this can be done and the design decisions that need to be made to accomplish it successfully. User experience tracking is different from other kinds of program instrumentation - it has to be very light, so that it doesn't degrade performance at all. Which sorts of events should you record? How do you convince users to opt in for data collection? How do you send and store the data, and how do you analyze it? A sample user experience tracking framework will be demonstrated. The silent majority has a lot to say, if you know how to listen to them.

Building Differentiated UI Applications Using Composite Windows Presentation Foundation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

With the recent release of Composite Application Guidance for WPF from Microsoft patterns and practices, guidance on building composite client applications that can take advantage of the power of WPF to deliver a superior user experience is now available. The next release of this guidance will extend it to include Silverlight, allowing you to build composite Silverlight RIA applications as well as composite WPF desktop applications. By using the same underlying composite design patterns, you can maximize re-use between the two environments and build applications that can provide both a desktop and a RIA experience. In this session, we'll take a deep dive into the new guidance and demo it's new features and patterns.

Naked Objects for .NET

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Managing and Versioning Client Databases

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Versioning a server database is challenging enough, but at least you can walk up to the Server. What do you do when you have thousands of desktop, laptop and mobile devices within your enterprise or deployed to consumers with several different versions of the app and database? In this session Steve will cover a strategy and implementation for versioning databases associated with your application that can be deployed via ClickOnce or any other based deployment technology.

Uncovering Vista's Two Least-Understood Security Stars

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Vista is more than just a pretty face. Its security innards have been ripped out and replaced with a new and almost completely different security engine. But it's not just security geek internals, it's some whole new paradigms. For example, what's going on with those User Access Control dialog boxes behind the scenes? Think you know what's in a token? Not any more... and get ready for a whole new layer of security, the Windows Integrity Level (WIL). WIL is the thing that could make it nearly impossible for you to delete any file in System32, even if you're an administrator, and might one day enable a bad guy to install a rootkit that you can't delete. Have we got your attention now? Then don't miss this session!

Building Custom Operating System Images Using Windows Embedded Standard

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Although building a custom OS image using the Windows Embedded Standard suite of tools is a relatively easy task, ensuring that you build an image that fulfills the specific needs of your device may be more challenging. This session covers how to plan your custom image, from choosing boot media to footprint optimization, security and servicing. It also touches on the basics of creating custom components to use in your image, as well as takes a closer look at some of the Embedded Enabling Features that are designed to enable scenarios such as booting from UFD (USB Flash Drive), reducing wear on flash media or enhancing boot times.

Data Governance: A management solution to Privacy issues

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Increasingly, IT departments are being asked to provide technical solutions to the combined problems of data loss and data theft, which are increasingly being reported in the press and can lead to lost customer confidence and business, and to significant penalties and fines. While technology can help combat data loss and theft, the answer to these problems, and the greater problem of building systems that support privacy principles, is Data Governance. Come to this session to understand what Data Governance is, and how Microsoft can help its customers today to implement Data Governance, with guidance, software and services. Learn, also, what new products and features are on the horizon that will help you build the next generation of privacy-aware solutions.

How to Configure Load Stress Testing SharePoint Server 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite Edition

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Have you wanted to test your SharePoint farm for capacity but don't know how? Do you need to know how many servers you will need to support your users ? Do you want to know how adding a Web Part will impact server performance? Do you want to know the impact of losing a server in the farm? Whether you are an administrator or developer, come and learn how to configure a web load test on your SharePoint Farm for desired and maximum capacity using Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite or Web Test Edition. This is very demo focused session and, in addition, you will learn how to create custom performance counter sets specifically for SharePoint and then use the counters as part of the Load tests. Finally we will see the final summary report and how it can be used in SharePoint capacity planning excercises.

Top Ten Strategies to Secure Your Code

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

For some reason, many people think security knowledge is out of their grasp and such expertise belongs only to the security high-priesthood. Firstly, there is no such thing as a "security high-priesthood"; all software developers should have some security expertise. Secondly, regardless of the programming languages you use, or the operating systems you deploy on, there are some very simple rules you can follow that will help secure your applications. Come and listen to Michael's thoughts on how to secure code based on his work with thousands of software developers inside and outside Microsoft. There are, of course, plenty of security war stories!

Introduction to the Azure Services Platform

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Join us to learn why services are critical, and get an overall understanding of all Microsoft's services technologies.This session will provide a high level overview of the Microsoft Azure Services Platform and show through a number of demos how a developers can build to this platform.

Conquering XML with Visual Basic 9.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

XML is used in most modern applications; business documents, configuration files, object serialization, SOAP, RSS and Office Open XML are just a few examples. Even your Visual Studio project files and configuration settings are XML files. However, XML processing currently requires you to learn a new set of concepts and its text-based format is not easy to deal with programmatically... until now! In Visual Basic 9.0, XML becomes a built-in data type with a rich editing experience that completely eliminates the conceptual barrier between the code that you write and the XML you're trying to manipulate. In this session you will learn how to easily create, query and transform XML with Visual Basic's powerful yet easy to use syntax. We will discuss features like XML IntelliSense, XML literals, embedded expressions and using language constructs instead of a DOM to navigate the XML hierarchy. In addition, we'll explore tips, tricks and "gotchas". Say goodbye to XSLT and hello to Visual Basic 9!

The Power of X++ - The Dynamics AX Object Oriented Development Environment

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Come and hear the story about what goes on under the covers in the X++ stack and how you can leverage it's strength to provide value to your customers. Learn how to avoid some of the common pitfalls and how to use the managed code interoperability story to your advantage.

Securing your Network using NAP

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Planning for a network health solution takes a lot of careful preparation and with Network Access Protection (NAP), there are several items that need to be considered. This discussion will go over the technical details and architecture of NAP as well as key points that should be considered by anyone planning to deploy the solution.

What's New in mobility and web access with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Interested in extending Office Communicator to your mobile workforce? Learn about the latest enhancements we've made in the mobile and web space as part of OCS 2007 R2. The session will cover new client functionality on Communicator Mobile and Communicator Web Access and information on server deployments.

The UC Managed API 2.0: Building Services that Manage Communications with OCS 2007 R2 (Part 2)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Part 2 of a series of 2 - Communications Enabled Business Processes reduce human latency by using Presence, IM and voice communications to communicate with human stakeholders at the right time in the right context. In this session you'll learn how the UC Managed API SDK provide you the tools you need to enable communications in your business processes. Learn how the Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 provides a powerful communications arsenal to build Presence, IM and voice enabled services that can be leveraged from any application. This session will focus on the advanced concepts of the UC Managed API 2.0 and will show how to use voice/telephony based communications.

Taming Massive Codebases Using the Visual C++ IDE

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

Has your application source code quadrupled in size over the past years? Are you finding it hard to wrap your head around the sprawling and interconnected web that makes up the different source components? Want to find out how Visual C++ can help you tame this wild monster? Come and join us for a fun session and learn how the Visual C++ IDE puts power at your fingertips to help you make sense of your multi-million lines of source code. In this session we will cover ways to increase your productivity by using the latest editing, navigation and browsing tools available in Visual C++.

SQL Server Integration Services 2008: A new area for ETL

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:10 GMT

In this session we will provide an overview of all the improvements that are provided with SQL Server Integration Services 2008. We'll look into Change Data Capture, Data Profiling, Designer Improvements and Performance Enhancements, amongst others.

Answering the Queries your users really want to ask, with Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Today's Business Users expect more from their applications. They want the ability to enter freeform text i.e.: comments and description fields. Then they expect powerful search, filtering and grouping on any part of that string. AND they expect you to make it perform well. The full-text search capabilities in SQL Server 2008 provide the power to effectively deal with these requests. This session covers the full-text search system in SQL Server 2008, show why it's important, what can be done with it and how to implement and manage it. The benefits that SQL Server 2008 brings to full-text search will be highlighted along with upgrade details. If you haven't looked into full-text search or found limitations in earlier versions, we'll show you exactly why you should be considering it now.

MSP Meeting Part 1

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Microsoft Student Partners meeting at TechEd Developers

Keeping Your CIO Happy: Sharepoint 2007 SLA Scorecarding with Operations Manager 2007 and SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

In this session you will see how you can create CIO level SLA scorecards in Sharepoint 2007 for Operations Manager 2007 using some of the new features in SQL 2008 Reporting Services and how to create Executive SLA views of your Operational Environment. The session will look at why these types of views are important to many companies, what impact this can have on your business and what simple steps you can take to achieve very effective, high-level executive views. It will include everything from performance and availability of your key LOB services and applications, whether important SLAs and KPIs are being achieved and whether your IT department is meeting the day to day needs of your business. The key demos in this session will take you through the steps you need to implement effective business scorecarding in Sharepoint 2007 using key metrics collected in the Operations Manager 2007 Datawarehouse based on "real-world" experiences gained from the field.

Dynamic IT: Key to IT Efficiencies & Innovation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Brad Anderson will share how changing business conditions have affected IT priorities today and what IT professionals can do to leverage Microsoft solutions to drive their agenda forward. With a focus on Microsoft's Dynamic IT initiative, Brad will discuss how IT leaders can reduce costs, increase IT innovation and deliver new capabilities to the business through optimizing IT processes and technology infrastructure.

Surviving Database Corruption - From Detection to Resolution

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Your database is corrupt - what do you do? Well, it depends! How critical is the data? Do you know what's really wrong with the database? What does all that DBCC CHECKDB output mean? Should you restore or repair? It's all about limiting downtime and data-loss when a corruption occurs - from knowing the tools to understanding the implications of choices you make. In this demo-heavy session Paul will give you insight into how to recover from corruption without making things worse.

What is New for Developers in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

SQL Server 2008 introduces quite a few new mouth-watering features for the SQL Server developer which will make a developer's life easier and more productive. This session is your introduction to the new enhancements in SQL Server 2008 from a Developer's perspective. In this session we will take a technical look at some of these new and exciting features including tables as parameters, the MERGE keyword and capturing of changed data and many more.

Advanced Cross-browser layout with IE8

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 includes a new, standards-compliant layout engine. Learn more about what this means to you as a Web designer and how to leverage new layout functionality in Internet Explorer to create cross-browser-compatible layout designs.

What's New in Voice with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 contains exciting telephony and enterprise voice capabilities. We'll dive into many new features and explore the functionality and architecture with detailed demonstrations of both client-side and server side. We will also be covering core enhancements to the media stack for telephony and enterprise voice, specifically regarding how to ensure the highest quality of experience.

RIAs and Emissaries

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

The emerging field of RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is a hybrid between the classic rich-client application and a browser. Designed to provide the richness of the client environment without installation, RIA applications must be small and lightweight. To provide safety, they must have strictly limited access to resources on the client machine. Sandboxing of the client access limits the RIA app to per-app/per-user/per-machine state. The state of the art is evolving in how sharing can be done within RIA environments across applications and across users while providing safe computing. The emissary design pattern is one where there is non-trusted code running outside of a service which is specifically designed to support interactions with the service. Leveraging reference data published by the target service, the emissary prepares requests with a sophisticated enough understanding of the service's expectations that the request is likely to be accepted and processed. All of this is done while respecting the trust boundaries imposed by the target service. This pattern is clarified in the talk by showing parallels to the usage of paper forms in the business processes that proceeded the advent of computers. We will explore the use and evolution of the Rich Internet Application and discuss some of the fun challenges the industry faces as RIAs evolve. Then, we will describe the emissary design pattern and show how RIAs are very well suited to working with their parent web environment using this pattern. This talk is simply the wild ideas of the presenter and does not reflect any product commitments. It might, however, help you understand and build your applications differently.

DNS 2008 Style: How Name Resolution Changes in Windows Server 2008 Infrastructures

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Windows Server 2008 is here - and so is DNS, 2008 style! What's the story with WINS; is it time to go? How does Windows 2008 DNS affect Active Directory? What about those new "magic" records, the DNAME and GLOBALNAMES feature? And most importantly, how the heck do I administer a DNS server running on Server Core? Find out with the Master of Name Resolution, Mark Minasi!

SharePoint Ports, Protocols and Proxies: an end-to-end on SharePoint inter-server communication

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides an excellent scale-out ability, with large multi-server farms becoming commonplace. But for those configuring, maintaining and debugging these farms, the communication which MOSS uses between its servers is sometimes something of a mystery. This session will unveil the communication channels that are used by MOSS, the debugging tools and methods that can be used to monitor and intercept the communication, and optimization techniques for tweaking the performance and security of a MOSS server farm.

"Dublin": Hosting and Managing Workflows and Services in Windows Application Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Hear about extensions being made to Windows Server to provide a feature-rich middle-tier execution and deployment environment for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. Learn about the architecture of this new extension, how it works, how to take advantage of it, and the features it provides that simplify deployment, management, and troubleshooting of workflows and services.

Dell Global Services - In the trenches with Hyper-V

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Dell will share its expertise on how it demystifies Hyper-V solutions for its customers. This expertise has been derived from years of leading Virtualization experience coupled with extensive WS2008 Hyper-V validation both in the lab as well as in production with customers from around the world. Dell will share some of the experiences learned during the development of its Hyper-V solutions and will additionally provide the audience with the approach, tools and best practices that it uses to develop rich, highly available WS2008/Hyper-V solutions.

Parallel Programming for Managed developers with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Come learn how Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 can help you write better performing and more scalable applications. We take a tour of new .NET APIs, including the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). We also introduce new features in the debugger that help you quickly identify concurrency issues and visualize the internal state of your application.

Applying Feature-Driven Development Techniques to Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Feature-Driven Development is an iterative and incremental software development methodology that has proven itself in the world of contract- and commitment-based software development. In this session, learn how to leverage Feature-Driven Development techniques when using Team Foundation Server, from work item customization and usage, to reporting and tracking.

Designing and Architecting a Network Access Protection (NAP) Solution

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

One of the most exciting, if not the most exciting, technology in Windows Server 2008 is Network Access Protection (NAP). In this session we will go deep into the technologies that comprise NAP and discuss the pros and cons of the enforcement methods that are supported in NAP and discuss what real customers (including Microsoft) are doing with the technology. We will also discuss some best practices around designing and building a NAP solution as well show a demonstration of the technology.This session assumes that the audience has at least a 100 level knowledge of NAP. *PLEASE OBSERVE* This is a more in depth look at NAP. If you don't have looked at NAP before, it's probably a good idea to take a look at this introductory webcast on NAP first - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921070/en - before attending this session.

Demo: Microsoft Security Assessment Tool

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

The free Microsoft Security Assessment Tool helps your organization assess their security posture and discover security areas that may need remediation. Through the easy to use assessment process, you will find prioritized tasks with industry guidance, best practices and recommendations to resolve security issues identified in the detailed reports. Using MSAT's reporting features and having scheduled assessments can help you see improvements over time providing your organization a consistent level of security awareness. Thomas Dawkins, MSAT's Group Product Manager, shows you how to better secure your IT environment today and in the future.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave One - Geert Baeke

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Geert Baeke takes part in Speaker Idol Wave 1 and gives a fascinating talk on Hyper-V virtual machine migration.

Using Network Access Protection (NAP) in combination with FCS

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Lap around the next generation of the Microsoft Unified Communications Platform

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

In Q1 of 2009 Microsoft will be shaking up the dusty telecom world once again by releasing the second release of its powerful communications software platform. Come and see an end-to-end 'real life' sample application showcasing the new platform features of the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Exchange Server. Learn about the new APIs of the platform and about the key new scenarios that will be enabled so you as a developer can embed communications deeply in client as well as server applications. New APIs we will showcase are the enhanced Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 which contains a complete SIP signaling stack, combined with a media stack, a managed speech API, UC Windows Workflow Activities, and tools integrated into Visual Studio 2008. Also witness the debut of a new Web Services based Managed API for Microsoft Exchange that can be used both for client side as well as server side development.

"Dublin" enhancements to Windows Server application server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

Microsoft is enhancing Windows Server including key components in the .NET Framework 4.0 release by adding significant functionality to the next version of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). In this talk, Burley Kawasaki shares information on the upcoming set of enhanced Windows Server application server capabilities codenamed "Dublin," which offer greater scalability and easier manageability, and will extend Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide a standard host for applications that use workflow or communications.

BitLocker Enhancements in Windows 7

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

In Windows 7, BitLocker Drive Encryption has been extended to provide new features based on customer feedback. This session will describe some of the new scenarios enabled in the enterprise and present some of the new ways to manage and deploy data protection. Additionally, new recovery scenarios on how to recover access to BitLocker encrypted data will also be presented.

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Best Practices!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:09 GMT

This session explores experiences and best practices related to Windows Server 2008 Active Directory features such as RODC and fine grained password policies. You may also be wondering how to run your Domain Controllers in light of other Windows Server 2008 features, such as Hyper-V. Can you run your branch offices with an RODC and can it be run as a virtual machine? Should you use Server Core instead? Can you leverage RODCs in the DMZ in addition to branch offices? What are the best practices to achieve this? Active Directory Change Auditing is a compelling feature but it can be difficult to find machines and events across a distributed set of machines. How can Windows Server 2008 help you to address this challenge to better monitor the security activities of Active Directory? We used to be limited to a single password policy per domain but today we can have many! What are the best practices to implement Fine Grained Password Policy? If you have an interest in these questions and are looking for practical answers that you can put into practice, attend this session!

An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight Controls Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

This session provides an overview of the Silverlight controls and controls model. We look at the fundamentals of how to use Silverlight controls and how to make minor visual customizations to them via Styles. In addition, we explore UserControls and how they make building Silverlight applications easier and how to completely re-template controls.

A Lap Around SQL Server Data Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) is a hosted database service that supports high-scale distributed applications using SOAP and REST interfaces. Learn how to model data for high availability and scale, and see how to create new applications in the cloud or extend on-premises applications and services. Learn how to create, retrieve and update all types of data-from blobs to flexible entities to schematized entities.

Tools for Identifying "LUA Bugs" (Admin-Permissions-Required Bugs)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Lots of programs were designed by developers running as admin for users running as admin, and lots of those programs break when you try to run as a standard user. This session discusses and demonstrates various tools to identify the specific causes of those failures so that they can be fixed. This helps avoid insecure overkill fixes like granting "Full Control" to the program's installation folder.

Deploying System Center Mobile Device Manager in a Global Environment

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

System Center Mobile Device Manager allows an organisation to manage mobile devices just like PCs and Laptops. This session will help you understand the best practices to deploy System Center Mobile Device Manager in a global environment taking into consideration challenges such as resilience, disaster recovery, roaming and disparate mobile operator networks.

How to answer the questions/queries your database users really wanted to actually ask: Introducing Integrated Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Today's Business Users expect more! They want Integrate Full-text Search in their applications and in all interactions with the data. They want the ability to enter freeform text ie: comments & description fields, such as find 'drive' when they wanted 'drove, driving, drives'. Then they expect powerful search, filtering & grouping on any part of that string. And they expect you to make it perform well! This session focuses on a new integrated Full-Text Search Engine (iFTS) that SQL Server 2008 has introduced into the relational database to make search as fully integrated a feature of a database as SQL query or indexing or any other "traditional" database service. Come to this session to find out how combining strengths of search and database query provides a strong base for delivering innovative new features and capabilities.

An Introduction to Oslo

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

An informal introduction and discussion about "Oslo" the code name for Microsoft's platform for model-driven applications. The goal of "Oslo" is to provide a 10x productivity gain by making model-driven applications mainstream with domain-specific models, a new language, and tools. This sessions will also cover a simple declarative language for building domain models and working with data.

Building the Next Generation C++/MFC Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

The next release of MFC will provide encapsulations around a number of new Windows platform features. With this functionality you can easily build applications that integrate into features such as desktop search, application restart, recovery functionality and leverage the new Windows UI metaphors such as Live Icons and Rich Preview. These features represent one of the most significant updates to MFC in years. By attending this session you will learn the details on all these new classes so you can rapidly build Windows applications that stand out from the crowd.

The upcoming Exchange Web Services Managed API: Unified Communications Development on Exchange Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

The upcoming Exchange Web Services Managed API provides managed code access to the power of Exchange whether you are running on premise or in the cloud. This powerful, productive .NET API provides full access to Microsoft Exchange mail, calendaring, scheduling, contacts, eventing, synchronization, permissioning and public folders programmatically using the Exchange Web Services protocol, a standards-based HTTP-SOAP interface. Come and learn how using this cutting edge solution can dramatically accelerate your development times, substantially increase code quality, reduce test and maintenance costs and prepare your company for a move to a service offering.

Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 (Part 1): Empowering users with self-service identity management solutions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Learn how to use Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) "2" to bring easy-to-use, intuitive self-service solutions to your end users. This session is focused on showing you how to use ILM "2" to address self-service group management and password management scenarios, with an eye toward planning and deployment guidance for real-world production implementation. We will dive into these popular scenarios and show you how to get started today testing and planning ILM "2" self-service solutions.

The Windows Vista Bridge: How Managed Code Developers Can Easily Access Exciting New Vista Features

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Accessing new Windows Vista features is a challenge from managed (.NET) code. The level of interoperability required is out of reach for many developers. The Vista Bridge is a sample library you can use in your own projects today that provides access to new user interface features as well as "behind the scenes" power features. Discover a shortcut to Windows Vista for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# programmers and how you can get involved.

Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Component Description and Conceptual Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Through a discussion of Unified Messaging call flow this session identifies UM components and explains their function within the voicemail process. Focus will be on dialplans, UM mailbox policies, huntgroups and gateway objects configuration of each and how they are invoked during common UM operations. A brief discussion of UM \ OCS integration will be included, specifically the UM configuration. Topics will include how UM interoperates with Active Directory , hub and mailbox servers.

Women in Technology Discussion Highlights

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

View some highlights from the Women in Technology discussion at Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals in Barcelona.

Supporting Your End-Users with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 SP1

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

In this session you will learn how you can use System Center Essentials 2007 to more effectively support your end-users in a mid-size business (50-500 PCs) by deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting mission-critical applications, services and operating systems in your IT environment. For examples, we walk you through deployment of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and demonstrate how to use Essentials 2007 to effectively manage business critical applications. Finally, we demonstrate Essentials 2007 desktop management capabilities which support the Windows Vista operating system.

Windows Server - Today, Tomorrow and Into the Future

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

With the success of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft is currently working on an update release - Windows Server 2008 R2 - which includes major technology investments in Virtualization, Web, and Management, along with several features that improve Scalability & Reliability and deliver a strong value proposition along with Windows 7 for the desktop (client). Join Microsoft's David Lowe as he discusses the momentum and opportunity of current and future Windows Server offerings.

Microsoft Dynamics Mobile for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics Mobile is rapidly putting the power of Dynamics Business Solutions into the hands of a whole new range of users. In this session you will learn how Microsoft Dynamics Mobile integrates with the new technology stack in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. See how you can easily develop role tailored applications for Windows Mobile powered devices and capture the data in your Microsoft Dynamics backend application.

Where Is My Memory? Understanding Microsoft SQL Server Memory Usage and Management

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

SQL Server, like any other database, can be very memory-hungry but how is all that memory used. Is it just the data cache? This session goes deep under the covers of SQLOS to see how SQL Server manages its memory and what it is being used for. We will look at the dynamics of memory usage within SQL Server and the competition between different cache types, with special attention to procedure cache. We will also examine how SQL Server interacts with the operating system and other applications running on the same machine. After this session you will have a good understanding of SQL Server memory architecture and you will have a good understanding of how to configure SQL Server for optimal memory usage and how to diagnose and troubleshoot memory related issues on your SQL Server installation.

Microsoft Visual Studio 10: Web Development Futures

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Get a first look at the next version of Visual Studio for web developers and see how the new deployment tools enable frictionless transfers of web projects from machine to machine. Learn about the new code generation aides and the next generation of JavaScript editing and navigation tools and, finally, see how the updated WYSIWYG design view enables standards-based development.

Optimizing Query Performance in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

In this session we will take a deep dive into the enhancements of SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. We'll analyze the MDX query evaluation internals, block evaluation vs. cell-by-cell evaluation, and the query performance improvements in Analysis Services 2008. We'll also show how to use the query trace capability to understand query execution plans, as well as show how to diagnose slow queries and provide techniques for optimizing them.

Green Computing through Sharing: Reducing both Cost AND Carbon

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Data centers consumed 1.5% of the total electricity in the US in 2006 and are on track to double as a percentage every five years. It is about 2% of the US total in 2008. Western Europe's use is increasing at a slightly faster rate (from a slightly lower base percentage). The consumption of electricity within data centers is of significant financial and environmental importance. Where the heck is all this power going? Why is the electrical load increasing so much? What can be done about it? This talk will examine both traditional and emerging data center designs. We will start by examining how a data center is laid out, constructed, and managed. We will show two emerging trends: the change to designing data centers for the optimization of power and the emergence of new economies of scale in data centers which is contributing to the drive towards cloud computing. Microsoft is actively moving to compete in the space of cloud computing as we are seeing at the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) a few weeks before TechEd EMEA Developers. Next, we will examine the sources of waste in the system today and examine why so many of our resources are underutilized. Because we are reluctant to share computing resources, they are left idle much of the time. Why is this currently the dominant choice? What can be done in the design of applications, systems, and data centers to make them more green (both carbon and cash)? What can developers do to make a difference?

System Center Strategy and Roadmap

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:08 GMT

Join Brad Anderson, the General Manager of the Management & Solutions Division, to learn how Dynamic IT enables solutions to key problems in IT management today, and how the System Center suite of products enables companies to move to a Dynamic IT model. Various key solutions for management of the desktop and datacenter which are enabled by the System Center product suite will be described, and details of the current status and future plans for each product products will be presented.

Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals Daily Interview - Day Three

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

You won't want to miss these daily videos from Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals 2008 with attendees and speakers, including Don't trip over the Nerd, Location of the Day, Beauty and the Nerd, and Interview of the Day. Brought to you by NGN TV (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland or Network Usergroup Netherlands). Day Three - Interviews with MVP Ilse Van Criekinge, speaker Andy Malone, and more!

Using Hierarchical Work Items in Team Foundation Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

With a open source tool you can organize your workitems hierarchical ind TFS 2008, TFS 2010 will have this feature build in. But what are the advantage of hierarchical workitems and which problems in the application lifecycle can you solve with this? Christian Binder and Thomas Schissler are discussing some solutions for project challenges you can acchiev with this approach.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Why Your Development Arsenal Shouldn't Be Without It

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

There's a saying that you can't judge a book by its cover. And when it comes to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, that is certainly the case. Join CRM Senior Product Manager, Nikhil Hasija, as he demonstrates how the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM can drive down your development costs, significantly improve your deployment timelines, and provide you a flexible platform from which to launch applications that extend far beyond traditional customer relationship management. You'll see first-hand how other developers are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to quickly deliver greater value to end users, and increase their personal contributions to their organizations.

Live Platform: New Developer Services and APIs

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Learn how you can take advantage of the full power of the next generation Live developer platform in your web or client application. We take a look at new and future services, protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live services, stream media, obtain audience analytics data, work with presence, authentication, and more.

Creating Location Aware Applications for Windows Mobile Devices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

More and more Windows Mobile powered devices ship with integrated global positioning system (GPS) hardware. Since Windows Mobile devices are typically used on the road, it makes a lot of sense to add location awareness to your applications. In the upcoming future, Constanze Roman and Maarten Struys foresee location aware applications moving beyond traditional navigation software. Adding location awareness to all kinds of social networking applications could be the next big thing for Windows Mobile devices. In this sample filled session, Constanze and Maarten show you how you can make use of the GPS Intermediate Driver to retrieve GPS information from inside managed applications. You will learn how to use the FakeGPS utility to test location-enabled applications without needing access to a physical GPS device and you will also learn how to feed FakeGPS with your own recorded location information. Of course you will also see a real location-aware application on a Windows Mobile Device in action.

Writing a 3D game in 60 minutes

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Want to become a game developer? With technologies such as XNA the entry in this world has never been easier. This sessions gives you a kickstart in game development and shows you the areas that you'll need to master whether you plan to write a 3D Tetris clone or the next Halo title. And while having fun by writing a game, you'll probably notice that a lot of the technologies and know how used could be applied to classical development areas as well.

Managing Microsoft Data Centers - Operational Excellence

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

General Manager Mike Manos is the head of Microsoft's global data center program. Be part of an insight into how Microsoft is operating its data centers worldwide, learn about the importance of efficiency and Green IT, and how Microsoft is managing their servers.

Decentralized Software Services in Action: Architecting Integration and Grid Patterns using the CCR & DSS Toolkit 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

This talk will provide a brief introduction to the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), Decentralized Software Services (DSS), and Visual Programming Language (VPL). They ship as part of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and the newly announced CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008. These .NET technologies are being used in non-robotics applications ranging from business processes, major web sites, retail automation, command and control systems, scientific computing, sensor-nets and much more. At the core of CCR/DSS lies a powerful concurrent messaging engine plus a REST-like protocol. This enables users to easily build applications that require coordination of messages between loosely-coupled service-oriented components within and across distributed nodes of the application spanning embedded and traditional client/server systems. To explore the applicability of these technologies to distributed systems computing we describe a couple of simple frameworks. The first shows how enterprise integration patterns can be built on DSS and composed with VPL. And the second is a system to host and dynamically deploy autonomous connected DSS services. Both can run across the full range of Windows embedded, server and client operating systems.

Windows Server 2008 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

What is Windows Server 2008 R2 going to do for you, the IT Professional? Iain McDonald, General Manager for the Windows Server group at Microsoft talks about some of the fundamental changes in R2, including ASP.NET in Server Core, PowerShell, and an Active Directory update.

Develop with the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

There is more to SharePoint than just the great end user out of the box functionality. Learn how to make use of Silverlight together with SharePoint social computing features. In this demo focused talk we will build a SharePoint application using the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint.

Building Asynchronous Contextual Collaboration with Exchange Web Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Exchange 2007 introduced the Exchange Web Services APIs to integrate information stored in Exchange into line-of-business applications. Examples include calendaring applications, contact management applications or applications that access other content from the Exchange store, like creating, editing and sending messages, handling tasks or managing contacts, etc. This session gives an overview of the breadth of the Exchange Web Services APIs basics and focuses on specific illustrations of how to use Exchange Web Services in your line-of-business applications.

Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 (Part 2): Expressing and enforcing business policy

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) "2" introduces powerful policy management features that help organizations mitigate compliance risks more effectively and efficiently. This session will show you how to use ILM "2" policy management features to enable you to easily author and ultimately to enforce identity management policies and associated provisioning processes. We will explore how to apply policies using the flexible policy engine in ILM "2" to help keep your organization in a state of compliance.

The Future of C#

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Building and consuming REST-based data services for the Web

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Data has become a first-class element of the web. It drives mashups and makes data-driven AJAX and Silverlight applications possible. The ADO.NET Data Services Framework enables developers to create services that expose data over a REST interface using industry standard formats and semantics such as JSON and AtomPub. This demo-centric session will delve into the ADO.NET Data Services Framework by example, explore the value proposition for this new technology and describe how the framework integrates with hosted services (Windows Live) in the cloud.

Anatomy of a Hack 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Lately there has been an increase in attackers attempting to monetize user's naivety. One of the methods currently in vogue is the use of fake anti-malware software, for which the user is expected to pay. This method permits the attackers to not only install malicious software on an unsuspecting user's computer, the victim also pays the attackers for the privilege. In this presentation, Jesper Johansson will demonstrate one such attack and show how to tell that it is fake.

Common ASP.NET production issues and how to troubleshoot them with windbg

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

This session presents the most common causes for hangs, performance issues, crashes, and memory problems in ASP.NET applications. The problems and demos shown are a compilation of many years of experience in troubleshooting these types of issues for some of our largest customers all over the world. We will show you how to avoid these issues, and give you an insight into how to troubleshoot these issues with windbg (from the debugging tools for windows) and SOS.dll.

Development Team Management Secrets: What I've Learned

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

Running a successful development team requires a good head and good tools. In this session, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Team Foundation Server Product Unit Manager Brian Harry will talk about what he's learned over the years running successful teams at Microsoft and how tools like those in Visual Studio Team System have helped.

Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008: Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:07 GMT

System Center Mobile Device Manager is the new Windows Server based mobile device management and secure mobile network access solution. It is targeted at Windows Mobile based devices to enable policy based security management tied to Active Directory Group Policy. In addition, it provides device and application update management tied to Windows Software Update Services. System Center Mobile Device Manager also provides secure over-the-air provisioning, reporting, and inventory features. Finally System Center Mobile Device Manager introduces a mobile optimized IPSEC based VPN solution for access to data beyond email. Learn more about planning your IT organization for deploying SCMDM 2008. This session will cover an introduction to the product and how to mitigate some of the deployment challenges and risks.

Customizing search in Search Server 2008 and SharePoint Server 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

This session covers the different developer scenarios for working with Microsoft Search Server 2008 and with search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this session you'll learn how you can customize the Search Center to display results the way you want. We will also dive into the new federation features introduced in Search Server 2008 and walkthrough the process of building federated search connectors to connect to external search engines and /or applications.

Building Cloud-Based Enterprise-Grade Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Most of us are familiar with server infrastructure based (Windows Server, SQL...), on-premises application design but what happens when the application moves to a cloud-based infrastructure (cloud compute, cloud storage, cloud identity...)? Also, how do you implement enterprise-grade features such as federated identity, remote management and self provisioning on top of that platform? In this session we will walk through examples of such applications discussing challenges, opportunities and emerging best practices.

Windows Client: Roadmap and Introduction to Windows 7 for Enterprise Customers

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

This session will cover Windows client roadmap and discuss changes in fundamentals and deployment that will make migration from Windows Vista to Windows 7 easier for large companies. Learn about the new networking, search, security, management, virtualization capabilities and see demos of these, all in one session. If you have time to go to only one Windows session, then this is the one not to be missed!

Web 2.0 + WCF

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

WCF provides first-class support for building "Web" services that embrace RESTful design principles using standard Web protocols and data formats. This session illustrates how to build WCF services that support the HTTP uniform interface and different resource representations like XML, JSON, and Atom/AtomPub in ways that will enhance your Web 2.0 mash-ups. We'll specifically look at the new features in WCF, the WCF REST Starter Kit and ADO.NET Data Services.

Introducing Windows 7 - Part 2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

The Windows® 7 operating system is the essential platform for developers. Windows 7 empowers developers to deliver creative solutions that are mobile-aware, connected, high-fidelity, and provide a highly intuitive user experience. Most importantly, developer platform fundamentals such as security, performance, and compatibility are top priorities in Window 7. This two part presentation introduces Windows 7 and summarizes the key developer advances in each of the following areas: making products that stand out; the best of Windows and the Web; and rock solid platform. Come and learn firsthand about Windows 7 developer technologies including: Multi-touch Support, Libraries, Federated Search, Ribbons, Sensors, Windows Web Services and the new Taskbar and shell experience. This is the second half of a two part presentation introducing Windows 7.

Windows Azure - A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Owner

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Learn how Microsoft's cloud services platform helps you to get your service up and keep it running. We'll look at how service owners can develop and maintain a running service, including handling upgrades, scaling up and down and retrieving logs and analytical data. For all these tasks, we'll show how the platform automates as much as possible while giving you absolute control over what happens with your service.

Demo: Deploying Vista in the Field in 35 Minutes

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Richard Diver & Jason Wallace of Premier Field Engineering run through a demo of a USB Deployment method (using MDT deployment technology). This method lets you to carry your Corporate sysprep'd images of Vista and Server 2008 on a USB HDD, thus allowing you to rebuild your laptop, giving you full functionality, while away from the office. They also go through an option to deploy 2008 as a dual boot.

Multi-Server Management

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Database Administrators are faced with increasing numbers of servers and instances and they need to be able to view, monitor and control multiple systems. SQL Server 2008 introduces new features that assist in multiple server management such as the Central Management Server, multi-server Transact-SQL queries without the need for defining linked servers, Policy-Based Management and the new SQL Server Provider for PowerShell. Learn how to apply the foundations of multiple server management techniques and these new features to control your server landscape.

Cybercrime: The Art of Identity Theft!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

We live in an ever changing world where information is readily available. Social Engineering, otherwise known as Identity fraud, has now become one of the world's most popular means of obtaining information in order to carry out criminal activities. With small pieces of information thieves can do a lot of damage. On a worldwide scale it's the fastest growing crime. Identity theft - the art of stealing another person's identity for personal, financial or criminal intent. It's not just about credit card theft, that's small time. We're talking about Identity Theft on an industrial scale. Damaging the reputation of companies, influencing the stock market and perhaps worse! Information is big business and it is worth more than you think. In this fast paced session you will see the tools and websites that hackers and ID thieves use when selecting targets. As an IT Professional or business owner you have to be prepared to defend against such attacks.

Microsoft Identity and Security

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

JG Chirapurath, Director for Microsoft Identity and Security discusses how customer needs for compliance, business agility, and operational efficiency are driving convergence across enterprise Security, Identity, Access & Management. JG outlines Microsoft's unique strategy to provide integrated identity and security solutions that help customers lower cost of ownership, improve protection, and meet business needs. He also discusses the identity and security product news announcements made at Tech·Ed.

SMB v2.0 in Action

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

So how fast is SMB v2.0? Some claim it's up to 40 times faster than SMB v1, others state it's actually slower or takes various registry tweaks to even come close to SMB v1 performance, like with most absolutistic statements, all of them are correct - under specific circumstances, that is! Let's have a look at what the new SMB protocol actually does, how it's performance is influenced by the new TCP/IP stack and how other network parameters (e.g. Jumbo Frames) contribute to the overall network performance. Using a network emulation tool, we will undertake some experiments and explore the behavior of Vista, XP, WS03 and WS08 when confronted with changing network conditions. And we'll end up accepting the fundamental wisdom of "Never trust any statistic you didn't fake yourself"!

Managed to Native Interoperability: Best Practices for Today with an Eye towards the Future

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

You've got thousands or millions of lines of unmanaged code that does its job just fine, thanks. The productivity and potential of managed code is alluring, but you don't want to rewrite all of your well-tested unmanaged code. The good news is that you don't have to! Interop allows you to use managed code where it makes sense without throwing out your existing investment in unmanaged code. In this session we'll discuss when, where and how to use the different managed to native interop technologies. We'll also discuss upcoming features and tools and how they will make interop easier.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Ultimate Performance Tuning

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

This session equips the advanced Windows Mobile developer with invaluable performance tuning techniques to get the most out of SQL Server Compact Edition. A deep dive into the query processor, storage engine, and the managed provider for SQL Compact Edition is followed by specific query tuning techniques and how to get the absolute best merge replication performance in your Windows Mobile data synchronization architecture.

Microsoft OCS Direct SIP Interoperability with IP-PBX

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

In this session we will pick up where we left off ( in session described above) and zoom in on one of the key changes in R2, enabling much broader Direct SIP Interoperability with IP-PBX and in particular with Cisco Call Manager. We will provide detailed technical descriptions of the changes and describe the steps to provision both OCS and CCM for Direct SIP interoperability.

Supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 within Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

One of the most anticipated aspects of the new Database Edition for Visual Studio Team System release, is the support for SQL Server 2008. This session covers how the new architecture, features, and functionality of the new Visual Studio Team System Database Edition version will enable the support of SQL Server 2008 new data types, new syntax and other functionality. In addition, this session provides an overview of all the new functionality which applies to SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008.

Building Effective Operations Management Scorecards and Dashboards

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

In this session, you will see the end-to-end architecture of an IT-centric performance management solution. PerformancePoint can be used in IT to develop scorecards and key performance indicators that are important for an IT professional. At the end of the day, the most important measurements for IT departments are uptime, availability, disk usage, SLA variances and transaction analysis. PerformancePoint gives you a dynamic reporting solution to track them all! Among other things, the session will demonstrate how to build SQL Server Analysis Services cubes from data in System Center Operations Manager and answer some tough business questions facing any IT department. For example, are you in danger of missing SLAs? How much capacity do you need next year given current demand? Your business users need to monitor critical business information and react quickly to changing conditions and so do you!

Rockstar Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Come see how to build efficient common table expressions (CTE) by hand and how they are used to improve your development options in SQL Server. Along the way we will compare CTEs to Table parameters and also see how to use them with finding duplicates, segmenting data, ranking, dynamic crosstab, and recursion. This session is not for the weak!

PowerShell Group Discussion

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Members of the PowerShell community come together to talk about PowerShell features and the state of the community.

Data Compression in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Is your database big? Are you interested in reducing its size to half or even to one-third? The new release of SQL Server will provide you with native data compression for your tables, indexes, and partitions that can significantly reduce the size of your database. A smaller database can lead to better performance for IO bound loads, reduce memory requirement and the manageability cost (e.g. backup/recovery) of your database. This session describes how SQL Server compresses the data in SQL Server and its impact on the workload. We also share the best practices and the lessons learned based on the feedback from early adopters.

Advanced Operating System Deployment with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (Part 3 of 3): Extending OS Deployment with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. New features in Microsoft Deployment integrate with and extend the native OS deployment functionality of Configuration Manager 2007 while providing thorough project management guidance. Examine how the Microsoft Deployment toolkit uses and extends the OS deployment capabilities presented in parts 1 and 2, providing new wizards, task sequence templates, additional server deployment automation and other features.

Future Directions for Visual Basic

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

In this session, we'll discuss the future direction of the Visual Basic language both in the near and long term. Features from the next exciting version of the language will be demonstrated and discussed, including extensions to LINQ support, syntax simplifications and improvements to the IDE. Larger trends that are likely to deeply influence the direction of the language will also be covered, including dynamic binding, meta-programming and scripting. Finally, we'll discuss how all these tie together into the roadmap for Visual Basic going forward.

Deployment and migration strategies for ActiveX controls (AXIS of evil)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Organizations moving to a locked down configuration that includes non-administrative users, face many challenges: application installation, backup capabilities, configuration issues and increasingly the (re)installation of ActiveX controls. While there are many good tools and guidance on OS and application deployment, IE controls are an interesting by-product of this strategy. In this session we'll look at tools to inventory your exsting ActiveX install base and multiple deployment and support options for the managed deployment of ActiveX controls within customer environments.

When You Have Too Much Data, "Good Enough" is Good Enough

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Classic database management systems have very tight control over their data and over the correctness of the answers they provide. A number of pressures are being placed on classic database systems: We are awash in vast quantities of data. There are many sources of the data, it frequently has inconsistent schema, and its interpretation is up to well interpretation. Data are streaming into the system(s) at the same time as we are attempting to analyze it. The machines holding the data may not all be concurrently available This talk will examine some of these forces on classic database management systems and propose that there are a number of new ways to think about data. We will explore a number of different dimensions in which the classic database world is being relaxed to meet the needs for our customers in a changing world.

Distributed Embedded Systems - The Next Big Developer Opportunity!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Recent forecasts predict over 16 billion embedded devices by 2010! With more of these devices providing connectivity, there's a huge opportunity for developers to extend their solutions to target embedded devices. Come get a glimpse of recent industry trends and technologies that are enabling the next wave of smart, connected, service-oriented devices, and learn how Microsoft's offerings can help you get started today.

Windows Networking: from Windows Vista to Windows 7

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:06 GMT

Building upon networking foundations of Windows Vista, Windows 7 provides new networking capabilities that support additional flexibility for mobile and remote users. In this session we will discuss networking in Windows 7, explore related usage scenarios, and look into how to manage these in an enterprise environment.

eCommerce best practices and lessons learned for IT Professionals (considerations for scalability, performance, manageability)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

This Session is for the IT Professionals responsible for recommending and implementing eCommerce projects working closely with the Business owners, Merchants and Marketing teams in your company. E-commerce web properties are part of the dollars and cents life-blood of many organizations today - getting E-commerce right is one of the most formidable challenges facing IT Professionals. Also, many companies are re-evaluating their strategy for web properties to identify new opportunities to i) Improve the online experience for customers and partners (i.e. multi-channel selling and marketing, social networking) ii) Bring multiple Brands, Channels and Campaigns to market in a fast and cost effective manner iii) Have an environment that empowers the Business Users to manage their eCommerce business with simple tools that allow them to easily create Campaigns and make them available in a secure and reliable way without IT Development needed. This session provides priorities for evaluating eCommerce solutions and best practices for ongoing daily operations, deployment planning and, if time permits, performance considerations. Based on audience feedback at the start of the session, we may also outline Microsoft's next generation Web initiative and strategies, and the eCommerce technology roadmap.

Virtual System Center: Running and Maintaining The System Center Suite on Microsoft Hyper-V

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

In this breakout session you will learn how to effectively install and run the Microsoft System Center Suite of products on a Microsoft Hyper-V platform, In this session we will discuss the procedures for building a Hyper-V platform from the ground up, and show you through a series of demos how you can utilise SCVMM to effectively manage both Physical and Virtual environments, as well as the steps required to create and deploy VMM images for use with Operations Manager 2007 and Configuration Manager 2007 to allow you to manage mission critical applications such as SharePoint 2007 and Exchange 2007. Finally we will show you the steps required to implement and use System Center Data Protection Manager to backup the entire environment and then restore it completely in the event of a disaster recovery scenario. This session is based on real-world experiences of installing, administering and maintaining Microsoft System Center Products in a production Hyper-V environment, and will offer hints, tips and advice on getting the best out of both the products and platform moving forward.

Designing for Testability: Bridging the Gap between Design and Testing in Object-Oriented Software

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Unit Testing and Agile Methodologies seem to be the latest buzz in the software industry these days, but many people who actually try to Unit Test their application (whether new code or 'legacy' code) find out quickly that doing a thorough job can be tough if some thought about the code's design for testability is not considered. In this talk we discuss various methods of designing your APIs so that they are easy to test: Breaking dependencies with Dependency Injection patterns, how design patterns help, interface-based programming and more. We also take a look at the future of testing tools and see what other options there are, or will be available as we architect our software with the next generation testing tools.

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008: Technical Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Get a sneak peek at System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, the newest version of VMM. Learn about all the new features of VMM 2008, including support for Hyper-V and VMware ESX management. This is a must see session for Hyper-V and VMware users to see the latest Microsoft System Center virtualization management tool.

Do's and don'ts in Silverlight 2 Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

This session shows the typical Do's and Don'ts of Silverlight 2 development and deploying. Most performance, installation and communication issues rely on misused concepts in Silverlight 2 or the .NET Framework. It demonstrates these mistakes and shows solutions for high performing Applications that really live and shine on the web.

Windows Essential Server Solutions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

What is in Windows Essential Business Server (EBS)? How do other products fit with EBS? How can using EBS help in your "green" efforts and save your company money? Hear answers to these questions and more in this conversation with Nicholas King and Chris Grillone from Microsoft.

Developing Open XML Solutions Using the Open XML SDK

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

The Open XML SDK Version 2 provides a set of .NET classes to help Open XML developers create innovative solutions on top of the Open XML Formats. In this session we will show you how to use the SDK to accomplish real world scenarios such as document assembly and document manipulation. Expect to see lots of code samples and demos.

Creating Custom LINQ Providers - LINQ to Anything

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

LINQ is all about unifying data access in a natural language integrated way. But there's more than just LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to XML. In this session, we put ourselves on the other side of the curtain and explore the wonderful world of LINQ providers. You'll learn how to create a fully functional LINQ query provider allowing users to target your favorite query language using familiar LINQ syntax in C# 3.0 and VB 9.0: LINQ to AD, LINQ to SharePoint, LINQ to AD, LINQ to Outlook, you name it! This is your chance to get to know the inner workings of LINQ.

Developing for the Windows Mobile 6.1 Home Screen

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Windows Mobile 6.1 contains a new Home Screen layout that organizes your most important notifications, calendar, music, photos and settings into one convenient and intuitive interface. Learn how to customize this new Home Screen and how to write plug-ins for it. Additionally we cover backwards compatibility and limitations of the new Home Screen.

Microsoft data centers - a class on their own

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Come to this session to hear from the head of Microsoft's global data center program, General Manager Mike Manos, on how Microsoft is planning and operating its data centers worldwide. The importance of efficiency and Green IT will also be discussed, and you will get your questions answered!

Programming Filestreams in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

SQL Server 2008 provides a new storage model called filestream storage. Using filestream storage, a large value (blob) in a table is stored as a file on the file system, rather than in the database directly. Accessing the blob can be accomplished by using Transact-SQL or by using transactionally-consistant, optimizes streaming-style APIs. This talk covers the aspects of defining and programming filestreams in SQL Server using Transact-SQL, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and ODBC.

Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to harvest the Multi-core computing resources

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Learn how the concurrency runtime provides an efficient and scalable infrastructure for multiple concurrent programming models by bringing together cooperative work scheduling and resource management in one component. This deep dive presentation will give you an idea of what it means to target the concurrency runtime with your domain-specific library or language. We will also cover many of the internal algorithms of the runtime to help educate you on the applicability of the runtime to your scenarios.

Policy Based Management Fundamentals

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

Over the past few years, the role of database servers has dramatically increased its importance in almost every industry. Meanwhile, SQL Server has increased its feature set and its ability to scale in enterprise environments. As a result, the management of database servers has become a complex, manual and brittle process, with limited insight for troubleshooting problems. Aiming at improving, SQL Server manageability, as part of an ongoing effort by Microsoft to reduce the total cost of ownership, SQL Server 2008 introduces Policy-Based Management. Policy-Based Management enables users to manage SQL Servers by declarative intent, a.k.a., policies, that is, by specifying how the system should be and not the means to achieve it. By raising the level of management abstraction, Policy-Based Management simplifies the management process, provides policy automation, and provides greater insight into the system.

Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

SharePoint provides a great infrastructure for quickly building intranet and Internet applications. ASP.NET AJAX provides a foundation for creating highly productive Web interfaces. Combined they are two great tastes that taste great together! In this session we will cover the basics of working with ASP.NET AJAX inside of SharePoint 2007. We will take a look at how to prepare a Web Application for ASP.NET AJAX and how to use various ASP.NET AJAX tools such as the JavaScript libraries, JSON-enabled Web services and UpdatePanels to add rich interactivity to your SharePoint sites.

Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Part 1

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:05 GMT

This is part 1 of a two-part session which drills into both upgrade and greenfield installation and configuration of SCCM 2007. Over these two breakout sessions you will learn how to prepare for deployment of SCCM 2007 in a new or upgrade environment, considering sizing, performance, security and network issues. The session will drill into SCCM 2007 server roles, security modes and the configuration steps required for management of Internet Based Clients. By the end of these two sessions you will understand how to design SCCM 2007 deployments and the various steps needed to complete an upgrade or new installation.

Introduction to Microsoft Sync Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

In this session we will introduce Microsoft Sync Framework. Attendees will learn about the capabilities of the synchronization platform and see a demonstration of data collaboration across devices and services. We will use this demonstration as a guide in our walk-through of the key components involved in building an application using Microsoft Sync Framework that will enable any data store to exchange information.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Wave Two - Guiseppe Maggiore

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Windows Workflows Activities that Talk and IM with OCS 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 offers Windows Workflow activities built on the UC Managed API that allow you to build self-service agents (bots) that use either text based IM or automated speech recognition. This session will walk you through how to build simple self-service bots using the UC Managed API Workflow activities and how to make it understand requests using speech patterns. In addition, we will show how to build a more sophisticated interactive voice response application that routes people to the right contacts, based on their spoken commands.

IPv6 Security and Privacy

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

With the deployment of any new networking technology, questions are raised about the security and privacy aspects. This session will describe the security and privacy features found in IPv6, the additional steps Microsoft took to enhance the privacy of users who communicate using IPv6 and the potential security issues that you may encounter so that you can plan deployment and the use of IPv6 to avoid them.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Finals - Maral Topalian

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Second place finalist Maral Topalian gives a very technical yet interesting presentation regarding Asset Inventory Service in the Speaker Idol Finals.

Why Software Sucks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Building Location-Aware Applications in SQL Server 2008 : Introducing the Spatial Data Type

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

SQL Server 2008 will provide support for managing spatial two-dimensional data in the context of the database. This presentation will provide an introduction to spatial database management, present the spatial support in SQL Server 2008 including demonstrations with Virtual Earth, and show how to use Spatial indexes to improve spatial query performance.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave Two - Arnold Hagens

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Arnold Hagens takes part in Speaker Idol Wave 2 by exploring the four worst things you can do when monitoring your network with System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

This session prepares you for the new challenges in developing, debugging, and performance tuning concurrent applications. We cover some important steps in the creation of parallel applications, with hands-on demonstrations of the performance analysis and optimization tools using the next release of Microsoft Visual Studio. We show how to identify opportunities for parallelism and how to exploit those opportunities by choosing appropriate coding patterns, using both existing and future programming models. Finally, we demonstrate how to optimize parallel code by focusing on common sources of inefficiency such as I/O, cache misses, and synchronization.

Microsoft Visual Studio 10: Web Development Futures

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

The future of Composite Applications and SOA: Everything they told you, and why it isn't true

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

As SOA passes through the hype-cycle and into mainstream adoption, there is a new recipe for success. Join this focused discussion to dispel the myths, identify key ingredients for successful implementations, hear about new trends impacting distributed computing and stretch your playbook to include cloud computing and the latest modeling technologies.

Migrating and managing IIS Web Farms

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

In this session you will learn the latest information about IIS 7.0 Web deployment tools and practices, with featured topics such as how to automate deployment while scripting your test environment and how the new IIS PowerShell provider can help you customize such processes. You will also see how the Web Deployment Tool helps you package, distribute, archive and migrate existing Web applications. Finally, you will discover how to deploy Web sites and applications quickly and easily across Web farms by using the Shared Configuration feature of IIS 7.0 and then using the new Application Request Routing module to load-balance your Web applications across multiple servers!

The Microsoft Speech Platform: Build Tomorrow's User Interface Today

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Learn the power of the Microsoft Speech Platform. Understand how to incorporate technologies such as Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech into the applications you build today. See how to make your applications work in new places and in new ways. Whether you are building desktop or server applications, speech technologies can benefit your users in ways you've probably never thought about. This session is designed to get you to start thinking about speech technologies and the Microsoft Speech Platform.

Building an efficient Branch Infrastructure using Windows Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

This session covers specific features and technologies included in Windows Server 2008 that benefit branch office scenarios. Topics include the improvements to the networking stack (the new TCP/IP Stack and SMB 2.0), File system improvements such as Client Side Caching, and DFS-R and a read only DFS-R replica designed for use in Branch Offices. The session introduces a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as the Windows 7 Client called BranchCache that promises to reduce the bandwidth consumed by remote offices. Additionally we will also discuss specific features of Windows 2008 Server such as Read Only Domain Controller and the Server Core.

Extending Web Applications with Internet Information Services 7.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

In the past, extending a web application running in IIS required developers to use native code and extend difficult interfaces. With Internet Information Services 7.0, developers can use managed code and their existing skills to extend web applications, adding security, management, configuration and diagnostics capabilities. In this code-focused session, we will walk through how to create extensions for Internet Information Services 7.0 using managed code to extend both ASP.NET and PHP applications.

Windows Server 2008 R2, Enabling Computing that Scales

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

The next release of Windows Server achieves significant milestones on the path to many-core, parallel-computing. Gain insight into system features designed to enable many-core process scheduling and concurrency management. Benefits result for application designers dealing with fundamental I/O and processor bound solution scenarios along with higher-level algorithmic-scaling factors. See illustrations of new processing element affinity grouping features and obtain a perspective on preparing for many-core scale computing.

Enhancing the Security Foundations of Windows Vista in Windows 7

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Building upon security foundations of Windows Vista, Windows 7 provides security capabilities that are simple to use, manageable, and valuable. In this session we will discuss the core security of Windows 7, explore related usage scenarios, and look into how to manage these in an enterprise environment.

Integrating Your Site with Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 using Activities and Web Slices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Internet Explorer 8 exposes new ways to bring the functionality your site offers directly to your users. Come to this session to learn how to use our new activities, Web Slices, and much more.

ASP.NET MVC Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

You've heard of ASP.NET MVC and seen the basics. But when it comes to real projects, you start to run into issues. This session delves into common scenarios required by web applications and shows how to solve them using this new framework. Among other topics, some of the things covered include implementing authentication and authorization, working with Ajax without the UpdatePanel, integration with WCF, creating custom controller factories, custom routing and most importantly, pragmatic and productive testing of controllers and models for your applications. This is a demo-centric session.

Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Cloud Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Learn how to augment your existing IT infrastructure with Microsoft Services. Manage and secure end user access to cloud services using your existing investment in Active Directory. Enable end users to access cloud services through existing Active Directory accounts, the same way they access your intranet-hosted software today. Enable existing software to use new service capabilities without re-writes. And do it all through the use of open and standard protocols.

Security Enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

SQL Server 2005 introduced many security enhancements from data encryption to advanced context impersonation. Learn about these enhancements and hear about the new features coming to SQL Server 2008. This talk covers enhancements like Transparent Database Encryption, Extensible Key Management and Auditing and discusses how they can be used to help protect your data.

Building RESTful Services Using Windows Communication Foundation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

One of the key new features of Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 (WCF 3.5) is the Web Programming Model. The Web Programming Model enables developers to build Services using a RESTful architecture. The number of services implemented using this new architectural approach out in the wild is growing by leaps and bounds. In this session we cover the basics of REST versus SOAP/WS-*, and how to build Services using WCF 3.5 that are RESTful in nature. We also talk about adding Web feeds (RSS and/or ATOM) to our Services, which can enable easy access to enterprise data.

Team Foundation Server: Lessons Learned Through Dogfooding

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

Many of our customers want to know if Microsoft uses TFS to manage its own software projects. The answer is YES! There are already over 16,000 active users on TFS inside Microsoft. This session will provide detailed examples of how Microsoft uses TFS across the company, including major groups like Office, SQL, Windows, Developer Division and our internal IT group (MSIT). We'll cover the major pain points we uncovered through internal dogfooding and how we are addressing them in the Rosario release.

Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Tips and Tricks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:04 GMT

In this session, learn how to turn yourself into a Visual Basic 2008 guru with the new language and IDE features. Tips and tricks covered include how to maximize your IntelliSense experience, leverage Refactoring features and improve the performance of your query and XML code. We go deep into integrated XML and show you how to navigate XML gotchas and express what you wish in fewer lines of code. With respect to LINQ, we explore best practices, pitfalls to avoid and answer the most frequently asked questions.

Certificates and Exchange 2007: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

In this session you will be provided with an overview of how certificates are used by almost every Exchange 2007 component for encryption and/or authentication. After attending the session, you will be able to understand how certificates affect your Exchange configuration, and how you should configure certificates for both Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer services.

Microsoft Integration Choices: Biztalk, WCF + WF + Dublin

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

BizTalk Server is Microsoft's premier Enterprise Integration server. BizTalk combines broad integration capabilities with workflow and long-running transaction management. The tighter integration between WCF and WF, a.k.a WCF Workflow Services in.NET Framework 3.5, provides support for long-running coordination between web services, which overlaps somewhat with BizTalk's capabilities. However, significant development effort is required to replicate in WCF and WF the robust hosting, deployment, scalability and management that come out-of-the-box with BizTalk. In the future, Dublin will provide many of these hosting features for the .NET Framework. Get guidance for making the decision of which technology is right for your project based on the timeline for your project and on the relative strengths of each technology for addressing your specific integration scenarios.

Monitoring .NET Applications with Operations Manager 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

.NET applications form that basis of many Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations, and as such can exhibit extremely complex interrelationships between the different components that together comprise that system. This session will focus on the .NET monitoring capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007, and how the product is able to provide detailed monitoring and insight into the health and performance of .NET applications.

The future of unit testing

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

In this talk we'll explore the current state of the art of unit testing in .NET and other languages, and possible directions that are starting to emerge today: techniques, methodologies, tools and languages. Among the things we discuss: TDD, Model based testing, Behavior driven development, partial integration testing, the future of mock frameworks, parallel test frameworks (PNUnit, Chess, Racer) and possible adoption patterns in organizations. these and more will fuel our discussion

How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Threat Modeling

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Threat modeling can seem like a big risk to your project. Who knows what you might find if you start turning over those rocks? In this class, you'll learn a new, streamlined approach to threat modeling which is easier and faster and in use throughout Microsoft. We'll also show some new tools. There will be no war stories in the threat modeling room, but lots of real lessons learned.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave Three - Rhonda Layfield

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Watch the winning presentation from Speaker Idol Wave 3. Rhonda Layfield wins the heat by delving into Network Monitor 3.2 to address network security issues concerning newtork packet data documentation.

Overview of .NET Framework 4.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

The .NET Framework, Visual Studio and Expression are critically important to many developers. Come to this session to learn about the overall roadmap and more importantly the trends that weave through the individual product releases. For those new to .NET, this is an excellent opportunity to get a glimpse of the platform all up, and for those that have been with the .NET for years it is an excellent chance to see the high level future trends. This talk will provide numerous pointers to additional sessions and resources to get more details.

A Journey to the Center of a Terminal Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

As an IT professional responsible for Windows Server 2008 terminal servers you need to dig beneath the surface if you really want to understand how the technology works. This session introduces you to the core Terminal Services concepts, including the processes needed for remote sessions, the new graphical user shell supporting RemoteApp programs and the details of the user logon sequence. Get in-depth information on terminal server installation and execution modes and their impact on file system and registry. Discover how to modify related system settings in order to fine-tune your terminal servers. Comprehensive demonstrations will help you to improve your technical and professional skills in mastering the Windows Server 2008 terminal server platform.

Springboard Series Presents: 7 Fundamentals of Windows for IT Pros

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Learn why a return to the fundamentals in the next generation of the Windows client operating system will help you better manage your desktop (and laptop) environments with greater control and ease. Also hear how to get an insider's view of the latest guidance, tools, and expert advice for deploying and managing these desktop technologies in your infrastructure.

Real life experiences: Building your first Services Application (Designing applications for Windows Azure)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

This session is a real world look at the implications of developing cloud applications - the benefits and the disadvantages; the reasons to embrace it and the reasons to stay away. The session has been developed from knowledge gained while developing real applications Windows Azure. I will show you what you need to know to get started in this new world; including the development environment, the "fabric" and the storage system. We will discuss the different types of architecture you can deploy and the reasons why you would choose one over the other. The steepest learning curve is going to be around the data layer and how to produce reliable applications without any transactional support. So we will go into detail on the storage elements of Red Dog; Queues, blobs and tables and how to use them effectively. Several patterns will be introduced that should be able to provide building blocks for your own code. Finally, in order to give you the most flexibility in this new world, we will talk about how to dev software to work well both in the cloud and in a on premise data centre without writing everything twice

Automated Windows Server 2008 Imaging and Deployment Using the Microsoft Deployment Accelerator

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Deployment tools for Windows Server 2008 have changed and most legacy tools will not support automated installation of Windows Server 2008. Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. The fourth generation deployment accelerator supports Windows Server 2008 imaging and deployment. This session is delivered by solution developers and explains how you can use Microsoft Deployment to plan deployments, create disk images, customize installation task sequences, automate disk and NIC configuration, and automate server role definition. We discuss the current released tools (System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Windows Deployment Services [WDS] with multicast support), features and limitations, and the Microsoft Deployment release roadmap.

Do These Ten Things Now or Else Get 0wn3d!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

New to information security? Or been around so long that you feel your skills need lubricating? Well, then don't just sit around the lunch table with strangers and make small talk. Instead, come to Steve Riley's lunch session covering the ten most important things you need to do right now to get and stay secure. Perhaps it'll seem like common sense, but you'd be amazed at how people often overlook the basics. You can address most of today's security risks by following a few simple steps, none of which involve following massive checklists, performing strange incantations or purchasing curious products from unknown companies. So bring your appetite for excellent security guidance and enjoy (re)learning what you need to know to protect your data.

Building Distributed Embedded Systems with Web Services on Devices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

The Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) is an industry specification that represents a lightweight subset of the overall Web services protocol suite targeted at network-connected devices. In this introductory session we discuss how to build loosely coupled, distributed embedded systems using the Web Services for Device API (Microsoft's implementation of DPWS) in Windows Embedded and Windows Vista. As practical demos, we'll use WSD on Vista Media Center to control a lamp, and even a washing machine live, on stage! You won't want to miss this session!

Boot Time for Bonzo: A Swing Through the Windows Embedded CE Boot Process

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Whether you are monkeying around with device drivers or going bananas over managed code, all software depends on a successful OS boot. This talk provides a step-by-step look at Windows CE startup, with critical insights to help in creating new BSPs, bringing up Windows CE on a new platform or developing device drivers. After this swing through the Windows CE boot process, you'll never look at OS startup in quite the same way.

Tips & Tricks for Managing IIS 7.0 as an Interoperable Web Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Come and learn how to more easily build and configure your next generation Web server using Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0. We'll discuss seamless support of both ASP.NET and PHP Web applications as well as demonstrating how to quickly set up your development environment to support both. We also will demonstrate two new tools Web Platform Installer (WebPI) and Web Application Installer (WebAI) that greatly simplify the deployment and configuration of IIS, SQL Server, Visual Studio, and community Web applications as a single stack. You'll walk away from this session with valuable best practices on how to manage your next generation Web server through a consolidated UI as well as tips and tricks for building multi-product solutions on the Microsoft Web Platform with IIS 7.0.

Closing Tool-Gaps in your Development Process using the TFS API

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

The efficiency of development processes is based on a powerful and integrated tool support. But development processes are individual and no standard software can fulfill this integration 100%. With the Team Foundation Server API we have a powerful technology to extend the standard functionality for our needs. As an example in this session we will live code a tool to organize workitems in a hierarchical way and you will learn how this can improve your development process. Also you will get some additional visions about how you can use TFS Extensibility to make real cool things with your TFS.

SharePoint Technology: Past, Present, and Future in a SaaS World

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

SharePoint is the fastest growing server product Microsoft has ever released. SharePoint now spans three products with the free Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the comprehensive SharePoint 2007 product. Also starting in 2008, Microsoft will be offering SharePoint Online allowing organizations to outsource infrastructure costs to the cloud and using SharePoint as a software service without compromising business integration, usability or security.

Adding IM, Voice and Video Communication to Your Applications with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Office Communicator offers powerful APIs to leverage click to communicate (such as IM, phone or video call) and to provide context with the calls. This session shows coding samples on how to invoke Communicator Automation. You'll learn how to get started with embedding Presence: how to sign in and out, how to retrieve a list of contacts and get their Presence and how to register and listen for Communicator events. We will walk through the Windows Presentation Foundation Presence Controls samples and explain how you can use them to enable creating IMs, phone calls and conference sessions.

Windows Client Deployment from Windows Vista to Windows 7: It's true, Windows deployments just got easier!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Windows Vista imaging and deployment tools provide foundation for Windows 7 deployment innovations. In this session, we will introduce Windows 7 tools for image management and delivery, user file and setting migration as well as updates to deployment process and integration tools.

Women in Technology panel discussion

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Come and network with your female peers at the Woman in Technology session, and take an opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about the perceptions and challenges faced by women in IT! This year's Women in Technology session focuses on how to encourage new talent and keep those already in the technology fields engaged. A stellar international panel of technology professionals will answer audience questions and give insights. Don't miss this session that puts special emphasis on encouraging and supporting women to advance their careers in IT!

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol Finals Wrap Up

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:03 GMT

Terminal Services as a Remote Access Solution

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

This Centralized Desktop & Application session will show how you can use new features of Terminal Services to create a simple and compelling remote access solution. This session will focus on designing and deploying TS RemoteApp, TS Gateway and TS Web Access together to create a compelling customer solution.

Top 10 Security Pet Peeves

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Windows Mobile Connection Manager

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Whether it's Traffic Data for a GPS application, real-time quotes from a market stream or scheduling data for your line of business application, data connections are required in most mobile application scenarios today. With all this connecting going on Windows Mobile devices are expected to offer a plethora of diverse communication channels and technologies. Marry this complexity with the colourful range of network topologies deployed by Mobile Operators throughout the world and we are presented with a rather tricky problem of choosing the right connection at the right time! Connection Manager has battled this problem for some years now, with the promise of centralizing and simplifying network management and offering services ranging from dynamic data routing through application connection arbitration and the technology has changed and grown with the industry over time. Come to this session and learn how Connection Manager really works and how you can get the most from it to keep your application connected the world over.

High Performance ASP.NET

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Application performance is more than the time it takes to render a page or just how much CPU is being used on the server. In this talk we will look at ways to get more from your servers and provide better response time for users. We will explain several ways to cache data on both client and server that can be leveraged to reduce round trips and save execution time and we'll talk about new caching options under development. Learn how to avoid the performance pitfalls and get the most from your resources with ASP.NET applications.

Getting the most out of Operations Manager 2007 Reporting

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Getting the most out of the reports that ship with Operations Manager 2007 - and authoring new reports within Operations Manager 2007 - can be challenging. Join us in this session where you will: learn the functionality of the reports shipped with Operations Manager; discover powerful dashboarding capabilities; and understand the various Authoring options available all the way from publishing generic reports to creating custom reports from scratch.

Windows Embedded CE and Robotics

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Want to learn how to develop your own robot running Windows Embedded CE, using Visual Studio and the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio? Or maybe you'd like to know how Windows Embedded CE, as a real time embedded operating system, addresses the needs of the industrial robotics domain? Then this session is for you! Come and see cool live demos with real robots!

Cybercrime

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Andy Malone, CEO of Quality Training in Scotland, shares his expertise and advice on cybercrime - the best ways to prevent identity theft, extra tools you can use, and what his latest project research is telling him.

Auditing in Windows Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

The need to track actions which occur in today's computing environment is not only an interest for most customers, it is a requirement. Windows Server 2008 offers rich capabilities for generating, capturing and analyzing audited events. This topic is a cornerstone of system security and goes well beyond the simple configuring of audit policy. This session discusses the Windows auditing subsystem, why auditing is important and how to configure an audit policy and collection mechanism that addresses compliance within your customer. Detailed walk-throughs are provided on the processes behind developing an auditing framework - including audit policy settings, SACL definition, audit triggers and collection using Windows Server 2008 and Audit Collection Services based upon practical customer examples. Gain an understanding of the core auditing capabilities available within the Windows platform; methodologies for converting customer requirements into a functional, manageable and compliant auditing model; and the tools used for audit collection and analysis, including Audit Collection Services and the updated Windows Server 2008 event subsystem.

New Search Enhancements in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Come and learn about the new federation features and other enhancements that the Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint Server 2007 deliver. This session will give you an overview of Federation; what it does, how to configure it and walk through examples of how you can extend it along with information on the other updates to search. This session will also cover installation guidance and best practices for deploying the Infrastructure Updates onto your servers.

Why we Need the Task-Based Programming Model Introduced in .NET 4

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Notes from the Field: Deploying Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Certificate Management

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Many organizations are considering deploying Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Certificate Management (AKA CLM) to manage their smart card deployment. This session brings information from MCS engagements where CLM and smart cards were deployed. The session highlights what lessons were learned by MCS and the customers during these deployments including methods of increasing security, performance and meeting customer security policies.

Microsoft Identity and Security

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

Vittorio Bertocci will speak of the three components of "Geneva," which was released to public beta just two weeks ago. "Geneva" is an open platform for simplified user access to applications and other resources on-premise and "in the cloud" and supports the shared industry vision of an Identity Metasystem, which creates a single-user access model for any application or service and enables security-enhanced collaboration. The three components of "Geneva" Vittorio will review include: Geneva Framework, which helps developers build claims-aware applications and services that externalize user authentication from the application; Geneva Server, a security token service (STS) that issues and transforms claims, manages user access, and enables automated federation; and Windows CardSpace Geneva, which helps users navigate access decisions between multiple identities and control how personal information is used.

Successful deployment tips for Security and Strong Authentication

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:02 GMT

This session addresses the practical implications of designing and implementing solutions for Security and Strong Authentication, sharing some of the experience we have gained from our many Security and Strong Authentication deployments. This includes PKI architectures, smart card deployments and the process for credential management.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 cross platform extensions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

How do you leverage Operations Manager 2007 for cross-platform monitoring? At the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) 2008 in Las Vegas, USA we announced the Cross Platform Extensions Beta for System Center Operations Manager 2007, which extends the capabilities of Operations Manager 2007 to cross-platform management and monitoring. Join us to learn more about this exciting new development, and discover how the Cross Platform Extensions deliver clear value and an improved ability to meet the IT infrastructure monitoring and management needs across your heterogeneous environments.

System Center Operations Manager present and future

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

System Center Operations Manager 2007 is the end-to-end service-management product that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping organizations increase efficiency while enabling greater control of the IT environment. Join us to find out why thousands of customers have already adopted Operations Manager as their operations management solution; see its value proposition come to life; and discover how, where and why Microsoft continues to invest heavily in Operations Manager 2007 through information on roadmap, tools, and more.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Wave One - Richard Pawson

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Extending Team Foundation Server: Events and Extensibility

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Certainly Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server is one of the first Microsoft products that was never intended to be ready-to-use right after a successful installation. In particular it benefits from being customized to your specific needs prior to being used. We distinguish between customization, which could be done by a technical-experienced project leader, and classic extensions, which require a real programmer to develop them. This session focuses on the latter. By means of a practical example this session demonstrates the possibilities and power of the extensibility interfaces of Team Foundation Server.

Inside Microsoft: How Microsoft IT uses Excel Services and Open XML in an Office Business Application to support Microsoft's top executives

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Learn how Microsoft IT moved Microsoft Office Excel 2007-based reporting UI that supports top level corporate executive decision making process to the Web leveraging Excel Services. Find out how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it easy to connect Microsoft SQL 2005 databases and Analysis Services with Excel Web Access. Learn about integration of InfoPath forms with automation and encrypted data connection to collect user inputs for commentary and collaboration. Discover how Office Open XML file format allows you to manipulate server side workbooks to provide end users with a secure scorecard viewing experience in the browser and not sacrifice Excel 2007 rich client functionality while meeting the requirement of no client side code install. Get familiar with advanced features of Excel Web Access.

The Value of Training & Certification - Panel Discussion!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Are you Microsoft certified? Are you considering training or certification? Watch this lively panel discussion and get the lowdown on all your options.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Architecture, Scenarios, and Networking

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

This session provides a high-level overview of the architecture of Hyper-V and VMM. The session then introduces the audience to an all-up view of the different scenarios enabled by server virtualization and virtualization management. Product demonstrations within this presentation highlight the features of Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 in the context of the following four key use scenarios: 1) Consolidating production servers; 2) Providing business continuity and high availability; 3) Creating an agile testing and development environment; 4) Enabling the dynamic datacenter.

An Overview of the Azure Services Platform

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. One important aspect of this change is the rise of platforms that let developers create applications for the cloud. This session takes a broad look at the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's entry in this area. The topics discussed include Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services. The goal is to make clear what these technologies can do, then offer some guidance on how to make good decisions for using them.

Notes from the Field: Using SCVMM to streamline deployment, optimize management, delegate tasks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Many customers are utilizing virtualization for a number of core reasons such as consolidation, cost savings, data center migrations, backup and recovery strategies. This presentation will share real life success stories on using SCVMM from the field, including what we did right and what we could have done better. We will focus on how SCVMM was used in different customer deployments to achieve dynamic infrastructures and rapid deployments. We will then discuss how we've reduced implementation costs and how we're able to support new lines of business without increasing IT staff, while at the same time providing much better service to internal and external customers.

CCR and DSS: A data-driven approach to distributed, concurrent software

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

This talk will provide an introduction to the architecture behind CCR and DSS as a new and powerful approach to building distributed, concurrent software. CCR and DSS, which currently ship as part of Microsoft Robotics Studio, are already used by customers in non-robotics applications ranging from business processes, major web sites, retail automation, command and control systems, scientific computing, sensor-nets and much more. Of course you can also use Microsoft Robotics Studio for cool stuff like driving autonomous cars, flying unmanned vehicles, and sailing autonomous underwater vehicles. But at the core lies a powerful concurrent and distributed engine consisting of the two components CCR and DSS that enable users to write generic applications that coordinate messages between loosely coupled components within and across nodes.

Live Platform: Building Mesh Applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

The Live Mesh cloud services and client platform provide powerful FeedSync-based data synchronization capabilities, device P2P and cloud-relay communications, pub-sub infrastructure, and an extensibility model for applications. This session describes how you can take advantage of the Mesh developer platform, protocols, and APIs to mesh-enable your existing and future web services and client applications-allowing you to target unique new scenarios and reach new users.

Avoiding Stored Procedure Recompiles in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

In this session, Greg will describe the process by which SQL Server executes stored procedures and how it decides whether or not recompilations are necessary. He will discuss how to monitor recompilations and explain in detail the specific triggers that cause recompilation. Greg will then discuss techniques to be used when writing database code to help avoid the need for recompilations and to help keep systems performing well.

SharePoint Server 2007 & SharePoint Online Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

SharePoint Server 2007 is the fastest growing server product Microsoft has ever released, this session will cover the technical fundamentals and implications for IT professionals. The session will also cover our new hosted service, SharePoint Online, which allows organizations to outsource infrastructure costs to the cloud and use SharePoint as a software service without compromising business integration, usability or security.

Microsoft patterns and practices SharePoint Guidance

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

A discussion of the recent guidance coming out of the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team relative to how to develop for SharePoint.

Introduction to Windows Embedded Standard

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Do you want to know how to build a customized version of the Windows desktop OS that can be streamlined to run on systems with the smallest footprint? Would you like to mix and match Windows applications, services and drivers to suit your needs? Windows Embedded Standard, the successor to Windows XP Embedded, is used widely in thin clients, cash registers, bank ATMs, gaming consoles, medical equipment and numerous other device platforms; some being purely solid-state, flash-based devices. This session introduces you to the suite of tools that will allow you to build custom versions of Windows that meet your specialized needs.

Building the Master Image in SCVMM 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Deployment solutions can benefit from using the virtual world. The best way to deploy new servers in SCVMM 2008 is to create a master image and from that create templates to use for the new servers. This session will focus on how to create images for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 in an easy and repeatable way. We will create different HW and SW configurations and use them as building blocks to create templates. Having built a template, we will drill into using the self service portal.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave Two - Dimitry Sotnikov

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Watch the winning presentation from Speaker Idol Wave 2. Dimitry Sotnikov wins the heat by diving into the speed of PowerShell - how to identify the bottleneck and identify alterative solutions with the flexibility offered by PowerShell.

How the power of Windows Search can benefit your enterprise: from Windows Search 4.0 to Windows 7 Search

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

In this session we will discuss Windows Search and how it can help manage the fast growth of data in enterprise environments. Expanding the search scenarios of Windows Search 4.0, search capabilities in Windows 7 provides enterprise customers with functionality to optimize data access scenarios for both remote and local data source, make them more manageable and seamlessly available to users. Come to this session to learn how using Windows Search allows you to communicate with external search services and enables the integration of existing search services on the network into the desktop experience.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

In this demo-focused session, we look at a number of ways to make you more productive in the Visual C# IDE as you move through the development lifecycle - whether you're trying to come up to speed with an unfamiliar code base, performing a refactoring to help keep your code clean, writing in new pieces of business logic or debugging through a problem. These are the tips from the C# team itself - features from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and out-of-box solutions that we use and love telling people about for making tasks easier.

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Programmability and Extensibility

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

In this session you will learn how to use Reporting Services programmatic interfaces to increase the value you and your customers draw from Reporting Services. You will learn how to write expressions in reports, how to work with the Report Viewer control, how to work with the Web Services endpoints, how to use RDL programmatically and how to use extensibility to integrate SSRS into IT environments.

Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals Daily Interview - Day Two

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

You won't want to miss these daily videos from Tech·Ed EMEA IT Professionals 2008 with attendees and speakers, including Don't trip over the Nerd, Location of the Day, Beauty and the Nerd, and Interview of the Day. Brought to you by NGN TV (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland or Network Usergroup Netherlands). Day Two - Interviews with Richard Campbell, the host of Speaker Idol, Arlindo Alves, the Windows Server Track Owner, and more!

Unified Communications - the Next Release: Under the Hood for Developers

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Using Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 and Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft is providing the infrastructure for enterprise communications including e-mail, voice, video, IM, conferencing and unified messaging. Building on this infrastructure, the UC Platform APIs provide a platform you can leverage to build communications into your solutions providing incredible value for your users. In this session we provide you with everything you need to know to be successful with this new platform. We will give a quick overview of the required server infrastructure of OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2007 and how you can integrate those servers into your overall developer platform. We explain the underlying security, transport and messaging basics you need to know in order to implement common developer scenarios. We provide an overview of SIP for UC development and discuss how common principles like Presence publication/subscription are applied in your solution. Take an "under the hood" look at UC and get everything you need to start creating killer applications with communication!

Coming soon: New features in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Come and examine the new features and capabilities that will be provided in the upcoming Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 release. This release will provide full support for Windows 7 and associated deployment tools, continued support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and many other enhancements.

The Joy of Writing Code in Visual Studio 2010

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

Do you often wish there was an easier way to find and navigate to a type in your code? Or that the IDE would let you consume an API when it doesn't exist and take care of "setting up" the code? Join Karen Liu, Lead Program Manager of the Visual C# and Visual Basic IDEs, as we take a look at the new IDE features in Visual Studio 2010 that are designed to make you more productive in a number of areas in the development lifecycle. This talk will focus on Visual C# and Visual Basic and describe what's coming next in Visual Studio, including better navigation, tools for understanding code and a focus on consume-first development.

Coexistence and Migration with Exchange Online

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:01 GMT

This session demonstrates co-existence and migration tools and strategies for Microsoft Online Services. These tools help organizations synchronize their on-premise Active Directory forest with Microsoft Online Service's directory structure in the cloud, migrate mailboxes from on-premise mail servers to Exchange Online, and operate their on-premise Active Directory forest and Exchange Servers in co-existence with their Microsoft Online Services deployment.

Identity and Cloud Services

Vittorio Bertocci — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

The shift towards cloud computing is one of the major trends in today's IT industry. As resources and assets are increasingly hosted off-premises, traditional strategies for access control and identity management are proving incapable of handling distributed scenarios and cross-boundary communication. This presentation briefly outlines how architectures relying on claims-based identity management, security tokens and open standards can address cloud computing scenarios with the same ease with which they can handle traditional ones. The identity capabilities of Biztalk Services will be featured as a concrete example of an application of the new paradigm.

Microsoft Identity Software and Services Roadmap

Vittorio Bertocci — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Identity plays a pivotal role in determining the reach of an application, but developing identity functionality is outside the core competency of most developers. Rich platform identity capabilities are essential for the broadest customer reach, the highest developer productivity, and the lowest management costs. In this session learn about Microsoft's portfolio of identity software and services from Windows Live ID to Active Directory, anchored in industry standards and the claims-based architecture and how it you can use it to fundamentally advantage your next generation of connected applications, on-premises and cloud.

Windows Mobile as Secure as Blackberry - Are you Joking?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Blackberry is currently seen as the gold standard of mobile security in the enterprise. Windows Mobile devices are as secure (if not even more so). This session covers the key concerns of Enterprise organizations when it comes to deploying Windows Mobile, and how to overcome them.

It's the 21st Century: Time to Throw Away Your Medieval Gateways

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

You've heard it before: "de-perimeterization", "death of the DMZ", "firewalls are useless", and so on. Sure, it's fun to talk about such things. But what happens when you can finally live in such a world? How do you build and manage it? The technology is ready, so what's holding you back? Over the years, Steve Riley has spoken about the evolution of security, how networks must change to meet the requirements of modern-day business, and how protecting data is becoming paramount. Finally, the necessary technologies have converged for you to build and manage the secure clients and the Internet-connected data center that make tomorrow's vision a reality today. Come and learn how you can do this now.

High Availability in Exchange 2007 SP1, Part 2: Disaster Recovery and Site Resilience (SCR deep dive)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Are you prepared for outages that affect e-mail service or data availability? Have you defined recovery strategies and procedures for disasters big and small? In this session we cover the recommended strategies for protecting Exchange Server 2007 messaging service and data,with emphasis on the ultimate disaster: a full site failure. Join us as we dive deep into Standby Continuous Replication which was designed with these disasters in mind.

An Introduction to F#

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

This session will introduce Microsoft's new language F#, a typed functional programming language for the .NET Framework that combines the succinctness, expressivity and compositionality of functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, interoperability, tools, and object model of .NET. We'll take a look at why Microsoft is adding the language to the suite of those available on .NET and at some of simple language constructs that make programming in F# a dream. We'll also take a look at how F# asynchronous workflows help you tame the complexity of parallel and asynchronous I/O programming and how to use F# in conjunction with tools such as Parallel Extensions for .NET.

Protecting Applications with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Data Protection Manager 2007 is part of the System Center management family of products - designed to provide continuous data protection to disk, as well as nightly tape backup - offering protection and recovery of Microsoft Applications from Microsoft. In this first of two sessions on DPM2007, we discuss the specifics of how data protection is achieved for each of the core workloads, including Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Virtualization. To get the most out of this session, attendees are encouraged to also watch the "Technical Introduction of DPM2007" session recording before the event.

Mobilize your Enterprise and Achieve Global Scalability with Windows Mobile and SQL Server Compact

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Windows Mobile devices to empower their respective workforces, the ability to create mobile line-of-business solutions that can support large user populations is critical. Based on his third book on Windows Mobile development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the Microsoft SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all your mobile employees. Utilizing the performance, scale-out, and filtering capabilities of Merge Replication Republishing, Rob shows you how to build an n-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to hundreds of thousands of devices. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your enterprise by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on Windows Mobile infrastructure and development.

Privacy: The Why, What and How

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Which data breach did you read about this week? Seems like you can't scan the news without reading about yet another lost laptop, compromised database or stolen identity. Privacy is suddenly becoming a necessary element of conducting business. It's mostly viewed as a cost, and indeed that's true: new government regulations around the world have begun to impose strict and complicated privacy requirements on businesses. But might there also be ways privacy could become a business enabler, perhaps providing competitive differentiation? What kinds of privacy policies, procedures, tools and techniques are useful? How should people implement these? What's the link between security and privacy anyway - are they complimentary or in opposition? Steve Riley provides some answers to these and other thorny issues related to privacy.

Introducing ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC represents an alternative framework for developing web applications on top of the ASP.NET runtime. It provides strong support for testing, extensibility and routing, giving developers control over their code, markup and URIs. This session will introduce the basic concepts and conventions of an MVC application and explain what scenarios it can add value to.

Desktop virtualization technologies: Windows optimized desktop scenarios

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

IT departments are experiencing increasing pressure to control costs, comply with regulations, and maintain security of enterprise systems and data, all while facing user demand to provide bigger flexibility. This session will discuss how Microsoft technologies such as Application Virtualization, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, Terminal Services, Windows Vista Centralized Desktop, and others, enable organizations to balance the needs of business users and IT departments in a way to best meet the unique needs of their business.

Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Build more responsive C++ programs that take full advantage of multicore hardware! We demonstrate how the new Parallel Pattern Library (PPL) enables you to express parallelism in your code and how the asynchronous messaging APIs can be used to separate shared state and increase your application's resilience and robustness. Finally, we take a look at some of the new capabilities of C++0x and Visual Studio to help you efficiently code and debug your multi-threaded applications.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Wave Three - Anthony Harris

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Migrations to SQL Server: Why, best practice and lessons learned from Customer engagements

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

If you are thinking about migrations or wondering why it might be relevant this is a 'must see' session. Many companies are looking to reduce the number of RDBMS in their organisation as part of this strategy migrating databases and application to SQL Server is a necessary step to achieving a more streamlined and cost effective data management strategy. No migration is straightforward: challenges exist in migrating the schema, the data and the programmatic elements. Many are simple and much can be achieved quickly, however, what are the problems, how do you prepare for them, how do you identify them and what should you do to achieve a successful migration from Oracle or Sybase? This session will talk about migration concepts but will focus on best practice and lessons learned from actual engagements with clients. In September 2008 Microsoft acquired DATAllegro, a provider of large-volume, high-performance data warehouse appliances. This acquisition will enable SQL Server, via project Madison, to scale all the way up to the largest-scale and most complex data warehouse implementations. During this session we will provide a brief insight into what customers can expect from this technology and how migrations to SQL is realistic for all sizes of database.

Azure and Cloud Computing

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

MOSS 2007 as Web Content Management for Internet-Facing Web Sites

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

In the latest release of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft added Web Content Management (WCM) capabilities for developers to enforce certain rules and a consistent user interface, but also to empower content owners by allowing them to edit and publish content around a controlled workflow and security configuration. These Publishing sites (aka: WCM sites) offer plenty of opportunities for customization to facilitate a powerful presence on the Internet. Come and see the different options for implementing a custom brand in your Publishing site as well as how to effectively do advanced customizations and styling with the powerful Content Query Web Part. In addition, you'll see how to implement a custom authentication process so users of your site do not have to reside in Active Directory to participate in social networking offerings.

Make Outlook 2007 happy with Exchange 2007 Web Services

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Exchange 2007 uses Web services to support certain crucial functionality and both Exchange Administrators and developers need to be aware of this. Examples of such services are discovering mailbox connection settings, finding out free/busy information, setting out-of-office, downloading offline address books and accessing mailbox content. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is the primary consumer of these services but they are also used by other internal components such as when doing cross forest free/busy lookups. Indeed, supporting cross forest operations becomes much easier with the introduction of the Autodiscover Web service. It is the Client Access Server (CAS) that supports these Web services, and so in this session we first look at its architecture and then move on to the individual Web services with the main focus being the Autodiscover and Availability Web services. We look at how the services work and take a detailed look at how Outlook 2007 benefits from these services, allowing you to make informed decisions about how to best architect and deploy CAS servers within your own organization. Exchange Web Services also support integrating line-of-business applications with information stored in Exchange. Examples include calendaring and contact applications or applications that access other content from the Exchange store, like creating, editing, and sending messages or handling tasks. This session therefore also gives an overview of the generic capabilities of Exchange Web Services in order for you to have an appreciation of how they may be used in your line-of-business applications.

Connect Your World

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Check out this session to see how you can maximize the power of your digital life. Learn how to synchronize all your pictures on multiple devices with Live Mesh and browse them on your Xbox in a Media Center interface. Edit the pictures in Windows Live Photo Gallery with some basic tools and send them to the web in a few clicks or blog them with LiveWriter. See the coolest and latest apps for Windows Mobile and learn how to photoblog with your phone. Pimp your online presence for your friends with Live Spaces, share pictures and files with them through Skydrive. Make your own 3D world with your own pictures by using the new Photosynth stand-alone client and show off with those holiday snapshots. To top it off, check out the Virtual Earth and the digital sky and start living your digital dreams.

Put your Big Ideas onto Tiny Devices using .NET

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Ever wanted to control your Christmas tree lights with C# and .NET? Or create a tiny, connected data logger that integrates into your company network? Or anything in between? The demo-packed presentation will showcase .NET on both .NET Micro Framework and Windows Embedded CE-powered platforms in a variety of fun and useful scenarios. You will discover just how easy it is to create connected embedded solutions on a variety of devices using C# and Visual Studio. If you want to rediscover the joy of really making things happen with your code, then this session is for you.

Windows Vista PKI Enhancement in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

The PKI capabilities of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista are enhanced in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to provide simplified certificate enrollment and seamless interoperability scenarios. This session will describe the architecture and design of the Windows PKI and introduce new enrollment capabilities. In addition, the session will talk about how the Windows 7 PKI can help improve the deployment of existing technologies and scenarios such as Network Access Protection, Internet Explorer, smart cards, and Suite-B algorithms.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Security and Best Practices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

This session focuses on the security best practices for server virtualization and what customers need to do from both a platform and management standpoint to tighten the security for their virtualization environment. The session also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance on key areas like identity management, network hardening, etc.

Spec Explorer 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

What's new about Spec Explorer for Visual Studio vs older versions (SE 2004)? How have people been successful using it? Learn about this and more from Keith Stobie & Grigori Melnik of Microsoft.

Cure IT Pains in Midsize Businesses

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Essentials 2007 is a new unified management solution designed for midsize businesses with 50-500 PCs. This talk will give you an overview of Essentials 2007 and help you understand how it enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage IT environments with increased efficiency.

The real cool fit! - Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Development Technology Providing Business Value

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Be a hero to your customers. See how Microsoft Dynamics AX fits into the Mainstream Microsoft Stack and why you should care! This session will cover the access and consuming of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 business logic using several cool demo scenarios and latest Microsoft technologies e.g: - Powerful UIs: Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Accessing Microsoft Dynamics AX via .Net Business Connector and the Application Integration Framework (AIF) - Office Business Applications (OBA): VSTO (Visual Studio .NET Tools for Office 2007), InfoPath/InfoPath Forms Server and MOSS-2007 portals accessing Dynamics AX - Workflow: the Microsoft Dynamics AX workflow which is based on Windows Workflows Foundation (WF) - Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): the Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Integration Framework (AIF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services consumed from remote applications, like Windows Mobile Apps (.NET Compact Framework).

High Availability in Exchange 2007 SP1, Part 1: Continuous Replication and Failover Clusters (CCR/SCC deep dive)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Are you digging out your backups every time there is a failure? Are you paying a lot for that hardware replication that promises zero data loss? Join us in this session to learn about how you can provide highly available e-mail with a reduced TCO using Exchange Server 2007 SP1 HA features and why you should use CCR.

Rockstar Common Table Expressions in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

A First Look at "Oslo", "Dublin", and WF 4.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Going forward, applications are likely to rely more and more on workflows, services, and models. To make this easier for Windows developers, Microsoft is releasing three related technologies: WF 4.0, the next version of Windows Workflow Foundation; "Dublin", an extension to Windows Server for running service-oriented business logic; and "Oslo", a repository and visual editor for storing and working with models. This session introduces all three, describing what each one does and showing how they work together. The goal is to give architects and developers a big-picture view of these related technologies.

Performance Benefits of new SQL Server 2008 T-SQL features

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Almost every T-SQL feature introduced in SQL Server 2008 not only provides programming functionality but offers an increase in performance over performing the same tasks the "old way". In this talk, I'll explore the performance implications of the MERGE statement, table-valued parameters, grouping sets and more. And you'll see the performance implications clearly in the query plans.

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool is an easy, cost-effective way to begin strengthening the security of your company's computing environment. Thomas Dawkins, a Group Manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft, discusses this free tool as well as the latest Security Intelligence Report.

Developing High Performance JavaScript, AJAX for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

What are the top five things that can cause your code to run slowly in the browser? With the right optimizations, JavaScript can run quickly and efficiently in the browser environment. In this session, learn from the experts how you can make your AJAX/JavaScript applications scream. We look at the top five coding issues that cause JavaScript to run slow, how you can avoid memory leaks, ensure you don't leave variables hanging around and how you can avoid client side scripting errors.

10 Reasons to Build Your Own Windows Embedded Standard Device!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Have you ever dreamed of tailoring the OS platform to the needs of your application? Did you want the power of the desktop in a more secure, leaner and much more robust system? Well then, this session is for you! Alexander will take you through the most compelling features of Windows Embedded Standard (the successor to Windows XP Embedded) and show how to use them to generate a positive impact in your value chain.

Dell Global Services - Reducing Complexity and Cost of Exchange Storage

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Dell will share a point of view on how to simplifying Microsoft Exchange 2007 storage solutions by reducing cost and complex. We will outline a practical decision process to determine if DAS, ISCSI or SAN is the best solution for your enterprise. This expertise has been derived from years of partnering with Microsoft and assisting customers in simplifying their IT infrastructures.

Unit Testing in the Real World

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Building on Quicksand

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Quicksand is a mixture of sand and water that looks like it is solid but will slowly consume anyone that tries to walk over it. This talk will argue that for many years our systems have built their reliability by layering on top of unreliable components - effectively, they are built on top of quicksand. Furthermore, the granularity of the unreliable components has been steadily increasing through the years and is gradually showing new and challenging semantics to the application developer. Fault tolerant algorithms are built by creating pieces that are idempotent or repeatable without harm. Ensuring these idempotent operations can be performed by components that are unreliable, a reliable design must capture the state ACROSS the failure units and keep going if something fails. This has been done with circuitry, mirrored disks, multiprocessors, and more. In the past, failures were usually masked from the running application. Now, the size of the unreliable component is inexorably getting larger as the economics of our systems change. This is making it impossible for the underlying hardware and software platforms to hide the failures. Increasingly, applications must design to cope with the failures of these unreliable components. This talk will sketch the theory of fault tolerance and show a number of examples of how systems have been designed through the years and how their evolution has gradually impacted application design. Hopefully, this discussion will help application designers understand the new responsibilities they face in building reliable distributed systems. It is possible to stay afloat on top of quicksand with sufficient care!

Deep Dive into "Geneva" Next Generation Identity Server and Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

The security demands on applications continue to grow in the face of compliance, online threats, and cloud- based software. Momentum is building in industry around the vision of an interoperable Identity Metasystem and the claims-based access model. In this session, get an in-depth look at the architecture of the "Geneva" next generation identity server and framework that implements the claims-based model, and how it can be customized and extended for advanced security scenarios. Learn how claims-based access is implemented in "Geneva", and the different levels of integration with claims-based access that are possible for your application.

Windows Embedded CE Device Driver Development

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Need to attach some custom hardware to your Windows Embedded CE device? This is your chance. This talk will cover the basics of the stream driver model, the differences between user mode and kernel mode drivers, how to access hardware, how to support interrupts and how to marshal data from applications to drivers and back. Come to learn the ins and outs of writing Windows Embedded CE device drivers in this informative, example driven session.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

In the spirit of an agile sprint, see how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories and re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.

Unlocking the Power of SQL Server Compact 3.5

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

With Visual Studio 2008, you can now embed SQL Server Compact as DLLs directly within your application. So you've seen the intro talks; now what? In this demo packed session we'll dig into the more advanced scenarios for how to take advantage of SQL Server Compact within your applications. Writing managed Stored Procedures; using SQL Server Compact as a custom document format; running the database directly from a DVD; and tips on maximizing performance - these are just some of the demos we'll show to maximize your end users productivity with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server Compact.

PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Overview - For Developers, Not Accountants

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

This overview session, aimed at a developer audience, will introduce you to PerformancePoint Server. You'll learn about how PerformancePoint fits in among SQL Server, SharePoint, Excel and the myriad of "reports" and "data sources" floating around your organization. You'll also learn how PerformancePoint's centralized business logic and self-service job execution can alleviate the burden of creating one-off reports and automation packages for your business users. Then, we'll explore how Monitoring and Analytics components of PerformancePoint make it easy to create and customize dashboards, scorecards and reports. If your organization's business intelligence solution is more of a burden than a blessing, you won't want to miss this session!

Business Process Management with SharePoint, Visio, Office and BizTalk Server

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Business Process Management, or BPM, is a great vision, but it has yet to reach mainstream adoption. Microsoft's view is about achieving the BPM vision pragmatically through discrete routes of adoption, focus on the end user, collaborative process modeling, Microsoft's business process platform and the Microsoft's Business Process Alliance (BPA), a strategic partner ecosystem targeting the Microsoft business process platform. Microsoft's people-ready approach empowers organizations to rapidly build adaptive, mission-critical business process management solutions spanning people, systems and organizations. BPM requires seamless support for different types of processes that span different technologies and business areas (from structured, transactional, and predictable system processes to unstructured, long running, and ad-hoc human processes) for a comprehensive, end-to-end process view. We point out how these different process categories can be addressed with the appropriate approach, industry standards and technologies in one integrated architecture. This architecture combines Visio, InfoPath, SharePoint and BizTalk Server 2006 R2, and partner products to provide a powerful process management solution. We also provide useful guidance to help customers tackle Business Process Management initiatives and avoid blockers to adoption

From Toolbar to Ribbon: Providing an intuitive interface for Office applications

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

The biggest change in the way people work with Microsoft Office is the introduction of the Ribbon. The Ribbon offers an alternative to the menu and toolbar based UI which formed the basis of Office since the initial version. In this session you will learn the why and the how of the Ribbon; you will learn about the basics of extending the Microsoft Office platform using RibbonX and how you can integrate a Ribbon in your own applications.

Development Team Management Secrets: What I've Learned

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Customize Team Foundation Server to support your process!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

In the ideal case: you are not supposed to learn a new tool, but rather Team Foundation Server should learn and adopt the already established way of work, procedures and process of you and your company! In this session you will learn which parts of Team Foundation Server can be customized to your needs and how to do that efficently by creating a small piece of a development process "live" during the session. This session is a "must" for everybody that wants to get the most value out of his TFS.

Mastering Time Series Prediction with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:59 GMT

Time series data is one of the most useful sources for data mining. Whether it be estimating future gasoline prices or understanding the relationship between the weather and sales, there is a role for time series analysis. In the new release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining, Microsoft has introduced some important enhancements to our support in this area, making powerful analysis both more effective and easier to use. In this session, we not only introduce these new features, but we also cover many of the business scenarios for which time series prediction is invaluable.

Leverage Your Development Skills, Go Embedded!

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Embedded systems are rocketing; each of us is transporting, using and depending on a variety of these devices - PDAs, smartphones, personal navigation devices, mobile Internet devices, gamepads etc. The Windows Embedded platforms cover a very large scope of technologies with strange but impressive names, like "CE kernel", "WEPOS" and "NavReady". This session is targeted at non-embedded developers with experience in more traditional Windows technologies like Win32, COM or .NET. We will walk the bridge between these worlds, observing commonalities and differences through real-world case studies and technical dive-ins. Come and learn how your existing skills may already be very close to what is required for embedded development and what you can gain from future work in embedded projects.

Virtualization and Security: What Does It Mean for Me?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Virtualization is the Next Big Thing, and certainly you've at least examined it and probably are using several virtualized servers already. How are you handling the security of your images? How are you securing the guest and host operating systems, and the applications you're running? Virtualization raises certain unique security requirements, and provides some interesting security capabilities, too. Join us as we explore the interesting aspects of virtualization and security.

Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 (Part 3): Extensibility and provisioning with ILM 2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Do you want to learn how to get the most out of Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) "2"? In this session we will show you how to use the extensible platform of ILM "2" to address complex business problems. We will walk you through the process of customizing ILM "2" and show you how easy it is to extend ILM "2" solutions. We will cover extensibility scenarios including management of any resource in your organization, modeling complex workflows and using the extensibility points of the ILM "2" web service.

Managing Large Infrastructures with PowerShell v2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

This session focuses on how to remotely administer both clients and servers throughout your enterprise, using PowerShell V2. Firstly, this session will cover the infrastructure requirements necessary to successfully use PowerShell V2. The session will then introduce and explain PowerShell scripts that solve real world administrative challenges on an enterprise scale.

Supporting a Sparse Property Design in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Sparse properties (also known as open schema or entity attribute-value) is a type of design that is traditionally difficult to optimize in a relational database. This occurs when the number of different attributes that can be used to design an entity are large and the attributes themselves are variable. This talk will enumerate the different design possibilities as well as describe in detail some SQL Server 2008 features (sparse columns, filtered indexes, and filtered statistics) that are meant to make such a system more optimizable.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Finals - Anthony Harris

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Building Data Visualization Applications with the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

This session will be heavily demo focused to accentuate how the power of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be used to visualize data. WPF is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows. It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media and documents. WPF uses vector based graphics rendering which results in better graphics and presentation for an application. WPF also has other features such as layout, styling and data binding which, when you mix with interactivity, enables scenarios such as interactive data visualization. When you put all this together you have a unified API for various presentation components, such as 2D and 3D documents and declarative programming through XAML, which is a powerful platform for data visualization that can be used to really "light-up" your enterprise applications.

EMEA Developer Speaker Idol: Wave Three - Artemakis Artemiou

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Creating a Gesture-Based UI for Embedded Devices

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Gesturing and touch screens have quickly gained popularity as an intuitive interface for phones, but many general embedded devices have less obvious user interfaces. In this session you'll learn how to create a compelling UI for an embedded device using the .NET Micro Framework and C# managed code. This session focuses on the new features in .NET Micro Framework version 3.0, but the concepts can be applied to any embedded device, including those running Windows Embedded CE or Windows Embedded Standard.

Delivering Complete Business Solutions with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and the Microsoft Platform

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a powerful customer relationship management solution built from the ground up using the .NET platform. We'll show how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be integrated with Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Live services, WPF/Silverlight, Office Communications Server and other technologies to build comprehensive business solutions.

MCA - Certification for Architects

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

How is an architect defined? Join Miha Kralj, Senior Architect at Microsoft, as he discusses the current certification process as well as the workings toward achieving a professional association, bar certification, and an educational program for architects.

SQL Server PowerShell Provider Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

PowerShell is Microsoft's newest scripting language, combining the convenience of a shell with the power of a scripting language. You have everything from the disk subsystem to the registry and the .NET objects available to monitor, manage and control your servers. The SQL Server team has assembled a new provider for PowerShell that allows you to navigate a SQL Server instance as easily as working with the file system. This session explains the basics of PowerShell, how you can use it to work with your systems, and also provides an overview of the PowerShell provider for SQL Server.

Building WCF services with WF in .NET 4.0

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. Hear about significant enhancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 to deal with the ever increasing complexity of communication. Learn how to use WCF to correlate messages to service instances using transport, context and application payloads. See how the new WF messaging activities enable the modeling of rich protocols. Learn how WCF provides a default host for workflows exposing features such as distributed compensation and discovery. See how service definition in XAML completes the union of WF and WCF with a unified authoring experience that simplifies configuration and is fully integrated with IIS activation and deployment.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave One - Sander Berkouwer

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

Sander Berkouwer takes part in Speaker Idol Wave 1 and tells us about working and playing with Microsoft employees, products and technologies as well as his obvious passion for Xbox!

Claims-Based Identity: An Overview of "Geneva"

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

For people who create software today, working with identity isn't much fun - there are too many technologies and too much complexity. The industry-wide shift toward claims-based identity improves this, offering a better, simpler approach, yet making this approach real requires infrastructure, which is why Microsoft is creating the "Geneva" family. This session provides an overview of these forthcoming identity technologies, showing the problems each one addresses and how they relate to one another. The goal is to provide a big-picture understanding of Microsoft's approach to claims-based identity.

MVP's and the Power of Community

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

The Microsoft MVPs have a key role in the Microsoft Communities as high quality contributors. From blogs to forum posts, from User Group activities to technical speeches, the Most Valuable Professionals are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. Please listen in the conversation between Alessandro Teglia, MVP Lead for Italy and Central Eastern Europe and Karen-Anne Young, Global MVP Program Marketing Manager and start sharing your technical knowledge! http://www.microsoft.com/mvp http://blogs.technet.com/alead_msft/ (Alessandro Teglia's blog)

Inside PerformancePoint Server 2007 - Simulating "Monopoly"

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

You've never seen a PerformancePoint demo like this before! This deep-dive technical session will show you how we've simulated the popular board game Monopolyâ„¢ through the power and flexibility of PerformancePoint Server. First, we'll teach you how to model the board game using PerformancePoint Planning. Then, we'll walk you through the business rules that roll the dice, move your player around the board, purchase properties and pass GO. Next, we'll recreate the famous game board using the PerformancePoint Excel Add-In (plus a few macros). Finally, we'll surface all of our stats in SharePoint using the Monitoring and Analytics components. This clever demonstration will leave you buzzing with ideas on how you can customize PerformancePoint in your organization. This session assumes a basic knowledge of multi-dimensional data structures (OLAP cubes) and attendance of the PerformancePoint Technical Overview session (BIN202) is a strongly-encouraged prerequisite.

Understanding Virtualization technologies for use with Microsoft Office 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:58 GMT

This session will provide an introduction into the various Virtualization technologies that may be used to deploy and manage Microsoft Office 2007 clients. We will look at Presentation Layer virtualization, Virtual PC/Server, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V). We will discuss the positives and negatives for each technology when used to deploy Office 2007. This session is designed for those who are new to virtualization technologies, would like to understand the differences in the technologies and would like to understand how the technologies relate to Microsoft Office.

Deploying Software Updates with System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, discusses the end-to-end process of deploying software updates in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - requirements, configuration of the software update point, catalog synchronization, update deployment process, and update deployment and validation.

Windows Server 2008 - File and Storage Solutions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Windows Server 2008 contains lots of changes to core file services components that increase availability, scalability and performance. Some of these components are new, others have been significantly enhanced. In this session, we cover some of the main File and Storage features in Windows Server 2008 (including SMB2, Distributed File System, NFS, Offline Files, Storage Explorer, VSS, VDS, Share and Storage Management and FSRM). We will also outline some of the upcoming enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2. Join us for a Windows Server 2008 File and Storage deep dive, in a session full of technical insight.

What's New in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Learn what's new in the next release of our unified communications products! Come to this session for a 360 on OCS 2007 R2. We will have lots of demos and talk about Voice, Telephony, Conferencing, Group Chat and many other exiciting areas. Get a preview of the great UC technologies that we have coming out!

Planning and Deploying Group Chat with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

This session provides an overview of chat room functionality (acquired from Parlano) in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. We'll review end user features and the backend technology and architecture. We'll also look at the Administration tool, the application used to configure chat rooms and go over best practices in setting and managing permissions.

Deploying SharePoint with End-to-End Kerberos Authentication

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Configuring Kerberos Authentication for MOSS 2007 is often seen as a complex procedure by many IT Pros, but with the new Infrastructure update, Kerberos becomes much easier to implement. Learn how to deploy MOSS 2007 Farms using Kerberos Authentication in an end-to-end fashion and how things have changed with recent updates to the product. Configuring Kerberos Authentication to MOSS against external SQL Server Data Sources will be discussed as well as deploying Kerberos for end user-accessed content web applications and Central Administration Web Applications. The session will finish by showing Search Crawling of Kerberos-Authenticated web applications, and using Kerberos Authentication for the SSP infrastructure in MOSS 2007.

Mitigating Application Issues Using Shims Part 1

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

In this first part of a two-part series, explore many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what we can fix without updating the application, and how to fix it. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure (Shim Infrastructure) is a powerful tool for resolving compatibility issues and unblocking Windows Vista deployments, but understanding where and how to leverage and configure shims can be daunting until you learn some of the tricks and subtleties, many of which we expose!

MDOP: Application Virtualization 4.5 Features

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 is an exciting update for Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization. It includes Dynamic Suite Composition, Extended Scalability, Globalization and compliance with Microsoft Security Standards. All of these features will help you scale application virtualization across the Enterprise.

Windows Application Compatibility

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Are you having problems with application compatibility in Windows Vista? There may be a quick and easy fix you can create yourself. In this talk, Chris Jackson, Associate Architect at Microsoft, discusses the ins and outs of shims - targeted application fixes.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave Three - Vladimir Meloski

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Vladimir Meloski takes to the stage of Speaker Idol Wave 3 and discusses his agenda of "Disaster Recover". He creates awareness for it's importance with Exchange, SQL Servers, Virtualization and Sharepoint.

The Future of C#

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

In this talk, Microsoft C# luminary Mads Torgersen outlines the future of C#. He will describe the many forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and explain how they fit into C#.

Making Sense of the High Availability Tools in SQL Server 2008

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

SQL Server can be designed to be 'always on' but what do you have to do to achieve this; do you need to make key design decisions and what are the implications of making them. 'Always On' can be achieved with apparently conflicting technologies, this session looks at all of these including clustering, mirroring, replication to see how they differ but more importantly how they can work together to form a complete strategy to ensure you can always retrieve your data.

Protecting Business Data and PCs with Intel® Anti-Theft Technology

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

This session will give an overview of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology - the new hardware-based security capability for data protection and PC theft management. Join us for a deep dive into the features, benefits, use cases and deployment models of two of the components of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology; hardware-based, full hard disk drive (HDD) data encryption and the "poison pill" that renders the system inoperable as a theft deterrent.

Hands-On Labs and Hyper-V

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Project "Velocity": A First Look at Microsoft's Distributed Caching Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

It is predicted that all large applications will use a distributed data cache as the initial tier for all data access. This session presents an overview of "Velocity," Microsoft's distributed in-memory cache, and shows how it works with IIS, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server Data Services.

Demystifying Microsoft Licensing

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Licensing can be confusing but it needn't be! Attend this session to understand Microsoft Licensing and how to best apply it in your company to fit in with your business needs. This session will cover concepts of Programme and Product licensing covering OEM, FPP and Volume Licensing, with special focus on Licensing products in a virtual world and benefits from investing in Software Assurance.

A DS Geek's Notes from the Field - Active Directory Uncovered

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Ever wondered what is going happening to your domain controllers? Are you scared of touching your AD in case something goes wrong? Do you pray to the directories gods to keep your domain controllers safe? This session will give you an insight into experiences and practices from a field perspective about what can go wrong, what you should do to manage and look after AD in a proactive way. In this session Ulf will present the most interesting scenarios he has experienced in the field. You'll see "think beyond" solutions, common mistakes, listen to funny stories, rumours from enterprises, and tips and tricks out of the field. Get inspired.

Deploying System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Part 2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

This is part 2 of a two-part session which drills into both upgrade and greenfield installation and configuration of SCCM 2007. Over these two breakout sessions you will learn how to prepare for deployment of SCCM 2007 in a new or upgrade environment, considering sizing, performance, security and network issues. The session will drill into SCCM 2007 server roles, security modes and the configuration steps required for management of Internet Based Clients. By the end of these two sessions you will understand how to design SCCM 2007 deployments and the various steps needed to complete an upgrade or new installation.

"Running on the Metal" with the .NET Micro Framework

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

The .NET Micro Framework allows developers to quickly create smart connected embedded devices using Visual Studio 2008 and C#, without the added complexity of an underlying operating system. This session will introduce you to embedded development with version 3.0 of the .NET Micro Framework (.NET MF) and provide an overview of the features. You'll learn when .NET Micro Framework is appropriate and when Windows Embedded CE or Windows Embedded Standard might be a better choice; and you'll discover how to easily get started with .NET MF, whether you already have embedded experience or are a desktop developer looking to broaden your skills.

ASP.NET AJAX tips and tricks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Learn how to take advantage of the latest features of the ASP.NET AJAX framework introduced with .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1. In this talk, you learn how to use the new History feature to manage browser history and the behavior of the browser Back button. You also learn how to improve the performance of your AJAX applications by using the new Script Combining feature. Finally, we discuss tips and tricks for using ASP.NET AJAX and the AJAX Control Library within an ASP.NET MVC application.

"Geneva" Security Token Services: Infrastructure services for SOA security and federation

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

The claims-based identity model enables an easier way to build applications that are identity-driven, support a variety of audiences and authentication mechanisms and can plug into a heterogeneous infrastructure using standards-based protocols, all without requiring application developers to write a lot of code. Key to the model is the Security Token Service (STS) which issues claims for applications to consume and hosts policies that determine what claims a user will get when accessing a specific application. In this session learn about Microsoft Code Name "Geneva", an STS integrated with Active Directory and Windows CardSpace that provides infrastructure services for federation, claims-aware applications and SOA security.

Building Business Integrations with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:57 GMT

Learn how you can leverage Microsoft Dynamics AX's Application Integration Framework (AIF) to build business integrations. This session gives a brief introduction to common integration scenarios and to basic concepts of AIF. It walks through the process of building Microsoft Dynamics AX services and publishing Dynamics AX services through asynchronous adapters and web services. You'll learn how to consume external Web services published within your enterprise or in the public Internet from within Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Lessons from the field - best practices for implementing Citrix XenDesktop

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Citrix XenDesktop delivers desktops on-demand to users virtually anywhere, while dramatically simplifying desktop lifecycle management. It allows you to rethink client architectures: - Improve end-user security and data protection - Meet end-user client reliability, performance and personalization demands - Reduce environmental impact with lower energy and materials usage - Accelerate Vista migration and MDOP adoption Join this session and hear from Citrix, and its strategic partners, about first-hand experiences and best practices for the infrastructure rollout of a Citrix XenDesktop deployment with either Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer server virtualisation solutions. Listen to real-world customer scenarios and experiences from our joint solutions engineering teams. Learn about thin client deployment, datacentre infrastructure design and how to manage and optimise the end-to-end infrastructure. Hear about technology advancements with the innovative AMD Hypervisor and virtualisation technologies. Meet our experts and learn the what, why and how of Virtual Desktops!

Advancing Your Organization in Core Infrastructure Optimization with Operating Systems Deployment

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Configuration Management and OS deployment are key themes for advancing through the process and technology maturity levels in the Core Infrastructure Optimization (IO) model. This session singles out achievable desktop-focused goals in the Core IO Desktop and Server Management capability. Implementing Core IO recommendations for application testing, imaging, automated deployment, and configuration management of the Windows operating system have lead many companies to dramatic cost savings. We will walk you through the levels of Core IO from Basic through to Dynamic, giving tips, showing technology, providing real world customer cases and presenting cost saving evidence along the way. In the process we will map the System Center family of products - as well as other Microsoft toolkits - to the lifecycle of OS Deployment.

Microsoft Office 2007 client deployment: Customization and the new Setup tools

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Microsoft Office 2007 has a new Setup process to support the multi-MSI language neutral architecture. Also, the Office Customization Tool has replaced the previous Office Resource Kit deployment and customization tools. This session will explore the new architecture, present the new Setup process and give an in-depth look into the Office Customization Tool. This session is designed for those who want to have a better understanding of how the Office Setup and Customization process works in Office 2007.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 for Unrepentant C++ Developers

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Visual C++ 2008 is packed full of changes for those who prefer the C++ language syntax and power. This session covers STL/CLR, the new extensible marshalling library, and changes coming in the C++ standard, specifically TR1. If templates don't scare you, Boost has intrigued you, and you're the one everyone turns to for mixing managed and native code, this session is for you.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

This session will provide you an overview of the new technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2, the scenarios, features, benefits and the development philosophy behind the product. We will discuss new Management Technologies, Virtualization Enhancements, Scalability features and enabling the remote workforce.

Virtualizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 using Hyper-V and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

The session will explain virtualization, the benefits and the technology landscape to enable MOSS experts to design, architect, implement and maintain virtual MOSS farms. The session will provide balanced guidance and recommendations for implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in virtualised scenarios, from the physical hardware layer, virtualization platform layer to the guest operating system layer. The decisions around each of these layers affect the overall performance of every virtual machine in the data centre, and therefore the overall performance of your MOSS farm. Lastly the session discusses common MOSS virtualization deployment scenarios, from non production environments such as developer, test, and staging through to an example medium-large enterprise production environment. The presentation will include demonstrations of Windows Hyper-V and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008. This presentation is for information technology (IT) infrastructure specialists who are responsible for planning, designing, implementing and maintaining a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V physical and virtual server infrastructure for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. These specialists include consultants, internal IT architects, and others who are concerned with designing and governing virtualized environments.

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Finals - Dimitry Sotnikov

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Dimitry Sotnikov puts on a great show in the Speaker Idol Finals. Take a look as he uses PowerShell for optimization and debunks a few myths along the way.

Continuously Analyze and Optimize your Adaptive Infrastructure with HP Insight Software

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Learn how you can save time and reduce costs by managing workloads running on physical blades in the same way you manage virtual servers, with the same tools. Continuous consolidation using advanced capacity planning capabilities including optimization for power utilization will be demonstrated, including several common use cases. See how the HP portfolio of infrastructure management tools works in concert with Microsoft technologies.

.NET Services Drilldown - Part 2

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

This is the second part of a two part session which will drill into the .NET Services in more detail, covering Access Control Services, Workflow Services and Messaging Services.

Improving Network Security and Operational Effectiveness with Groove 2007

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Learn how Microsoft Office Groove 2007 can actually aid IT Professionals with improving security and operational effectiveness at a very low cost. Among others, topics include auditing capabilities, implementing securities, handling data, and identity securities.

ASP.NET AJAX tips and tricks

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

EMEA IT Pro Speaker Idol: Wave Three - Daniel Wessels

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Daniel Wessler stepped in at short notice to take part in Speaker Idol Wave 3. He talked about the slide library within Sharepoint and using meta data to search through his presentation.

Understanding SQL Server 2008 Security

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:59:56 GMT

Security is one of the critical features of a database engine, protecting the enterprise against myriad threats. Over the years, SQL Server has undergone major transformations when it comes to security, some fundamental and some really advance capabilities for data protection. In this session, we shall focus on advance security features like data encryption, keys & certificates management, auditing & Execution context. We shall also do a quick recap of major security framework improvements from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005 including user/schema separation to set the base for discussing advance security features in SQL Server 2008. We shall conclude the session by focusing on how some of the security features can be used in application design and development. At the end of the session, developers should have a solid understanding of the security framework in SQL Server. 2008 and how to leverage those features in your application.