Unit testing should be an integral part of every developer’s toolkit. In this session Richard will show you how Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server supports unit testing efforts, including Test Driven Development and Data Driven tests. He will also show you how Code Coverage, Test Impact Analysis and Intellitrace work and how to incorporate these into an automated build process and track your code quality metrics over time. Inversion of control containers: wondering what all the excitement is about? Of all the tools in a .NET developer’s toolbox, IoC containers are among the most frequently misunderstood. You may have heard that their use goes hand-in-hand with unit testing, but this doesn’t account for their rapid adoption in .NET over the last few years. Controlling software complexity in the face of change is a major theme in enterprise application development, and this is where IoC containers truly excel. Join this session to see how to create sophisticated applications that are simpler, lighter and easier to maintain than ever before. Come see and hear about the latest innovations in ASP.NET MVC 2 and the tooling support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Topics will include enhancements such as template helpers, model validation, and the new "Areas" feature, which enhances the team development of large websites. With improved server side validation and brand new client side validation support, your business data model can define the behavior of your application automatically. All this and more! In this demo-rich presentation, we’ll be covering some of the lesser known features of a tool we all use on a daily basis – SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Our coverage will extend across 5 areas; Startup, Customization, Shortcuts, Learning and Troubleshooting. We’ll also take a look at some of the new Management Studio features in the recently released SQL Server 2008 R2. Some of the specific things we’ll be covering include; * Central Management Servers with Policy Based Management, * Using the SSMS debugging tool, * Activity Monitor & SQL Profiler integration, * Discovering missing indexes from execution plans, * ... and a whole lot more including object explorer customization, fast start-up, colour-coded connections and a few completely-useless-but-infinitely-cool tricks to play on your unsuspecting work colleagues! The retail industry, like many other vertical have complex IT requirements in that most of their IT hardware is locate in geographically different locations, yet there is still a need and requirement to provide a consistent front to consumers of this technology. This session will explore how to leverage cloud based services, such as the Azure App Fabric Service Bus to connect remote point-of-sale, and in store experiences with an online portal and shopping experience and existing back office infrastructure. This demo-heavy session illustrates how to use new features in Group Policy to do things that will make you and your management happy: compare settings across all domains, reduce complexity of your Group Policy environment, manage power for Windows 7 clients, and use GP Preferences to reduce logon scripts. Microsoft Office offers a platform that provides ample possibilities for application development using managed code. During this presentation Jake will explain what VSTO is, why to choose it as a platform and how you can build a successful VSTO add-in following best practices. Jake will cover the majority of aspects of implementing a VSTO solution, such as Unit Testing, Memory Management, Patterns to simplify VSTO Code and WPF/Silverlight integration. To demonstrate these concepts Jake has created a large demo project which brings all of the concepts together to provide a good reference add-in when developing VSTO solutions yourself. This release of Visual Studio sees the IDE overhauled and much of it rewritten using WPF and managed code. The move to WPF allows Microsoft to make some stunning aesthetic additions to the IDE, and also opens up customization possibilities when combined with the new Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF). Come to this session to learn about the new IDE enhancements and an introduction to customizing the experience. By now most people have seen demos about "what" PowerPivot is, but there are still lots of unanswered questions. "How" should PowerPivot be positioned within your organisation and your BI architecture? "When" does it make sense to use PowerPivot? And "why" are there circumstances where you should consider using other products from the Microsoft BI stack? The next release of Configuration Manager is coming! For over a decade, Systems Management Server and Configuration Manager have been used by thousands of customers and partners to deliver classic management capabilities to clients and servers. As we enter a new era for IT Administration, the System Center flagship product is evolving. In this session we present our vision for user-centric client management, and demonstrate improvements from Configuration Manager 2007. This session promises to be very interesting. We demonstrate a functioning product to showcase some of these major improvements, so you know you can't miss it! Track: Dynamics CRM xRM has been quite a buzzword these days. Every time you hear about xRM, you’ll think about building virtually any solution on top of the extensible Microsoft CRM platform. Having said that, there are a number of limitations that come with Microsoft CRM 4.0. In this session, we will have a look at ways to overcome these limitations as well as sharing some of the ninja tips and tricks around building xRM solution on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The session will also cover a quick lap around the new Advanced Developer Extensions SDK feature. With the impending launch of IE 9, Microsoft is ready for the next wave of web technologies - HTML5, CSS3 and SVG. Come along to learn what’s coming in the Internet Explorer platform for web programming, interoperability, graphics and performance through these newer standards. More importantly, we'll also look at why each of these enhancements matter. We'll do a lap around the new canvas, SVG, video and audio support, take a look at the improvements in CSS3 and see the benefits of hardware accelerated graphics. After that we'll dive into developer tooling and see what's new with the built-in debugging tools. Don't expect to see any slides - this will be an all demos presentation. During this session we'll explore in depth the capabilities of Coded UI Tests in Visual Studio 2010 and how you can use them to test a wide range of application types. Through your use of Coded UI tests, you can automate much of your user interface testing and have these tests execute on your build server. If you're a serious software developer and care about quality, this is a session not to be missed. Join Chris Squared (Chris Auld & Chris Klug) from Intergen as they build a real Windows Phone 7 app from scratch in 60 minutes. This is a hard core, dual data projector, coding marathon. Chris and Chris will build a Windows Phone 7 series app including Windows Azure hosted push notifications, a rich Silverlight UI and partner integration. You’ll see how to take an idea from concept to the Windows Phone Marketplace in just an hour. In other words, not your general Hello World application. The cloud is not about whizzy new technology, rather it's a new economic paradigm; a new way to buy computing power. Join globally respected cloud computing expert Chris Auld as he shares insights into the business aspects of cloud computing. This session is essential listening for anyone intersted in cloud based Platform as a Service and Software as a Service offerings. This session will show DBAs why SQL Server 2008 R2 is in no way a minor release for the database engine. Peter Ward will show a number of new features that have been introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2 for the DBA, including improvements in locking and merging partitions as well as the new Unicode compression. So if lifting the hood on the database engine is your thing, then this is the session for you. Tech•Ed is upon us and the international men of mystery (aka tight knit band of Microsoft suppliers who have been putting this event on for far too long) are up to their proverbials in network design and implementation. Come along to hear what has happened for: * Who's who in the zoo: The vendors build tech•ed each year and what do they do * The Showcase! The work that went into the amazing tech•ed 2010 showcase stand. * Supporting the sessions – lots of Hyper-V guests, delivered in a high availability clustered environment, provisioned at the drop-of-a-hat’s notice * Logical and Physical network design for the event * Diverse internet connectivity backhaul * Procedures and techniques for ensuring network integrity with a bucketload of untrusted clients connecting * Wifi to cater for 3500 users. * Those pesky kids downloading Twilight New Moon with their BitTorrent (there's a ripping yarn in that one from tech•ed 2009) * Some lessons learned from previous years - things that didn't work - things we did to stop repeats of things that didn't work. Speakers: David Connors (Software Engineer by day, Network Engineer by night, Codify), Jorke Odolphi (Event Technology Manager, Microsoft), Ben Parker (Consultant, Parker Tech). A quality outcome always takes more time and effort than a poor outcome. The universe decrees that it is harder to make a good cup of coffee but trivially easy to make a bad one, so why is it then that, as a profession we continually strive to create better outcomes with less effort? IT professionals seem to be genetically evolved to seek out shortcuts. Inevitably this leads to bad outcomes - but we still do it - all the time. We argue that quality is neither a feature nor a “cross-cutting concern” - but something that should be fundamental to your software development paradigm. Creating a cognitive framework that is geared towards quality outcomes makes some aspects of software and systems engineering not only easy, but obvious. Join David Connors (Director & Software Engineer, Codify) and Joel Pobar (ex-Microsoft .NET CLR programme manager) on an epic epistemological journey from the notions of state vs entropy, integrity vs perceived flexibility, and buy now + pay later. We then take the abstract down to the boots on the ground and show you some real-world examples of how you can select the right toolset for success and improve the delivery and maintenance of projects. Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with SQL Azure. Learn about these new services and see several demos that show how to build applications that run in and take advantage of Microsoft’s new cloud platform. Our speakers will introduce you to the next generation of Customer Relationship Management solutions -- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. In this session, see firsthand the exciting new release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, how Microsoft is changing the way that customers think about business applications. Learn about the various storage mechanisms available in the Azure Platform. Windows Azure offers Blobs, Queues, Tables and Drives. SQL Azure offers a Relational Database accessible through the familiar TDS. How do you make the right choice? This session explains all of these options and provides guidance as to when to choose what and how to go about making the most of these cloud storage options. Come hear the story directly from Microsoft and Coca Cola Amatil behind moving 8000 seats from Lotus Notes to BPOS.This session is suited for the IT decision maker or Architects that are thinking of moving to Cloud, too BPOS or even in the process of a migration. This session will include - Making the BPOS decision – the process of making the leap to Online Services - Planning the transition – technology, infrastructure, change management, support - Adapting to the new world – what were the pitfalls and what’s it like living with Online Services now? - Leveraging what we created – future plans EntityFramework, Linq2SQL, NHibernate, LLBGen, LightSpeed are only some of many ORMs used within the .NET community today. How do you decide which one to go with? In this session Omar will guide you to what is it that you want from your ORM and how to decide on what to use. The discussion will include talks about CRUD, modularity and performance. It will also look at ORMs adaptability to different types of applications (web, rich client and distributed applications) as well as different design approaches (DDD, TDD, Data-Driven). Omar will also provide guidance around the value add features (Logging, Validation etc.) that ORMs provide and how these should not play a major role in the decision of ORM adoption. In this session Jordan starts with a brief overview of the MVVM pattern before delving into the depths of a real world implementation. See how to get the most out of Silverlight as Jordan demonstrates a very effective implementation of MVVM that culminates in an intuitive and powerful display and navigation framework that works not only in Silverlight, but also WPF (incl. Surface) and the Windows 7 Phone! Microsoft has a plethora of deployment tools so how do you know which one is right for you? In this session Rhonda shows you the difference between Windows Deployment Service (WDS) and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT) so you can choose the tool that's right for you saving you valuable time. In this session learn how to build templates for Infrastructure Servers, Terminal Servers, Hyper-V Servers, File/Print Servers, and Application Servers. Microsoft’s deployment tools are better than ever with the new Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) 2.0. WAIK 2.0 contains the Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) to assist in creating answer files that automate your deployments, Windows Pre-Installation Environment (WinPE 3.0) to get your machines booted and connected to the network, the new Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) utility which allows you to manage your images offline (no more Package Manager (Pkgmgr) or the WinPE command-line tool PEimg). DISM supports both .wim and .vhd image formats. If you are planning on deploying 5 or 5,000 Server 2008 R2 machines this session is a must see to find out what has changed from WAIK 1.1. Once you have new Windows machines built you will need to activate them and it’s a snap with Microsoft’s volume activation Key Management Service (KMS) – join Rhonda and let her show you how to install or upgrade from a previous version and learn the most common deployment and support issues when it comes to activation. This session will focus on protecting and recovering Exchange 2010 and 2007, SharePoint 2010 and 2007 and SQL Server 2008 with System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. We will cover how the application VSS writers work with the applications, as well as what is specific to protecting one application or version from another. The session will include demonstrations and unveil most of the DPM application-centric capabilities to help you plan/deploy/manage the backups for Microsoft application servers. If you are managing or planning to deploy Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint, ask yourself "How am I going to back that up?" and then attend this session to learn the answer. This session will focus on the considerations and best practices for Disaster Recovery and Virtualisation back up. Disaster Recovery without expensive third-party replication products or storage solutions and Virtualization Protection for the modern datacenter. This session will walk you through the Opalis workflow designer demonstrating along the way how to integrate System Center products with other IT tools to create automated processes. You will also see how Opalis customers have automated best practices for incident management, provisioning and change management. Come and learn how Avanade, a global IT consultancy, has positioned Service Manager as the foundation for not only their current ITIL processes, but their next-generation datacenter as well. This session will primarily focus on the business challenges and efficiency opportunities Avanade identified within their internal IT Operations team, and how implementing Service Manager addressed those problems. You will also learn how Avanade is planning to build on top of Service Manager as the core platform for their datacenter transformation work. This session will include demonstrations that will dive into the features and capabilities of Service Manager, and also show how easy it is to integrate with SCOM 2007R2 and SCCM 2007. If you are evaluating or planning to deploy Service Manager 2010, then this session is not to be missed! In this session, learn about and understand the advanced management capabilities of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to effectively and efficiently manage Virtual Infrastructures. Topics covered include: • Automated VM deployment • Hot Add/Remove Storage • Live migration • Storage migration • Physical to Virtual conversion • Virtual to Virtual conversion • PRO TIPS and integeration with Microsoft Operations Manager • VMM Self Service Portal • Maintenance Mode This is a can't miss session on how you can turn your virtualization infrastructure into a highly automated and dynamic application servicing machine! See how Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) in System Center Virtual machine Manager 2008 R2 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 provides optimization of virtual machines. The session will also cover how PRO tips can allow administrators to dynamically balance and optimize their servers at physical, virtual, and workloads levels. You'll see how PRO provides a unique and superior set of capabilities. The Global Financial Crises put a hold on many programs and innovations. IT’s “new normal” is forcing the IT Decision Maker to focus inward, and a sound IT Service Management capability has never been so topical. The IT Decision Maker is using this time to “get fit, and stay healthy!” Building an IT Service Management capability using the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) need not be complex to navigate! This session aims to uncover the “prescription for health” in the new economy. Hear how others are implementing MOF and System Center Service Manager (SCSM) in building an IT Service Management capability. Learn from their successes – and, their failures! Silverlight 3 introduced the ability to run your Silverlight applications outside the browser, and Silverlight 4 takes this one step further by enabling you to run your application with elevated trust. Silverlight is no longer a sandboxed browser-only platform now. This session will take you through the new possibilities enabled by this feature, including toast notifications, custom chrome, COM access, and direct file system access. The exciting addition to Bing.com is the new Bing Map Apps. Showcase your ideas and reach even more people by developing a dynamic solution to be featured on the Bing Maps site. Come join John and Bronwen to learn how to develop your application for this new SDK and start building yours today. This session we'll look at evolution of Media on the Web. We'll delve in the world of Silverlight Smooth streaming and build streaming infrastrucutre from virtual bare metal. Build a Smooth streaming player, show how to scale this out. We'll then also build a live events infrastructure showing how this works on multiple devices including PC, Windows Phone 7 and Apple iphone and ipads. We'll also look at how you can easily encode for your environment so use generated content can optimised for delivery. In this session you'll learn how to get the most out of Team Foundation Server's new 'basic' configuration. We'll start the session with a live configuration of Team Foundation Server, run a sprint planning session, fix a bug or two, and finally set up an automated build to turn our efforts into a deployable package. Yes, you really can do all that in one hour. Once we've done all of this we'll take a look at the options for growing the installation as required to leverage Team Foundation Server's optional components that surface the valuable information we’ve captured along the way. Hosting services poses unique challenges, and for good reason - exposing services to 6 billion people has to be secure, but also has to be efficient to be commercially viable. Enteprises can learn how to improve security, efficiencies and services by utilising the methods and principles applied in hosting cloud services in their own infrastructure. This session will talk about the challenges of hosting, what tools and principles used in hosted and cloud services can be used to provide services in the enterprise such as user and department self management, control panels, identity management and automation. It will highlight the challenges and limitations of hosting cloud services from an enterprise point of view, with a focus on AD, Exchange, SharePoint, OCS, and IIS. It will also talk about Microsoft's Dynamic Datacenter and how you can create your own private cloud. Are you design-challenged? Do you long for the days when user interface design simply meant following the Windows standards? Can you design screens in any colour as long as it's grey? Do you do your best to design pages that are usable and attractive, only to have them come out looking like angry fruit salads? In this session Shane Morris will tell you everything about user interface layout and design that fits into 50 minutes. Join the System Center team to learn how Microsoft System Center products are helping customers to lower costs and increase their business capabilities. This session focuses on the latest product updates, goals, and roadmap for the products before drilling into key upcoming releases such as Configuration Manager v.Next, Essentials 2010, Data Protection Manager 2010, and Service Manager 2010. Let's talk about what's new in Office 2010, specifically about implications for IT pros. Topics include security improvements, hardware and performance enhancements, Web Apps principles and deployment, App-V and Office, improvements to application compatibility testing, tips/tools to get your end users prepared, and much more. This session serves as a great intro/overview before diving into each topic in more depth in separate Tech•Ed sessions Office deployment has evolved since the days of Office 2003 and even 2007. So too should your way of thinking about your deployment project. This session provides insight on key areas to help your organizations transition to Office 2010 quickly and smoothly. This session outlines the activities to perform before, during and after your rollout . Additionally, it highlights the array of value resources, technical resources, tools and end user materials to ensure a smooth Office 2010 transition. Microsoft Office 2010 expands your productivity solution options by offering improved development options and tools, simplified solution design, richer programmability for Office data and formats, and deeper integration with SharePoint platform services. Learn how to use Microsoft Office and related products to address a wide variety of scenarios with custom solutions. Office Web Apps are new to Microsoft Office 2010 and will allow users to work with files from more places and on more devices by providing browser-based viewing and lightweight editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files... but we also can't be online all the time - SharePoint Workspace allows us to take sharepoint content offline and Office Mobile keeps us up to date when we are away from the Office. Learn how to deploy and configure the Web applications within your organization and what the viewing, sharing, creating, and editing documents experience is like. Understand the use cases for SharePoint Workspace and how to configure it for your environment. Learn about options for viewing Office content on your mobile device. Office 2010 introduces a best-in-class suite of layered defences to help prevent the spread of malware via Office documents. This session covers what you need to know about Office File Validation, Protected View and other protective technologies introduced in Microsoft Office 2010 and how they can keep your users safe without getting in the way. See the new ways that Office helps enterprises protect sensitive data while enabling collaboration with enhancements to our password protection, digital signature and rights management capabilities.Learn how Office 2010 was designed to take advantage of advanced graphics chips, limited bandwidth environments, multicore processors, 64-bit chips, netbooks and more, while also optimizing performance and system requirements for existing hardware. With every new version of the Office Suite released, Microsoft’s customers are facing the multifaceted challenge of the newly released version of Office deployment. One of the biggest issues related to deployment is an inability for IT professionals to assess and to know exactly what problems the organization will have, once the new Office is deployed. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt sometimes are a larger issue than the real incompatibility itself. It is also difficult today for developers to pinpoint portions of the code that will not function properly once the application is used with Office 2010. The Office 2010 Application Compatibility program is designed to help customers and partners to assess the environment pre-deployment of Office 2010 and to help identify compatibility issues within their applications code. Come to this session to learn about new tools to help assess the Office environment and identify potential issues in documents and code that may become a migration barrier as you decide to migrate to Office 2010. Deep dive into the extensibility engine of the SCVMM SSP 2.0. Using Post OS deployment with MDT and SCCM as an example The session provides an deep dive of the BranchCache feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2. This is your chance to dive into underlying technologies to understand how BranchCache works, as well as the requirements and deployment tips to obtain best performance. Come to hear about management tactics and best practices within the context of real-world examples. Deploying clustered Hyper-V servers in Windows 2008 R2 involves a wide variety of technologies, including Hyper-V, Live Migration, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows PowerShell, iSCSI and FC storage, dynamic and fixed VHDs, pass-through disks, networking, and more. Come learn about best practices, frequently asked questions, tips, and tricks around virtualization, clustering, scripted and automated deployments, disaster recovery, and more! Bring your Hyper-V and clustering questions, and prepare to take your HA Hyper-V deployments to the next level. Guest v host clustering. Networking is one of the most critical components in a successful virtualization solution. This session is focused on enabling you to plan and develop effective virtualization solutions that build on and utilize the great networking features in Windows Server and Hyper-V ensuring the most successful virtualization solution possible. We discuss networking considerations such as the use of VLANs, network teaming, load balancing, jumbo frames, monitoring, quality of service, and more. Dynamic memory is a new feature of Hyper-V coming to Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Come to learn how Dynamic Memory enables Hyper-V to more efficiently utilize system resource, and how this can benefit your environment. Also learn how Dynamic Memory works under the covers and what you should be preparing for with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Best practices and lessons learned on configuring DirectAccess for Windows 7 clients into a Windows 2008 R2 server environment. Rand covers tips and tricks on setting up IPSec policies, IPv6, proxy rules, certificate settings, and automation policies to successfully get DirectAccess to work in the enterprise. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 provide the automation platform and a set of solutions that empower you to manage the breadth of your IT environment. This demo-heavy session shows you how you can use Windows PowerShell 2.0, WMI and WinRM 2.0 to fully automate your Windows world all the way from hardware and Server Core to System Center products. It also helps you optimize your Server Management capabilities and shows you how you can scale your management experience as you move from Windows Server 2008 R2 Management tools to Microsoft System Center. Solution demos include Server Manager, Remote Server Administration Tool enhancements and Best Practices Analyzers (BPA) a new addition to Windows Server 2008 R2 that helps you diagnose server configuration problems and maintain optimal server configurations. The Server Core installation alternative has gotten a bad reputation for being hard to manage. There are a lot of alternatives open to you. Come and see how we can go from just-installed to easily-managed in a few simple steps! We will discuss how you would use Core and what it means to your management processes. You will learn how to use the RSAT suite as well as Powershell to remotely manage your Core-installation. We will also touch on third party tools in this session. RemoteFX opens new scenarios in terms of applications and devices that can access a rich PC experience. Releasing as part of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, remote clients ranging from rich PCs to ultra lightweight thin clients will be able connect to a RemoteFX enabled Windows 7 virtual machine and receive a desktop experience that is near indistinguishable from a local desktop. In this session, we delve into the core technologies that enable RemoteFX, cover how they can be deployed and managed in your environment using inbox tools, and see some live demos. Come learn how to use Windows Azure AppFabric (with Service Bus and Access Control) as building block services for Web-based and hosted applications, and how developers can leverage services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems. This session provides an overview of SharePoint 2010 covering end user features in different workloads from Sites to Composites. Expect to see a lot of demos of some of the new features that SharePoint 2010 has to offer! Itching to upgrade your SharePoint Server 2007 farm to SharePoint Server 2010? Then this is the session for you. In this session we cover the upgrade methods that are available, and explain how to determine which one is the best way for you to get your content into your shiny new SharePoint 2010 farm. Finally, we show you the way to reduce the amount of downtime you'll have. Your users will love you for that. Tired of hearing statistics about the high rate of failure for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiatives? In this session, learn about the new features in SharePoint 2010 and discover how Microsoft is changing the game in ECM by bridging the worlds of traditional content management, social computing and search; all delivered seamlessly through Microsoft Office, Web browsers, and mobile devices. Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables integration with line-of-business applications and other enterprise and Web 2.0 data sources. It was known in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and has been significantly improved in SharePoint 2010. This session shows building BCS External Content Types with both the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designer and with Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010. This provides multiple ways to expose line-of-business data, from a variety of sources, as SharePoint 2010 External Lists. System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 is designed to deliver enterprise-class management to mid-sized organizations between 50-500 PCs. This session is full of demos – to highlight each of the major aspects of SCE 2010, including server and client monitoring, software deployment and patching, virtualization management and migration, and how to get started with easy setup and configuration. Come see it here first. In January 2010, Immanuel College engaged deployment gurus Fastrack Technology, to develop a cutting edge desktop environment for their fleet of PCs. With their current SOE aging, as well as an impending One to One laptop rollout, it was imperative to create a robust and scalable platform that harnessed some of the great new innovation in the desktop space. Hugh from Immanuel and Yoni from Fastrack Technology will explore some noteworthy successes yearned from deploying Windows 7 and Office 2010 across the school. Some of the challenges faced will also be examined, with plenty of tips and tricks to ensure an outstanding result. Topics include: • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 • Office 2010 deployment methodology • Windows 7 Application compatibility • User State Migration using USMT • SharePoint 2010, collaboration, co-authoring • Volume activation for Windows and Office using KMS. Hear first hand from the customer, QLD Dept of Communities and their solution partner, Data#3 about how they implemented enterprise wide end-to-end service monitoring as part of a wider Systems Management project. The session will discuss the following solution components using demos from the actual production environment: • SCOM 2007 R2 including the Cross-Platform Extensions for Solaris monitoring • SLA Dashboard 2.0 Solution Accelerator for executive SLA reporting and tracking • Quest Management eXtensions (QMX) add-ons for monitoring non Windows systems and network devices, including VMWare ESX, F5, Juniper, Oracle, WebSphere, EMC and Cisco. • saVision LiveMaps for Geographical visualisation of monitoring data, business application modelling and Network Operations Centre Live Dashboarding • Opalis IT orchestration for process / notification / alert workflow and integration with other IT tools • Detailed monitoring of Cisco, HP and APC network devices using free Community based management packs • SCCM 2007 Dashboard for presenting both Ops Mgr data and ConfigMgr data. Learn how to create workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 without using code. Explore the new tools and features of SharePoint 2010 including the Visio workflow designer. Learn about moving workflows and reusing workflows across lists and sites. Learn about extending SharePoint Designer Workflows with Custom Activities and Conditions. Cover the construction, deployment and tips for Visual Studio custom activities for SharePoint Designer 2010 to allow business users to construct their own workflows. • Workflow basics and what’s new in 2010 o Workflow designer o Options for designing workflows (Code V’s No Code) o Sandbox solutions • Electronic Forms using InfoPath 2010 and Workflows o Association Forms o Initiation Forms o Task Forms and collecting user input o InfoPath 2010 forms • Site Workflows • Reusable Workflows o Importing and exporting workflow designs • SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflows • Custom activities of Building extensions with Visual Studio 2010 o .ACTIONS files • Custom conditions o Condition basics • Visio Workflow Designer o Working with Visio • Deployment Come and explore the future of data. We will seek to understand how exposing, visualising and interacting with massive amounts of premium commercial and public domain data is changing the way we develop powerful, intuitive and informative user experiences and applications. Learn about the new and emerging technologies such as OData, Pivot, PowerPivot and Project Dallas that are making data a first-class element of the web, the cloud and of enterprise application development. Microsoft SQL Azure presents unique opportunities and challenges with regards to database performance. While query performance is the key discussion in traditional, on-premise database deployments, we show you that factors such as network latency and multi-tenant effects also need to be considered in the Cloud. We offer some tips to resolve or mitigate related performance problems. We also dig deep into the inner workings of how SQL Azure manages resources and balances workload in a massive Cloud environment. The elastic access to additional physical resource in the Cloud offers new opportunities to achieve better database performance in a cost effective manner, an emerging pattern not available in the on-premise world. We show you some numbers that quantify the potential benefits. Are you looking to migrate your on-premise applications and database from MySql or other RDBMs to SQL Azure? Or are you simply focused on the easiest ways to get your SQL Server database up to SQL Azure? Then, this session is for you. We cover two fundamental areas in this session: application data access tier and the database schema+data. In Part 1, we dive into application data-access tier, covering common migration issues as well as best practices that will help make your data-access tier more resilient in the cloud and on SQL Azure. In Part 2, the focus is on database migration. We go through migrating schema and data, taking a look at tools and techniques for efficient transfer of schema through Management Studio and Data-Tier Application (DAC). Then, we discover efficient ways of moving small and large data into SQL Azure through tools like SSIS and BCP. We close the session with a glimpse into what is in store in future for easing migration of applications into SQL Azure. This level 300 session is an introduction to the process of deploying Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. In this live demo driven session we will cover: ·        Creation of management agents to manage identities in AD and ADLDS ·        Deployment of the FIM Service to enable: o   Self-service password reset o   User self-management of groups and distribution lists o   Creation of an organisational “white pages” This deep technical session is building on the previous Tech Ed session “Forefront Identity Manager Deployment Primer”. The goal of the session is to introduce more advanced concepts for the management of identities in AD and ADLDS through the provisioning of users in Forefront Identity Manager (FIM). This live demo driven session will cover: • Creation of workflows for the declarative provisioning of users • Extending the FIM schema • Custom set definition through XPath • FIM GUI modification • Creation and re-use of custom workflows Although the motives and means behind malware development have changed, most other aspects have stayed the same. Until recently the most successful malware tried to stay inconspicuous and unobtrusive for as long as possible; staying undetectable increased the chances for survival and successful replication. When we look at the top threats today we see malware targeting online gaming, Trojans trying to steal personal banking details and the most prevalent group of malicious applications: rogue security products (commonly referred to as Rogues). The latter consist of applications pretending to be legitimate anti-malware programs and requesting payments for the cleaning of non-existing infections. In order to solicit a payment, Rogues need to be as conspicuous as possible (displaying GUI, warning, progress bars, scanning logs etc). This malware needs to be in your face, the more the better. If this is true, then the presence of a Rogue isn’t difficult to spot and if so, how come Rogues are so widely spread and cause so much harm and present so many problems to the security industry. We will discuss these issues, look at some examples and numbers reported by Microsoft customers and users. Come and see the top five current attacks that hackers are using to break into your organisation. See how they work and how attackers hack applications using them. We'll also show you how to prevent them and how to protect your business cirtical applications from becoming attack vectors for your organisation. We'll cover SQL Injection Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Broken Authentication and Session Management Insecure Direct Object References Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Does this sound like you: You want to provide access to your services and applications, without all the head-ache of managing a huge identity store for each organisation you want to do business with. You cringe when people mention Single Sign On and try to hide in the broom closet. In this session we'll discuss how to achieve federated identity management. We'll examine how to use the Azure Access Control Service for authentication to your REST based services. We will also examine how to use ADFS and the Windows Identity Foundation to provide a federated identity and access solution for partners and external clients accessing your self-hosted services and applications. You want to deploy Windows 7 in your organization, but there is one or more critical application problems that will not work with Windows 7. Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) provides a way to proceed with your Windows 7 rollout without delaying to resolve the application compatibility problem. This session gives an overview of the MED-V solution and what considerations to make when planning a MED-V deployment. This includes an overview of the MED-V deployment in MSIT and the lessons learned from that deployment. When you approach customers to talk about a Windows 7 migration, inevitably ACT comes up. But how does ACT really work? In this session, we dissect the tool to really understand where its strengths are, where its weaknesses are, and why -- so you can fairly represent the tool to your customers and position it for maximum effectiveness. We explore the application compatibility manager and its agents, the developer and tester tools, and the shim infrastructure. We provide tips and tricks for remediating applications, helping you to become a true shim ninja. You even learn how to remediate applications you intend to deploy using Microsoft App-V 4.6! In the end, you’ll be able to build a complete end-to-end scenario and workflow to delight your customers and accelerate your Windows 7 deployments. Learn about what other IT professionals are doing to configure, deploy, and manage their deployments of Windows Internet Explorer 8 to ensure their Web applications and Web sites remain compatible. In this demo-heavy session, we explore the real-world scenarios and challenges that IT professionals face, and walk through the latest tools, guidance, and best practices they are using. This session provides insights and guidance to accelerate your migration from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8. This is an in-depth overview of the sequencing process during which you learn how an application is transformed from an installed entity into a virtualized application using the Microsoft Application Virtualisation (App-V) Sequencer tool. See an application virtualized from beginning to end, learn the best practices of the process and how to identify what applications can be virtualized within your application library. The session takes you behind the scenes to show you how to create the virtual environment for an application, define dependencies to a package, manage files in the Virtual File System and the Virtual Registry; and demonstrates how it relates to the Windows OS. Learn how to enable different levels of interaction between the virtual application and other sub-systems with what App-V 4.5 offers, along with good tenets for determining what makes an application a good candidate for virtualization. This is a deep dive of troubleshooting techniques used when Microsoft PFE and the GTSC have investigated customer issues with Applications. See the step by step techniques used to see real world customer problems and the investigations and resolutions that were used to get the application functioning correctly. Learn some of the techniques used, and the importance of understanding the sequencer, windows and your applications. Objectives: 1. Attendees are able to identify common troubleshooting techniques for the most application issues with the App-V sequencer. 2. Attendees take away steps and methods to resolve specific application issues from the field, the root cause and resolution. Premier Field Engineering globally have worked with a number of Microsoft Enterprise customers in the App-V arena. Application Virtualisation has excellent benefits that enable an organization to dynamically manage their application deployment and reduce the amount of time required to regression test their applications. The session details various techniques that PFE help customers to utilise when looking at Microsoft Application Virtualisation and how they approach proactive reviews of their App-V estate. This is an in-depth view of basic troubleshooting techniques from creating virtual packages of complex applications, diagnosing client deployment issues, and troubleshooting package publication and delivery to the client. There are a number of diagnostic and troubleshooting features in Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) and we show how to use them to roll out and leverage your App-V deployment. For example, the App-V sequencer will virtualize the majority of the applications thrown at it, but sometimes you will need to use some advanced features to complete creating a virtual package for a complex app. We show you how to use built-in log files and external tools such as Procmon to understand why a virtual package is not working as expected and how to make changes to enable it to work as expected. In this session, learn all about the new Windows Troubleshooting Platform introduced with Windows 7 and how you can use it to automatically troubleshoot problems in your environment. This session has plenty of demos, including how to take advantage of Troubleshooting Packs developed by Microsoft and how to build your own Troubleshooting Packs. We also discuss tips and tricks, best practices, and how Microsoft leverages this technology in their own support environments. Total workstation lockdown isn't for every machine in your organization. But some machines require it. It's usually those "public walk up" machines that we need to manage a little bit differently. The kinds of machines that are in the cafeterias, the lobby machines and library machines. The more we think about it, these kinds of machines are everywhere in our organization -- inviting attack and ruining our day. Who knows what crazy things people are doing ON these machines -- visiting strange web sites and installing evil software. The good news is that Microsoft has a slew of solutions to help you with this very specific problem. And, it doesn't mean you need to turn the thumbscrews and go from 0 - 100% lockdown either. Microsoft has a variety of technologies you can choose (and mix and match) to make your workstations as locked down as they need to be. In this session, Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz will demonstrate a myriad of ways to make your public desktops more secure. If your team is already using Group Policy, come learn about Starter GPOs, the Security Compliance Manager, how to lock out hardware with Group Policy and the GP Preferences, how to efficiently use loopback processing and more. Learn about additional Microsoft and some non-Microsoft tools to help enhance your control of this notoriously difficult situation. As more and more customers start to plan desktop virtualization, best practices for virtualizing end user profile and data is a topic that generates many questions. For example, what’s the best way to make end user data accessible from any PC? How do you best enable users to roam? When should user profile settings roam and what comprises a user profile? Come and learn about these topics as well as the new Windows 7 improvements in Roaming User Profiles, Folder Redirection, and Offline File technology during this session. Managing Desktop Security is more than just installing scanning software, it's about managing the applications, the data and ensuring the environment is monitored. In this session we look at AppLocker for to help you decide which ones to allow and which ones to squelch. Then at securing data both on the machine and in transit using Bitlocker and Bitlocker To Go. Finally capping it off with Forefront Endpoint Protection to let us know when all is not what it seems. VDI is one of the fastest growing trends in IT, and is arguably the most popular topic of debate within the desktop community. Most companies are in the process of treating desktop virtualization as a strategic initiative for their IT roadmaps. But questions still remain. How can I make VDI work for me? How do I manage complexity within an already complex desktop environment? What TCO can I expect from my VDI environment? This joint session answers these questions, and proves that an investment in a joint Microsoft-Citrix Desktop Virtualization solution is the best choice for your users and IT. We will attempt to answer the really tough questions that organizations are demanding answers to, as well as give you an insight into the suite of technologies that goes into making this comprehensive and cost-effective VDI offering. Companies today face many challenges and have certain priorities they must address. With Microsoft Virtualization you can address these challenges and concerns with the essential capabilities Microsoft delivers through the products they already own. When you couple Microsoft Virtualization solutions with Integrated Management to bring it all together you now have the visibility into your environment, while increasing your capability to respond to the ever-changing business requirements. Learn how Microsoft Desktop Virtualization can help companies with their Access, Data Security, and Compliance concerns while also providing Anywhere Access for their Users. Learn about the Breadth of the Solutions Microsoft Provides on the Desktop from User State Virtualization, to Application Virtualization and OS Virtualization. See how RemoteFX enhances your VDI and Session Virtualization experience. See how App-V 4.6 helps all of your users address application to application compatibility issues. See how User State Virtualization helps with protecting against the loss or theft of your users’ PCs. This vision of Virtualization shows that Microsoft has the capabilities you need today with a path to the future. Microsoft has updated its flagship deployment tools including the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and the Operating System Deployment (OSD) in Configuration Manager 2007 to ease and facilitate the transition and rollout of Windows 7 to organizations small, medium, and large. This demonstration-heavy session dispels myths and presents detailed, in-depth discussions of the best way to use these tools to get Windows 7 up and running in your organization quickly, reliably, and in a consistent manner. Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 come with a wealth of deployment tools. In this session, come see what's new, what's improved, and what's just plain cool in deployment tools. We overview the tools (and programs) you need for Planning, Image Engineering, Application Remediation, Deployment Engineering, and actual deployment, including: MAP, ACT, OMPM, ORK, WAIK, USMT, LTI, ZTI, SCCM - the whole alphabet is represented. Additionally, we cover your questions on real-world applicability for these tools as well as deployment challenges and strategies. See a live demo of how Microsoft IT is delivering BI to the masses (30,000+ active users globally) at Microsoft using SharePoint 2010 and 2007, using Excel, PerformancePoint, SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 and other Microsoft BI products. We will showcase and share technical details and best practices on how Microsoft IT has created a solution (as part of EDW strategy) to consolidate 100+ applications from 50+ business organizations in a single enterprise report catalog and a BI portal. We will also demonstrate how participants can build a solution like Microsoft CBI using a solution offering / SharePoint accelerator for external customers to create enterprise BI catalog where companies can deliver BI to the masses at their own enterprises. Solid State Disks (SSDs) have recently emerged as a mainstream storage solution with various vendors producing SSDs for servers that promise huge improvements in I/O performance whilst also reducing heat & energy consumption. In this session, Greg Linwood describes what types of SQL Server workloads can leverage the maximum potential from SSDs and reviews several real world case studies in which business critical SQL Server systems have been successfully implemented on SSDs. Master Data Management helps enterprises standardize the data people rely on to make critical business decisions. Using Microsoft Master Data Services, organizations can align operational and analytical data across the enterprise and across their line of business systems. This session will provide an overview of Master Data Services and cover the architecture, features, usage scenarios and requirements. Using existing technology from SQL Server, Windows Server and System Center along with several free downloads we will show a running private cloud Implementation with dynamic, fully online, load balancing between nodes, end to end monitoring console across all the physical and virtual nodes. We will have slides to discuss self service provisioning, automated patch management, automatic backup management and multi-system distributed management. SQL Server 2008 R2 release introduces support for greater than 64 logical processors (LP) supporting up to 256 LPs on Windows Server 2008 R2. We will discuss the importance of this feature and provide details on SQL scalability numbers and hardware platforms it ran on. We will give insights into architectural learning and innovations that allowed SQL Server/Windows to scale beyond 64 logical processors and talk about the SQL Server best practices/recommendation for SQL Server 2008 R2. Active Directory and all that you can do with it has come a long way in the last ten years. Unfortunately, many organizations rolled out Active Directory early on and never had the time or resources to revisit what *really* needs to be done to secure and manage the directory service in a dynamic enterprise. Are you really using everything that is in there to get the best bang for your buck? Learn how to make your life easier with things like the Active Directory RecycleBin to save you from those “oops” moments we’ve all encountered. Explore how the improved management interfaces including PowerShell support will make administration less time consuming and more automated. Implement multiple password policies and enhanced Group Policies to keep the security group and user community in harmony. On top of all that, architectural changes like Read Only Domain Controllers, Server Core implementations and Offline Domain Join capabilities can make you a hero, keep your organization more secure and save you time – it just gets better. This session explores the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC): a free, extensible turnkey solution that enables data centers to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources, delivering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This solution integrates with System Center and provides ready-to-use components such as an Administration Portal, a Self Service Provisioning Portal and a light weight Provisioning Engine that allows for the seamless integration of the Dynamic Data Center components. This session illustrates how DIT-SC enables IT Implementers to create agile, virtualized IT infrastructures, made possible via easy configuration and allocation of resources based on an automated Business Unit IT (BUIT) on-boarding process. This session also demonstrates how the DIT-SC self-service portal allows the BUIT to self-provision infrastructure to deploy their application environments. Configuring and managing WCF and WF services can be complex. AppFabric Hosting Services makes service management and configuration easier and provides greater visibility of faults, exceptions, tracing and diagnostics both during development and after deployment. Learn how .NET 4.0 simplifies service configuration allowing you to build config-free (ASMX-equivalent) WCF services and how AppFabric Caching Services can help you to build highly performant fault-tolerant applications. In this session Jeremy Thake, a SharePoint MVP, will demonstrate how developers can run SharePoint 2010 on their Windows 7 machine to develop a custom solution within Visual Studio 2010 that can be packaged and deployed to a site hosted in the cloud. Jeremy will demonstrate the ease of the new SharePoint Project Template to create a Visual Web Part that displays personalised weather information from an external source and will also be showing the tricks of the trade for experienced SharePoint Developers during demos which you can take back and use on your projects. Colin Lee talks about (and demos) key investments in Exchange Server 2010 and SP1 and how Exchange provides unprecedented IT cost savings; the richest user experience across the PC, phone, and browser; and better management of risk through built-in protection and compliance features. This session covers key topics including archiving and tiered storage; low cost disk use and the expansion of mailbox size while reducing costs; Unified Messaging and Voicemail Preview, and much more. Learn more about how Exchange Server 2010 SP1 delivers powerful productivity tools to your users in a way that best fits your business and technology needs. Microsoft Communications Server “14” promises to transform the way people will communicate across the PC, Web and phone, making traditional communications systems obsolete. In this session you will see Microsoft’s vision for transforming business communications and the key investments we are making in Microsoft Communications Server “14” that will lead this industry transformation. Microsoft Communications Server “14” features a new suite of planning, setup, and deployment tools to use when planning new installations or making changes to a deployed system. This session will review these new planning and deployment tools, how they streamline initial setup and help manage ongoing changes to an operating infrastructure. This session covers new telephonny and conferencing features in Microsoft Communications Server “14". This session helps you understand the infrastructure required to support the new scenarios, including architecture, topology, administrative control, monitoring and archiving. Microsoft Communications Server “14” will deliver unmatched tools for monitoring system health and performance across all platform capabilities in real time and across longer time periods to understand trends. In addition, rich reporting capabilities provide access to detailed information on Call Detail Records (CDRs), conferencing sessions, and IM, enabling rich reporting for billing, regulatory, or risk management purposes. This session covers reporting and monitoring across all Communications Server capabilities—presence, IM, conferencing, and voice. High availability is a significant source of investment for the Communications Server team with the upcoming release. In this session we review the new Survivable Branch Appliance offering for branch office resiliency, the new features for data center-based multi-site failover and intra-site architecture for high availability. Delivering Voice Quality within Unified Communications deployments requires an understanding of the many factors that ultimately determine the experience of end-users. This session identifies the requirements for a successful deployment; including Network, Device, Gateway and Server factors. We cover in detail new Communications Server enhancements to improve core performance, support network layer traffic management, and end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting of Voice Quality. As storage costs continue to increase, the investments we have made in Exchange to support Direct Attached Storage and improvements we've made in storage overall have become even more critical. This session will focus on how Exchange Server 2010 evolves storage architecture and performance beyond the investments previously made and how these changes will positively impact your business. SharePoint 2010 makes significant improvements to how key architectural components in a farm and implemented and managed, which means appropriate consideration needs to be made when building your environments to get the most out of the new platform. In this session we will discuss some of these change, including what service applications are and how they work and can scale, as well as ways you can optimise the physical architecture of your farm. This will include discussing what remote blob storage is and how it can be implemented, how you can effectively monitor and report on the performance of your environment, and we will discuss how and why these best practices can be applied. If you are in to getting the most out of your infrastructure then this session is a must. The RDP is program sponsored by the SharePoint product group which endeavors to gather real-world implementation feedback for SharePoint products and Technologies. The goal of the program is to not only identify quality and performance implementation issues at large enterprise customers using SharePoint in real world scenarios, but to generate customer evidence as well as intellectual property that can be leveraged by Microsoft. o During the RDP program for the SharePoint 2010 product release, there were a significant amount of challenges and lessons learned both from a technology and process perspective and enterprise customers attempted to identify specific projects and deploy SharePoint 2010 to meet business needs. These lessons learned have been collected from over 40 different domestic and international customer production pilots o Attend this session to discover the programs lessons learned when deploying SharePoint 2010 in an enterprise environment in a variety of scenarios, workloads and audiences. Join in this exploration of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and see for yourself what all the excitement is about! We dive deep into the new product, discuss strategies for managing upgrades and explore all the opportunities to make the most of this exciting new release. If you’re a long-time Microsoft Dynamics CRM developer or consultant, or a BPOS or SharePoint specialist looking to engage in the CRM space, this is a session you won’t want to miss. Microsoft Project Server 2010 was released as part of the new 2010 product range and offers exciting new features. This session provides an overview of the new features of Project Server 2010 specifically including deployment and upgrading a Project Server Farm from previous versions. Furthermore this session will outline how to architect and configure Project Server within the context of a SharePoint Server 2010 Farm. This session will start by looking at an operational solution for Business Process Management that is built using Visio, SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight. The client involved during the Early Adaption Program with Microsoft has been featured in a Case study and appeared on stage during the Office 2010 Press Launch. The client has gone on record stating “This is going to change the way we work”. After looking at the actual solution we will go through discussing the different technologies used and how they fit together with a focus on Visio 2010 and the new BPM templates and Visio services in SharePoint 2010. We’ll also look at enterprise taxonomies and document set as featured in SharePoint 2010. We will conclude the session with a discussion of some more advanced technical customization required to make this solution really user friendly with an emphasis on the client side script required to interact with the published diagrams in Visio Services. SharePoint has been widely adopted across the world as the de facto standard for collaboration within the firewall. In FY11, Microsoft is reinforcing SharePoint as a platform to support not just business productivity but also helping digital internet properties to quickly reach customers, retain loyalty and generate new revenue. The new SharePoint based Digital Marketing Platform incorporates search-based technology that aids users in rapidly finding the information they’re seeking, which aids in deflecting calls from customer call centres and other direct business benefits. In this presentation, the audience can learn about the vision, business values, new features and the deployment accelerator for the platform. Developers are more comfortable working in Visual Studio, even while working on XAML. In this session, Mahesh Krishnan, the author of “Silverlight for Dummies” shows why they need to start using Expression Blend more. After giving you a quick introduction to Expression Blend, he shows you how to create styles, templates, animations, use sample data, and much much more. At the end of the session, you will realise how easy it is to use Expression Blend to create screen designs for Silverlight, WPF and Windows phone 7 series. A joint presentation by HASSELL CIO Bill Rue and Microsoft Principal Operations Consultant Wally Eastland discussing how HASSELL improved Business Integration and Performance by adopting a Service Delivery Culture leveraging the Service Management Principles defined in the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Hear how MYOB are making business life easier for their 1,000,000+ clients in Australia and New Zealand. MYOB are creating the next generation of accounting software, bridging the gaps between Small Businesses, Accountants/Bookkeepers, MYOB’s Customer Service Team, and Third Party Software Developers. Learn how they are applying .Net, the Azure Platform, Windows Communication Foundation, Sync Framework, Windows Identity Foundation, and more, to integrate their clients on-premise systems, cloud based systems, and also MYOB’s back office systems. Many organisations are starting to move towards agile development approaches. But most agile methodologies don’t define an “architect” role – so as an architect, what are you meant to do to help your team be successful? In this session Tom Hollander will discuss approaches he’s used and seen in teams in Redmond and Australia. Faced with the design and evaluation of providing Infrastructure as a Service to highly distributed locations from a Data Centre? Hear from the lead technical designers at Infoplex as they outline the approach to providing a Virtualised and Managed Data Centre for branch sites located across Asia and the Middle East. With sites connecting via satellite from jungles and barges in the Indian Ocean. You will learn what were the design and evaluation criteria, how was management and monitoring implemented, what products are suitable for distributed networks with poor links, and what configuration provides minimal ongoing intervention once implemented. Technologies covered: Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, System Centre, Forefront Antivirus, SQL Server, Citrix Xenapps, VMware & Hyper-V, Riverbed, HP Servers. Windows Phone 7 + XNA. The partnership you’ve been missing for Game Development. The XNA development platform has been around for years. First started off enabling developers to write games for the Xbox, Xbox360 & Zune devices. Now Microsoft have brought the amazing platform to Windows Phone 7. It enables developers to build extremely powerful and top class games. In this session, Chris will walk you through the constructs of the game template, and show you how to port the classic game in “Pong” to Windows Phone 7 using XNA. With the June SU3 release, SQL Azure became the World’s first true location-enabled cloud database. This session will explore the new functionality that spatial data support brings to SQL Azure with an emphasis on data loading and best practices for managing spatial data in this environment. Integration with the new SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder and partner products will also be discussed. Do you remember when we talked about Decision Support, more than Business Intelligence? Even today, when technologies and business have changed so much, one of our key objectives is still to help decisions makers. In this session we explore the critical architectures and information patterns that influence your decisioning process. We ask, and answer, vital, but often overlooked questions such as “What counts as a decision? How do we validate that our decisions were good or bad? Can we automate decision making?” Although dealing with important business processes, there will be demos, there will be technology insights, and hopefully there will be some humour too. Two major releases this year from Microsoft - SQL Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 – have brought significant changes to the world of Business Intelligence. In this session we’ll explore the three platforms - Data, Collaboration, and Productivity – that bring Microsoft BI to the enterprise. We’ll see practically how they work together to give more power, more flexibility and more manageability to both business users and IT professionals. Microsoft recently introduced the FastTrack Data Warehouse Reference Architectures -- providing a set of balanced hardware specifications and software best practices for deploying Relational DW solutions that rely on Sequential IO patterns. The FastTrack architecture offers high query performance for large databases using cost-effective hardware configurations This talk will review the principles behind the FastTrack architectures, the best-practices for building a large data warehouse solution in the FastTrack environment, and examples from customers that have prototyped and deployed FastTrack solutions this year. We'll also discuss the coming Parallel Data Warehouse, and its positioning in relation to SQL Server and FastTrack. Ever heard someone doubt the scalability of SQL Server? Come to this session to learn about the biggest, fastest and most reliable SQL Server installations in the world. We'll discuss the hardware, SQL features and techniques that keep real sites up and running with mission critical systems. Reporting Services offers a number of key enhancements in SQL Server 2008 R2. In this session, Greg will show you not only the best known improvements (Mapping, Report Builder 3.0, Reports as Data Feeds) but also some of the less obvious enhancements to general reporting such as improved control of pagination, data bars, sparklines, writing mode, domain scope and many more. SQL Server 2008 delivered spatial types in the database. SQL Server 2008 R2 brought the ability to produce high quality graphics using that spatial data. Come to this session to learn how to use those capabilities to deliver Business Intelligence solutions that answer the "Where?" questions that often arise in business decision making. There's been a lot of discussion of cloud technology over the last couple of years, but very little in the way of tangible steps that you can follow for cloud deployment. NetApp has been collaborating with Microsoft to develop integrated technologies that simplify the process of cloud deployment. If you've already moved from a traditional data centre model to a virtualised data centre, the next logical step might be a private cloud. The main thing that differentiates a private cloud from a virtualised data centre is a management layer that allows you to treat your IT infrastructure as a pool of resources from which users or business units can request and receive resources automatically. Attend this presentation to learn how you can move to a private cloud with NetApp Storage integrated with Microsoft’s Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit (DDTK), System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). Avoid many of the pitfalls in designing natural user interfaces. NUI is a study in contrasts, as well as a balancing act between the conventions people have acquired through the decades of using graphical user interface, and creating revolutionary user experience. This talk shares ten important concepts—ten lessons learned, if you will—that the former Director of User Experience for Microsoft Surface and his team learned over the course of developing this ground-breaking product. This talk discusses some of the common pitfalls teams have encountered as well as ways of thinking about natural user interface to bring your projects to a new level of design and interaction. Come to this interactive session to learn how Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 increase the productivity of IT professionals. Automating repetitive or complex tasks is one of the best ways to make IT pros more efficient as well as reduce the potential for error. This session shows you how to make the most of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 by leveraging Windows PowerShell 2.0 to perform your desktop management tasks quickly and efficiently in production environments. This session will show you how you can unify management of physical and virtual infrastructures in Microsoft System Center family by utilizing Veeam MP for VMware to deliver monitoring data and Veeam PRO Pack to fully manage VMware vSphere. You will learn how to address demanding availability and scalability requirements with a VMware-certified solution available through System Center Catalogue. Come and hear about HP VDI with Hyper-V instances, an end-to-end client virtualization solution based on the virtualization-ready HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, HP StorageWorks storage, and HP Thin Client access devices. This presentation will show you how to select and use standard building blocks to create a sound virtualization footprint for Microsoft RDS and Citrix, providing the flexibility to deploy and refresh desktops quickly. This will enable you to reduce the threat of potential data loss, and decrease complexity and cost of desktop management. Exposing any of your internal data or applications to the Internet is a tradeoff between security and functionality. This session will provide you with the information to securely publish your messaging and collaboration environments and internal applications to the Internet. It will include in-depth configuration of Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for Exchange, SharePoint and Remote Desktop Services via demonstrations of real world scenarios, and provide tips on how to avoid the common deployment issues. A few weeks ago, on August 6th, the MMPC Lab in Melbourne celebrated its 3rd anniversary. We're busier than ever before, and we have grown 300% since our humble beginning. It's still surprising that relatively few are aware that Microsoft has local Australian world class anti-malware experts and that right now, fruits of our work are consumed by all Microsoft employees and over 22 million external users worldwide. In this introduction, find out who we are, what we do, who our partners and customers are, how we can help to you and how you can benefit from our work. You will also find out how the Business Ready Security strategy offers an identity based defence in depth approach across the enterprise. As security professionals, handing over the keys to our castle for somebody else to manage in the cloud strikes fear into our hearts and goes against all our current beliefs. This session aims to demystify cloud security and explain how Microsoft provides a secure cloud experience for its customers. This session will bust the myth that configuring DA is complex. We will show the steps for advance level configuration and troubleshooting of UAG DA with NAP and Forced Tunneling. The session will include demo of UAG Direct Access configuration, troubleshooting a broken configuration and a discussion of some of the most common problems seen in the field. At the end of the session you will walk away with the knowledge of how to troubleshoot common DA problems. How to use Azure to solve real world problems faced by businesses today. What makes a good cloud application and how to justify it to your boss. This high level session aimed at IT Managers, Project Managers, Architects and Deployment Teams discusses BPOS-S prerequisites within your organization, and highlights what could make or break a BPOS-Standard implementation. The session explores the three essential phases required to achieve a successful migration to BPOS-Standard. Plan; Prepare; Migrate. Key takeaways from the session include:- • Common deployment blockers • identifying long lead items • Identifying key tasks and the project team required • The importance of Change Management • How Microsoft Premier Deployment or Partners can assist you This session dives into the “Prepare” and “Migrate” stages of a BPOS-Standard project and is aimed at Messaging and Directory Specialists responsible for migrating to BPOS-Standard. The content will cover Active Directory, Directory Synchronization, some PowerShell scripting and Messaging Co-existence, detailing why this is important to the success of email system co-existence and data migration. The session will focus on Exchange, IMAP, GroupWise and Lotus Notes as source messaging platforms. Key takeaways from the session include:- • Active Directory Forest and Domain Preparation Tasks • Directory Synchronisation to the Cloud • Mail Co-Existence during migration • Powershell commands provided to assist in bulk User Provisioning and Email Migration • Email Data Migration Come hear the story directly from Coca-Cola Amatil and Microsoft behind moving 8000 seats from Lotus Notes to BPOS (Technical Deep Dive). This session is suited for the Architect, Deployment team or Operations members that are thinking of moving to Cloud, too BPOS or even in the process of a migration. This session will include • Prepare Phase – The AD and Network • Migration – Managing multiple systems in a move, moving data successfully and keeping the business running through the move. • Challenges – Directory heath, Mobiles, Identity Access Management, Staff and change in process’s • Tips and Tricks learnt – Man power v’s scripting. The migration requirements. User habits. Come and hear about the deliverables of a HP Converged Infrastructure, HP BladeSystem Matrix, and how it enables you to excel at provisioning, monitoring, and optimising your platform for Cloud Computing. Learn how to use the fundamental elements of the Converged Infrastructure, being Flex Fabric, Virtual Resource Pools, Data Centre Smart Grid, and Matrix Operating Environment, to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands and transform the economics of your data centre. 1+1 =3. Come and see how the Microsoft/Telstra alliance adds extra value to your business with Microsoft Online Services. Why is a Telco relationship important when you are deploying MOS? In this session you will see and hear about T-Suite: the offering from Telstra that includes MOS as well as other cloud based products. Learn how to get started and see live demos of the ordering and deployment of the service. Microsoft codename "Dallas" is Microsoft’s Information Service, built on and part of the Windows Azure platform to provide developers and information workers with friction-free access to premium content through clean, consistent APIs as well as single-click BI/Reporting capabilities; an information marketplace allowing content providers to reach developers of ALL sizes. In this session we'll cover: - Developers and Data and Web Services Consumption - Content Providers and Publication - Business Model Overview Even though we haven't published performance data for Hyper-V R2, we have done some internal testing and seen that Hyper-V R2 performs really well compared to Hyper-V R1. It performs well enough that our Microsoft SharePoint Server, SQL Server, and Exchange Server teams will recommend that Hyper-V R2 is the best place to run these applications. See some of the performance data and how it stacks up. Learn how to properly identify resource bottlenecks in your Hyper-V solution, how to avoid common Hyper-V performance pitfalls, and best practices for performant solutions. What distinguishes a Windows Phone 7 application from a regular desktop application is that it can make use of the features of the phone. In this session you'll learn how to initiate tasks to capture photos from the camera, save a phone number, make a call and send an sms. The hardware integration goes much further with built in support for an accelerometer and FM radio tuner. When combined with the rich media aspects of Silverlight on the device, your Windows Phone 7 application will be set to keep you rocking all night long. Building Windows Phone 7 applications is all about combining the power of Silverlight on the device with services in the cloud. You can offload long running processes to a worker process hosted in Windows Azure, and receive a push notification when it completes. Your application can also leverage the location services to provide more context rich information. This session walks through how you can consumer a number of cloud-based services such as Messenger Connect, Windows Azure storage and OData WCF Data Services from within your Windows Phone 7 application. Of course, this wouldn't be complete without the mandatory discussion on how to handle connectivity issues, such as caching and synchronization. Consistent and predictable user experiences are a core feature of Windows Phone 7, and the application model is a key piece of the puzzle. Windows Phone 7 represents a new approach to smartphone UI, so come and learn how to build innovative new applications that feel right at home on the phone by taking advantage of panoramic views, page-based navigation, tombstoning, and more. As organisations look to leverage the power of cloud, traditional on premises data management technologies such as Backup and Archive have evolved. This session discusses some of the challenges presented in the context of data and information management when evolving to cloud based solutions as well as the significant benefits to be gained by adopting cloud based technology vs traditional methods for data management. Faster cheaper servers, and more cores than ever to code against. This session explores the tools and libraries on the .NET framework that enables you to write fast, highly concurrent and wide scaling applications. We explore Base Class Library concurrency primitives, PFX (Parallel Framework), and esoteric libraries like CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) and Rx (Reactive Framework). Importantly, we glue all this stuff together to build a real world performance critical demo from the finance domain, battle tested, straight from a “large Investment Bank” in your own backyard. Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and gain a solid understanding of what you need to know to design a highly available and site resilient Exchange 2010 solution. In this session we cover Exchange 2010 Mailbox DAG design, including DAG sizing, database copy count/distribution, server capacity planning, storage design, and network design. As the volume of email continues to increase, you are likely seeking new and better ways to preserve and discover this critical email data to meet an array of IT governance, legal, and compliance requirements. To help address these needs, Exchange Server 2010 introduced integrated archiving and discovery capabilities. This session offers a technical overview and demonstration of the features and functionality delivered in Exchange 2010 and updates coming in SP1. Learn best practices for virtualising Exchange Server 2010 - how and when to do it, and when not to. In May, Hitachi Data Systems announced the first open, unified compute platform with Microsoft. This session will provide you insight into Hitachi’s global cloud strategy and how the industry’s first open, unified compute platform of servers, storage and networking, enabled by Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft’s System Center, and leveraging an innovative orchestration software by Hitachi will change how business consume IT. As organisations look to leverage the power of cloud, traditional on premises data management technologies such as Backup and Archive have evolved. This session discusses some of the challenges presented in the context of data and information management when evolving to cloud based solutions as well as the significant benefits to be gained by adopting cloud based technology vs traditional methods for data management. Only Polycom offers a comprehensive portfolio of integrated solutions spanning voice, video, services and application integration for Microsoft® Office Communications Server R2, Microsoft Communications Server "14", Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint®, and Microsoft Active Directory® solutions. This session will cover Polycom UC solutions and their native integration with Microsoft UC. HP is launching their Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES 7)Thin Client’s at Microsoft Tech Ed 2010, come and see some of the new features and functionality of Microsoft’s New WES7 from HP. WES 7 is a high performance and highly reliable platform designed to Deliver the power of Windows 7 to HP thin client devices that seamlessly connect to a world of Windows Automating generating business documents - invoices, letters, reports - is something many companies wrestle with. This interactive session will present an overview of all the options available on the Microsoft platform, from Office 2003 XML/XSD based template solutions, via OpenXML, to the highly flexible and scalable Word Services in SharePoint 2010. Ed will prepare demo's for all options, go through the pro's and con's and interactively explore the options of most interest to the audience. Ed will also have some examples of Office 2010 and VSTO Add-ins to demonstrate a more interactive approach a user might take. Do you have questions about how to implement SharePoint without creating a mess , want to ask how best to use search, when/how to use metadata or any other SharePoint questions? Come along and pose your questions to a Panel of SharePoint experts. All questions welcome ! Wondering when/if to use sandboxed solutions, how services applications change your architecture, what the client object model is or any other SharePoint technical questions? Here’s your opportunity to get your questions answered by a panel of SharePoint experts. This presentation will focus on common areas of performance issues for ASP.NET sites and how you can circumvent them to provide quick, high value performance gains in your ASP.NET web site. Come and see how you can enable your web applications to achieve thousands of concurrent users with a free copy of Paul’s book on ASP.NET performance testing and optimization to give away to one attendee In this session Mike & Shane will cover key concepts to help IT Pro's come up to speed with Windows PowerShell 2.0.  These Key Concepts which include Objects, cmdlets and the pipeline will help you transition to using Windows PowerShell today.  PowerShell has an extensive help system, and we explore that further,  and show you how you can learn to script almost anything with just 3 cmdlets.  Although only 30 minutes long,  Participants will leave this session with a new outlook on Windows PowerShell, and realize that its not so daunting after all.  Team Foundation Server is primarily used via the Team Explorer interface, but this is just the starting point for its integration into your SDLC activities. In this theatre session Steve Godbold will take you on a tour of some of the many tools that exist to enhance your interaction during activities other than writing code! Ed Ferrero will show how to present business data in a clear manner that conveys lots of important information whilst minimizing distractions. In-depth examples will be shown of how to construct charts that show actual/target/variance, ytd and year-on-year comparisons, and how to handle the sometimes tricky problem of seasonality. Dimaz Pramudya will do a quick lap around building WP7 application that integrates with Dynamics CRM Online. The demo will show how easy it is to build a service that pulls down the data from CRM Online and automatically convert them to JSON format for consumption within the WP7 app. There will be few interesting UX tips and tricks shown during the demo. In this presentation we will explores the new capabilities of SQL Server 2008 R2 to help deliver streamlined reporting capabilities. The techniques covered include Reporting Services templates, report performance management and the new Report Builder 3.0 parts (one of the best new features of SQL Server 2008 R2). The presentation will demonstrate how SQL Server 2008 R2 can deliver more consistent report development and how administrators can take control of Reporting Services surges within an organization. This session will cover how automated business processes can deliver concrete return of investment (ROI) to SharePoint 2010 and considerations required for the support and protection of the automated business process in order to deliver a comprehensive solution. This session will cover the new content type and taxonomy service in SharePoint 2010, and how it can be used to provide more consistent metadata, shared taxonomies, and policy compliance across multiple SharePoint sites in the enterprise. It will also discuss how these services integrate with search and social computing. You’ve read the white papers, you’ve “Binged” governance, but how, exactly, do you design a SharePoint implementation that will support governance, security, and information management? Join SharePoint MVP and consultant Dan Holme for a practical, nuts-and-bolts look at the close relationship between your information management requirements and SharePoint’s manageability controls, and the demands that relationship places on your design and infrastructure. This session is focused on architecting a logical design of SharePoint that effectively supports your information management requirements and governance plan—the “technical” side of governance. You will learn how to align your governance requirements with SharePoint farms, Web applications, and site collections. You’ll discover why some third-party applications are a “design poison pill” and what SharePoint 2010 offers to greatly improve the deployment of a governable design. Gain a deeper understanding of the intricacies and challenges of designing the logical structure of SharePoint, and take away practical, blueprint-like guidance to what a governed SharePoint implementation might look like in your enterprise. High adoption of wireless productivity devices have contributed to the exploding demand on your Microsoft Enterprise Applications.  Exchange, Office Communications Server and SharePoint are three platforms that can be simply deployed with Citrix NetScaler to improve performance, availability and security.  Learn how easily Citrix NetScaler, the only application delivery controller that runs as a native Hyper-V service, can be deployed as a Microsoft-certified solution for application delivery control in either a hardware or software form. In this interactive workshop you will see a how you can create a complete Hyper-V virtualised  environment created from a "bare metal" state to a fully functioning production system of  multiple machines within 5 minutes. By integrating System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) with NetApp array based provisioning and cloning capabilities an entire virtual environment will be created with a  few clicks of a mouse. You will then be shown how PowerShell commandlets can be used to create this kind of fully automated deployment for both the storage and server virtualization layers of your infrastructure. Too often Desktop and Laptop users insist they need to be a Local Administrator. AppSense Application Manager User Rights Management has the answer. Using an easy to configure simple to deploy mechanism, very granular control of user privileges can give standard users the ability to change the time and date, change their IP address or run an application which needs admin rights. This flexible product can also be used to lock down existing Local Administrators and control which Windows features they have admin access to. This informative and entertaining session will show you some practical solutions to everyday issues. The Polycom CX series includes two new network-based IP desktop phones (CX500 and CX600) and the industry's first and only IP conference phone (CX3000) designed for Communications Server "14." The three new phones offer one of the most robust feature sets available for Microsoft Communications Server "14," including Polycom HD Voice™ sound quality and the legendary ease of use of Polycom's renowned hardware and ergonomic design. Polycom will also demonstrate additional UC solutions that deliver a richer experience with Communications Server "14" including Polycom HDX personal and room-based HD telepresence solutions. In addition, Polycom will show its integration with Microsoft in other areas including Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server to simplify the scheduling, joining, recording, streaming and rich content sharing for voice and video meetings. If you are tasked with the creation and management of user accounts and groups in Active Directory, user provisioning and user de-provisioning can easily become time-consuming. In this session see how NetIQ’s DRA Advanced (Directory & Resource Administrator) can take the manual workload out of user provisioning and de-provisioning and help you to quickly respond to requests. Also see how you can Allow for approval before permissions are granted, Reduce the time and resources for user provisioning and de-provisioning, Maintain a full audit trail of permissions granted and revoked, Grant accurate user permissions and minimize the opportunity for errors. As organizations increasingly utilize the power of virtualization for application servers, such as SharePoint, Exchange and Active Directory, a number of challenges are presented in the context of data and information management. Due to this growth, traditional methods of backup, archive and replication can fail to meet the organizational data protection and eDiscovery requirements. CommVault provides unique and innovative solutions around protecting data in virtualised environments and using this data for eDiscovery and Data Mining As SharePoint adoption grows, many companies want to increase their integration of CRM data into their SharePoint assets. This session provides an overview of how you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM data and processes with SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Silverlight and some of the new SharePoint APIs. If you're interested in seeing a demo-heavy session that walks you through the development of this integration, then you can't miss this session. Today it is more important than ever to ensure every project your organizations undertakes is delivered effectively. To accomplish this, it is essential that there is clear communication and effective tools to facilitate your project management process. Come and see how SharePoint 2010 can improve the management of your next project, including the new Project 2010 client integration, Visio Services and team site improvements. SharePoint 2010 adds an amazing amount of new and exciting changes for IT professionals and one of those changes is the dramatic improvement to the health monitoring within SharePoint.  Join Mark as he introduces these new features, demonstrates how they work and shows you how to keep your farm healthy! Proper architecture design and intelligent storage management are critical to a successful SharePoint implementation. During this session, Garth Luke and Dr Steven Woodhouse will first discuss how to build an efficient and scalable SharePoint architecture based upon your organization’s unique business objectives, usage patterns, and deployment size and distribution. We will then review strategies for ensuring top platform performance, by expanding SharePoint’s SQL storage infrastructure through intelligent archiving, efficient BLOB content management, and migration-free SharePoint management of legacy data stores such as file shares. Cloud, it’s all about the Cloud. Usually the first thing to come to mind is what happens to my stuff in the Cloud? Is it safe, secure, and protected from everyone else in the Cloud? What kind of isolation do applications have from other apps? How is data protected in the Cloud and am I even allowed to put my data there? How is access controlled to my services and how good is it? Do we have to learn a whole new set of security protocols and establish yet another user credential base? In this session we’ll discuss these concerns and how Windows Azure addresses them. We’ll also talk about data redundancy, co-location concerns and how you can use Cloud services to federate identities with your partners. This session will show you how you can unify management of physical and virtual infrastructures in Microsoft System Center family by utilizing Veeam MP for VMware to deliver monitoring data and Veeam PRO Pack to fully manage VMware vSphere. You will learn how to address demanding availability and scalability requirements with a VMware-certified solution available through System Center Catalogue. Interactive Live Demo of the award winning Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer. You will see how from a single panel of glass you will be able to monitor the availability and performance of your entire data centre – server, storage and network devices. Through the patented root-cause analysis technology you will also be able to reduce your mean time to diagnosis by up to 90%. If you are tasked with controlling the level of access and privilege that users and administrators have in your Active Directory environment, then you know that it’ a challenge. Your ability to control privilege and ultimately prevent accidental misuse or malicious abuse of permissions is fundamental to securing business critical information stored in Active Directory. Hear Queensland Rail talk about how they implemented a solution to provide controlled access to their Active Directory environment. See how you can centralize the management of user identities on UNIX, Linux, VMware ESX, and Mac through Microsoft Active Directory allowing you to consistently enforce policies and standards across your environment while reducing administrative workload. In this session will also learn how to; • Ensure the privilege change request process is efficient and accurate • Safely delegate the workload of your highly skilled administrators • Eliminate redundant identity stores and provide single sign-on capability for users • Ensure that Inadvertent or unapproved changes don't bring down your IT infrastructure Sometimes you want to send something more complex than a UserName/Password or Certificate to an STS to identify the client. In this session, Chris Hewitt delivers a demonstration of how to do this from a WCF Client to a custom STS. Come and find out how an event processing system can be transformed into real meaningful business data. This session will focus on BizTalk RFID and Tracking technologies to be the source of the events. Once the events are received they are forwarded through the Cloud to SharePoint for analysis, aggregation and display in Silverlight. Your employees depend on you to keep their PCs running at their best, whether they are in the office or on the road. Windows Intune™ simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs using Windows® cloud services and Windows 7—so your computers and users can operate at peak performance. Windows Intune™ delivers cloud-based management and security capabilities using a single Web-based console that enables your users and your IT staff to work from virtually anywhere—all that’s required is an Internet connection. With the Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade included in the subscription, you can give your users the best Windows experience and standardize your PCs on a single version of Windows. You also get advanced tools for troubleshooting, security policy configuration, and virtualization that you can download and run in your environment. Windows Intune™ fits the needs of your business by giving you big tech results with a small tech investment. With the simple setup of the cloud service, you don’t have to worry about costly deployment and time-consuming maintenance. You get a comprehensive desktop solution with a low up-front investment and predictable. This session will have lot’s demo’s and use personal family PC’s as guinea pigs and we’ll have some fun with malware along the way! As Active Directory has increasingly become the central data store for business critical and sensitive user data, the need to effectively and efficiently monitor and audit change in Active Directory has never been more important. Your ability to minimize the risk of a data breach or an insider attack depends entirely on your ability to rapidly detect unauthorized or unmanaged change. In this session see how NetIQ’s Change Guardian for Active Directory can help you to effectively monitor and audit unauthorized change in Active Directory and efficiently audit change to meet regulatory mandates. Also see how you can Reduce unintended change, Quickly detect and alert on unauthorized change, Prevent Malicious acts, Monitor Privileged user activity, Consolidate events and demonstrate controls. At Tech Ed Australia last year, over 80 attendees rolled up their sleeves and got hard to work playing with Lego at the Lego Serious Play Women Build Event. This year, for our Women in IT event, we have decided to do things a little differently. You’ll once again have the opportunity get to meet and greet other people who believe in growing and supporting Diversity in the ICT field as well as discussing new ways that you could help foster your local communities. The event will also give you the chance to hear from our Keynote speaker, Mary Henderson, CEO & Founder of Geek IT Group, Victorian President of AMIA (Australian Multimedia Industry Association) and Victorian AIIA (Australian Information Industry Association) Board Member. Mary is renowned for her communication skills, infectious energy, and vast knowledge of global online trends and will be sure to provide entertaining insight on the changes we need to be aware of. In this session, you will hear about the newly announced Proliant G7 servers, refreshing the technology across the whole ProLiant fleet. This will cover new multi-core processor technologies to take even better advantage of power management, the integration of future networking options, and the enhancement of iLO3. You will also hear about Storageworks StoreOne, the next-generation deduplication technology from HP Labs, bringing you Improved, consistent management, higher data performance, more efficient data protection, and a cost-effective way to control unrelenting data growth. This lab gets you up and running with Windows PowerShell, Microsoft's latest shell environment and scripting language. Topics covered include: file system navigation, help and discovery features, PowerShell scripts, working with WMI, working with the system registry, and working with Active Directory. Both versions 1.0 and 2.0 of PowerShell are covered. You will leave this lab with a solid grasp of how to use PowerShell to quickly and easily perform common IT management tasks, and have a solid foundation to learn advanced PowerShell topics. In this lab, explore the completely new Configuration Manager v.Next Console. Gain the experience and knowledge you will need to navigate the console in the remaining Configuration Manager v.Next hands-on labs. Configuration Manager v.Next will be entering its initial beta release shortly before Tech·Ed. Be one of the first people outside of Microsoft to complete hands-on training with the newest version of Configuration Manager. SharePoint Server 2010 includes many new features that are designed to assist server farm administrators. These include an enhanced user experience and navigation model, tools to help you manage availability and monitor performance, a more flexible service model, and full support for scripting in Windows PowerShell. This lab provides an introduction to these features. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Microsoft Deployment integrate to make zero touch deployments of Windows 7 quicker and easier to configure as well as adding more functionality to the deployment process. The process of creating and implementing new task sequences for deploying operating systems is greatly enhanced by the Import Microsoft Deployment Task Sequence Wizard. In this lab, deploy Configuration Manager v.Next in a simple environment -- a single site -- and install a client computer in your site. Learn how to install a single site and clients using the new features in Configuration Manager v.Next which will be entering its initial Beta release shortly before Tech·Ed. Be one of the first people outside Microsoft to complete hands-on training on the newest version of Configuration Manager. This lab covers how to create and use component libraries in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services One of the bottlenecks of an application can be repeated retrieval of data from disc or a database. Windows Server AppFabric Cache provides a means to store data in an in-memory cache for later retrieval, eliminating the need to get the data from the disc or data store. This can significantly increase the performance of your application. Additionally, the Cache supports caching on a cluster of services, which can increase your application’s scalability. This lab covers the basics of setting up and programming the AppFabric cache. Learn about the programming model and specifically how to use the cache with Web applications and managing ASP.NET session state. This lab is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Opalis Integration Server product, and provide you sufficient information to be able to create your own automation by developing workflows within the product. This lab covers how to create reports using Excel 2010 PivotTable and PivotChart features with data from PowerPivot. This lab provides an end-to-end review of the new BitLocker To Go feature available in Windows 7. The lab takes you through the necessary steps to encrypt a removable drive and use the associated group policies to apply the desired configuration. Examples on how to enforce the use of specific protectors and make the use of BitLocker mandatory are provided. Finally, a step-by-step example on how to use the BitLocker To Go Reader on down-level clients is also part of this lab. In this lab you learn the setup prerequisites and requirements of Exchange 2010, use the Exchange Setup Wizard, and the commands used in the new Windows PowerShell v2. You also learn Server Role Configuration. This lab explores improvements in spatial data visualization in SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. Are you ready for migration to Windows 7 and Office 2010? Which of your existing PCs are good candidates? Attend this session to learn how to use the new Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 to assess PCs for Windows 7 and Office 2010 readiness. We also cover infrastructure readiness for server virtualization using Hyper-V, and network inventory of heterogeneous environments. In this lab, explore some of the advanced features of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. You begin this lab by implementing Physical Resource Optimization and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 integration. You then work with the Virtual Machine library by defining and working with template virtual machines. Finally, you use the Self-Service Portal to create and deploy virtual machines. Your company is ready to roll out Microsoft's newest client operating system, Windows 7. What is the best way to deploy Windows 7 in a corporate environment? With Configuration Manager 2007 and its operating system deployment capabilities. In this lab, see how to create an image of a Windows 7 reference system, and then deploy that image to upgrade a Windows XP client using Configuration Manager. In this session, we look behind the scenes at package generation with Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer, and how package data is organized, managed, and accessed on the Microsoft Application Virtualization Client. We also go over publishing through a Web server, one of the new 4.5 features. This lab covers the basics of the Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus. It shows how to connect clients and services via SOAP and REST over the Service Bus using the AppFabric SDK. It explores the different bindings you can use, shows how to expose a MEX endpoint, and also how to handle message security and binary data. This lab covers how to load and prepare data in the PowerPivot client for analysis in Excel 2010. Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2 provides a rich development platform for the rapid development of multi-channel retail solutions. Being built on natively on the .NET 3.5 stack the solution will allow you to build solutions covering multiple retails environments such as web, mobile, and in-store point of sale opportunities. The rich framework also allows a unified profile to be exposed, connecting these experiences together to provide a unified view of your retail solutions to the consumer and end user, whilst providing rich business intelligence to the core business stakeholders. This session will cover an introduction to Microsoft Commerce Server, how it leverages other technologies such as SharePoint, Silverlight, and WCF and more importantly how you can get up and running quickly and easily. This lab is intended for IT professionals who want to manage Virtual Server 2005, Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, and VMWare using System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2. In this lab, begin by configuring a default installation of VMM 2008 R2, and then you add host computers and virtual machines. You then manage the virtual machines by making configuration changes, and by moving virtual machines between host systems and clusters. You also work with highly-available virtual machines and perform the steps for live migration. Finally, you explore using Windows PowerShell to automate common configuration tasks. In this lab, see how new features in Visual Studio 2010, Visual C# 4.0, and Microsoft Visual Basic 10 make it easer to develop applications leveraging Microsoft Office. Additionally, see a number of other powerful features which speed other elements of Office development. This lab covers how to develop KPIs and scorecards with PerformancePoint Services in SharePoint Server 2010. This lab lets you get hands-on in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) with the Change node control, helping you to get back in control of how Group Policy objects (GPO) are created, using the workflow capabilities of Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and rolling back a wrongly deployed GPO. The goal is to prepare you to roll out AGPM in your own environment, or to allow you to evaluate the tool. In this lab you learn the steps to go through upgrading to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2007. The lab takes you through changing the DNS to point to a new Exchange 2010 server, various configuration steps needed, and testing required to verify mail flow, moving mailboxes and public folders to Exchange 2010 and the subsequent removal of the Exchange 2007 server. In this lab, experience all the new features and capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010 for business intelligence including Excel Services, PerformancePoint Services, Chart Web parts, and Visio Services. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit offers a configuration database that allows methodological automation of deployment configurations based on a number of criteria. In this lab, you will utilize the configuration database and linked deployment points as part of a customized OS deployment. With the configuration database, you can configure the automatic assignment of properties based on the target computer Location, Make and Model, and Computer values as well as assign Roles to those methods that contain further configurations. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit allows users to create linked deployment points in their organization. Linked deployment points allow Administrators to migrate deployment assets between deployment points through the use of custom selection profiles. The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Deployment Wizard can be customized to provide functionality beyond the standard deployment process and further customize specialized workspaces. In this hands-on-lab you will perform several exercises to achieve a better understanding on how to succesfully upgrade the database platform from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008. You will identify key-components and steps to perform a successful upgrade and migration, as well as identify pre-post tasks needed to upgrade your database platform. During the lab you will be introduced to SQL Server Upgrade Advisor, and identify key-items and best practices that you need to implement in an upgrade scenario. In this lab we take a tour through all the new improvements in Enterprise Content Manager in SharePoint Server 2010. This includes Document, Records, and Web content management. For IT professionals who are responsible for the management of branch offices. Implement BranchCache in both Distributed and Hosted mode to reduce the bandwidth required by users in a branch office. Also, configure and monitor BranchCache for both HTTP and SMB-based connections. Be among the first to try Data Protection Manager 2010 only weeks after the RTM. In this lab, try out the new protection and recovery features in Data Protection Manager 2010, including protection of Microsoft Exchange Serve 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is the successor to Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006, and part of the Forefront Edge products. In this lab, you can learn how to configure Forefront TMG to detect and block viruses when downloading content from the Internet, how to create Web Access Policies within Forefront TMG that provides a secure Web experience to the corporate users, and how to configure intrusion prevention with Network Inspection System (NIS). This lab is intended for desktop administrators responsible for creating and distributing MED-V Virtual Desktops. Use the MED-V Administration Console to import a corporation's standard image into the MED-V infrastructure. Then create policies designed to control and manage the use and user experience of this virtual desktop. Perform basic testing of the user experience and application functionality within the MED-V environment. At the completion of this lab, you'll have experienced the creation and configuration of a MED-V Workspace and will have an expanded understanding of the features and capabilities available in the MED-V product. The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) allows developers to provide hooks into their Microsoft .NET-connected applications for extensions by first and third parties. MEF can be thought of as a general application extension facility. In this lab, learn how to define extensibility points for components, perform conditional binding and component creation, and import extended assemblies while an application is running. In this lab, learn how to configure Forefront Identity Manager 2010 to implement self-service resource management. The lab explains how to to use provisioning to populate Active Directory with computer objects, and group objects, and how to enable information workers to join and leave the groups. The lab also includes how to configure self-service password reset for information workers. This lab covers sequencing where you're able to sequence applications end-to-end for yourself and learn how to configure them before deployment. The goal of this lab is to become familiar with Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly known as SoftGrid) application sequencing. This lab introduces working with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. Microsoft Test and Lab Manager can be used to organize your test plans, author and manage your test cases, and run manual tests. This lab provides you with a basic understanding of how Microsoft Test and Lab Manager can be used to perform these activities. Operations Manager 2007 R2 offers a powerful new architecture that can be integrated into many complex environments. This lab guides you through some of the more advanced administration and configuration features within Operations Manager, including the "Run As" architecture, distributed application modeling, notifications, tuning the monitoring infrastructure, and command shell capabilities. OEM Pre-Installation provides flexibility over standard "thick" OEM pre-built images and simplifies initial setup by creating a local partition-based deployment share pre-configured by the OEM in the production process. When the user receives a new PC, the process to select role-specific applications, determine language, keyboard, and locale preferences, join the domain and create the user account can be automated and completed within five minutes of powering up the PC for the first time. The PC then configures itself using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) automation to user specifications without further user interaction, allowing the user to remain productive. This lab walks through the entire process of configuring an image build for handoff to the OEM manufacturer and displays the resulting user experience. We also highlight the new features of MDT 2010 in addition to OEM Pre-Installation. Be among the first to try System Center Essentials 2010, just weeks before the RTM. In this lab, configure client and server monitoring, software updates, and deployment. This lab provides an introduction to the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 upgrade infrastructure, and demonstrates some changes and improvemen