Exhange 2010 is a major focus this year's Tech-Ed. Microsoft Exchange MVP Nicolas Blank talks about two of the most exciting development areas; high availablity and storeage engine improvements. Since the launch up Windows Home Server in 2008 a lot of development and innovations materialized on this ever popular Home OS. Learn what is new and innovative on Windows Home Server and what is coming in 2010 and beyond... Dimension Data is the Diamond Sponsor at Tech-Ed Africa and we'll chat about there experience at Tech-Ed and the value of being a part of Tech-Ed. We'll be talking about Forefront and the focus on Business Ready Security - a new initiatve that integrates all Microsoft's security products so users can access anywhere, protect everywhere. MVP's are engaged in investigating products, vendors and solutions and providing feedback to the community. MVP's need to be impartial and Nicolas will chat about the importance and challenges of maintaining impartiality. In this TechTalk we'll discuss how to make and develop architecture that actually gets used, focussing on the need for the architect role to move from the 50 000 foot view to produce measurable results that impact delivery and revenue within the business. Moving from a corporate background into the consulting space seems so appealing. Free Time, Freedom of movement, not stuck behind one desk; but's is definitely another side to the story! Join Gavin and Thavash as they discuss their experiences as BI consultants. Zlatan has worked across various content management platforms and shares, from his extensive background, the importance of taxonomy as one of the fundamentals when deploying a content management solution. We'll chat about the importance of the sharing that communities provide and the challenges that communities face in driving activity that is relevant to ensure business sees the value of user groups. In this discussion we explore examine three key trends in service development and SOA management and describe how Microsoft technologies and products are evolving to meet new customer requirements. Specifically, we will take a look at the roles the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, "Dublin", "Oslo", and "Azure" play in a SOA technology portfolio today and in the near future. Critical to the success of any BI solution is the ability to deliver intelligence to the business user at the point at which they use it. Gavin and Ryan discuss the BI delivery choices including Reporting Services, Excel Services and Dashboards. Ernst joined the MVP program as a C# MVP and talks about the MVP program and his experiences and the work he has done with the various Microsoft communities over the past 5 years. Ruari and Craig chat about the activities taking place with the MVP's at the community lounge, from Guitar Hero competitions and Twitter activity to the MVP Tagging Competition. Understand the engagement between MVP's and the community. This TechTalk focusses on Microsoft's R12 education programs and the objectives of building capacity for teachers and learners. One of the key deliverables of these programs is to ensure students are learning the right skills and are ready to join the work force. Lynn and Bart chat about the work that the .Net platform team does and the sessions at Tech-Ed that focussed on the changes in the .net framework 4.0. They also share their views as two international visitors to Tech-Ed Africa. We'll be discussing the new features and benefits of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, especially in the area of voice capabilities. The discussion will focus on R2 features including Group Chat, desktop sharing and mobile audio capabilities. We'll also be chatting about the web client. What are the most common mistakes made with regards to SQL performance? In this Interview we will explore these scenarios and highlight some correction actions to get optimum performance from your SQL Server instances. David is an architect in the Microsoft Patters and Practices Group and talks about the Application Architecture Guide V2. This update provides guidance into what it takes to architect a good application. Based on the success of the first version of the guide, and with the various technology changes as well as the changes to the types of applications built and development methods, it's time for a refresh. What is Microsoft Project Gemini? A new approach to the challenges of Business Intelligence in today's challenging work environment. In this discussion, Donald Farmer explains the background to the project and the most exciting features. Where does FAST ESP fit in the enterprise search technology world. Is FAST ESP replacing Microsoft Search, and providing a single platform solution that will transform the search market as it exists today? You can run SharePoint and you can run workflow, the workflow must have some kind of a result, often this needs to go somewhere, to tell an internal system the result, or an external partner the result, when would you do this, how can you do this. It's more common than not. Twitter is changing our community SharePoint dynamics! In this discussion we'll talk about the path of social software and twitter's influence on the SharePoint community. Lynn and Mwansa discuss the SmartCare Project in Zambia, an electronic health records system which aims to provide a high quality, confidential health care system. They focus on the development environment and technologies used. What's great about Windows 7? What's changed in Media Centre with Windows 7? Hear from a local Media Centre expert how your PC is simplified on this new platform. With the release of SQL 2008 R2, DTS packages have been discountinued, to be replaced by SSIS. We'll talk about the differences and what SSIS provides as a newer, more robust technology. With increased understanding of the potential threats and the pivitol role of security in day-to-day running of the business, security is getting more focus than ever before. We'll chat about Microsoft's investments in providing a secure platform with a look at Windows 7 security features, what's happening in the anti-virus space and of course some of the exciting futures with Stirling. Microsoft Services has been using a combination of the Infrastructure Optimization Models along with the System Center Product Family to help customers drive towards Dynamic IT. This talk will share some of the experiences from the field on how the consulting business within Microsoft helps customers platform maturity by baselining their infrastructure, and implementing the right combination of technologies and solutions to not only make improvements but to make IT an asset to businesses. Windows Presentation Foundation is a brilliant technology for adding that sparkle to an application's user interface but does it bring tangible business benefits? With Robert MacLean and Simon Wilkinson. This talk covers the basics of SQL Data Integration Services, and explores how SDIS is used as the main environment to draw data into a single warehouse; the capabilities of it to move data in near real time from one SQL server to another; and how easy it is to work with. With Warren Stevens-Baytopp and Frikkie Bosch. Learn all about the Virgin Galactic mission in this fascinating Tech·Ed where Stephen Attenborough demonstrates the plane that will take you to space in the future! Stephen, the Commercial Director of Virgin Galactic, considers himself to have the best job in the world if not the universe! Together with his team at Virgin Galactic, Stephen has become a trailblazer in space exploration, science, technology and commerce. Virgin Galactic expects to start taking $200,000-a-ride passengers into space in 2009, with the world's first commercial space travel for the mass market. Stephen is interview by David Ives. Warren and Riedwaan will be talking about all-up Sustainable IT-taking a cradle-to-cradle approach, discussing from equipment to confirguration to use of software to solve problems. With Warren Johnson and Riedwaan Bassadien. Barry Briggs, CTO Microsoft IT, and Manoj Bhoola, Server Platform BG Lead discuss how Microsoft has adopted Dynamic IT as well as MS IT's role with respect to the rest of the Microsoft organization. In the past few years, Data Mining has taken a giant leap from being an exotic technology accessible to a small number of highly skilled professionals to being a broadly available and accessible platform for both IT pros and developers. The talk features Rafal Lukawiecki (Project Botticelli) and Ciprian Jichici (Genisoft, Microsoft Regional Director) in a debate about the impact that the new world of Data Mining will have on regular software developers. The discussion also covers issues related to Data Mining improvements in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services as well as future directions of development. In this talk, Izak describes how the Microsoft Home Server fits into the home and its four main pillars: extending your current network infrastructure, growing your files, backing up, and the possibility for remote access. With Izak Laubscher and Frikkie Bosch. In this talk, hear from a Microsoft MVP on how Exchange 2007 scales better than previous versions, including a discussion on roles, 64 bit systems, active directory, failover clustering, and the many new features of Exchange 2007. With Nicholas Bank and Ernst Kuschke. This talk covers specific features and technologies included in Windows Server 2008 that benefit branch office scenarios. Topics include scenarios utilizing a combination of Windows Server 2008 Server Core, Read-Only Domain Controller, and Hyper-V. Also discussed are all the protocol optimizations now in Windows Server 2008 to make the branch office experience better. In this TechTalk, Paul and Wynand speak about the new accelerators for Microsoft CRM. With Paul Slade and Wynand Roos. Visit Paul's blog at sladie.typepad.com and Wynand's blog at dynamicssa.co.za. This TechTalk covers a wide range of questions and considerations for implementing UC solutions in the South Africa market. Topics include: when moving onto the IP network in South Africa, will I have sufficient bandwidth and can I afford it; infrastructure requirements and the best approach; phased implentation of UC components or all-at-once; should I obtain the infrastructure from a solution provider and put in place in-house, or do I go the hosting route? With Danie Gordon and Albie Bester. Gavin Russell and Ryan Jamieson of IS Partners discuss the different techniques you can use to accelerate to a BI Solution. Some people say CRM solutions should be implemented out-of-the box, others will go to great lengths to customize the solution to fit a particular business requirement. This talk will cover key focus areas for extending Dynamics CRM in a creative fashion, which in turn means better customer adoption. The talk is hosted by experienced practitioners Bruce Nicholson and Paul Maré. PowerShell 2.0 is out-so what? In PowerShell 1.0, you can easily get to WMI to solve problems which is fine on your local machine. But what about if you are on the enterprise with thousands of machines? With PowerShell 2.0, the concept of remoting is introduced, where you can define the WMI query... and can run that same query across thousands of machines all at once. This TechTalk goes into the details of this benefit and lots more that PowerShell version 2.0 has to offer. With Nicolas Blank and Riedwaan Bassadien. The new age of business is defined by the power and versitility of your Enterprise Content Management platform. What keeps SharePoint 2007 above the rest of the competition? Why collaborate with the opposition? This talk will discuss the drive for interoperability and heterogeneous solutions, the reasons behind the interoperability drive, and the value of having an open mind. In this talk, Lisa Feigenbaum and Bart de Smet introduce the Microsoft language portfolio and discuss WPF, new features in Visual Basic and Visual C#, and provide answers to questions they receive on Microsoft's developer tools and languages. Wally Mead, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, gives an introduction to the next major upgrade of SMS - System Center Configuration Manager. He also discusses the related Service Pack 1, R2 release, and tips on deploying Configuration Manager. This talk, with Jayesh Mowjee, Senior Security Consultant within Microsoft Services, is on what he sees regarding the security arena. Watch to get his insight into current activities as well as the outlook for the future of security trends. With Jayesh Mowjee and Stephen Cakebread. Hear Shivani Inderjee and Sally Storey share their views on what it is like to be a woman in this male dominated IT world and how forums such as Women in IT are so valuable for women. Thavashan Govender discusses how to get started in business intelligence, including strategies, tools and technologies, data warehouses, and architecture. Microsoft BizTalk RFID brings a new approach to RFID with the potential to break through the technical and business barriers that have prevented the technology from reaching a critical mass worldwide. Microsoft BizTalk RFID is an innovative device management and event processing platform at the edge of the enterprise. It is designed to provide a scalable, extensible platform for development, deployment, and management of rich RFID and sensor solutions. This talk highlights the key features of BizTalk RFID and shows developers and IT professionals how much easier it is to bring innovative solutions to market than ever before. With Ryan CrawCour and Frikkie Bosch. Andre Keartland and Dawie Human share their advice on using Windows 2008 with Hyper-V in a small to medium business environment. Topics include networking considerations, hard drive configurations, memory requirements, and CPU recommendations. Laurence Lemmon Warde and Nick Beaugeard of Community Engine discuss System Center Operations Manager. Willie Roberts talks to Ruari Plint about his experiences as a South African technical community lead - the value of communities, how to get involved, and the current footprint of communities in South Africa. The MVPs and Community Leads have recently embarked on a focused academia road-show, evangelizing technology, interoperability and common development environments found in the 'real' world. This talk will discuss the views on academia and the plans for technology evangelism in the academic space. Agile Software Development is a methodology for software development that promotes development iterations, open collaboration, and adaptability throughout the life-cycle of the project. With Ernst Kushke, Thea Burger, and Carlos Magalhaes. Simon is one of the leading Silverlight developers and has learnt his skills through tough lessons. In this discussion, we cover some of the lessons he has learnt. With Simon Wilkinson and Robert MacLean. 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. Bring your notepad!, this session is full of practical solutions to common challenges. With a constant focus on performance & productivity, we'll look at tools to help you; better understand SQL's performance, I/O, understanding schema, coding gotchas, bulking up your data, load testing & rewriting your TSQL with confidence. Over the past few releases Microsoft has made some significant investments in tools to assist the DBA make their systems, faster, better, more robust, easier to test & troubleshoot. Dave's sessions are always a highlight. This tips focused session will have you leaving saying "Wow, I didn't know that was in SQL, that'll come in handy back at the office." Check out this session to learn about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, as well as a preview of what to expect in the upcoming R2 release. Learn about all the features of Virtual Machine Manager 2008, including support for Hyper-V and VMware ESX management, along with VDI management in R2. This is a must-see session for anyone who has or is planning on deploying Hyper-V and ESX infrastucture or wants to see the latest Microsoft System Center virtualization management tool. Are you still stuck on SQL Server 2000? This session will examine the key decision points for upgrading to SQL Server 2008. It looks at both technical and business considerations when undertaking a database server upgrade as well as comparing the different approaches to upgrading an existing SQL Server 2000 implementation to SQL Server 2008. This session will also discuss some of the common "gotchas" experienced during these upgrade projects. The session will focus on upgrading the database engine, but will also cover DTS packages and Analysis Services. Are you looking at deploying or have already deployed SharePoint in your environment? In this session learn from the experts about infrastructure sizing considerations, architecting SharePoint farms for high availability and handling user authentication in diverse environments. You will discover the tools to make operations easier, such as the System Center Capacity Planning Tool, Community Built add-ons, , and using capabilities of SQL Server to improve uptime provide data protection and recovery. Finally, learn about key considerations for future versions of SharePOint and what you can do now to help simplify your next SharePoint migration. These days almost everyone you work with has a laptop computer. Workers love them because it means that they are not tied to a specific desk. Security administrators hate them because they allow sensitive data to be physically removed from the organization. A recent study found that across 28 SMEs that lost 138 laptop computers in the previous 18 months discovered each lost laptop cost their organization an average of $50,000 USD. These costs were substantially reduced for organizations that had a comprehensive laptop data protection and encryption strategy in place. In this session you will learn about the technologies such as AD RMS, BitLocker and EFS that you can use to secure laptop computers. You won't be able to stop people in the companies that you work for losing their laptops, but you will be able to minimize the cost to your company of that lost computer. System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 can be used to create and deploy operating systems. See how System Center Virtual Machine Manager can be leveraged to provide additional capabilities: * Creating an "image factory", leveraging SCVMM and Hyper-V to automate the process of creating reference images, both in WIM and VHD formats. * Customizing VM templates using ConfigMgr 2007 and MDT 2010 task sequences, so that you can reduce the number of templates and customize them when they are deployed. PowerShell is key to this level of integration and will be featured in the session. Visual communication is fast becoming the most prominent cornerstone of an organisation's Unified Communication framework. TANDBERG, the world leader in visual communications has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft to create the most advanced Unified Visual Communication capability available today. Through this session, the audience will be able to see how TANDBERG integration to Microsoft OCS brings an unparalleled visual experience. Combining state-of-the-art TANDBERG Telepresence, traditional room-based video conferencing systems, Microsoft Office Communicator clients, personal video systems, and even telephony in a truly integrated environment to break down the communication barriers that previously existed between different communication platforms. In this session, ASP.NET MVP Damian Edwards will demonstrate why ASP.NET MVC is a great platform upon which to build modern web experiences. Learn how to create optimised interfaces for different devices from a common code base and how ASP.NET MVC can help you to meet the challenges of building for the web. Also discover how the web design theory of progressive enhancement can be applied to help create great user experiences on a wide range of browsers. Finally, learn tips to optimise your web applications to help make them fly. This session will provide a fast track to understanding the integration of AD Rights Management Services and RSA's Data Loss Prevention solutions. The sessions will cover how RMS protects documents via policy driven templates. The session also covers how RSA's DLP solution will drive RMS template onto documents via an intelligent keyword based discovery within the content of a document. The session will contain a demonstration of the integrated solutions and show best practice for defining templates and implementing DLP. In this session you will see Anthony and William provide an end to end walkthrough on how an integrated ALM product like Visual Studio Team System can greatly improve many aspects of your software development projects. Historically many teams gradually introduce different tools into their process that often require a significant effort to make them work together. Integrated ALM suites like Visual Studio Team System make this much easier resulting in more confident and successful teams. In this session you'll watch the journey a feature takes from the initial requirement, through coding, unit testing, code analysis, performance analysis, build, packaging and deployment. Witness how the various members of your team can easily work together towards a common goal. During the journey, we'll also see how all team members have full visibility of the work being done through Visual Studio Team System's real time notification and reporting capabilities. This session is a fast paced, action packed walkthrough that offers value for every members of your software development team and it should not be missed. Organizations today are investing a lot of time and resources in finding new customers and retaining existing customers, selling products or services, and delivering superior customer service. The measurement of performance and impact of these investments traditionally has been difficult. In this session, we discuss how to integrate Business Intelligence, Analytics and Data Mining technologies into Microsoft Dynamics CRM to gain better insight into your organization's performance. Learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM together with Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Sharepoint, and Microsoft SQL Server can help you make better, more informed business decisions and drive greater efficiencies. An informal talk about WSUS 3 service pack 2 and its new features. Is Silverlight ready as a platform for business applications? What can I as a developer do in Silverlight, and where will I face problems? How do I implement the features I need for my application in Silverlight? Why should I use Silverlight when building my business applications? These questions and many more will be answered in this fast paced session, with a particular focus towards developers who are experienced at developing business applications for Windows Forms or for ASP.NET, and are now looking to start targeting Silverlight as a platform for their applications. This will not be another "what is Silverlight and how does it work?" presentation, but a deep dive into the real issues you will face in designing and developing major business applications in Silverlight, and how to overcome them. Topics will include implementing dashboards, reporting/printing, security, deployment, running out-of-browser (OOB), workflow, data communication, and much more. The so-called "software complexity crisis" has increased the cost of developing, supporting, managing and maintaining application environments. The distributed nature .NET applications and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations contribute to this complexity crisis: organizations are faced with the challenges of managing and monitoring various system components and multiple points of potential system failure. This complexity crisis has mandated the use of application and system monitoring technologies that deliver real-time insight into application and system performance health. This session will focus on the use of Operations Manager 2007 and the AVIcode .NET Management Pack as a solution to managing the software complexity crisis and associated costs. The Microsoft project code name "Oslo" provides a family of new technologies that enable model-driven development and execution of applications and services. Come see how "Oslo" will help you rapidly build model-driven applications by using a next generation modeling language, tool, and repository. This session also describes the key capabilities "Oslo" will deliver in v1 and provides a view into the project's long-term goals. Hear Microsoft Veteran, MVP and Datacom's Chief Web Architect Paul Glavich interview Omar Besiso, Enterprise Architect - Datacom Software Solutions about the day to day life of a software development house building Enterprise Applications. The talk will be divided into 3 x 10 minutes segements. Frameworks, Processes & Practices. Learn how to design and deploy a Network Access Protection (NAP) solution with a detailed discussion of the ten things you need to know about NAP, pros and cons for each NAP enforcement method, how to design health requirement policies, autoremediation behaviors and considerations, and using a phased approach to NAP deployment. Also, learn about the history, planning, issues encountered, lessons learned, best practices, and ongoing management for the deployment of NAP on the Microsoft corporate network. It's a new era for the ever-popular Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server as we get closer to releasing Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG). As traditional networks are evolving through "re-perimeterisation", Forefront TMG is also evolving from traditional access and publishing to robust network threat and protection management. This session includes a deep dive into the Forefront TMG feature set, live demonstrations and discussion of the many new scenarios and solutions enabled by the next generation product. For people who create software today, working with identity isn't much fun. There are too many technologies and too much complexity. The industry-wide shift toward claims-based identity improves this, offering a better, simpler approach. Yet making this approach real requires infrastructure, which is why Microsoft is enhancing its platform with AD FS 2.0, Windows Identity Foundation and Windows CardSpace 2.0. This session provides an overview of these forthcoming identity technologies, showing the problems each one addresses and how they relate to one another. The goal is to provide a big-picture understanding of Microsoft's approach to claims-based identity. Invariably the database solutions hosted on your SQL server infrastructure represent line-of-business or other mission critical applications. Consequently it is important to ensure that your SQL Server infrastructure is being managed according to industry best practice. In this session Victor Isakov discusses operational best practices around areas such as configuration, storage, backups, monitoring and patching. Whether you have 5 or 500 SQL server instances to manage, this session will help ensure you ensure they are reliable, robust and "performant"! Performance improvements begin by speeding up the simple task you do every minute of every hour of every day you use Visual Studio. Just like a coin jar where you place your spare change, you'll see the time you save add up into the days, weeks, and into the months. This talk offers the best of the best from the Visual Studio Tip of the Day series that can be used in any programming language. Dive deep into the IDE! Whether you're a seasoned photographer or looking to do something a little more special with your snaps come take a quick look at some essential software tools from Microsoft you should know about. We start with the consumer focused Windows Live Photo Gallery to view and manage your photos and quickly move onto the more professional Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 featuring some great Geotagging functionality. Wanting to do a little more with your photos we explore MSR Autocollage to create some amazing aggregations of your shots. With a little planning we look at how to take an effective panorama and use the Image Composite Editor to stitch into a Multi-MegaPixel photo with some wow factor. http://Photo.soulsolutions.com.au We briefly look at the HDView tools and its support for High Dynamic Range Lastly we look at the steps required to create a Photosynth and some top tips to follow to get the best results. Hook your website instantly into a social graph of over 400 million users with Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. In this session Vaughan Knight will discuss how to get started with the Live Messenger UI controls, and then dive in deep with the Windows Live Messenger API. Come away from this session knowing how to connect sites and build applications that to reach out into the Live Messenger social network. Learn how to use the Live Messenger API to allow your site and users to interact with the social graph, send messages, integrate and build applications with Silverlight, and create site features that are social graph aware. Learn what's new in the most recent release of our unified communications products! Come to this session for a 360 on Office Communications Server 2007 R2. We include lots of demos and talk about Voice, Telephony, Conferencing, Group Chat, and many other exiciting areas. Get a taste of the great features and experiences in this exciting release! Turn your windows mobile device into something more, something great. Track library books, cakes, sushi, boxes - ever move house and thought 'Where's the steak knife set?'. Start creating solutions that empower SOA and B2B based solutions at the Edge of the Enterprise. Feature rich and low cost end-to-end RFID based solutions provide ideal track and trace visibility while being able to leverage BizTalk Server and its vast integration points, such as B2B, EDI and SharePoint. With BizTalk RFID Mobile, the problem is not how to do it...but what should the organisation do with a new detailed live information stream?" - based on real events. This session walks through key development areas utilising BizTalk RFID Mobile and Microsoft Cloud Computing to leverage reach. The session also highlights real world experiences of blood, sweat and tears....of joy! :) See you there! This session will cover the new developments with Active Directory Rights Management Services. This will cover the integration of AD RMS with Exchange Server 2010 and File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) on Windows Server 2008 R2. The integration with Exchange 2010 allows the implementation of transport rules that apply RMS templates on emails based on administrator defined keywords or rules. These transport rules ensure that security policies enforce the protection of information in a compulsory fashion when it leaves the enterprise. The session will also cover the addition of File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) on Windows Server 2008 R2. FCI will allow RMS protection of documents in directory file shares. FCI can associate classification for files based on location and content. In addition to benefits such as automatic expiration of files based on classification and reporting, FCI supports custom actions based on classification through which partners and IT organisations can develop solutions for information to be protected with RMS policies automatically based on the file sensitivity. Learn how Service Manager empowers IT teams by integrating incident, problem, change and configuration processes, reducing support costs, and increasing the quality and responsiveness of IT. A demo shows how Service Manager integrates disparate knowledge from Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Active Directory for quality service management processes and a cost-effective and simplified implementation. Do you want to be more productive in developing enterprise applications with BizTalk Server 2009? Have there been things you have been wishing BizTalk had? Come see what's new! We look at the improvements in the BizTalk Project System and an overview of the new Microsoft Visual Studio features, TFS Integration, enhanced debugging support for various artifacts as well as support for Unit Testing with Visual Studio Team Test as well as and the new MSBuild support. We will also look at the MSBuild Extension Pack and BizTalk Deployment Strategies. This session supplies many demos and provides lots of tips to make you more productive with the new features in the BizTalk development platform. Hyper-V Virtualization enables multiple IT workloads to run on a single physical machine as virtual machines (VMs). Fewer physical machines can lead to reduced costs through lower hardware, energy, and management overhead, plus the creation of a more dynamic IT infrastructure. With this capability, however, comes an increased need for managing planned and unplanned downtime. A well developed disaster recovery plan is essential for every infrastructure, whether physical or virtual. In this technical presentation,we will focus briefly on an architectural overview of Hyper-V from the perspective of high availability and disaster recovery and discusses strategic solutions for protecting virtualized workloads on Hyper-V. This covers both capabilities in the product today, publically-available information on future Hyper-V releases as well as solutions enabled by third-party vendors. This session will show you how Citrix® can help accelerate the deployment of Windows 7. We will demonstrate how separating the application and desktop, delivers rapid deployment of Windows 7, saving your IT organisation time and money. Citrix will showcase XenDesktop, XenApp, Essentials for Hyper-V and demonstrate how these seamlessly integrate into Microsoft System Centre. Additionally, Citrix will preview a sneak peek into Citrix XenClientâ„¢, a client side hypervisor, which will play a revolutionary role in truly changing the way desktops are managed today. Come along to see the Personal Productivity Smack Down rock the house. See top IT Pro's rip their moves in the house and wow with their top productivity tips. At stake is the crown of being the Productivity King and winning the adulation of the audience as well as some cool prizes. Everyone at the session is involved and votes to pick the winner. It is said that after the first moments of battle, all planning is abandoned. So too, with any new or unfamiliar technology used for the first time, architectural plans are often found wanting. Recently, we delivered a significant web application built on ASP.Net MVC, Windows Workflow and the Entity Framework with extensive use of AJAX and JQuery to improve the user experience. This presentation will express some of the critical lessons learned and mistakes made using a fluid combination of demonstration and discussion. xRM is becoming a new buzzword - it refers to 'anything' Relationship Management. Microsoft's CRM product provides 'out of the box' CRM functionality - but it is more than that - it is an 'application platform'. Traditionally if we have been asked to develop a line of business application we would have more than likely jumped into a custom development project using Visual Studio and started building from the ground up; or even turned to Microsoft Access depending upon the requirement. This session will show you how you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a business application platform to rapidly build and deploy a wide range of custom business applications. As a tool to build line of business applications, learn how quickly data schemas can be modelled, user interfaces designed and business processes automated, thereby optimising productivity, reducing costs and increasing agility across your business and IT organisation. This VDI deep dive session covers the deployment scenarios, architecture, features, and deployment guidelines for deploying VDI with RD Connection Broker, RD Virtualization Host, Hyper-V, AppV and SCVMM. BranchCache is a new Feature in Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 that helps reduces the bandwidth consumed and improves end user experience while accessing intranet-based HTTP and SMB content. This session introduces challenges in network performance often faced by remote branch offices which accessing content stored in servers located in DataCenters across trans-continental Wide Area Networks, and how BranchCache helps in addressing these challenges. The session includes details of how this technology works and includes a demonstration of this new feature in Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows 7. The Windows Server 2008 R2 File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) provides insight into your data to help you manage it more effectively, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. The FCL provides a built-in solution for file classification that allows administrators to automate manual processes with predefined policies based on the business value of the data. It also provides an extensible infrastructure upon which ISVs can build end-to-end solutions that enable organizations to perform advanced classification and data management, and helps enable Microsoft partners to deliver rich classification solutions. These capabilities can be leveraged by products spanning from information leakage prevention products to backup, archival, and HSM. This session showcases a demo, as well as highlights how administrators can utilize the inbox functionality, and the integration opportunities for partners and IT organizations. Many people extend Office to meet specific business needs, sometimes with the help of IT, sometimes without. However, these customisations, macros and add-ins can cause a headache when it comes time to upgrade Office. In this session you will gain an understanding of security enhancements, key changes between Office versions and service packs and common challenges when upgrading Office. In addition, this session will equip you with the tools, resources and guidance to efficiently manage the Office upgrade process and streamline future upgrades. WPF & Silverlight, the new cool neighbours you always wanted to have. Yet you're still scared to introduce yourself. Well in this session Omar Besiso will not only introduce to the beautiful world of simple WPF, but will also show you using the WPF composite framework & the Model-View-ViewModel pattern how you can build highly scalable user interfaces with very appealing user experiences. After the session you will think twice before using any other technology for your windows or web apps. Are you looking to implement SharePoint? Are you confused on where and how to deploy SharePoint? Join William Cornwill and Lee Hickin from Microsoft as they discuss provisioning options for Microsoft SharePoint including in-house, hosted and cloud. Understand the pros/cons and architectural differences for each model. William and Lee will also discuss the different customisation options available for each model and demonstrate the capabilities of SharePoint online. This really isn't a REST talk, but it will cover how to build Web-based distributed systems using WCF for pragmatic software architects and developers. Specifically we'll be covering: 1. Embracing the Web as a framework for distributed systems 2. CRUD services and protocols 3. Building CRUD services with WCF 4. Consuming CRUD services with .Net As well as taking a thorough look at the Web-friendly parts of WCF in this talk, we will also cover useful performance and reliability optimisations like caching and conditional execution which turn applications into robust systems that can power enterprises. Lock up your queues and come along! Do you want to know how to fundamentally change the way technology is used in your organization to deliver business services, while also reducing overall infrastructure costs and data center complexity ?? Come and learn about HP's newest solutions within its Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio, HP BladeSystem Matrix, and how it can reduce overall infrastructure costs and data center complexity. HP BladeSystem Matrix is the industry's first converged software, server, storage and networking platform, that automates service delivery for the data center. Together, these offerings enable you to create an integrated pool of resources that operate in both physical and virtual environments, creating the first truly business-ready infrastructure. Are you excited about the ROI of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 dial-in conferencing, but don't feel confident with the technical details behind it? Come to this session to learn about deployment considerations, server configuration, call flows, and end user options. In this demo heavy session we'll discuss how Dynamics CRM can be used with the broad Microsoft platform to deliver rich line of business experiences. We will look at how rich User eXpereinces can be built with WPF, Silverlight and Office as well as how we can achieve exciting new functionality by integrating with technologies such as Office Communications Server and the forthcoming Azure Services platform. Come and learn how to build a site on top of the new standard compliant engine. Discover how to use the new integrated Developer Tools, Microsoft Expression SuperPreview and Fiddler to build and debug cross-browser-compatible layout designs. Learn how to build new Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Providers in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. Demo, demo, demo... Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a platform for distributed system development and SOA. Large-scale production systems are typically deployed in redundant environments with multiple Web servers, application servers, and database servers. System administrators typically configure appliance or software load balancers to handle distribution of load among each tier-and this requires WCF architects and developers to be aware of the potential implications of their service configurations. This session focuses on the affects of transport and application sessions; overhead related to channel creation and the benefits of shared proxies and multithreading; the implications of shared proxies on load balancing; and appropriate deployment configurations to support this distributed scenario. We also discuss the impact of the forthcoming Microsoft .NET Framework 4 release and the Windows Application Server ("Dublin") on these scenarios to help you plan for future migration. System Center Mobile Device Manager is Microsoft's premier mobile device management and secure mobile VPN access solution. We will visit each of the core components of System Center Mobile Device Manager and see how these fit within your organisation's ecosystem. This session will highlight the challenges in managing a large Windows Mobile fleet and how Mobile Device Manager is designed to overcome these issues. Mobile Device Manager Service Pack 1 is the latest version that adds new features including enhanced scalability, Active Directory integration, performance improvements, distributing Line of Business applications, patch updates and more. Come along to take a deep dive into these Mobile Group Policies and highlight best practice configuration and policy settings. We will investigate custom Group Policy Objects to help provide you with the tools to creating your own Mobile SOE! We'll also take a comprehensive look into the mobile optimized IPSEC-based VPN solution for access to data beyond e-mail. For planning your IT infrastructure we will touch on "from-the-field Gotcha's" and a Tips and Trix segment. Bring it on. This session introduces you to new capabilities in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, including Web single sign-on, Application Publishing improvements, IP virtualization, and more. Windows 2008 R2 represents an exciting release with tons of new customer value. This session demonstrates the changes in Group Policy, highlighting the new Group Policy Preferences and PowerShell scripting capabilities. We take the time to discuss any dependencies and to explicitly call out impacts. This is a demo-heavy session focused on core usage scenarios for all customers The world of mobility has evolved. While keypads, stylus, and keyboards are all good and fine for device input, newer input methods have been popularized in recent years, such as accelerometers, touch screen gestures, light sensors, and such. More than just gadgets and gimmicks, these next-generation input methods allow you, the mobile developer, to offer the best interface possible to your users on the road, enhancing their device experience. This session explores various input methods available on some of the latest Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 devices and how to programmatically leverage them using managed APIs from Microsoft .NET Compact Framework-based applications. Topics covered include working with the Windows Mobile Unified Sensor API to access hardware sensors, controlling device cameras using the Windows Mobile SDK, capturing stylus and finger gestures on touch screens, detecting ambient light, making your device vibrate and sound-off, and more. Throughout the development process of Window's 7, Intel and Microsoft have worked with a common goal - simplifying the PC experience, better performance and responsiveness and better energy efficiency. This week being the world wide launch week of Intel's Core i5 processor, we invite you to this deep dive session where Intel and Microsoft will explain how they have worked together to implement support in the Windows 7 kernel for Intel multi-core processors with Hyper-threading Technology, enabling better performance. As well, how they have developed technology that enables Win 7 scheduler to identify physical vs. logical cores, and prioritise physical cores first. Please join us to learn more about the Intel Core i5 processor and the winning solution of Windows 7 and Intel architecture. Windows Mobile 6.1, System Center Mobile Device Manager (RTM and SP1) are close to final EAL4+ certification under the Common Criteria. The licensed evaluation facility will explain the evaluation scope and the functions included in the evaluations, and show you how these two products combine to provide a secure mobile solution. When deploying SharePoint as a business-critical collaboration tool and digital-asset repository, implementing intelligent strategies for data protection, platform management, and accessibility is absolutely essential. Though SharePoint natively provides some data protection and administration capabilities, they prove inadequate for most competitive organizations. In this session we will discuss the key attributes of all successful SharePoint data protection, archiving, and administration initiatives, and review how to develop strategies for your specific organizational needs. After analyzing SharePoint's native backup and recovery, administration, archiving, and data-access capabilities, we will identify best practices, available free tools, and other best-of-breed solutions for ensuring a fully protected, efficiently managed, and highly performant and accessible SharePoint platform. In this session you will learn what the key performance factors are for BizTalk 2009; what effects those factors and how to maximise for each depending on the desired target performance. The session will focus on scenarios where high throughput and and low latency are required and how to tune for both. This discussion will cover the next generation of Microsoft remote access technologies like Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Direct Access and how these technolgies and there new feature sets enable the remote workforce. Join experts from Microsoft and industry as they discuss Virtualisation in all its forms. This session will be recorded and made available on TechEd Online. We will discuss some of the new technology and features in Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 and Windows 7 that makes desktop deployment projects easier for IT and end users alike. As the on-screen behaviour of software applications becomes more and more sophisticated, it gets harder and harder to envision, validate and document your user interface. New features in Expression Blend 3, including Sketchflow, make user experience design an integral part of the software development lifecycle, and free up the UX bottleneck. Come see Expression Blend 3 and Sketchflow in action, and learn how to integrate conceptual design into your next project, regardless of platform Learn about what Microsoft is doing to enable the use of virtual machines to solve desktop application compatibility issues in both enterprise and non-enterprise environments. Hear about how you can use MED-V and Virtual PC, as well as what is coming with Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7. In this session, Michael will discuss some of the core elements of Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle, but more importantly explain how you can use the SDL to improve the security of your own software using the tools you already have. Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. One important aspect of this change is the rise of platforms that let developers create applications for the cloud. This session takes a broad look at the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's entry in this area. The topics discussed include Windows Azure, .NET services, Microsoft SQL Services, and Live Services. The goal is to make clear what these technologies can do, then offer some guidance on how to make good decisions for using them. Want to know what's behind the voice features in Office Communications Server 2007 R2, and what it would really take to bring it in house? In this session we present the deployment scenarios for enterprise voice functionality, including sizing and topology considerations, call routing and management, and interoperability with existing telephony infrastructure. Whether you are interested in blending voice features and functionality with your enterprise IP-PBX or exploring how Office Communications Server can be used as a peer voice platform, this session provides you with the framework and knowledge to confidently move forward with your deployment. More and more we are seeing the demand for providing and enabling Enterprise Productivity by bringing many people together at any time with a rich connected experience. In this demonstration only session see how teams can use tools to get their jobs done through presence management/multi party video conferencing all integrated with Microsoft Exchange/Office and SharePoint. I will show how easy it is to setup Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 to boot from a VHD file. This will allow machines to boot natively from Windows 7 & Windows 2008 R2 while maintaining the flexiblity of having the OS contained in a VHD file on the local hard disk. Welcome to the future! The future of Exchange high availability, that is. In this session, we reveal the changes and improvements to the built-in high availability platform in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a unified framework for high availability and disaster recovery that is quick to deploy and easy to manage. Learn about all of the new features in Exchange 2010 that make it the most resilient, highly available version of Exchange ever. Vroom let's get those engines running for the annual Mobility Smackdown. This session is all about having some fun and unwinding after a long Tech Ed by watching some demo's, cheering, booing and, if you are lucky, participating in a game to win a Windows Mobile device. If you take yourself too seriously this session is NOT FOR YOU! This is the third and most technical of three sessions on System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. In this session we discuss features not previously demonstrated for this product, including Disaster Recovery scenarios, command-line control of Data Protection Manager 2007 through PowerShell, deployment and monitoring through other System Center products, and bare metal recovery of production servers using the Data Protection Manager System Recovery Tool (SRT). Would you like to know the new features of Server 2008 R2? Windows Server 2008 R2 extends the award winning features of Windows Server 2008, and now comes with new features to enable organizations to increase reliability and flexibility . And this Tech Talk is going to show you most of the good sites of WS 08 R2 New virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements and exciting Windows 7 integration all help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for an efficient managed data center, including powerful tools such as Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.5, updated Server Manager and Hyper-V platforms and Windows PowerShell version 2.0. We will also talk about how Windows Server 2008 R2 works better together with Windows 7's new features like branch caching, VPN etc Come and learn about the upcoming Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 release. This information, presented for the first time in Australia, will give you a sneak peak at the capabilities and functionality that will be delivered in the next generation Office System. Come along and be the first to hear about how the future of Office System will revolutionise the way people and organisations will work. Windows Azure is Microsoft's initiative for cloud computing. It's an application platform in the cloud that allows applications to be hosted and run at Microsoft datacenters based on Windows Azure Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008) to provide virtualization services. The Azure Services Platform provides an API built on REST, HTTP and XML. This session will showcase the following: 1-. An overview of Windows Azure 2-. Microsoft Online Services (emphasizing on CRM Online) 3-. Federated Identity Model - Microsoft Services Connector (a.k.a Geneva) 4-. Consume a service in the cloud through SSIS and pushing information into CRM 5-. Creating an Azure service based on CRM (running offline) and consume it from Linux Application developers, meet Mr. 'separation of concerns'. Thanks to its support of claims-based identity, the Windows Identity Foundation (formerly Geneva) APIs allow you to eliminate from your application all authentication- and authorization- specific code, by delegating its function to external entities. The application developer retains access to all the user attributes that are needed for driving the experience or feeding the business logic, without the burden of knowing anything about the underlying security plumbing. The security architect can secure an application simply by manipulating its config file at deployment time, or decide to take full control of the process and easily develop custom authentication and authorization logic. This session provides an overview of how to use Windows Identity Foundation for comfortably achieving the above in interoperable, location-independent fashion. After you've setup your SBS 2008 server you'll want to take it to the next level. This session will help you do all those things that the wizards can't do for you. It will take you behind the scenes of the core components of SBS 2008 helping you extend it to meet your customer's true business requirements. We'll reveal some of the background magic that makes SBS 2008 what it is and leave you with many tips and tricks. The patterns & practices team is hard at work on the next major release of Enterprise Library. The major theme of v5.0 is around simplifying the architecture and improving usability, but there are many valuable improvements across all of the blocks. Tom Hollander, former product manager of Enterprise Library, will take you through all of the key new features to help you prepare for your next project. Microsoft Business Intelligence is a set of capabilities that you probably already own. In this session, you will learn how to achieve Personal BI - delivered through Excel and Access, Team BI - delivered with SharePoint Excel Services, Business Data Catalogue, and SQL Server Reporting Services and finally, Organisational BI - delivered with SharePoint and PerformancePoint Services. This session includes demonstrations of these 3 solutions plus a discussion of how they interoperate and come together to deliver a holistic view that drives insight, alignment, accountability, and agility throughout your business. Project "Gemini" is the ground-breaking new BI technology shipping in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. Since its announcement, "Gemini" has generated a lot of industry buzz, and in this session we will explore "Gemini" for both analysts and IT, in the context of Self Service BI. We look at the client capabilities of "Gemini" for Microsoft Office Excel power users, the collaboration features for teams, and the important IT tools for compliance and effective administration. Come and learn about the new enhancements that are going to be delivered in Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008 R2. This session drills into all the enhancements coming for Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2, such as improvements to the cluster validation tool, PowerShell support, Cluster Shared Volumes, the new cluster configuration program, and other exciting features. Building software has become ever more complex and teams often struggle with poor or non-existent requirements and constantly shifting priorities. When software defects--bugs--are found they are often confusing and difficult to connect to the requirements of the product in the first place. Challenges like these can slow down delivery, impact quality, and frustrate everyone on the team. There is a new way. Come learn about new features of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System in test case management--from creating and managing Test Plans, Test Suites, and Test Cases to engaging in the whole end-to-end application cycle, to new features such as test case recording and playback, rich bug filing, and many more. Traditionally and for most business users, integration solutions have been hidden in the back office: a case of out of mind, out of sight. Let us show you that is not the case. By leveraging the front office features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the back office integration features of BizTalk 2009, you can expose your integration solution to the whole business. This will give you greater visibility and control of your integration solutions. As a platform for storing, managing and organising large numbers of documents, SharePoint delivers departmental applications with rich functionality in addition to the ASP.Net Web Part framework. SharePoint provides authentication, role based security trimming and personalisation. This is combined with the powerful search capabilities it offers. Many end users are already familiar with how SharePoint looks and feels as they have experienced it as their Intranet platform. BizTalk can be partnered with SharePoint in several ways. We will focus on two areas: solutions to enhance the visibility of your BizTalk integration solution; and, extend your SharePoint based solution to leverage the line of business adapters, EDI/AS2 and BizTalk accelerators. This approach will allow you to reach deeper into your infrastructure or interact closer with your customers. We will demonstrate surfacing your auditing, logging and exception management from BizTalk in SharePoint. We will also show how and when to use BizTalk to extend your SharePoint solutions. This will be a quick introduction to the Exception Management Framework and portal that are part of the new BizTalk ESB 2.0 Toolkit. Even for those that are not looking at implementing ESB, the Exception Management Framework and Portal can help consolitate your BizTalk Exception Management and Alerting. The Microsoft Web Platform is becoming an increasingly powerful set of technologies for building Web applications and services. In this session, you will learn how to use the new Web Platform Installer to more quickly develop, deploy, and host ASP.NET and PHP Web applications. You will also see how server administrators can use IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008 R2 - with built-in support for .NET on Server Core - and new IIS extensions to simplify Web server configuration and management. Walk through the process for introducing Exchange 2010 servers into an Exchange 2003/2007 organisation. Learn the pre-requisites, steps required to introduce the 2010 servers, as well as the impact to client access for MAPI, OA, OWA, ActiveSync, and POP/IMAP clients after the upgrade has occurred. This session will outline and detail Microsoft's well-managed, optimised desktop strategy and is the pre-cursor to the whole desktop track for TechEd 2009. We will cover Microsoft's desktop and application virtualisation strategy and technologies. This all demo session will follow a marketing executive who wants flexibility and the ability to work wherever, whenever. He wants to work from home. He wants to work on the go. He wants to allow contractors into his department with the own PCs! He wants to work from his office and collaborate, communicate and integrate with his peers and managers. How do you deal with the pressure this places on IT. How do you allow a contractor with an unknown PC into your organisation? How do you keep your corporate information secure? How do you build it? Mange it? Secure it? In this session we will show you how the power of Windows and System Center can combine to enable these scenarios securely and in a well-managed environment. ASP.NET MVC is currently the technology flavour of the season. ASP.NET webforms has been a dominant development platform for a long time but MVC is receiving a lot of focus and is the choice of architetecural purists. Does this signal the demise of ASP.NET webforms? Should we be choosing MVC for all future projects? Building public websites can be hard at the best of times. Making them fast can be even harder. What makes a website faster? What makes it appear faster to users? How can you leverage features of ASP.NET to get the best experience for your users? Tune in to hear two ASP.NET MVPs share some of the problems they had to solve while rebuilding Australia's largest e-commerce site. Visio 2007 is the leading solution for creating enterprise diagrams in the market today. As a result of its broad adoption across the IT community, Gartner consistently includes Visio 2007 in its list of Top 10 Tools for IT Professionals. Learn about the productivity improvements that come with Visio 2007 and see some best practices for creating diagrams. In particular we will be demonstrating how to connect Visio diagrams to data-sources to create diagrams that change to reflect the underlying data. Finally, come and see a glimpse of the future as we give you a sneak preview of Visio 2010. Hosted by Catherine Eibner, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Dynamics, Women in IT is about growing strong female leaders in the IT industry. Leading women in IT and industry experts will lead discussions on a variety of topics, including finding ways to better support female IT talent. The Women in IT session will be run as a fully interactive workshop, with the help of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY (LSP) through Robert Rasmussen & Associates. Using LEGO® Bricks the group will work together to model solutions for growing strong female leaders in the IT industry. Come along and make the most of the Microsoft Women in IT community. Anyone who would like to attend is welcome - men included. To register your interest, simply add the Women in IT session and lunch to your agenda in the session builder. This session will provide a fast track to understanding the integration of AD Rights Management Services and RSA's Data Loss Prevention solutions. The sessions will cover how RMS protects documents via policy driven templates. The session also covers how RSA's DLP solution will drive RMS template onto documents via an intelligent keyword based discovery within the content of a document. The session will contain a demonstration of the integrated solutions and show best practice for defining templates and implementing DLP. We start with demonstrating some real world examples of Silverlight applications built on Microsoft Dynamics xRM implementations. We then will look at how Microsoft Silverlight can be used to deliver richer experiences within Dynamics CRM applications. We'll explain the fundamentals of XAML and Silverlight before discussing hosting and connectivity approaches to integrate Silverlight applications into both the Out of Box CRM UI as well as Customer Self Service we portals. This session will provide a practical how-2 demonstration of a Silverlight based Dashboard for Dynamics CRM Come and join James McCutcheon share his many years of experience of Windows Mobile development as he will show how to build fantastic looking Windows Mobile applications using features such as alpha blending and also the new capabilities of Windows Mobile 6.5 widgets. He will also cover some must know developer tricks if your developing for the Windows Mobile platform. This session will initially describe what products Telstra has launched specifically for Windows Mobile before detailing how the technical architecture of both the NextG Network and the device ROMs of the product are configured. If you are involved in either Exchange Direct Push or System Centre Mobile Device Manager deployments then this session is for you. This is an in-depth overview of the sequencing process during which you'll learn how an application is transformed from an installed entity into a virtualized application using the App-V Sequencer tool. The session will take you behind the scenes to show you how to create the virtual environment of application, define dependencies to a package, manage files in the Virtual File System and the Virtual Registry, and demonstrate how it relates to the Windows OS. We'll show you 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 tenants for determining what makes an application a good candidate for virtualization. Over the last few years, Michael has heard every plausible and implausible excuse for not paying attention to security. Come to this lighthearted, but deadly serious talk and learn some of the tricks of the trade to help you learn more about security, some of the critical skills you should know, and how to get others to pay attention to security too. This session is for those that fully understand the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, but are looking to do more. We will pool the key deployment customization themes and provide concrete examples to improve your deployments. In this session, we will not cover overview themes or 300 level content. Instead we will discuss topics such as: understanding and using rules, deep dive into the deployment wizards, how to utilize the scripting framework to create your own scripts, using naming conventions, custom database lookups, web service lookups, PowerShell integration, and anything else you may want to know. Stop monitoring servers, and start monitoring end user services - wherever they're hosted! Learn how to use System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2007 R2) and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to monitor services and applications, hosted on Windows servers across physical and virtual server environments. This session will show how SCOM 2007 R2 allows customers to successfully monitor all components of a system to provide service-level visibility, and demonstrate SCOM's integration with SCVMM when monitoring guests hosted on both Hyper-V and VMware ESX. For customers with many different types of PC hardware to support when deploying new operating systems, the challenges with managing all the necessary drivers can be great. Examine different techniques that can be used with Microsoft products such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, Windows Deploymetn Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, and more. Review the pros and cons of each technique, and how to implement those techniques in your environment. Examine and provide feedback on potential future improvements that Microsoft can make to make managing drivers easier for you. When looking for an increase in productivity, many look towards productivity gurus for the answer. Across the board, most focus on effectively managing your workload - and not on actually doing the work in a more productive way. In this Tech Talk we will discuss the "Productivity Myth" and how most users can be 10, 20, 30, even 50% more productive simply by using the tools they already have in Office System - if only they knew they were there. For example, we will discuss a feature that has been in Word since 1992 that will make almost every user more productive almost every time they use Word. The same feature that hardly anyone knows about, despite it being very prominent in the user interface since Word 2.0 (17 years ago!). Viewers will walk away with an understanding of some of the lessor known features of Office which have the potential to substantially increase the productivity of both themselves, and their colleagues What is an application platform? Why is it important? And how should we think about application platforms in a world of cloud computing? In this session,Darryl Chantry looks at all of these topics, providing a general model for both on-premises and cloud platforms. He then uses this model to examine several important issues in this area, including the competition between .NET and Java, why SOA is failing, and how the Microsoft platform compares with its on-premises and cloud competitors. For years, you've been honing your architecture and programming skills to make someone else rich. Now it's time to turn the tables. The .NET environment is highly productive and gives an unfair advantage to individuals and small enterprises. With the right idea and some effort, you can generate a passive income stream that matches your full-time programming income. In this one-off talk, I'll cover the lifecycle of writing, selling and maintaining a project on your own, including idea incubation, architecture, design, marketing, licensing and monetization. There will be numerous practical tips on topics such as getting free advertising, deployment, maximizing downloads, protecting your IP and handling payments. We'll see how architecture principles differ for Micro-ISVs and why you'll want to throw many of the best practices that you know and love out of the window. The material for this talk is absolutely original and has unique information that you'll never hear again. APACs first Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master debunks SharePoint myths and share's SharePoint secrets. Deep-Dive in the new Parallels with .Net 4.0 or how to scale your code from one thread to 32 cores. How to design for the new parallels, how to develop for high concurency and how to debug and performance test with new VS2010 Do you build and deploy connected applications on Windows Server? Do you use Windows Communication Foundation and want to understand how to better manage the applications once deployed? Are you concerned about "Life after F5" for server apps? We're making extensions to Windows Server to improve the existing Application Server capability. With these extensions, we'll provide a feature-rich middle-tier execution and deployment environment for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. Come to this session to learn about the architecture of the new extensions, how it works, how to take advantage of it, and the features it provides that simplify deployment, management, and troubleshooting of workflows and services. In this session, we will take the SharePoint "feature pie" apart, look hard at each one of them; Business Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Content Management, Portal and Collaboration etc. Explore how each of these can be leveraged to add values to organizations' Line of Business applications built on xRM. Technically, this will touch on all the existing integration points MSCRM has with SharePoint, like; Enterprise Search Accelerator for Enterprise Search, Document Library for content management and collaboration, CRM webparts and BDC List Webparts for Portal, Surfacing Analytics Accelerators' reports, dashboards, cube data through SharePoint for Business Intelligence. Virtualisation is a key element of every company's IT infrastructure, and its application should be considered from the client to the data centre. Come and hear about the building blocks of the HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) architecture, an end-to-end solution starting from HP Thin Client access devices, the best managed and virtualisation-ready HP BladeSystem servers, and HP StorageWorks SAN Solutions. This will enable you to create a more robust scalable solution, providing more flexibility to your business, in a managed environment. Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Amazon and more, are using smart algorithms that leverage ever increasing clock cycles, and a plethora of user generated data, to find patterns that derive value. They've brought smart software to the attention of the software development mainstream: PageRank, Machine Learning, Support Vector Machines, classification techniques, search and rank, and more. We explore some of these algorithms and their implementations using a new functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET platform, called F#. It has features and techniques that make working with data and building smarts much easier. We'll start with a walk through of the language, then get right down to hacking out smart algorithms that you can leverage in your own software. Well a couple of years ago Visual Studio .NET 2008 + .NET 3.5 brought us exciting new features like LINQ-to-SQL, lambda expressions, auto implemented properties and anonymous types... could things have got better? Yes, and in this session Adam Cogan will show you: • the important enhancements to the IDE in VS2010 • the new tricks and language features in .NET 4.0 to keep developers coding effectively and productively • plus a couple of things that will make your teams work better together Attend if you want to Boost Your Productivity!! Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) fits nicely into service-oriented applications for designing the workflows that implement the business processes a service exposes. This session covers how to expose workflows as services, both as encapsulated implementations of portions of service processing, by exposing a workflow as a service itself, or by using workflows to orchestrate the calls between other workflows. It also covers how to call out services from within a workflow and coordinate the results of those service calls with the rest of the workflow processing. Learn how to integrate workflow processing logic with other service processing logic through the host communications model of WF, as well as how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 WF Send and Receive activities and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) context bindings to achieve a seamless integration of WF and WCF. This session also shows you how to use the .NET Services workflow activities to connect to cloud services and have cloud clients and services connect to your workflows, as well as a quick peek at how to run your workflows in the clouds through Microsoft Azure services. 40% of ERP implementations have user adoption issues resulting in limited ROI from initial investments in ERP. Usability issues for the casual user of line-of-business systems such as SAP can be addressed by building OBAs as an alternative window into the ERP system. Core business data and functionality can be brought into an environment the user is already comfortable in and thereby make them more productive. In this session, we discuss some of the common pain points and business scenarios that can be effectively addressed with OBAs. We also talk about the tools and technologies available to support the OBA architecture and the critical success factors based on real life experiences. In this session, Jordan Knight and Mahesh Krishnan present Architectural considerations for building Silverlight Applications. Topics covered in this talk are: 1. Presentation layer patterns such as MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel), and command patterns; 2.Dependency Injection and Unit testing; 3. Handling Exceptions; 4. Using isolated storage for caching; 5. Implementing a logging strategy; 6. Security patterns; 7. Patterns for getting data across the network; 8. Designing for disconnected use. Note that since the session code was allocated, this session has been reclassified as level 300 (from level 400) Windows 7 has shaped up to be the most powerful and rock solid OS from Microsoft, and also most energy aware. A perfect combination for those machines around the house that are always on. Now you can do more around the home on less hardware, use less energy, and less mouse clicks, ...and do it with style. This session is all about interactive "roll up your sleeves" and doing. Building an upright Arcade Machine, make our Xbox360 (or two or three) take on a new lease of life and perform like never before, take all your music, pictures, home movies and video including Divx, and delivering an in-house experience that will make it a pleasure to turn on the home computer after a big day at work. No powertools necessary, WAF included. Focusing on: • Media Centre, w/ EPG support for media center • XBOX Extender, w/ demo 4 TV tuners • Homegroup, • Federated Search in the Consumer world • Legacy Device and software • Play to on a variety of devices .Net 4.0 is just around the corner and with it comes the largest set of changes to the security model since .Net 2.0. This talk will go throuh all the major changes and analyze the differences, the advantages and applicability of the new changes of each of the major areas: Security policy, Security transparency, Evidences, AppDomain Managers and Partial Trust Callers and Sandboxing. Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to start small and scale rapidly. This session discusses techniques to leverage Service Bus applications and how these services can be used to deliver data to application endpoints, including mobile devices. This session covers the integration of High Definition room based video conferencing and telepresence solutions into an OCS 2007 R2 environment. The session provides the background and framework for integrating the latest HD video conferencing systems including Polycom HDX, but also provide the ability to leverage your organizations legacy video assets . Intro Data vs Information Business Requirements / IT Challenges Managing Data @ the Edge o WBA (Vista) Managing Data in the Core o Windows (File), Exchange, MOSS Managing Data in the Stack o Hyper-v Example: The lifecycle of an email How to: Drive business information value from your data o FAST (OEM) Search + MOSS Records Center If you're a software developer interested in running an open source project or just looking around for a particular tool to download, come check out the latest from CodePlex. CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting site. Launched in May 2006, CodePlex host thousands of open source projects. CodePlex users can start open source projects with support for source control, bug tracking, wiki pages, downloads, forums, and project statistics. Additionally, CodePlex supports the widest range of source control clients. This talk explores the top downloaded projects, outlines the CodePlex feature set, and explains how we build the CodePlex software. In this session you will see how multiple databases can be consolidated to a single SQL Server 2008 server without the need for a magic wand. Traditionally organisations have continued to increase their SQL Server footprint as they have introduced new technologies to manage business processes. Due to the current economic climate it is becoming harder for organizations to minimize the costs associated with maintaining multiple servers throughout the enterprise. Despite the challenges of tightening budgets, SQL Server 2008 provides an opportunity to reduce costs through consolidation. This session will demonstrate how SQL Server 2008 can be used to assist with consolidating applications from multiple servers without sacrificing the goals of performance and availability. There are as many definitions of the role of the Architect as there are organisations, and current shifts in approaches like Agile are further pushing the boundaries. Do we even need Architects? Many would suggest not. In this talk, long-time Architect and Solutions Architect MVP Kevin Francis from Object Consulting will challenge the audience with his views on Architecture and Architects, covering areas such as: The role of the Architect in a project context, the relationship between Architects and other roles in a project and professional context, and the skills and knowledge required by an Architect. In addressing the above Kevin will consider both iterative and agile types of projects. This session provides an overview of the new technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- the scenarios, features, benefits, and the development philosophy behind the product. We discuss new management technologies, virtualization enhancements, scalability features, and enabling the remote workforce. Features such as BranchCache, DirectAccess, Active Directory, PowerShell Remoting, Remote Desktop Services and many more will be demonstrated. Methodology and Technology in Harmony. This session shows how to best utilise Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to establish a sustainable project management Methodology based on the example of PRINCE2 . Project Server will dramatically increase the transparency of the project management methodology making both governance and control easier. Alan and Lilia are overjoyed to talk to you about Group Policy Preferences : more than mapped drives and local user groups, you can configure Power Schemes for client machines in your environment from XP SP2 and upward. Watch them talk about what you need to start using GP Preferences now and some great ideas of what you can do with it. Read more about GP Preferences on the Group Policy blog ( http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy) or on Alan's blog (http://bit.ly/abskbase) Power consumption by the world's data centers has doubled since 2000 and continues to grow. With virtualization, IT has gained a powerful technology that can dramatically lower the datacenter impact on the environment and save money. Microsoft is helping to deliver virtualization to customers to help reduce energy consumption while increasing the utilization of existing infrastructure. In this session Ron Dunn and I (Shashank Pawar) will discuss why customers who are serious about managing their data efficiently and effectively need to use SQL Server 2008. The average Enterprise Organisation has 32 Line of Business Applications. The rub is that on average 31 interfaces are provided to end users for these 32 applications leading to increased training costs, application switching, and little reuse of data between applications. In this session learn how to consolidate the number of interfaces for end users into their productivity environment and create Office Business Applications to give a single interface to the applications and data through Office. Are you interested in saving your precious IT dollars by consolidating your under-utilized servers? Attend this session to learn how you can quickly create a network-wide inventory of your servers and conduct server virtualization and OS migration candidates with the new assessment tool -- Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. See how this powerful tool can accelerate your Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 projects. We provide a live demo on how to conduct this inventory and also show you how to determine power savings for your return-on-investment (ROI) analysis. Leaking confidentail data? Worried about access controls? In this session, we look at some of the security features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and describe how they can be used to help an organization address their compliance needs. This instructive session is heavy on demos and light on slides. During the session we illustrate concepts including Identity Management, Data Protection, Key Management, Separation of Duties, Auditing and Reporting, and Policy-based Management. This session is a must-see for anyone dealing with sensitive and confidential data. What changes are going to make you love Windows 7? This TechTalk gives you a brief understanding of Windows 7, the new O/S which hits the market soon. Cut IT costs in half. Use 65% to 80% less storage. Defer data centre expansion for two years. Accelerate your time to market. Never again give up IT capabilities for the sake of saving money. Sound impossible? It's not when you leverage the unique capabilities of NetApp storage solutions for Microsoft environments-it's what we help our customers do every day. Attend this session to learn about the cost and time efficiencies that can be gained through the use of NetApp storage technologies in a Microsoft Virtualisation environment - specifically Thin Provisioning, Deduplication, Rapid Cloning, instant VM backups, and instant VM restores. You will see practical, real-world examples of how to deploy these technologies so that you gain maximum benefits. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 momentum has been growing steadily since release last year. Customer's are migrating and finding great ROI in doing so. That momentum continues as the Microsoft SQL Server development team extends the value proposition of Microsoft SQL Server with the upcoming release of SQL Server 2008 R2. Come listen to new and creative expansion of our BI activity with the release of extended power to the client analytics. Are you IT users tired of runaway spreadsheet activity in your shops with copies and more copies of data in spreadsheets running wild? You will want to see how we can help. You want unlimited scalability of your data warehouse? We will introduce our high scale, low cost, scale out solution for this. We will also address multi-server management tools to reduce costs, SSRS enhancements and more. More like a 'demo smorgasbord' with a few special surprises than your usual keynote presentation, TechEd 2009 will kick off with a range of demos showcasing how technology can help you reduce costs, improve the efficiency of your business and get the most from your IT assets. Hosted by Colin Timm, demos will cover Unified Communications including Exchange 2010 and Office 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, Expression Studio and Windows 7. Make sure you attend to be blown away with what you can do today and see what technology is just around the corner. Demostrations will be led by Alistair Spiers, Lee Hickin, Sara Ford, Jorke Odolphi, Sarah Vaughan and Nick Hodge. The keynote will begin right on 8.15am so make sure you are seated in time. In this demo-packed session, Damian Edwards (MVP) and Tatham Oddie (MVP) will share their experiences from building Australia's largest e-commerce site with ASP.NET Web Forms. They'll show you how to be a good web citizen by covering standards compliance (properly!), cross browser and accessibility considerations, non-JavaScript support, coding techniques like the Model-View-Presenter pattern to improve maintainability and testing, as well as both client and server side performance. Along the way, there'll be plenty of discussion of the differences between Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC in each area, as well as an early peek at some of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010. Appropriate use of indexing is critical to getting great performance from your SQL Server applications. In this session, Greg will provide detailed coverage of how SQL Server indexes are organised and best practices for designing and maintaining them. The session will also describe how to read execution plans to make sure that your index designs are really working as expected. This session presents developers with a unique opportunity to understand the next generation of Windows Mobile application distribution: Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Windows Marketplace will revolutionize distribution of Windows Mobile applications, games, and content, and is designed to solve the two largest problems of the Windows Mobile consumer-focused developer community: distribution and monetization. This session provides application developers with the insights, tools, and processes necessary to begin distributing and monetizing their applications on the Windows Mobile platform. Developers can expect to walk out of this session with a clear understanding of the value proposition of the Windows Marketplace, the knowledge required to architect and build their mobile applications for global distribution, and a clear picture of the processes required to distribute their applications to a global community of Windows Mobile consumers. This session primarily focuses on the application distribution model for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, and includes specific detail around application code signing, Windows Mobile application certification, localization, and monetization. Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) provides a slick and powerful data visualisation engine for your spatial information. Join John O'Brien for a look at how the core control can be combined with other Silverlight components including DeepEarth and Photosynth to produce a rich and engaging interface. See how SQL Server 2008 spatial data can be rendered in real time and how this whole interface can be integrated into your Sharepoint site. This session presents the state of the art in High Availability and Disaster Recovery for SQL Server. Learn how customers upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 with minimal downtime using Failover Clustering and Mirroring. See the benefits achieved through new features like Log Compression for Database Mirroring. Identify the need for BOTH Disaster Recovery and High Availability, and learn how Log Shipping is being used to reduce data loss in case of a disaster. Best Practices around Replication, Database Mirroring and client failover considerations are also discussed. While virtualisation projects touch all elements of the IT function, Client Virtualisation can offer significant promise of cost savings, flexible delivery, greater control and higher security. Poor design however can quickly erase the short term benefits and may indeed damage your productivity and remove any confidence gained. When you implement a VDI Project successfully you need to be aware of: • How a VDI project typically is designed, and what are the pitfalls to avoid? • How can I be sure it will satisfy my users? The importance of the end user experience. • What if they use Applications that are graphically intensive? Can this still be done remotely? • Why is the Remote Protocol so important? • Just how good is MS's new RemoteApp features on Server 2008? Why risk implementing a Remote System that your users won't use? Don't believe the hype! SQL Data Services does not mean the end of the DBA. Even those developers and Windows administrators who have found themselves needing to pick up DBA skills to maintain internal systems are not becoming redundant. So what does SQL Data Services mean for your organisation, for your role, and for your skill set? How will this technology affect your applications and database design? How does it compare with a hosted solution? Come and hear Microsoft MVP Rob Farley show you around this new technology and help you plan your future in the clouds. Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures the purpose of a program. Learn how programming with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4 provides clarity of intent while preserving the functional richness of the .NET Framework. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Microsoft Visual Studio workflow designer. Learn about text-based authoring options for WF. Hear how WF integrates well with other Microsoft technologies (WCF, WPF, ASP.NET). If you've looked at WF before, come and see the changes to data flow, composition, and new control flow styles. Significant improvements to usability, composability, and performance make Workflow a great fit for a broad range of solutions on both the client and the server. Ever wondered why software development and technology projects so often have challenged outcomes? In this session we take a look at some of the behaviours that cause problems in software development projects and how we as professionals don't necessarily help the problem. Come away from this session armed with knowledge that will help you spot problems so you can (hopefully) avoid them. Explore many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what we can fix without updating the application, and how to fix it. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure (Shim Infrastructure) is a powerful tool for resolving compatibility issues and unblocking Windows deployments, but understanding where and how to leverage and configure shims can be daunting until you learn some of the tricks and subtleties, many of which we expose! Includes what's new in Windows 7! There are many challenges to implementing Enterprise-grade,large scale Document Management solutions, both cultural and technical. In this session learn how MOSS 2007 and ISV Partner solutions address thekey challenges including enforcement of consistent metadata and content types across multiple farms, geo-replication of content, archival, records management, storage of very-large documents, migration of data from legacy file stores, end-user change management, and governance. The solutions you will see are based on real-world implementations and case studies. You'll walk away confident that MOSS is a mature platform for enterprise-grade Document Management. The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework. In this session we dive deep into how to optimize PHP to run most efficiently and optimally for production Web services. We go in-depth on the configuration, architecture, and best practices to make PHP succesful for your Web services needs. We showcase customers today who are maximizing their PHP solutions on Windows in some of the top ISPs in the world, and showcase the TCO/ROI that is possible with Virtualized and VPS-based Web solutions coupled to PHP and how you can provide affordable solutions to market. Windows 7 is the most exciting release of Windows to date; there's been a real focus on performance, reliability, security and streamlining the User Experience!! Come along to this session and learn how you can light up your applications with platform features that will really make your applications shine. Understand what's new in WPF 4 for Multi Touch, The Windows API Code Pack for .NET and Windows 7 Compatibility Resources to ensure you are ready for Windows 7. View the Tech·Ed Australia opening keynote, delivered by Amit Mital, General Manager Live Mesh and Developer platform. Hear from Amit on how Software-plus-Services, Microsoft's strategy for the next generation of computing, are being used to solve problems today and the vision for the future. In this session we will take a lap around the Microsoft UDDI Services offering. By moving UDDI Services stack from Windows Server into BizTalk Server 2009, Microsoft has highlighted BizTalk's key role in enabling SOA. We will drill down into the UDDI registries and see how we can create add BizTalk services in the UDDI registries and also look at how we do the Dynamic Endpoint Resolutions using UDDI. SBS 2008 has a load of great features lying just under the covers - how can you take advantage of them for your clients and what else is there that you might not know? The New Zealand .NET Community meets regularly and showcases innovative NZ technology best practices. See the people behind the .NET community and connect with them at your local user group. Meet Debbie Ireland, the lead for the Tauranga SharePoint User Group. Meet Tech.Ed NZ's sponsor for 2009 and find out their latest offerings. .Net 4.0 is just around the corner and with it comes the largest set of changes to the security model since .Net 2.0. This talk will go throuh all the major changes and analyse the differences, the advantages and applicability of the new changes of each of the major areas: Security policy, Security transparency, Evidences, AppDomain Managers and Partial Trust Callers and Sandboxing. Bohdan will examines the way that we've enabled our banking environment by capitalising on the platform components from Microsoft. Covering a wide area including scom/webservices/asp.net/wcf/sql server/team system etc. Group Policy's new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 and new settings for configuring Windows 7 machines. Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. One important aspect of this change is the rise of platforms that let developers create applications for the cloud. This session takes a broad look at the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's entry in this area. The topics discussed include Windows Azure, .NET services, Microsoft SQL Services, and Live Services. The goal is to make clear what these technologies can do, then offer some guidance on how to make good decisions for using them. Covering key trends and directions of BI and what's coming in SQL 2008 R2. Meet Tech.Ed NZ's sponsor for 2009 and find out their latest offerings. Performance improvements begin by speeding up the simple task you do every minute of every hour of every day you use Visual Studio. Just like a coin jar where you place your spare change, you'll see the time you save add up into the days, weeks, and into the months. This talk offers the best of the best from the Visual Studio Tip of the Day series that can be used in any programming language. Dive deep into the IDE! Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures the purpose of a program. Learn how programming with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4 provides clarity of intent while preserving the functional richness of the .NET Framework. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Microsoft Visual Studio workflow designer. Learn about text-based authoring options for WF. Hear how WF integrates well with other Microsoft technologies (WCF, WPF, ASP.NET). If you've looked at WF before, come and see the changes to data flow, composition, and new control flow styles. Significant improvements to usability, composability, and performance make Workflow a great fit for a broad range of solutions on both the client and the server. Developers have had a rich set of options for managing their projects, source code and dealing with change for a long time. Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (aka DataDude) now lets database developers streamline their development experience too. In this session, Greg will show how it can be used to manage database schema changes, compare schemas and data, assist with making schema changes and analyse T-SQL code for quality. He will also show how unit testing can be applied to database code and data can be automatically generated for testing. In this session you will hear about Manukau City Council's usage of SharePoint Server 2007, primarily as an externally facing web CMS but also as it links with PerformancePoint Server to deliver Enterprise Performance Management, the delivery of small applications and planned usage for EDRMS functions. Meet Tech.Ed NZ's sponsor for 2009 and find out their latest offerings. In this session I will demonstrate how to add Two new servers into a SharePoint single server farm and re-assign server services like Search and Excel. Then I will Network Load Balance the two Web Servers for resilience. Surely this can't be done in an hour I hear you say. You betcha so come and get some back to basics knowledge Infrastructure knowledge. Sara will share the top 25 tips to make the most out of your productivity in the Visual Studio IDE. Going to the cloud is a great opportunity for organisations of all sizes, and in particular for small and medium businesses. However, is "the cloud" going to be good for my organisation? What part of my infrastructure or applications should I move to "the cloud"? Is my organisation ready for it? Am I going to make things worse by moving to "the cloud"? This session will briefly introduce what the cloud is, and describe two practical frameworks to help make the move, when that is the right thing to do. Ryan Tarak talks about the offerings for New Zealand academics and professional developer community via Imagine Cup and User Groups. Windows Azure, the Microsoft Cloud Computing Platform with particular reference to high scalability and avaliability the platform offers and how this can benefit NZ businesses. For people who create software today, working with identity isn't much fun. There are too many technologies and too much complexity. The industry-wide shift toward claims-based identity improves this, offering a better, simpler approach. Yet making this approach real requires infrastructure, which is why Microsoft is enhancing its platform with AD FS 2.0, Windows Identity Foundation and Windows CardSpace 2.0. This session provides an overview of these forthcoming identity technologies, showing the problems each one addresses and how they relate to one another. The goal is to provide a big-picture understanding of Microsoft's approach to claims-based identity. Windows Presentation Foundation isn't just a new control library - it's a radically new architecture. Understanding the idioms and patterns of WPF is essential to getting the most out of the framework, but this can be a major mental gear shift when coming from Windows Forms, Web Forms or Win32. How do we break a WPF application down into elements and components? What is the best way to relate the user interface and the business objects? When do we need to write custom components and when can we reuse the framework? This session describes the key design patterns for WPF applications, and tips, tricks and techniques for building with WPF. Learn about what Microsoft is doing to enable the use of virtual machines to solve desktop application compatibility issues in both enterprise and non-enterprise environments. Hear about how you can use MED-V and Virtual PC, as well as what is coming with Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7. Check out what's happening at this year's Tech.Ed NZ marketplace! The New Zealand .NET Community meets regularly and showcases innovative NZ technology best practices. See the people behind the .NET community and connect with them at your local user group. Meet Mark Orange, the lead for the Wellington SharePoint User Group. Come to this session to learn about our real world experiences with using the ASP.NET MVC framework & Silverlight from preview releases to production rollouts of multiple high profile New Zealand projects. Topics covered include the integration of ASP.NET Web Forms, MVC applications, jQuery and Silverlight. Walkthrough some of the key decision that we made based on risk, cost and time, and share the key learning points that we found. Look at how these new technologies can apply to your projects and how they will affect your team. Learn the skills you will need to effectively take advantage of the new frameworks. In this session John-Daniel Trask will be covering some of the cool new features coming as part of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Come and see how .NET 4.0 will make software development easier with new core framework features and language improvements in C# 4.0 and VB 10. Beyond the core framework, we will be covering new features of Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. Come and join John-Daniel to find out how the new features will apply to your software projects. You can't fight a war that you don't know you're waging. You can't defend your website against attack unless you know the tricks that the bad guys will use. Join the "Flight of the Pwnchords*" and learn the tricks that Andy "the hacker" will use and watch as Kirk "the developer" tries to defend his ASP.NET website against them. By the end of this session you will have an understanding of some of the common attacks, such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Domain Request Forgery (CDRF), and will have an appreciation of how layering your defenses (defense-in-depth) can help protect you from exploit chaining. The session will also give you some practical tips that you can apply straight away in Visual Studio 2008 to help you build secure websites. (* AKA "New Zealand's fourth most popular comedy hacking duo") The SQL Server product team discusses Management, Server Consolidation and Virtualization The New Zealand .NET Community meets regularly and showcases innovative NZ technology best practices. See the people behind the .NET community and connect with them at your local user group. Meet Kirk Jackson, the lead for the Wellington Dot Net User Group. Join Nigel Parker (Microsoft NZ Web Development Advisor) as he moderates a discussion with a panel of industry leaders about how Developers & Designers work together on real world projects. This panel is intended to be engaging, provocative and insightful. Come along with your questions and ideas and be prepared to contribute to the last session of Tech.Ed NZ. Join Giorgio Sardo (the master technical evangelist in the Internet Explorer team) as he shares his experience of building sites on top of the new standards compliant engine. Discover how to use the new integrated Developer Tools, Microsoft Expression SuperPreview and Fiddler to build and debug cross-browser-compatible layout designs. Learn how to build new Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Providers in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. Demo, demo, demo! Self Service BI promises to revolutionalise how businesses make decisions and gain insights into their data. This session presents developers with a unique opportunity to understand the next generation of Windows Mobile application distribution: Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Windows Marketplace will revolutionise distribution of Windows Mobile applications, games, and content, and is designed to solve the two largest problems of the Windows Mobile consumer-focused developer community: distribution and monetisation. This session provides application developers with the insights, tools, and processes necessary to begin distributing and monetising their applications on the Windows Mobile platform. Developers can expect to walk out of this session with a clear understanding of the value proposition of the Windows Marketplace, the knowledge required to architect and build their mobile applications for global distribution, and a clear picture of the processes required to distribute their applications to a global community of Windows Mobile consumers. This session primarily focuses on the application distribution model for the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, and includes specific detail around application code signing, Windows Mobile application certification, localisation, and monetisation. So your project team is not geographically co-located at the same premises and some of your team members want to be able to work from home. However you still want to use Team Foundation Server to support your development processes and you're not sure what to do. This talk will look at how you can deploy and configure Team Foundation Server to support remote offices and disconnected users, with heaps of tips and tricks. The Microsoft project code name "Oslo" provides a family of new technologies that enable model-driven development and execution of applications and services. Come see how "Oslo" will help you rapidly build model-driven applications by using a next generation modeling language, tool, and repository. This session also describes the key capabilities "Oslo" will deliver in v1 and provides a view into the project's long-term goals. Find out more about the value of MSDN subscriptions for New Zealand developers. SQL Azure is a new offering from Microsoft that takes SQL Server into the cloud. A hands-on detailed look at how you migrate from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008. In this session, Damian Edwards will share his experiences from building Australia's largest e-commerce site with ASP.NET Web Forms. They'll show you how to be a good web citizen by covering standards compliance (properly!), cross browser and accessibility considerations, non-JavaScript support, as well as coding techniques like the Model-View-Presenter pattern to improve maintainability and testing. Along the way, there'll be plenty of discussion of the differences between Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC in each area, as well as an early peek at some of the new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS 2010. Following this Andrew Tokeley will show you how it is possible to build highly accessible web applications by leveraging the accessibility features of Silverlight and discusses using Silverlight under the New Zealand e-Government Web Guidelines. Building public websites can be hard at the best of times. Making them fast can be even harder. What makes a website faster? What makes it appear faster to users? How can you leverage features of ASP.NET to get the best experience for your users? Tune in to hear an ASP.NET MVP share some of the problems he had to help solve while rebuilding Australia's largest e-commerce site. BizTalk is Microsoft's integration server of choice - it's feature rich, flexible and robust, it will integrate with line of business and other applications, and the ESB Toolkit now provides a perfect starting point for a BizTalk based Enterprise Service Bus Come ask you hard security questions. There are numerous signs that the complexity of many mission critical IT systems has reached a breaking point. The culprit is IT complexity. Complexity rises exponentially with increases in IT functionality. This means that even small increases in the functionality of an IT system causes very large changes in the complexity of that IT system. And with IT systems already at the breaking point, these increases in complexity can only have catastrophic results.This crisis can be averted. But only if major changes are made to how IT projects are planned, architected, and implemented. The time for these changes is long past due. Live from this year's TechFest at the Auckland Town Hall. Check out the biggest IT party in New Zealand. The essence of declarative programming is to specify the 'what', not the 'how'; to reduce complexity for the developer. The .NET 3.X framework provided declarative approaches for many areas including UX, querying, workflow and client deployment. In .NET 4 this support is enriched for existing areas and extended to add new domains such as service authoring. Underlying much of the declarative approach is the XAML language which has seen some major updates for .NET 4. Moving beyond the out of the box languages, and angle brackets, the Visual Studio tooling provides a DSL (domain specific language) toolkit that lets you author your own languages for your specific business domains. This session will take you on a tour of declarative programming in .NET. We'll show what's possible in 3.X, what's new in 4 and how you can create your own models and languages. These approaches have been used by ADERANT to build an enterprise workflow solution, so you'll get to see how these approaches can be used in the wild. Meet Tech.Ed NZ's sponsor for 2009 and find out their latest offerings. Sara Ford taking a leap of faith off the tallest building in the souther hemisphere. See the courage it takes to making the big jump! Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a powerful application platform built from the ground up using Windows Server, SQL Server, Web services and the .NET platform. We will discuss how Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a platform can build all kinds of relationship focused line of business applications rapidly, yet still be able to scale up to tens of thousands of users. This session will both explore the base xRM concepts and showcase ERMLive, a fully functional payroll and HR system built on Dynamics CRM. Kiwibank has recently deployed a new Internet Banking channel based upon Microsoft's .Net 3.5 technology. This bank-lead development has had to address a range of problems commonly found within larger IT environments including integration to diverse technology product engines, high latency network connectivity, the need to deliver a responsive end user experience, and the requirement to enable agile ongoing development. In fact the list just goes on... Our solutions to these problems are not always as you would expect of an idealised SOA environment and our choices, and lessons will be shared in this session. Recently PowerCo migrated their Oracle infrastructure to SQL Server. In the process they eliminated significant costs and simplified their business making it easier and more cost effective to maintain and manage. Join PowerCo and SQL Services as they explain why PowerCo switched, what needed to be considered during the planning and architecture phase and what benefits have been realised since the switch. Visual Studio 2008 is the best and most productive development environment ever! Microsoft have been busy the past couple of years putting even more great features into your favourite tool, and in Visual Studio 2010 we'll be seeing: new programming languages; diagramming tools and visualisers; new project types; and enhancements to the IDE. Come along and hear about these great features, and learn some new tips to help you make the most of Visual Studio 2010! Microsoft® SQL Azure extends the reach of SQL Server into the cloud providing you with a database as a service. With a rich set of integrated services that enable you to perform relational queries, search, reporting and analytics, you can take your existing applications and target a cloud database, leverage this data store from your Azure applications or synchronize your data between on premise and in cloud. Come join Jeremy as we explore this new cloud based data platform and look at how it is shaping up for real world use. Find out Motorola's windows mobile offering in New Zealand. Windows Virtual PC "Under the Covers Hate the thought of writing JavaScript? Get frustrated by cross-browser DOM quirks? Ever wondered how those spiffy sites do that animation without Flash or Silverlight? Think that JavaScript isn't a real programming language? Well come and see how jQuery makes writing JavaScript fun again. Microsoft is now shipping and supporting jQuery, an open-source JavaScript library, with ASP.NET and Visual Studio. jQuery is fast, lean, simple and hugely expandable, to enable you to build the most compelling web applications quickly and easily. Te Puni Kokiri was an early adopter of geospatial presentation on the Internet when it first developed the Maori Land information Base (MLIB) web site, in conjunction with the Maori Land Court in 1997. The presentation will cover the history of this development, its recent redevelopment, and where Te Puni Kokiri is looking to extend this in the future. High functionality, low complexity and cost: Microsoft made BPOS available in New Zealand in March 2009, so what is it and what's it good for? With its mix of Microsoft services hosted in the cloud it is the emergence of something that will become not only common place but critical to industry. Companies had the infrastructure to generate all their own electricity once, we are still in that era with computing power. Learn about the many defenses in Windows 7, and understand how you can use them in your code. SQL Server 2008 Spatial R2 and the new features from geospatial perspective. e-Spatial has been part of alpha and beta testing SQL Server Spatial since it's conception. Previously the visual (mapping) interface of spatial data could be viewed on SQL Server Management Studio only, in R2 the mapping engine has been exposed to the reporting services (SSRS). Complexity is the single biggest problem in IT in general and in SOAs in particular. Complexity causes systems to be delivered late, over budget, and failing to meet the needs of the business. It is a multi-trillion dollar problem. When SOAs were first introduced, many believed they would solve the problem of IT complexity. In fact, they often make the problem worse. They frequently introduce convoluted workflow and organizational mazes that are difficult to understand, implement, and support. This talks explore the nature of complexity as it relates to SOAs. It discusses the common misconceptions about complexity and introduces a rigorous, mathematically based model for understanding how complexity relates to SOAs. It then shows how this model can drive processes that result in SOAs that are embrace simplicity as a key design attribute. Some of the major themes of this talk include: • Complexity is the killer of SOAs. • Complexity is governed by mathematics. • All partitions are not equal. • Simplicity is the key to success in SOAs. • Simplicity requires intentionality. CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting site hosting over 10,000 projects. This talk is a tour of the CodePlex feature set to allow for open source development. If you're a software developer interested in running an open source project or just looking around for a particular tool to download, come check out the latest from CodePlex. CodePlex is Microsoft's open source project hosting site. Launched in May 2006, CodePlex host thousands of open source projects. CodePlex users can start open source projects with support for source control, bug tracking, wiki pages, downloads, forums, and project statistics. Additionally, CodePlex supports the widest range of source control clients. This talk explores the top downloaded projects, outlines the CodePlex feature set, and explains how we build the CodePlex software. Live from this year's Tech Girls Dinner, where we celebrate diversity and inclusion in the ICT industry. We speak to keynote Julia Raue, CIO of Air New Zealand and a number of special guests at the dinner. Listen to Nick Hadlee from Datasouth Business Solutions as he discusses a solution Datasouth implemented for Tourism Australia. Hear some of the customer challenges that Datasouth worked to overcome and some of the innovative features of the solution. Given the fiscal constraints of most organisations, BI is becoming a core requirement to maximise profit and reduce costs. Microsoft has a number of products that suit any budget, in fact you may already own some of them. This tech talk will outline what tools and components you need to get started in BI. The Microsoft BizSpark program offers start ups the opportuity to trial and utilise Microsoft products. Find out how access the BizSpark program in New Zealand. The top 10 activities at Tech.Ed you must not miss! After 3 days of clue hunting for the Amazing Windows 7 Game, see the prizegiving of the lucky 7 winners of the HP Mini. Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding new features to enable organisations to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. We will discuss about how Windows Server 2008 R2 dramatically improves the overall performance with the added support for advanced CPU architectures. In this session we will have the demos on the new enhancements in the Server Manager, improvements in the Server Core with the support for .Net and Improvements/streamlined management in IIS 7.5. We will also have the brief demos on the state-of-the-art features added in the Hyper-V virtualisation such as Live Migration, Cluster Shared Volumes. Along with these demos we will cover in brief Remoting Services with RDP 7 improvements and the efficient Power Management features. Lastly we will cover how Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 can work better together with newly added features such as DirectAccess and BranchCache. Providing visibility and transparency of the business to the business is a key requirement for all private and public organisations these days. New Zealand Post has identified this need in order to react to the fast moving business climate in the retail industry. Together with DATACOM, New Zealand Post has developed a Microsoft-based Business Intelligence solution using an agile project approach that consolidates multiple heterogeneous data sources and provides business decision makers with insight into business - market trends, growth analysis, and breakdown by shop and product. In this session we will explore the world of Microsoft BI, talk about our challenges along the way and how we overcame them, and share our experience in developing this comprehensive BI solution. Listen to Dinesh Kumar from Agile Integration as he discusses a solution that Agile recently implemented for Language Line International. Hear some of the customer challenges that Agile worked to overcome and some of the innovative features of the solution. Learn the tips and tricks necessary for developing rich, compelling applications on mobile devices. We introduce you to a set of views and controllers that can be used to create rich 3D animated experiences. You'll walk away with knowledge of how to take your mobile enterprise application to the next level of user experience. Welcome to the future! The future of Exchange high availability, that is. In this session we reveal the changes and improvements to the built-in high availability platform in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a unified solution for high availability and disaster recovery that is quick to deploy and easy to manage. Learn about all of the new features in Exchange 2010 that make it the most resilient, highly available version of Exchange ever. Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Technical Strategy, joins the TechEd community to discuss the next generation of computing. At the root of the transformation are two key tenets. First, back end applications will span both the server and cloud. Secondly, user experiences will span multiple devices. The combination of these two principles leads us into new world that presents both revolutionary and evolutionary changes. Eric will discuss how IT professionals and software developers can take advantage of these hybrid architectures and rich clients to best optimize their investments across the software/service continuum. If you're like most .NET developers, you've maybe heard (or maybe not) about this new language Microsoft is shipping in Visual Studio 2010, called Visual F#. F# represents Microsoft's entry into the functional programming world, and for many .NET developers it represents both an opportunity and a challenge. Opportunity, in that functional programming can make a whole range of tasks much, much easier; challenging, in that functional programming represents an entirely new way of looking at designing and writing .NET code. In this presentation, we take an all-code, no-slides look at the language, its concepts and ideas, and a little bit of its libraries and syntax, to show you how to start answering that crucial question. By the end of the talk, you will have a grasp of some of the core F# syntax, some good background on how it works and what it's good for, a little bit of how it interoperates with C#, Visual Basic and other .NET languages, in either Web and desktop applications--and most of all, what kind of investment does learning F# represent to the busy .NET developer. SharePoint Search and FAST Search are part of the broad enterprise search product line for SharePoint Server 2010. In this session we drill down on the investments Microsoft has made in SharePoint Search, including: new out-of-box user experiences; unique social search features; significant improvements in manageability, scalability, and performance; and new platform capabilities. This session covers the new content type and taxonomy service in SharePoint Server 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 also discusses how these services integrate with search and social computing. All enterprises face a problem of integrating data from vairous systems including Oracle, SAP and other Line of Business Systems. SQL Server integration services provides the infrastructure and components necessary to create and operate data integration solutions alongwith the Data Warehousing and Performance Management systems. This session reviews in-depth the SQL Server Integration Services connectivity architecuture and components to achieve best possible integration scenarios. Windows Server 2008 R2 delivers some highly anticipated improvements for Active Directory administrators. This session will provide a guided tour of the new Active Directory capabilities including Recycle Bin, Active Directory PowerShell, Active Directory Administrative Center, Managed Services Accounts and Offline Domain with lots of demos. As the on-screen behaviour of software applications becomes more and more sophisticated, it gets harder and harder to envision, validate and document your user interface. New features in Expression Blend 3, including Sketchflow, make user experience design an integral part of the software development lifecycle, and free up the UX bottleneck. Come see Expression Blend 3 and Sketchflow in action, and learn how to integrate conceptual design into your next project, regardless of platform. This session dives into the endpoint security solution as it exists from Microsoft today and how we look at protecting client and server operating systems from emerging threats. Including a brief overview of what we can expect in the new version of Forefont Endpoint Protection. The session highlights the multi-layered protection provided by Forefront Client Security and Threat Management Gateway. Walk through the process for introducing Exchange 2010 servers into an Exchange 2003/2007 organisation. Learn the pre-requisites, steps required, and the impact to client access for MAPI, Outlook Anywhere, OWA, ActiveSync, and POP/IMAP clients after the upgrade has occurred. Windows 7 is here! Behind all the glitz and glamour, performance is what really counts. So join Andy Malone as he delves deep inside Microsoft's latest OS to discover if "7" really is as Sumo or a Ninja! This intense 75-minute session looks inside power management including architecture, tools, group policies, and more. Packed with stories, advice, tips and tricks, this is a session you cannot afford to miss. This session covers: An unbiased MVP view of the new Power Management features of Windows 7 including lots of tips. "Microsoft PowerPivot enables powerful self-service ad-hoc analysis of extremely large data sets all within the comfortable and easy to use Excel 2010 environment. You can perform server-less, in-depth, multidimensional, OLAP-style and columnar analysis, as well as create your own column and table-focussed calculations. Acquiring data from external sources, including the amazing ability to "parse" existing graphical and textual reports generated by other systems (such as SAP) has never been easier." Overview of Biztalk 2009 as a development platform, and what's new in Biztalk 2009. Attend this session to see how Biztalk can be leveraged to build the foundation of your SOA. See in real time how a typical business workflow (Purchase Order) can be processed by Biztalk integration to the rest of the Microsoft platform. Windows Server 2008 and the Microsoft System Center family of products are enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure by using the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010). This free, partner-extensible toolkit will provide architectural roadmap, deployment guidance, best practices, and familiar tools to create agile, virtualized IT infrastructures. Attend this session to learn more about the toolkit components, and how it can improve data center efficiency by lowering the overall costs of on-boarding, deployment, and management This is an overview session. The session walks through IT Pro related features in SharePoint Server 2010. It covers the new IT Pro experience including deployment and upgrade, management and operation, backup and restore, availability and scalability. In this session you will see accelerated manual testing, automated user interface testing, test impact analysis, build & test automation with virtualization and many more features new to Visual Studio 2010 Team System. What is Microsoft Forefront all about? In this session we dive into Microsoft's Business Ready Security strategy and the technology which makes this one of the best security solutions in the market, we will show some of latest technologies and provide real-world implementation examples of how they work! Tired of command lines and authoring XML files? Want to take advantage of the speed gains from the User State Migration Tool and Windows Deployment Services Multicast in R2? Want to migrate desktops intelligently even without a network connection or external hard drive for user data? Explore all the enhancements in MDT 2010, the latest version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. There is a lot more than just Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support! This is a demo-focused session. Get an overview of Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure strategy and how it can help customers lower costs while improving agility within their data centers. Find out how the latest technologies, tools, and resources enable building the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure in a customer's environment. Learn about the two free extensible service offerings -- Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters (available now!) that enables hosting partners to offer managed servers in a hosted environment; and the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (available in the first half of 2010) that enables building the foundation for a private cloud. SharePoint Server 2010 has many new developer oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make developers more productive and new hosting options for SharePoint solutions provide more flexibility in deployment. This talk is a lap around SharePoint 2010 for developers providing a brief look and code based demos of the major new features in building user interfaces, building on the data platform and in general programmability. A new platform is emerging - one that promises to reduce costs and speed up your time to market by allowing you to build on shared infrastructure that is widely accessible using open Web protocols - this platform is commonly referred to as "the cloud" today. In this introductory session, we'll explore these new concepts and show the basics of how to get started today with the Windows Azure platform with a specific focus on the execution model and storage options. Modern web applications demand rich interactions and great user experiences. JavaScript and Ajax style-development provide the right tools to accomplish these tasks, but they haven't always been easy to tackle. In this session, we'll see how the combination of the ASP.NET Ajax Library and jQuery makes it easy to handle service-communication, DOM-interaction, data-binding, dynamic UI, and much more. SQL Server Integration Services has many diverse uses from simple data movement to advanced data quality and integration scenarios. In this session we explain in detail (and with many demos) the best practices which have been developed over the years by the product team. Important areas covered include performance, connectivity, logging and troubleshooting, and deployment. Deploying Microsoft operating systems using Windows Deployment Service (WDS) is a snap if you know the most common mistakes and issues that are made and how to resolve them. In this session learn about PXE boot issues... why they occur and how to fix them or work around them if necessary. The multicast protocol is supposed to help speed up your deployments but what happens when it actually slows them down? Look at multicast registry settings. And what happens when WDS causes a memory leak; is it really WDS and how do you fix it? Join this intense packet level / registry setting session on WDS and how bring out the best of WDS in your environment. In this session, we'll tour the new features in Visual Studio 2010. We'll focus in on the features that make the managed developer's life easier, from test-first development to better support for data-binding in the visual designers. We'll also look at new templates and tools available for building a variety of application types, including client and web applications. Visual Basic and C# continues to evolve and in this session the new features of both lanugages are covered comprehensively. Discover all new AD RMS features provided on Exchange 2010 such as e-mail automatic protection, while still being able to search, filter, and classify IRM-protected mail. We specifically discuss the newest Exchange 2010 features for data protection using RMS. Come armed with questions around this increasingly important topic in every organisation. Take a sprinkling of Windows 7, add Windows Server 2008 R2, IPv6 and IPsec and you have a solution that will allow direct access to your corporate network without the need for VPNs. Come to these demo-rich sessions and learn how to integrate DirectAccess into your environment. In Part 1 learn about IPv6 addressing, host configuration and transitioning technologies including 6to4, ISATAP, Teredo and IPHTTPS. Through a series of demos learn how to build an IPv6 Network and interoperate with IPv4 networks and hosts. In Part 2 we add the details of IPSec, and components that are only available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to build the DirectAccess infrastructure. Learn how to control access to corporate resources and manage Internet connected PCs through group policy. Part 1 is highly recommended as a prerequisite for Part 2. Take a sprinkling of Windows 7, add Windows Server 2008 R2, IPv6 and IPsec and you have a solution that will allow direct access to your corporate network without the need for VPNs. Come to these demo-rich sessions and learn how to integrate DirectAccess into your environment. In Part 1 learn about IPv6 addressing, host configuration and transitioning technologies including 6to4, ISATAP, Teredo and IPHTTPS. Through a series of demos learn how to build an IPv6 Network and interoperate with IPv4 networks and hosts. In Part 2 we add the details of IPSec, and components that are only available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to build the DirectAccess infrastructure. Learn how to control access to corporate resources and manage Internet connected PCs through group policy. Part 1 is highly recommended as a prerequisite for Part 2. Deploying and scaling Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in your enterprise network requires thoughtful consideration in order to ensure the quality of experience for end-users. In this session we discuss the features of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 relevant to the network administrator, including codecs, quality monitoring, QoS and VLAN support. Learn how large enterprises have used these features along with network right-provisioning and bandwidth planning for their own successful OCS deployments, and how to apply these techniques to your enterprise network. By connecting Exchange with the telephone system, Unified Messaging puts voice mail in the Inbox. This session demonstrates how deeper use of speech recognition in Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging makes "anywhere access" to information even easier. Other new features, product architecture, and upgrading from Exchange 2007 are also discussed. "Fewer than three years since Windows Vista shipped, Microsoft has not only shipped the next desktop Windows, ""Windows 7,"" but it has also released a new version of Windows Server -- the first new desktop/server simultaneous release in about ten years. Will Windows 7 capture the audience interest in ways that Windows Vista could not? Well, there's a lot to like in Windows 7, including some productivity-oriented GUI changes, nearly ubiquitous PowerShell support, new deployment tools, a ""VPN-less VPN,"" new bandwidth-saving technologies, an Active Directory undelete function and more, so there's something in Windows 7 for almost everyone. With that said, money's tight and heck, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are familiar, reliable tools... so even if Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 are good, are they good enough to make you leave your current operating systems behind? " Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center empower hosters to deliver managed hosting, cloud services, and on-demand virtualized IT infrastructures. The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters makes it easy for hosters to get on this inevitable path. This free, extensible toolkit provides guidance, sample code, and best practices that make it easy to build and launch on-demand infrastructures and cloud services to customers. Attend this session to see what the toolkit is composed of, how the toolkit works, who is using the toolkit, and how it can help. Many web applications rely heavily on data (data entry forms, lists, master-detail views, etc.). This often leads to writing repetitive, boilerplate data access code. Today ASP.NET Dynamic Data provides the plumbing necessary to easily develop logic that is very data-centric, for WebForms and eventually MVC. This session will show how to leverage the Dynamic Data runtime and discuss the productivity benefits it can bring. "SharePoint Server 2010 has many new developer oriented features. The new tools in Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 provide a rich set of out-of-box features making developers more productive. Developers can build rich collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, integrating Line of Business data in SharePoint 2010 with read/write capability delivered by Business Connectivity Services. Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a shared hosting environment to limit the impact of unpredictable code to the other applications in use. This talk is a lap around SharePoint 2010 for developers highlighting some of the new features in SharePoint 2010 that can help developers be more productive, take advantage of the rich platform services, and gain advantage with flexible deployment options "